Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 23 November 2002 00:15, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 11:53:05PM -0800, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Friday 22 November 2002 23:48, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! is there a way in which i can make linux work in a similar way? meaning, i select

Re: power down and power off also?

2002-11-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 22 November 2002 23:48, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! i have a dual boot system. it is a compaq machine. when i select shutdown in windows, the power indicator also goes off. when i do similarly in linux, it shuts down everything, finally says Power Down and stays there.

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 21 November 2002 00:12, Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2002-11-21 at 00:18, Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2002-11-21T05:06:49Z, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not just tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a similar

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 21:06, Kent West wrote: I'm just curious; do other folks (particularly real developers, not just tinkerer-wanna-be's like myself) have a similar problem with Java, or have I just been channeling too much RMS lately? Thanks for any comments. Kent Many of us

Re: OT: Politics of Java

2002-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 22:05, Michael Kahle wrote: Interesting. I am going to have to do some reading on this. Does the fact that they control the standard prohibit others from implementing the language with other standards if they see fit? Forking the project so to speak? In

Re: irradicating a package?

2002-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:19, Jan Johansson wrote: Tried a customized deb of a package (Exim), decided that it wasn't all that I wanted so I want to replace it with a stock Exim.. But I cant seem to make apt-get and/or dpkg to understand that? dpkg --purge package If this is failing,

Re: irradicating a package?

2002-11-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 20 November 2002 23:30, Jan Johansson wrote: dpkg --purge package If this is failing, give us more info. argus:/etc/exim# dpkg --purge exim dpkg: dependency problems prevent removal of exim: at depends on mail-transport-agent; however: Package mail-transport-agent is not

Re: Icons on a Blackbox Desktop

2002-11-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 16 November 2002 06:03, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- lameth [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Saturday, 16 November 2002, 12:57 AM -0500): How do I go about putting program icons on the Blackbox desktop? I've used both ROX-filer (there are debian packages listed on its downloads

Re: RFC: Caps Lock

2002-11-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 10 November 2002 08:53, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, * Glyn Kennington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-11-10 17:36]: So what are your thoughts about this? Is there another good use I could put caps lock to? Experiences? If you're a vi user, you may find it useful to swap it with Escape.

Re: X - window manager - desktop

2002-11-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 08 November 2002 19:08, David Z Maze wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 01:01:46PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote: Now for my next question, do desktops such as gnome and kde require a specific version of window manager? Not that I know of. I've

Re: How to set bpp 16 as default?

2002-11-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 05:56, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, I tried to put a DefaultDepth line in my XConfig file before and X just wouldnt start at all, I'll try it again tho. Is there another file I should be making these changes in? maybe Im looking in the wrong place. Ive tried

Re: wire format and wire-level ?

2002-11-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 05 November 2002 17:44, John Joe wrote: sorry, this is not Debian-specific question,but i desparately need help. could you explain wire-level in the following? In this world, the answer is to rely on the business data and communication protocol headers that define the wire-level

Re: How to set bpp 16 as default?

2002-11-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 04 November 2002 07:12, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, How do I set up X to default to 16 bit color depth? Im running Debian Potato 2.2 and am running the version of XFree that shipped with it. (sorry dont remember xf86 version #). I've tried to add the line DefaultColorDepth 16

Re: How to set bpp 16 as default?

2002-11-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 04 November 2002 08:15, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Thanks, I'll give that a go and let you know, if -depth allows you to run in 16 bit mode then the section you hilighted below is your problem. If it fails to start in 16 bit then either a) X won't run 16 bit with your card or b)

Re: restart command in wmaker

2002-11-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 02 November 2002 15:00, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: There is a menu item under exit/restart in wmaker that I use a lot. Does anyone know what the actual command this is using? Lance it creates a menu item which window maker calls internally. There is no direct access to this. --

Re: Spamassassin

2002-11-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 01 November 2002 13:38, Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I recently installed spamassassin on my testing/sarge box and I am fairly happy with the results. However, my main box still runs stable/woody and I am wondering if the stable version of spamassassin works as well as the testing...

Re: MUD Shell ... ?

2002-10-31 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 31 October 2002 09:50, Soul Computer wrote: It would seem to me that Debian could have a Shell that looked and acted an awful lot like a MUD created, with applications representing spells and objects being added with processes representing the player characters. The directories

Re: Bad interpreter

2002-10-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 30 October 2002 22:40, Dan Hunt wrote: Hi! Bad interpreter? I did edit the top of the script with the Midnight Commander edit program to remove those pesky M$ spaces or carriage returns. #!/bin/sh for CHAIN in INPUT OUTPUT FORWARD POSTROUTING PREROUTING do iptables -P $CHAIN

Re: way indulgent on my part--was Re: paint

2002-10-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 02:29, ben wrote: colin, thanks for the response, but given that a huge majority of the spam that makes its way through the list filters emanates from .cn, .tw, and .kr domains, where there are obviously huge relay holes, what does it take to have the list's spam

Re: Q: Debian, fvwm, virtual desktops and howto place specific programs at startup

2002-10-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 29 October 2002 08:39, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: In blackbox, there's two tools, bblaunch and bbappconf, that can configure which workspace (note: *not* virtual desktop) a program starts on. A patch for bbappconf, located at

Re: two more architectures?

2002-10-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 27 October 2002 20:16, Justin Ryan wrote: you are also assuming Debian devels have access to such hardware. I am personally still using a pII 400. Our users tend to have better hardware than we do these days. IANAD, but afaik all source packages are/can be built on all

Re: two more architectures?

2002-10-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 27 October 2002 16:16, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Oct 27, 2002 at 07:43:02PM -0400, Oleg wrote: Colin Watson wrote: You get most of the speed increases by recompiling a very small number of things. This is true for applications in the following wording you get most of the

Re: `gnome-approved' dark-background theme for gnome 2?

2002-10-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 28 October 2002 19:14, Miles Bader wrote: However, I don't know whether the problem lies with the them or with buggy apps (I've encounted many apps before that use the wrong fg color, which is only noticable if you've got a theme very different from the default), so I'm wondering if

Re: two more architectures?

2002-10-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Sunday 27 October 2002 08:49, Oleg wrote: Hi Why doesn't Debian add two more architectures: P4 and Athlon4? A bit more space will be used on Debian mirrors, but the bandwidth will not increase (unless more people start using Debian) and the extra maintenance in most cases will be limited

Re: Ogg Vorbis encoder speed

2002-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 26 October 2002 07:29, Larry W.Irwin Sr. wrote: Hi, I am trying out the jack cd ripper program and using oggenc as the encoder. It reads music tracks at 5.0x but encodes at 0.1x. Is that normal for ogg? Jack is set to use one encoder at a time. My machine: 475 Mhz AMD K-6

Re: Whats happened to Arch web site

2002-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:16, Alan Chandler wrote: I have been looking at what source version control system I could use to sync with a repository on my home network but also work offline on my laptop whilst on my travels. Arch looks a good bet - but I am nervous. Although debian

Re: Whats happened to Arch web site

2002-10-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 26 October 2002 10:16, Alan Chandler wrote: I have been looking at what source version control system I could use to sync with a repository on my home network but also work offline on my laptop whilst on my travels. Arch looks a good bet - but I am nervous. Although debian

Re: HD size limit ?

2002-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 25 October 2002 07:58, Kevin Coyner wrote: Is there a limit to the size of a IDE hard drive that Debian/Linux can accomodate? I.e. there are some pretty good deals now on 120GB IDE hard drives. I just want to make sure I'm not buying something that I cannot use 'easily'. Thanks

Re: [Semi-OT]: Dual Head Laptop?

2002-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 25 October 2002 09:21, Gary Hennigan wrote: I know the G400 AGP works fine in a workstation using X in Xinerama, which is my current setup, but I'd like to be more confident it'd work with a G450 PCI in a docking-station application before I recommend. I am using one of these in a

Re: OT: Reasons why few takers on MS Open Source

2002-10-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 25 October 2002 11:06, Kent West wrote: I understand that one of the the reasons that Microsoft's Open Source program has had few takers is because Microsoft's license is viral (to borrow MS's term for the GPL); once you see their code, there's a risk that any code you develop

Re: OT: e-mail question

2002-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 October 2002 07:08, Rodney Green wrote: Hello! Does anyone know of a mail server package that allows user accounts to be the same as the e-mail address? So, [EMAIL PROTECTED] would both be the e-mail address and the username to download mail. Thanks, Rod that's pretty much

Re: digitising cd collection with ogg vorbis

2002-10-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 24 October 2002 13:53, Jamin W.Collins wrote: - How to store the files (on disk I guess, but in some kind of hierarchy with category etc?) I do \Artist\Album\tracknum-trackname.ogg I'm just wondering if any of you have some experience on this? Yep, did it for all my CDs.

Re: installing a prepackaged kernel

2002-10-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 09:17, Robert Kratky wrote: hi, i'm probably missing something. could you please direct me to a place in the documentation where it is explained how to update your kernel using the prepackaged images. my situation is this: i installed woody using the bf2.4 kernel

Re: Real-time window manager switching

2002-10-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 23 October 2002 14:22, csj wrote: So, is there a shell command sequence which I can type into an xterm to replace Ratpoison with another WM, while keeping my other X clients still running? I need the equivalent of a re-startx. while I hack on blackbox what I usually do is start X

Re: OT: Travel in china (Was:*****SPAM***** We help you to realize the dream of travelling in China)

2002-10-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 22 October 2002 01:17, Corrin Lakeland wrote: On Tue, 22 Oct 2002 20:07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SPAM: Start SpamAssassin results Sorry, I know this is offtopic, but does anybody know where (apart from spam) you can find out about travel to China? I'm looking

Re: Need help with scripting

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 17 October 2002 21:32, Shawn Lamson wrote: good job... one question... should it be $@ instead of $@? ie. what if he had spaces in the filenames... you could add a mv $file `echo $file | tr _` to turn all spaces in the filename into underscores as the first line of the loop to

Re: Live CD and Package Licenses

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 18 October 2002 10:23, Jamin W.Collins wrote: I've put together a Live CD for the Sony VAIO C1VN that I would like to release to the public, and would like to make sure that I'm not doing something wrong. I don't think I am, but I would like to be sure. The areas of concern that

Re: Debian Gamers/Developers

2002-10-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 18 October 2002 15:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: Java really is a poor choice for Debian as the implementations of Java by Sun and Ibm are proprietary and aren't included in Debian. this is a very valid argument and really the clincher for me. Java IS owned by Sun and whoever uses it

Re: How to remove Gnome2

2002-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 13:25, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 16/10/02 Larry W.Irwin Sr. did speaketh: I did an apt-get install Gnome2 today and wish that I had not. It appears to be far too large and slow for my 475 Mhz 96Mb system. Gnome is too large and slow for most

Re: [OT]: Sort-of. What's the best way to contribute

2002-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 14:58, deFreese, Barry wrote: Since my posts usually get ignored we'll see what happens with this one. :-) Since I don't have a great deal of money yet (When I win the lottery I promise to send big checks to Debian and Samba!! :-) ) what is the best way to

Re: Blender (non-non-free) packages

2002-10-16 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 16 October 2002 05:33, Alvaro Figueroa wrote: It's probably a bit too soon, but does anyone knows if there are debian packages for the recently gpl'ed Blender? Even non-free packages won't do me mutch good... I'm a debian-sparc user. not just yet. Compiling it is a real

Re: Do debian-users get spammed a lot?

2002-10-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 14 October 2002 19:52, Leo Spalteholz wrote: On Mon, 14 Oct 2002 22:39:23 -0400 Levi Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (20-30 per day!). Is this probably just a coincidence, or does debian-user get trolled/web-botted a lot? No problem here. I've been subscribed for over a year

Re: How does LILO work...

2002-10-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 07:19, Price, Erik wrote: I installed Debian a few weeks ago, then installed SuSE on top of it (keeping the partition setup I had created during the Debian install). SuSE installed a boot loader for me, so that whenever I start the computer I get to choose between

Re: IRC

2002-10-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 13:25, john gennard wrote: I'd like to try using IRC. There seems a wide variety of programs available and I wonder what is the one most commonly chosen by list members. I'm running Woody. Thanks. John. depends on how you like them to look (-: Some people like

Re: gui c/c++ programming

2002-10-15 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 18:37, Kevin Coyner wrote: I've recently took a college level course in beginning C, and then a follow-on course in C and C++. I enjoyed learning the basics of the languages and now want to pursue it further. One of the things I'd like to be able to do is put

Re: what packages can be safely removed?

2002-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 14 October 2002 10:04, Jason Wojciechowski wrote: martin f krafft wrote: | is there a method of knowing that packages that can be safely removed? | typically, these will be packages on which no other packages depend. | | install deborphan and run it. I'm a fan of debfoster,

Re: subversion equivalent of 'cvs update -C'

2002-10-14 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 14 October 2002 17:11, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Oct 14, 2002 at 03:01:21PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: Does subversion have an equivalent to the command 'cvs update -C', i.e. overwrite locally modified files with the current ones from the repository? At least from

Re: Happy Hacking + Emacs keybindings have changed in the last week

2002-10-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 10 October 2002 09:47, Kirk Strauser wrote: I use a Happy Hacking Lite keyboard with my Debian/sid system. In the last week, Emacs 21 quit responding to the left and right diamond keys as meta and started treating them as super. From my ~/.Xmodmap, which hasn't changed in over

Re: Command line utility to put stdin into the X 'current selection' clipboard

2002-10-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:18, Crispin Wellington wrote: Is there a shell utility that can take stdin and put it into an X clipboard. The 'current selection' clipboard would be ideal, but any of the X Clipboard's would suffice. For example ls | someutility and then middle mouse click

Re: how to configure gcc to compile with i386 arch type by default...or is it already

2002-10-10 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 10 October 2002 11:26, Walter Tautz wrote: even if I'm on a pentium machineI would like to do this in a config file not on the command line. Actually looking iat gcc -v Reading specs from /usr/lib/gcc-lib/i386-linux/2.95.4/specs gcc version 2.95.4 20011002 (Debian prerelease)

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

2002-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 12:23, Kent West wrote: I am beta testing an application, and I need an easy way of recording (and timestamping) everything I do. Any ideas? store the config/source code/etc in cvs. Lets you roll back a version, give a special name to a version, etc. -- To

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

2002-10-09 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 09 October 2002 15:01, Jens Grivolla wrote: Hi, I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable From:, seemingly messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...) However, I have been unable to import my Folders into

Re: apt questions

2002-10-08 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 08 October 2002 12:36, Bruce Park wrote: Hello all, I'm a newbie in this debian world so please be patient with me. I'm trying to undestand everything about debian before I can install them and I was hoping that some one can answer my question. It seems that debian has three ways

Re: UnitedLinux and Debian

2002-10-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 07 October 2002 07:41, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! I am concerned about the future of UnitedLinux (UL). The idea of Conectiva, SuSe, Caldera and TurboLinux is to define new standards trough UL. How this will affect the rest of the Linux world, the non commercial one? Will

Re: MUD Game Engines

2002-10-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 07 October 2002 08:00, Soul Computer wrote: I was wondering if anyone would know where I could find MUD game engines for Linux. Please Reply All when you reply to make certain I get any information you send my way. Thank you very much for any help you can give me. by looking at

Re: locales

2002-10-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 07 October 2002 19:55, Matt Price wrote: Hi, can someone explain to me what locales are for and how to set them? I'm having some problems in openoffice which seem to be related to locale issues... there's a man entry for setlocale, which I would have thought to have been the

Re: File Manager Suggestions?

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:18, Michael Olds wrote: Something that works like Windows Explorer, with full details in the right hand window (permissions/users/groups). Actually Gentoo looks very good, if I can get the thing installed. gentoo is packaged, just apt-get it. -- To

Re: Headers in this ML

2002-10-03 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 03 October 2002 08:54, Richard Kimber wrote: On Thu, 3 Oct 2002 15:17:57 +0100 Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would advise filtering on the X-Mailing-List: header, not To: or Cc:, if the latter is what you're doing. This should be reliable. Thanks, but there wasn't

Re: Emacs and ALT Key in New Debian Installation

2002-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 07:31, Elizabeth Barham wrote: Does the left Alt key work and not the right Alt key? Is it possible that the Window keys work in place of the Alt key? You may want to look at the configuration for the x keymap in /etc/X11/xkb, such as

Re: sound but no sound

2002-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote: Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other programs like xmms or mp3blaster or freeamp just hang. I'm current on testing (sid). Sound used to work properly so some upgrade changed something but I have no clue

Re: sound but no sound

2002-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 10:12, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Wed, Oct 02, 2002 at 09:46:47AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Wednesday 02 October 2002 09:38, Rick Pasotto wrote: Sound is working in that I get gnome desktop sound events but other programs like xmms or mp3blaster

Re: OT: Perhaps Linux will set the hardware standards?

2002-10-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 02 October 2002 12:45, Kent West wrote: In other words, perhaps some day the developers can say Here's the interface specs; make your hardware work with it if you want to sell your cards. Pipe dream? Fantasy? Stupid innovation-stifling idea? Good idea? What? Kent All of the

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

2002-10-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 01 October 2002 15:45, Jaldhar H. Vyas wrote: it is too bad some of the corporate customer comes first mentality didn't get into Debian. I donated $4 to Debian, more then many can claim, I guess I got EXACTLY what I paid for. Good luck to all of you, and thanks again. I

Re: apt-get and /tmp

2002-09-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 30 September 2002 08:54, Robert James Kaes wrote: Hello, My /tmp directory is located on it's own partition and mounted as rw,noexec,nosuid. This is a problem for apt-get, which tries to run the preconfigure scripts for a deb from /tmp/config.*. Is there any way to tell apt-get

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 30 September 2002 16:55, John Batistic wrote: I am unable to compile the KDE2 helloworld.cpp example error message from make: g++-c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp helloworld.cpp:2: qapplication.h: No such file or directory helloworld.cpp:3: qlabel.h: No such file or directory

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

2002-09-30 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Monday 30 September 2002 19:04, Tom Cook wrote: #include qt/qapplication.h #include qt/qlabel.h #include qt/qstring.h then you should be able to compile with: g++ -c -o helloworld.o helloworld.cpp Note also that the usual (proper?) way of naming C++ source is *.cc or *.cxx, not *.cpp

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

2002-09-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 27 September 2002 17:57, Oleg wrote: Hi Are there any compatible debs for GCC 3.2 and STLport that I can use on Woody? I tried installing using the sources, but apparently there are some issues (perhaps the ABI change) Why do you need STLPort? The STL in the 3.2 library is quite

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

2002-09-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 27 September 2002 22:08, Oleg wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 11:40 pm, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On Friday 27 September 2002 17:57, Oleg wrote: Hi Are there any compatible debs for GCC 3.2 and STLport that I can use on Woody? I tried installing using the sources

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:27, Mike Dresser wrote: Saaay, what's the point at which I become harassing if I start faxing dumb spammers like the one that just hit debian-bugs? I faxed him a nice STOP SPAMMING YOU STUPID SPAMMER. I should have done it white text on black

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

2002-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 26 September 2002 08:56, Mike Dresser wrote: On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Just remember that fax spamming is illegal EVERYWHERE and you are easily traced. Being sued by a spammer would suck. I hate to use a spammer's arguments, but I'm not actually SPAMMING

Re: Konqueror slowness

2002-09-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:30, Mark Roach wrote: Konqueror takes an extremely long time to load pages on my system compared to mozilla/galeon. Has anyone had a similar problem? I went to theregister in konq and then while it was loading, I lanched galeon, loaded the site and came back

Re: Remote package management?

2002-09-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 25 September 2002 11:11, Carl Johnson wrote: I want to set up a rescue/administration filesystem on an extra partition, but I would like to be able to install packages without rebooting into that filesystem. I already found that dpkg will handle that with the --root option, but

Re: Three monitors with X?

2002-09-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 24 September 2002 08:54, Ramon Kagan wrote: Hi, Is it possible to have three monitors working at the same time? Can you have Screen Screen1 LeftOf Screen2 Screen Screen2 LeftOf Screen3 Screen Screen3 in XF86Config-4? yep. Should work just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 21 September 2002 07:53, christophe barbe wrote: I am trying metacity and find it very nice. One thing that I find missing is the ability to set an application as sticky so I can see it on all desktop (It's for gkrellm). Is it possible with metacity ? Christophe At least in

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

2002-09-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Saturday 21 September 2002 08:15, christophe barbé wrote: I forgot to say that on the left button of the window, in the menu there is a Put on all workplace. But gkrellm has fortunately no decoration. Also metacity doesn't memorize this property. I hope there is a way to set it up

Re: package clean

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 16:08, Tom Allison wrote: Is there anything that will find unused / zero dependency libraries and the like and prompt them for removal? Here's the problem. I install one package, which brings in 12 dependencies. I uninstall the one package, but the 12

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 06:52, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: I wonder if any of you know of a grammar checker available for linux in English. A Google search didn't give me anything for english, neither did www.linux.org Have any. there are not a lot of options unfortunately.

Re: Where to look up %20-like chars for use with HTML?

2002-09-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 18 September 2002 09:35, Andre Berger wrote: I have to mask a in a URL (HTML 4.01 Transitional, text/html; charset=utf-8) that pointing to a CGI script; amp; doesn't work. You can mask special characters a la %20 in HTML. What encoding is this, and where can I find a listing?

Re: need advice on building packages from source

2002-09-17 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 17 September 2002 14:40, Cameron Matheson wrote: I dont' really want to build everything from source (that takes way too long on my k6-2), but i was thinking maybe compiling glibc, moz, (g|bz)ip, etc might be a good thing... what would be the best way to go about this? two

Re: gcc-3.2 on a testing box

2002-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 06 September 2002 06:48, John Schmidt wrote: Hi, I am nervous about the removal of modutils and modconf and the update of binutils libc6 libc6-dev libgcc1 locales. Will this mess up my current testing development enviroment or are the dependencies such that things will just work?

Re: cal

2002-09-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Friday 06 September 2002 10:56, Marvin J. Kosmal wrote: Hi Gang Why can't I do apt-get install cal It tells me there is no cal I thought calendar was a standard function??? TIA Marvin $ auto-apt search bin/cal usr/sbin/callback comm/mgetty usr/X11R6/bin/calctool

Re: how long does stuff in /var/tmp stick around?

2002-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 05 September 2002 12:44, Dan Jacobson wrote: I know that stuff in /tmp sticks around until the next of my daily power-ups, but what about /var/tmp for the default woody configuration? Seems like months, but I'd like to know if there's some cleaner program that is going to come

Re: Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
is wrong w/ flux, or how i could fix this? Thanks, Cameron Matheson Look at /etc/menu-methods/fluxbox and compare it to /etc/menu-methods/blackbox. Then beat yourself with a trout for using fluxbox instead of blackbox (-: Shaleh blackbox maintainer and developer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: fonts too large

2002-09-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 20:37, David Zelinsky wrote: I recently upgraded to woody (actually I ended up doing a clean install, for reasons I won't get into), and now most of the fonts in application windows are way too large. Examples include: menus, dialog boxes and input fields in

Re: New Debian Installer -PGI Debian

2002-09-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Tuesday 03 September 2002 08:34, alex wrote: Does anyone who has first hand knowledge about PGI Debian know if the original Progeny Installer problems have been fixed in the new version? I believe this new version is supposed to be adaptable to install any version of Debian. I do not

Re: fonts too large

2002-09-04 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Wednesday 04 September 2002 19:50, Brian Nelson wrote: But note that, as stated in xfonts-100dpi description field, xfonts-100dpi may be more suitable for large monitors and/or large screen resolutions (over 1024x768). In that case, you'd be better off just changing the font size manually

RE: api calls

2002-06-29 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: need to find out what are the so called API's under linux I need to understand this in simple terms and how to access if that is posable API standards for application programming interface. It is the definition of how two things talk to each

Re: Which window manager to use?

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
-- Straightforward graphical configuration. native simple option menus some things still require hand editing of a rc but that is minimal. bbconf also exists to aid graphical configuring. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

RE: moves dot files to different directory

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2002 Henning, Brian wrote: hello all- I have the task of moving all my hidden files to another directory. how can i select only these files and not the standard files. ls .* doesn't seem to work. try: find . -name .* -print and go from there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

RE: unzip from sid requires libc5

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2002 Wayne Topa wrote: I ran deborphan last week and removed libc5, among others. I received a zip file today and found that unzip 5.50-1 from unstable requires libc5 but apt-cache show unzip does not have it listed as a requirement. Seems odd that a program in unstable would

Re: unzip from sid requires libc5

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Right. ldd /usr/bin/unzip shows libc.so.6 = /lib/libc.so.6 (0x4001b000) /lib/ld-linux.so.2 = /lib/ld-linux.so.2 (0x4000) It is something screwed up with 'my' account! It gives this error unzip: can't load library 'libc.so.5' when run as me but works fine when run

RE: Ot c++ programming in linux

2002-06-28 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 29-Jun-2002 faisal gillani wrote: Well i am a newbie learning c++ these days we are being thaught on turbo c 3.0 but as like other things i want to work on c++ in linux .. so i installed gcc on my linux box but i dont have any idea how to install it for example i write a program as

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
And not that I don't like /. but I'm not sure that /. has anything to do with any slowdown on gnome.org. Other sites were talking about gnome 2 before /. In fact, I saw the announcement on PCLinuxOnline. And the developer of CVSGnome emailed me his notice of the improved scripts seconds

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Isn't there an independent website that keeps stats for sites - and would have this month's access for /. ? Sorry, I'm in the middle of a download of GNOME 2 - or I'd check myself rather than asking. And since I'm using a 56K modem, my surfing ability is limited until after the download.

RE: apt and packages from outside the distro

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 27-Jun-2002 Michael Jinks wrote: Hi, all. I think I just need to RTFM but I don't know where. As established at considerable length in another thread, I need to install XFree86 4.2 on a woody machine. I have lots of URL's for mirrors of the version currently being tested, for example:

RE: no expect bugs??

2002-06-27 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 28-Jun-2002 Michael P. Soulier wrote: Hey people, I raised a Severity grave bug against Expect in Sid today, and I saw it earlier. I went to check on it now, and I find no bugs against Expect at all. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/pkgreport.cgi?pkg=Expect What gives?

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

2002-06-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 26-Jun-2002 Jeremy Turner wrote: On Wed, 2002-06-26 at 15:19, Alex Malinovich wrote: Fresh from slashdot, Gnome 2.0 is released. Anyone care to place bets on when we'll see debs of it? :) Who knows. I'm looking forward to it though! I'm trying to get some screenshots from

RE: Replacement for X-Windows?

2002-06-26 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
One other thing: I am stuck knowing only BASIC. Anyone willing to bring this idea to fruition, however, would have my blessings. go right now to http://www.python.org. Easy, fun, elegant. You should be able to use it in about two or 3 days and be really proficient in 3 months. -- To

Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: On Tue, 25 Jun 2002 14:34:52 +0200 J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip, snip That's because Debian tries to stick as closely as is reasonably possible to official gcc releases. 2.96 (of which there appear to be many versions which

RE: X, Window manager, and startup question

2002-06-25 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Dave Whiteley wrote: Help please, I am using xdm and icewm, (but I suspect that my problem relates to other window managers as well). I start up several applications at login, using .xsession but these all start up in the first virtual screen. Is there any way in which I can

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