Re: Why does kdebase depend on xdm? Right way to disable xdm?

1999-08-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Takanori Suzuki [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... kdebase doen't depend on xdm. dpkg --status kdebase Package: kdebase ... Version: 4:1.1.1-19990822-1 Depends: menu (= 1.5-5), kdelibs2g (= 4:1.1.1-19990817-1), libc6 (= 2.1), libjpeg62, libncurses4 (= 4.2-3.1), libpng2, libstdc++2.10,

Re: /dev/fd0 erased

1999-08-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I managed to rm /dev/fd0. Now although locate still shows it as existing ... Remember that locate displays only cached information. Daniel

Why does kdebase depend on xdm? Right way to disable xdm?

1999-08-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
Can anyone tell me why the kdebase package depends on xdm? Also, what's the right way to display xdm without removing the package? (I want to try out KDE, but don't want to use xdm.) Thanks, Daniel

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Keith G. Murphy [EMAIL PROTECTED] Here's a question: does anyone's NS handle large combo boxes in HTML forms correctly? Whenever I need to select an item off a very large combo box (like states in an online order form: multiple popup windows created), my keyboard stops working, at

Re: Netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] i've heard vague rumors that it's some interaction between Netscape and the libc6-based X libraries and the egcs compilers used to compile them all... (which could explain why the libc5 version of Netscape doesn't show this problem?) For me, the libc5 version

Re: Time disparity between system time and netscape

1999-08-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi all: I just noticed that when I post, the time of the posted message is 5 hours behind what my system time is. I have the computer I reading mail on behind another debian (2.1) machine that has IP masquerading set up. Could this be affecting it?

additional Netscape error symptoms - Xlib: unexpected async reply

1999-08-14 Thread Daniel Barclay
Has anyone else seen this problem? Sometimes Communicator will pop up an error message window so small that the only thing visible is the window manager's frame around it. When I expand the window, it has about a dozen copies the following message: Xlib: unexpected async reply (sequence

additinoal Netscape symtoms - XmScrollBar size warning

1999-08-14 Thread Daniel Barclay
Another Netscape Communicator symbol I see not infrequently is this warning: Warning: Name: hscroll Class: XmScrollBar The scrollbar minimum value is greater than or equal to the scrollbar maximum value. Warning: Name: hscroll Class: XmScrollBar Specified slider size is greater

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Oops, sorry everyone, I messed up. I have tried deleting my ~/.netscape/cookie file, but it reappeared a while later, just like the original. Where did it get that info from? Were you still running Netscape or had you exited when you deleted the file? Daniel

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-08-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Sat, 31 Jul 1999, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a state-of-the-art system with all

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Adam Shand [EMAIL PROTECTED] i was trying to find a pattern among the info people posted but couldn't really see one. did anyone else figure this out? - p2-266 128mb ram - kernel 2.2.9 - glibc 2.1.1-13 It's the glibc from unstable. but i thought there were

Re: Netscape crashing -- a lot.

1999-07-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: egm2@jps.net Netscape-smotif-4.08 is the only reliable version I've found. It's not reliable here. I don't seem to have the window-closing problem you all are talking about, but it still hangs (100% CPU, seemingly Java- related) and crashes. (On slink, glibc 2.0.7.) Daniel

Re: No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-07-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] .. That's the choice Debian offers: a rock-solid system with _slightly_ out-of-date software (although you're free to upgrade it), or a state-of-the-art system with all the bugs inherent in the bleeding edge. But why not build the latest-and-greatest version of

Re: why so much hate?

1999-07-19 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Bryan Scaringe [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... [dselet] must be able to run on ANY debian system, including 386 -class machines with black-and-white terminals and no X Windows. ... I haven't used [the GTK front-end] myself, so I can't really say if it's any more user-friendly. Being a

poor fonts in Netscape - need more X fonts? xfs? resource setting?

1999-07-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
-related frustrations from my environment)? Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http://www.junkbusters.com/cgi-bin/privacy http://www.anonymizer.com/snoop.cgi )

Re: Just my opinion

1999-07-06 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Brad [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Then again, can you name an OS with better documentation... VMS. Solaris (or at least SunOS 5 years ago). Both have (or at least had) a bookshelf full of documentation. Look, arguing that the documentation isn't as bad as, say Windows', doesn't make up

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-07-03 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Carl Fink) One thing that has bugged me ever since I switched to gdm: my .bashrc and .bash_profile files are never read. Isn't one problem that when one starts the X server using startx, applications (e.g., xterm) are not started with the same environment that

Re: Netscape bookmark-rearranging crashing IDENTIFIED, possibly

1999-06-29 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Have you ever considered editing the .netscape/bookmarks.html file by hand? Sometimes, but for other kinds of editing. (Sorting out bookmarks involves traversing to the bookmarked page, which of course is easier right in the bookmarks windows--except when it

Netscape bookmark-rearranging crashing IDENTIFIED, possibly

1999-06-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
I think I have determined that the bookmark-rearranging crashes are a hard (non-intermittent) bug in Netscape's code: It can't seem to handle updating the Bookmarks Properties window if you click on any Bookmarks window line after dragging a separator. A GGGH H ! A AG

Netscape bug-reporting address FOUND!

1999-06-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
In case anyone else ever needs it, I finally found the Netscape bug-reporting form, at http://help.netscape.com/forms/bug-client.html. (Tomorrow I'll see if I can check if the bug appears on Solaris.) Daniel

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Remco van 't Veer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Use the -X switch. On Thu, Jun 24, 1999 at 20:06, Daniel Barclay wrote: From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... ... less uses the alternate screen, and you can switch back and forth with Ctrl and a mouse button ... Can

Netscape: rearranging bookmarks crashes extremely frequently, especially working with separators

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
For those of you dealing with Netscape Communicator crashes, have any of you encountered frequent crashing when you are rearranging bookmarks (dragging bookmarks around, and editing names), especially right after creating separators? (On version 4.08, Netscape installer, with manually-created

Re: Netscape: rearranging bookmarks crashes extremely frequently, especially working with separators

1999-06-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
,Err: uppercase=bad) ||/ NameVersionDescription +++-===-==- hi libc6 2.0.7.19981211 GNU C Library: shared libraries Daniel -- Daniel Barclay [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hmm. A little worrisome: http

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses the alternate screen, and you can switch back

Re: Switch console in xterm

1999-06-25 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: David Wright [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... Well there's also the concept of an Alternate Screen in xterm. That's why you don't see, for example, the last screenfull of output from less when you quit, but just your interactive commands. less uses the alternate screen, and you can switch back

Re: Java development under Debian

1999-04-27 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... On 9 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote: ... how do I install them so that I don't have to explicitly list the jar files in a classpath... Put them where they should be, then add the files to the appropriate /var/lib/dpkg/info/java-pkg.list

Re: Documentation suggestion (was Re: Slink upgrade and xwindows)

1999-04-17 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] In a message dated 3/22/99 10:21:50 AM Central Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] labs.com writes: Force of habit, I suppose Maybe it's time to remove the man pages for those programs that also have info pages, eh? Don't remove the manpages. And

Re: primenet.com rejects mail from ibm.net

1999-04-16 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: George Bonser [EMAIL PROTECTED] The second way is that ISP's are not allowing their dialup IP addresses from making direct conntections on port 25 to IP addresses outside of their network. It is a simple router configuration and all IP addresses are blocked from outbound port 25

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
I've experienced the same with a supposedly ~4.3GB seagate, which both the BIOS and Linux read as 4.1GB... your guess makes a lot of sense, and its consequence is that we're being fooled by HDD manufacturers. No, you're not. You're just not paying attention to how we computer users use

Re: Which Kernal supports over 6.0 GB HD

1999-02-28 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Lewis, James M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] It depends on which def of 1k you use. I suspect the linux utilities use 1024=1k. Read the fine print to see what the drive manufacturer uses for 1k. They don't need any fine print. There's a global standard for what k and kilo mean. _We_

bplay doesn't play whole file (but works for higher speeds)

1999-01-30 Thread Daniel Barclay
Is anyone aware of the cause of or solution for this problem? bplay frequently plays only part of a sound file. On one particular sound file, a 8000Hz sample, bplay played the whole sample if I specified a playback rate higher than 8000Hz. Daniel

AAGGHH! Netscape installer package screws with how command works

1998-12-20 Thread Daniel Barclay
I just discovered why the netscape command no longer runs a separate version of Netscape (which I wanted in order to prevent crashes triggered by one web page from killing my main Netscape process displaying other web pages): Instead of just tracking installed files and wrapping environment

Netscape instability (hangs, crashes); is netscape4-4.0_12 installer compatible with 4.05?

1998-12-18 Thread Daniel Barclay
AAGGHHH!! How you get Netscape to work reliably on a hamm-based Debian system? Things were fairly stable for me a while ago. (I think that was with Netscape 4.05.) I tried upgrading to Netscape 4.07 and now to Netscape 4.08 (libc versions, I think). Netscape would frequently hang. I

Has something changed in Debian regarding interpreting Windows 98 partition time stamps?

1998-11-05 Thread Daniel Barclay
What has changed between Debian 1.3 and Debian 2.0 in the interpretation of file time stamp on (directly) mounted Windows partitions? I just noticed that my old Debian 1.3 system and my new Debian 2.0 system report different file timestamps for files on my Windows 98 partition. Neither

What has changed in Debian regarding interpreting Windows 98 partition time stamps? [dsb]

1998-11-02 Thread Daniel Barclay
What has changed between Debian 1.3 and Debian 2.0 in the interpretation of file time stamp on (directly) mounted Windows partitions? I just noticed that my old Debian 1.3 system and my new Debian 2.0 system report different file timestamps for files on my Windows 98 partition. Neither Debian

Re: OffTopic: Synchronization of /etc or .dot-files... CVS?

1998-10-31 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Alexander Kushnirenko [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... We have a set of Debian computers, which are not quite the same. It would be useful to synchronize certain files on all nodes like /etc/profile or /etc/X11/Xresources, or /etc/menu and so on. But of course not all the files.

how to add libc5 versions of X windows libraries to Debian 2.0 (libc6) installation?

1998-10-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
How can libc5 version of X windows libraries be added to a Debian 2.0 system (which is based on libc6)? I've upgrading to Debian 2.0 (from Debian 1.3) by installing Debian 2.0 from scratch on a new root partition, and setting up pieces individually (e.g., PPP) to match my 1.3 system. I found

Re: Gcc Binaries for Intel P2 333 running Debian Linux

1998-10-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Rodrigo Moya Moya_Rodrigo/[EMAIL PROTECTED] hi, i just intalled my linux on Intel PII 333 using debian and i need gcc binaries for the same. Any resources on net ? thanks in advance Are they not in the distribution? You mean gcc, the GNU C compiler? Isn't there a change

Re: Printing with an old tractor

1998-04-09 Thread Daniel Barclay
Subject: Re: Printing with an old tractor Well, that's your problem rat chair - you s'ppose t' be _plowin'_ with a tractor, not printin'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: two keyboards, two monitors, two users, one processor?

1998-02-26 Thread Daniel Barclay
From: Britton [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 24 Feb 1998, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: On 24 Feb 1998, Carey Evans wrote: ... However using the null modem cable one must be very carefull about power supply! Sometimes it is possible to destroy serial ports, when two computers are

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