Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Seth Cohn
On Sun, 15 Oct 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few things in the debian package management system. 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what

Re: apt woody.

2000-10-10 Thread Seth Cohn
On Mon, 9 Oct 2000, Jason Gunthorpe wrote: anyway, after hours of upgrading over a 28.8K modem the process has finished. However something now seems broken with apt-get I did notice a warning about name resolution and the new C library when installing the new packages.

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-30 Thread Seth Cohn
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: Some time ago, I asked about any utility that could take a list of machines and find the one that's closest, so that I could find the best mirror to point dselect to. Someone responded that I should try netselect, which did help a lot. However,

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-30 Thread Seth Cohn
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote: This is a nice idea. You are doing both http _and_ ftp, right? Not yet. Do you have any numbers on how many people actually use http for dselect? Strangely, I've almost always used FTP for transferring files and HTTP for transferring hypertext. Call

Re: Anyone want a utility to find the best mirror?

2000-09-30 Thread Seth Cohn
Debian has a apt-cache program that works great for exactly that purpose. Correction: it's called apt-proxy. apt-cache is entirely different. :) BTW, while I'm at it: rant You folks who wrote sign me up and me too - _ever_ heard of private replies? This isn't AOL, thank you very much.

Re: Glibc 2.1.94-3, fixes all issues with db libraries

2000-09-30 Thread Seth Cohn
On Sat, 30 Sep 2000, Ben Collins wrote: [1] Debian Chaos Events are scheduled on a haphazard basis. We make no guarantees about show times. Coming soon, Watch the Amazing Horse that dives into a Package Pool!! See the unstable freaks who apt-get update every 10 minutes!!! Hear the weird

Re: Getting X to work in Dell OptiPlex

2000-09-26 Thread Seth Cohn
The Dell OptiPlex GX110 is using i810e chipset. I think it's best to describe what I went through. Been there, done that. Complained to Branden, because at the time, he didn't even HAVE the link he'd promised in the docs, on the website. He fixed that though. :) He doesn't include the

Re: Debian rescue-cd (instead of those spartanic rescue-disk)?

2000-09-23 Thread Seth Cohn
1) the Linuxcare Bootable Biz card CD will do some of this (http://www.linuxcare.com/bootable_cd it will install a Slink+1/2, among other things. 2) Lubbock, my own project spunoff from the Linuxcare one, and a major goal of Lubbock is to become much more Debian-ish, and can always use more

Re: Opinions: Woody bits in potato - whats the best way?

2000-09-17 Thread Seth Cohn
On Mon, 18 Sep 2000, C. Falconer wrote: Gidday - I have a couple standard Potato machines at work, and one at home as a standard Masquerading gateway. I've been playing with licq and Xvnc. On discovering that licq was up to version 0.85 from the 0.76 I was using I tried apt-get

Re: join us!

2000-09-15 Thread Seth Cohn
Please follow up to Debian-devel, since this isn't really a user issue. [please ignore the long quoted sections. I decided it ws better to quote in full, since I was crossposting this] At 04:34 PM 09/15/2000 -0700, David Benfell wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2000 at 10:20:44AM -0400, Paul D. Smith

digest version broken?

2000-09-12 Thread Seth Cohn
I was getting both user and devel as digests, and both went quiet. I subscribed to both as digest again, in case I'd been knocked off the list, and still nothing, so I subscribed as non-digest and I'm getting email, enough that it should have kicked out a digest, but still no digest. Looks

It's a small world....

2000-08-25 Thread Seth Cohn
Tonight at the Eugene Linux user group meeting, not only were the regulars there, like myself and Mike Smith, but I had the pleasant experience of meeting Brian Moore, whom I had no idea was local. We had some laughs and all agreed once again that arguing with Steve Lamb was pointless... Pretty

Re: Linux Mail Client (was: Re: Web browsers for Linux (was: Re: Netscape Bus Error))

2000-08-24 Thread Seth Cohn
On Thu, 24 Aug 2000, John Pearson wrote: On Wed, Aug 23, 2000 at 07:31:07AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote Technically, yes. However, if your boss says that work email is not to touch outside SMTP servers as a matter of policy how far do you think Well, the SMTP server will route it

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-23 Thread Seth Cohn
On Tue, 22 Aug 2000, Steve Lamb wrote: On Tue, Aug 22, 2000 at 06:47:49PM -0700, Seth Cohn wrote: So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. Go look on Sourceforge in the email clients and notice what the first one /is/. The first one is acmemail (and it's

Re: Linux Mail Client

2000-08-22 Thread Seth Cohn
Steve Lamb continues to complain: I have been specific. I have even given examples! PMMail and The Bat! Screen shots alone for those two products speak volumes! So go ahead, start a sourceforge project page, and write a damn clone. As someone who uses many email addresses, belongs to

Re: Re Rescue Disks, Tom's btrt

2000-07-22 Thread Seth Cohn
this, you might want to ask more generally for hints (or solutions) from other folks (try the LinuxCare website), and/or post your own results. Would make a cool little Linux Zip distro. join the Lubbock mailing list, or even the Lubbock developer team... Seth Cohn lead developer