Re: [OT?] Loadbalancer on Debian

2005-06-20 Thread Pete Harlan
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 08:37:08AM +0200, Niclas S?derlund wrote: Hi all. Im searching for a free alternative to byuing an expensive loadbalancer appliance. I have two identical servers on the inside and need third machine on the outside doing a round-robin of a couple of ports to the

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-10 Thread Pete Harlan
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:45:34PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: George Roman wrote: right is a relative word. debian is the right choice for me, if others (people who use other dist) prefer to reinstall their systems with each new release it is their business. Which distros need

No more Alt/Meta in xterms

2004-07-13 Thread Pete Harlan
-Meta-q, not just Meta-q. The problem showed up with the X update from a couple of weeks ago; until then everything was working fine and I didn't change anything. Anyone having a similar problem? Suggestions to where to look to fix it? Many thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mutt - saving message to disk (not mail folder)

2003-11-25 Thread Pete Harlan
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 08:37:29PM +, p wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 09:22:01PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: How do I save a mail message to disk with mutt? I want to save it to disk, not another mail folder (saving to a different mail folder appears quite clearly in the docs but

perl_tie_hash: Can't locate object method TIEHASH...

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
! Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: perl_tie_hash: Can't locate object method TIEHASH...

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
a deeper problem somewhere with headers_in), but it appears to work for us. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:56:09PM -0600, Pete Harlan wrote: Sorry if this was already discussed recently. I just subscribed to the list and couldn't find anything in the archives

Re: Integrated Broadcom nic on Dell times out with dhcp

2003-11-17 Thread Pete Harlan
to set it to is probably a matter of trial and error; there are only four combos.) HTH, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: PGP Signatures

2003-02-04 Thread Pete Harlan
On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 04:07:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:21:53PM +0100, mess-mate wrote: On Wed, 29 Jan 2003 07:07:30 -0500 Seneca [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | In ~/.gnupg/gnupg.conf, uncomment or add | keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve. ?? there

Re: How to make Alt GNU Emacs Meta?

2003-01-14 Thread Pete Harlan
When you do dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86, you have a chance to input keyboard options. Input altwin:meta_win, which is mentioned in the dialog box that asks for options, to get the potato behavior or Alt and Windows keys. HTH, --Pete On Sat, Jan 11, 2003 at 03:52:00PM -0500, Richard Cobbe

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2002-12-16 Thread Pete Harlan
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:17:05PM -0500, David Teague wrote: ... Craig and others Having undesirable featuers such as maintaining state or having dynamic scoping, does not make a language not be functional. The I'll agree to disagree on that semantic point. (You could say that you've

Re: putty logout hang

2002-12-16 Thread Pete Harlan
On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 02:53:47PM -0800, Charlie Reiman wrote: -Original Message- From: Brooks R. Robinson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, December 16, 2002 2:39 PM To: debian Subject: RE: putty logout hang | Hi, | Whenever I login to my woody server and run a

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2002-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 07:45:34AM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-12-13T14:52:51Z, Johann Spies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. So is Ocaml and I think Scheme also. Since Scheme is a Lisp derivative, yes, it's also a functional language. Scheme is a

Re: OT: functional languages (was: Politics of Java)

2002-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 03:13:57PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote: Pete Harlan wrote: Lisp and Scheme are not functional languages. A functional languge is one that doesn't support mutating data; Lisp and Scheme very much do. I certainly agree about Lisp. With Scheme, it's a bit trickier

Re: how to set /etc/hosts to force loopback connect

2002-11-12 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 04:05:51PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: Hello list, I'd like to make my debian box to loopback connect when it tries to connect to a specific domain name, say www.foo.com. So I configured /etc/hosts and put 127.0.0.1 www.foo.com in it. When I try to ping

Re: ifup/ifdown are not idempotent

2002-10-11 Thread Pete Harlan
On Fri, Oct 11, 2002 at 11:58:13AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: check this series of commands: Are you sure there's not an old /etc/init.d/network or other startup script that brings the interface up initially using ifconfig? In my experience, when ifup brings up an interface, ifdown brings

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Pete Harlan
On Wed, Jun 05, 2002 at 12:47:17PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: Ian == Ian D Stewart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ian Speaking only for myself, it was the condescending tone adopted Ian by one of the developers (don't remember the fellow's name; he Ian was the one ranting about about his

Re: geforce4 420 graphics card problem

2002-06-04 Thread Pete Harlan
The X folks have put in support for the Geforce4, but the X server in Debian testing (or unstable, last time I checked) doesn't yet have those changes. So for now either compile X yourself, or use the proprietary driver from NVidia (directions for installation are available at their website).

Re: Remote admin of intermittently-connected machine?

2002-05-30 Thread Pete Harlan
We had a headless server on the other side of the world that connected intermittently with a dynamic IP over a 28.8 dialup line. It would email me its IP address when it connected; at that point I had five minutes to ssh into that IP address and stop it from disconnecting, and do whatever admin

Re: safe_mysqld hangs ssh connection every time. (woody)

2002-05-29 Thread Pete Harlan
If you ssh somewhere using openssh protocol 2 and launch a background task that hasn't closed stdout and stderr, your ssh session will hang when upon logout, until the launched app closes those descripters (e.g., when it finishes). Perhaps /etc/init.d/mysql redirects stdout/stderr to /dev/null?

Re: Applications not using hosts file for name resolution

2002-05-28 Thread Pete Harlan
This is a wierd but correct behaviour of IPv6 resolution. There are a huge number of bug reports about it. Do you know the rationale behind IPv6 considering this 'correct'? If you could explain it for the benefit of myself and everyone else who gets bit by this and searches the Debian

Re: Nvidia GeForce2 [was Re: woody]

2002-05-24 Thread Pete Harlan
Nvidia cards require their proprietary driver to work under X. No, I believe this isn't true. Use the 'nv' driver (included with XFree86 and open source (obviously)) and you should be okay. If you want full 3D acceleration (essentially as good as their Windows driver), then you can use their

Re: Recommended tape backup software - tape vs disk - raided

2002-05-21 Thread Pete Harlan
On Tue, May 21, 2002 at 01:05:46AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: i wouldn't give backups to people ( when the backups contain user passwds and ( financial data or other sensitive stuff... Encrypt the backup, so you don't have to worry about it as much. Yeah, some folks have the

Re: C's pointer arithmetic (Was Re: Setting effective UID for a shell script)

2002-05-16 Thread Pete Harlan
On Thu, May 16, 2002 at 09:02:25AM +0200, Perceval Anichini wrote: When you write argv + 1, the compiler will understand : compute the address of argv, and add one time the size of the type which is pointed by argv. I remember to you that argv[1] = argv + 1. Brackets are only syntactic

Re: SCSI Transfer rate

2002-04-22 Thread Pete Harlan
In my case it was the wrong adapter between my disk and cable. (It was an 80=68-pin converter thingy.) Replacing it with the right one solved the problem. HTH, --Pete On Sun, Apr 21, 2002 at 05:54:05PM -0400, Robert Webb wrote: Hi all, I have a Symbios SCSI controller built onto my MB.

Re: Serverworks USB controller

2002-04-12 Thread Pete Harlan
Same problem here. I have a Nikon Coolpix 5000 camera, and a Serverworks motherboard (Thunder 2500). usb-ohci is the only host controller module that worked at all, and it 'worked' just as shown below. The camera connects fine in Win98, so it's possible to talk to it from the Serverworks USB

Re: Alt as Meta Key in Emacs21 and XFree 4.1.0.1

2002-04-09 Thread Pete Harlan
to do the same thing; this works for me. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Apr 08, 2002 at 01:56:30PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 08-Apr-2002 Holger Rauch wrote: Hi! I noticed that in Debian Woody the Alt key does not work as Meta key when using Emacs 21 under X (XFree

Re: Which window-manager for a kiosk?

2002-03-19 Thread Pete Harlan
You can launch your startup app from /etc/inittab. I used to work for a company that installed kiosks, and this is how we did it. We ran our own app, not a browser, and our X needs were very minimal. No window manager, no windows except our one, no keyboard, no mouse (touchscreen only), etc.

Re: a grep question

2002-03-05 Thread Pete Harlan
Well since you don't show what command you actually typed, it's hard to tell you what you did wrong. But this might give you what you're looking for: find /etc -type f | xargs grep -H '10\.' where /etc is the root of whatever tree you want, obviously, and -type f tells find to only list

Re: fork: Resource temporarily unavailable

2002-03-03 Thread Pete Harlan
I leave gnomeicu running all the time and my process table get filled with defunct gnomeicu processes. I have to stop/restart gnomeicu to get rid of them. I've had this fork: ... message happen when I had only around 300 processes running. /proc/sys/kernel/threads-max is the only relevant

lprng: pages/min varies with # items queued?

2002-02-28 Thread Pete Harlan
We're seeing something that's baffling me. We queue up a hundred pages to our locally-attached HP postscript printer, and when the first pages begin printing they print as fast as you'd expect from the printer (12ppm or somesuch), but as the queue grows the pages come out slower and slower

Re: OT: mysql vs. postgresql

2001-12-19 Thread Pete Harlan
This would be true if it was true, but it isn't. MySQL is really unsuited to multiple readers, unless the reads are trivial select-one-row-by-id jobs. Flame bait. MySQL has been great for us, with scads of multiple readers with complex queries. Your mileage may differ, hence try them both

Re: Non X-windows GUI web browser?

2001-08-05 Thread Pete Harlan
These guys are great, but if you *must* use a GUI broswer, and also only want webmin bound to 127.0.0.1 (Good Idea) you can use ssh to tunnel connections there from a client with an X browser on it. That's true, but be careful with ssh tunnels; without firewall rules, they'll tunnel any other

Re: XFree86 4

2001-07-17 Thread Pete Harlan
means everything works. To make it your default: ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 That should read: ln -s /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 /etc/X11/X --Pete

Re: [users] Re: Time to fight for our beloved DEB format!

2001-07-09 Thread Pete Harlan
she wants. Does the LSB have other reasons for specifying runlevels that couldn't be handled via a mapping in the installer? -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Testing for Kylix compatibility fails (potato)

2001-07-09 Thread Pete Harlan
it there. Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Borland Kylix System Compatibility Test Checking loaderThis will test whether libc installed on your system has a design flaw of the dynamic loading of shared objects. By dynamicly loading shared object 'a' that depends on shared objects

Apt keeps giving me 400 Bad Request

1999-10-03 Thread Pete Harlan
non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US stable non-US Each run of apt-get does make about 5mb of progress. Intel, 28.8 modem link, plenty of disk space/ram, etc. What dumb thing am I doing wrong? Thanks in advance, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diamond Viper V770 Ultra

1999-10-03 Thread Pete Harlan
I am trying to help someone setup their Diamond Viper V770 Ultra under Linux (not sure exactly which distro they use, but I'm a debian person myself). They are having problems with X-windows (what else?) description of problem :- 1) Window appears to be four times it's correct size. 2)

Re: 2.2.* on slink

1999-09-07 Thread Pete Harlan
Check out this page for the list of things you need to update from potato: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2 Appletalk disk-serving to our Macs stopped working around 2.2.10 or so. I went back to 2.0.37 and it works again. The above URL didn't mention netatalk. It's

All packages Obsolete/local in dselect?

1999-05-20 Thread Pete Harlan
, upgraded from hamm. I've seen this happen with 'apt' on several machines, but only just saw it from 'ftp' too. Any ideas how I would go about resolving this? Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: email from cracklib cron

1999-05-01 Thread Pete Harlan
is, non-experimental, but up to date. Another is, Changes only for security reasons. Debian seems to use the latter definition. Perhaps the package developer has some say; I'm not sure how that works. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com/ http://www.mealsforyou.com/

Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?

1999-02-08 Thread Pete Harlan
Of course, better off wasn't defined... What if better off means using less electricity? What if it means saving on wear tear? Saving on wear tear uses less electricity, because it takes a ton of electricity to manufacture a new monitor. I've heard that it takes more electricity to make a

Re: X-windows not working anymore...

1999-02-07 Thread Pete Harlan
) ;; perhaps should have a ;; on the line before the default) line. (Haven't tried this myself yet.) Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Slow system: problem isolated, need help with solution

1999-01-10 Thread Pete Harlan
Ok, it turns out that pppd is somehow affecting my computer. Everything works just fine and fast without pppd running, but as soon as I attempt to dial out, things slow down. How do I go about it? Andrew I had something like this happen to me; it turned out my external modem was plugged

Re: Automatic font-lock in emacs

1998-12-20 Thread Pete Harlan
How do I configure my emacs so that it will detect the file type(*.c, *.h, *.tex, *.pro ) and automatically starts the font lock... Add this: (global-font-lock-mode t) to your .emacs file. (This is for emacs 20.3; don't know about other versions.) For more on this, look for help(*) on

Re: moving the root partition (esp. /dev)

1998-12-13 Thread Pete Harlan
the -R option, which is what you wanted instead of -r (which make all non-directory files into regular files: man cp). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Virtual Console Messed Up When Switching From X

1998-12-02 Thread Pete Harlan
I have the same problem, also with an S3 ViRGE/DX card. I can produce it by stopping and starting xdm. Running setfont (or is that seT7onT?) restores the vc console fonts, but it's probably a bug in the SVGA's server for this chipset. Perhaps it's fixed in 3.3.3... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL

Re: Backspace in xterm (again) [FIXED]

1998-10-23 Thread Pete Harlan
every corner. After being disconcerted that with the latest slink synch I lost all my X clients (xdm, xterm, etc.), and then re-finding them in the dselect list, and installing them, I found that Alt-backspace works properly again in an xterm. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WARNING! Do NOT upgrade sysklogd to 1.3-29

1998-10-21 Thread Pete Harlan
read the list complain that their system is broken. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com

Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Pete Harlan
non-free deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US unstable non-US When I've installed freshly from the CD, rather than updating, I haven't had this problem. Any suggestions? Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Odd dselect/apt/slink behavior?

1998-10-14 Thread Pete Harlan
Torsten writes: Probably the dselect database are not updated by apt-get. Try the apt select method in dselect and do an update (using the apt method). Are the packages still shown as obsolete? Yes, they're still obsolete. The update succeeded, to all appearances. --Pete

Re: mixed text and postscript

1998-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
. Not all printers need that; HPs seem to. You will want to change the media type for enscript to suit your needs. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: getting sendmail to relay...

1998-09-22 Thread Pete Harlan
, and you should be ready to roll. This assumes sendmail 8.9.x; you didn't say what version of Debian you installed. It matters, since 8.8.x (a) relays by default and (b) often uses different mechanisms for enabling relaying if you do disable it. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IP Firewalling/Forwarding baffles me

1998-09-16 Thread Pete Harlan
) ought to, or the system administrator's guide, or lots of different books on system administration. Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-13 Thread Pete Harlan
work when displaying on my Slink machine. I'm stymied. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Pete Harlan
), to no avail. Outside X, or in Emacs, all works normally. rxvt does what you describe: It works, but it's reversed (alt acts as meta and meta is ignored.) I wonder what the difference between your setup and mine could be... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-10 Thread Pete Harlan
Just to followup on my own message, it's probably not a bug in xterm because bo's xterm binary misbehaves identically when copied to slink. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Backspace in xterm (again)

1998-09-08 Thread Pete Harlan
-backspace work for anyone in an xterm (deleting the previous word on bash input, for example)? This worked fine in Bo and before. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail and virtualdomains

1998-09-02 Thread Pete Harlan
Yup. For 'dbm' substitute 'hash' and it should work. I suppose the precompiled debian doesn't have dbm support turned on. (You have to use 'hash' both in the FEATURE macro and when you create the database with makemap hash /etc/virtusertable /etc/virtusertable Good luck, -- Pete

Re: [pppd] error: link not 8-bit clean

1998-08-26 Thread Pete Harlan
Wrong passwords produce the link is not 8-bit clean message from pppd. For some reason improper authentication doesn't (can't?) get reported as such. I missed the beginning of this thread, so perhaps this has been mentioned. Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apt how, why, where

1998-08-20 Thread Pete Harlan
too. Just a thought. Bloat good. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: Anyone know why Meta-backspace doesn't work in an xterm in hamm/slink? It works on the console, or when emacs has its own X window, but not on the xterm[-debian] command-line or emacs when it's in an xterm.

Re: Bizarre getty issue

1998-08-20 Thread Pete Harlan
(by looking at /etc/inittab) why it's trying to run something, why that thing is dying, and fixing the situation (perhaps by taking the line out of inittab.) -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Meta-Backspace in Xterms?

1998-08-18 Thread Pete Harlan
. It does work (sends M-DEL) when emacs is in its own window. Anyone know a fix offhand? It's amazing how much you grow to rely on the simplest of things sometimes. Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] PS: My system is behaving terribly after the reinstall. Freezes for ten seconds aren't uncommon

Re: Is this expected ssh behavior?

1998-08-01 Thread Pete Harlan
in that login script you're hosed, but I set up the environment I want in ~/.ssh/environment and it works. Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: emacs (in color mode)

1998-07-22 Thread Pete Harlan
. If there's a way to colour text on a console or in an xterm, I don't know it.) Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: sendmail forward Virtual dom - user accounts???

1998-07-22 Thread Pete Harlan
the sendmail I had didn't grok dbm, but hash worked fine. Good luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: Debian Package Manager Worthless Junk???

1998-07-07 Thread Pete Harlan
Debian 1.3.1 systems prehistoric? Yes. Is that bad? Sometimes. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: SOLUTION? how to hold mail in another machine temporarily

1998-07-05 Thread Pete Harlan
it to relay it [eventually] to A. (Note also that the MX record for B should have a higher number (corresponding to a lower priority) than the MX record for A.) -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.artselect.com -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: emacs *very slow* to launch

1998-06-17 Thread Pete Harlan
Netscape in X is another matter though. Would setting the mode to store the image in swap speed stuff up? Netscape maintains its large cache in ~/.netscape/cache, which it checks somehow on startup. This, I believe, contributes more to its slow launch than its bulk does. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL

Re: Stronghold Apache

1998-05-28 Thread Pete Harlan
] Debian 1.3, and it works fine. Don't know about 2.0. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] I burnt hamm on a CD and now the house smells like bacon and melted plastic. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Default Beep

1998-05-19 Thread Pete Harlan
instead of 10, and its argument is the duration in milliseconds. Happy beeping, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Default Beep

1998-05-18 Thread Pete Harlan
already said you use vi ;) HTH, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Setup w/large hard drives

1998-05-10 Thread Pete Harlan
up a machine with a single large drive, so let me know if it doesn't ;) You'd have to make sure you copied your kernels into the right place, of course. But it saves you the pain of having a bunch of partitions that never turn out to be the right size. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Funneling a donain's mail to one account.

1998-05-09 Thread Pete Harlan
/virtusertable /etc/virtusertable Now all you have to remember to do is to rerun the makemap command when you edit virtusertable, something I invariably forget... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Books or Debian wrong? and other stuff

1998-05-08 Thread Pete Harlan
And as long as I am here, I have noticed that the escape charactor in kermit does not work ^\. Neither does there seem to be anyway to exit dosemu other than killing the process. Kermit is full of bugs, and hamm does not have a current version. Kermit is easy to download, compile and

Re: squake/multiplayer

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
when I'm playing multiplayer quake (1.09) I can't move forwards or backwards.. I can in single player mode.. My opponents are win95 tcp/ip with quake 1.06.. is there an incompatibility? IIRC, there is indeed an incompatibility between 1.09 and earlier quakes. You or they need to down- or

Re: catch 22

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
. That's the origin of the phrase. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: PGP

1997-12-04 Thread Pete Harlan
this up for Debian unless source is released. There, now it's on-topic. And please correct me if source for 5.0 is available... -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: [SOLVED] Annoying boot-up messages

1997-12-03 Thread Pete Harlan
process, will get run only once, and won't get overwritten when you upgrade your box. In ours I set the keyboard speed and rewrite /etc/issue to put the current kernel version in the login prompt. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe

Re: Diagrams

1997-11-13 Thread Pete Harlan
a language that is even more poorly-designed than TeX, bad error messages, and lack of visual tools. (Someone should put the good concepts there into a proper programming language.) There's probably something better out there for what you need. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

DSFG Free?

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
in languages I can't yet read. Would someone please have mercy on a poor soul who is seeing DFSG everywhere and has no idea what it stands for, and enlighten him? Many thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet support the alterations made by OSR2. Matt I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) and (Debian) Linux reads it fine as vfat.

Re: Update: mounting MS-DOS fs onto Linux

1997-11-11 Thread Pete Harlan
One possible unconfirmed cause (Okay, a guess) Is the Win95 partition OSR2? (Fat32?) To my knoweldge, the vfat filesystem doesn't yet support the alterations made by OSR2. Matt I have a bleeding-edge Windows95 OSR2 installation (October1997 OEM) and (Debian) Linux reads it fine

Re: Book for writing shell scripts.

1997-11-06 Thread Pete Harlan
can't comment on them. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] This year will go down in history. For the first time, a civilized nation has full gun regisration. Our streets will be safer, our police more efficient, and the world will follow our lead into the future! --Adolph Hitler, 1935

Re: Quake problem

1997-11-06 Thread Pete Harlan
not a quake problem. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: best Linux video card

1997-11-04 Thread Pete Harlan
kidding about that last one ;) Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: best Linux video card (Open Hardware)

1997-11-04 Thread Pete Harlan
of other non-M$ folks. -- Pete Harlan, answering his own question having been emailed the answer by Bruce. [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: StarOffice3.1

1997-10-30 Thread Pete Harlan
not the clearest way to think of it. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: pppd

1997-10-24 Thread Pete Harlan
Now my link seems to be slow - is there a possibility to watch the throughput (like x.xx kb/s or sim.)? pppstats isn't perfect, but it does what you ask. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mymenus.com/ The Best Recipe Site on the Web -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: scroll-back buffer

1997-10-13 Thread Pete Harlan
How can I clear the scroll-back buffer when a use logs out (other than changing tty's)? Echo four thousand spaces from .bash_logout? --Pete -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: How does mgetty differ from uugetty ?

1997-10-06 Thread Pete Harlan
My problem is that I could not find the section that describes the features that are supported by uugetty but not by mgetty. Can you tell me what are uugetty is horribly broken; this feature is not supported by mgetty. -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] (This is not just a flip answer: It's

Re: is the Creative Labs AWE64 GOLD Soundcard supported?

1997-10-06 Thread Pete Harlan
years of upgrades. But it's not as cool as getting it to work for free (though you'll need to spend the $20 anyway on a hat after you tear your hair out). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail

Re: fw:[oclug] moving an open file

1997-10-02 Thread Pete Harlan
? In such a case mv, if it works at all (I've seen this behavior at least once in my life), can move by copying and deleting. --Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

[Q] Mail spool dir okay over nfs?

1997-10-02 Thread Pete Harlan
smail, and the client will use elm or mail to read/delete email. Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

Re: screenshot in xfree86

1997-10-02 Thread Pete Harlan
Does anyone know how to take a screenshot of the X desktop? xwd will grab the data. It's then an issue of converting the format to one you like (netpbm package is usually the answer for this sort of thing). -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail

Re: Stable means not-changing?

1997-09-25 Thread Pete Harlan
For the most part, it means non-changing. While it would be nice to fix each package with a problem, doing so always runs the risk of breaking other packages on the system. Verifying the integrity of the system as a Perhaps this has been taken a little too much to heart; I keep updating my

Re: Background NFS Mounts

1997-09-10 Thread Pete Harlan
,noauto 0 0 /etc/rc.boot/local: (or wherever you put these things) --- # Mount flakey soon. echo mount /nfs/flakey | at now + 1 minute Works for us; if you don't want to be emailed when it fails you can redirect 2/dev/null. G'Luck, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Linux kernel 2.0.31????

1997-08-23 Thread Pete Harlan
your buffers and experience problems on 2.0.30. We've had no problems whatsoever running pre-patch-7 applied to 2.0.30; I'd recommend at least testing it, because if you don't find problems with it it will soon become 2.0.31. (After a couple of known minorkinks are worked out.) -- Pete Harlan

Re: Unknown PCI device (8086:7100 and others)

1997-08-15 Thread Pete Harlan
It seems as if the mother board is a bit too new, 7100-7113 and 1300 is unknown. I also had trouble like this (I don't remember the specific unknown numbers; the machine was a new Dec Venturis FX-2 with Pentium MMX). It disappeared when I installed Linus's (then-) latest patch, pre-2.0.31-6.

[HELP] smail stuck from cron?

1997-08-10 Thread Pete Harlan
crontab, so an entry probably had output it's trying to mail to me. Any way I can tell which one? Any other ideas? The machine is runnning Debian 1.2, kernel 2.0.29, and has plenty of free resources (ram, disk, processes). Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM

Re: Can dpkg Repair Damaged Packages?

1997-07-03 Thread Pete Harlan
, such a thing can't be that hard to write... Thanks, -- Pete Harlan [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word unsubscribe to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .

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