Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: - Original Message - From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2003 11:31 PM Subject: Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: Please reply to the list

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Brian Potkin wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:26PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: If pinging is successful you should now be able to connect with the browser and use your username and password to set up the ADSL link with BT. Brian. Well, I got this far: pinging

Re: Connecting ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Tim Gunning wrote: -Original Message- From: David Baron [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11 December 2003 08:22 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re:Connecting ADSL Same problem! Note that many ADSL modem do NOT support PPPoE which makes them difficult to

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: - Original Message - From: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, December 11, 2003 9:27 AM Subject: Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL On 11 Dec 2003, Brian Potkin wrote: On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31

Re: Can't connect with my new ADSL

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2003, Brian Potkin wrote: On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:56:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: Believe it or not, I've actually made some progress. Won't bore everyone with the details, but it included using a different cable and 10.0.0.1 to set it up followed by 10.0.0,2

Re: Mozilla Java plugin

2002-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Dec 2002, Aryan Ameri wrote: hi there: Using apt-get I have installed jdk1.1 runtime only (Sun's JRE) on my sarge. However I don't know how to add java to mozilla's/konqueror's plugins. I know there should be a file called libjavaplugin* or something like thisand that I should make

Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
I added a folder from my bookmark file to the Personal Toolbar in Mozilla 1.0.0, resulting in a lot of new buttons. I now want to remove these entries from the toolbar (but not from the bookmark list). This appears to be impossible. From the help file: Removing Bookmarks From the Personal

Re: Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 27 Dec 2002, Kent West wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: I added a folder from my bookmark file to the Personal Toolbar in Mozilla 1.0.0, resulting in a lot of new buttons. I now want to remove these entries from the toolbar (but not from the bookmark list). This appears to be impossible

Re: Mozilla: Personal Toolbar bug?

2002-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Dec 2002, Paul Scott wrote: Anthony Campbell wrote: [snip] The Personal Toolbar is within the Manage Bookmarks window and is available for drag and drop. I just tested doing what you described. I am using 1.2.1 but I am sure I have been able to do this through many versions

Re: Where's /etc/rc.d/rc.local???

2003-01-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Jan 2003, Elijah wrote: Hi! I've been having problems with my second drive (hdd) since everytime I browse through it pauses on occasion and gives some I/O errors. I somehow solved it with hdparm: hdparm -c 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -d 1 /dev/hdd hdparm -k 1 /dev/hdd I'm quite sure the -k

Re: capture realaudio

2003-01-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2003, Kenneth Dombrowski wrote: Ludwig wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 21:04, sean finney wrote: heya, i had to do something similar myself recently, and iirc vsound did the trick. check it out (it's in the vsound package). if not there's another package or two that also do a

Re: ppp connection is terminated after 2 hours

2003-01-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 12 Jan 2003, Sven Bornemann wrote: John Hasler wrote: Sven writes: I think somehow I must make the ISP server belief that I just logged on, while I'm online for one and a half our or so... Or just add the 'persist' option so that pppd dials up again whenever it gets

Re: Image thumbnailer

2003-01-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Jan 2003, Stephen Birch wrote: apt-get install curator On Sunday 12 January 2003 15:42, Trey Sizemore wrote: I have a lot of photos (jpeg's) that I would like to be able to batch thumbnail possibly rename. Any suggestions for a program to 'easily' do this? I will explore all

Re: How to change start up screen resolution for X?

2003-01-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 20 Jan 2003, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:10:20PM -0800, Osamu Aoki wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 03:39:29PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote: On Mon, Jan 20, 2003 at 01:50:45PM -0600, will trillich wrote: all i can get is 800x600 which ain't much. :( i've

Re: Permissions denied when enabling DMA

2003-08-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Aug 2003, Wayne Gemmell wrote: Hi The kernel you're using doesn't have support for your IDE chipset. This is why the kernel didn't enable DMA on its own. How would you recomend that I get support? apt-get *new-kernel*, or apt-get source? Are there maybe modules that I should be

kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
Just trying out kernel 2.6.0-test2 (from source). Everything seems to work apart from sound; it loads my sound card (Ensoniq 1371) but on trying to play sound files I get a message saying that /dev/dsp is not found. It is there and the same card works with kernel 2.4.21. Any suggestions for what

Re: kernel-2.6.0 says no /dev/dsp - no sound

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Aug 2003, Tom White wrote: OSS API emulation needs to be enabled in the ALSA section of the kernel options, (the mixer and digital sections. If it still doesn't work, try man MAKEDEV ~Tom White On Tue, Aug 05, 2003 at 01:31:59PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: Just trying out

Can't install or remove tetex packages

2003-08-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving these packages and reinstalling them? AC -- [EMAIL

Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

2003-08-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
My Riva TNT2 AGP card has just packed up and I'm looking for a replacement that will work reliably on Linux with a 19 monitor. I don't play games so I need something fairly basic but with good 2D performance and AGP. Any recommendations please? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Joerg Johannes wrote: On Wednesday 06 August 2003 16:56, Anthony Campbell wrote: Never do this! I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know how long it will take to get

Kernel 2.6.0-test2 - odd printing error

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
I use lpr with magicfilter for printing and it works well with kernel 4.2.21. With 2.4.60-test2, I can only print plain text; other types of file don't print. The log file says: lp: filter 'f' terminated (termsig=101) I can't imagine why this happens. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Really stupid use of cleanlinks

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
Never do this! I just ran cleanlinks on my root directory; really stupid thing to do! Lots of things were deleted which should not have been and I don't know how long it will take to get things back working; only just restored ppp. Possibly a new installation will be required? AC -- [EMAIL

Re: Basic 2D graphics card for Linux?

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
Thanks to everyone for helpful comments. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and skeptical articles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Linux 2.6.0-test 3 released!

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Aug 2003, Rthoreau wrote: Just thought I would pass the good news to those few brave souls who are testing the new kernel. Seems a lot of bugs are fixed, you can find the sourse at the normal sources. Also slashdot.org has a good thread going. Also on a side note tell us how your

Re: Can't install or remove tetex packages - SOLVED

2003-08-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Aug 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: Following a disaster with cleanlinks my tetex-base, tetex-bin, and tetex-extra are in a mess. According to dpkg -C they are half-installed and half-configured. I cannot either reinstall or remove. Can anyone suggest a safe method of rmoving

CD players not working although sound otherwise fine

2003-08-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
I can't use any of the apps that are supposed to work on my CD drive such as cdplay, dcd, xmcd. Sound is otherwise fine: I can play mp3 files from the hard disk and I can listen to CDs by pressing the buttons manually. Attempts to use the above apps produce the following errors: ac:~:$ cdplay

Re: CD players not working although sound otherwise fine - SOLVED

2003-08-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Aug 2003, Edward Murrell wrote: Try chmod 770 /dev/hdc Other than that, try running it as root. One thing you may find useful as a side note is the digital CD plugin for XMMS. apt-get install xmms-cdread It enables reading of CD's so the digital-analog conversion is done on the

Re: CUPS alt.

2003-09-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Sep 2003, David Palmer wrote: Hi, I don't know about the HL1440, but Turboprint drives the HL1270N, HL1450, and the HL1470. Regards, David. /quote:Hello, after minor difficulties I've gotten cups to work on my decrepit laptop, using a brother hl-1440 laserprinter (the

glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. Two questions: 1. What exactly does this module do? 2. If it is important, is there any way to enable it? Product of glxinfo: ac:~:$

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Sep 2003, csj wrote: At Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. That might be the problem. Not too well supported. But don't trust me on this. I don't own that card. Eveything works provided I don't

Re: glx and xfree86 not working: why?

2003-09-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Sep 2003, Tim Connors wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Mon, 8 Sep 2003 16:55:39 +0100: I am using xserver-xfree86 4.2.1-6 with a Matrox G550 card. Eveything works provided I don't enable the glx module in /etc/X11/XF86-Config-4. Two questions: 1. What

Re: Video Card for Woody

2003-09-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Sep 2003, Richard Otte wrote: On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 12:13:48AM +0200, Mario Vukelic wrote: I did nothing special at all. It worked out of the box with both the XFree driver and the Matrox-supplied driver. My XF86Config-4 includes this: Section Device Identifier MATROX

Appearance of xterm in xdosemu?

2003-09-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the characteristics of this xterm are set. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using

Re: Appearance of xterm in xdosemu? - PARTIALLY SOLVED

2003-10-01 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 30 Sep 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: Where does xdosemu set the appearance of the xterm it uses? I want to make it larger and also make it a normal subshell to prevent the appearance being messed up. But I can't see where the characteristics of this xterm are set. I finally discovered

Re: Canon Powershot A40 support?

2003-02-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Feb 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Feb 07, 2003 at 02:07:22PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm thinking of buying a Canon Powershot A40 but need to confirm that it is supported in Linux. The gphoto2 website only lists the A50, which seems to be an older model. One or two people

Re: hard lock ups

2003-02-08 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 07 Feb 2003, Scott Henson wrote: The past few days I have been experiencing some hard lock-ups on my computer and I was wondering if anyone had an idea of what was going on. Basically the screen freezes and the caps lock and scroll lock lights blink about once a second. The box will not

Re: editing a text file in a tar.gz file without decompressing

2003-02-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 08 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In linux.debian.user, you wrote: On Sat, Feb 08, 2003 at 11:32:52AM +0100, Calber Chainy wrote: I have example.tar.gz, and I know in it there is a file named document.text, a plain text file that I want to edit. So I wondered if there is such an

Curious cursor effect with gtkam

2003-02-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
When trying to use gtkam I found the cursor disappeared and I had to either exit X altogether or revert to the console and then go back to X before it would appear again. After some fiddling I found that the problem was in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, where the mouse device was given as /dev/mouse.

Re: did www.debian.org change recently?

2003-02-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Feb 2003, Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: -- nate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (on Monday, 10 February 2003, 08:39 AM -0800): tryin to figure out why www.debian.org crashes my phoenix 0.5. if I remove my profile it loads, but otherwise it crashes. other debian pages such as: snip

Bogus emails being sent out by me!

2003-02-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from or what is happening. Does anyone else see anything of the kind? AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Bogus emails being sent out by me!

2003-02-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Feb 2003, Mark Janssen wrote: On Thu, 2003-02-13 at 13:30, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm getting notifications of emails having failed which were allegedly sent by me to addresses I never heard of. I presume this is some sort of attack but I can't figure out where it is coming from

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files? -SOLVED

2003-02-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Feb 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work either. Is there any way of playing these files in Linux

Re: Any way to play Canon movie files?

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 15 Feb 2003 09:33:35 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I tried to use xmovie to play a movie file made with the Canon Powershot A40, which is in .AVI format. It wasn't recognized, and trying to convert it to a different format doesn't work

Re: Mozilla Debian Package 1.2.1-9

2003-02-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Feb 2003, Nathan Poznick wrote: Thus spake Jeff Elkins: Regarding this package, is there a way to enlarge the menu font sizes? They are so tiny I'm going blind! I'm at 1024x768, but prior to the upgrade it was much more readable. Probably the best way to do this (and ensure that

Re: spamassassin - three basic questions

2003-02-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Feb 2003, Glyn Millington wrote: Levi Waldron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I actually find spamassassin runs pretty slowly on my K6-2/500MHz 384MB machine (I know it's not real fast but not a dinosaur either). It takes about 5-10 seconds per message, so before I started filtering my

Re: phoenix - how to make java work?

2003-02-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Feb 2003, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all much to my deslike, several sites that i refer to, have java content. and despite my several attempts, i have not been able to run java under phoenix. here is what i have done so far: download phoenix precompiled binary tar ball and

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Oct 2002, Mark Carroll wrote: On 15 Oct 2002, Jens Grivolla wrote: Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Tue, Oct 15, 2002 at 12:57:25PM +0200, Jens Grivolla wrote: Obviously it can. But you just don't want to use exim _at all_ to receive mail on a machine that is not

Re: using exim for simple mail delivery

2002-10-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: On Tue, 15 Oct 2002 15:39:18 +0100 Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This seems very odd. I thought that Debian set up exim more or less by default. It does, for _delivery_ of mail provided to it. The OP was looking for a simple way

Re: spamassassin + exim

2002-10-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Oct 2002, Iain. wrote: Gottfried Szing [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: i would suggest to replace the spamassassin with spamc/spamd. spamd is a daemon which runs in the background and spamc controls the daemon. I've got a couple of problems with spamd. First is that it doesn't appear to

Re: posting delay

2002-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Oct 2002, Jamin W.Collins wrote: On Thu, 17 Oct 2002 14:10:18 -0400 Matt Price [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 17, 2002 at 06:21:33PM +0200, Kenneth Macdonald Karlsen wrote: When i send a message it takes about 1-3 hours before it shows up. I'm having the same

Re: Setting Sound volumn

2002-10-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Oct 2002, Rob Weir wrote: [snip] I'm not sure...Are you sure the aumix is running on bootup and shutdown? If you watch the messages flying past on the screen during both, you should be able to see if it's there. You're not using ALSA are you? -rob If you are using X most of the

Dosemu can't find vga font

2002-10-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
After a recent upgrade of dosemu it won't find a suitable font. In /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I have: _X_font = vga# basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/* # (without extension) e.g. vga. but dosemu says unable to open font vga. I've seen this after

Re: Dosemu can't find vga font - SOLVED

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Oct 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: After a recent upgrade of dosemu it won't find a suitable font. In /etc/dosemu/dosemu.conf I have: _X_font = vga# basename from /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc/* # (without extension) e.g. vga. but dosemu says

Re: sudo - unable to lookup host via gethostbyname()

2002-10-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Oct 2002, Shawn Lamson wrote: Hi all - I changed my hostname from callerio to callerio.piscat.nj and now when i invoke sudo i get the followin message: slamson@callerio:~$ sudo -v sudo: unable to lookup callerio.piscat.nj via gethostbyname() this follows across reboots, if

Re: Icewm hotkeys to run a program

2002-10-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Oct 2002, Michael Montagne wrote: I have a directory called .icewm in my home directory and within that a file called keys with some already set. I bet there is one in /etc/X11/icewm too. HTH On 25/10/02, from the brain of Mike Dresser tumbled: I've looked a fair amount, and

Re: Booting from Debian CD

2002-10-27 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 26 Oct 2002, Mark Copper wrote: I'm trying to reinstall Debian. It's a 3 yr old PC but I put in a new hard disk drive and power supply. I've told the BIOS to boot from the CD, but I get the message disk boot failure, insert system disk and press enter. I tried 3 cd drives, tried both my

Re: locales and accented charaters

2002-10-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Oct 2002, Matt Price wrote: hi, I've also been having trouble with locales and been reading this and other threads trying to fix them... I haven't been able to get things to work -- but I noticed that localeconf went through everything TWICE on my ystem, and that on the second

Re: cannot 'startx' -fatal IO error

2002-11-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Nov 2002, Kent West wrote: cmustard wrote: I have just installed the basic `x' package on a toshiba satellite 335CDS laptop, ( circa 98 ). I run debian 3.0, kernel 2.4.18. Here is some excerpts of my errror file. I would appreciate any help or insight any onw could provide. TIA

aptitude not working after using alien

2002-11-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
I no doubt mistakenly tried to install a package using alien. It didn't install properly but it still shows up as an available package in aptitude (though in a rather broken form). If I try to do anything with it, aptitude crashes. Is there some way to delete all mention of this package from

Re: aptitude not working after using alien -SOLVED

2002-11-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Nov 2002, Anthony Campbell wrote: I no doubt mistakenly tried to install a package using alien. It didn't install properly but it still shows up as an available package in aptitude (though in a rather broken form). If I try to do anything with it, aptitude crashes. Is there some way

Re: aptitude not working after using alien

2002-11-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Nov 2002, Bob Proulx wrote: Travis Crump [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2002-11-10 14:54:11 -0500]: Bob Proulx wrote: Yes. But if the package has already been uninstalled then you can't purge it. You must install it again and then remove it using purge. Sure you can, I just tried it. I

Re: xpdf hogging processor

2002-11-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Nov 2002, Glyn Kennington wrote: Hello, I've just tried to view the PDF at http://www.hse.gov.uk/pubns/indg36.pdf (1.5MB) with xpdf. It works fine until page 12, when the system slows to a crawl. top tells me that XFree is using 75-80% CPU and xpdf is using most of the rest. I

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Mar 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Anyone know of any spam filter reviews? I went from junkfilter to spamfilter and I'm currently using spamassassin. But for some reason, I've gone from 1 or 2 messages in my +inbox to day to dozens. Are there other filters that are more state of

Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Anthony Campbell
A preliminary attempt to set up CUPS was rather demanding and I'm wondering if there is much point on a single-user system. Most of my printing is quite straightforward (plain text and only occasional images) and it works well with apsfilter or magicfilter, so is there any reason to spend several

Re: Spam filter reviews?

2003-03-19 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 18 Mar 2003, Bill Wohler wrote: Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed bogofilter about 10 days ago and have been extremely impressed. Previously with spamassassin I was getting several false-negatives daily but now I hardly ever get even one. The training scheme

Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose

2003-04-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Apr 2003, Joey Hess wrote: John Griffiths wrote: what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've had no problems writing documents in that range with vim. Folding becomes fairly useful

Re: Updates to Sarge?

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Nov 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: Is it just me and my choice of mirrors, or have the number of packages moving from Sid to Sarge fallen off recently due to some dependency on Sid blocking moves? I have had virtually no updated packages since the Twente fire, and it happens that many of the

Can I eliminate carriage returns when sending to mac

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
I have to send text files to a publisher who uses a mac. The files are written with vim and sent via mutt. I am told that all the lines have carriage returns. I've tried using no textwidth setting in vim and have converted the files to mac format but it still doesn't work. I also sent them as rtf

Re: Can I eliminate carriage returns when sending to mac

2002-11-28 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 28 Nov 2002, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Thu, Nov 28, 2002 at 02:43:45PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: | I have to send text files to a publisher who uses a mac. | | The files are written with vim and sent via mutt. I am told that all the | lines have carriage returns. I've tried

Re: spamassassin razor

2002-11-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Nov 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2002-11-29 um 09.13 schrieb Nicolas SABOURET: Hi, I installed spamassassin and I use it locally (with a user's .forward and a .procmailrc, as told in the README file). I also installed razor. How can I make sure whether it is used by

Mozilla and x-java-vm

2002-12-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? I have the java debs from Blackdown but I still get a message telling me I need to install this plugin. Oddly enough, it seems to be there for Netscape, but I can't find it anywhere on my disk. A search on Google brings up

Re: Mozilla and x-java-vm - SOLVED

2002-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Mon, 2002-12-09 at 10:54, Wim De Smet wrote: On Mon, 9 Dec 2002 15:17:38 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a plugin anywhere for Mozilla to use application/x-java-vm? I've now got this working, thanks to the following very

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-10 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 10 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: The subject line says it all. Regards. Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Some listen again pages on the

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Thanks. Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real Player but I can't find one now

Re: Which plugin to listen to internet radio on mozilla?

2002-12-11 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 11 Dec 2002, Johann Spies wrote: On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 03:20:00PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I use RealPlay for unix, which is the only thing that works for the BBC. Thanks. Earlier there was a realplayer installer package to install Real Player but I can't find one now

Re: www.uk.debian.org

2002-12-13 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Dec 2002, Matthias Hentges wrote: Am Fre, 2002-12-13 um 11.02 schrieb Rus Foster: Hi, Can anyone else reach www.uk.debian.org or is it just demon being crud? The server seems to be down. -- Quite often is, I find. I generally avoid it. AC -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolas SABOURET wrote: Salut, J'utilise spamassassin pour filtrer mon courier ? moi, ? l'aide d'un .forward et d'une r?gle procmail. Quand j'ai trop de mail d'un coup (genre apr?s un we), il p?te les plombs et j'obtiens des : Out of memory: Killed process 12786

Re: spamassassin out of memory

2002-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Lloyd Zusman wrote: Small but significant correction. See below ... Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [snip] Translation: I use spamassassin to filter my mail using .forward and a procmail rule. When I have too much mail it suddenly, usually after a we

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2002, Nicolaus Kedegren wrote: I could not agree more with you. A used HPLJ4 cost me $125, and a refill cartridge about $45 at the same place. Although, I do believe that the toner cartridge was full, 500 pages so far and still going strong. My personal Computer related Best Buy

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a used HPLJ6, which I got for nothing because it was being thrown out. It works well with Linux but the sheets in the paper feed constantly stick together so it is difficult to use except

Re: Printer Recommendations?

2002-12-17 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 17 Dec 2002, Jon Dick wrote: On Tue, 17 Dec 2002 12:00:43 + Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 17 Dec 2002, Mark L. Kahnt wrote: On Tue, 2002-12-17 at 04:19, Anthony Campbell wrote: I have a used HPLJ6, which I got for nothing because it was being thrown out

Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
I haven't been able to get to www.debian.org today or to ping it either. Is it down at present? Not another compromise I hope... Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux GNU/Debian || for book reviews, electronic Windows-free zone || books and

Correct place for networking commands in Debian?

2003-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
To set up my ADSL router I have to do: ifconfig eth0 192.168.1.1 netmask 255.0.0.0 up route add default gw 192.168.1.2 eth0 Where is the correct Debian place to put these - /etc/network/interfaces perhaps, or should they go in rc.local? Anthony -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]||

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Dec 2003, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 03:23:38PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I haven't been able to get to www.debian.org today or to ping it either. Is it down at present? Not another compromise I hope... Works for me, and I haven't heard anything about downtime

Re: Correct place for networking commands in Debian?

2003-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 05:01:35PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: At present mine reads: # /etc/network/interfaces -- configuration file for ifup(8), ifdown(8) # The loopback interface # automatically added when upgrading auto lo eth0 iface

Re: Debian down at present?

2003-12-15 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 15 Dec 2003, Debian User wrote: I just tried the site and CAN get to it. At Monday, 15 December 2003, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't been able to get to www.debian.org today or to ping it either. Is it down at present? Not another compromise I hope... Anthony

Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables commands produces: root:~:# iptables -F modprobe: Can't locate module ip_tables iptables v1.2.9: can't initialize

Re: Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2003, Anita Lewis wrote: On Tue, 16 Dec 2003 09:43:06 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables commands

Re: Iptables can't locate its modules

2003-12-16 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 16 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote: On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:43:06AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to set up iptables using kernel 2.4.23. I've installed iptables and iptables-dev from testing and I've enabled CONFIG_NETFILTER but all attempts to execute the iptables

Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java

2003-12-21 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've been using java (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became impossible to run firebird at all. I reinstalled it; no luck. I therefore fetched the

Re: Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java - SOLVED

2003-12-22 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 21 Dec 2003, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've been using java (j2re1.4.2_01) for some time without problems on mozilla-firebird 0.7. Today it crashed repeatedly when accessing a particular site (the Telegraph newspaper web page) and finally it became impossible to run firebird at all. I

Re: Mozilla-Firebird segfaults with java

2003-12-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 22 Dec 2003, Kristian Niemi wrote: There's been some writing about similar problems earlier in this newsgroup. Search it? In short; I had the same problem, caused by the same thing (libjavaplugin). I had downloaded the java from Sun's pages. Problem solved when I, instead, apt-got the

Re: Could you give an example iptables script? (Help... I want to learn this stuff)

2003-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Dec 2003, Joris Huizer wrote: Hello everybody, I'm planning to use iptables as it seems it's powerfull and it will let me choose really what is allowed and what is not (because of p2p stuff etc. which allways keeps complaining - and out of curiosity) However, I never used iptables

Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using 1600x1200 but many menus are so small that they can hardly be seen. I can of course use a lower resolution but is there anywhere where these things are set globally? I've often looked but never found anything. A. -- [EMAIL

Re: Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 24 Dec 2003, John Smith wrote: On Wed, 2003-12-24 at 18:29, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anywhere to set default fonts in X? Currently I'm using 1600x1200 but many menus are so small that they can hardly be seen. I can of course use a lower resolution but is there anywhere where

Re: Default size for fonts in X?

2003-12-26 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 25 Dec 2003, GCS wrote: On Thu, Dec 25, 2003 at 09:48:41AM +, Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Interesting suggestion; thanks, but it doesn't have any visible effect here. Perhaps laptops are different? I'm wondering if xfs might help. Hmmm. Can't you just increase

Re: latex prosper

2003-12-29 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 29 Dec 2003, gustavo wrote: Hello Please I need some help with LaTeX. I can't get working prosper class (And other ones that also are for presentations). I try every think. For example I was take a 'Example.tex' from /usr/doc/prosper/examples/ Run it with elatex (and looks

Re: best practices on debian

2003-12-30 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 31 Dec 2003, Akira Kitada wrote: On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:49:57PM -0500, Anthony DiSante wrote: [snip] to know what things you can get is http://www.debian.org/distrib/packages This is down at present. A. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]|| http://www.acampbell.org.uk using Linux

Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba Satellite. I keep getting the error message: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum available. Note: not updating /etc/X11/XF86Config-4; no stored checksum available. I've purged and reinstalled

Re: Can't configure xserver-xfree86: no stored checksum available

2004-01-04 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Jan 2004, Colin Watson wrote: On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 10:07:49AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm trying to configure xserver-xfree86 (4.2.1-12.1 on my Toshiba Satellite. I keep getting the error message: Note: not updating /etc/X11/X; no stored checksum available

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