On Thu, 2004-03-11 at 17:59 +0100, Sylvain Vedrenne wrote:
> Now I'm starting with Debian Sid / 2.6.3. I can watch videos with xine,
> but I'm convinced the quality can be better. It looks there is no
> mga_vid.ko or something... Will there be one in the future?
I think you need to ask the Matr
On Tue, 2004-03-02 at 13:57 -0800, MJ Inabnit wrote:
> I'm testing the latest debian "Sarge" installer. It's improving,
> but . . . What application includes the "startx" command? I realize
> I can install xdm/gdm/whateverDM, but I like keeping things "lite" on
> the older computers. Anyway, I
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 19:19 +, Ken Gilmour wrote:
> Mandrake (which has a free version and also it's backend is Debian)
Mandrakes backend is not debian, they use rpms. In fact they started out
as a RedHat compiled for pentium CPUs, but have since then matured into
being just Mandrake. You may
On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 01:09 -0700, s. keeling wrote:
> If you didn't do it, it's probably coming from /etc/profile
Or /etc/environment
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On Wed, 2004-02-25 at 14:39 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> However I will in the future assume that any problem I have
> is the same in all distros and I will do searches on the web
> first.
An invaluable resource on the art of asking questions, despite the
overblown hacker talk, is ESR's "How
On Tue, 2004-02-24 at 09:11 +0100, Erich Waelde wrote:
> you did "modprobe asus_acpi" as well, did you?
Yes, but that only yields me an empty /proc/acpi/asus. I am under the
impression that asus_acpi is only for certain Asus laptops. Mine is a
regular desktop though.
>From http://sourceforge.net/
On Mon, 2004-02-23 at 21:46 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> lsmod|grep acpi shows no hits
Forced to reply to own post, sorry
Ok, I found acpi modules in /lib/modules/2.6.2-1-686/kernel/drivers/acpi
and modprobed them (ac, battery, button, fan, processor, thermal). They
insert without errors. N
Hi,
now that I run kernel 2.6.2 (stock debian config, from backports.org), I
have switched from apm to acpi (which I now not much about).
I have an Asus P4PE mobo with an Intel 845PE chipset. Distro is woody +
stuff from backports.org
acpid is running (ps shows /usr/sbin/acpid -c /etc/acpi/events
On Thu, 2004-02-19 at 21:14 +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote:
> Yes, you are right. Kernel 2.6 uses /etc/modprobe.d (and if you use
> update-modules, the contents are written to /lib/modules/modprobe.conf,
> which is included in /etc/modprobe.conf).
Use update-modules.modutils to update /etc/modules.
Hi,
OS is Debian Woody + backports (mainly backports.org).
This machine has 2 NICs. It does IP masquerading for the internal LAN.
eth0 is a Broadcom 4400 onboard interface (on Asus P4PE). Kernel module
is b44. It is used by pppoe to connect to my ADSL provider.
eth1 is an Intel Etherexpress 100
On Sat, 2004-02-14 at 03:24, Colin Watson wrote:
> 'dpkg -p' lists whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/available; 'dpkg -l' lists
> whatever's in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Uh, for me (dpkg 1.9.21) man says -l lists available, and -p
dpkg -p|--print-avail package
Display details about package, as f
On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 11:56, Kent West wrote:
> Marius Amado Alves wrote:
>
> > * Window/Desktop System *
> > I manage to get a decent resolution working with twn. Now, can I change
> > to a more modern system? [...]
> You've probably installed stable, which is ancient. stable is suitable
> for
nction.
Have a look at the demand option: Initiate the link only on demand,
i.e. when data traffic is present.
> -Original Message-
> From: Mario Vukelic [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2004 1:15 PM
> To: Debian Users
> Subject: Re: pppupd... where h
On Wed, 2004-01-28 at 01:40, Ian Perry wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I noticed that pppupd is not in Debian 3.
>
> Is there something different, or has pppd been modified/updated to take care
> of redialling after a connection is broken on a modem ?
man pppd:
persist
Do not exit after a connection is term
On Sat, 2004-01-03 at 12:03, GCS wrote:
> Could be a mistake of 'make allyesconfig' or whatever. Please note that
> packaging the 2.6.0 version of kernels is probably not sane enough.
Thanks, that helps. Will investigate further
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having never used precompiled kernels before, I'm a bit surprised to
find these enabled in Herbert Xu's 2.6 kernel image (section General
Setup):
CONFIG_EMBEDDED=y
CONFIG_KALLSYMS=y
CONFIG_FUTEX=y
CONFIG_EPOLL=y
# CONFIG_OPTIMISE_SIZE is not set
CONFIG_IOSCHED_NOOP=y
CONFIG_IOSCHED_AS=y
CONFI
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 21:51, Deboo wrote:
> Debian Woody system, compiling 2.6 time and again keeps giving a "VFS:
> Kernel Panic: Unable to mount root fs" error, however many times I
> recompile.
do you have everything you need compiled in? Filesystems of root/boot
partition, IDE controller etc?
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 19:39, Jan Minar wrote:
> pppd printing out those ``ppp0 <-> /dev/foo'' lines doesn't mean
> /dev/foo is OK. It happily printed these when running over a serial
> port, wile it wasn't able to establish a connection.
Interesting. Though in my case (debug option on) it prin
On Sat, 2003-12-27 at 18:21, padmini badrinath wrote:
> and i am trying to read or access the mdb files from
> linux.
> This, am trying with the linux odbc driver
> I wanted to kno if the odbc manager is required for
> this purpose or is there a better way to do this
mdb is the MS Access file
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 18:13, Jan Minar wrote:
> Notice there is no info that could actually be used to figure out what
> went wrong.
That's a correct observation. This is because there is no more info in
the logs. I did post what info there is. If I had that info, I would
have figured it out and
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 17:19, Paul Morgan wrote:
> If you google on the error message, a lot of potentially useful links
> appear. Might be worth doing some research that way.
Unfortunately, no. Thanks for trying, though :). I've googled for hours
to no avail. Problem is (see also my post in this
On Thu, 2004-01-01 at 15:48, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> After compiling 2.6.0 w/o devpts, I found out that ppp still times out,
> although it tries to connect vi /dev/ttyp0, as it did with my old
> kernel. Now I'm completely lost.
Seems I'm the only one that cares for me ;o)
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 20:07, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> Using the kernel-image, pppd tries to use /dev/pts/, which fails,
> and leads to a timeout:
>
> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: pppd 2.4.1 started by root, uid 0
> Dec 31 18:06:34 sonic pppd[447]: Serial connection established.
Hi,
Today I've installed kernel-image-2.6.0 from backports.org on my woody
pc. Until now I've always used self-compiled kernels, but decided to
change to the kernel-images now. Those have devpts compiled in,while I
had that never in my own kernels. Not sure why, but in any case, I never
had proble
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 14:56, Frank A. Uepping wrote:
> does someone know a package for the new modutils for Woody?
Adrian Bunk has them, backports.org too
http://www.apt-get.org/search.php?query=module-init-tools&submit=&arch%5B%5D=i386&arch%5B%5D=all
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On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 07:13, Arnt Karlsen wrote:
> ..or PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\033
> [1;37m\]:\[\0 33[1;31m\]\w \[\033[1;36m\]\$ \[\033[0m\]' ;-)
this ^ space has to go
Too colored for my taste, though :)
Seems a good time to ask a question: Since my
On Tue, 2003-12-30 at 23:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I have an old kernel 2.2.12 and I was wondering if it is possible to
> get some source code to recompile the kernel with terminal font color
> highlighting. I am not sure what to call it but its the font that's
> typed whenever your at a promp
C:
Learning
As others have pointed out, K&R.
Avoid common pitfalls:
Summit: C Programming FAQs (Addison Wesley)
Van der Linden: Expert C Programming (Prentice Hall)
Fun:
Feuer: C Puzzle Book (Addison Wesley)
As a reference:
Harbison/Steel: C - A Reference Manual (Prentice Hall)
Algorithms:
Se
On Fri, 2003-11-21 at 17:41, red wrote:
> any ideas?
http://cert.uni-stuttgart.de/files/fw/debian-security-20031121.txt
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Hi,
after a vacation, I upgraded sid on my laptop. After pulling in 3 week's
worth of upgrades, I lost ethernet connectivity, and for the life of me
can't figure out what went wrong. Nothing changed in the network's
configuration.
I have a cardbus ethernet card in my laptop. It is connected to a
On Mit, 2003-10-08 at 07:40, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> The only time you want the hardware clock on local time is when you are
> dual-booting Windows, since Windows runs with local time in the hardware
> clock.
Not anymore. At least XP (not sure about 2000) has a "System clock is
GMT" check box
-
On Die, 2003-10-07 at 15:19, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
>
> What I have found is even better is to boot Knoppix, and then use it to
> do a chroot install.
FWIW, I just want to add that Knoppix has a script to install it do HD
directly
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On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 12:29, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> Sorry, not even. Everything installed (it said so), but the fonts are
> not (yet ?) available in any application (Galeon, term, Theme Selector).
> What is necessary to add them to the available fonts ?
Hm, should be done automatically. Could you pos
On Mon, 2003-10-06 at 07:06, Uwe Dippel wrote:
> No understand. Tried Google, but still don't understand.
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/repository-howto/repository-howto.html
> says:
>
> "This document explains how Debian repositories work, how to create
> them, and how to add them to the s
On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:32, stan wrote:
> I remeber a month or so back playing with a nice (Gnome base I think)
> outlining program that generated XML files as an output.
'apt-cache search outline' gives me gnome-think
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On Son, 2003-10-05 at 22:30, stan wrote:
> Anyone know where I can get mpalyer plugin (preferable as a .deb) tat will
> work with Galeon from teestong?
See http://marillat.free.fr/
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On Sam, 2003-09-27 at 14:33, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> Can someone help me cofiguring
> spamasassin so that I get rid of those ms security-mails?
check google and the extensive threads in the archives from the last
couple of days/weeks. You are not the only one being hit. Basically,
score MICROS
On Fre, 2003-09-26 at 05:11, Carsten wrote:
> Hallo Debianteam !!!
>
> Linux ist für mich eigentlich Neuland, ich habe vorher schon einwenig
> mit SUSE 8.0 gespielt .
> Jetzt habe ich von den vorteilen von eurem System gehört .
> Ich habe mir eure neue Version gekauft und Installiert .
> Es hört
On Die, 2003-09-23 at 13:18, Colin Watson wrote:
> By default, every mail scanned by SA, ham or spam, comes out with an
> X-Spam-Status: header which lists the score and the triggered tests.
Not for me :) Actually, I wanted to ask this for a couple of days (/me
being a Swen victim).
I run spamd
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 16:06, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> However, the Matrox driver produced a bad
> cursor
As I said in other posts, add
Option "HWCursor" "off"
to the "Devices" section in XF86Config-4. SWCursor makes cursor a bit
flickery when the machine is under heavy load though. For sin
On Son, 2003-09-14 at 14:46, Richard Otte wrote:
> My 550 is working fine, but I'm not completely sure that I'm using the matrox
> driver or if I'm using the XFree one. I'm running testing (version 4.2.1.6 of
> xserver-common and xserver-xfree86). In my XF86Config-4 file I have:
>
> Section "De
On Sam, 2003-09-13 at 23:54, David Palmer wrote:
> On Sunday 14 September 2003 00:10, Brian C wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'm having trouble getting my Matrox G550 working with Debian, because
> > it is not supported in the version of XFree86 that is installed with
> > Woody. I've successfully upgraded
On Son, 2003-09-07 at 21:46, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> Mine. :-)
Hm, where I live in D there's no shortage of banks to choose from. I
need only personal stuff though, and obviously don't know you needs :)
May I ask which braindead bank this is, so I can avoid them?
> Uninteresting, since one
On Son, 2003-09-07 at 21:05, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote:
> A lot of banks here in germany allow online banking for linux only with
> netscape 4.
I've never seen one. If it happened to me, I'd take my business
elsewhere and made sure they know why. You probably don't even get
security fixes fo NS 4
> > Reading man dpkg I do not see an option that says: "do
> > not try to reinstall the package"...
I've missed the start of the thread, so excuse me if this isn't what the
OP wants, but setting the package to "hold" should do it, no?
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On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:33, Steve Lamb wrote:
> So don't do an apt-get upgrade. First install apt-listchanges and
> apt-listbugs. [..]
Very good advice, I'd only add to read debian-devel list before
upgrading packages. Still, it's a lot of work to do. I ran testing and
unstable at some poi
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 13:41, Colin Watson wrote:
> The procedures are in place: there's testing-proposed-updates, which can
> be used to get critical security fixes autobuilt and into testing. The
> manpower to make use of this is what's lacking.
Ah, good. Still, to the user of testing it makes n
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 08:35, Stefan Waidele jun. wrote:
> Mario Vukelic wrote:
> > [...]
> > Avoid testing!! Testing is for testing /the distribution/ and is quite
> > fd most of the time, as packages trickle in from unstable in a quite
> > random manner.
> &g
On Sam, 2003-09-06 at 05:02, Russell Shaw wrote:
> If you use a lighter wm such as icewm, then there's no problem at all
> with testing. I'd recommend that because there's less changing and less
> chance of system breaks as with unstable. You can install single packages
> from unstable easily too.
On Fre, 2003-09-05 at 19:53, Joey Harrison wrote:
> My
> preference would be to have the most recent packages,
> but also somewhat tested, so should I use testing?
I'v run stable, testing and unstable. In you case, I would start with
stable. Most software in Linux is so mature these days that it
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:10, Lukasz Hejnak wrote:
> export/setenv CC=gcc-2.95
> (select one, export or setenv, depending on your distro)
rather, depending on your shell. setenv if you run csh or tcsh, export
if you run bash (highly probable)
An easier way to set the compiler to s specific versio
On Thu, 2003-08-07 at 06:47, Nick Hastings wrote:
> Setting all this up has _nothing_ to do with gnome, however once you
> do have it set up you may be able to run pon/poff with some gnome
> applet or such. To find if such a thing exists do:
Right-click on a panel -> Add to Panel -> Internet -> M
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote:
> How does one change the window manager in the Gnome 2.2 backport
> for woody? I couldn't find anything relevant in the Desktop
> Preferences.
You could check the list archives, it's an FAQ. Basically, Gnome people
say: "Window Manager" ist tech-spe
On Tue, 2003-07-22 at 04:19, Daniel B. wrote:
> In Gnome 2.2 (the woody backport), can the menu panel be placed other
> than at the top of the screen? If not, why not?
click with middle mouse-button (cursor changes to a cross) and drag. But
only top or bottom are possible or make sense. You can a
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 22:11, David selby wrote:
> I need a program to auto load my many pop3 mail accounts (can't get on
> with IMAP) preferably in the middle of the night. And hopefully grab
> them from a spool directory via Mozilla 1.3
If I understand you right, you want to download the mail
On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 21:15, 9mm wrote:
> a freind recemended me to ask you this. i am having problems with my ATI
> 3D Rage Pro video card and i was just wandering i it is OpenGl compatible.
In X 4.3 it's supported as hardware accelerated
http://www.xfree86.org/current/Status6.html#6
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On Sun, 2003-07-20 at 20:11, Johannes Graumann wrote:
> Where can I get the packages?
http://www.apt-get.org
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On Thu, 2003-07-17 at 01:36, Jeremy Brooks wrote:
> snapshots
Shoot me. Since then I wanted to call our office there and ask the guys
to make some photos. Never managed to. Hey, thanks for reminding me
Bye, I have to write a mail
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On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 08:51, cr wrote:
> nice reading for any Linux fan
It's also old news already. But it reminds me of the great fun I head
when I was in Munich 3 weeks ago and my tired eyes (early-morning flight
:) marveled at the city being plastered all over by the city council
with poste
On Wed, 2003-07-02 at 00:52, Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> I think you want supermount:
>
> http://supermount-ng.sourceforge.net/
>
> It's not integrated into Debian, AFAIK.
Con Kolivas' patch set for 2.4.21 includes it
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ . I recommend the patch
set genera
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 06:30, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> It seems that you have to logout and log back in for any changes to
> register (which is rather annoying...).
I simply do a "killall gnome-panel". As gnome-panel is set to respawn in
the sessionmanager, it comes up again immediately
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On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 04:49, stan wrote:
>
> Hmm, I'm at home now. Given that list I'd be missing:
>
> Dictonary lookup
> CPU load
Both there. Don't believe every incomplete list you see :)
> Slashapp
Not there
> This is a _very_ weak looking list of choices.
>
> Is this on purpose? Gnoem
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 02:12, Ron Johnson wrote:
> The complete(?) list of applets in gnome-applets 2.2.1 :
> Battstat
> CD player
> Character Palette
> Command line
> Drivemount
> Geyes
> Keyboard Layout Switcher
> Modemlights
> Stock ticker
> System monitor
> Volume control
> Weather
[I reply to the list and to you personally. Please note that usually
replying personally is considered a violation of Debian mailing list
rules, since most people don't want to get mails twice. But you sound
newbie enough for me to make sure you get the mail :) ]
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 18:50, Alex
On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 19:23, Angel L. Mateo wrote:
> it seems that
> > evolution doesn't ever run them.
Funny, I run courier-imapd, and Evo filters fine as long as only one
client accesses the account. When I have evo running on both PCs, it
stops filtering
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On Tue, 2003-06-17 at 12:15, Frederick David Bowker wrote:
> I read the instructions for upgarding gnome2.2 at
> http://mirror.raw.no/gnome2.2/README.apt
You did not thoroughly enough. It says:
"Xfree86 4.2.1 is required to install these packages, you can get it
from:
deb http://people.debian.org
On Mon, 2003-06-16 at 12:00, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which xdm
> /usr/bin/X11/xdm
And:
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On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 20:08, iwk wrote:
> Is it really worth
> the fuss of recompiling the stock (debian) kernel which is working fine?
> Anyone got any practical experience?
I've been running Con Koliva's patch set fo a while.
http://members.optusnet.com.au/ckolivas/kernel/ It's already out for
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 17:42, Hugh Saunders wrote:
> Its fine to suggest aptitude, its usefull in some situations, but i dont
> think you can say that people _should_ use it. People can install packages
> however they like apt-get, dpkg, aptitude, synaptic, wajig, etc.
Sure, however, they should r
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 15:45, Terence Ng wrote:
> I cannot remove gdm by running: dpkg --remove gdm
First, you really should use aptitude to install and remove stuff. Try
that first.
In general, copying the error messages is more likely to generate
helpful answers that just saying you "cannot" :)
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 13:19, Terence Ng wrote:
> I have viewed /etc/X11/default-display-manager
> and it shows:
> /etc/bin/gdm
>
> but I do not know how to set, since there is no
> /etc/bin/xdm such file.
If xdm is installed, edit /etc/X11/default-display-manager to read
/usr/X11R6/bin/xdm.
May
On Sun, 2003-06-15 at 03:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > Well, this is certainly a dirty hack, but you could always just put
> > "esdctl unlock" into your default session.
>
> Can someone elaborate on this?
Applications menu -> Desktop Preferences -> Advanced -> Sessions. Now on
the "Startup P
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 20:38, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> put "esdctl unlock" into your default session.
Thanks for the tip, I didn't think of running it from the session
manager myself. But right, what I hoped for is a cleaner solution.
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Hi,
I have gdm configured to have 2 login windows on F7 and F8. 2 users are
logged in concurrently, both using gnome. User 1, who was the first to
log in, has sound via esd - no problem. However, User 2, logging in
second, has no access to esd. User 1 must make his instance of esd
accessible by a
On Sat, 2003-06-14 at 16:45, J.F.Gratton wrote:
> Olympus D520Z digital cam
According to http://www.teaser.fr/~hfiguiere/linux/digicam.html it seems
to work fine as a USB Mass storage device.
I recently got my casio to work easily, just using these instructions
for the 2.4.x kernel http://pubwww.
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 15:11, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote:
> Actually, xchat *isn't* GTK -- it uses standard X libs, which are
> typically not all that appealing to look at. No way to theme them,
> really, without doing a lot of stuff in config files.
You must be confusing xchat with some other
On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 14:53, James Strandboge wrote:
> I do plan to backport evo 1.4.
thought so :)
> Once these issues are worked out, evolution 1.4 will end up in my
> gnome2.2 backport.
You rock! As do your backports - I have them running with awesome
stability and zero probs. Thanks!
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On Sat, 2003-06-07 at 06:27, Bret Comstock Waldow wrote:
> Is it a legacy Gnome 1.4 setting that's lurking
> somewhere?
Something like that. Evo 1.2.4 is still a Gnome 1.4 program, so changes
to Gnome 2 settings don't affect it. Evo 1.4 for G2 should be released
on June 9, and I guess it will be p
On Tue, 2003-06-03 at 03:13, Hamid wrote:
> Well,
> I use "gdm" to login to gnome and I guess it is the gnome window
> manager, right ?
The manual placement sounds like twm. Are the window decorations green
with white borders? I remember to have read several threads some time
ago about this.
Th
On Mon, 2003-06-02 at 20:09, Neilen wrote:
> This led me to look in the gnome preferences panel for a mailto handler
> setting, but I could'nt find it.
There seems to be no GUI for it atm, but you can fire up gconf-editor
(of use gconftool from the CLI) and add a new key
/apps/galeon/handler/prog
On Sun, 2003-06-01 at 18:55, Grzesiek Sedek wrote:
> Is there any programs that could recover as much as possible from it?
If all else fails: 'man strings' - at least you'll get much of the text.
You might also want to try antiword or word2x, but I don't know how good
those are
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On Thu, 2003-05-29 at 00:49, Gezim H wrote:
> I am confused as to what should I use; woody, sarge or sid?
I have used all of stable, testnig and unstable at on time or the other.
While testing extremely seldom has big problems, it is insecure (no
fixes by security team) and you have to watch the
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 22:01, David Fokkema wrote:
> Now I would like to
> have cdrdao, but that is only available for testing. Of course, I could
> recompile the whole thing from source and be done with it
Or you could use the cdrdao backport for woody at
deb http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/debian wo
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 19:20, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> If I login at XDM with a normal user it throws me back to the XDM login
> screen.
Ok
> > 2.) If you use Gnome anyway, you are probably better off with gdm
> > instead of xdm
> Why is that?
I find it prettier and easier to configure. Since you us
On Mon, 2003-03-31 at 16:36, Zeno Davatz wrote:
> I installed all the necessary packages and Gnome 2.2 runs very smooth when I
> get it running with 'startx'.
>
> When I do the same as normal User Gnome starts but crashes immediately and I
> land at the XDM Login again.
1.) I can't follow you:
On Fri, 2003-03-28 at 16:16, Aryan Ameri wrote:
> What about Libranet? Has anyone tried installing Libranet, and the pointing
> the repository to Debain's repository and upgrade packages? Do you think it
> is doable?
Done with Libra 2.7, then used woody sources + the important backports.
Worked
On Fri, 2003-03-21 at 17:03, Klaus Imgrund wrote:
> I think he is talking about Knoppix.Of course this is the right place
> for this.It is not released for download yet but you can get it in other
> places.
c't handed out Knoppix 3.2 disks at CeBIT. Don't know about download
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I have a shiny new desktop machine, so I thought I'm gonna use my old
laptop as a X terminal to the desktop.
I tried remote session logins via XDMCP, VNC and a local X session at
the laptop with some apps started remotely (ssh-tunneled from the
desktop).
Each of these solutions seems to have
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:47, Sharninder wrote:
> What's the use
> of all the files in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory.
They are an archive/cache of the debs you installed :) to save you the
trouble of downloading again should you not have made up your mind if
you want them installed.
See man
On Sun, 2003-03-02 at 15:54, Rich Johnson wrote:
> I have some scripts to short out which files are known to
> the current Debian configuration
apt-cache show cruft debfoster deborphan
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On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 23:13, Jeffrey L. Taylor wrote:
> Or not as the case may be. On my laptop, it insists that that the
> laptop is on battery power and won't run. The laptop only runs on
> AC since the battery won't hold a charge.
Have a look in /etc/init.d/anacron:
case "$1" in
start)
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 22:17, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> Thanks. Are you sure you don't mean CC?
Ooops, sorry, you are right
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On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 19:15, John Anderson wrote:
> Well I recently tried out Mondo, and it filed the / partition and killed the
> machine it was using /tmp, probably due to new stupid user (me) however I
> don't want that to ever happen again, so will most likely end up with say 2
> Cd's worth
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:19, Mario Vukelic wrote:
> I now have /boot 100 MB, / 30 GB (too big, but able to compile
> mozilla and openoffice.org and enough for a long time :)
Oh, wanted to include that since I don't have extra partitions, of
course my 30 GB for / includes space for
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 17:07, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
> 1. There are many themes included for gtk-2.0 How do I use them?
Put them into /usr/share/themes or ~/.themes and open Applications Manu
-> Preferences -> Theme
> 2. art.gnome.org has some nice themes for nautilus. The nautilus docs
>
On Tue, 2003-02-25 at 16:24, John Anderson wrote:
> Any way to cut a long story short I have come up with the following, and would
> appreciate thoughts and guidence.
I have long had multiple partitions too, but over time realized it's a
waste of space or time on a desktop. On a server it sure is
On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 21:03, Faheem Mitha wrote:
> So, you can still compile kernels with it, though I agree that there
> might be some problems if everything insists on calling gcc.
Set the env variable then
> Hmm. Does
> anyone know if it is currently possible to configure what version of
> g
On Sun, 2003-02-23 at 22:21, Johan Ehnberg wrote:
> 2) Something seems to be very slow with gnome-terminal. Scrolling text
> in it eats my CPU to 100% and the scrolling is slow.
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/buglist.cgi?product=gnome-terminal&version=2.0.x&version=2.1.x&version=2.2.x&bug_status=UNCO
On Sun, 2003-02-09 at 19:05, Willem-Jan Meijer wrote:
> maybe there are other important sources not listed abouve.
For unofficial apt sources check http://www.apt-get.org/
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