Re: Need a shell or perl script

2004-02-22 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
that. So you can only store unencrypted video on them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: DVD copying and CSS

2004-02-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Feb 21, 2004 at 11:10:35PM -0500, Jeff Elkins wrote: On Saturday 21 February 2004 10:34 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Consumer grade media doesn't allow you to record the CSS key on the medium. I think it's preburned with 0s or something like that. So you can only store unencrypted video

Re: Quasi-(un)deletion question

2004-02-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Feb 15, 2004 at 12:11:18PM -0700, s. keeling wrote: However, that's just standard *nix filesystem behaviour. You can rm 'til the cows come home, but as long as one symlink to the data remains, the data remains as well. Hard link not symlink :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
/info/gcc* ./gcc.info and then you can just search through gcc.info with whatever text tool you like. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Feb 12, 2004 at 12:29:40PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Or you can cat all the various info files into one big one: zcat /usr/share/info/gcc* ./gcc.info and then you can just search through gcc.info with whatever text tool you like. Oops, that was overkill, Alan Shutko pointed out

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
enough. If you don't believe me look around. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Info vs Man

2004-02-11 Thread Bijan Soleymani
other formats (arguably better) can also do that. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. Nowadays I track unstable and have no problems. I feel that I'd rather have knoppix and not update it (if it were too difficult), than have stable and update it (but have it not change anyways). And as you've said updating knoppix isn't that difficult. -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Debian, Knoppix, and other varients

2004-02-09 Thread Bijan Soleymani
... there's not a whole lot there to mess up. That's what's nice about it. That's true, but a new user might want newer software than woody has to offer. Things like openoffice, and newer versions of mozilla. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
no concept of separate accounts. As such it is completely incapable of keeping the mail separated out in an easy fashion. Well that's the easiest thing to do with procmail. You simply tell it to put each kind of mail in a different mailbox. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Has anyone ever thought of getting the reply-to changed?

2004-02-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
*, but that's because of mutt's *philosophy*. Mutt doesn't include an editor either. You didn't read the archives, did you? *sigh* Stop mentionning this. No one is going to search the archives to read arguments they consider to be wrong. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
for them to use it, or will the secret police come and shoot them for not using pure Debian instead too. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
of SuSE once, and I just gave up on it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Enscript converts ASCII files to PostScript, HTML, RTF or Pretty-Print and stores generated output to a file or sends it directly to the printer. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dvips TeX printer driver

2004-02-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and then send that to the printer with lpr. But in any case it is probably easier to use cups to handle this process for you (converting ps to printer format). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the video with their own custom device-specific driver coding. Please ignore my post, I am incorrect. Sorry. Well you're semi-incorrect :) If you had a real text terminal (dec vt100, etc.) then yeah you wouldn't be able to do it. But the linux console isn't limited to just text. Bijan -- Bijan

Re: viewing jpg files on text terminal

2004-02-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
only show pnm pictures, but asciiview (which comes with it) will convert the pictures with netpbm or imagemagick and then display it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Windows and Printing Systems

2004-01-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
program that simply pipes postscript to lpr will work out of the box. An alternative is to tell the application to print to a file and then run lp file.ps or whatever. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-25 Thread Bijan Soleymani
for mid-sized computers... And wasn't DOS designed for the workstation? Nope, Dos was for 16 bit PCs. It was like Unix's under-achieving relative :) 8.3 filenames, single-tasking, crappy shell,... I kind'a miss DOS. http://www.freedos.org Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Debian system at home. Have to modify the files: /etc/pam.d/gdm and /etc/pam.d/login to allow login without a password. GDM (the login program for gnome) can even auto-log you into your account, but I don't want that since other people also use my computer. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a fee to be charged. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: scp: a way to disable password authentication?

2004-01-23 Thread Bijan Soleymani
, and for those users who do not have a configuration file. This file must be world-readable. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
out whichever channel you want. Well they planned at least 100 hundred channels of fullscreen analog video so that's quite a bit of bandwidth, and they're only using the cable a short-distance nowadays for the local-loop, with the main connections being fibre-optics, etc. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani

Re: Recommended ISP's

2004-01-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 02:05:02PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 04:56:53PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: [snip] Yes all the channels and the traffic are coming on the same wire. Each channel is at a different frequency (kind of like for regular antenna reception

Re: ping script

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the ping starts to fail) simply change the loop from while(!$fail) to while(1). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Radeon 9200 poor performance with mplayer

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
# CONFIG_DRM_SIS is not set Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ati radeon 9200 - slow 3d acceleration

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: Xfree setup: does AGP require anything special?

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the recent nvidia cards (AFAIK). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and figure everything out for myself, but there are times when this costs me weeks when I could have got the solution in minutes, just by asking. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Documentation and Usability

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
access. I am sure there are many people even in North America who don't have internet access at home. Could you imagine a man page pointing you to a file on a gopher server? Not much weirder than it pointing to a website :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: viewing multi-page .tiff: how to in linux

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
tiffsplit from libtiff-tools should do that. Also ImageMagick is supposed to be able to display them. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: How to compile with .so libraries instead of .a ones?

2004-01-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
/usr/X11R6/lib -lgtk -lgdk -lgmodule -lglib -ldl -lXi -lXext -lX11 -lm pkg-config can also give you the required include flags: $ pkg-config gtk --cflags -I/usr/include/gtk-1.2 -I/usr/include/glib-1.2 -I/usr/lib/glib/include Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
I'll be happy if someone could drop me a hint. In command mode the 'x' key deletes forwards, and the 'X' key deletes backwards. In insert mode backspace (CTRL-H) gives the standard backspace behaviour. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Differences in RH Fedora coming from Debian

2004-01-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
-like application will run, in that case you'd be stuck with an editor like ed anyways :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ping script

2004-01-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
failure for $1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]; fi Simply replace [EMAIL PROTECTED] with your email address. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: freeamp cannot open audio device, but aplay works fine

2004-01-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a kernel which includes OSS emulation, so you can use the ALSA drivers and still be able to access them through OSS applications. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why can't I fetch my mail any more?

2004-01-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
direction as to how to remedy this situation. This sounds like your local MTA (exim, sendmail) is either not listening for incoming mail or is refusing it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dhcpd sending unwanted bootp packets

2004-01-10 Thread Bijan Soleymani
queries. Bootp queries are allowed by default. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: en_CA? [was Re: www.gnu.org, glibcbug, bug@gnu.org, dpkg-reconfigure locales]

2004-01-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
think en_ca and en_uk have identical dictionaries. They might. But in general I think that in Canadian English there is a mix of American and British spelling and often both are acceptable. Of course you should be consistent, and not switch spellings in the middle of a sentence. Bijan -- Bijan

Re: Moving /usr problem

2004-01-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and I have to re-mount the old version. Any ideas? I've had good luck with cpio: cd /usr find | cpio -p /newusr Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: formatting /dev/hdc

2004-01-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
partition (/dev/hdc1) that you want to be ext2. You would use mkfs to actually format the disk. In this case: mkfs -t ext2 /dev/hdc1 or mkfs /dev/hdc1 since ext2 is the default. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Flush file contents

2004-01-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
or wherever :) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: from a learner

2004-01-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. Again I think I remember doing this at some point in the past. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: ATI Radeon driver + Linux2.6?

2004-01-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
not with 2.6. You might have to wait until ATI releases drivers for 2.6. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Revisiting man files to text editor: info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
documentation to a manpage and then print that. But I believe that you would get much better results from the Texinfo sources. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Revisiting man files to text editor: info pages

2004-01-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a high speed connection, but still...) Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: recuperation automatique d'Attachment

2004-01-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
~/images/ ou bien tu pourrais l'integrer a ton ~/.procmailrc: :0 * ^FROM.*quelqu'un { :0 c | munpack -C ~/images/ :0 boite-a-mail-a-part } Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: vncserver question

2004-01-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
echo $HOME on my system I get: $ grep bijan /etc/passwd bijan:x:1000:1000:Bijan Soleymani,,,:/home/bijan:/bin/bash $ echo $HOME /home/bijan As you can see the in both cases my home directory is /home/bijan. If they were different it could cause problems if a program checked the wrong one

Re: vncserver question

2004-01-02 Thread Bijan Soleymani
/passwd, you might want to try running it manually. If none of the above fixes the problem then you may have found a bug in the vncserver package. You should check the bug tracking system to see if someone has reported a similar bug and if not you should report it. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2004-01-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. Your level of proficiency with GUI applications. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] simple to use X-toolkit/plot/image viewing for c/c++

2003-12-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
suggest you simply use gnuplot for the graphs. Gnuplot supports many different output drivers, including X, PostScript, Ascii, etc. Since you're coding in C you can popen(3) a pipe to gnuplot (with the correct arguments) and pipe it the data. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-30 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ls if hda1 wasn't root then try the next one: cd / umount /test mount /dev/hda2 /test cd /test ls etc. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
it may be true that SCSI drives have better performance, but right now I think that's just because they're better drives (mechanically, and electronically) rather than because of the controllers. They're also *much* more expensive. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:53:11AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 11:39:52AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: This is no longer true. Most current IDE controllers support various DMA schemes. Like ATA-100, ATA-133, etc. So with IDE the controller now bypasses the CPU too

Re: Sneaking past firewalls: ssh on port 23 or 80?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
create a private station on the dialup and have the computer with the real bandwidth connect to it and run it's own server. This is all very easy to do using icecast or shoutcast mp3 streaming software. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc

Re: PATH on root login

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
and you don't get a hundred responses telling you to RTFM :) Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
are stored. When your computer boots the part of grub in the MBR of /dev/hda is loaded and then it needs to load the rest of grub. If it doesn't know where that is it will just sit there. The files grub needs are in the /boot/grub/ directory of your Debian partition. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
: $1099 CDN Prices from microbytes.com. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
)This tells grub that /boot/grub/ is on /dev/hda2 setup (hd0) This tells grub to install itself on /dev/hda Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Best Practices: CGI.pm CSS2 ???

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
consortium pages at: http://www.w3c.org As for CGI.pm I would do a: apt-get install perl-doc and then: apropos CGI man CGI That's enough to get me going. But if you would like more tutorial- like resources, then I recommend you search google. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
can't just get rid of the running kernel, then load the new kernel and proceed to start up debian. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: A good book on C Programming?

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
a problem with webmail and not the particular implementations. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: opinion: compare various imap servers

2003-12-28 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:56:07PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: I believe courier uses its own format, which is similar to Maildir. But ^^^ it doesn't store mail in the user's home directory. In fact it bypasses user accounts entirely. Oops typo, I meant cyrus... Bijan

Re: Xlib: Maximum number of clients reached

2003-12-21 Thread Bijan Soleymani
other hints? Apparently: the maximum number of clients depends on the maximum number of connections which depends on the maximum number of file descriptors which is a ulimit Might be some program opening tons of files or sockets. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: make gnome use alsa

2003-12-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Incoming from Bijan Soleymani: On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:46:59AM +1300, Paul William wrote: Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? Gnome uses esd, so you have to get esd to use alsa. Apparently there is such a package. apt-get

Re: Right ftp server

2003-12-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
to download files easily and anonymous ftp is pretty good. Also you can use pam to tell the ftp server not to use system passwords but look up passwords in a seperate file or in a mysql database, etc. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: QuickTime for Linux?

2003-12-19 Thread Bijan Soleymani
: windows media real video quicktime any other format ever invented (almost) source code at www.mplayerhq.hu you can compile it (even comes with a debian directory to make a .deb) or you can get precompiled .deb files somewhere on the net. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/dev/scsi$ ls sdh1-0c0i0l0 sdh1-0c0i0l0p1 sgh1-0c0i0l0 Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: gnome sound server monopolizing alsa's audio

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
trying to grab /dev/dsp whenever it needs to. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Bitmap editor

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
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Re: USB Device mounting

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
up as a scsi device (e.g. /dev/sda). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: make gnome use alsa

2003-12-18 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 10:46:59AM +1300, Paul William wrote: Hi all Is it possible to make gnome use also instead of esound? Gnome uses esd, so you have to get esd to use alsa. Apparently there is such a package. apt-get search alsa | grep esd Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bijan Soleymani writes: Many programs are huge but only small parts of them need to be in memory the rest can be maintained in swap. Executables are not swapped out. They don't need to be because they are not altered and so can just be read back

OT: Trusting Ebay

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
to $500. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: HOWTO paste to dos

2003-12-17 Thread Bijan Soleymani
clipboard. It's the middle click (mouse-button-2) clipboard. I'm not using the technical terms (because I'd have to look them up), but that's the basic idea. If for some reason your version of mozilla doesn't then check out xterm :) Again remember middle click clipboard. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani

Re: Web server Partitions

2003-12-16 Thread Bijan Soleymani
at the same time with 128 megs of ram then the performance is going to be unacceptable no matter how much swap you have. This is because they each need 100 megs of ram (200 total), failing that they keep swapping that 100 megs in and out each time the OS switches from one to the other. Bijan -- Bijan

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-14 Thread Bijan Soleymani
what you want. You can only do that if you are familiar with the source code. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: dosemu: access denied

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
it mount your home directory as the d: drive. I do this and create a dos directory in my home directory and store my dos stuff in there. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: locales and coding systems

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. The info on how to change your language environment is in the same section under the subsection Language Environments. But if you want to do it manually simply, go in the menu-bar under options - mule - set language environment. Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: Linux is not for consumers!

2003-12-13 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-12 Thread Bijan Soleymani
on the screen by nroff. I just want to make it practical by automatically splitting it up so that we don't end up with 1000 page manpages. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie! Some help needed.

2003-12-08 Thread Bijan Soleymani
that the Windows partitions will be mounted when I log on? Partitions you want mounted should be listed in the file /etc/fstab man fstab for more information. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Why should non-root users have a password?

2003-12-07 Thread Bijan Soleymani
that never happens anyway. What I do on my machines is to have a password but to configure GDM and login not to require a password for local logins. So that anyone sitting at my computer could log in without a password, but they couldn't do that over ssh. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: pc-linux + pc-windows...

2003-12-06 Thread Bijan Soleymani
faut peut etre ajouter -ssh pour forcer ssh, ou -telnet pour forcer telnet: putty -ssh server.crasseux.com Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
/manual.html Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 11:17:04AM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: RTFL. It's not just the reader. It's the document structure. I read the damn thing! Here are your section headings: 1) It attempts to replace, not augment

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
remove those parts but then it would make mplayer useless. The developpers of mplayer have said that they don't want people to distribute cut down versions of mplayer because people will laugh at the results (what do you mean this player can't play .avi, real, or quicktime?). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani

Re: Java, mplayer

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Quoting Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Joel Konkle-Parker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Why can't Sun's j2re and mplayer be provided in non-free or contrib? I've read various things about how their legal status is incompatible with Debian's

Re: Info Problem

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Karsten M. Self [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: on Fri, Dec 05, 2003 at 12:00:10PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: 5) It splits a programs docs into multiple pages. Again you can convert it to html all on one page. You brilliantly miss the somewhat minor point that the info

Re: Mail consolidation

2003-12-05 Thread Bijan Soleymani
. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
think that debian could incorporate certain features from knoppix. The experts could always disable the hardware detection, etc. But it would be very useful for beginners. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
dialog. 5) Get network setup dialog. 6) Get asked where you want to install from. 7) Reboot. 8) Get asked a bunch of other questions. 9) Get dumped into tasksel or dselect. 10) Get dumped into scary text mode login. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
Thanasis Kinias [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: scripsit Bijan Soleymani: I'm kind of in the pro-knoppix camp. I think that debian could incorporate certain features from knoppix. The experts could always disable the hardware detection, etc. But it would be very useful for beginners. I

Re: I'm face Few problem , need suggestion

2003-12-04 Thread Bijan Soleymani
ScruLoose [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, Dec 04, 2003 at 06:00:18PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani wrote: SNIP ... Having autodetection on ia32 doesn't hurt sparc users (it doesn't help them either, but that's not a problem). I think you're preaching to the choir on this issue. Unless I'm

Re: Debian Investigation Report after Server Compromises

2003-12-03 Thread Bijan Soleymani
usenet gateway. So her news reader might not be completely MIME-aware or the news-mail transition fudges things up. Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OK, I want to join the PGP World, but need help.

2003-11-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
need to do to get signatures verified? I have the following lines in ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf: #My stuff keyserver pgp.mit.edu keyserver-options auto-key-retrieve honor-http-proxy Hope that helps, Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Info Problem

2003-11-29 Thread Bijan Soleymani
to html convertor (those exist). Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.crasseux.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Opium [was: Re: freelance sysadmining -- superlong -- [WAS: Red Hat recommends Windows for consumers]]

2003-11-15 Thread Bijan Soleymani
the federal government. This is all outlined by Noam Chomsky in one of his audio CDs, the full thing is available online in realaudio format (it's a proprietary format, but mplayer can handle it :). http://www.zmag.org/chomsky/audio/fmf.html Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

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