as a VNC server (long story) I discovered that (KDE3.2 for certain)
this now works.
Odd thing is, I can't get startkde to run for a *different* user
simultaneously when both are running under VNC...
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google search) enlighten me.
If somebody who knows would care to email me offlist I'd be very
grateful.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
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be running at 800MHz or faster. But
that won't help disk speeds.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
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into this?
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann Scherchen
of mirroring a debian
system to many others?
All feedback gratefully received.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
the stuff that didn't make it to
the new one.
Quarterdeck also announced, maybe even released Desqview-X c1994/5 (?)
which IIRC was an implementation of (part of?) the X protocol on
(gulp) DOS. I had a product brief but don't recall ever seeing the
product.
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was derived from
Multics. Indeed, the original name was Unics, an even more obvious
pun, but that was felt to be alittle too close.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email
Thus spake Alexander Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
* Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [040118 21:06]:
I'm having a problem with my wife's machine (running testing) and I
can't seem to find a way out.
While doing an upgrade it broke because apparently both kdepim-libs
and libkcal2 contain
this
problem. Any helkp gratefully received - I thought only RPMs got you
into this kind of mess...
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
.
I seem to recall from Gerald Hawkins' book that there is a replica in
the USA. He pointed out that its location prevents any of the
astronomical alignments the original has.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada
in the 18th (?) century by John Aubrey
(he of Brief Lives fame) who surveyed Stonehenge and after whom the
Aubrey holes are named.
These present day idiots in their KKK-style outfits have no more right
to special treatment at Stonehenge than does Bugs Bunny. Actually
rather less.
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Thus spake David P James ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On January 13, 2004 14:12, Deryk Barker wrote:
...
My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually
nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in
Caesar) to prance about there on midsummer's morning
Thus spake Jim Higson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Tue, 13 Jan 2004 11:12:38 -0800, Deryk Barker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
...
My major beef is the way that they allow the Druids (virutually
nothing is known about the real Druids aside from a paragraph in
Caesar) to prance about
in the galeon toolbar) is an excellent subsititute.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370
- the joy of the vncserver is that is happily supports
non-display-standard resolutions.
4: I also went ahead and installed a vnc server on my Windows-98 system.
Now, how do I connect to that one from the Linux box?
Pass.
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machine from home, then IMHO VNC is far superior to X11
forwarding.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
agent, something Elvis was apparently inordinately proud
of.
Nobody mentioned the Beatles rolling up and smoking a joint in the
washrooms of Buckingham Palace when they went to collect their MBEs in
1965.
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|Camosun
, but then this richer
axiomatic base will lead to new statements which cannot be proved with
the richer set of axioms.
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a difference!
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann
icewm.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
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arguable.
Fair enough. I'll reword by saying it's one of the very few
WMs (with ratpoison) to stray from the many floating,
overlapping windows paradigm.
Wirth's Oberon system also eschewed the overlapping windows. Not sure
of the date.
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had a printer problem during the
install and every time I booted I had to confirm that the printer was
not offline. Nothing I could do would change this - including deleting
the printer and installing a fresh one...
Still, life is so much easier now with debian...
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certification) So it still wouldn't work.
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452
a different
chipset.
My lspci says I have a 'rev A' card (although the Via Rhine chipset on
it is apparently rev 43).
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL
a CD converting to WAV format?
I don't quite understand. cdrecord will burn wav's to CDs and GUI
packages like XCDRoast use cdrecord.
If you want actyual wav files on the CD, then you need to burn a data
image, with the wav's as part of the hierarchy.
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have imported a 100-slide
presentation with no major problems).
And the 1.1 version is a real advance over the various 1.0.x flavours.
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removing KDE3.1, so
currently I'm typing this on my wife's machine, running a mixture of
woody and testing. Not quite what I'd intended.
Any help gratefully received.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has
is
octopuses. (See Eric Partridge's Usage and Abusage for more on
pretentious plurals)
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!
Any help very gratefully received.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452
significant difference.
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compare with the bizarre appearance of
programs in COBOL (with its English keywords) written by non-English
speakers.
I can remember seeing COBOL programs written in Norwegian and
Afrikaans, which (for the non-Norwegian and/or Afrikaans speaker) had
to be seen to be believed.
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of these help?
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann
to be no fixed package
yet. Any ideas? (And here I was thinking that by not running unstable
I'd be safe from things like this..:-))
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL
. */
OUTPUT_FORMAT(elf32-i386)
GROUP ( /lib/libpthread.so.0 /usr/lib/libpthread_nonshared.a )
Looks as if the package maintainer skipped a step...
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened
Fortunately I had a backup up copy of /lib/libpthreads-0.10.so when I
copied that back into /lib everything was OK again.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL
the printout.
BTW the CUPS perinter page claims that the printer (all queues) is
idle, accepting jobs.
Well, something isn't idle. Any help at all will be greatly
appreciated.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada
can be frozen to produce an executable that does not
require IIRC even the python runtime library to be present.
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that.
I also think that enforced indentation is a very good thing in a
language used to teach programming - one of the things that makes
python so good for that, in fact.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has
(the
first HLL I used after 6 years of COBOL and assembler), but reading
other people's code is an excellent education. Just because somebody
of necessity used COBOL first does not make them a bad person.
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|Camosun College
the years.
Nor does it help that the best-selling C book ever is, ahem,
less-than-superbly-written.
Incidentally Paul, C was derived from B (derived from BCPL) in order
to *re*write Unix, which was originally written in assembler.
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be aware of their own limitations.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
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|phone: +1 250 370 4452
in the
middle, is the Debian logo.
Makes me feel more confident somehow:-)
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
up Japan and (W) Germany at the
end of WWII.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370
of XCDRoast for nearly 4
years now with no problem.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1
Thus spake John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Deryk Barker writes:
Actually it's mainly the hard drive manufacturers.
And the ISO.
To them 1GB = 1,000,000,000 as you note above.
Correct. Giga - 10^9 = 1,000,000,000.
Of course, most software does the right thing and report in terms
note above. In my experience all hard drives are
spec'ed this way. Of course, most software does the right thing and
report in terms of powers of 2, where 1GB = 1,073,741,824.
Memory, OTOH (and thank heavens) isn't. At least, I've never noticed
being shortchanged on a memory module.
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...but I'm betting it's not.
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|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452
broke). Now using a Styls C82, also installed via CUPS in
around 30 seconds.
Tip: use the web interface to CUPS, it's so much easier.
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|email
or update a piece of software (no matter how small) the system
has to update the linker cache which always seems to take several
minutes (this on a 1.6GHz P4 with 256MB, hardly a low end machine).
In a nutshell: I feel constrained by SuSe, I feel liberated by Debian.
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as it could have been.
caveat emptor.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452
I solved it:
I upgraded to the unstable version of XFree86 and that works just fine.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
2000...
There's much more information on the greatest OS ever at
http://www.multicians.org/
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
emacs, hit C-h t (control-h lower-case T) to open it.
Alternatively, RTFM.
When you start up emacs with no file to edit, it always (in my
experience) presents you with an opening screen which tells you, inter
alia, how to *quit* emacs and how to run the tutorial.
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(proprietary) drivers from their website
and follow the instructions in README file provided.
He also doesn't mention *which* Geforce card he has. As I recently
discovered, support of the Gefore 4 requires the unstable version of
xserver-xfree86 - even the one in testing is too old.
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and don't want to have to make the switch to some other
WM just now.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
4.2.1-3
nv driver; I'm now running 4.2.1-4).
Of course, as noted yesterday, now kde doesn't
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
the legend is and there are rear sound connectors)
and the BIOS has no reference to sound at all.
I'm sure an off-list reply would be better. Thanks.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened
.
Rebooting doesn't help. And oddly, running soffice as root does work,
which makes it sound like a permissions problem, but I've no idea
what.
Anyone any ideas Or do I got back to version 1.0? (Which I've happily
run under Mandrake 8.1, Suse 8.0 and the current unstable debian).
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Thus spake Mark Janssen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
On Sun, 2002-12-22 at 20:11, Deryk Barker wrote:
AS I am building a new system, it seemed a good idea to download the
latest Open Office (1.0.1) rather than simply copy 1.0 across from
my old system.
I am running (new system) testing, BTW
As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
(e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball.
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Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
As a P.S. to my previous exchange: unfortunately the package I found
at various mirrors requires later version of certain libraries
(e.g. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
Ah well, it's back to the 1.0 tarball.
Unfortunately, after
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. libstdc++5) than are currently in testing...
Ah well
Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
OK, when I try to run the setup fails: firstly it complained that it
couldn't find setup - and indeed it wasn't there, but setup.bin
was. So I hardlinked setup to setup.bin, ditto the other.bin files in
the directory.
Now when I try
.
And any attempt to access the network gives Network is unreachable
errors.
Anyone have any ideas? It's been too long since I messed about at this
level...
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened
VT3043 Rhine at 0x6600,
00:80:c8:ec:94:29, IRQ 11.
I just tried installing using the bf24 flavour and so far everything
seems OK - I've just apt-got much of the system...
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada
.
Is there something obvious to look for? (Using Gefore 4 MX - vesa
driver - and generic monitor 1024x768@70Hz).
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Thus spake Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
Deryk Barker [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-12-19 14:27:15 -0800]:
Has anyone persuaded the confiuration of xserver-xfree86 version 4 to
produce a usable XF86Config-4?
Yes. Many times.
I've tried saying both yes and no to the framebuffer questin
on unstable.
I'm dist-upgrading to testing right now to see if there's a new enough
nv driver in that...
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|Deryk Barker, Computer Science Dept. | Music does not have to be understood|
|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED
Thus spake Deryk Barker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
One further piece of info: I tested the new system out by booting
Knoppix, which ran just fine.
So I thought I could snag the XF86Config-4 from that - put it onto
floppy (!) etc.
Did all that and it still didn't work - but the Knoppix-derived
).
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC, Canada| It has to be listened to. |
|email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | |
|phone: +1 250 370 4452 | Hermann
the
establishing of a functional programming *style*, which these
languages encourage (to a greater or lesser extent).
After all, you *can* do FP in C or Pascal - it's just a lot more work.
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|Camosun College, Victoria, BC
the light) so I now need to persuade our very
RH-oriented techhie to go with Debian.
So: am I about to reinvent the wheel? Has somebody already done this
or similar? Are there any resources people know about? Pointers?
Suggestions?
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. Or you can fire up gcdmaster and
create a project using it's GUI.
I use XCDroast almost exclusively and have no problem assembling audio
CDs from tracks I've created myself and then burning it DAO.
Sometimes the GUI interface really is easier to use/get right. (But
only sometimes)
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|Deryk Barker
two connectors and can support 4
devices. But linux will not simply assign hda to the first available
device, etc; hda is the first device on the first chain, etc.
Just a thought. I believe you could change this with boot parameters.
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