Re: Disable plugins in Mozilla?
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: Is it possible to disable a specific plugin (like Flash) in Mozilla without physically removing the files from the plugins directory (or renaming them)? If you only have a problem with Flash, then Flash Click To View is ideal http://ted.mielczarek.org/code/mozilla/ -- Keith Willoughby http://flat222.org/keith/ Living in a jungle, living in a tent. Better than a prefab - no rent. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: mass installation on XBox
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 10:18:07AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: It's in Switzerland where the DMCA (luckily) doesn't apply. You might even be lucky enough to evade the EUCD, then, which is not that far off ... No such luck. The Swiss signed on to the EU recently. You're not thinking of their joining the United Nations, are you? -- Keith Willoughby | http://flat222.org/keith/ If the world doesn't understand, then the world has got to learn -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])
Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: CIA's School of the Americas trained military men from most countries in South America in torturing and dirty war techniques. US supported economically and politically all of the coups d'etat during the '70s, mainly to stop the lefty political movements and guerrillas. But is life there better now than it was then? (probably) What would life be like in those countries now if the communist dictators were still in power. War and conflicts are hell, but it's sometimes necessary for a better future. In the cases of Guatemala and Chile, the USA sponsored coups against democratically elected governments that replaced them with dictators. -- Keith Willoughby I couldn't even find anything to read. The hotel shop only had two decent books and I'd written both of them. - Douglas Adams -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: serving the web without a web server
Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Just tried it with lynx and things are as they should be (as it doesn't use ntl) - nothing there! Guess I'll get on to ntl tomorrow and see what they have to say. IIRC, ntl do transparent caching of http traffic. -- Keith Willoughby Fans still speak in hushed tones of the day that Una Stubbs, her hands a blur, managed Three Men In A Boat in less than 90 seconds - I'm Sorry I Haven't A Clue -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Unmet dependencies on upgrade
Hiya all, On issuing an apt-get -s upgrade on my woody system, I get the following Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done The following packages have been kept back adduser aegis apache apache-common bigloo cupsys debian-policy dnsutils fttools gadfly galeon gcc gcl gettext glade gmc gnome-applets gnome-control-center gnome-core gnome-help-data gnome-panel gnome-panel-data gnome-session gnome-terminal gnome-utils gnomeicu gnumeric gs htmlgen liballegro-dev libapache-mod-perl libnet-dns-perl libnewt0 libnspr4 libnss3 libpgperl libsane libwine links locales mc mc-common mozilla-browser mozilla-psm mpg321 postgresql postgresql-client postgresql-contrib printtool pstoedit pydb python-bobo python-bobodtml python-bobopos python-dev python-doc python-examples python-extclass python-gdbm python-gendoc python-imaging python-imaging-sane python-kjbuckets python-ldap python-mpz python-netcdf python-newt python-numeric python-pygresql python-xml scantv scrollkeeper sgmltools-lite spectemu-common spectemu-x11 swig vorbis-tools whiptail wine xchat xchat-common xpdf 493 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 82 not upgraded. Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: apache: Depends: perl5 or perl but 5.6.1-7 is to be installed Conflicts: apache-modules but it is not installable dnsutils: Depends: libdns4 but 1:9.1.3-1 is to be installed Conflicts: netstd ( 2.00) but it is not going to be installed galeon: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2 (= 0.16.0-1) but 0.16.0-1 is to be installed gnome-terminal: Depends: libesd0 (= 0.2.22-4) or libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.22-4) but it is not going to be installed gs: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3) but 1:1.1.4-1 is to be installed Conflicts: gs_svga but it is not installable libmetakit-dev: Depends: libmetakit (= 2.01-4) but 2.01-4 is to be installed postgresql: Conflicts: postgresql-pl but it is not going to be installed postgresql-contrib: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (= 7.1) Depends: libpgsql2.1 (= 7.1release) E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! A dist-upgrade throws out hundreds of lines of errors, including several E: Fatal, conflicts violated lines I had hoped it was a temporary glitch, but a new apt-get update today hasn't fixed it. The 'internal error' has me worried. Any suggestions? -- Keith Willoughby Turned out nice again. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Unmet dependencies on upgrade
Keith Willoughby [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hiya all, On issuing an apt-get -s upgrade on my woody system, I get the following [...] Sorry, but the following packages have unmet dependencies: apache: Depends: perl5 or perl but 5.6.1-7 is to be installed Conflicts: apache-modules but it is not installable dnsutils: Depends: libdns4 but 1:9.1.3-1 is to be installed Conflicts: netstd ( 2.00) but it is not going to be installed galeon: Depends: libgdk-pixbuf2 (= 0.16.0-1) but 0.16.0-1 is to be installed gnome-terminal: Depends: libesd0 (= 0.2.22-4) or libesd-alsa0 (= 0.2.22-4) but it is not going to be installed gs: Depends: zlib1g (= 1:1.1.3) but 1:1.1.4-1 is to be installed Conflicts: gs_svga but it is not installable libmetakit-dev: Depends: libmetakit (= 2.01-4) but 2.01-4 is to be installed postgresql: Conflicts: postgresql-pl but it is not going to be installed postgresql-contrib: Depends: libpgsql2.1 (= 7.1) Depends: libpgsql2.1 (= 7.1release) E: Internal Error, InstallPackages was called with broken packages! [...] OK, I fixed this by commenting out my Potato cdrom lines in sources.list (total hunch, with no expectations of success). Anyone have any ideas what the heck was going wrong? -- Keith Willoughby I was an angry young man in need of an icon, and Leonid Brezhnev fell short on several counts - Mark Steel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
Timothy R. Butler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As I said, that is perfectly fine. All I'm saying is that I wouldn't be happy if my tax dollars went toward buying Mein Kampf for a library. If you want to go find a bookstore that carries it and buy a copy or two - that is your right, and something I would never think the government should prevent. If it belongs anywhere, it's a public library. It's a historical document, presumably (I haven't read it) invaluable for students attempting a study of the causes of WWII and the Final Solution. -- Keith Willoughby Store in a cool, dry place.
Re: X: cannot read /etc/X11/X symbolic link
Sam Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I did this, using ln -s /etc/X11/X /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 as root. I get a message stating that the file exists. You've got your parameters to ln backwards. If it helps, I do this all the time. -- Keith Willoughby Our Father, who art in heaven, Harold be Thy name. http://www.randomreviews.co.uk - it does what it says on the tin
Re: xawtv video0 not found
Lance Hoffmeyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have v4l compiled into my kernel but when I try to run xawtv I get: This is xawtv-3.68, running on Linux/i586 (2.4.17) can't open /dev/video0: No such device v4l-conf had some trouble, trying to continue anyway v4l: open /dev/video0: No such device v4l2: open /dev/video0: No such device no video grabber device available /dev/video0 exists in /dev and I was attempting this as root. Any ideas? You did include the support for your particular card in the kernel config? (That is, V4L support plus BT848 (or whatever) support) If it's a BT848, check out the help for that config - you need to also select I2C support in the kernel. -- Keith Willoughby http://www.randomreviews.co.uk - it does what it says on the tin
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
Jean-Marc V. Liotier [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, 2002-01-28 at 12:38, Preben Randhol wrote: Have anybody else experienced this? Happened to me a couple of week ago late at night, and I really thought I was hallucinating. Me too. Really unpleasant. First thought was I've been 0wned, second thought was did I really see that? -- Keith Willoughby
Re: vi vs ae
Pietro Cagnoni [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: type as root: update-alternatives --config editor man update-alternatives will tell you a lot of the history. Speaking of which, can anyone tell me if it is a reportable bug if a package doesn't support the update-alternatives mechanism on install for an existing alternative? In this case, I'm thinking of lftp. -- Keith Willoughby You're older than you've ever been And now you're even older.
Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)
Cassandra Lynette Ludwig [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Did you read the initial message? For those who have not read it, or are unable to read english here is it detailed (I hate having to do this for men all the time *sigh*) Machine with files - Windows 98 Workstation Nowhere in your original message do you mention Windows 98. [...] Don't annoy me anymore with messages as un thought out as this. It feels like the sort of responses I used to get from the Redhat technical support team. In that case, I suggest you ask for a refund of the money you paid for your support from this mailing list. -- Keith Willoughby You're older than you've ever been And now you're even older.
Re: Yet another suddenly-weird xterm
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Then, I did apt-get upgrade and upgraded ~55 packages, then rebooted. Now, in konsole ssh sessions from rebel to foobar, the Insert, Home End keys don't work from the 2.05a.0(1) prompt. I have this in .inputrc that seems to do the trick. \e[7~: beginning-of-line \e[8~: end-of-line \e[H: beginning-of-line \e[F: end-of-line \e[1~: beginning-of-line \e[4~: end-of-line -- Keith Willoughby Thou shalt check the array bounds of all strings (indeed, all arrays), for surely where thou typest ``foo'' someone someday shall type ``supercalifragilisticexpialidocious''. - The 5th Commandment.
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev$ mplayer -vcd 2 /dev/dvd MPlayer CVS-011215-05:00-2.95.4 (C) 2000-2001 Arpad Gereoffy (see DOCS!) CPU vendor name: AuthenticAMD max cpuid level: 1 CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Athlon TB Thunderbird (Type: 6, Stepping: 2) extended cpuid-level: 6 CPUflags: Type: 6 MMX: 1 MMX2: 1 3DNow: 1 3DNow2: 1 SSE: 0 SSE2: 0 Reading /home/alan/.mplayer/codecs.conf: 23 audio 64 video codecs font: can't open file: /home/alan/.mplayer/font/font.desc font: can't open file: /usr/local/share/mplayer/font/font.desc Linux RTC init: open: Permission denied Using usleep() timing Playing /dev/dvd read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error read CDROM toc header: : Input/output error Error selecting VCD track! (get) Exiting... (End of file) (I just checked the permissions in /dev/dvd - these look fine) First of all, /dev/dvd is probably a symlink to the real device - check the permissions of that. Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS negotiation. -- Keith Willoughby Sunsh ne ess rt
Re: how do I play divx encoded films on testing?
Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: check the permissions of that. Secondly, you need write permissions to the device becuse of the CSS negotiation. REALLY - this is a read-only dvd device??? and the permissions are set as r_xr_xr_x The drive is read-only, but the device file needs to be written to for key negotiation. Don't ask me how it works, but that's what it does. -- Keith Willoughby Sunsh ne ess rt
Re: xterm trouble
Peter De Wachter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: The Home and End don't work in a bash prompt in xterm. Curiously enough, these keys do work in vim. I'm using Woody and XFree86 4.1.0 with a Belgian keyboard layout. Does anybody know what could cause this, or how to fix it? I have these magic incantations in .inputrc - I *think* they fix this problem, although it's been months since did it. \e[7~: beginning-of-line \e[8~: end-of-line \e[H: beginning-of-line \e[F: end-of-line \e[1~: beginning-of-line \e[4~: end-of-line -- Keith Willoughby Sunsh ne ess rt
Re: configuring X in unstable
Eric Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: According to D. on Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 04:39:12AM -0800: try dpkg-configure xserver-xfree86 That is assuming that it downloaded when you upgraded. Check to make sure that you have it installed. nope [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~] $ dpkg --configure xserver-xfree86 dpkg: error processing xserver-xfree86 (--configure): package xserver-xfree86 is already installed and configured I am looking for I think the debconf interface - like when you do a fresh install dpkg-reconfigure (not dpkg --configure) -- Keith Willoughby Poor, poor OJ. He's only been able to convince 12 people in the whole world that he's not a murderer. - Wil Wheaton, on OJ Simpson
Re: Progeny - woody?
Jesse Goerz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Also, woody's version of gdm isn't as pretty and it removes the System menu so you can't reboot from the login screen. You will have to use the config utility for gdm to fix that (can't remember the name of it). . . . or edit /etc/gdm/gdm.conf at set SystemMenu=1 -- Keith Willoughby Poor, poor OJ. He's only been able to convince 12 people in the whole world that he's not a murderer. - Wil Wheaton, on OJ Simpson
Re: apache-common requires mySQL?
Tom Allison [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can someone explain why Apache-Common requires MySQL to be installed? As far as I can see, it doesn't. It depends on libmysqlclient10, which depends on mysql-common, but there are no dependencies for the mysql server. I have no idea why it depends on the client lib, though. -- Keith Willoughby Poor, poor OJ. He's only been able to convince 12 people in the whole world that he's not a murderer. - Wil Wheaton, on OJ Simpson
Re: woody stable?? when?
Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 11:50:42PM +0100, Martin Kacerovsky wrote: You are quite not concrete(factual) ;-) Nobody can be. The response to when will the next Debian release happen has always been when it's ready. Is there a definition of ready? No Critical bugs? -- Keith Willoughby One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor - Practice of Programming
Re: Annoying Mozilla 0.9.5 behavior
Gordon Paynter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been noticing this for awhile (Moz 0.9.3, 0.9.4, 0.9.5) and I found yesterday from the nice mozilla folks on IRC that this is a known falut with junkbuster. Apparently, junkbuster doesn't handle HTTP 1.1 connections and keep alive connections, and generally plays fast and loose with HTTP standards. They recommended replacing it, perhaps with webwasher, though it looks like webwasher is restrictively licensed. wwwoffle, although a web cache, does at least some of what junkbuster does. -- Keith Willoughby One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor - Practice of Programming
Re: something wrong with the RealPlayer
Philipp Bliedung [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: when I start the installation I can't read anything - all I see is a dotted rectangular instead of a letter. it's a font problem. Try reordering your FontPath statements in XF86Conf[-4] -- Keith Willoughby One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counselor - Practice of Programming
Re: bad performance on playing video
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I use Xine to play VCD, DVD and other video files, the audio performance is good, but the performance is awful, lots of lag. My CPU is PIII 1G, 764Mb ram, and AGP card with 4Mb ram. So I don't think my hardware is not powerful enough to play video. I set up MTRR support. What else should I do to increase the video performance? It's pretty much entirely down to how much can be done in hardware. What version of X are you running? Does it support hardware acceleration for your video card? -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: bad performance on playing video
Jerry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [Poor DVD playback] My X version is 4.1.0, Good. [...] (II) S3VIRGE(0): Using XFree86 Acceleration Architecture (XAA) Screen to screen bit blits Solid filled rectangles 8x8 mono pattern filled rectangles Solid Horizontal and Vertical Lines Image Writes Offscreen Pixmaps Setting up tile and stipple cache: 18 128x128 slots Does the log at any point say Loading extension XVideo? Does the output of 'xvinfo' provide anything that looks interesting? (I have no idea if your using the frame buffer device complicates matters, nor do I know if X even supports the xvideo extension on the S3virge) -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: Managing tasks through remote access
Morbo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is it possible to log in through telnet and ideally also through X into the Linux machine, start an ftp client or irc client etc. then close the connection again with the started applications continueing to run? Also if I could do that, could I then log in back again later and find the applications I left there and interact with them as if I hadn't left? (I guess this if this is possible at all, it will be more difficult with X.) I've never used it myself, but some friends swear by VNC (Virtual Network Computing) - http://www.uk.research.att.com/vnc/ -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: fish tank desktop background?
Jeffrey W. Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 11 Oct 2001, Jeffrey W. Baker wrote: That would be xfishtank Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? So I'm not going crazy! I've seen something similar. I don't have Nautilus installed though. Gnome itself? -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: fish tank desktop background?
Andrew Sione Taumoefolau [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Related: I've now seen, twice, a little fish swim across my gnome desktop. I have three widescreen displays so this lasts for several minutes. I think it is an easter egg in Nautilus perhaps? So I'm not going crazy! I've seen something similar. I don't have Nautilus installed though. Gnome itself? Gnome panel easter egg :). Thanks. I'd put it down to hallucinations due to a lack of sleep. :) Still, I'd rather they didn't do that. My first thought was root-kit with a sense of humour -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: xserver-xfree86 install problem (debian-testing)
Blars Blarson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: startx won't work, it wants something in /etc/X11/X, but I can't figure out what. /etc/X11/X should be pointing to an X server. Mine, for example, is a symlink to /usr/bin/X11/XFree86 . What is the result of ls -l /etc/X11/X ? -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: Letters displaying as aquares.
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Karsten writes: The problems involve Gtk and its handling of non-8859-1 encoded fonts, due to changes in X11. The fault is Gtk, not X11. Updating to XFree86v4 should help, as several other modifications to font configuration, adequately addressed in d-u archives. I found that I had to comment out the local font server line in the Files section of /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Putting it at the end of the Files list seems to do the trick - but of course, it made my system look as ugly as sin again. Mind you, I have zero idea about how fonts work in X. It appears to be magic. -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: SPAM WARNING: spammers use Debian lists for harvesting
Robert Waldner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If you believe in using fake addresses, why not use something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] This doesn't (and probably won't) exist, so you have the benefit of a faked address but don't simply shove the load unto someone else. Funnily enough, UK educational addresses used to be that way around. (Mine used to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]). I wonder if there are any JANet gateways that still do the address translation . . . -- Keith Willoughby Playing to lose is like sleeping with your sister. Sure she's a great piece of tail with a blouse full of goodies, but it's just illegal. - Topper Harley
Re: Xawtv - update
Pedro António Neves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Finally I plugged my headphones directly to my PCTV line out and... sound works!! So, I've isolated the problem to my SB's line in connector. It seems to be disabled, as well as the microphone channel. Are there people on this list that run machines with a SB live! ? Does line in and mic work for you? I'm running a Hauppage TV card and an SB Live! - I have a short external cable connecting line-out from the TV card to the line-in of the soundcard. It all works fine. -- Keith Willoughby This isn't TV, he isn't William Shatner
Re: Xawtv - again (was: Xawtv and Xfree86 4.0)
Pedro António Neves [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi there: I posted a message on this list about xawtv and Xfree 4.0. Following some solutions given by people on this list, I've managed to get xawtv working just fine... except for one thing: the sound. When I try to change volume (with the A key) it changes the volume from Muted to 0%. It seems that the sound channel is working, but with the volume set to 0. Excuse me if I'm being silly here - but have you tried increasing the volume with the '+' key? Without a default volume in .xawtvrc, it appears to default to 0% volume. (This *may* be a recent change. I'm using zapping myself, but I used to use xawtv, and I'm sure that at one point it would default to 100%.) -- Keith Willoughby This isn't TV, he isn't William Shatner
