Re: Anyone used a Lindows Laptop?

2003-12-05 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 05:24:17PM +1100, John wrote: Hi I have just started looking for a new laptop courtesy of the logic board on my ibook dying and being hit for a Aust $935 bill for a new one. I have been looking at the Lindows Mobile PC which I could get for Aust $1165 from

Re: Earthlink and Swen

2003-12-05 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 10:56:59PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 03:08:23PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: ... I have all services locked down to localhost; my only connections to the outside world are mail, news via nntpcached, web via squid... I run Apache but it too is

xinerama 2 monitors help

2003-12-04 Thread kmark+debian-user
Hi Debianistas, I'm trying to setup 2 monitors. one is a isa t9680 (cirrus logic) - max 800x640 8bit and the other is a ati 1024x768 16 bit. I had the ati working and then I added the isa card. Ever since then, the isa is the only one recognized. I did a X -configure but it did not work 100%

Re: Can't play audio CDs

2003-12-01 Thread kmark+debian-user
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Re: Can't play audio CDs

2003-11-30 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 12:47:33AM -0500, Michael D. Crawford wrote: I can't play audio CDs on my Mac 8500. It's running debian for PowerPC, but I don't know if it's a problem with the powerpc port. I have /dev/cdrom linked to /dev/scd0 (first SCSI CD drive). The permissions for

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-28 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 11:59:30PM -0500, H. S. wrote: Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello H S ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Okay, I am going to take this step by step because I have many issues unresolved. I am connected to the internet through an ADSL modem (use pon dsl-provider to get

Re: newbie boot log question

2003-11-28 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 04:45:53AM +0100, Christian Schnobrich wrote: On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 19:08, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to review the lines and lines of text that printout during startup, but they quickly scroll off the screen. just type 'dmesg'. Once done, you maybe

Re: How to get away with small /var partition

2003-11-28 Thread kmark+debian-user
On Fri, Nov 28, 2003 at 02:43:10AM -0500, Walter Dnes wrote: snip 2 = extended partition (the rest of the harddrive) 5 = swap (256 megs) 6 = /var (256 megs) 7 = /misc (the rest of the harddrive) After a virgin install, I log on as root and... mv /home /misc/home ln -s /misc/home

Re: lost root password

2003-11-27 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 27 Nov 2003, tripolar wrote: while installing sarge on my parents pc using new installer ( sweet!!) when it came to typing in root password I typed it twice in same line but didnt notice until it came for me to verify my typing again. I left the second line blank thinking when i

Re: broken apt-get/dpkg

2003-11-27 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, Dan Davison wrote: Hi, I can't remove a package (powernowd) despite trying various forcing options and --purge etc with apt-get and dpkg. The error output is below. Could someone tell me what I should do in this situation please? The only other thing I've tried is to

Re: communication structures crumbled

2003-11-27 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Tom wrote: On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 06:16:39AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: To us debian users, the most notable thing during this break in or whatever episode, is how the communication structures crumbled. Tru enough, there was some info but it was scattered. I

Re: eject command for normal users and some other stuff

2003-11-27 Thread kmark
On Wed, Nov 26, 2003 at 07:34:24PM -0500, H S wrote: Hi, First of all a little background: snip To start with, I had installed Woody from the 6 (or 7?) CDs. Then I did a dist-upgrade. And lost KDE. It was asking for some ] nonexistant package (something to do with libsensors). This is a

Re: OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-19 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 13 Nov 2003, Thomas H. George wrote: I plan to send copies of the body of this message to the presidents of Systemax and Tiger Direct, my senators, my congressmen and any one else who might have influence. I am postint it here for suggestions for addresses. The body is as follows:

Re: mailfilter bug?

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: csj wrote: Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I describe below. I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for ^Subject:.*Test and ALLOW rules for marssociety and marssocietynewsletter: $ grep -Ei

Re: Setting up a new Debian system. X and Gnome, no KDE

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-10 at 17:46, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 08:45:04AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Second, more general question: the dependency links in debian form a directed graph. Presumably, it is acyclic. That

Re: What is the password of root when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-11 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:18:19PM +, Colin Watson wrote: Failing that, boot with the 'init=/bin/sh' parameter (so if you'd normally type 'linux' to LILO, say, type 'linux init=/bin/sh' instead) and run 'passwd root'. I found this out

Re: package purging and app configuration

2003-11-02 Thread kmark+debian
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Haines Brown wrote: I installed a dict front end (ding) and somehow inadvertently configured it for as background color. I can't figure out in the startup script how to correct that, and so decided simply to reinstall ding. I ran: aptitude purge ding, and then did a

Re: Partitioning

2003-11-02 Thread kmark+debian
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya marco On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 04:41, Marco Cecconi wrote: Hello, I've been having this question on my mind for a bit now: what is the best practice to partition a hard drive under Unix, and in

Re: upgrade-dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread kmark+debian
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, wil wrote: Hi, Sorry I have very little info on this...no logs or anything:( Running SID, with a custom 2.4.22 kernel, ext3 file system. HD was checked with the diagnostic utility from IBM, including surface (advanced) check and was fine. Did an update via dselect

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user does. Yes, that makes sense. so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your root key to

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 18:32 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) I will keep your email for the time when and if I am able to get woody to

Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: Hi all, I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing hotplug, following

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: I echo Colin's thought. Forget about su and use sudo. It takes an extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it just works, and in my opinion is better than forgetting you're root and doing

Re: How to set up multilingual OO including arabic?

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote: Hello, I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly a developers list ... so here it is

Re: Linux Professional Institute Exam (with DPKG) !!!

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Andy Firman wrote: Hi, Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was surprised to see that there is now a choice between RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and found this post by the Debian project leader:

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I understand what you mena by They use the space bar and not the tab. In Windows I had everything in just one file; I

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clone for

Re: fetchyahoo and maildir

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: Is there a way to use the fetchyahoo program with maildirs? It seems that using the pipe option to exim or sendmail may work but I wasn't sure. -- Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned: When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of data and making a chart. But nobody uses Microsoft

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: Rob Weir wrote: 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages make this rather easy. This is only an option on x86,

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread kmark
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: Rob Weir wrote: 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The nvidia-glx-src and nvidia-kernel-src packages make this rather easy. This is only an option on x86,

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: I can't convert the Windows file into pdf in Windows because I don't have the Acrobat Reader program; ---right. In Linux the pdf is free but in Windows it costs 600 euros. expected. Email the file to me, if you like -- I'll convert it for you on

Re: failing to upgrade sysvinit from Knoppix version

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, David Z Maze wrote: Simon Tod [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: David Z Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Knowing what exactly the version is might be helpful. If the Knoppix people have added an epoch to their version number, APT would be entirely correct in concluding

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Johann Koenig wrote: On Tuesday October 28 at 04:54pm Nick Hastings [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, * Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] [031028 14:48]: On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote: big snip Speaking for myself only. I have to make do with

Re: Getting HP to support Debian

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 10:25:26PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..you say HP support's Debian Linux. Both may well be true, the sheer size of HP suggest one of these support schemes may be un-autorized by HP's corporate board. They might wanna

Re: Converting a partition from NTFS to Ext3

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. How can i do this without losing the data on my NTFS partition? This is the final step for moving completely from windows to linux! yay! Thanks -- Fred -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, John Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote: snip Hi All, first time I hear from mini-install iso's. Great idea! Don't know who is responsible for this (searched for netinst in the packages but couldn't find anything) but would it be

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-30 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: Please don't CC me. (If somehow my sig isn't clear enough, please let me know how I can make it so.) My apologies. The current auto CC: is something I did not have before, and so I'm not used to removing that line. I was aware I had forgotten to

Re: Spamassassin+evolution

2003-10-29 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Simon Green wrote: On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 09:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I mentioned something a few days ago. You need to redirect your mail flow. normally you mail does this: pop3 server - evo if you want to use spamasssin you need to make evo read mail from your

Re: Pathetic Writer (or siagoffice)

2003-10-29 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Ken Caldwell wrote: quote who=Wilko Fokken On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 02:40:29PM +1100, Ken Caldwell wrote: I was looking for a small word processor and spreadsheet to be used on some old computers (Pentium 75 with 32MB RAM and 520MB HDD) and tried to use

Re: Setting debian to use Win2k as it's Internet gateway?

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a win2k box set to do ICS and dial on demand (not the question) - 192.168.0.1 I have my Debian laptop attached to this eth0 192.618.0.10. They share files via samba. But, I'd like to be able to set Debian so that it uses

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? Why

re:palm on debian

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Marc Shapiro wrote: Christophe Courtois [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My Zire 71 was not detected by a 2.4.18 kernel (the latest is OK), so I had to had this in /etc/modules (try to change the value): usbserial vendor=0x830 product=0x60 Thanks, all that I had to do was

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Simon Tod wrote: After a hdd install from knoppix 3.2 I tried to dist-upgrade to Debian unstable. It all seems to work fine but my debian_version is still reported as testing/unstable. you are correct. knoppix is a combination of some testing and some unstable

Re: Initializing X clients

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: Get rid of everything: what a good idea! I got rid of everything, and in the .xsession put exec icewm. That didn't work. So I replaced the command with exec xterm. That did work--sort of. When I start x with the xterm execution, what I get is a

Re: Spamassassin+evolution

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Riccardo Gusso wrote: Hello everybody, I have seen recently one suggestion on how to integrate Mozilla Mail with spamassassin; I was wondering if there is a way to do the same with evolution. Thanks in advance for any suggestion. Riccardo -- snip Hi

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 at 21:26 GMT, Emma Jane Hogbin penned: Hi everyone, I'm working on a PHP web site that needs to generate PDFs on the fly. I don't want to use PDFlib as the code is totally open source and I don't want people to have to

Re: gpilotd crashes all the time

2003-10-28 Thread kmark
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Paul William wrote: Hi, gpilotd keeps crashing and the gnome your program has crashed dialog keeps popping up. I can use my Tungsten E with pilot-link so the palm is playing nicely with Linux. What should I do? Hi Paul, use coldsync. -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out (was Re: Getting d-link DFE-530TX NIC working)

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, ScruLoose wrote: On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:06:18PM -0500, ScruLoose wrote: Hi all, Still pluggin' away at this problem with my D-Link DFE-530TX NIC. snip NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth0: transmit timed out eth0: Transmit timed out, status , PHY status 786d,

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-10-28 Thread kmark+debian
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote: Having installed Debian on a mate's PC, his kids are complaining because they can't get onto MSN Messenger... The kids have given me a username eg. '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' and a password to go with it (an English word). I've tried these in gaim, kmerlin and

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-27 Thread kmark+debian
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, David Palmer. wrote: snip -- David Jardine snip The way I see it is that with all the separate componentry available with Debian, you can configure for any eventuality according to the individual need, whether that be for high volumn or otherwise. Standard configs

Re: Framebuffer problems

2003-10-27 Thread kmark
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, stan wrote: I'm putting an older machine back in service. I'm having a problem with the framebuffer. I see teh penguin on startup, so frambuffer is starting, but when I try to use, say fbi (and other framebuffer apps), I get: can handle only packed pixel frame buffers

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-26 Thread kmark+debian
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: I have changed from Windows 2000 to Linux because of the viruses. Good move. Iam very happy now because Linux is much safer and much more stable.However, I have a problem: I have a file with words in English with the phonetic transcription Is the file in MS

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread kmark+debian
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: In moving from RedHat to debian, I'm left with some simple little basic configuration questions. They all relate to a situation in which I operate at this point from console. 1. Where do I set the global bash prompt format? I changed PS1= in

Re: What is the root-n in my root??

2003-10-26 Thread kmark+debian
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Marco Bagni wrote: Dear all, before submitting this request of help I have been looking around quite a while in my system and in the user groups without success. My problem is the following, I run a Debian system aligned with the latest testing distribution and

Re: remote backup from Windows PCs

2003-10-24 Thread kmark+debian
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Hamish Moffatt wrote: Hi, I have a server running Debian with a tape drive and I want to back up some Windows PCs to it (via LAN). I could use smbmount and regular Linux backup tools (tar or whatever), but the Windows PCs aren't always on. So I'd prefer that backups

Re: Dell Latitude

2003-10-24 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I cannot get my modem to work properly, can you help? LaBelle Hi 'Belle, what have you tried? What is the model of your system? what is the result of lspci? what is shown in dmesg? in /var/log/messages? -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to recover system,

2003-10-24 Thread kmark
On 24 Oct 2003, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2003-10-24 um 16.24 schrieb Vivek Kumar: Hi there, snip D/L a Debian netinst CD (50-100MB) and boot up the new system with it. The default kernel on the CD should be compiled for 386 so it'll boot up *any* CPU. Mount the old drives

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 07:39:11AM -0700, John Yurcik wrote: Is there something I can do to block this stuff with an on-line mail account? Demand they reject viruses at SMTP time or take your

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I asked Earthlink to check for virii [oh the flames] and they said it would be an invasion of my privacy but spam they can check. I'm

Re: please read this

2003-10-23 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, trevor brooks wrote: Hi my name is Trevor Brooks. I go to Gardner middle school in Lansing Michigan. We have to do a project with donating a dollar to an organization. we have to know where the dollar goes and how it helps. We have to pretend that we are the dollar

Re: allowing a normal user to work efficiently

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
HI B, On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i'm wondering what the best method is of allowing a normal user account to do stuff like writing cd's, accessing local webpages (/var/www) and so on. There are a couple of methods like: 1. Making a group, put the user in that group

Re: Debian Font Guide for Newbies and the Confused

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rob, Thanks much for writing this up. One issue I have problems with is solving font problems with specific applications. It think that's due to my general lack of understanding of fonts, and that there's more than one font system in use. I

Re: ide-scsi problem on woody

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Tue, 21 Oct 2003, [loonyx | rolf joho] wrote: hi there even though i load the ide-scsi module at boottime, i can not mount my ide-dvd-writer. since i was perfectly able to do that on earlier installations, i am asking for hints. through /etc/modules i successfully load this: sr_mod

Re: dependency problems

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Rob Weir wrote: On Tue, Oct 21, 2003 at 01:46:19PM +0200, Martin Wegmann said hello, I have some dependency problems - broken packages and tried to fix them with apt-get -f install/remove but that does not work, any advice how to proceed? using

install over bootp

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
Hi Debianista, I've come across a challange. Install on a laptop with no floppy, no cdrom, an ethernet port and bootp/dhcp. Does anyone know an links to docs on this kind of install? TIA -Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
y On Thu, 23 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: on Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:38:15PM -0400, James D. Freels ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the

Re: WordPerfect8 on Debian/Sid ?

2003-10-22 Thread kmark
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, James D. Freels wrote: I haven't used WordPerfect8 from Corel in a while and just discovered that it no longer runs on my Debian/Sid system. I think it is because it requires the previous version of the libc package (woody). I have copied these files (found by ldd on

Re: installing Debian...

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jukka Salmi wrote: Hello, every now and then I install Debian on new ix86 machines (Dell PowerEdge). They often have hardware which is not yet supported by the kernels of the official stable Debian release 3.0r1. So far I was using an unofficial stable netinst boot CD

Re: mouse

2003-10-21 Thread kmark
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Marlin Unruh wrote: Hi, I just installed debian 3.0r1 and the mouse will not work. I have a serial track ball with a PS/2 adapter, and have it plugged into the PS/2 port. The track ball is a Kensington Expert Mouse. Do I need to edit /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 file? If so

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: stan wrote: How cna I do this? The machine I want to match is a testting machine, that I quit updating about a month agao. Still has Gnome 1.4 for instance. Will this ne a problem? On source machine: dpkg --get-selections

Re: passwordless root login

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Sun, 12 Oct 2003, J. Bruce Fields wrote: On Mon, Oct 13, 2003 at 10:15:16AM +0800, Sacha Chua wrote: J. Bruce Fields [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'd like to configure a debian box to allow root logins without a password; what do I need to do? The relevant line in the password file

Re: Creating a new machine with the same set of packages as an existing one?

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: snip I believe that --set-selections only actually has an effect if you do 'apt-get dselect-upgrade' (or 'dselect install', less circuitously). 'apt-get upgrade' uses apt's own upgrading logic rather than what you selected. Cheers, snip Hi Colin

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:30:41PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip I did not know about the '+' option. That is nice. Now once that is done, you need to determine what to do with the 4 mail types: inline forward, attachment forward, inline

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-13 Thread kmark
On Mon, 13 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Mon, 13 Oct 2003 at 08:08 GMT, Johann Spies penned: These 4 options can be sorted out with procmail. I also realized that the from: would be from your network and the to: would be you, also on your network, so that would differentiate it

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread kmark
On Sat, 11 Oct 2003, Pigeon wrote: On Fri, Oct 10, 2003 at 11:39:13PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the data

Re: Splitting attachments into separate emails

2003-10-10 Thread kmark
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Johann Spies wrote: I administer 3 email servers which use spamassassin. We are testing the service with about 110 users whose email are scanned by SA. My arrangement with them is to send me either spam that scored too low or false positives as attachments with either

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-10 Thread kmark
On Fri, 10 Oct 2003, Bill Moseley wrote: Actually, there's two parts. First we need a machine to collect data from an inexpensive weather station and then copy (ftp/scp) the data to some location every so often. Any suggestions for weather stations (a piece of equipment, not an online

Re: changing permissions of files in directories

2003-10-08 Thread kmark
On Wed, 8 Oct 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Wed, Oct 08, 2003 at 10:04:01AM +, Adam wrote: On Wednesday 08 October 2003 08:00, Lukas Ruf wrote: find path -type f | xargs chmod 0644 I would have come up with find PATH -type f -exec chmod 0644 '{}' ';' Is the version with

Re: Partitions and format

2003-10-07 Thread kmark
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, Stuart Robinson wrote: Hello all, I'm two days into my first debian install *hurrah* (how nice is apt?) Sorry. Question: I've forgotten what kind of format my linux partitions are (I suspect I chose 'linux' (ext3?)- how can I tell and if I really would prefer a

Re: Still BIG problems with XFree on Dell C400

2003-10-07 Thread kmark
On 6 Oct 2003, Jon Haugsand wrote: The Dell C400 is troublesome, in particular with Debian since its policy of conservative upgrades. Anyway, I have downloaded the following packages: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 (Debian 4.3.0-0ds2.0.0woody1 20030307145421 marcelo@) kernel-source-2.4.22 The

Re: Installing a kernel off CD-ROM

2003-10-07 Thread kmark
On Tue, 7 Oct 2003, cr wrote: Is there any way to install a kernel on the hard drive off the install CD-ROMs (without going through the whole Install process)? if the kernel-image package is in your /etc/sources.list then just apt-get it. Althought, I would read this first

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 12:12 am, Marshal Wong wrote: First off, did you recompile the kernel or are you using a stock kernel?  Did you load the usb modules? I don't know how well you know

Re: USB not working, Need Help

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Ralph F. De Witt wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 06 October 2003 01:16 am, Marshal Wong wrote: Check if /proc/bus/usb is mounted.  That maybe where KDE info center gets its information.  (I don't use KDE, so I can't really help you

Re: Apache goes haywire, NSCD fixes it. Odd (solved) problem.

2003-10-06 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Tyler Morgan wrote: Hi, I have recently surmounted an odd problem involving Apache 1.3.27.0-2 on Debian testing/unstable (with a 2.4.22 kernel) and thought it may be worthwhile to explain what happened to a group of people who might care, in hopes that others find the

Re: can't get off the ground

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Neo wrote: On Sun, 2003-10-05 at 08:34, Jason Housewright wrote: I am in dire need of help...again. I have dl the netinst image from debian (the official for test). I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it to recognize my pcmcia ethernet card. I have

Re: can't get off the ground

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: Thanks Jan. I am grateful for your help. My problem is, however, that I'm trying to install. I have to have the card working before I can even install Debian. Oh me. Such troubles. I'm not sure how to get the pcmcia module loaded for the

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses (was Re: Anyone else notice that Swen is slowing down?)

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Karsten M. Self wrote: snip Given that I live alone with a cat, I still lock my desktop when I walk away for any length of time, set xscreensaver to cut in (and lock) anyway, and require a password for 'sudo' on my personal account. snip Hi Karsten, you must have one smart

Re: Probmelms mit Procmail

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Christian Borchmann wrote: Hallo, What right have i to give to the .procmailrc file? snip chmod 644 .procmailrc chown spitfire:spitfire .procmailrc this is how mine is set. -kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

RE: Can't get off the ground

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: Thanks Kev. Your help is truly appreciated. I had read right through that info earlier. It didn't make sense though becuase I wasn't getting anything like what was described in the doc. It wouldn't have been a problem on my main PC. That's ok. I

Re: KDE+Kmail

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. I tried to uninstall exim, which led me to a question... why does KDE depend on KMail? Isnt KDE a Desktop Environment and KMail a mail client/service? -- Fred snip Hi Fred, Kde 'desktop' requires kde 'libraries'. You

Re: .procmailrc

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I make procmail sort out the debian user list? I've tried: #Debian user :0 * ^To:[EMAIL PROTECTED] debian But it doesn't work. Hi Anjun, this procmailrc contains a few helpful options. A logfile, a default mailbox and a backup copy of

Re: Microsoft-Fonts

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Mon, 6 Oct 2003, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Uwe Dippel wrote: There are those collections of Microsoft-Fonts around. Do we have a package in Debian ? I tried apt-cache, but no success.$ Uwe Make sure you have included the contrib repositories and: apt-get install msttcorefonts

Re: mailing list

2003-10-05 Thread kmark
On Sun, 5 Oct 2003, John Carline wrote: Pascal Hakim wrote: You're in luck... I wrote a bit of code last night to keep a copy of the last bounce message we've received from all addresses. [EMAIL PROTECTED]: host relay1.kubtelecom.ru[213.132.64.82] said: 554 Message rejected due

Re: freedom of debian

2003-10-04 Thread kmark
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Jason Housewright wrote: Greetings again and thanks for the replies dealing with lilo and grub (sounds like a bad movie doesn't it?). I hope that I'm not being too general with this next question... Using Debian, is it fair to say that one has more freedom regarding

Re: apt damaged need help to fix.

2003-10-04 Thread kmark
On Sat, 4 Oct 2003, Dan Hunt wrote: Ever do something careless and not know how to fix it? Early this morning I purposely deleted the .deb files in /var/cache/apt/archives . Problem was I deleted the everything up to /var/cache/apt/ ( Why? The old .deb files are not being deleted

Re: Do we really need to worry about viruses

2003-10-03 Thread kmark
On Fri, 3 Oct 2003, Benedict Verheyen wrote: snip I think that a lot of users tend to switch to using root because they cannot achieve simple tasks with their normal user. For instance writing cd's. It would help if there is a doc that explains how users can best set up their system to

swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
Hello D-u, I stopped getting mail from you guys! I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? -Kev -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread kmark
On Wed, 1 Oct 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: On Wednesday 01 October 2003 11:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello D-u, I stopped getting mail from you guys! I check the list and realized that I was a victim of swen! Is there a 'list command' to get the last 100 messages? -Kev If you

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