Brian Boonstra wrote:
Hi
I'm not stupid, but I feel that way sometimes; I seem to be unable
to get my sources.list right for KDE. Examining the lynx -dump command (see
below), we find that the Packages.gz file resides in the same place as all
the .deb files. According to my
Eric G . Miller wrote:
You need to go to Edit-Preferences-Navigator-Applications then look
for the realaudio entry (if you have one). It should have something
like:
Description: RealAudio
MIMEType : audio/x-pn-realaudio
Suffixes : ra, ram
x
(Ted Harding) wrote:
When you get the .ram file from the supplying site, this usually
has a URL to the location of the .ra file (the actual audio file)
itself, similar to the following:
pnm://broadcast9.activate.net/radiofree/channel1.rm
pnm://ras.radio.cz/zpravy.ra
You will find,
I have Netscape Communicator 4.7 and RealPlayer 6.0.4.433 (Beta)
installed on my potato system.
I went to this page on Broadcast.com, to access a local radio
station:
http://www.broadcast.com/radio/Rock/WKLS/
They have a button for a RealPlayer broadcast. I hit the button,
at which point
I currently have a couple of directories of files available for
download via anonymous FTP. Is there some easy way to get Apache
or Zope to make these files available via HTTP?
(I've tried searching the Apache and Zope docs, but it looks like
I'll need to read *everything* to get a handle on it.
Brad wrote:
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On Sun, 3 Oct 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
I currently have a couple of directories of files available for
download via anonymous FTP. Is there some easy way to get Apache
or Zope to make these files available via HTTP?
(I've
Taupter wrote:
John Hasler wrote:
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
daylight savings time in a tropical country?
Despite some opinions, we have a large industrial park, 180 million
people, a high energy comsumption. There is no outdoors with Coming
Taupter wrote:
Really, daylight savings could be useful during
all the year.
Is this a joke?
- Kris
John Hasler wrote:
Mario O.de Menezes writes:
That is, in Brazil, unfortunately, our daylight saving day changes from
year to year, and as a consequence, some times my date is wrong for 1 or
2 days till it changes.
I suppose this is a dumb question, but why would anyone bother with
David Natkins wrote:
Seems to be a problem with the package list for unstable at ftp.debian.org.
One of the packages (aleph-dev) is causing the problem.
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You can open the package list file with a text editor and fix the
The XEmacs documentation seems to imply that it can open
compressed files--that is, it will automatically uncompress them,
let you edit, and then recompress if you made changes.
But this doesn't work for me. Opening a *.gz file just shows me
the compressed form. Is there something special I
I have dwww and info2www installed, using apache. The pages
returned by info2www don't have any pictures in them.
The image files are in /usr/share/doc/info2www (next.gif,
prev.gif, up.gif, etc.). The info2www-generated pages have IMG
tags that look like IMG SRC=/doc/info2www/infodoc.jpg. But
Marcus Johansson wrote:
Try:
# apt-get check
That might fix the problem, not sure.
/Marcus
No, apt-get check doesn't fix it. The file corruption prevents
apt-get from doing anything.
- Kris
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Please respond to the above email as I only subscribe to the digest, and
not the actual mailing list.
Guys,
I tried running apt-get on a potato system running kernel 2.2.12 this
afternoon, and when it finished downloading the Packages.gz files, apt-get
exited
Kenneth Scharf wrote:
See linux Gazzette #45. Get the MIX xserver for
windows from microimages. It's on the SUSE distro
under dos utilities.
BTW, the current version of MIX for Windows is not free, but it's
only $25.
http://www.microimages.com/mix/
I've been using it at work. It's not as
Jonathan D. Proulx wrote:
Hi,
/dev/ttyS3 is my modem. The hardware is jumpered for IRQ 5.
I added the following line to setserial:
${SETSERIAL} -b /dev/ttyS3 irq 5 port 0x2E8 skip_test autoconfig ${STD_FLAGS}
The problem is the irq frequently reverts to 3. This happens after
Is there any standard utility for opening a connection to a
TCP/IP port and then interactively sending data and seeing
responses? For example, I'd like to be able to open a connection
to port 80 on some machine, type GET / HTTP/1.0 and then see
the response.
I'm experimenting with some
George Bonser wrote:
telnet hostname portnum
telnet somehost 80
will do what you describe below.
On Fri, 24 Sep 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
Is there any standard utility for opening a connection to a
TCP/IP port and then interactively sending data and seeing
responses
Dpk wrote:
I believe they are starting to seperate programs previously included
in netstd into their own packages.
apt-get install ftpd
Dennis
Thanks. I figured it had been moved, but couldn't find where.
The description for ftpd recommends to use wu-ftpd or proftpd
instead. My needs
Rob Mahurin wrote:
On Tue, Sep 14, 1999 at 07:32:22PM -0400, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
I honestly don't mean to start a holy war here, but I'd like to
know: Is there anyone who prefers Emacs to XEmacs, and why?
I use emacs when I'm in a text terminal (like right now) because I
haven't
My XEmacs's info mode is now unable to find files that it
previously could. It appears that the info files have been moved
to /usr/share/info (I'm running potato), and that XEmacs doesn't
want to look there.
I know I can set INFOPATH in my .login or set the
Info-directory-list variable in my
After upgrading from slink to potato, I notice that
/usr/sbin/in.ftpd is gone, and that the corresponding line in
/etc/inetd.conf has been marked #off#. All the other
/usr/sbin/in.*d daemons seem to still be there.
Anyone know what happened, and what I should do to fix it?
- Kris
I recently upgraded from slink to potato. At some point, my
inetd.conf file got #off# prepended to the ftp line,
disabling it. A comment at the top of inetd.conf says Lines
starting with ... #off# should not be changed unless you know
what you are doing!
As I have apparently have no idea what
Jakob 'sparky' Kaivo wrote:
On Tue, 14 Sep 1999, Juli-Manel Merino Vidal wrote:
Hi all,
where can I found a document describing the differences between emacs
and xemacs ?
Thanks.
Check the XEmacs web page:
http://www.xemacs.org/
You might also look at the Emacs web pages:
Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
geisha [~] $ dpkg -S top|grep bin
xpdf: /usr/bin/pdftops
procps: /usr/bin/top
snipped
and yes, that command actually runs. I maintain a absolutely current potato
box so I can compile packages.
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Gareth wrote:
On Wed, 15 Sep 1999, Michael Talbot-Wilson wrote:
G'day, all.
How can I prevent dselect from downloading packages that are already
installed, merely because the Debian version has changed?
The way I use is apt-get instead of dselect that way only the packages you
want
Seth R Arnold wrote:
Venu, you speak the truth, the info pages are full of information, but
honestly (and no offense to RMS) -- info isn't the easiest program in the
world to master. I *do* wish info had vi-bindings. Maybe it is just me, but
the vi bindings seem very intuitive after only a few
rich wrote:
Howdy everyone,
I was wondering: what are the tools available in Debian that one would
consider part of the standard toolbox of a programmer?
I have programmed for several years in BASIC, and dabbled Fortran and
Pascal. Now I want to learn C, Perl, and (maybe) Java... mostly
Pere Camps wrote:
Hi!
Can I run 2.2.12 on slink without problems or do I have to update
some packages from potato?
Check out this page for the list of things you need to update
from potato:
http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/running-kernel-2.2
I'm running Linux 2.2.12.
Ron Stordahl wrote:
I am doing a fresh install and get to the point where the install asks:
Do you want to run gpm's mouse-test program (Y/n)? (to which I respond)
y
Where is your mouse [/dev/ttyS0]? (to which I respond)
/dev/psaux (since I have a Microsoft Intellimouse 1.2A PS/2
Seth R Arnold wrote:
My sony 17sf did the samet thing to me about mid-december... it flashed a
bit, went dark, and never came back. :(
the nice people at sony fixed it for the cost of shipping (I got it there,
they got it back..:)
i haven't seen much hardware or software that can cause
Recently (the last week or so), my Sony Multiscan 15sf monitor
has started to act funny. After its been on for a few minutes,
the picture starts to flicker a bit, and then after a few more
minutes, it goes completely black.
This is not the normal DPMS-like behavior: it flashes brightly
for a
Brian Servis wrote:
From the Documentation/Changes file in the 2.2.x kernel tree:
Parallel Ports
==
As of 2.1.33, parallel port support can now by handled by the parport
driver. Be aware that with Plug-and-Play support turned on, your
parallel port may no longer be
I've upgraded my slink system to a 2.2.10 kernel, by downloading
the kernel sources and using make-kpkg. I also upgraded to the
new versions of netbase and dhcpcd, and almost everything works
fine.
The only problem I've seen is that I cannot print anymore. After
attempting a print job, lpq
Francois GELIS wrote:
On Tue, 20 Jul 1999, Kristopher Johnson wrote:
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
be using CPU or doing disk access--it just pauses for a few seconds
while starting.
[...]
As far as I remember, this issue has already
XEmacs takes an annoyingly long time to start up. It does not appear to
be using CPU or doing disk access--it just pauses for a few seconds
while starting.
I tried an strace xemacs to see what system calls were being made.
During the slow part of startup, here's what it was doing:
Subject: ppp/serial Help!
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 1999 00:00:08 +0100 (GMT)
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I`m fairly new to Linux and this is driving me mad.
I have ppp as a loadable module, isapnp and setserial both set to
/dev/ttyS2 0x03e8/0x3e8 irq 5. this works
Does anyone know of any packages for Linux that provide the capabilities
of products like ILOG/Views or LOOX?
- Kris
Subject: Re: Argh! I think my last msg sent as HTML...
Date: Mon, 12 Jul 1999 00:24:05 -0400
From: Chris Concannon [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: debian-user@lists.debian.org
I went
What is the correct way to switch between different alternatives? For
example, currently my /usr/bin/vi points to nvi. What is the right way
to change it to point to vim or elvis? I know how to use 'ln -s' to
create/change links, but I suspect that I should really use
'update-alternatives' or
to figure this out on my
own when I get back. But if anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate
hearing them.
- Kris
Heinrich Rebehn wrote:
Kristopher Johnson wrote:
I've installed GNOME and the wmaker-gnome package (using apt and a
mirror of ftp.gnome.org). I can switch between IceWM
I've installed GNOME and the wmaker-gnome package (using apt and a
mirror of ftp.gnome.org). I can switch between IceWM and Enlightenment
without any problem, but if I try to switch to WindowMaker using the
GNOME Control Panel, it times out while trying to start.
I'm running GNOME by using an
Last night, I did an apt-get install karpski. It went fine, but when I
tried to run it, it said it was missing libpcap0. So I installed the
libpcap0 package, and everything was fine.
I thought that apt-get was supposed to automatically install dependency
packages--is this true? Does this problem
:35 PM
To: Kirk Hogenson
Cc: Kristopher Johnson; debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: BE MORE SIMPLE
Kirk Hogenson wrote:
[incredibly helpful explanation snipped]
I hope this helps, and good luck getting your sound card working.
And please ask here if you run into problems. You
Is there a Debian package with the Linux HOWTOs and mini-HOWTOs? I can't
find it, but I'm pretty sure I had one at some point.
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Lupa wrote:
On Thursday, June 10, 1999 5:30 AM, Kristopher Johnson
[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Can anyone suggest any possible fixes?
DISCLAIMER: All of this is to the best of my knowledge which is somewhat
limited, but I'm sure someone will step up to correct me if I'm wrong! =)
I had
I'm the guy that asked which package had the HOWTOs. I know it seemed like
a dumb question, but I did try searching on HOWTO in both dselect and on
the Debian web site, and came up with nothing. And I started paging through
the 2700+ packages shown in dselect, but gave up after an hour or so of
When sounds play when I'm running GNOME, the sounds have a staticky
click or pop at the end of them. I assume that this is some problem
with ESD, but I'm not sure.
The bad sounds don't happen when I'm not running GNOME. They also
didn't happen when I used GNOME with Red Hat on this machine. I
Last week, I was able to download slink KDE packages via this
/etc/apt/sources.list line:
deb http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian slink rkrusty
However, snowcrash.tdyc.com no longer seems to be responding. And I
tried downloading the .deb's from one of the KDE FTP mirrors, but dpkg
gave me error
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