Re: informing a user community

1998-05-17 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 16 May 1998, G. Kaplan wrote: Uhm, IRC? irc.debian.org #debian It seems to me , new user, that the use of chat rooms would be a means to more rapidly distributing the knowledge one need to be successful in using Linux in general and Debian in

Re: Debian...

1998-05-17 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
On Sat, 16 May 1998, Phillip Neumann wrote: You need to install the debian pacakges of xbase, xfntbase, xfnt75, and a xserver, from the debian ftp site ftp.debian.org you need to match the xserver, with your card type, for instance, the xserver-s3 is for the s3 based video cards, and the

Re: Supressing duplicate email

1998-05-07 Thread Petra, Kevin J Poorman
On Thu, 7 May 1998, Remco van de Meent wrote: On Thu, 7 May 1998, Mike Schmitz wrote: : Does anyone have a procmail recipe to supress duplicate email? (Useful when : subscribed to more than one Debian list). It's widely spread on the Internet: ## ELIMINATES DUPLICATE MESSAGES WITH

Re: freshmeat repository

1998-04-28 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Stuart Krivis wrote: On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Kevin Traas wrote: While I'm still running Debian (for years - and on dozens of machines), I've long considered switching to RedHat for the simple reason that RPM's seem to be more readily

Re: A funny little mistake

1998-04-26 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, Thomas J. Malloy wrote: I was moving a file and intended to type mv thefile.tar.gz ~/so that it would be moved to my home directory, but by mistake I typed mv thefile.tar.gz /~ . Now I have a 800k file named ~ on

Modem Question.

1998-04-22 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I am looking for information that will allow me to see the modem conection speed between my modem and the ISP, I have set up pppd to report the conection speed, but when it reports the speed, its the speed between the modem, and my computer... I was told I

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late. MUCH SNIPED -K -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fonts in X [Off Topic]

1998-04-21 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Daniel Mashao wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: On Mon, 20 Apr 1998, Stephen Carpenter wrote: I was told that XFSTT had a new maintainer when I asked to adopt it... so I guess we are both to late

Copyright Question.

1998-04-16 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I want to package Blender. It will have to go into Non-free. or maybe contrib... What I want to know is yalls thoughts on weather or not we can even distribute this software. Heres the pertinant part of the licence. Permission to use, copy, and

Re: ppp Questions.

1998-04-15 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Tue, 14 Apr 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 1998 at 08:23:36PM -0500, Petra Kevin J Poorman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to work, VS, my old

Re: Question.

1998-04-14 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, Jens B. Jorgensen wrote: This is what's known as a 'port scan'. Someone wants to see what network services are available on your box. This would likely be a first step for a would-be intruder. You should probably alert someone at

ppp Questions.

1998-04-14 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hi, I installed pppconfig, configured my ppp setup for my ISP and got pon to work, VS, my old one line script that was broken by the ppp. Now when i dial my isp I find these messages in my syslog: Apr 13 19:22:30 petra pppd[11431]: local IP address

Question.

1998-04-13 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I was trying to download a new ppp package from one of the debian mirrors... speifficly ftp.fuller.edu, and in my syslog I found this. Apr 12 20:16:18 petra tcplogd: port 2417 connection attempt from deborah.fuller.edu Apr 12 20:16:23 petra tcplogd: port 2418

Re: (off-topic) Blender? [Was: cheap graphics station]

1998-04-12 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, Frank Barknecht wrote: Shaleh hat gesagt: // Shaleh wrote: The p90 is a good start. The dual is over kill unless he is doing extremely intense modeling (which intel was never truly the best at anyway). GIMP, Midnight Creator, and the soon to be released Blender

Re: GIMP How is it?

1998-04-12 Thread Petra Kevin J Poorman
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- On Sat, 11 Apr 1998, ' ALLAN W. BART wrote: Hi, I saw the linux journals write-up on gimp, now i would like to ask the question, how does it stack up against commercial or established shareware products? Gimp can do anything. It stacks up to photoshop