Re: where did xclock go?

2003-10-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 08 October 2003 00:20, Nori Heikkinen wrote: anybody know where debian's xclock package went? seems pretty innocuous, but i can't find it in the archives anywhere! :( /nori xbase-clients ? joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: don't read

2003-10-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 09 October 2003 15:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] I disagree. Everybody who wants to unsubscribe from the list should reat that instead of sending unsubscribe requests to

Evolution and IMAP

2003-10-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I'm not sure if I found a bug or if I just overlooked a check-box: I just started to try out evolution as a mail client, and I found out that the details of mails in my IMAP-folders are not shown in the overview (such as Subject, From: and date). In fact, I just see a list of empty

Wilber the gimp

2003-10-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? I'd like to print it to a T-shirt, but scaling it to 15x15 cm makes it rather ugly. Any pointers? thanks

Re: Wilber the gimp

2003-10-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 13 October 2003 13:18, Trevor D. Manning wrote: * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: In the gimp documentation directory, there is a thumbnail-sized version of Wilber the gimp. Is there a larger version of this image available (I did not find one on gimp.org)? I have

iptables - I don't get it working

2003-10-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have configured my kernel with iptables enabled: # IP: Netfilter Configuration # CONFIG_IP_NF_CONNTRACK is not set # CONFIG_IP_NF_QUEUE is not set CONFIG_IP_NF_IPTABLES=y CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_LIMIT=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MAC=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_PKTTYPE=m CONFIG_IP_NF_MATCH_MARK=m

Re: Unidentified subject!

2003-10-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 15 October 2003 15:38, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Questions about securing debian on a server] This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. Mailscanner thanks transtec Computers for their support. Seems to me like

Re: Problem with my printer and cups

2003-10-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 16 October 2003 21:17, Francois Fayard wrote: I've configured CUPS through the web interface after installing the package that contains all the PPD files. first : - the printer prints when I do a : echo hello wold /dev/lp0 - the printer doesn't print a test page (but it used

Re: USB DVD movie playback

2003-10-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 17 October 2003 13:16, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 02:11:46AM -0700, Jack Pistachio wrote: Has anyone had success viewing DVD movies with a USB DVD device? Wow, that's probably the most obscene misapplication of USB I've heard of yet... Why? If you have a laptop

Re: wxWindows

2003-10-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 17 October 2003 16:13, Dave Howorth wrote: I need to install wxWindows 2.4 on a Woody system so I can build another application (TreeView X). Does anybody have any idea of the best way to do this, and what steps are involved? Maybe apt-get install wxwin2.4-doc wxwin2.4-examples

Re: [Waaaaaay OT] Grammer

2003-10-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 22.10.2003 schrieb Nicos Gollan um 15:55: It's grammar. On Wednesday 22 October 2003 15:45, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Not trying to start a flame-fest here, but the correct plural form of virus is viruses. Last thing I heard was that the original word had no plural at all, so as

Fonts in gtk programs (mozilla, evolution etc)

2003-10-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I'm using mozilla for browsing, and evolution for mailing and some other gtk programs. I have a high resolution laptop lcd and so I need large font sizes to read without my eyes getting tired. As far as I understand, I have to change the font settings in the gnome control center: As

Re: Fonts in gtk programs (mozilla, evolution etc)

2003-10-27 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 27.10.2003 schrieb Joris um 11:53: snip So long story short question: How do I make the font size change permanent WITHOUT gnome-session? This is also of interest for the gdm login screen... to load all your gnome settings, you should use gnome-settings-daemon. I have recently

Re: dselect-upgrade vs dist-upgrade

2003-11-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Di, den 04.11.2003 schrieb Benedict Verheyen um 10:55: Hi, when cloning a system via the dpkg --get-selection, dpkg --set-selection method, it's advised to do a apt-get dselect-upgrade instead of apt-get dist-upgrade. I do not understand why. From the man page (man apt-get):

(un)mounting smb shares

2004-01-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody At our university, I can mount a smb directory at our computing centre by giving my username and password. I have in my /etc/fstab: //myusername.files.uni-freiburg.de/windows /home/jorg/files smb username=myusername,user,noauto,rw 00 When I type mount files/

Re: (un)mounting smb shares

2004-01-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 30.01.2004 schrieb Tautau um 14:39: Hello, I'm not quite sure, but I remember having read that you have to put users and not user on the option line in /etc/fstab if you want to be able to unmount smb-shares as normal user. Yes, that's it. Thank you joerg -- Gib GATES keine

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-06 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 06.02.2004 schrieb Haines Brown um 17:37: When I migrated to debian, I lost my ability to print LaTeX files. No information is sent to the printer. The printer driver is dvips, and I assumed that it was included in the LaTeX package, for that was the case with my LaTeX

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Joost Witteveen um 12:26: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Haines Brown wrote: On Fri, Feb 06, 2004 at 11:37:00AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: When I migrated to debian, I lost my ability to print LaTeX files. No information is sent to the printer. The

Re: How to remove a kernel install package that has failed?

2004-02-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Jeff Self um 16:30: I tried installing kernel-source-2.6.0. I used Debian's make-kpkg and created a deb file. But when I ran dpkg -i kernel-image-2.6.0_10.00.Custom_i386.deb, I got a segmentation fault. Now I can't upgrade my system because whenever I run apt-get

Re: (un)mounting smb shares

2004-02-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 09.02.2004 schrieb Karsten M. Self um 23:38: Consider using autofs to automatically mount and umount the shares on demand. Thanks for the pointer, maybe I'll try it out when I try out the 2.6 kernel... Set a short timeout -- a few seconds (2-3) isn't too short -- to allow you to

[OT] New tab instead of new Window in Mozilla

2004-02-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody When I do BLAST searches (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/), I have to wait for the results and then click a java-script button (Format!), and results page is shown in a new window. Can I change this behaviour so that no new window is opened, but the new page opens in a new tab? I

Re: [OT] New tab instead of new Window in Mozilla

2004-02-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Sa, den 21.02.2004 schrieb Micha Feigin um 04:49: On Fri, Feb 20, 2004 at 03:50:55PM +, Michael Graham wrote: Joerg wrote: Hi everybody When I do BLAST searches (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/BLAST/), I have to wait for the results and then click a java-script button

Setting up Voodoo3 under Debian/potato

2000-11-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello all I can't get my Voodoo3 (3500) running any 3d applications! I've successfully compiled the 3dfx.o poackage and created the /dev/3dfx file. I have also installed thze mesa3 - packages. When I try to get Quake3 running I get the error message Could not open OpenGL Subsystem. Is there

Strange message on ps -a

2000-11-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello Everybody The following message appears each time I make ps or ps -a: {floppy_open} {scsi_init_free} Warning: /boot/System.map-2.2.17 does not match kernel data. Then the running processes are listet just right. Any idea what happened to my System.map? I compiled my own kernel (with

Re: (sans sujet)

2000-11-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: i will become a debian user but i'm new in this way and i just want to solve a problem: i have 20 Go hard drive..debian ask to boot 40 Mo for BIOS deficient ask me for a 128 Mo primary partition (swap )

Re: Num lock activated by default, at start

2000-11-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Antonio Rodriguez schrieb: How do I make my numlock pad active from start? Thanks, Antonio. -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null There should be an option in your BIOS, which says NumLock status You should be able to switch zhis on/off. joerg

user-specific lisp packages for xemacs?

2000-11-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Is it possible to install elisp packages for only one user? The problem is that my admin does not like the auctex-package, but it would be really easier to write LaTeX stuff havin it... Thenks joerh

bc - calculator

2000-11-17 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi all I have a lot of data that has to be processed, means 100 numbers having to be divided by another 100 numbers. I did a job like this for adding numbers to others by bc input-file output-file with input-file: one # eg. 199+243 operation # 198+392 per #

bc - calculator going further

2000-11-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
OK. Thank you everybody, now I can do divisions. But now I'm getting a bit more complicated... how can I do logarithms (eg. ln 5 = 1.6094...) ? thanks again joerg

Re: 3dfx Voodoo not found by libglide2x.so?

2000-11-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
You won't have to recompile your kernel. Just go to your /usr/src/ direcory and read the instructions contained in the 3dfx-source tarball. I did that some time ago and it was not really hard. Note: You must have kernel-source installed (matching the kernel version you are running) in the

problem with keys in X

2000-11-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hello there I'm a bit confused by key usage in X: I have two computers, one as nfs-sever, and one as client. The following happens when I am logged in as the same user on one or the other computer (it is the home-directory that is exported, nothing else). On the server, I can use Alt-Tab to cycle

KDE and gdm

2000-11-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I'm using gdm as login manager (which I really like...) The problem is, that I don't know how to start a KDE-session out of gdm. I have all KDE-packages installed, but I cannot choose sessions else than Gnome, Debian and Xsession Any idea? joerg -- Did you know that if you play a

Can't see my mouse-pointer

2000-12-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I got a new monitor (19 IIyama), and now I'd like to use a default resolution of 1280x1024 pixels. This works generally, but in this resolution, I can't see my mouse pointer anymore (It is there, windows get focused when I move around, but I just don't see where I am). Any idea? Ah, I

Re: gnome-gettext.m4

2000-12-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Craige McWhirter schrieb: Can anyone help me locate what package this comes in? Apt-cache is drawing blanks and so is Google. Any clues? -- Cheers, Craige. -- Apt-get a clue. Apt-get Debian. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: netscape 4.75 as root

2000-12-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Marcelo Chiapparini schrieb: Hi! I don't know why, but I cannot run netscape 4.75 as root. For example, when in the popup Window maker desktop menu I choose apps-net-netscape nothing happens. As normal user I can run netscape without any problem. But not as root! Any suggestion will be

Telling Emacs how to use Alt as Meta

2000-12-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there Emacs is using the windows key as meta. I'd like to use Alt instead, because I'm used to it from when I was running SuSE and RedHat. Is there an emacs-specific command for the .emacs file to do that? thanks joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows 2000 cd backwards, you

Re: 3dfx kernel module

2000-12-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
There was an e-mail on this list some weeks ago from Peter Jay Salzman [EMAIL PROTECTED] He wrote: dear fellow voodoo3 owners, the debian driver for your card will NOT work with 2.4 kernels. not even if you compile it from the source code. the file operations table is an array of pointers to

Re: Telling Emacs how to use Alt as Meta

2000-12-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Christoph Groth schrieb: Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there Emacs is using the windows key as meta. I'd like to use Alt instead, because I'm used to it from when I was running SuSE and RedHat. Is there an emacs-specific command for the .emacs file to do that? I can

update 2.2 - 2.2r2

2000-12-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there Well, my computer has no internet connection itself, so I won't be able to do apt-get dist-update. I must download all packages I need at university, put them on Iomega ZIP's, carry them home ant install them from the ZIP's. Now, is there a way to find out 1.) which packages have

Slow NFS-Directory

2000-12-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there One of my computers is configured as NFS-server for one user's home directory on my other computer. The problem ist, that when this user tries to eg. save a file from within emacs, it takes about 5-10 seconds to write it (the file size is not the problem ~4kB). ftp works rather fast

Re: (deb potato) How to set default window manager for a) system b)indivdual users

2000-12-07 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Martin If you use gdm (gnome desktop manager), it will promt each user logging in for the session he wants (and asks if he wants this session for default in future). The sessions are defined in /etc/gdm/Sessions, and the system-wide default session is a symlink /etc/gdm/Sessions/Defaults -

scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I would like to get my scanner recognized when turned on at a runing system. I know I can do that on Win 98, so it should be possible to rescan the SCSI-Bus without disturbing any of the other devices. The only question is: How? Tahnks joerg -- Did you know that if you play a Windows

LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
To all pdflatex-users I tried to convert my .tex-files to pdf with the pdflatex-command. This works great for text-only documents. It seems that pdflatex cannot include pictures (they are ok., latex -- xdvi shows them...). Do I have to include them in a special format (I tried .bmp, .png, .ps as

Re: LaTeX and PDF-files

2000-12-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
Well, thanks for everybody's suggestions. I have tried out this way: \pdfoutput=1 \documentclass[a4paper, pdftex]{report} \usepackage[pdftex]{graphicx} \DeclareGraphicsExtensions{.jpg} \begin{document} \includegraphics{somepicture} \end{document} That worked for me (not only with .jpg but also

Re: scanning SCSI-bus on a running system

2000-12-15 Thread Joerg Johannes
# echo scsi add-single-device 0 0 0 0 /proc/scsi/scsi # echo scsi remove-single-device 0 0 0 0 /proc/scsi/scsi Well, I tried that out, to the result that the scanner is listed in /proc/scsi/scsi, but I still cannot access it. Nevermind, I'll turn it on whenever I start the system,

Re: Debian and Pentium 4

2000-12-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: From Linuxgram Issue No 147 is this piece titled Most Linux Cuts Won't Install on Pentium 4. Quoting: In another one of those awkward little moments that we have come to expect from Intel, the chip giant has confirmed that only Red Hat and TurboLinux can be

Modem errors

2001-01-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi there I cannot access my modem (Lasat safire 560). It is connected to /dev/ttyS1(=com2). When I try to dial out with wvdial, I get an Input/Output error, when I try to query modem with kppp, I get modem busy Any idea what could be wrong? The modem worked under SuSE and RH. thanks, joerg --

GATOS driver -- is there a debian way?

2003-11-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have apt-cache searched for gatos, but did not find the ATI X11 drivers packaged. I have doubts that installing the precompiled version from gatos.sf.net will be good for dpkg's database consistency. I'm afraid it will completely break during tomorrow's dist-upgrade... So, has

Re: Swen on the come back trail.

2003-11-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Do, den 13.11.2003 schrieb David Palmer. um 13:06: Is it my imagination, or is it really happening? At least the number of Swens is increasing again... joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

sending messages using smbclient

2003-11-19 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody How do I send a message to a recpient in my local network using only the IP address? I can send a message with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbclient -M hostname but not with [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbclient -M 192.168.0.2 Any idea? Thanks, joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To

Re: sending messages using smbclient

2003-11-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 19.11.2003 schrieb Alex Malinovich um 20:15: On Wed, 2003-11-19 at 08:24, Jacob S. wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2003 14:13:53 +0100 Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everybody How do I send a message to a recpient in my local network using only the IP address? I

passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: I have my notebook, where my user account is called jorg. On the university network, I have different user names on several Unix machines. I'd

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Greg Folkert um 21:22: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: I have my notebook, where

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 19:34: * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031201 09:52]: Hi everybody Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in combination with passwordless ssh logins? My situation is the following: Yes, the key setup

Re: Debian Package Finder, where?

2003-12-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Chema um 03:02: Heya there. Now that packages.debian.org is down, I have found myself looking for which deb provides such file/library a pair of times. Having resolved the situation in unusual froms, I'm starting to miss packages.deb. Is there a mirror or

Re: Unscribe

2003-12-02 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Reed, T.J. um 17:14: -Original Message- From: Nick Lidakis [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:34 PM To: Debian Mailing List Subject: test test I don't know what the intention of this mail was: Do you want to unsubscribe

Re: My machine compromised?

2003-12-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 03.12.2003 schrieb Vanh Phom um 10:03: Hi folk, After reading on report of servers compromised. Just for curiorsity I run chkrootkit on my own machine and come up with this result: Searching for anomalies in shell history files... nothing found Checking `asp'... not infected

Filters in Evolution

2003-12-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I have a strange problem in Evolution. I have defined a lot of filters to move mails from my inbox to certain folders. This works great for e.g. the debian-user mailinglist (every mail is moved to the folder debian-user). Mails that are filtered via the Subject: or From: headers are

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-03 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Joerg Johannes um 09:25: Am Mo, den 01.12.2003 schrieb Greg Folkert um 21:22: On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:29, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody Is it possible to use different login names on different machines in combination with passwordless ssh logins

Re: passwordless ssh-login

2003-12-04 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mi, den 03.12.2003 schrieb Vineet Kumar um 21:32: * Joerg Johannes ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [031203 08:08]: Am Di, den 02.12.2003 schrieb Joerg Johannes um 09:25: I am starting Debian X environment using gdm, but after logging in, I can't find ssh-agent in ps -ae. Only see it after starting

Re: Is resolv.conf essential?

2003-12-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb Anthony Campbell um 14:58: According to the man page for resolv.conf it is not supposed to be necesssary on a properly configured system. However I can't connect to my dialup ISP without it. This creates problems when I use a different ISP. What needs to be

Re: Anfrage f?r einen Linktausch an debian-user@lists.debian.org

2003-12-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Fr, den 05.12.2003 schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom um 16:31: There are, to my knowledge, no freely available good translators. s/freely// There are free word lookeruppers but they make a royal mess out of any translation. In one of the latest c't magazines they tested commercial packages. They

Re: vertical scrolling mouse?

2003-12-05 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Do, den 04.12.2003 schrieb Mark Roach um 19:13: On Thu, 2003-12-04 at 12:48, stan wrote: Strolling through a CimpUSA store the other day, I noticed a new mouse from Microsoft, that you could push the little scrollwhell left right on. This is to allow vertical csrolling something like

Re: only root can use cd player?

2003-12-09 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Mo, den 08.12.2003 schrieb michelle um 14:26: I have things set up so that members of the audio group can use the sound cards. Users can mount and unmount cds. But only root can play music off the cd. Not even members of the disk and groups can do that. How do I fix this so members of

Emacs21 and menu bar

2003-01-20 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi list I have just installed emacs21 for being able to use the preview-latex package. I really hate this menu bar with Icons (they make me think of Word...). Can I disable this Icon menu bar, and get back to my old text-mode menu (I can turn this one on with menu-bar-mode 1, but then I have

Re: USB-Netzwerkkarte beim Anschlieen konfigurieren

2003-01-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
An Christian: Das hier ist die englische debian-user-Liste, die besten Ergebnisse erzielt man also mit enlglischen Anfragen. Nur mal so eine Idee: apt-cache show hotplug Description: Linux Hotplug Scripts This package contains the scripts necessary for hotplug Linux support, and lets you plug

OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-22 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I know there exists a kde applet which does this job, but I

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 20:44, David selby wrote: Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running

Re: OT: Secure (?) way of displaying a popup window

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:21, Joerg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. I have written a short perl script which reads the battery status of my laptop out of /proc/acpi/battery/BAT1/state, to be able to see how much time I have left until I have to shutdown or running to the nect power jack. I

Re: printer

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 22 July 2003 19:27, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Have a windowsxp2003---cannot get Lexmark printer to print Did you try to restart you computer? (sorry, couldn't resist...) joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: mozilla filters

2003-07-23 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 23 July 2003 15:31, Craig Tinson wrote: Every time I re-install linux I manage to keep my mail (which is stored on another HD) but I always lose my filters Not an answer, but... why do you want to reinstall??? joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: how do i type my own words

2003-07-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 24 July 2003 22:53, James wrote: nothing Maybe you should try to use your keyboard... joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling flphoto

2003-07-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 25 July 2003 18:13, Sridhar M.A. wrote: Hi all, I am trying to compile flphoto 1.0 and have installed libfltk1.1-dev from testing. When I run ./configure, I do not get any error messages. But when I type make, I get the following: error messages snipped Suspecting a version

How to turn of touchpad on laptop?

2003-07-26 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I'd like to turn off the touchpad on my laptop wehn I have an USB mouse plugged in. In my XF86Config-4 I have configured two pointer devices: InputDevicePS/2 Mouse CorePointer and InputDeviceUSB Mouse CorePointer Is there a way to turn the PS/2 Mouse off (and

Thoughts about my mail setup

2003-07-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody. Yesterday, I tried to read mail from my IMAP account via modem. This was horribly slw. So I thought about my mail setup again. I know that I could store my IMAP mails locally (fetch them once only) with offlineimap. At the moment I am using kmail for my three mail-accounts:

Re: Mozilla 1.3.1

2003-07-28 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Monday 28 July 2003 18:39, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I want to go back to mozilla 1.3.1 -- but stupidly I cleaned the cache. Can this version (which used to be in unstable) still be found somewhere? Regards, Jan I have this version in my /var/cache/apt/archives:

Re: how to subscribe

2003-07-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:13, Joydeep Bakshi wrote: Hi listadmin, I am interested to subscribe my self in ur mailing list. please tell me how to subscribe by email request where to mail that email request . thanks in advanced. Hi. Read http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/ You will find

Re: Looking for more Debian packages

2003-07-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 15:28, Jianan Huang wrote: Hi folks My Linux system is basically working. I am looking at ways to enhance it. 1) I read about disk boot problem in the mail list. Right now I boot from a floppy. My machine BIOS can only boot from the C drive or the floppy. I use D

Re: debconf wonky

2003-07-29 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 16:19, Antony Gelberg wrote: Hi all, Debconf is giving me yes / no options with no questions! Anyone got any ideas on what could be wrong? I see some error messages about templates fly by, but they're gone before I can read them. Hi Antony Is this limited to only

Re: flphoto program to deb?

2003-07-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 29 July 2003 14:25, Chris Kenrick wrote: I've got my A70 working under 2.0final-4 which is the version in stable. The trick is to have all the right USB modules loaded, and pass a fudged command line to gphoto2 (trick it into thinking it's a different camera) Try gphoto2 --usbid

Re: second try at voodoo v and hardware rendering

2003-07-31 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Thursday 31 July 2003 15:18, davis wrote: Hello I have details of a second try at getting hardware rendering for a voodoo v card here - http://www.skink.net/~davis/docs My basic problem is that in the past, I had hardware rendering enabled. After a rebuild of the computer and reinstall

Re: reading an ufs partition

2003-08-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 01 August 2003 14:33, mess-mate wrote: Hi, I'm unable to read my ufs partition. like: mount -t ufs /dev/hdxx /FBSD Have I omit somewhat to do ? Thanks for your help. mess-mate grep UFS /boot/config-`uname -r` If it is not set, you will have to recompile your kernel. Choose

Re: Animate png images.

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 12:18, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk. Is there any programme for manipulate png images, for example animate *.png from many frames? How gifsicle for manipulation *.gif images. Thanx. Hi Egor From the convert manpage (imagemagick): To create a MNG animation from a DNA

Re: non gnomified emacs

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 05:46, Rodney D. Myers wrote: Is there a recent version of emacs that is not gnomified with all of the bells whistles? The version loaded with sarge has new keystrokes for doing things, and has become annoying (IMHO). From my .emacs: (menu-bar-mode 1) ;; This turns

Re: Helping the newbie

2003-08-08 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Friday 08 August 2003 15:44, Aaron wrote: On -1782-Thu, Aug 07, 2003 at 04:31:21PM -0700, Alan Connor [EMAIL PROTECTED] spake thus, From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Aug 7 16:30:09 2003 I can testify that once you move to Debian, you will not move away. A Got that right.

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote: Never do this! I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know how long it will take to get things back working; only just restored ppp.

Re: stress testing software routers

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Tuesday 05 August 2003 19:48, Dan wrote: I'd like to stress test a software router to determine how many packets it can handle per second. Is there any package available for doing this? One requirement I would need is that I should be able to create custom packets to be used for the test.

Re: finding upstream

2003-08-14 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 06 August 2003 00:40, Colin Watson wrote: On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 02:50:43PM -0500, Bob McElrath wrote: It is, in general, difficult to find the upstream developers of a given debian package. The package page does not include any mention of a web site or mailing list where

unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname()

2003-09-30 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everyone. What does this warning message mean: unable to lookup notebook-johannes via gethostbyname() It happens when I use sudo. The background: I have got a static IP from my university, and I have entered it into /etc/network/interfaces. I have also put my hostname (notebook-johannes) in

Re: swen killed me!

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
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 have a pop mail-provider, go ahead and apt-get install

Novell networking

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everyone At my new workplace, we have a novell file server which holds every user's home directory. I am able to mount the volumes from this server (one private directory and one world writeable directory) with ncpmount after configuring the ipx network interface with ipx_interface. So

Re: Diff btw GeForce4 and RIVA TNT2?

2003-10-01 Thread Joerg Johannes
On Wednesday 01 October 2003 17:00, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi all! I have Backstreet Ruby installed so I have 2 monitors with kbds/mice that each have a user. The monitors are samsungs 17 but the cards are different: one is a RIVA TNT2 Model 64/Model 64 and the other a GeForce4 MX 440 AGP

Re: X server for windoze

2003-02-10 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Russell I have successfully tried cygwin with XFree86-4 on win2k. The cool thing is: You can start an X server on your W2k machine, then ssh to your debian box with PuTTY (with X protocol forwarding enabled), and the X programs started from the ssh console will show up in the Cygwin server.

Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody For some time I am struggling with pdflatex. Today's update of tetex resolved the major problem I had (Acroread could not process the pdf files), but now it is getting weird. If I run pdflatex on a document, the normal font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, various mails in the archives

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Sorry for the noise, it turns out that I must not use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} works now... joerg If I run pdflatex on a document, the normal font is shown very fuzzy (Yes, various mails in the archives talk about bitmap fonts, but pdflatex normally should use the vector fonts, not?), while

Re: Not understanding pdflatex

2003-02-11 Thread Joerg Johannes
Am Dienstag, 11. Februar 2003 12:53 schrieb Gary Turner: It is interesting to note that gv and xpdf render Type3 fonts very nicely while Acroread looks like crap.  Regardless of how they look on screen, printed docs will look fine. This is true, but I need it mainly for screen presentations...

xfig - how to do rounded corners

2003-02-12 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi everybody I tried out xfig yesterday and wanted to do arrows pointing around the corner (90 degrees). I'd like these corners to be as smooth as the rounded box corners, so I tried to split up such a rounded box and add an arrow head, but wait: The smooth corners change into hard corners as

Re: importing audio cassettes

2003-02-13 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi Aryan When I used RedHat 7.3, there was a command line utility there for recording audio called record It was a good way for me to import my audio cassettes and mp3 or ogg them. But in Debian I can't find this utility, even in debain's archive. Is anyone aware of a deb package for this

mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
Hi List Why does a mount change the file permissions of a directory? Example: ls -l /mnt drwxr-xr-x2 root root 4096 2003-01-20 18:29 d mount /mnt/d ls -l /mnt dr-x--1 root root 4096 2003-01-24 09:22 d ? /etc/fstab says: /dev/hda7 /mnt/d

Re: mount changes permissions of directory?

2003-02-25 Thread Joerg Johannes
jorg16384 1970-01-01 01:00 e This is what I would expect for the ntfs partition, too. Thanks for your info, but still seeking help joerg Am Dienstag, 25. Februar 2003 09:19 schrieb Lukas Ruf: * Joerg Johannes [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-02-25 09:15]: Why does a mount change the file

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