Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
I'm not sure if this will do what you expect (I'm not behind a Debian box now so I cannot check) but why don't u try: cat file.txt > /dev/lp0 ?? Good luck! Pim - PingWings - the penguin provides profit - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - M:

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Elie De Brauwer
On Tuesday 02 September 2003 11:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > shouldn't it blindly copy the text > to the port and return immediately? > (it hangs) That depends, in some cases that could work unless you have a printer like hp deskjet 710, 720 etc who require add

Re: Tips for serial terminal & file transfer?

2003-09-02 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:05:12AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:56:48PM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > It would also be helpful if I could do the old trick of : > > > > cat > > > EOF > > > > ...but this method performs shell ex

Re: kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:06:07PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote: > What am I missing? Or, are the missing 4:3.1.2-1.1 versions going to be > in unstable in the next few hours? You're not missing anything, and they'll be there whenever they get uploaded. It's been that way for a few days now.

Re: /dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Tom Badran
On Tuesday 02 Sep 2003 10:39, Russell Shaw wrote: > Hi, > When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 > shouldn't it blindly copy the text > to the port and return immediately? > (it hangs) Its a character device so it will block while it is processing each charcter. If there is no device responding it will

/dev/lp0

2003-09-02 Thread Russell Shaw
Hi, When i do: cp test.txt /dev/lp0 shouldn't it blindly copy the text to the port and return immediately? (it hangs) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:18:29PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone have an idea why mplex would suddenly decide to truncate files? Since you say that the video and audio files are correct, what happens when you multiplex them yourself? What does mplex have to say then? I found tcmplex from tran

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On 01 Sep 2003 18:02:27 -0400, Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: <...> > A few months ago, I decided to put debian on my old Laptop, an IBM > Thinkpad 770ED (PII-266, 64MB Ram). Once again, with KDE running, the > desktop was so slow and unresponsive as to be really unusable (except > in an

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 11:24:20AM +1000, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > RAID only provides resilience against hardware failures, it does not protect > anyone from user errors or mishaps which occurred yesterday, or last week, > or last month. It also doesn't protect you against the computer being struck

Re: fluxbox "tab" titles

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:33:33PM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote: > Does anyone know if it's possible to customize what fluxbox's tabs say? > Is this possible? I checked the online fluxbox documentation, but I > couldn't find what I was looking for. The tabs echo what the title of the window is

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Marc Wilson
Feel free to hit 'd' now, if you like, what follows is an opinion piece that apparently no one at all agrees with, given the state of the community On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Nicos Gollan wrote: > IMO the whole X(free) system needs a healthy kick in the butt. It's one of the >

Re: OT: Debian Mailinglist server slow?

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:22:21AM +0200, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:24:56 +1200, cr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Never do it the easy simple way if you can do it > > the hard complicated way.;) > > > > Incidentally, even the truck-on-the-line won't normally cause a huge > >

Re: compatible FS between linux and windows

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 1 Sep 2003 13:19:38 +0200, Christian Schoeller wrote: > > [1 ] > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 06:02:37AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Christian Schoeller wrote: > > > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > CD ROM media -- iso9660 and udf fs are compatible. > >

Re: gcc version?

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 01 Sep 2003 22:28:56 +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 22:10, Lukasz Hejnak wrote: > > > export/setenv CC=gcc-2.95 > > (select one, export or setenv, depending on your distro) > > rather, depending on your shell. setenv if you run csh or tcsh, export > if you run bash

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Mark Roach
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote: > On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 12:53:55PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: [snip] > > If you think that my goals are incorrect, or can show that it does not > > meet my desires in some way, then tell me how. "X is better than Y" is > > just silly. Perhaps if you

Re: Problem with KDE 3 upgrade

2003-09-02 Thread William Bradley
On Monday 01 September 2003 03:59 pm, Donald Spoon wrote: > William Bradley wrote: > > -SNIP- < > > > > > > Hi Andreas, > > > > Tried you suggestion above and another couple of hours downloading went > > on. So obviously some bits were missing. > > > > When I boot to KDE now, KDE 3.1 loads and the

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2003-09-02 Thread Jan Leisner
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Re: Approved (KMM4717637I14L0KM)

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Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marcus Schopen
Joyce, Matthew wrote: [...] RAID only provides resilience against hardware failures, it does not protect anyone from user errors or mishaps which occurred yesterday, or last week, or last month. right!!! Fault tollerance and data backups are not the same thing, they are just different components o

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Nick Hastings
Good evening (or perhaps morning where you are), * J?rg Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 16:56]: > There are only two IP's listed in the details field. My own one > (Client-IP) and the dial-in server's (Server-IP). No DNS listed :( > > But anyhow: I have set some "important" IP adresses to

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Re: Duplicating installs across the network

2003-09-02 Thread Nick Hastings
* Roberto Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 09:51]: > The migration of my lab is nearly complete. The two servers are happily > running Woody and so far I have one workstation running Sid, and I even managed > to get VMWare installed and running properly on it. The last I need to do is > get pr

Re: OT: Why is C so popular?

2003-09-02 Thread Colin Watson
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 10:19:18PM -0400, Mark Roach wrote: > On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 13:26, Colin Watson wrote: > > As it happens, setting the tabstop option to anything other than 8 does > > irritate me when editing files containing tabs. I like to keep source > > code within 80 columns, and mismat

RE: {VIRUS?} Re: Wicked screensaver

2003-09-02 Thread gradteach
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gnus & nnslashdot

2003-09-02 Thread Keith O'Connell
Hi, When I first started using gnus a few years ago I managed to get slashdot messages into gnus, but for me at that time it was all a bit much to try and control, so I commented out the slashdot specific lines in .gnus. After seeing a post elsewhere about

Configuring HP Inkjet Printer

2003-09-02 Thread bob parker
I've just installed a HP 3325 printer. I configured it using cups after downloding and compiling the latest hpijs driver (1.4.1). It's printing OK, from web pages at least, but my problem is that it is doing it at maximum resolution. Because I got this little cheapie just so I can output text

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-02 Thread Shyamal Prasad
"Johann" == Johann Koenig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Johann> Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> for how to check this out. To enable DMA on boot up try >> >> apt-get install hwtools >> editor /etc/init.d/hwtools Johann> hdparm is in it's own packag

RE: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Joyce, Matthew
> -Original Message- > From: Yves Goergen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, 2 September 2003 9:43 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: simple backup script > > > On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple backu

Re: XFree86 Version 4.3.0 Configuration- No DFP detected

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 13:47:25 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > >firstly, please don't post such huge log files to the list unless > asked. > > * Punit Ahluwalia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [030902 13:14]: > > I upgraded to kernel 2.4.20 and to

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Neal Lippman wrote: ... Well, most replies to my posting have pinned the "blame" on KDE and Gnome rather than X per se. I'll have to reinstall on the laptop and see how it looks with a more minimal WM. I hope you're not reinstalling just to change the WM... This does still beg the qu

Re: Windoze software - vpn [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 22:22:02 -0700 (PDT), Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > hi ya arnt > > On Tue, 2 Sep 2003, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > > Oh, I actually want the entire machine for Linux. I am more than > > > > fed up with Windows personally. Unfortunat

Re: how to add network support into installed kernel ?

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 21:47:32 +0200, Wolfgang Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 15:10:08 +0200, sachin ashok kadam wrote: > > > Hello friends, > > How to add network support into an installed kernel (compiled > > whithout the network supp

Re: Newbie Hardware/Partitioning

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 11:06:04AM -0400, Hershel Robinson wrote: > > > My thoughts are to set up: > > > > > > 10G Windows 2K system and software > > > 10G Shareable data (FAT?) > > > > On the same machine, it's pretty well got to be FAT... but you could > > put the shared data on the machine you'r

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-02 Thread Pigeon
On Mon, Sep 01, 2003 at 07:01:19PM +0100, Carlos Sousa wrote: > On Mon, 1 Sep 2003 18:28:55 +0200 Lukasz Hejnak wrote: > > (from some spammer) > > > We have wet blue cow > > n/c > > > We can ofert pig wet blue to > > > If you have interest please send information abaut your company > > n/c!

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread Alan Shutko
Neal Lippman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This does still beg the question of how Win95/98/Me/NT, etc, managed to > provide a reasonable "desktop" when KDE/Gnome could not, however. I don't think either KDE or Gnome tries too hard at optimizing for older machines. -- Alan Shutko <[EMAIL

Re: Internet connection sharing with WinXP: DNS problem

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
Damien Solley schrieb: On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 17:47, Jörg Johannes wrote: Hi everybody. My father has a Win XP box with a builtin DSL card (no linux driver available AFAIK, it's a Eicon Diva DSL). So the only possibility to get my Linux laptop connected to the net when I am at home is to let XP

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 01:42:25 +0200, "Yves Goergen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and > > additionally does some error handling

Re: simple backup script

2003-09-02 Thread Marcus Schopen
Yves Goergen wrote: On Tuesday, September 02, 2003 1:15 AM CET, Marcus Schopen wrote: Hi, I'm looking for a simple backup script, which uses e.g. dd and additionally does some error handling and mail notification. I use amanda for my daily and weekly backups, but to feel more secure, I installed

Re: xmms, esound in mixed stable/unstable

2003-09-02 Thread Johann Koenig
On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:25:49 -0500 Shyamal Prasad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "John" == John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > John> I just switched my laptop to Debian. I'm using a mix of > John> stable and unstable. Sound works with ogle, but with xmms or > John> xine it

Re: mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 01 September 2003 04:03 pm, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi > I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a > (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want > to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and te

Re: Windoze software [was Newbie Hardware/Partitioning]

2003-09-02 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 2 Sep 2003 00:35:27 +0200, Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 11:20:24 -0400, > Hershel Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > if it was my machine ... > > > > > > > > 10GB/windows

Re: re wet blue

2003-09-02 Thread Jörg Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: I knew we had this already. I did a little historical research on the d-u archives, and voilà: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2001/debian-user-200105/msg00719.html It's really worth reading the follow-ups. joerg -- Gib GATES keine Chance! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: [OT] Why does X need so much CPU power?

2003-09-02 Thread csj
At Mon, 1 Sep 2003 19:32:19 -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > Feel free to hit 'd' now, if you like, what follows is an > opinion piece that apparently no one at all agrees with, given > the state of the community I'm sorry. I pressed the wrong key. > On Tue, Sep 02, 2003 at 12:20:24AM +0200, Ni

kdemultimedia: dependent on several non-existent versions ???

2003-09-02 Thread Michael D Schleif
What am I missing? Or, are the missing 4:3.1.2-1.1 versions going to be in unstable in the next few hours? Is there some other way to install kde v3.1x onto a new system? # dpkg -p kdemultimedia Package: kdemultimedia Priority: optional Section: kde Installed-Size: 36 Maintainer: Christopher L C

Re: Packages: required vs recommended vs suggested

2003-09-02 Thread Neal Lippman
On Mon, 2003-09-01 at 02:05, Bob Proulx wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > Neal Lippman wrote: > > > I did in install last pm of a package which "recommends" other packages, > > > which it turned out I needed in order to make things work. > > > > Then perhaps they're actually dependencies? Did you f

mixing stable and testing

2003-09-02 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi I was wondering if it's possible to run a few testing apps on a (otherwise) stable system. See, I'm running a server so I don't want to run testing, per se, but I want metalog and testing's gnupg (I'm having problems with stable's gnupg and my keyring, so I'm hoping going back to testing's gnup

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