Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual recently?) (This sounds like an insult, this is mean, and I don't think I deserve this). I just said that there is no reason why Debian can't have autodetection. Because Knoppix has it

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Wow, there must really be something wrong with me, because I actually _like_ the debian installer. I find it simple and flexible. I can't say I have ever tried to install on a machine where I didn't know what hardware was in it... actually I don't think I've ever _had_ a machine where I

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 07:10, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 07:08, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-19 at 21:50, Joyce, Matthew wrote: I have been using Debian for about 18 months now. I like it and prefer it to other dristos I have tried. Today I had to install

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 06:03, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:10:08PM +0300, Aryan Ameri wrote: What is the reason that people who are only concerened with x86 and want hardware auto detection, do not use Libranet? Or

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
What is the reason that this same question should come up in this mailing lists every 2 weeks? That's possibly an indication that this is a big stumbling block for certain users. I myself had to spend an entire week just getting Debian to run, the first time I installed it. A year and a half

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 04:19, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 12:08:23AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: There's no good reason why Debian doesn't. You mean other than the fact you only have to run the installer once? Lol I truly

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 00:43, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --- Joyce, Matthew [EMAIL PROTECTED] escribió: Clearly it is possible to have comprehensive hardware detection, so presumably somewhere someoene is choosing not to address this issue. What is the reason debian does not install like

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 12:40, Paul E Condon wrote: I have tried Knoppix and find amazing what it finds out automatically. But I don't understand how Karsten uses it to install Debian. Could someone (possibly Karsten) amplify on his terse description of this method. I would like to try it on an

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:45, Mark Roach wrote: On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:42, Bijan Soleymani wrote: What about a Box that says: Do you want me to AutoDetect your hardware? Yes or No I'm not saying that I think autodetection is a bad idea, just that I don't particularly need/want

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 13:56, Vineet Kumar wrote: * alex ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030620 07:35]: Debian is an excellent system once you have it running. It's too bad that it gets a bad name simply because the trouble people have with its installation. Well, what do you want to do with your

Re: HOWTO layout formatting

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 16:00, Nori Heikkinen wrote: hey all, i want to write a mini-howto on all the black magic i had to go through to get debian onto this dell inspiron 8000 (i know there are lots out there; i want to write another). is there any specific txt2html or latex2html or some

Re: debian, request help

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 17:11, Paul E Condon wrote: Thanks, but this installs Knoppix. I want to install Debian. Is Knoppix a clone of one of the Debian distributions? Do I just use apt-get dist-upgrade? Or what? And which distribution do I get? Potato, Woody, Sarge, Sid? Knoppix is basically a

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:41, Aryan Ameri wrote: Also, Debian has the ability to use 4 kernels (NetBSD, FreeBSD, Hurd and Linux) while SuSE and RedHat are Linux-Only. The sad truth is that Debian GNU/Hurd is currently further along than either BSD port. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:46, Aryan Ameri wrote: On Friday 20 June 2003 20:32, Bijan Soleymani wrote: I run Debian on several Architectures. Red Hat and SuSe run on them too. I think the only architecture that Debian supports but almost no one else does is the 68k. Wrong. They only

Re: debian

2003-06-20 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:05, Chris Metzler wrote: On 20 Jun 2003 13:32:47 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian runs on many architectures (have you even looked athttp://www.debian.org/releases/stable/installmanual recently?) (This sounds like an insult, this is mean

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 09:45, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Jun 20, 2003 at 02:16:00PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: But the first week I spent staring at a bash prompt was different. I might have enjoyed it because I'm a geek, but I'm sure some

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 18:37, Aryan Ameri wrote: They could use knoppix also (sadly Knoppix includes the non-free adobe pdf reader...). I have remastered Knoppix 3.1, upgraded some of it's components like KDE to 3.1, removed some non-free software (mpg123 and acroread) and made Farsi (

Re: Changing UID's?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-20 at 05:36, cr wrote: I'm 'cr', UID 1000 in my Debian setup.However, under RedHat I was UID 500 and all my heaps of data (left over from RedHat) is filed as owner 500 group 500. This means I can't readily access it without changing something. I could, of

Re: how to view changelogs?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 11:04, Noah Meyerhans wrote: On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 04:09:39AM -0500, Alex Malinovich wrote: After i do a 'apt-get update', Is there a convenient tool to look at what has changed in the updated packages, before downloading the packages and installing them?

Re: Wheelmouse

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:48, Piero wrote: I'm not able to make my wheelmouse work. It's a basic Logitech wheelmouse. The corresponding lines in my /etc/X11/XF86Config file are: Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option

Re: debian

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, 2003-06-21 at 13:41, Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Jun 21, 2003 at 11:08:22AM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: My mother needs to access her email. I installled Debian on the computer. She has no problems using Debian. However, I had to do

Re: SBC/Yahoo DSL with Debian?

2003-06-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ric == Ric Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ric Hi, I saw that SBC/Yahoo had a DSL offer of $30 a month, and Ric I called them up to ask if it would work with Linux. The Ric woman at tech support confidently assured me, over and over,

XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Hi, I have a small problem that I'd like to solve. X automatically blanks the screen after a while. It unblanks it if you use the keyboard or the mouse. However it only works with serial or ps2 mice. I'm using a USB mouse and sometimes i'll be using my computer to browse the web or play music and

Re: Installing linux inside linux?

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - UML: patch for kernel? I don't want to recompile my kernel You don't have to, it's a ready-made Debian package, as previously described. user mode linux works without the patch. But it works better when a UML patch is applied to the kernel. It

Re: How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Terence Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi! Newbie question: When I type in startx, Kde is displayed. How do I switch from Kde to Gnome? You can put /usr/bin/gnome-session in your ~/.xsession file. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: XFree86 turns off the screen when using usb mouse

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Shyamal Prasad [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If not, try removing the 'Option DPMS' line (or use xset) to disable the X servers blanking and see if it still happens. Turning off DPMS gets rid of blanking completely. I'd like it to blank my screen if I really am away. It could be your kernel that

Re: Multipule MSN downloading

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ibrahim obeid [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dear Sir/Madam, I need some help to hou to down load Multipule MSN on my computer What do you mean exactly? Can you be a little more specific? Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800 not working in debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Roman Joost [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a nasty problem with my nvidia geforce 4 ti 4800, if i start my x server (unstable). After the nvidia splash appears, my system locks up. Is there someone outthere, who have the same graficcard and maybe the same problem (solved) ?? I had a

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the first time. You can download it here: ftp://ftp.stenstad.net/mirrors/icculus.org/armyops-lnx-170.sh.bin

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Leo Spalteholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On June 22, 2003 10:25 am, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: For all you Linux gamers out there, The United States Army announced Version 1.7.0 of America's Army, introducing Linux support for the first time

Re: iso images etc

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
john gennard [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The real problem is that I cannot 'visualise' what has to be done to make an .iso image bootable. It's simple the .iso file has to be burned directly onto CD as a series of ones and zeros. Then you end up with a standard Debian CD with all the files in

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Jun 22, 2003 at 12:02:20PM -0700, Leo Spalteholz wrote: Damn these free software holier than thou zealots really drive me through the roof. Sorry to everyone else for the rant. Especially since the Army is trying to do something *nice* for

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Sunderhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just don't see how its physically possible to install Linux on a machine with less than 256MB and a nameless monitor and find happiness - unless you like working at the command prompt. I run gnome2 at work. Machine is a celeron 466 with 64 megs of

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, My name is Gabe Lazdins I have been using debian linux for a while now, and i have been using linux (and unix) for about 4 years, I recently got linux on my home computer and i want to connect it to the net but i don't get highspeed internet, No one

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s and surely since the 80s. Unix was never free at first. Not until Linux came around and the BSD's became

Re: debian

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Sunderhaus [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's livable, yes; but are you content with just working around windoze? As much as I like, admire and respect Bill Gates (and his victory vs. IBM), I'd like to push his campus in Redmond into the Pacific ocean. I don't admire Bill Gates. Neither do

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Leo Spalteholz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Theres an important difference though, quake 2 uses an outdated engine that has very little to no market value anymore. I'm not saying its not great to have it released into the public domain but there is a huge difference between releasing an old

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2003-06-22 at 18:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Kevin McKinley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 22 Jun 2003 16:44:34 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When was this? It's pretty much been this way since the late 70s

Re: How to switch from KDE to GNOME after startx

2003-06-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Terence Ng [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Where can I find the .xession file? What should I do if I want to switch from Kde to Gnome in global? You change /etc/alternatives/x-session-manager it is a symlink to the default session-manager. To use gnome you do: ln -s /usr/bin/gnome-session

Re: removing software with apt-get or dselect

2003-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Yap Seng Hooi [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think it is: #apt-get remove package_name That won't do it. That just removes the package (package_name) itself not all the other packages that were installed with it. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: removing software with apt-get or dselect

2003-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Jon Doe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello all, I've read the available documentation pretty thoroughly and still cannot find the answer to this. How do I remove packages that were installed with another package using apt-get or dselect? For example, say I want to install mozilla but later

Re: removing software with apt-get or dselect

2003-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
SYNeR [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: apt-get --purge remove package That won't do it. That removes all the files installed by the package. But it doesn't remove the other packages that were installed at the same time, because they were required by the package. Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2003-06-23 at 05:42, Aryan Ameri wrote: I don't know why everybody is flaming Bijan. I think his argument is valid. Call me a zealot, or anything you want, but I really care about my freedom. Accept is guys, there are people out there,

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What does it matter whether h/s is a choice or not? You *hate* closed-source licenses. That's *very* extreme. Extreme like hat- ing someone because they are h/s. Software licensing seems so minor compared to other things you could hate. No! I hate

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Yes. Shortly after they released the Windows version, the Army said something to the effect of, OK, yeah, we didn't expect this ahead of time, but some people had a good idea: Linux and Macintosh versions. We're going to get right on that, expect them

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free games available. Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. Specially, more variety. Why do they port mainly FPSs? Many people don't like FPS's that much, and would like to play *Crafts natively, or

Re: OT: America's Army

2003-06-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-06-24 at 16:04, Cam Ellison wrote: * Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: They already have. Quake3, Unreal, etc. There are tons of non-free games available. Yes, but I'm saying, more of them. Specially, more variety. Why do

Re: apt-build problem

2003-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 09:29, Joel Alexandre wrote: hi, i've just discovere apt-build. it works with some packages and with other it doesn't. example. xine-ui worked fine. gaim and mozilla i just get this error: Not sure but I think that the mozilla package is empty and depends on other

Re: Gnome 2 menus - not the obvious question

2003-06-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 19:41, Todd Pytel wrote: I know how menu editing does (or rather doesn't) work in Gnome 2 - vfolders, desktop files, and all that. What I can't figure out is what defines the main menu itself. That is, when I click the foot, I see Applications, Debian Menu, KDE Menu, Run

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 02:55, Gavrila wrote: On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 04:10, Oki DZ wrote: Hi, I'd like to confirm the bug in Evo 1.4; ie: when you have the folder pane on (you can see the folder tree on the left), you wouldn't be able to click on Calendar. Evolution would just crash.

Re: grip ide-scsi ripping

2003-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 06:57, Lukas Ruf wrote: A very strange is happening to me when I try to rip a CD: - I can read the CD, i.e. grip can display all the tracks and can play the sound - but I cannot make grip rip the CD -- why? I make use of ide-scsi which leads to /dev/scd0 to be

Re: How to make the debian system shut down with power off?

2003-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 02:04, James Ng Yuen Sum wrote: I have installed the debian system several times. In the first time, after the installation, the computer can shut down automatically.(that means the computer can shut down with the power off automatically when you switch shut down the

Re: Evolution 1.4 bug?

2003-06-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:06, Oki DZ wrote: On Thu, Jun 26, 2003 at 08:55:45AM +0200, Gavrila wrote: It works fine with me. Your environment please. I use Sid, Gnome2, Sawfish 1.3, kernel 2.4.18, libc6 2.3.1. I think I forgot to mention that it was used remotely; the config of the server

Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat

2003-06-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:57, Ross Boylan wrote: I got a system with Red Hat 9 preinstalled, booting with lilo. After making some space, I installed Debian (testing) on it. I thought it would be good to preserve the ability to boot into RH, so I mounted its partitions under /red in linux this

Re: I have a problem with this list

2003-06-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 16:22, Paul E Condon wrote: I think that it used to be that when I posted to this list, my message would be returned to me from the server at the time that it was sent out to everyone else on the list. Now that is not happening. Now, when I post, I see nothing on the

Re: dual booting

2003-06-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 08:41, Armin Catovic wrote: Hi, Just got a quick question. How do I dual boot my Debian 3.0 with Windows XP Professional with SP1. I would like to have the boot up screen when I start my PC so I can select between XP and the beautiful Debian. Add an entry in

Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat

2003-06-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:51, Ross Boylan wrote: To clarify: I mounted the red hat partitions under /red when running Debian. My understanding is the lilo's map, and so it's boot process, use absolute disk locations and so shouldn't care how I get to the files. The lilo.conf under Debian

Re: Serial terminal program?

2003-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:18, Michael D. Crawford wrote: Is there a serial terminal program for Debian? One that will talk out an RS-232 port? I couldn't seem to find one searching in dselect or debian.org's online package search. I don't think gnome-terminal or the like can talk to a serial

Re: Sound card recommendations?

2003-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 20:56, Kirk Strauser wrote: I'm building a little P5/200 box for my kids to play Reader Rabbit (which unfortunately runs only under Windows - Wine can't handle it) and am trying to decide whether to: 1) Buy a cheap sound card for it, or 2) Give them my old ENS1371

Re: Recommended hardware

2003-07-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, 2003-07-01 at 17:11, DGLUser wrote: Hi all, I need to buy a new computer, w/o monitor my budget is about $1000 usd, and I need to have a decent system. I cheked the ones being sold by Walmart online (microtel), but I didn't see any dvd/cd burner/drive capability. I wasn't sure

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it has written hdb, but hdb doesn't exist anymore. I have

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 11:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed

Re: MIDI Converter

2003-07-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Bill Webster wrote: I have a need to convert several songs that are currently in the midi format and I need to ultimately put them onto a music CD. Can someone give me a clue as to how I can go about this? There are several debian packages which can output midi files as wav files. Wav files can

Re: Static IP config

2003-07-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Kelley Hilborn wrote: Okay, for my local LAN, I'm trying to set up a static IP address. This is what my /etc/network/interfaces looks like # auto lo eth0 iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address 192.168.0.101 netmask

Re: esd 0.2.23 remote play on debian unstable

2003-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 05:04:10PM -0400, Johann Koenig wrote: On Sunday July 06, 2003 at 16:33 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You need to run esd with the options -tcp -public on the computer that will receive the sound. Then you can send audio over the network

Re: XMMS unable to play streaming audio (pls)

2003-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 12:43:26AM +0100, Mark C wrote: Hi, In my quest to try to get streaming audio playing from shoutcast and mozilla, I have been unable to get xmms to play any *.pls files or any URL's, When I click on the url tab and enter a url, it doesn't even attempt to try to play

Re: XMMS unable to play streaming audio (pls)

2003-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 01:15:15AM +0100, Mark C wrote: On Mon, 2003-07-07 at 01:02, Bijan Soleymani wrote: What happens if you open xmms, press Control-L to open a location and then paste in the URL. nothing, it doesn't even show up after I press ok, I have been going into the playlist

Re: New IDE drive dramatically slow system?

2003-07-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jul 06, 2003 at 09:59:24PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm puzzled. A few days ago I installed a new Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 40 GB hard drive on my system, replacing a fairly old 1 gig drive. I installed it as slave to my existing 8 gig drive, which holds Debian. I intended to use it for

Re: mounting cdrom

2003-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 07, 2003 at 02:43:25PM -0300, James LeClair wrote: ok, i have determined how to mount my win32 patitions as well as mounting the cdrom. how do i mount a regular audio disc on my cdrom? You can't. You can only mount a filesystem. Audio CDs don't include a filesystem. However that's

Re: XMMS unable to play streaming audio (pls)

2003-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:46:24AM +0100, Mark C wrote: Once upon a time Bijan Soleymani was quoted as saying: What happens if you open xmms, press Control-L to open a location and then paste in the URL. If I save the pls file from mozilla, then open it with xmms it works, but I want

Re: Squirrel Mail

2003-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:12:58AM +0100, tt tt wrote: I am running debian testing and during the upgrade last nigh (apt-get upgrade) squirrel mail has broken. I get an error message telling me to run conf.pl as it doesn't support plain as the authentication type. I have reset this to clear

Re: Switch full screen progs?

2003-07-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Tue, Jul 08, 2003 at 12:01:36AM +0100, Paladin wrote: Hi, In X, is it possible to switch between two programs being one in full screen? Yes but it depends on the windows manager. I'm running gnome2 with metacity right now and I can do that easily with Alt-Tab. I think that might also work

Re: uw-imapd logindisabled

2003-07-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jul 09, 2003 at 09:52:57AM -0500, Good Times wrote: i'm not sure what to do next. How can i find that libc-client2003debian package? Is there something i need to have in my sources.list? let me know if i'm missing any helpful information in this plea for help 1) Easy solution:

Re: Network printing..

2003-07-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:20:23PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: How would you configure your server for network printing? I mean your pc can print remotely not connected thru lpt1 I would do this using cups. First install cups on the computer connected directly to the printer. Once you

Re: Spamassassin SA Proxy

2003-07-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 02:20:03PM +0200, JZidar wrote: OK. How can I do that? Google didn't return anything really useful. Ok here's a (somewhat detailed) step by step. 1) set up fetchmail to download your mail from your pop account onto your local computer. a) apt-get install fethcmail b)

Re: Discover X version

2003-07-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--Kj7319i9nmIyA2yE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 06:57:53PM +0200, Peter Hugosson-Miller wrote: Is it possible to ask X what version it is running? =20 I know I can check (in Debian) by

Re: Network printing..

2003-07-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:38:14PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 12:06:47PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 03:20:23PM +0800, Miranda, Joel Louie M wrote: How would you configure your server for network printing? I mean your pc can print

Re: Change window manager to blackbox

2003-07-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--V0207lvV8h4k8FAm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 08:18:05PM +1200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried that but it still dosnt work. KDE isnt even on the list and I get to choose the defualt wm from. Blackbox is defentally set as

Re: naming of debian distributions

2003-07-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Jul 12, 2003 at 05:05:02PM -0600, Francisco Castellon wrote: So which one is potatoe? Potato is version 2.2 it used to be the stable version before Woody (3.0) was released. Bijan pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: installation and set up

2003-07-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--FCuugMFkClbJLl1L Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 06:18:18AM +, Jianan Huang wrote: Now, some more questions. 1) Using df, I find that my / has 60MB (25MB cited on previous msg

Re: No space left on device

2003-07-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--TiqCXmo5T1hvSQQg Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 12:51:55PM -0400, Salman Haq wrote: =20 Hi, =20 When trying to compile some code, I got the following error: =20 cpp0:

Re: TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--tsOsTdHNUZQcU9Ye Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 07:46:11PM +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: I've worked a lot with UNIX administration, but I have no experience with printer installation. The howtos that I have been able to find

Re: TCP/IP printing under Debian

2003-07-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Jul 14, 2003 at 08:45:00PM +0200, Leif B. Kristensen wrote: lynx: Can't access startfile http://localhost:631/ Neither can I access it from my remote console. How do I start it? I've succeeded in stopping the lpd service by executing /etc/init.d/lpd stop -- but when I try the obvious

Re: 4GL development (a little OT: perhaps)

2003-07-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--K8nIJk4ghYZn606h Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:45:28PM +1000, bob parker wrote: Don't discount PHP + Postgres at the backend, with web browsers on the cl= ient=20 side. Completely

Re: Installing Debian on existing winxp+rh9.0 hdd

2003-07-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--huq684BweRXVnRxX Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 11:15:40PM +0530, sudeep mukherjee wrote: When I install Debian where do I tell it to install lilo? Don't install lilo if you want to use grub. grub is a bootloader, lilo is

Re: Booting from a floppy to install debian

2003-07-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--dDRMvlgZJXvWKvBx Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Tue, Jul 15, 2003 at 10:52:40PM -0600, Marvin Aguero wrote: Guys, =20 I have decided to give debian GNU/Linux a chance. So, I downloaded the w= oody Official

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--sm4nu43k4a2Rpi4c Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:19:02PM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003.07.16.1756 +0200]: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at

Re: tar/NFS problem

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--uAKRQypu60I7Lcqm Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:47:30PM +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: Furthering the subject... =20 Is it possible to get the crontab to email me each time the job=20

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--O5XBE6gyVG5Rl6Rj Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 05:08:04PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Now, I know I have oversimplified the process. I also know that there are a lot of steps

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:19:27PM -0400, Chris Metzler wrote: On Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:48:20 -0400 Derrick 'dman' Hudson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If fetchmail was able to pass the mail to it, then that means it was listening on port 25 (and pretending to handle incoming mail) Can you

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06:48:18PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: Apples and oranges, but ideally an MUA doesn't need POP or IMAP support no. Implementing IMAP support outside the client is almost insane. IMAP leaves the mail on the server most of the time, and downloads the messages as they

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--YZ5djTAD1cGYuMQK Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:31:10PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 06

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--gBBFr7Ir9EOA20Yy Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08:44:53PM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 10:35:11PM -0400, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Wed, Jul 16, 2003 at 08

Re: OT: why I don't want CCs

2003-07-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
--FL5UXtIhxfXey3p5 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline On Thu, Jul 17, 2003 at 11:44:44AM -0600, Jamin W. Collins wrote: They have been refuted, you simply choose not to accept that. We've been through this already. You simply choose to interpret things

Re: How to unsubscribe

2003-07-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Roberto Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When I started having the same problem, I switched to Yahoo! for several reasons: -6 MB of space in the mail box (only 2 MB from Hotmail) -Not owned by MS OK, only two reasons, but good enough for me. Actually there's also a nice script that is

Re: dpkg status file lost

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
/status. It worked for me. Hope that helps. Bijan Soleymani www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: dpkg status file lost

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
bijan soleymani wrote: Jerome Warnier wrote: After a powerloss, I lost also all dpkg info, including the status file. Could someone help me get it back to work? I'm far, far away from the machine, which rebooted nicely (some libraries were also lost, though), but I'd like to reinstall all

Re: New Install of Woody - Need some Advice

2002-06-27 Thread bijan soleymani
out the apt how-to: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/apt-howto/index Bijan Soleymani www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Woody

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Unofficial CD images of the testing distribution. Bijan Soleymani www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question regarding DL of Debian

2002-06-27 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the United States, due to US law. Bijan Soleymani www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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