Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

perhaps a command-line aptitude dist-upgrade might not be as shocking as it would be otherwise. Comments? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

Jules Dubois [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Friday 01 July 2005 17:03, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Jason Edson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box Why would you want to use dist-upgrade on unstable? man apt-get man

Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

Jason Edson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I just did a dist-upgrade on my unstable box Why would you want to use dist-upgrade on unstable? You aren't changing distributions. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E

Kernel 2.4 obsolete packages

I removed the kernel-image-2.4 and related packages. By related, I mean kernel-*-2.4*. However, are there other now obsolete packages I can remove? For example, I've already removed devfsd (in favor of udev). Can I remove modutils? Are there other packages I can remove? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL

udev screwed up IR Palm syncing

noticed that they weren't. However, loading them manually didn't help. Can anyone offer any configuration help here? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Re: udev screwed up IR Palm syncing (SOLVED)

Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've found that moving to udev has screwed up my ability to sync over infrared. ... Can anyone offer any configuration help here? Yup, I can ;-). I added ircomm_tty to /etc/modules and pointed PILOTPORT to /dev/ircomm0. I suspect this had to less to do

Re: Scanning Front End

Robert Wolfe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hey all! Was wondering what a DECENT fron end for KDE or GNOME and sane would be? Xsane. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

switching applications very fast. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

UDF woes

[EMAIL PROTECTED]:508]$ dmesg |tail -1 UDF-fs: No VRS found However, as you can see, while it recognizes the filesystem type, it cannot mount it. A Google search for udf mount site:lists.debian.org did not reveal any previous discussion. Any suggestions? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: UDF woes

Hans Hofker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, May 27, 2005 at 10:58:59PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Under Windows, I'm able to mount the CD-ROM and the Properties dialog reveals that the CD-ROM contains a UDF filesystem. Mount -t auto seems to recognize the UDF filesystem too: [EMAIL

Re: Limiting ssh scans

Dennis Stosberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The subject was SSH Blocking and it started on April, 25th. Thanks very much for the Subject Dennis. I was using other keywords in my search. Will look now... -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Re: Limiting ssh scans

Bill Wohler wrote: A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian system. s. keeling wrote: Next time, go to lists.debian.org and search the mailing list archives. This (and many others) has been discussed here numerous times in the past. Paul Johnson wrote: Already

Re: Limiting ssh scans

michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I found that setting my ssh port to something other than 22 helped very much. Thanks, Michael. That seems like a good solution. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote

gnome-terminal --title and enlightenment icons

-terminal, or am I missing some setting? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

Limiting ssh scans

. Are there ssh, PAM, or shorewall settings I could leverage? Other tools? A Google search was unfulfilling and not relevant with my Debian system. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Re: gnome-terminal --title and enlightenment icons

Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I start gnome-terminal --title foo and turn it into an icon, the icon's text still says Terminal. Interestingly, if I use the xterm escape characters to update the titlebar (echo ^[]0;foo^G), and then turn

Using xvncviewer to talk to Windows remote desktop?

? The man page was lacking and a /usr/share/doc/xvnc4viewer/README.Debian was absent. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

xprint - why?

it fits in, and what programs it replaces, I'd appreciate it. I'm probably not alone ;-). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

xprt broke my printing in Galeon

and only the upper left-hand corner of the page is getting printed (yes, size is set to na-letter). Another thing I've noticed is that: 3. The Printer used is not selected by default the next time I print. How do you spell relief? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler

Reverse DNS?

by me, while my sysadmin controls windows on the DHCP/DNS server side and a possible Cisco box handling the local DHCP traffic... Thanks! -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Configuring mozilla-plugin-vlc to use esd

. There didn't seem to be a context menu where I might be able to adjust it. There wasn't really any good user documentation in /usr/share/doc/mozilla-plugin-vlc. Thoughts? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E

Can't play audio CDs with XMMS

? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Gnome 2 panel lossage

I've been waiting months but still haven't seen the asclock panel widget appear in Gnome 2. Will it never come? Is the Gnome menu editor ever going to reappear? I'd like to add my own menu items to the Gnome main menu for those applications not already present. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED

2.6 kernel on sarge?

Has anyone running the sarge (testing) distribution installed the 2.6.0 kernel yet? On a laptop? Did it just work or did you have to do some fiddling to get things right? How long did that take? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Voice dictation

no longer supports it, I think I just need to forget about ViaVoice. Is anyone familiar with any other voice dictation programs for Linux? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Sarge update: parse errors

I just updated Sarge and got the following error: Preconfiguring packages ... parse error reading X server string `unknown' parse error reading X server string `unknown' What emitted these messages? Is this a problem? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler

Re: Laptop tape backups

anything Linux about the former, but the OnStream USB 30 seems as if it should be supported, but am not sure about the ADR2.60usb. If you have any info about these drives, I would appreciate hearing about it. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Laptop tape backups

://support.certance.com/support/tape/specs/interface_usb.html What is compatible with Linux? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

Re: 2 Hardware Questions (LCD/Wireless Router)

to install and no special drivers are needed. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

take this offline at the BBC tomorrow (Friday) night at 6. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Integrated Printer/FAX/Copier/Scanner machines supported by Linux???

and hpijs packages to provide print and scan support. I can't speak about the fax features since I fax manually. It copies too, of course. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Re: leaving computer on 24/7

. Instead, I'd suggest looking at apmd to reduce power usage. I used that with success with my laptop. If you have a desktop with a newer motherboard, your motherboard might support the features too. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Re: Status of Testing

. ii galeon 1.2.7-6Mozilla based web browser with GNOME look an I'm running 1.2.5 out of testing, and it hasn't crashed in recent memory. Hope the feedback is helpful... p.s. Your name is awfully familiar, do I know you from some other context? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: PPPoE: Howto setup connection?

Erik Svderstrvm [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ok, but how can I setup the serverside of the connection? I haven't done that before. Anyone else? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian

Re: Spam filter reviews?

to be going through the messages very carefully because I've been teaching the various filters, I still managed to miss it. I'm trying out bogofilter now. It obviously still has a lot of learning to do, so I'll report back here in a week or so. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com

Re: Spam filter reviews?

Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 09:29:53PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: Where is this documented? 15 seems a bit high for me; I assume I can change this in user_prefs. You'd be amazed how high most people's mothers (and other nontechnical family members) tend

Debian hosting (was: CVS over ssh hanging on testing)

Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030317 21:36 PST]: By the way, she now offers Debian virtual hosts for $30/month. Pretty cheap, stable, Internet presence with big pipes. Awesome service--we engaged in an IRC chat session tonight to figure out

Re: Why use COPS?

to be much easier, and much more powerful, than the alternatives. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Spam filter reviews?

on the space and time angles.. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

SUMMARY: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

Since I had just upgraded to testing, I was looking for a software problem. Just for kicks I plugged my machine directly into the DSL modem instead of the wireless router and things are working now. Weird. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID

Re: PPPoE: Howto setup connection?

provider dsl-provider This uses the more standard ifup and ifdown programs to bring the connection up and down (rather than using /etc/ppp/ppp_on_boot). The auto declaration brings up the connection automatically at boottime. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler

Spam filter reviews?

with spamprobe? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Spam filter reviews?

is ESR's bogofilter, whose Debian description appeals to me more than Debian's spamprobe description. I'll probably end up trying both, but would still appreciate hearing others' experiences. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030316 22:35 PST]: Another potential clue: an scp *pushing* a large file from the client to the server writes 132 kB (regardless of the file, as long as it is larger than 132 kB) and then stalls whereas an scp

Re: Mail filter..

Vivek Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Can you suggest me some good mail filter software/program ?? procmail. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Re: Spam filter reviews?

option could be used to suppress that). The man page didn't mention whether the database was updated every time spamassassin was called or not. Thus, the man page raises more questions than it answers and implies a suspect implementation. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

Vineet Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: * Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] [20030316 22:35 PST]: Another potential clue: an scp *pushing* a large file from the client to the server writes 132 kB (regardless of the file, as long as it is larger than 132 kB) and then stalls whereas an scp

Re: Spam filter reviews?

. Also, you can use sa-learn to train it with existing mail. Ah, I hadn't seen this. The man page answered the rest of my questions. Thanks! -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

Mar 15 21:43:50 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:496]$ logout Connection to gbr.newt.com closed. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:509]$ cvs up Enter passphrase for key '/home/wohler/.ssh/id_rsa': -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler

Re: CVS over ssh hanging on testing

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 08:01:16AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: Note that while the cvs process hangs, I am able to successfully log in with ssh. What are the versions of cvs on the client and the server? 1.11.1p1 on the client which is running

CVS over ssh hanging on testing

debug1: Sending command: cvs server debug1: channel request 0: exec debug1: channel 0: open confirm rwindow 0 rmax 32768 debug1: channel_free: channel 0: client-session, nchannels 1 -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH

Re: Switching to unstable

Matthias Szupryczynski [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Wed, 2003-03-12 at 18:28, Bill Wohler wrote: I run testing and grab packages from unstable that are having a hard time making it over to testing. This is a nice compromise between stability and bleeding edge. You might consider doing

Re: apt-pinning gnucash 1.8.2-1 in testing errors

this problem. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Switching to unstable

for more info. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Thinkpad T30?

for more (although the T30 isn't covered yet). I used http://qed.econ.queensu.ca/pub/faculty/mackinnon/thinkpad-t22.html, especially the hint for getting around the problem where StarOffice hung X... -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Eterm windows other than 24 lines

: stty rows 33 or resize the window and then resize it back to 33 lines. I don't want to hardcode my window size in .bashrc. I would like to do something like stty rows `get-window-size`. E posible? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD

Re: Eterm windows other than 24 lines

Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I don't want to hardcode my window size in .bashrc. I would like to do something like stty rows `get-window-size`. Ahem. I had forgotten about resize. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Re: different flavors

install Debian with only the first disk (assuming they have net access for the rest). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

Running ./configure with apt-get --compile source?

is the recommended way to do this within the Debian packaging system? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and MH-E. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Running ./configure with apt-get --compile source?

Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need to build bind9 for a vserver. I've been told that the magic spell is: ./configure --disable-linux-caps. Until now, I've only used apt-get install or apt-get --compile source. I didn't see how to do this in the apt-get or dpkg

Re: Running ./configure with apt-get --compile source?

Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Nov 24, 2002 at 12:00:20PM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I grabbed the source with apt-get source bind9 and then added --disable-linux-caps to the configure command in debian/rules and ran dpkg

Re: any good mp3 player?

Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Oct 12, 2002 at 05:24:05PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: xmms. Plays mp3s, ogg, wav, CDs, talks to esd. I just point it to the root of my music directory, click on the Random button and let it play for days. Very nice. That's what I love

Re: Foomatic and CUPS

Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler wrote: I was under the impression that one could simply install foomatic and then CUPS would then be able to present the available printers and drivers to the user. CUPS would then call foomatic-configure on behalf of the user

Re: galeon crashes on pasting (was: galeon and its problems)

night. Actually, since I've upgraded to 1.2.5, galeon hasn't crashed yet. Knock on wood... -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane

Re: Handspring Visor (PalmOS, USB) sync'ing w/ Evolution?

of pilot-link bundled up that handles USB... http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=141211repeatmerged=yes -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're

Re: Palm Pilot

/browsers/). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: filling my logs after upgrade to woody

Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, Jun 08, 2002 at 01:42:28PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jun 8 21:00:01 harvey PAM_unix[10392]: (cron) session closed for user root This is really annoying when I'm checking the logs. I've

Re: filling my logs after upgrade to woody

Keith Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jun 8 21:00:01 harvey PAM_unix[10392]: (cron) session closed for user root This is really annoying when I'm checking the logs. I've had a look for the problem, but came up emtpy. Not a problem, just PAM reporting setuid calls. -- Bill Wohler

Re: Debian laptop (vendors)

on whether IBM will install Debian for you. I installed Debian on my Thinkpad T20 without much fuss. The Cisco 802.11 card works out of the box too. I've been happy with the laptop. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ

Using RAID0 with Debian

://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO 3. http://www.ibiblio.org/mdw/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO.html -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong

Re: Running openoffice as regular user?

Chris Halls [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Hangs complete machine on S3 Savage with Xfree 4.1 by default I trust you already knew about the export SAL_DO_NOT_USE_INVERT50=true trick? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer

Re: ssh port mapping and HTTP

Dan Christensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can get into my company's intranet with this: ssh -n -L 4281:www.secure.com:80 ssh.secure.com sleep 43200 Then, to access http://www.secure.com/page.html, I use http://localhost:4281

ssh port mapping and HTTP

with ssh? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: package / java / swing /

the NPX_PLUGIN_PATH environment variable to your plug-in, for example: export NPX_PLUGIN_PATH=/usr/lib/j2sdk1.3/plugin/i386/javaplugin.so I think this has changed in 1.4, but I'm not sure how. The release notes tell all. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID

Re: Weeding

Joey Hess [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler wrote: OK, my disk filled up today. Ultimately, I'll get a bigger disk, but in the short term, I'd like to remove some large, unused packages. Is there a tool that gives me a list of installed packages, sorted by size? grep-dctrl

Re: Weeding

Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bill Wohler wrote: OK, my disk filled up today. Ultimately, I'll get a bigger disk, but in the short term, I'd like to remove some large, unused packages. Is there a tool that gives me a list of installed packages, sorted by size

Re: Samba and CUPS

O Polite [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, 2002-03-10 at 23:21, Bill Wohler wrote: This has been a painful day. I've got printing working nicely now. However, Samba is another story. My Win2k clients could see the new printer during the create printer phase. However, I'm

Weeding

-selections, dpkg --status $package | awk '/^Installed-Size/{print $2}' and sort. Maybe this is already a part of cruft. I'll look... -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Reading PGP with GPG

the disappearance of the idea package. Are there any other steps that I could that would allow me to read my friend's email besides having him switch to gnupg? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian

Re: Samba and CUPS

Eric-Olivier Lamey [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Mar 10, 2002 at 02:21, Bill Wohler wrote: On the Debian side, I see the following error in /var/log/samba/log.smbd: printing/print_cups.c:cups_job_submit(658) Unable to print file to lp - client-error-document-format

Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

program manually to generate a ppd file for the cdj970 for CUPS to use? Thanks. I've been reading docs and scripts like mad, but haven't been able to put the pieces together. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ

Re: Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question 1: How do you specify a different device in the web interface?) I answered this question: Rather than specify a device of Parallel port, specify AppSocket/HP JetDirect, and then use parallel:/dev/ptal-printd/mlc_par_0 for the device URI

Re: Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

Bill Wohler wohler writes: Question 2: How can I configure CUPS to use this driver? I figured this one out too: # foomatic-datafile -t cups -d hpijs -p 421970 /usr/share/cups/model/HP-OfficeJet_G95-hpijs-cups.ppd # /etc/init.d/cupsys restart Then the G95 printer appeared

Samba and CUPS

] comment = HP OfficeJet G85 path = /tmp read only = No create mask = 0700 guest ok = Yes printable = Yes printer name = lp oplocks = No -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG

Re: Printing: CUPS, foomatic, hpoj and HP OfficeJet G85

. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: GnuCash vs MoneyDance

of gnucash is that your bug reports will actually be heard and acted upon. I've sent lots of bug reports in to Quicken over the past 7 years and none of them have been fixed. This is the first I heard about MoneyDance. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD

Re: Java SDK 1.4

for the mighty Stefan to put out a .deb! -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

file to ? If I remember well there is also a class file in the equation. I had a class file for Shockwave, but not for Real Player. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed

Re: More on RealPlayer and galeon

* -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Gaim

). Sorry to be replying to my own query. Just upgraded gaim in unstable (v0.52). Everything is working fine. Thanks for letting us know! I was having the same problem but just assumed it was because I was already logged in on another machine. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http

Re: How can I install galeon?

a=testing Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 80 -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: xv: vanished from unstable

Michel Loos [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I noticed today that xv is no longer available in unstable. What is the replacement package ? gqview to view; gimp to edit. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote

Creating boot floppies

-image? What is the alternative? -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: Creating boot floppies

it with the lilo loader, and it wants a file called root.bin which is nowhere to be seen. The man page does not indicate how to make it, nor does /usr/share/doc/mkrboot offer any examples (I suppose I should write up a bug report against mkrboot for that). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Java Web Start on Debian Potato

whether this is true, however. Don't know the details; all I know is that even the Linux-only bugs have been fixed as well. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right

Re: Why netscape menu item runs mozilla

Stephen Gran [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From man gnome-moz-remote. Thanks for the pointer Stephen. But I shouldn't have to do that to make the Netscape menu item run Netscape. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ

Re: Java Web Start on Debian Potato

but one (loading JavaHelp resources) of my reports. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Why netscape menu item runs mozilla

gnome-moz-remote to point to netscape or to have the the menu item point to netscape directly? I know the workaround is to create my own menu item. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian

Re: this debconf stuff is crazy!

a long, long way and is very nearly automatic, and that's a good thing. -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right, you're in the wrong lane.

Re: trying to run VMwareworkstation 3.0.0-1455..says I have wrong kernel headers

/kernel-headers-2.4.12-686 /usr/src/linux Then, tell vmware about /usr/src/linux/include (the default location, actually). -- Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.newt.com/wohler/ GnuPG ID:610BD9AD Maintainer of comp.mail.mh FAQ and mh-e. Vote Libertarian! If you're passed on the right

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