La publicidad a veces mata.

1998-12-21 Thread Melkor
Saludos, Pues si. Escribo esto refiriendome a un articulo aparecido en cierto periodico espaniol de tirada nacional hace unos dias. En el susodicho articulo, que versaba sobre la caida de W98 y sus alternativas, se hacia referencia a LiNUX. Y no lo han podido hacer peor. Se decia lo

Re: La publicidad a veces mata.

1998-12-21 Thread Jesus M. Gonzalez
¿Qué periódico es? Se le pueden enviar mensajes explicándoles su error... (de buenas maneras, en mi opinión, pues tiene toda la pinta de una metedura garrafal de pata) Jesus. Melkor writes: Saludos, Pues si. Escribo esto refiriendome a un articulo

Venta de CDROMS Distribuciones Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Juan_Carlos_Valero
Hola a todos: Dispongo para su venta de varias distribuciones Linux ( replicadas con autorización de los autores ). Interesados mandar email a [EMAIL PROTECTED] para mas información. Un saludo, Juan Carlos Valero --

Re: Actualización B0 = Hamm ¡¡SOCORRO!!

1998-12-21 Thread Agustín Martín Domingo
Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Juro que si tengo definido window-managers :-), tal cual adjunto a continuación: # This file contains a list of available window managers. The default # Xsession file will start the first window manager that it can # in this list. /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm95

Re: La publicidad a veces mata.

1998-12-21 Thread Xose Manoel Ramos
Hagamos lo que hagamos, por favor, que no sea la típica respuesta en plan protesta, ni bombardearle el servidor ni nada de esto. Que luego los Linuxeros cogemos fama de intranigentes. -- Saudos: ose[EMAIL PROTECTED](Vigo/Galicia/España) http://pagina.de/xmanoel/

Por favor ayudadme: dselect

1998-12-21 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
Hola, necesita una ayuda por favor. Xose Manoel me dijo no se qué de que ¡bravo por dpkg por que te quita cosas inútiles!... pero no entendí a qué se refería por que desde luego para mi cosas como g++ y librerías de C++ , dpkg, etc, son fundamentales Reciéntemente he instalado el paquete

Monitor del coste telefónico

1998-12-21 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
¿Se puede lanzar algúna utilidad al conectarse a Red con wmppp que te diga lo gastas en teléfono y te cree un histórico al estilo del kppp?. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

wmppp

1998-12-21 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
¿Qué significan en el wmppp las cifras que parecen en la parte inferior izquierda?, el gráfico que va pintando se que es de la carga de conexión, pero ¿de qué informa exáctamente?. Gracias. -- Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: deslect se ha vuelto loco!!!

1998-12-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:05:32AM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: recientemente me he bajado el paquete dpkg-multicd_0.7.3_all.deb de Datom y al instalarlo, ejecutar dselect y darle a [R]emove de repente quiere cepillarse un montón de paquetes fundamentales como: g++, kde*, un montón

Re: Monitor del coste telefónico

1998-12-21 Thread Javier Fdz-Sanguino Pen~a
Yo tengo una instalada en mi servidor de modem, se llama 'pppcosts' y tiene versiones para muchos paises. El problema: no está actualizado con la facturación actual de Telefónica y el calendario que tiene no es perpetuo (i.e. no sacará bien las fiestas nacionales este año). Esta

Re: wmppp

1998-12-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 01:39:34PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: ¿Qué significan en el wmppp las cifras que parecen en la parte inferior izquierda?, el gráfico que va pintando se que es de la carga de conexión, pero ¿de qué informa exáctamente?. Las cifras son los bytes recibidos y

Re: deslect se ha vuelto loco!!!

1998-12-21 Thread Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 08:11:32AM -0600, Marcelo E. Magallon wrote: On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 11:05:32AM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: recientemente me he bajado el paquete dpkg-multicd_0.7.3_all.deb de Datom y al instalarlo, ejecutar dselect y darle a [R]emove de repente quiere

Re: Venta de CDROMS Distribuciones Linux

1998-12-21 Thread Antonio Castro
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hola a todos: Dispongo para su venta de varias distribuciones Linux ( replicadas con autorización de los autores ). Eso de la autorizacion de los autores no lo entiendo. Una cosa son autores y otra distribuidores. Al menos Debian y SlackWare son

Re: Actualización B0 = Hamm ¡¡SOCORRO!!

1998-12-21 Thread Ignacio J. Alonso
Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Juro que si tengo definido window-managers :-), tal cual adjunto a continuación: # This file contains a list of available window managers. The default # Xsession file will start the first window manager that it can # in this list. /usr/X11R6/bin/fvwm95

Re: Actualización B0 = Hamm ¡¡SOCORRO!!

1998-12-21 Thread Andres Herrera
Guenas On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 08:04:26PM +0100, Ignacio J. Alonso wrote: Juro que si tengo definido window-managers :-), tal cual adjunto a continuación: # This file contains a list of available window managers. The default # Xsession file will start the first window manager that it can #

Impresora conectada a través de unidad zip

1998-12-21 Thread Miquel Escarrà
¿Alguien sabe si me va a dar problemas una impresora que esta conectada al puerto a través de la unidad zip? Es el paso siguiente para ir entendiendo cómo funciona linux. Vicios de Windows. Saludos Miquel Escarrà

Re: deslect se ha vuelto loco!!!

1998-12-21 Thread Marcelo E. Magallon
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 06:08:05PM +0100, Javier Viñuales Gutiérrez wrote: No tengo los archivos status.yesterday.x que me indicas y he mirado status y staus-old y son idénticos... e-s-o e-s m-a-l-o ¿v-e-r-d-a-d? :_( a) instala anacron. (las cosas de cron no están corriendo en tu máquina)

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Zooko
Hi Charles. Could you give us more information about some of the problems you've encountered? You wrote: In linux I download the source, fight for hours with Makefiles and header files - or if I'm lucky ./configure will show me all the problems I need to fix in advance. OK, I can

pon

1998-12-21 Thread Rick Knebel
Hi, Is there anyway to make pon stay up all the time. Thanks Rick -- Rick Knebel [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ted Harding
On 20-Dec-98 Charles Collicutt wrote: Hi, Before I start I'd like to make clear that this is *not* a flame or a troll, I genuinely want to know the answer to my question as I would quite like to continue using linux. Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? [snip]

Re: ipfwadm

1998-12-21 Thread wtopa
Take a look at http://www.xos.nl/linux/ipfwadm/paper/ Subject: re: ipfwadm Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 09:17:15AM +1100 In reply to:Michael Fox Quoting Michael Fox([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Anyone care to show me a quick and dirty ipfwadm script to allow ftp/http/irc/mail/dns

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Mark Phillips
Let me give you a quick run down of why I use linux rather than windows 95/98. 1. At its core, Linux is a far superior, higher quality operating system than windows. The Linux operating system hardly ever crashes (well actually, has never crashed in my personal experience - the worst that has

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Rick Macdonald
Brandon Mitchell wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. 24 color JPEG's or 24 _bit_ color JPEG's? You can get 2^24 colors with 24 bit color. Can anybody explain this? I would have

Re: pon

1998-12-21 Thread Andrew Ivanov
What you mean up? You mean, keep connection up 24/7? In this case, it's a limitation of the ISP, which might have a preset time limit, and not a pon fault that you get kicked off. Andrew Never include a comment that will help |

Re: 64megs to 192megs of ram

1998-12-21 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Sean wrote: Actually, even the kernels up to 2.1.129 need the append line added to lilo.conf. I'm running a PPro machine with 128MB of ram, and unless I add the append line under kernel 2.1.129 top only reports 64MB present. On an AMD K6-233 with 128MB RAM, running Hamm under kernel 2.0.34,

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Charles Collicutt
Hi, Thanks to everyone that replied to my e-mail. I think my main problem is that I try to compile too many things that I could just get as an older, less optimised .deb file, also I started using linux at school where I wasn't root and so all the big things were managed for me and I got used

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. Or some povray pictures. You can detect distinct stripes

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Sourcerer
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Charles Collicutt wrote: Hi, Before I start I'd like to make clear that this is *not* a flame or a troll, I genuinely want to know the answer to my question as I would quite like to continue using linux. Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95?

ppp keep alive.

1998-12-21 Thread debian
Anyway care to help me write a script to keep my ppp0 device alive.. I have a permanent dialup modem.. and currently it stays connected for about 2 weeks straight at a time.. But dies on the odd ocassion. So anyway care to help me write a keep alive script that will check for ppp0 being up every

Re: ppp keep alive.

1998-12-21 Thread Damon Buckwalter
debian wrote: Anyway care to help me write a script to keep my ppp0 device alive.. I have a permanent dialup modem.. and currently it stays connected for about 2 weeks straight at a time.. But dies on the odd ocassion. So anyway care to help me write a keep alive script that will check for

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 01:13:30AM +, Charles Collicutt wrote: Windows is as configurable as Linux, you just have to know different methods. I don't buy this, unless your different methods also cover programming. I can easily configure any resolution and refresh rate I want to use in X,

Re: Two Questions

1998-12-21 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 10:28:12PM +, David A. Lee wrote: Does Debian 2.0 come with Netscape on the CD's, or do I have to download it? Netscape is not part of Debian, therefore it can't be on the official CD. Some vendors do include it on the Debian CD's they are selling, though. When

ipfwadm icmp (aka ping reply deny)

1998-12-21 Thread debian
I am still getting use to this ipfwadm.. guess it is a better time then any to learn some more... Anyway already have a real to block icmp pings.. I want my machine to not reply to these.. so anyone willing to paste me a example. Basically I don't my machine to ping reply.. I think it uses icmp,

Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Mark Phillips
Hi, I was under the impression that apt would replace dselect and provide a more user friendly package manager. But so far I've just heard about apt-get which sounds like just a script for installing debian packages directly from the net. Could someone enlighten me on the true role and status

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Mark Phillips
your questions: yes, I am a developer (not professionally) but I can get compilers for Windows from school so their cost doesn't bother me :) Legally? Anyway, what will you do when you are out of school? to an average home user. Some of you are obviously lucky enough to have many computers

Re: Corel® WordPerfect® 8 for Linux® is here! (fwd)

1998-12-21 Thread marvin stodolsky
My WP8 installation is up and working. Herein a few cautions are passed along, learned during setting up on my Dell Inspiron Laptop, which is a dual boot Win95 Linux. 1) Do gunzip and tar -xvf the files in some Linux directory like /tmp Unpacking in a DOS/Win95 partition is inadequate because a

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that apt would replace dselect and provide a more user friendly package manager. But so far I've just heard about apt-get which sounds like just a script for installing debian packages directly from the net. Could someone enlighten me on

Re: Serial consoles

1998-12-21 Thread Rainer Clasen
Hi! Rainer Clasen (bj): Shane Wegner ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I posted here a few months ago about getting the Debian installation process to work on a serial console over a null modem connection to a vt100 terminal. You need to modify root.bin! gunzip it, mount it via loop and replace

Passing parameters to a new kernel?

1998-12-21 Thread Peter \(Troff\) Petroff
Hi there, I have a fairly vanilla Hamm 2.02 release with kernel 2.0.34. It lives on /dev/hdb1, where Winborg lives on /dev/hda1. I don't use LILO in an MBR, I use a boot floppy. I download the source for kernel 2.0.36. I make x/menu/config, dep, clean, zdisk (and modules,

Can't get ghostscript to print.

1998-12-21 Thread Monte Copeland
On my Debian hamm distribution I am trying to print simple Latex documents to my dot matrix ESCP2 Epson ActionPrinter 5000+ . I create an ASCII text file with the proper latex file commands and save it to the filename test.tex . Then I issue the following commands: % latex test.tex %

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, I was under the impression that apt would replace dselect and provide a more user friendly package manager. But so far I've just heard about apt-get which sounds like just a script for installing debian packages

Re: Beginning C

1998-12-21 Thread D'jinnie
On Sat, 19 Dec 1998, Chris Frost wrote: :I'd like to start learning C (I know a bit of latex and enough :basic/newtonscript to do simple math stuff, but that's about it) and was :wondering what a good book would be to serve as in intro to programming c :on linux (and as an intro to programming in

Re: Can't get ghostscript to print.

1998-12-21 Thread Bob Nielsen
Have you tried using magicfilter (which has filters for both 9-pin and LQ Epson printers)? Bob On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Monte Copeland wrote: On my Debian hamm distribution I am trying to print simple Latex documents to my dot matrix ESCP2 Epson ActionPrinter 5000+ . I create an ASCII

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
Havoc Pennington wrote: [snip] If I can add to the plug: I need an icon for the program, an icon for Replaces in the package tree view, and someone to package the program once all its dependencies are packaged. If anyone doesn't have enough to do. :-) I would love to package this as soon

how can I access an NT drive?

1998-12-21 Thread Jesse Evans
Hi, folks. I have a two-drive system with NT on drive C and Debian linux on D. I've got it set up to boot into Linux by default but I'd like to be able to move files between the two systems. I found an ntfs driver (http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~loewis/ntfs) and was able to read the

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Riccardo Tommasini
At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potential customers? For crying out loud, they are asking only

Re: ppp keep alive.

1998-12-21 Thread wtopa
Michael Should be not muxh more then pinging the ISP every 5 minutes or so. That way if it (the ISP) has a time limit, you defeat it everytime you ping. Lucky guy! HTH Subject: ppp keep alive. Date: Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:20:14PM +1100 In reply to:debian Quoting

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Havoc Pennington
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: I would love to package this as soon as dependencies are packaged. When do you suppose that will be? (I'll be on vacation from 12/23-1/3) Hey, great! I don't really know - I think Jim is working on the Gnome stuff (it's a huge job), I don't know

Meaning of Failed Intel bug check?

1998-12-21 Thread Blair Kelly
I have installed Debian 2.0 on a SONY Vaio PCG-505F. Upon boot, I see the following line ppa: Failed Intel bug check. (Phoney EPP in ECP). Does anyone know what the line means - or what program is causing this message so that I can investigate further? Blair

ipfwadm, win95 and dhcp

1998-12-21 Thread tony mollica
Hi. I have a nicely functioning masquerading Debian 2.0 (2.0.34) box with the following exception: when the win95 machines (connected to a winnt4.0sp3 network) get their ip's by way of the nt dhcp service, ip_masquerading doesn't work. When I assign the ip to their respective machines the

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Christian Lavoie wrote: Yes, as a server, Linux is successfully competing against WinNT and others. I personally don't believe Linux is ready for Joe Blow the average Win user, however. Depends on your definition of a Joe Blow user. The definition of Joe Blow user I'm

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Charles Collicutt wrote: Hi, Thanks to everyone that replied to my e-mail. I think my main problem is that I try to compile too many things that I could just get as an older, less optimised .deb file, also I started using linux at school where I wasn't root and so all

Re: Xircom - Network

1998-12-21 Thread Kent West
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd wrote: I have a Xircom adapter attached to my laptop for networking in Windoze -- does Debian support this device and if so can anyone offer any help with configuring it? Regards, Stephen Austanners Wet Blue Pty Ltd. ~ Australian Tanned Wet

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Charles Collicutt wrote: Hi, Thanks to everyone that replied to my e-mail. I think my main problem is that I try to compile too many things that I could just get as an older, less optimised .deb file, also I started using linux at school where I wasn't root and so all the big things were

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Ed Cogburn
Kent West wrote: [snip] There are a host of other reasons to dislike Windows, such as instability, and another of my pet peeves, file incompatibility. When Win 3.1 came out, offices learned to use Schedule+. Then Windows95 came out with a new version of Schedule+. Of course, one person in

Re: Can't get ghostscript to print.

1998-12-21 Thread Conrado Badenas
Monte Copeland wrote: % gs -sDEVICE=epson -r360x180 test.ps Aladdin Ghostscript 3.33 (4/10/1995) Copyright (C) 1995 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details. Loading NimbusRomNo9L-Regu font from

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 1998q, Ted Harding wrote: [snip] (I'd like to add that when I first tried Windows I was so revolted by the tacky interface and the bland kiss it better but don't solve the problem MS-Help, that I stuck to DOS as much as possible; even then I made up my mind to find something

Re: xdm

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
if you are using lilo, at prompt type linux single or linux emergency It sounds like a problem you are displaying too many colors where the video card can't handle it giving the freqency... On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Knebel wrote: Hi, I am new to the debian distribution and have run into

losetup problem

1998-12-21 Thread Madarasz Karoly
Hello! I install debian 2.0 10 days ago. Then evrithing was fine. Now losetup give me this message: #losetup /dev/loop0 /dev/loop0: Operation not supported by device I try to recreate the loop device files with MAKEDEV, but the result is the same. Once my system did an unusual filesystem check

Postgres and php3 don't like each other

1998-12-21 Thread Frank Barknecht
Hi all, I am playing around with Postgresql and php3 and I cannot make a database connection this way. The most simple script fails: ?php $database = pg_Connect (, , , , template); ? gives this: Warning: Unable to connect to PostgresSQL server: FATAL 1: SetUserId: user www-data is not in

Re: Meaning of Failed Intel bug check?

1998-12-21 Thread Mike Holliday
Hi, That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to www.intel.com and download the fake Pentium test software. And verify it. Mike H. -Original Message- From: Blair Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Monday,

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Helge Hafting
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. Or some povray pictures. You can detect

idiots guide to re-arranging directory mount points

1998-12-21 Thread Martin Waller
Hi, I've come into an extra 2GB hard drive for one of my debian systems - I currently have a ~1GB drive and a ~0.5 GB drive, with swap and \usr on their own partitions (I think /usr is on the 1GB drive). As I'm adding another 2GB, how can I rearrange the mount points for /usr easily? It'd

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread frleg
I think you should meet someone who has a linux box installed with all the good stuff. So, you will see the good side of things (I agree, it seems to be easier to go on with windoz, but don't give up with linux...It's quite difficult at the beggining (I am a begginer) but it is very powerful,

Re: startx

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
or ln -s XF86_SVGA X On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote: Rick Knebel wrote: How do i link my start x to XF86_SVGA? What is the command for the synlink? No need to symlink. Just edit the first line in /etc/X11/Xserver -Mitch -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL

WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread Chang, FKK
Hello all, All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: 1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ? 2) does it write these *correctly* ? 3) can it cope with fastsave docs *correctly*? With `correctly',

Re: Interaction btw. Mylex Flashpoint LW and 3c509 ??

1998-12-21 Thread Nils Rennebarth
On Sat, Dec 19, 1998 at 07:38:44PM +0100, Pierfrancesco Caci wrote: I've just installed a SCSI host adapter Mylex Flashpoint LW (BT-950) into my computer. Everything seemed ok until I realized that the Ethernet card, 3COM 3c509, ISA, _not_ plug and play, has stopped working. The network card

Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread frleg
No...I tried to read my CV I made under MSWord 6.0. The document has a lot of arrays, 1 jpeg photo, some drawing, grayed zones... The result is awful. Maybe it need some configuration : I didn't try Franck

Re: idiots guide to re-arranging directory mount points

1998-12-21 Thread Frank Barknecht
Martin Waller hat gesagt: // Martin Waller wrote: I've come into an extra 2GB hard drive for one of my debian systems - I currently have a ~1GB drive and a ~0.5 GB drive, with swap and \usr on their own partitions (I think /usr is on the 1GB drive). As I'm adding another 2GB, how can I

Upgrade to slink

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi all, I am thinking about upgrading from hamm to slink via modem. But I am not sure how to do it.. Could someone please point me out some documents to read or give me some suggestions? I don't think I will be able to finish upgrading in one day. So will it be alright

Re: uninstalling smail when a self compiled MTA is present

1998-12-21 Thread Marc Haber
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998 15:57:15 -0500, you wrote: On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 08:52:41PM +, Marc Haber wrote: How do I tell dpkg that mail-transport-agent is present even if I uninstall smail and that I take responsibility? Install and configure the dummy package which is there for this reason.

Can't find libttf.so.2....

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hey, I just downloaded the newest XF86 server with chinese patch applied to it... but it is not finding a library.. my ldd returns following: ldd XF86_CHINESE libttf.so.2 = not found libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2

Re: Can't find libttf.so.2....

1998-12-21 Thread UNO Takeshi
From: Shao Zhang [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Can't find libttf.so.2 Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 22:56:44 +1100 (EST) ldd XF86_CHINESE libttf.so.2 = not found libm.so.6 = /lib/libm.so.6 (0x4001) libdl.so.2 = /lib/libdl.so.2 (0x4002b000) libc.so.6 =

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread E.L. Meijer \(Eric\)
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 02:34:31AM +0800, k e c h i e wrote: On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Rick Macdonald wrote: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. Try doin' some gradients in GIMP. Or some povray pictures. You can detect

[OffTopic] Remote machine support vt100 !?

1998-12-21 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, Could someone help me on: - check, using socket programming, if the remote machine support vt100! I'm trying on using escape codes sending a string (\e[c) to the remote machine. Unfortunally it writes the result to the remote machine. Is there any way for I get the result !?

Re: Adding users from a list or database?

1998-12-21 Thread Craig Sanders
On Fri, Dec 18, 1998 at 05:59:53PM -0600, Steve Phillips wrote: What do you do if you have to add many users on a regular basis? there's a million ways of doing it...i usually write a little script to do it as i need it. try something like the following, which i wrote earlier tonight for

Re: WP8 - now does it *read and write* Word docs?

1998-12-21 Thread Anthony Wong
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 11:03:32AM +0100, Chang, FKK wrote: |Hello all, | |All the ranting about Corel's misleading strategies aside, before I download |it (paying by the minute, you know), I'd like to know: | |1) does it load Word 95 (or 97) docs *correctly* ? |2) does it write these *correctly*

[offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-21 Thread Nuno Carvalho
Hi, I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( Could someone send me such part of code !? Should IAC + DONT +

Serial module hangs during installation

1998-12-21 Thread Axel Stammler
Hi, I have been using Linux for several years, but now I thought the time had come to get a new distribution; naturally, my choice was Debian. Unfortunately, I do have problems getting even the kernel modules installed even though everything used to work with Slackware and kernel version

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread Patrik Nordebo
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 01:10:28PM +0100, E.L. Meijer Eric wrote: I understood that 32 bit graphics mode have 24 color, and 8 bit transparancy levels. So this may be useful for something after all... For most graphics cards, the 32 bit mode doesn't use the extra 8 bits. They're just there to

Re: Does apt replace dselect?

1998-12-21 Thread Peter Berlau
On Mon, Dec 21, 1998 at 12:52:06PM +1030, Mark Phillips wrote: Hi, Hi, I really don't know if apt will replace dsecelect, apt has(afaik) no user-interface like dselect. ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==-=== ii apt

What does this mean with dselect

1998-12-21 Thread Patrick Colbeck
Reply-To: Hi Can anyone tell me what messages like this mean when I use dselect with the apt access method. Checking system integrity...ok The following packages have been kept back gobjc smail g++ egcc doc-linux-html wxhelp doc-linux-text Thanks Pat

Re: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Sun, Dec 20, 1998 at 09:55:16PM +, Charles Collicutt wrote: Could someone tell me why I'm using linux not Windows 95? I've been One brief answer: when was the last time your Linux crashed? Actually I can answer that: I had two crashes a couple of weeks ago, because it was 41 degrees

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Christian Lavoie
Yes, as a server, Linux is successfully competing against WinNT and others. I personally don't believe Linux is ready for Joe Blow the average Win user, however. Depends on your definition of a Joe Blow user. The definition of Joe Blow user I'm using is a person who

Is frozen currently broken?

1998-12-21 Thread Ian Setford
Yo- I would like to run several packages that require library versions on ly available in frozen. Are there any known problems with that tree right now? TIA. -Ian

RE: Why?!

1998-12-21 Thread Christian Lavoie
When I first bought a computer it had Windows 3.0 installed; I too disliked it and switched to DOS, before moving to Linux a few years ago. When I bought a laptop recently it had W95 preinstalled and I decided to see what it was like. I found it actually harder to install things in W95 than

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Riccardo Tommasini wrote: : At 16:48 20.12.98 -0500, Ed Cogburn wrote: : We all *knew* it is commercial software, so why act surprised when : Corel handles the WP8 free edition just like other commercial companies : that release a 'free' or 'demo' version to potential

Re: Meaning of Failed Intel bug check?

1998-12-21 Thread Nathan E Norman
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, Mike Holliday wrote: : Hi, : That means that you have gotten one of the fake PII Chips, you can go to : www.intel.com and download the fake Pentium test software. And verify it. : : Mike H. : -Original Message- : From: Blair Kelly [EMAIL PROTECTED] : To:

Re: how can I access an NT drive?

1998-12-21 Thread k e c h i e
On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Jesse Evans wrote: Hi, folks. I have a two-drive system with NT on drive C and Debian linux on D. I've got it set up to boot into Linux by default but I'd like to be able to move files between the two systems. I found an ntfs driver

xdm under slink: no /etc/X11/config file???

1998-12-21 Thread Rich Hartman
Hello all, I just totally wiped out my hamm system and did a fresh install of slink (long story... and I must say the installation did not go as smoothly as a hamm installation, especially X...) anyway, I used dselect to download and intall xdm... it came up and running, but with 2 problems:

Re: [offtopic] Dont't ECHO

1998-12-21 Thread CyberPsychotic
~ ~ I'm trying to, using socket programming, ask the remote user for login ~ and password. I would like that password won't appears on remote machine ~ when user is typing it. I already saw RFC's but it doesn't worked ! :((( ~ ~ Could someone send me such part of code !? ~ Should IAC +

Re: hard drive error message

1998-12-21 Thread Daniel Mashao
On Mon, 21 Dec 1998, iodine wrote: Just from memory.. next time you reboot that pc.. goto your bios setup.. and make sure that you have IDE POWER DOWN turned off.. as if you have it on and APM stuff not in your kernel, this will cause such problems I believe... Personally I not played

Re: WP 8 problem

1998-12-21 Thread Richard E. Hawkins Esq.
ted told, otherwise, what DO I do if I get a Word7 file by email? You tell the sender politely (the first time) to send it in a real standardized format. For email, this means plain text (not mime) unless there is content (equations, tables, etc., or if it is a file being sent for the

Procmail and relay host

1998-12-21 Thread Gianluca Della Vedova
I am setting up a Debian installation on 3 machines, one of which will be configured as a relay host for incoming/outgoing mail. I need to setup procmail as MTA (no .forward needed) I would like to know which MDA can be better integrated with procmail (and is easier to set up). I was thinking

kde can't find the library...

1998-12-21 Thread Shao Zhang
Hi, for some reason, kde can't find the lib /usr/X11R6/lib... It complains something about: kaudioserver: error in loading shared libraries libmediatool.so.0: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory kfm: error in loading shared libraries libkhtmlw.so.0: cannot

RE: Good Linux Book For Christmas

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
I usually get flamed for saying this BUT, buy him a book on UNIX. Learn how it is supposed to be done from that. The linux specific docs included with a package will help span any gaps. This way if he is confronted with another OS at work or some where else, he has a better idea of where to

Re: startx

1998-12-21 Thread Mitch Blevins
No, that is the wrong way to do it. Configuration should be done in the /etc/X11 directory, not in the /usr/X11R6/bin directory. You will break the configuration scripts of subsequent Xserver installs if you do this. Shao Zhang wrote: or ln -s XF86_SVGA X On Sun, 20 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins

RE: Postgres and php3 don't like each other

1998-12-21 Thread Shaleh
On 21-Dec-98 Frank Barknecht wrote: Hi all, I am playing around with Postgresql and php3 and I cannot make a database connection this way. The most simple script fails: ?php $database = pg_Connect (, , , , template); ? Pass user and password in the pg_connect function. Look at

Re: sb awe 64 value isa-pnp and wavetable-midi problems

1998-12-21 Thread Paul Miller
Peter Berlau wrote: sfxload synthgm.sbk only produces segmentation fault with no file-argument it works, message: sfxload SoundBlaster EMU8000 (RAM 512k) Hmmm...just a thought, but are you sure that the sound bank you are trying to load is a proper sound bank? Could it be too large to fit

Re: Why does 16 bpp look the same as 24 bpp?

1998-12-21 Thread MallarJ
In a message dated 12/20/98 11:53:29 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can't tell the difference between 16bpp and 24bpp 24 colour JPEG files, viewed with xv. I have an ATI Graphics Pro Turbo (Mach64). The 24bpp implementation is actually packed in 32bits, so the

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