Re: kde volume control question

2008-07-04 Thread al davis
On Thursday 03 July 2008, Kent West wrote: How do I get the volume control in the systray to control the PCM control instead of whatever other control it is presumably controlling? Right click on the speaker .. see the menu ... Select Master Channel . and pick one.The little slider

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-29 Thread al davis
On Wednesday 25 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-06-23 22:31:12, schrieb David Goodenough: Have you looked a gEDA? Its available on Debian. Yes, but it is NOT intuitive as programs I have used in Enterprises. It is nearly imposible to make bigger projects with SIMPEL CPUs

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-18 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: I am using *** but those programs are crap and you  can not .  Even my 18 years old MS-DOS software works better. So, my requirements are: 1)  PCB-Layouts up to Extended ATX and 18x11 2)  Only ARM and MIPS CPU's (yeah, no

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-18 Thread al davis
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-06-18 13:24:06, schrieb al davis: Yes. Be more respectful of people who are trying to help you. I have gotten no reponse from Developers and others... Did you ask? You have been on this here list long enough to know what kind

Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-17 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: A quick web search shows that Debian sid and Gentoo are roughly at par with 12000+ source packages¹ each.  Both are outnumbered by FreeBSD ports, though; they have more than 18000 packages available². Gentoo and FreeBSD (and others) include some

Re: Portage, RPM or DPKG: number of packaged software comparison

2008-06-17 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Steve Lamb wrote: The program must include source code, and must allow distribution in source code as well as compiled form. but there is the non-free section, which includes some closed-source products that are proprietary in every way. I see license statements

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-05-29 Thread al davis
On Thursday 29 May 2008, Miles Fidelman wrote: Actually, it dates back further than that, to ASR33 teletype machines, where you needed to issue separate carriage return and line feed characters to end a line - to i) physically return the carriage to the beginning of the line, and ii) feed a

Re: OT: C++ help

2008-05-21 Thread al davis
On Wednesday 21 May 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: The following code will not compile:      class foo{};      class A{      public:        void f(int a ){a++;};      private:        virtual void f(foo a) = 0;      };      class B : public A{      private:        virtual void

Re: mailman install trouble

2008-05-11 Thread al davis
On Thursday 08 May 2008, NN_il_Confusionario wrote:     * From: al davis [EMAIL PROTECTED] When I do sudo apt-get install mailman .. it gets as far as the language selection, and then loops. ideas? [naive idea] try changing the debconf interface: for example, from dialog to text

mailman install trouble

2008-05-07 Thread al davis
I am having trouble installing mailman. When I do sudo apt-get install mailman .. it gets as far as the language selection, and then loops. I enter en (or nothing) where it belongs, save it, exit the editor, or exit without saving, then it comes up with the same screen again. Repeat forever.

Re: Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-15 Thread Al Davis
On Tuesday 15 June 2004 10:17 pm, jack kinnon wrote: That's true, there are a lot of possible mix-and-match. I am looking for a completed one that may suit my needs. Basically I have in mind an integrated environment like those available fr Borland or MS. Some of us think the MS or Borland

Re: locale errors

2004-03-25 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 25 March 2004 01:04 pm, Ashley Graham wrote: how do I fix this: perl: warning: Setting locale failed. perl: warning: Please check that your locale settings:         LANGUAGE = (unset),         LC_ALL = (unset),         LC_CTYPE = en_US.UTF-8,         LANG = (unset)     are

Re: Remove attachments from mbox

2004-02-26 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 26 February 2004 01:39 pm, Shaun Jackman wrote: I want to remove all the attachments from an mbox. Can anyone suggest a good script or program for this purpose? Please cc me in your reply. awk. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: ext3 why?

2004-02-24 Thread Al Davis
On Tuesday 24 February 2004 11:02 pm, Jan Minar wrote: Once upon a time, Jan converted his ext2 partitions to ext3.  His understanding of the journalling options was even weaker than it is today.  Days passed, several crashes occurred.  Jan didn't care.  He thought the journal would.  The Fsck

Re: Debian Sarge MIMEDefang with Exim

2004-02-17 Thread Al Davis
On Tue, Feb 17, 2004 at 05:40:48PM +1000, Peter A. Cole wrote: Does anyone know if there are plans to produce a MIMEDefang package with dependencies on Exim rather than sendmail? It seems a little odd that Debian uses Exim by default, but the MIMEDefang package provided with Sarge

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-14 Thread Al Davis
on Mon, Feb 09, 2004, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: If a message is either rejected (during the SMTP dialog) or bounced (after accepting and queueing the message) then the same innocent third party receives some junk mail.[1]  The difference is only in which server is sending the bounce

Re: Rejecting viruses the Right Way[tm]

2004-02-14 Thread Al Davis
On Saturday 14 February 2004 04:39 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 03:45:24PM -0500, Al Davis wrote: On Friday 13 February 2004 01:18 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: Not so. Unfortunately, Karsten, you are wrong here. Back up your statement, please. It is easy to find out

EXIM configuration question

2004-02-14 Thread Al Davis
I am puzzled about how to configure this. It is probably one line but I missed it. I want to configure it so that it first attempts to deliver directly. Then if it fails delivers through the ISP's relay. Background ... It's easy to configure it to always deliver directly. That works except

Re: Partitioning Scheme for New 120GB Hard Drive -- Comments?

2004-02-13 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 13 February 2004 02:49 pm, Karsten M. Self wrote: You've also left off a recovery partition.  I keep a 256 MiB - 512 MiB partition on which a relatively minimal installation is kept. I would go farther than that. My preferred setup is to have enough space to completely install

Re: apt-gey: I can't find anywhere this answer! :(

2004-02-05 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 05 February 2004 01:10 pm, Johann Koenig wrote: 82roby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: is there a way to see a list of installed packages, with the INSTALLATION DATE? No. but you can tell the installation date of a particular file: ls -lc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride

2004-02-01 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 01 February 2004 03:44 am, Nano Nano wrote: ... As employees of the store, we were allowed to check out one piece of software per day, and return it in the morning. A hairdryer was used to gently separate the sticker without breaking it and retaining its glue-iness. We had a

Re: A letter for Mr. Darl McBride

2004-02-01 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 01 February 2004 03:47 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ok I am sorry for all the rant, if I have personally insulted anyone I am sorry. When you use free software, you are giving something back when you spread the word, and when you redistribute as GPL says you should do. What bothered

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Al Davis
On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at 11:45:49AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: ...  Microsoft does tend to use gotos for error exits. Nothing wrong with this. It is called throwing an exception. C++ and java have keywords try, catch, throw to make it official. On Fri, Jan 30, 2004 at

Re: Isolationism is history.

2004-01-30 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 30 January 2004 07:58 pm, Al Davis wrote: On Friday 30 January 2004 04:11 pm, Colin Watson wrote: But be very careful about doing that; you may well end up tainted if you sign source licence agreements, and writing free software thereafter could be difficult

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Al Davis
On Saturday 24 January 2004 01:43 am, Day Brown wrote: There is one other example from computer history that applies to our power to control our own system: .zip. Years ago, the BBS networks were setup with archived files available with the .PAK extension. It was .arc . When Phil Katz

Re: Derivative effects.

2004-01-24 Thread Al Davis
On Saturday 24 January 2004 07:11 pm, Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2004 at 06:28:17PM -0500, Al Davis wrote: You may copy and distribute this program freely, provided that:     1)   No fee is charged for such copying and distribution, and     2)   It is distributed ONLY in its

Re: locales - C

2004-01-19 Thread Al Davis
On Monday 19 January 2004 05:22 am, Wolfgang Lonien wrote: in unstable, some upgrade must have shot my locales-config. I 'dpkg-reconfigure'd it, but the default 'C' locale is missing. Does anyone have a clue what happened and where and how I can get it back? Programs like Thunderbird complain

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 11 December 2003 03:56 pm, Joerg Rossdeutscher wrote: Yes, many ISPs do that, and it's a good thing. We all would drown in spam if they accepted mail from everywhere. There is absolutely nothing you can do except to use your providers mailserver. On Saturday 13 December 2003

Re: My email is rejected by some sites

2003-12-14 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 14 December 2003 12:41 pm, Magnus von Koeller wrote: On Sunday 14 December 2003 17:21, Al Davis wrote: It is worth putting up with some spam to get a free, uncensored, fast email system. Free, uncensored and worthless would be a better description for my email account

Re: Cell Modem and Linux

2003-10-12 Thread Al Davis
On Friday 10 October 2003 04:16 pm, Bill Moseley wrote: Anyone have information on using a cell modem with linux? It's not for a desktop (i.e. not pcmcia). What kind of drivers are needed, if any? I have one and use it occasionally. It is a modem, so it interfaces like a modem. No special

Re: more OT: search-and-replace commands (was Re: OT: Why is C so popular?)

2003-08-28 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 28 August 2003 03:08 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: As much as I hate to admit that MS can do some things right, their 'ren' command (rename, instead of doing a mv from name to name like we do) is actually quite intelligent. Wasn't that part of QDOS? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: COBOL compiler

2003-08-27 Thread Al Davis
On Tuesday 26 August 2003 04:35 am, Alex Malinovich wrote: I've, unfortunately, been forced into taking a COBOL class as a requirement for getting my BS. (And that's just what it is, a load of BS...) What's worse is that I can't seem to find any Free COBOL tools. 'apt-cache search cobol'

Re: [OT] C++ question re. dyn. mem.

2003-08-06 Thread Al Davis
I think all of the responses are missing something very important. Let me try On Sunday 03 August 2003 08:57 pm, MJM wrote: Will the free store be properly maintained when the following is executed? // a simple object is defined typedef struct { uint32_t a; uint64_t b;

Re: Modem: LSR safety check engaged

2003-05-30 Thread Al Davis
On Thursday 29 May 2003 06:47 am, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: ANyone know what this means? ANybody successfully got this card to work with Linux? I tried ActionTEc's PCI 56K V92 Call Waiting modem, which is supposed to work with Linux; its existence is not recognized either by windows

Re: KNOPPIX as an installer for Debian

2003-03-31 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 30 March 2003 10:38 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: I gotta wonder why everybody's harping so badly on Memorex. I've got to really abuse the media to burn a Memorex brand coaster. So far, the only Memorex CDR I couldn't burn was one I made a fractal out of in the microwave with. Do y'all

Re: How to manage a large number of JPEG images?

2003-03-31 Thread Al Davis
On Monday 31 March 2003 08:13 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: In case you are using KDE, go to the directory that has your pictures in it and hit CTRL-I. That'll bring up a dialog of options for your gallery and then generates a gallery style webpage that you can save. One big thing wrong with

Re: How should we handle people who can not unsubscribe?

2003-03-29 Thread Al Davis
On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 04:04:38AM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: Oh, as for subscription address, maybe we need to tell outlook user how to read their mail header. People forgets where they subscribed from and outlook users tend to lack skill to find it or read web site. On Friday 28

download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread al davis
With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time connection. The problem is that when I download something large, like a CD image, other activity slows down, often to the point of being unusable. Is there a way to slow down a

Re: howto verify burn?

2003-03-10 Thread al davis
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote: ?how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned? ?i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they don't match the output of ?md5sum -b /dev/cdrom In my experience, the actual burn is often a little longer than the

Re: Switch from Gnome to KDE...

2003-03-04 Thread al davis
On Monday 03 March 2003 09:10 pm, Leo Spalteholz wrote: I would recommend the unstable sources.. As far as I can tell all of KDE is now in it. No. kmail and knode are still not there. I don't know what else is missing. On my system, noatun acts strange sometimes, but kwave is fine. I don't

Re: TFT monitor and XF86config-4

2003-03-04 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 04 March 2003 11:52 am, Mike! wrote: Dave Selby wrote: ?Have just bought a TFT monitor, works well except occasionaly some of text is blurred on top pixel line ? ?I remember when I was installing debian there were questions about TFT monitors, at the time I ignored them. ?

Re: GUI Mail Client

2003-03-02 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 11:56 pm, Rus Foster wrote: Can anyone recommend a mail client which can take my existing pine config and folders? One that takes the whole config will be hard. Several will take the folders, including kmail and mutt. (but mutt isn't GUI.) I use kmail and mutt

Re: About to go all Deb

2003-02-25 Thread al davis
On Tuesday 25 February 2003 08:24 am, John Anderson wrote: I am relatively new to Linux, been running Mandrake 9.0 for about a fortnight, and after lots of reading I have decided to move to Debian. If you have enough space (which you do with 80 gb) it is a good idea to reserve a group or

spam spam spam

2003-02-18 Thread al davis
A Spammer has the list. It took only one posting to this list to get spammed. Here's where it came from: 4.40.163.14 Server: 63.228.184.2 Address:63.228.184.2#53 Non-authoritative answer: 14.163.40.4.in-addr.arpaname =

Re: unsubscribe doesn't work!~

2003-02-15 Thread Al Davis
On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:15 am, Fer'had Erdogan wrote: Not following the footer instructions, not via the website, not even by sending multiple e-mails to the list manager. So, if there's anyone here who cares about keeping this list decent; take me out! And maybe even fix the problem

File systems -- reiser vs. ext3

2003-02-14 Thread Al Davis
I am trying to understand them. The basic question ... Why choose one over the other? Technically, what is different? My benchmarks seem to show that Reiser is superior, but they may be flawed. What I see is that it is faster and uses space more efficiently. I get about a 4:1 difference

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Al Davis
On Sat, Jan 18, 2003 at 11:27:28AM -0500, Daniel Barclay wrote: I'm getting disk corruption if I try to enable DMA mode for my IDE disks. On Saturday 18 January 2003 04:14 pm, Pigeon wrote: If you have a VIA chipset try making sure that VIA chipset support is included in the kernel. How

Re: IDE disk corruption - A7M266-D; which kernel patches? or other solution

2003-01-19 Thread Al Davis
On Sunday 19 January 2003 02:48 pm, Bob Proulx wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Al Davis([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: How do I find out? If you are using the bf24 kernel then the config is installed in /boot. grep VIA /boot/config-2.4.18-bf2.4 CONFIG_BLK_DEV_VIA82CXXX=y