Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-07-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 00:31 +0200, Bernd Schubert wrote: posted mailed -- the display behaves weirdly. This is difficult to describe, but the earth image does not stay put in its proper place inside the window; it often jumps to the left, becoming invisible, or sometimes

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 08:19 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: -- when the programs starts, it complains

Re: Google Earth display problem

2006-06-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-06-17 at 11:55 +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: Google Earth is now available for Linux at http://earth.google.com. I tried it on my Sid system and found (so far) two problems: -- when the programs starts, it complains it cannot find the Bitstream Vera Sans font, although I

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a user friendly Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background, on a predetermined schedule. It's the last thing he still needs

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 16:36 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 13:46 -0700, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] A friend of mine uses a user friendly Windoze box to record (with permission) radio shows in background

Re: MP3s from an analog signal ?

2006-06-14 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2006-06-14 at 17:16 -0500, Dale Hair wrote: Is there anything in Debian that can take a raw samples file and turn it into an MP3? Has some other form of documentation replaced the collection of HOWTOs at TLDP.org? Thanks. Cameron If you use alsa sound

Re: eterm / gnome window position

2006-05-25 Thread Dale Hair
The string I have for my Eterm icon is: /usr/bin/Eterm -L 1 --colorBD yellow --select-line -g 101x25 --shade 100 --buttonbar 0 --scrollbar-type next So, I am using the geometry option, but I can only set the dimensions of the terminal, since they are the same. If I set also the

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:22 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one: http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx If you put the above address in the

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 17:39 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: But, How ??? In my case when I run xine ( xine http://200.43.193.192/radio3/soft.wsx) I also hear just the first song, how do you run Xine. Did do pass some especial option ?? Thank you, Gustavo Halperin I don't

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 13:50 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I don't know what the problem is, every song uses the same codec - MS Windows Media Audio 2 (ffmpeg audio) according to xine. So if the first song plays the others should also. I just run xine

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address for audio stream that work only for windows, for example the next one:

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2006-05-13 at 02:04 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Dale Hair wrote: On Fri, 2006-05-12 at 23:43 +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 11:12:41PM +0300, gustavo halperin wrote: Hello There some address

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
I listened to it for about an hour. Runing most recent sid and xine. Are you kidding me ? I also try Xine, right now I was, and I see the same problem. I only hear the first song, Mind Trick from Jamie Cullum and after it nothing more. What can be the difference

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-08-03 Thread Dale Hair
Try /dev/sda2-5 That did not work, besides a flash card can have multiple partitions on it, I have a flash card with a win and linux partition. Does anyone know how scsi cd changers work, I have a ide cd changer and I use eject -c[0-3] to change it, but I believe that's only for atapi

Re: All-in-One flash card reader.

2003-07-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-24 at 11:38, Loren M Lang wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have a flash card reader which is designed to read from 5 different types of flash cards that I'm trying to get working with debian. I plugged it into my linux box with a flash card with some

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2003-07-15 at 18:12, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Op di 15-07-2003, om 17:16 schreef Benedict Verheyen: Hi, i tested mondo mindi for a full backup of my system and i ran into some problems. The creation of the cd's works, as does the booting of the recovery cd (after adding initrd

Re: mondo/mindi restore fails

2003-07-16 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-07-16 at 14:04, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Well, i tried using the latest mindi and latest mondo source code and the kernel listed for debian users at the mondo said and it still failed horribly. With the last setup writing to the CDRW even made my kernel panic so now after

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed it, and put hdb as hda. So now the kernel goes into panick, somewhere it

Re: finding an iso for net-install w/ reiserfs disk support

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 22:48, Justin Bauer wrote: I'm setting up a new computer, and thought it would be nice to use a minimal cd rather than the normal disks. I'll be running sid, but I don't care whether the cd is for stable or testing, just as long as it will format/install onto reiserfs.

Re: hda died, moved hdb to hda-- kernel went crazy. Help

2003-07-04 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:49, Antonio Rodr wrote: On Fri, 04 Jul 2003 11:39:28 -0400 Bijan Soleymani [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2003-07-04 at 10:54, Antonio Rodr008 wrote: Hi all, I had in my other computer a dual booting, win98 in hda, testing in hdb. Then hda died, so I removed

Re: CD-burning

2003-06-25 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-25 at 02:18, David Fokkema wrote: Hi group, I waded through the how-to-burn-knoppix-iso-700Mb-etc thread from a while back, but could not find anything solid to help me... I burned a Knoppix iso on a 700Mb CD-RW on my HP CD-Writer 8100 running Debian Woody using cdrecord.

Re: Sort by Thread in Evolution?

2003-06-11 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2003-06-11 at 18:19, Kent West wrote: Playing with Evolution; hopefully this goes out as plain text. Anyone know how to sort messages by thread in Evolution? I've really gotten spoiled to that feature in Mozilla Mail. Thanks! -- Kent Select View then choose threaded message

Re: Rezound deb?

2003-06-08 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-06-08 at 13:01, stan wrote: I saw a reference to an application called Rezound in an aritcle about gramofile this week. Looked prety neat, and I think I would like to compare it to audacity, which is what I'm curently using for a visual audiofile editor. I looked at the home

Re: Help with XMMS radio, specifically KPFB

2003-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2003-05-30 at 12:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Silly question 3 of 3: XMMS used to come up with KPFB in the playlist, and it would work! Now after tweaking and geeking and getting XMMS to actually play CD ROMs for the first time, I've lost the radion station. I've tried searching for

Re: Mondo Problem

2003-02-03 Thread Dale Hair
that has the CDR (I can't swap the CDR). Everything works except mondo makes a 1.4GB iso as opposed to 2 or 3 seprate ones. Any ideas. Thanks in advance. R It's in the man page mondoarchive. Try -s 700m or -s 650m -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: AMD processor

2003-01-26 Thread Dale Hair
the systel displays 2.4.18-bf24 is there a way to check which kernel I am running? Thanks Raymond image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only initrd=/initrd.img # restricted # alias=1 uname -r or uname-a for more info -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Brute force reinstall

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
wish to reinstall all installed packages use aptitude. Go to the line --- Installed Packages and press L. This will mark every installed package to be reinstalled. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
lines in the ruby* section, I no longer get that error. This seems to imply that the hash mark is not considered to be a proper comment character in /etc/apt/preferences. -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Leave a space between # and the line you're commenting out. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 I always use the -s option for apt-get dist-upgrade to show me what will happen before I actually perform the upgrade. I use gnome from unstable and for the past week dist-upgrade wants to remove gnome and a few others so I used apt-get upgrade. -- Dale

Re: Verification of apt-get config for mixed system.

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 10:57, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 06:32, Lloyd Zusman wrote: [ ... ] Do I have it right? [ ... ] This should work but I don't pin individual packages on mine just the distributions. Once a package

Re: How to comment out lines in /etc/apt/preferences?

2003-01-23 Thread Dale Hair
empty lines -- either before or after the comments -- or both of them. hmm. if that's the case, it looks like you might be able to ADD a has to one of the blank lines, to accomplish the same trick. no? That would work. Remember that white space does has a meaning. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 550 -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-19 Thread Dale Hair
downloaded and before the installation began. You probably have some packages from unstable in /var/cache/apt/archives. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release a=unstable Pin-Priority: 5 -- Lloyd Zusman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did that. And now, which `apt-get' or `aptitude' command(s) should I invoke to perform this downgrade? When

Re: Doing a mass downgrade

2003-01-18 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 13:04, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sat, 2003-01-18 at 12:03, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [ ... ] Giving testing a priority of 1001 will downgrade to testing. Thank you. I just did

upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.fantasy.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.monospace.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); //pref(font.name.sans-serif.x-western, misc-fixed-iso8859-1); Any idea what might be the problem? -- Dale Hair

Re: upgrade to gnome2 lost truetype fonts in galeon

2003-01-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2003-01-12 at 13:37, Dale Hair wrote: I upgraded to gnome2 yesterday and the fonts look great, except now galeon and mozilla no longer see any truetype fonts. I had nice anti aliased truetype fonts before when I was running testing with galeon evolution, and dependencies from

Re: Open Office under testing

2002-12-22 Thread Dale Hair
adding this to your sources.list. I believe it is 1.0.1-5+woody6, at least it shows up in aptitude as an available version. I'm currently running an unstable version but still have this line in my sources.list. # OpenOffice deb http://www.phy.olemiss.edu/openoffice/ testing main contrib -- Dale

Re: Open Office under testing

2002-12-22 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 21:14, Deryk Barker wrote: Thus spake Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 14:35, Deryk Barker wrote: As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries (e.g

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 03:41, Chris Halls wrote: On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 04:21:03PM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su

Re: Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts (it works now)

2002-12-13 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-12-13 at 11:46, Chris Halls wrote: On Fri, Dec 13, 2002 at 10:46:25AM -0600, Dale Hair wrote: I read this and everything else I found on google, everything on my system seems to be correct. I also reinstalled msttcorefonts and x-ttcidfont-conf. Did you downgrade

Openoffice upgrade no menu fonts

2002-12-12 Thread Dale Hair
After upgrading openoffice I have no fonts in the menus but I do in the document. My XF86Config-4 is correct and I am using the defoma TrueType fonts. If I run it as su everything is fine. If I run it as sudo it is the same as running as user. What's wrong and how can I fix this? -- To

Re: Cheap CDs

2002-11-30 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-11-30 at 12:06, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Maybe I've just read past this several times in the package list without my brain catching what was being said, but what is a good program for cloning bootable data CDs? I want to make a couple extra copies of the Woody CDs, and with both a

Re: APT pinning and downgrading

2002-11-14 Thread Dale Hair
created it): Package: * Pin: release a=testing Priority: 1001 This should be Pin-Priority: 1001 -- Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: choice of software

2002-11-05 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-11-05 at 10:14, Levi Waldron wrote: On November 4, 2002 04:19 pm, Johannes Zarl wrote: +xmms -- a winamp lookalike I find xmms impossibly hard to read with its blue-on-black and small font, so have been using noatun instead. Has anyone found a way to make xmms a little

Re: KDE still won't load completly

2002-10-29 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-10-29 at 07:04, Daniel Fabian wrote: Hi List, Sorry if I'm a pain in the neck, but on my laptop, KDE still won't load completly. I have removed the .kde directory and tried to login both as root and as not priviledged user, but it just won't work. Whenever it's at the keyboard

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-10-24 at 15:53, Ole Sebastian Stein wrote: Hi I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis. - What software to use (ripping, coding) - How to name the ogg files (using a online cd database? which?) - What hardware

RE: gdm, log in as root?

2002-10-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-10-15 at 21:30, David Pastern wrote: Mark said: Subject: RE: gdm, log in as root? understand that sudo or fakeroot would be an even better solution, as sudo use is logged as security concerns. Dave : I know that Mark. It more annoys me not having the ability there. Even

Re: cdparanoia cdrom as user

2002-10-10 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 22:50, Hubert Chan wrote: Dale == Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Dale I forgot to list that one. Dale dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 Dale crwxrwxrwx 1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002 /dev/sg0 Hmm. OK, you say that cdparanoia works as root, so can you run

cdparanoia cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
I have a problem on a new installation trying to use abcde or XMMS. It seems that cdparanoia cannot access cdrom as user but can as root. I'm baffled because I can mount a data cdrom OK. My device is a scsi CDRW. I installed with 2.4.18bf2.4 and network install. dale@meridian:~$ cdparanoia 1

Re: cdparanoia cdrom as user

2002-10-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-10-09 at 20:53, Hubert Chan wrote: I found that cdparanoia wants to access /dev/sg0 as well as /dev/scd0, so make sure that you have permissions for that too. I forgot to list that one. dale@meridian:~$ ls -l /dev/sg0 crwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 21, 0 Mar 14 2002

Re: tiny mouse howto update - console gpm, X and mouse wheel

2002-10-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-10-06 at 20:03, Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, I am going over ML for the next Debian Reference over the mouse configuration. I found a thread with your names quite interesting. In order to refresh all, I put all participants in TO list. Excuse me. I have 3 questions: 1.

Re: getting Sawfish

2002-10-03 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-10-03 at 08:51, Phil wrote: I updated and now have problems with Gnome. It seems I don't have a Gnome compliant window manager. is there an apt-get method to get sawfish? try sawfish-gnome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Backing up system using mondo ?

2002-10-02 Thread Dale Hair
the boot floppies at backup time. Once you understand it, it's pretty slick. Attached is a copy of en email I sent someone else about my one restore experience. From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Jun 22 16:22:49 2002 Subject: Re: Mondo From: Dale Hair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Richard Otte [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I'm generally a GUI person but I found abcde much easier. You might want to edit etc/abcde.config to suit your preferences or copy it to your home directory and modify it. Hi yep no problem anymore my latest problem was that i lost my xmms config and i forgot that i need to use /dev/dsp1

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
Yep did that allready but i cant figure out yet how to name that file i tried to put it into my home dir with the names .abcde and .abcde.config and both times it used the default configs so i always start it with the -c option. When I first tried it I would get an error message and it

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
I use this line but there may be a better way. /dev/sda1/win2k ntfsdefaults,users,ro,umask=0,gid=6 0 0 On Tue, 2002-06-18 at 16:39, Steve Juranich wrote: I have the following /etc/fstab: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # file system mount point type

Re: Letting users look at a read-only FS

2002-06-18 Thread Dale Hair
Wouldn't umask=007 be better? Otherwise the gid part is redundant since the group really doesn't matter if other has the same permissions as group... I don't remember how I came up with this line, it was several months ago, looking at it now what you say makes sense. I think I tried

Re: OGG wont do

2002-06-17 Thread Dale Hair
Does lame even encode in ogg format, I believe it only does mp3. Try abcde, it's a debian package and encodes ogg by default. On Mon, 2002-06-17 at 15:39, Florian Struck wrote: Hi i have just tried grip using cdparanoia ripps ok encodes with lame (from merillat) or gogo but oggs that result

Re: Nasty X + Mozilla bug...

2002-06-15 Thread Dale Hair
That may stops mozilla from crashing x by rendering huge fonts, but I'm wondering if it breaks the page layout. I think the latest mozilla from unstable fixed this problem with huge fonts. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Can I downgrade from unstable to woody?

2002-06-10 Thread Dale Hair
Thanks - that worked, but for a dependency problem with groff which was solved (as apt-get advised) by apt-get -f install. Can I now safely remove the preferences file and put 'stable' in my sources.list in anticipation of woody's becoming stable? Yes and you can use 'woody' instead of

Re: Can I downgrade from unstable to woody?

2002-06-09 Thread Dale Hair
On Sat, 2002-06-08 at 10:19, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi, all: I think I may have made something of a mistake! I needed to upgrade from potato, having need of a more recent lib. So I replaced 'stable' with 'unstable' in sources.list and upgraded. I really don't need to be on the bleeding

Re: Force password change on first logon on Debian Box

2002-06-08 Thread Dale Hair
Is there a PAM module that enforces good passwords? ie. won't allow passwords easily crackable by john the ripper? Mike Install cracklib2 and uncomment this line in /etc/pam.d/passwd password required pam_cracklib.so retry=3 minlen=6 difok=3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Mondo Archive

2002-06-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 16:40, Brian Rose wrote: Has anyone gotten the mondoarchive to work in Debian? I tried it before it was added as a package, but it didn't restore correctly. Problems with Lilo is all I remember now though. I've backed up two systems to a nfs partition but I haven't

Re: GNOME 2.x debs?

2002-06-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-06-07 at 21:56, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Fri, Jun 07, 2002 at 06:42:53PM -0400, Mike Frisch wrote: | I have been running GNOME 2.x on RedHat for a few weeks now and it seems | to work pretty well. Huh. Is that like gcc 2.96 -- grab a cvs snapshot and call it stable?

Re: Abiword

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
Reading the hint, it seems to indicate all that's needed are the two files (fonts.dir and fonts.scale) be in /usr/share/Abisuite/fonts and it should fly. They are already in place. But Abi complains that it can't add its fonts to the X fontpath. Which is strange, because I'd expect X to be

Re: Calendar/scheduling softwae fro debain?

2002-06-02 Thread Dale Hair
There is a web based calendar called WebCal, GPL license, there is a demo on their site. It has public and private calendars. I've been meaning to try it out. http://bulldog.tzo.org/webcal/webcal.html The issue with calendaring seems to be less finding single-user calendar software (there's

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-01 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:10, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 07:18:49PM -0700, ben wrote: location throughout the history of the equipment failure. also check for cell phone antennas in the immediate surrounding area. So on top of the computer behind the fan hump

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-01 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:35, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 09:38:22PM -0500, Dale Hair wrote: I once had a power problem, called the power co. to tell them the transformer on the pole had a red light glowing, they told me that meant the transformer had a problem

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-06-01 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 23:38, Paul Johnson wrote: On Fri, May 31, 2002 at 10:03:25PM -0500, Kent West wrote: My co-workers and I have seen (or actually heard) a lot of this over the past four or five years. The Gateway computers we purchased came with Western Digital drives. Accordingly,

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
are you buying all this equipment from the same vendor? maybe the drives are being stressed in some prior environment. even if different vendors are involved, they might use the same wholesale supplier. My second thought on this. what version(s) of linux are you using? the only other

Re: Kills Linux hdd's?

2002-05-31 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-31 at 20:59, Frank Brodbeck wrote: I really do like my PC. And I never hit but sometimes hug her :) Later on I will go and check my box power supply. I doubt the power supply is the culprit. Most machines with one hard drive and one cdrom should work fine on 250w supply,

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Dale Hair
This contradiction is only apparent. While it's perhaps true that most citizen of the USA (*) are pacifist, most of them are also unaware of what their government _actually_ do in the matter of foriegn affairs. This is true, but I think most US citizens prefer to not know these things,

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-27 Thread Dale Hair
You're right, I forgot how I got into this thread, I think it was the beer. I just poured myself a shot of Bushmills, an Irish whisky. Memorial Day weekend is over and I'm facing the alligators again in the morning. I've pointed this out off-list to several participants. This discussion is

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])

2002-05-26 Thread Dale Hair
Actually, the USA was asked to help Australia in 1939. We had the crap bombed out of us. After Pearl Harbour the USA decided that Oz was a great place to base a lot of Operations. Most Americans tend to be isolationists and pacifists, it took Pearl Harbor to awaken the sleeping giant. It

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-24 Thread Dale Hair
There's just not a lot you can do with an American standard or a lager beer to make it better. Agreed on the American lager, but are you throwing German lagers in there also. I really enjoy ales, especially dark ales, I'm in unison with Craig Dickson's opinions posted on his site. However

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-22 Thread Dale Hair
Oh boy, here comes a flame war... opinion source=what I've tasted The Irish, without a shadow of a doubt, make the best beer in the world. They are just damn good at it. After them, and I am trying to be impartial here, we Australians do a damn good beer. It's not exotic, it doesn't

Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re: disable paragraph flows in mozilla?])

2002-05-22 Thread Dale Hair
I'm told by natives that Fosters isn't Australian for Beer, it's Australian for Budwiser. After a hard day in the Texas heat the first budweiser actually tastes good, probably the same goes for Fosters in Australia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:05, Dale Hair wrote: After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so

Re: Fonts and XFree86

2002-05-19 Thread Dale Hair
I've removed xfs, xfstt and xfs-xtt, all three of which were running. I've verified that the correct path is in XF86Config-4, checked /var/log/XFree86.0.log to ensure that the path is not being barfed out and that the freetype module is being loaded, verified the presence of fonts.dir and

Re: GUI front-end for writing CD audio to CD-R?

2002-05-17 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-17 at 09:36, Matthew Reath, CCNA wrote: I have found that ecliptRoaster has worked out great for me. The deb package is eroaster. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xscreensaver

2002-05-15 Thread Dale Hair
On Wed, 2002-05-15 at 04:22, Tom Allison wrote: I think this is prevelant on all my machines, but certainly on my notebook. I have xscreensaver installed, but it never goes off. Could someone please give me a quick rundown on how to: --enable xscreensaver (w/ w/o password) --set my

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 07:17, Daniel D Jones wrote: Running Evolution 1.0.3 on Debian testing. Whenever I click on any of the Help topics, nothing is happens. I can go to /usr/share/gnome/help/evolution/C/index.html and the file is present. I can double click it in a file manager or enter

Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
After last dist-upgrade on two machines Galeon quit working. One is running testing with galeon from unstable, the other is testing only. When I try to run it from xterm I get /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol:

Re: Galeon quit working

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 13:14, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Sun, 2002-05-12 at 20:05, Dale Hair wrote: /usr/bin/galeon-bin: relocation error: /usr/lib/libgtkembedmoz.so: undefined symbol: GetFlatBufferHandle__C10nsACString Did you upgrade mozilla? I relied on apt-get dist-upgrade to handle

Re: Evolution has no help or email properties

2002-05-12 Thread Dale Hair
Under KDE Control Center/File Browsing/File Associations I don't find any mention of ghelp. It does list HTML files, which are associated with my browser. I've looked through the list and compared it to my laptop, which is also running Debian testing, and I find no difference. Am I

openoffice lib

2002-05-09 Thread Dale Hair
I tried running spadmin after installing the latest openoffice 1.0.0-3 with apt-get. It seems the library path needed to be added to /etc/ld.so.conf for it to run. Could this be done in the installation process. Now I think I had my HP LaserJet 1100 installed with openoffice641d but it is not

Re: OpenOffice.org Woody

2002-05-07 Thread Dale Hair
On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:07, Mario Vukelic wrote: On Tue, 2002-05-07 at 12:45, Tinus Kotze wrote: Hi On the OpenOffice 1.0 topic, I used the binary to install OpenOffice 1.0 on my Debian(3.0)(kernel 2.4.18). I installed as root and would just like to know how I can install it so that

Re: RealPlayer

2002-05-05 Thread Dale Hair
On Sun, 2002-05-05 at 22:39, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya dennis you probably need to do something like root# mv rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2_rpm rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm note the *.rpm extension root# rpm -ivh --test --force --nodeps rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.rpm -

Re: help request with XF86Config

2002-05-04 Thread Dale Hair
In XF86Config-4 Section InputDevice # Identifier and driver Identifier Mouse1 Driver mouse Option ProtocolMicrosoft try changing this to PS/2 Option Device /dev/mouse Change this to /dev/psaux unless you are using gpm, then change it to /dev/gpmdata and setup

Re: gdm login problem

2002-05-03 Thread Dale Hair
is a link to pam_unix.so It's puzzling why gdm is doing this, but now the user has a better password. On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:34, Vineet Kumar wrote: * Dale Hair ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [020502 17:54]: On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: I have a system with two users, one can't

Re: OpenOffice 1.0 ,debs?

2002-05-03 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 09:04, Addis Perez wrote: -- Original Message -- Which java version? Where can I get those .debs ? There are no *.deb's for the recent versions of Java. I have yet to install OpenOffice, so I do not know which Java version it

gdm login problem

2002-05-02 Thread Dale Hair
I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gdm login problem

2002-05-02 Thread Dale Hair
What happens? Does it just say something to the effect of login denied or does it start to go and then return to the gdm greeter screen after a few seconds? The screen shakes and I get incorrect username or password. If gdm is stopped, can the user run startx after logging in from the

Re: gdm login problem

2002-05-02 Thread Dale Hair
On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 17:01, Dale Hair wrote: I have a system with two users, one can't login with gdm but can from the console. The other user and root can login ok. Any ideas? It seems the problem is the password is a dictionary word. Changing the password allows login. When I add another

Re: Mondo, needs ramdisk support

2002-05-01 Thread Dale Hair
It must be compiled into the kernel, there are other requirements also. http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/download/layout.html I've used mondo for backup and will be testing the restore on a new laptop this weekend. On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 21:02, Richard Otte wrote: I have kernel 2.4.16 and have

Re: controlling screen dimming, sleep

2002-04-30 Thread Dale Hair
Is xscreensaver running. Try running xscreensaver-demo to change the settings. I don't know why you would not be able to ping unless maybe the hard drive was powering down, but that should be controlled in the bios. On Tue, 2002-04-30 at 10:52, Richard Otte wrote: What controls whether or not

Re: Abiword font problem

2002-04-30 Thread Dale Hair
I had this problem and I had '/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1/' in the Files section XF86Config-4, but to get it to work I had to add '/usr/share/fonts/type1/'. Also if I added it to the beginning of the Files section most of my desktop fonts looked ugly, putting it at the end fixed that. On

Re: Java problem

2002-04-27 Thread Dale Hair
On Fri, 2002-04-26 at 23:39, sda wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 10:47:04PM -0500, dman wrote: On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 09:59:05PM -0400, sda wrote: | Hello: | | Just installed java blackdown, How? Did you apt-get or did you use a tarball? If you apt-get it from one of their

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