Thanks!
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Jon Lewis wrote:
Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy it?
I've not gotten an 825 yet, but I have around a dozen 810's in use.
They've become the standard FDT SCSI card. At about $59 each, they're
hard to pass up. I'd get the 825 if you want fast-wide on a
David Puryear:
But when I do date and clock I get two different times. The
time I get from date is way off. So I usually do clock -s
and everything is fine. Any idea as why?
I've heard of rumours of some versions of the clock binary being
broken. Don't know which ones. I've also heard that the
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote:
Would you say the Buslogic is better due to higher cost? I've always
heard good things about the NCR controllers relative to Linux, but does
the fact that they are _much_ cheaper than the BT or Adaptec mean they
are poor performers? Has anyone
David Puryear writes:
- But when I do date and clock I get two different times. The
- time I get from date is way off. So I usually do clock -s
- and everything is fine. Any idea as why?
Define 'way off'. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? An even number of hours?
If the difference is an even number of
Thanks to all that replied!
I do believe that I have gotten everything I need for the Windows side.
BTW, the site(and remote office locations) is NOT connected to the
Internet
Daniel
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Hi Larry
You wrote:
David Puryear writes:
- But when I do date and clock I get two different times. The
- time I get from date is way off. So I usually do clock -s
- and everything is fine. Any idea as why?
Define 'way off'. Seconds? Minutes? Hours? An even number of hours?
If the
Here's what I came up with to clone a Debian system with the aid of
a CD writer. If you don't have a CD writer, you may be able to use a
Jaz drive or regular hard drive for the purpose.
1. Create tar files of each filesystem. Use tar's --one-file-system
option to facilitate this.
2. Put these
Hi guys,
I saw a price list which had the NCR 825 controller, and it said it's a
Fast Wide controller. Is that true? Why is it so much cheaper than the
Adaptec, for example? Is it a poor performer? The price was about $100
cheaper than the adaptec.
Anyone use it? Is it worth to buy
Is the Debian distribution going to push for POSIX conformity?
I may be missing something here, ( I'm still a relative newbie
to Linux ) but what is the importance of it? After viewing the
Linux-FT web pages, the only good thing I can see about a Posix
certification is the right to go around
On Thu, 10 Oct 1996, Daniel Stringfield wrote:
Well, I will say this about Adaptec... Just like many other name brands,
you pay for the name. Thats why Digi International makes you pay through
the nose! You pay $2 for the board, $700 for the Digi logo.
Another problem iwht the high-end
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gith)
Is the Debian distribution going to push for POSIX conformity?
Yes, because it just got easy and cheap.
I may be missing something here, ( I'm still a relative newbie
to Linux ) but what is the importance of it? After viewing the
Linux-FT web pages, the only
A year ago I tried out NIS and had it working on my Slackware system.
(I didn't actually need to use it, so I only ran it for a day.)
I can't seem to get it to work now. When ypbind is running, commands
that should trigger a name lookup don't even cause the lights on my
modem (ppp) or ISDN box to
Jim Worthington [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
It appears that Debian Linux does not have setuid capability. Is this a
feature that I can turn on through a configuration file?
I would recommend that you investigate the sudo and super packages.
They will allow you to do exactly what you want much
Don't you have to put entries starting with + characters at the end of your
hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up?
Just guessing...
Thanks
Bruce
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Suddenly exmh seems to be producing zombie processes whenever I try to
reply to a message. Of course, I'm not able to make the reply.
Specifically, when I click on the Reply button (then on Reply to sender),
exmh shows this message:
Starting ASYNC exmh-async xterm -e vi ...
But exmh doesn't
Hi,
As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/
interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it.
The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories
of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a
find unstable contrib non-free -name
Bruce Perens wrote:
[...]
(: NIST decided to make the suite available without charge. The Debian
(: Project most heartily applauds this decision. In fact we most heartily
(: jump up and down with glee and cheer unabashedly.
I'd probably go a bit further than that :-)
(: My plan is to package the
Hello,
I have created a small search system where you can search for a Debian package
either with a keyword, file name or direct browsing. The url is
http://house.cs.tut.fi/~hessu/debian/
However, this can not be it's permanent location since it resides on the PC I
use for the part time work
Hi,
Is there anybody using debian linux for professional layouting / image
processing? Actually, the hot question ist: Are there any efforts beeing
done to implement an ICC compliant CMM module at kernel or X
level? What would be a more appropriate place to ask for?
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At one point in the Debian installation, you are asked to type in
the IP addresses of up to five DNS servers. However, you are not
told with what punctuation to separate the IP addresses.
The first time, I used commas, but FTP failed with, I think,
Hostname lookup failure. I found
Hi,
As some of you may have noticed already, the http://www.debian.org/FTP/
interface unfortunately has duplicated entries in it.
The script that generates it does a 'find' through all the directories
of the FTP archive. To be precisely, it does a
find unstable contrib non-free
Hi,
I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I
would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as
file. Still with me? :)
I couldn't find info on this anywhere. Is there somebody who has
experience in burning CD's who has done this and can
[my find/symlink problem: find each file _once_ in the FTP directory
structure; to remove duplicates from http://www.debian.org/FTP/]
Phil How about:
Phil find unstable/* contrib non-free -name '*.deb'
Phil It won't find hidden files in unstable/, but it doesn't look like you
Phil want to.
I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I
would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as
file. Still with me? :)
I couldn't find info on this anywhere.
It's documented in the kernel's Configure.help:
Loop device support
I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I
would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as
file. Still with me? :)
I couldn't find info on this anywhere. Is there somebody who has
experience in burning CD's who has done this and can
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Maarten Boekhold wrote:
Hi,
I remember having heard of some way to mount a *file* as filesystem. I
would want to use this to mount an iso9660 filesystem that is created as
file. Still with me? :)
What you want to use is the loop device. I mount iso image files with:
This one should be simple...
In X, my ALT key doesn't work. For example, when I run minicom -m in an
xterm, and try to do an ALT command such as ALT-D or ALT-X I just get a
lower case u or . or a depending on the command.
I checked my XF86Config and the alt bindings are commented out, which
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I have a bizarre problem with my computer when I run X.
I managed to get gpm ... -R to work and I set the correct
/dev/gpmdata in XF86Config so X starts OK. However, when
I switch back to any of the Virtual Consoles 1 through 6,
they are all gibberish.
I sat down and worked out that the screen
Please write to Klee [EMAIL PROTECTED]. He's committed to take on the package,
but I suspect he could use some help with running tests and submitting bug
reports on the results of the tests.
Thanks
Bruce
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How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other
day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or
command?
Thanks, Chris.
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Currently, there are two versions of Lyx (one in contrib and one in
section tex). Is there any reason for this?
Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
(gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing
Yes, some of us do real computer graphics on Debian. The color module
belongs at the X level. I'd be interested in hearing about any you find
(or make), one should be packaged for Debian. Could this not be done as
a TCL/TK program?
Has anyone interfaced a colorimiter? We have some lying around
I run the output of mkisofs to a raw disk partition. That mounts just fine.
It's a bit faster to access when writing the CD, too, as all of the blocks
are contiguous.
Thanks
Bruce
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I recently downloaded Crack_4.1 from Sunsite (I couldn't find a Debian
version, there isn't one is there?). When I ran it, I got Version of
crypt() being used internally is not compatible with standard.
Terminating
Is this true that Debian crypt() is non-standard? Has anyone got this to
work
That list server isn't catching administrative requests in the subject field.
Uh-oh. That's why so many people had trouble unsubscribing. For now, put them
in the body of your message rather than the subject, please.
I won't have time to fix this until at least Wednesday.
Thanks
Please correspond with Ray Dassen [EMAIL PROTECTED] about placing
this on our CGI server (which is not working today - I just sent someone a
nudge about getting it going).
If necessary, I can give you a login on our internal system.
Thanks
Bruce
From: Vatiainen Heikki [EMAIL
Chris R. Martin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
How do I reset a textmode virtual console?
I always reset by sending the vt100 reset code:
echo [cntrl-v][ESC]C
(in brackets are keystrokes)
This resets to default settings.
Hope this helpes.
Danny
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At 12:28 PM 10/11/96 -0500, you wrote:
How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other
day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or
command?
Thanks, Chris.
I take it that you mean that the screen has turned to garbage? Try hitting
^V ^O and
Bruce Perens says:
Yes, some of us do real computer graphics on Debian. The color module
belongs at the X level. I'd be interested in hearing about any you find
(or make), one should be packaged for Debian. Could this not be done as
a TCL/TK program?
Has anyone interfaced a colorimiter? We have
High quality output of colour graphics have some trouble for most
frequently two reasons: (a) Most programs are RGB oriented
(b) Neither RGB nor CMYK are device independent, and neither show a
linear property.
Note also that the color gamut of each device (printer, CRT,
photographic paper
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Gerry Jensen wrote:
Also, there are two version of gs (Aladdin and GNU versions). While I see
the need for two versions here, perhaps they should be named differently
(gs_alladin and gs_gnu both providing gs). Having two versions with the
same name confuses dftp. I don't
Bruce Perens says:
Note also that the color gamut of each device (printer, CRT,
photographic paper print, motion picture print, reversal color slide,
PAL TV, NTSC TV, SECAM TV) does not overlap the others. One of our main
concerns is NTSC TV, which can not represent many values that are valid
in
Taking the lead means taking responsibility for creating and uploading
a package that addresses your particular area of interest, or coordinating
a number of people who are working on the same area of interest. In this
case, you may have to do both.
Debian works very well when it is
Bruce Perens wrote:
Don't you have to put entries starting with + characters at the end of your
hosts, passwd, group, etc., files before NIS will be used to look stuff up?
Just guessing...
Thanks for the reply, Bruce. Buried deep in my verbose post was this
line:
I have +:: in
On Fri, 11 Oct 1996, Chris R. Martin wrote:
How do I reset a textmode virtual console? I got one messed up the other
day... I had to login to different console. Is there a reset keystroke or
command?
Try reset :-) (no joke, the command exists and does exactly what you
want; other
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