RE: [OT] Capitalism (was Re: columbia -- what really happened)

2003-02-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
> > This whole thread seems to be treating the rest of the world like some > > distant scenery. > > > > >From any given point on the world, the rest of the world _is_ distant > scenery. For futher discussion, see "Here vs. There," and "Small or Far > Away: A Case Study." Depending on countries,

Re: restarting interrupted ftp upload

2003-01-30 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le jeu 30/01/2003 à 11:28, Simon Tod a écrit : > Dear All, > Probably due to a slow modem connection I seem unable > to maintain connection while uploading large files by > ftp. I know that there are programs that can restart > interupted ftp downloads and there appear to be M$ > programs that can

[SOLVED] Re: very very strange bash/sed bug !!

2003-01-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mer 29/01/2003 à 13:39, Seneca a écrit : > On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 11:52:36AM +0100, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is > > incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it > > for mont

very very strange bash/sed bug !!

2003-01-29 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, it's been a loong time I have a bug on my system: ./libtool is incorrectly generated by ./configure. I haven't been able to correct it for months. Today I discovered where lies the bug: it's somewhere between bash and sed. First and foremost, I'm running debian/unstable, and have sed 3.02-8.

Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?

2003-01-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lun 27/01/2003 à 10:58, Ron Johnson a écrit : > On Mon, 2003-01-27 at 03:07, Xavier Bestel wrote: > > > You should do this: > > > # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade > > > > I prefer this: > > > > # apt-get update && apt-get

Re: How to determine why a package is "held back"?

2003-01-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
> You should do this: > # apt-gte update && apt-get dist-upgrade I prefer this: # apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade --no-remove That way if there's a package with broken dependencies, I can see it before it removes half my desktop. Xav -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: plex86, VMWare, & other emulators (was Re: Desktopproductivity with Debian GNU/LINUX)

2003-01-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dim 26/01/2003 à 04:55, Karsten M. Self a écrit : > plex86 is an x86 hardware emulator. That is, it provides an x86 system, > entirely within software. The primary advantage is that it's very > portable. The primary disadvantage is that it's painfully slow. > > VMWare by contrast is a ha

Re: make-kpkg install question

2003-01-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le sam 25/01/2003 à 05:51, Ramsay D. Seielstad a écrit : > Hello all, between following the list and reading the various man > pages and documentation I'm about ready to try my hand at rolling my > own kernel. I'm planning on using 'make-kpkg' to do this and the > one item I have not seen (or f

Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-13 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dim 12/01/2003 à 16:11, Kjetil Kjernsmo a écrit : > > Is there a mean to upgrade woody's sanely ? > > Quite a few Debian hackers have backported SA to Woody, I got mine with > this in sources.list: > deb http://people.debian.org/~aurel32/BACKPORTS stable main > but Adrian Bunk has a bunch of p

Re: Exim, SpamAssassin and AV-advice needed

2003-01-10 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le ven 10/01/2003 à 19:59, Derrick 'dman' Hudson a écrit : > On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 03:51:52PM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > | Hi folks! > | > | I have some real trouble with my mail server. It is running on a Pentium > | PRO 180 MHz box with 96 MB RAM, and last night the whole thing almost >

multiple sounds at once with ALSA

2003-01-06 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi debianers, I have an Ensoniq ES1371 (a basic soundcard) and want to have several applications access it simultaneously. I tried esound but wasn't satisfied with its behavior, so I installed a home-made 2.4 kernel with ALSA, and the debian packages (alsa-base, alsa-utils, gnome-alsamixer, and so

Re: Switching to GNOME2

2003-01-05 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le dim 05/01/2003 à 05:46, Scott C. Linnenbringer a écrit : > Secondly, I want to customize the theme. I've decided to use Metacity, but I > assume I have to use a GTK theme, too, to get the themed menubar, buttons, > boxes, et cetera. I've been able to use apt to download some themes, but all

latest nautilus (2.0.8) performance boost

2002-12-04 Thread Xavier Bestel
I just upgraded debian/unstable, and the latest nautilus (version 2.0.8) was really quicker at reading directories. Still slower than IE, but better. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's everyone's favorite audio setup?

2002-12-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mar 03/12/2002 à 00:14, Dave Carrigan a écrit : > On Mon, 2002-12-02 at 11:39, Tom Badran wrote: > > On Sunday 01 Dec 2002 9:07 pm, sean finney wrote: > > > hi all, > > > > > > i'm getting tired by my many audio-wanting apps not getting along > > > with one another, and i'm looking to switch to

Re: Exim + Procmail + Cyrus

2002-12-02 Thread Xavier Bestel
- Original Message ----- > From: "Xavier Bestel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Sunday, December 01, 2002 2:36 PM > Subject: Re: Exim + Procmail + Cyrus > > > > Yes, I've run into this. I remember cyrdeliver doesn'

Re: Exim + Procmail + Cyrus

2002-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
Yes, I've run into this. I remember cyrdeliver doesn't like the "From " header, so I solved it by adding this to the top of .procmailrc: :0 f | formail -I "From " I think it'll work better. Xav Le dim 01/12/2002 à 20:19, David Ellis a écrit : > First off I'm a relative Debian Newbie, b

Re: is it possible to install eMule unser wine?

2002-12-01 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le sam 30/11/2002 à 09:04, Paul Johnson a écrit : > On Sat, Nov 30, 2002 at 04:01:11PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: > > Anyone has experience? It's a pity that eMule does not support Linux > > platform. > > mldonkey will be a debian package RSN. *That's* good news ! Will it be able to run as a ser

how to verify installed packages ?

2002-11-28 Thread Xavier Bestel
Is there a command to verify the integrity of installed packages ? I want something similar to the rpm --verify command (it verifies the size, MD5 sum, permissions, type, owner and group of each file), but couldn't find ti in the docs (and what tool to use ? dpkg, dselect, apt-get ?). Thanks,

Re: Partition size

2002-11-27 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mer 27/11/2002 à 17:10, Chris Lale a écrit : > Mark L. Kahnt wrote: > > > On my 40 GB drive, I went with: > > > > / 1 GB > > swap 1/2 GB > > /opt 2 GB > > /usr 8 GB > > /var 4 GB > > /home 24 GB > > I read in the Debian installation manual (v.3.0.24, 24th

Re: jpegs to mpeg? convert->mpeg2encode?

2002-11-26 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le mar 26/11/2002 à 02:17, Michael Jinks a écrit : > Hi all. > > I have a user who has found that the "convert" program (part of > ImageMagick) can string a list of JPEG files into a MPEG movie. Or at > least, it used to be able to do that; it relies on a delegate program > called mpeg2encode,

Re: big libtoolize problem.

2002-11-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lun 25/11/2002 à 23:01, Elizabeth Barham a écrit : > My guess is that ltmain.sh (which is distributed with libtool) is > corrupted somehow and for some weird reason, those loops were not tied > off properly. The problem is that I re-installed (apt-get --reinstall) libtool package, the auto(mak

Re: big libtoolize problem.

2002-11-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lun 25/11/2002 à 19:23, Elizabeth Barham a écrit : > Xavier Bestel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I had some problem (crashes) on my computer (debian/unstable), and as a > > result I think some system files got corrupted. Now the crash cause is > > fixed, but

big libtoolize problem.

2002-11-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I had some problem (crashes) on my computer (debian/unstable), and as a result I think some system files got corrupted. Now the crash cause is fixed, but libtoolize is broken: whenever I run libtoolize, the libtool it generates has syntax errors in it. But when I simply copy /usr/bin/libtool o

Re: ext2 vs ext3 vs xfs vs reiserfs

2002-11-25 Thread Xavier Bestel
Le lun 25/11/2002 à 16:51, Matthias Hentges a écrit : > Am Mon, 2002-11-25 um 16.32 schrieb Oleg: > > Hi > > > > Can anyone who is very familiar with these FS types summarize their relative > > features in terms of > > > > a) quality (bug content) > > Ext3 is rock-stable since it is based on ex

big libtoolize problem.

2002-11-20 Thread Xavier Bestel
Hi, I had some problem (crashes) on my computer (debian/unstable), and as a result I think some system files got corrupted. Now the crash cause is fixed, but libtoolize is broken: whenever I run libtoolize, the libtool it generates has syntax errors in it. But when I simply copy /usr/bin/libtool o