Re: [OT] Learning PERL

On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, Andrew Perrin wrote: A standard is Learning Perl (http://www.bookpool.com/.x/h6ph9apwz1/sm/0596001320) Learning Perl is really good. I got through the first seven chapters (2nd edition) and then picked up the -Perl Cookbook- ... it makes a good complement and has loads

Re: LaTex editor

LyX On Fri, 31 Jan 2003, ian wrote: Hi all, I would like to know a good TEX editor...any recommendations? ian -- +-+ This is not a signature +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: if you could have just one dead tree book

the new edition of UNIX POWER TOOLS. ... i mean, i assume we're talkin' computer books here, cuz otherwise it'd probably be some kickass star atlas. :) -glenn becker On Thu, 30 Jan 2003, Dan Hunt wrote: I am taking care of my big sister's farm here in western Canada while she is visiting

Re: IDE for java

check out jde (now called jdee b/c of copyright reasons) in devel. it's an emacs add-on, so if you don't like/use emacs ... well ... g On Wed, 22 Jan 2003, Eduardo Gargiulo wrote: Hi all Is there any IDE for java (debianized if possible). Which? Where should I point my sources to

retreating from evolution to mutt

Hi - I'm strongly considering 'retreating' from Evolution to Mutt as an email tool, not only because I like the zip and elegance of text-only but ... just ... well, I miss Mutt! I'm wondering if it is okay to simply copy the various mbox files from my Evolution folders to my old

Re: Computers

Glenn: Are we going to purchase two computers for Kim Wallace and Jim Vanderslice? Steve Yes, and we're mailing them to a debian user in Canada, for some strange reason. Glenn Hey! =I'm= Glenn. Am I getting charged for this? Glenn No-Quotes Becker +-+ This

Re: IRC

try irc.openprojects.org channel #debian On Fri, 15 Nov 2002, james leclair wrote: Hello, what server and channel should I join to talk with other debian users? Thanks in advance! James -- +-+ This is not a signature +-+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Which ICQ Client is better?

i've enjoyed using centericq - but i like curses-style interfaces. On Tue, 12 Nov 2002, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 07:52:30PM +0100, Pontus Edvardsson wrote: What is the best/most useful ICQ client in your opinion? I've checked out gaim, licq kicq2. Is there any

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to contribute

Barry - I'm in a similar situation, I guess. I too have been hanging around Sourceforge, but in my case have hooked onto a couple of projects, even if I feel I can't contribute what I want to contribute, yet - in the hope that it will push me where I want to go. In my case, I'm trying to

Re: Dr. Scheme

David, I don't know 'bout this package in particular, but I run a slew of unstable packages on my Woody box and rarely experience difficulties. You can always check the bug reports on the Debian package page. gb On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, David Teague wrote: Hi I need the Dr. Scheme

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

if you could contrive to send him/her an 'infinite fax' (done on a paper fax machine by taping multiple copies into a loop) i for one would be forever in your debt. aleph null-ly glenn On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Mike Dresser wrote: Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if

Re: seti@home

I've used TkSeti some, and it is quite nice. On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Gary Turner wrote: I've been running setiathome on my winboxes and am considering adding my linbox to the mix. So, the question is what is the appropriate directory to unpack and run this little bippy? How does the graphical

partition types

OK, I've got a REALLY STUPID question here. :/ I decided recently that I wanted to try out the Linux from Scratch project (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org). In order to do this particular thang one has to create a reasonable sized partition on which to create the installation. Now, when =I=

kstars: problem with libpng

Hi, I've had a problem with incompatible versions of libpng both with Debian (I'm running a mostly-Woody box) and FreeBSD ... under FreeBSD, the problem appears in both KStars and KWord (which barely works at all). Anyhoo, here are the relevant lines of error output from KStars under

Re: kstars: problem with libpng

It's known and being fixed, but since it was a KDE-wide problem it's taking a certain amount of time to fix. See the debian-kde archives for the (messy) history. oh, okay - thanks. it was turning into one of those 'am i just losing my mind?' kind o' things, bec. i hadn't turned up anything

Re: Ncurses on PCs

And how can I install Linux and Windows on the same machine (how difficult is it)? Making a dual boot Win and Linux machine isn't too hard. Depends a bit on how much HD space you have. And it may take a bit of tinkering, so making backups is a good idea. I say 'isn't too hard' because I

Error reported from some KDE apps

All, Was wondering if anyone had encountered this before. I get the following error when trying to launch certain KDE applications (spec. kdevelop or quanta): quanta: relocation error: /usr/lib/libkssl.so.2: undefined symbol: polish__7KDialog ... well, that's the quanta version. Any advice on

Re: programs not appearing on desktop menu

I too am running testing, and have had this prob in the past and have ignored it ... lately, some of these seem to have been resolved by running update-menus; others ... (like, oddly vim ... a recent development) remain. You can edit the menu files by hand, of course, butcha hafta -find- 'em

Re: HUGE .xsession-errors file

This happened to me, too. I reported some weird jumps in the % usage reported by df, and subsequently found that this file had mushroomed at some point (the other % were addressed by running apt-get clean). Glenn Becker On Sat, 6 Oct 2001, David Purton wrote: at some point in the last day or

Re: DBI XML:putting it all together

Also check out the XML and Perl (or maybe it's the other way round) column on http://www.xml.com Glenn Becker On 1 Oct 2001, Jeff Zucker wrote: Vittorio wrote: I'm using perl and the DBI stuff to deal with Oracle databases on a LAN. Now, I need to extract data from XML docs and put

Re: www.debian.org

I haven't been able to access it this morning. I'm in NYC. Glenn Becker -- ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++

Re: Vigor, anyone?

Oh, good. Thank you! Is it headed for testing or unstable? G On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Sep 28, 2001 at 04:53:13AM -0500, Glenn Becker wrote: I guess because I'm a bit unwell, I wanted to install the joked-up version of vi (with M$ish paperclip assistant) called

Re: About a laptop

I've had some dealings with the folks at http://www.qlitech.com. They seem fairly on the ball and the prices are competitive. Haven't actually -purchased- anything, so that's a soft recommendation, I guess! Glenn Becker On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Lucho Debianero wrote: Im planning to buy a dell

question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

gone round, I get the following when I try to run fetchmail: 6 messages (2 seen) for burningclown at burningclown.com (18717 octets). skipping message 1 (2375 octets) not flushed skipping message 2 (2675 octets) not flushed reading message 3 of 6 (4214 octets) fetchmail: SMTP connect to localhost

Re: question about hostname FOLLOWUP: EXIM

Hi, 'kay, important things first: what is that there furshlugginer HTH? I notice lots o' people usin' it. :) I went onto the #debian channel on openprojects.net IRC and asked around about the exim/fetchmail thing. Was told to add this to my .fetchmailrc file: with mda /usr/bin/procmail -d %T

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

Okay: Take a shot of whiskey and type: dkpg --force-remove-reinstreq aime Did this. And got this: dpkg: need an action option Type dpkg --help for help about installing and deinstalling packages [*]; Use dselect for user-friendly package management; Type dpkg -Dhelp for a list of dpkg debug

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

Arrgh ... on -all- of these I get dpkg: unknown force/refuse option 'reinstreq' wtf? i say, wtf? ... I'm reading the same man pages that are recommending the same things that get called 'unknown' when I try to invoke them. G ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

In re: Now it's time for surgery. Go find the deb file and run dpkg -c aime-whatever-.deb Just destroy all the files that are listed as being part of the package and judisciously scrub the c OK, I'll try it. BUT and I do mean BUT ... this is Kafka-esque. I don't often run into a problem

crappy dpkg thing SOLVED. apologies

Thanks, debian-users for putting up with my half-baked squeakings. I finally figured out what I was doing wrong, and have wiped the offending package from my system, unto eternity. Embarrassedly, Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

Hi, The document in Polish doesn't really contain anything useful regarding your problem. Basically it just reiterates that packages marked reinstall-required cannot be handled by dpkg unless you use --force-reinstreq or whatever. Dead end there :D Wow. Thanks for checking that out! Still,

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

Hi, I recall posting a few direct suggestions that I don't believe were responded to. These issues can be difficult to resolve. List traffic's also been high the past couple of days, and I've been thinning out mail significantly. Yes. I succumbed to the desperation that these things

OT: Professional Organizations

Hi, all - I've considered joining USENIX for some time now but would be interested in knowing what others think of the benefits of such membership(s). ... and there are -other- orgs around, too, like ACM. Thoughts? Glenn Becker ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal

package in a bad way - what to do

Hi, As has happened sometimes in the past, I've got a package that seems to be in trouble, and I can't figure out what to do with it ... since it never -really- seems to get all the way installed. I'd like to just do away with it entirely. The package in question is the MUD server aime. Here is

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

Hi, Have you tried apt-get --purge remove program name Just did this. I got the following Reading Package Lists... Building Dependency Tree... The following packages will be REMOVED: aime* 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 1 to remove and 3 not upgraded. 1 packages not fully

Re: package in a bad way - what to do

dpkg -r someprogram and let us know your results. Here's what came back: dpkg: error processing aime (--remove): Package is in a very bad inconsistent state - you should reinstall it before attempting a removal. Errors were encountered while processing: aime ... essentially the same

Re: question about hostname

All, Thanks for the responses/discussions on this topic. I'm gonna secure myself copies both of the O'Reilly TCP/IP book and the DNS/BIND book and cross my fingers that they'll lift the fog for me. In the meantime: I -think- I'm a trifle befuddled by my own situation, where I have a DSL

Re: question about hostname

gushOnce again this list proves a treasure trove. ::This:: is one of the reasons working with this stuff is so much damned fun - the FREE EXCHANGE OF INFO! Thanks all!!/gush -gb -- snip -- On Tue, 28 Aug 2001, Jakob B. Jensen wrote: There is a big DNS server (plus 12 mirrors) on the

Art of Assembly stuff / dosemu

Hi, This is a long shot, I suppose, but I was wondering whether anyone had gotten the software associated with Randall Hyde's online Art of Assembly Language Programming to run under dosemu? Maybe I don't really -need- to do that? :) I haven't gotten far enough to know whether it's really

strange leaps in df % reported

Hi, I'm seeing odd leaps in the Use% reported by df. The value leapt from 56% to 59% last night, and from 59% to 62% just a few moments ago. 3% of 15gb (which is half my total space) seems like a lot o' space to spontaneously be taken up ... I seem to recall reading at some point on the list of

question about hostname

All, I'm a bit embarrassed to be asking this question (more properly question-series), since I've been enjoying Linux since late '98 and ya'd think I'd know the answer to this by now ... however ... I'm wondering about hostname(s). What is -affected- by the name one chooses to give one's box?

Re: strange leaps in df % reported RESOLVED

I'd look around with du (du |less etc) from the root directory to see where these large jumps in disk usage are occuring. Wander in and take a look at anything that looks suspicious. Also, if you don't run apt-get clean it just keeps the debs for you. If you jumped to testing or unstable

Re: question about hostname

It does. Fantastic. Thanks. That is, there's lots for me to look up/at and understand more fully. This, however, is a framework ... Cool beans! Glenn On Mon, 27 Aug 2001, Martin F Krafft wrote: your hostname should really only be a single name without a dot since it's the *name* of your

Re: question about hostname

Hi, A couple of questions, subsequently ... your /etc/resolv.conf file would be cat EOF /etc/resolv.conf domain mydomain.com search mydomain.com nameserver 1.2.3.4 # replace with nameserver address 1 nameserver 5.6.7.8 # replace with nameserver address 2 nameserver 3.5.7.9

custom kernel compilation

All, I'm trying to compile what is essentially a custom kernel (2.4.8); however, the only thing I'm -certain- I want to customize is module version support ... I need this to be disabled (I'm working through the 2nd ed. of O'Reilly's Device Drivers book). After prepping to assure that I'm not

Re: custom kernel compilation THANKS!

Thanks all. After what was probably too long a prep period, I'm successfully running a customized version of 2.4.8. Giant fun! Best, Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++

Re: question about hostname

that someone who hosts burningclown.com. who are they? and how much do they charge you? because i am pretty sure they won't just add an A record subdomain, at least not at no charge. The hosting company is WestHost: http://www.westhost.com. A great deal. G ++

Re: Something fishy is going on

Jeez, this has popped up on the list A LOT lately ... check the archives. It's an apparently harmless Gnome Easter Egg. Poor Wanda has come in for a lot of paranoia the last month or so! :) Glenn Becker On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Bill Wohler wrote: A fish just swam across my screen. What the

Re: HTML composer ?

highlighting is (or was ... still is in some ways) one of the squirrelinesses re: bluefish. syntax highlighting doesn't seem to be exactly as - you - type but is updated by pressing the F5 key. on my machine this scrolls down the current file eventually returns you to the spot you were at.

Re: HTML composer ?

If those are the only features you want, I'm not sure whatcha mean by graphical ... Dreamweaver-ish? I find a combination of Emacs and html-helper-mode does the trick quite nicely for me. Bluefish is a good little HTML editor but has some quirks that keep sending me back to Emacs. Of course

kernel compilation LILO

Hi, Yesterday I had an interesting conversation with someone on the #debian IRC channel re: compiling a custom kernel. He urged me to add the following lines to my /etc/lilo.conf file: image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17 label=prev2217 ... and make sure I could boot the system from this choice. It

disk usage

Hi, Sort of a vague-y question here ... I'm getting back down into my system after being, uh, -laid off- on Wednesday, so I have time to play. I'm wondering about techniques for system optimization. df reports that I am at 53% usage, which seems really high to me, even given that I recently

Re: LaTeX editor

I have -no- experience with TeX but LyX seems like a neat lil' package. Er ... revision ...looking at LyX is the only TeX experience I have ... :) Offered with built-in grain of salt. Glenn On Thu, 26 Jul 2001, GARGIULO Eduardo INGDESI wrote: Hi all. I was reading some messages from

Re: modem diagnostic?

All, Still can't seem to dial out ... In any case, undo whatever -Running Linux- told you to do (simplest way is to purge and reinstall ppp). Then run pppconfig as root, follow instructions, and try to connect with pon. If you have trouble, run plog and post the output. Here's the

modem diagnostic?

Hi, I'm wondering if there is a way to perform a hardware check on my internal modem under Debian. I first started having trouble with it when I was still running Windoze, but suspected it was a crummy cable. Right arond the time I installed Debian I got DSL, so didn't install any dialup

dialup query

All, Up until a few days ago, I was blessed with a DSL connection. Now, however, I have moved and it is going to take a while to get a connection at my new place. Therefore, I need to reconfigure my system for a regular old dialup connection. I stupidly neglected to do this while I still had

Re: Starting with XML

I don't know if it has been mentioned but you can also check out the package xae, which is an emacs-based XML IDE, by the same person who wrote jde (an emacs Java IDE). -Glenn On 26 Jun 2001, Ilya Martynov wrote: ER I recommend. ER apt-get install emacs20 ER apt-get install psgml ER Psgml

lilo won't display options

Hello everyone, Over the weekend I finally got FreeBSD installed and configured on my box as a dual-boot with Debian testing. I'm having a frustratingly-intermittent problem with LILO, however: sometimes the boot: portion of the LILO message never comes up, and tabbing doesn't bring up the two

Re: Best WM for slow machine?

uwm ('ultimate window manager') is very interesting. not much to look at, but really really neat and different. did i just type 'neat'? glenn becker On Sun, 10 Jun 2001, Daniel Hoffman wrote: The list so far: BlackBox IceWM fvwm2 fvwm95 sawfish XFce PWM Thanks for the great (and

Re: Debian and FreeBSD - RESOLVED

Thanks to -ALL- who offered help with this problem. I successfully used a bootdisk of GNU parted to resize my /dev/hda3 to make room for FreeBSD, then created a /dev/hda4. I re-ran lilo as parted suggested, rebooted, then used fdisk to change the type on /dev/hda4 to BSD/386. It all went without

resizing a partition with GNU parted

Hi, I'm trying to resize my root Linux partition to make room for a FreeBSD installation. Unfortunately, the partition I want to resize (/dev/hda3) is the one where parted is installed -- when I run parted and try to resize /dev/hda3, I get a warning telling me that the partition is in use. Is

Debian and FreeBSD

All, This is a return to an oldie I started some time ago. Now I have FreeBSD on hand, I'd like to install it 'next to' Linux. There's a FreeBSD + Linux HOWTO, and it answers some questions, but: I'm exploring GNU parted for partition resizing of my 30G hard drive. I can it seems resize my

lilo fstab

All, I'm still trying to find my way through my boot / lilo / lilo vs. grub problems. Have put grub on the backburner for a moment in favor of a step by step effort to understand what's going on. When I attempt to install lilo on my system now, I get the following error: LILO, the LInux

Re: lilo fstab

In re: my continued lilo problems ... What does fdisk -l /dev/hda3 say? This: Disk /dev/hda3: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 3527 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes Device BootStart EndBlocks Id System And when I run fdisk on /dev/hda, I get the following:

Re: lilo fstab: SOLVED

Hola, I ran the suggested /etc/lilo.conf file, ran /sbin/lilo and now all is well. Moving on. Thanks!! Am just not gonna worry about what I must've been doing wrong. :S Glenn ++ http://www.burningclown.com Everyone's Portal to Nothing At All ++

downloading source code

All, The Debian FAQ suggests the command 'apt-get source pkg' to download source code for a particular package. When I try this, apt-get advises me that I need source lines in my sources.list file. What would be the source line(s), say, for testing? I can't seem to find this info anywhere.

ugh. more lilo probs

Hi, This is a sort of followup to the lilo-related problems I was having some days ago. Adding the linear option to my /etc/lilo.conf didn't effect a fix: I still got the cascade of LI down the screen when I tried to boot up. SO: I uninstalled the lilo pkg, dpkg --purged it, and tried to

Re: ugh. more lilo probs

Hi, I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself. The (or A, or The Main) problem is that it -seems- there is still a chunk of LILO, or

lilo difficulties

Hi, When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous LI hanging lilo ... I used my rescue disk to get into my system. When I updated, lilo was one of the packages that was upgraded, so I thought ah, perhaps that'll fix it. So I tried powering down and booting back up. This time, I got LIs

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

I should add that I changed the first line to boot=/dev/hda1 as soon as I posted this. But it seems to have changed nothing. Glenn IOn Tue, 22 May 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, When I booted up today I got the by-now-famous LI hanging lilo ... I used my rescue disk to get into my

Re: lilo difficulties - ADDENDUM

Hi, Postfix quoting and trim quotes, please, Glenn. Ya, sorry. I fritzed. No excuse. You have to re-run 'lilo' for changes to take effect. Have you? Sure did. I am still getting the continuously-output LI running down the screen. I'm tempted to go with grub, but would *like* to know what's

testing upgrade stallout

Hi, I ran what proved to be a rather large apt-get dist-upgrade last week, and wound up with some dependency conflicts which I don't know how to get around/rid of. The packages downloaded did not finish installing, and when I try to run apt-get dist-upgrade NOW what I get is the following:

Re: Problem with today's testing upgrade

Was this user's problem ever solved? I can't seem to find an answer, either in my mail folders or in the list archive. Been a nutty week, but I swear somebody answered this. I, too, am having weird testing upgrade problems that sound (if I recall) like the same thing. Thanks. On Wed, 9 May

weird jump in use reported by df

All, I typed df just out of curiosity to see what my disk usage was up to and was shocked to see that it had almost *tripled* from the last time I checked it (just a few days ago) -- it's gone up from 11% to 27%. I haven't downloaded *that* much new stuff! Could this be a sign someone is making