On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, John Holland wrote:
Can anyone say how stable the experimental XFree86 4.3 packages are? Is
there any reliable way to install this into debian? I'm running a mix of
stable and unstable.
Thanks,
I've been using Xfree-4.3 for awhile (first Daniel Stone's packages
and now
oopps
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003, Bruce Sass wrote:
2) explicitly tell apt you want to fetch from experimental, either:
# apt-get -t experimental install ...
or
--- /etc/apt/sources.list ---
s/b /etc/apt/apt.conf
APT::Default-Release experimental;
---
The sources.list method is a must if you
On Wed, 29 Oct 2003, matt wrote:
hi, the other day my woody machine just kinda stopped working...upon a
reboot i learned via beep-codes that the ram had failed. i broke out the
shop-vac and cleaned it out and it started to boot...here's where the
troubble began...
...
Unable to andle kernel
...we have plenty of free software, and as we all know,
Linux will get you through times of no money better than money will
get you through times of no Linux...
:-)
ditto
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Daniel Stone's packages have migrated from penguinppc.org to Sid, so you
no longer need those sources.list entries you mentioned (but you did
Are you sure? I just did an apt-get update, but it still
shows 4.2.1 :
They are in experimental.
Apt will not fetch them unless you explicitly
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999, Steve Lamb wrote:
On Wed, 20 Jan 1999 10:01:35 +0100, Antonio A. Rivas Ojanguren wrote:
You can start with any language. For a complete beginner, I would advocate
Scheme. Even if you don't want to do big projects in Scheme, you can start
very fast. A good book on
On Thu, 21 Jan 1999, Harrison, Shawn wrote:
How does Python rate as a beginners language?
From the little I've looked at it, I'd say it's a good starting place.
The syntax is clean, the organization logical, and the new learner can
begin using OOP in his or her programming career.
On Wed, 24 Feb 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On 25 Feb 1999, Peter Makholm wrote:
But then it may conflict with the DSFG
Which is why it would go in non-free with all the rest of the stuff that
conflicts with the DFSG.
***
* Who
Note: If you have no interest in the package tree but use GIT,
or are interested in a file system centered interface to dpkg,
you may want to skip to the end of this message.
What I am about to describe is not feasible for initial installations or
system upgrades... but if you are
I agree with Ben here - the binary distribution should remain _at least_
486 compatible, if not 386 compatible.
It should be compatible with anything Linux can run on...
say a i386, 4M RAM, 20M(?) flash drive and late '80s video.
- Bruce
On Wed, 10 Mar 1999, Kris Van Heghe wrote:
- Sometimes, even during or just after starting the machine, at one of the
virtual terminals, there is a message saying INIT respawning to fast,
disabled for 5 minutes. Logging in on that vt is then impossible, trying
on another vt gives me the
On Thu, 11 Mar 1999, Pollywog wrote:
Is there a way for me to be able to mount both /a and /floppy on the KDE
desktop (no, not at the same time)? It seems I will have to mount /a from the
command line only, when I need to mount a dos floppy (not often).
There is gitmount (package: git).
I recall hearing that dark text on a light background was best in most
situations... easier on the eyes when you are going back and forth
between printed and displayed texts.
dark gray on light gray is better than black on white, IMO.
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On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, Ian Keith Setford wrote:
Aside
On Tue, 16 Mar 1999, Ares wrote:
You may also have a power quality problem, or a problem with the system
power supply.
That sounds plausible, and should be the first thing one checks if a
system is flakey after adding hardware.
also
Digital circuits use more power as the clock speed
I am running a 4M RAM/40M HDD i386 setup with DGL 2.1, and do not use
dselect because it segfaults way too much - using dpkg alone works just
fine if I don't try to do too much in one run.
(try adding this to your /etc/profile: alias dpkg='dpkg --smallmem').
Have you tried to get a handle on how
When all else fails, do it manually.
After you have hunted down the files in the package (via
/var/lib/dpkg/info/qpage.list, don't forget to check the
../info/qpage.{pre,post}inst scripts for files created or modified),
use a text editor and remove the qpage entries in
What would be really nice is if there was such a thing as addendum
packages for stuff that doesn't really deserve to have a package to
itself, but would result in package bloat if they were incorporated into
the base packages. e.g., All the little python-* packages.
Instead of having a separate
I need to get to my debian 5.2 system from my
^^
So, is support for RedHat so poor that RH users need to ask for help
from the Debian community? ;)
later,
Bruce
Has a more primitive method been considered (i.e., an option to dpkg
which tries to purge or remove stuff a package depends on)?
e.g., dpkg --remove|--purge [--excise] package
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On Mon, 29 Mar 1999, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Mark Phillips wrote:
[snip nice suggestion]
This has already
I'm running a 386 with 4M RAM and a 40M HDD.
Slink (Debian 2.1) takes about 33M of free HDD space to install,
in addition to the virtual memory swap space and a 2M temporary root
partition.
The minimum amount of swap needed is determined by the peak in VM usage
that occurs when the device
Check the # /sbin/getty invocations ... section in /etc/inittab.
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On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Chris Brown wrote:
We just did a fresh install of slink on one of our machines, and set
the root password just fine. The install finished, we played around
with it for a little while, then rebooted.
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
The issue is not that the Linux kernel would still be available
as open-source, the problem is what happens when 85-95% of app
developers are writing their software only for RH. The 'open
source' community would not be terribly affected, and would
On Wed, 31 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Bruce Sass wrote:
On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
The issue is not that the Linux kernel would still be available
as open-source, the problem is what happens when 85-95% of app
developers are writing their software only for RH
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Bruce Sass wrote:
[snip]
So the scenario is that some proprietary, closed source, program is what
you want, and that it has been built with RH in mind. To be forced into
dual booting RH to run it would mean that the software relies
[I've made some big cuts. If I cut out anything you think I should have
addressed then feel free to bring it up again.]
On Fri, 2 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
Bruce Sass wrote:
On Thu, 1 Apr 1999, Ed Cogburn wrote:
... Anybody with
better knowledge like to speak up here?
ditto
You can always use dpkg-deb to have a look at a package,
without touching the dpkg DB.
Try:
dpkg-deb --help
- Bruce
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On Mon, 5 Apr 1999, Gary Singleton wrote:
I only ask because they have one on their site @
http://www.advasoft.com/. I downloaded it but haven't installed. I'm
There are three issues with pine
(in order of importance to Debian, imo):
1. Pine does not allow redistribution of modified binaries without
explicit permission to do so. There are three fixes: Pine provides
executables that do not require tweaking by Debian, then takes on the
job of a Debian
I get tons of segfaults when I try to do too big a job (esy to do
when you are running with 4M RAM and 6M of swap), or even after doing
lots of memory hungry jobs (using dselect or apt == repeated calls to
dpkg). Naturally I am assuming that the problem is with peaking out on
memory usage.
I
Terry,
Sorry if I misrepresented your position,
broke off does carry too much connotative baggage.
- Bruce
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On Tue, 6 Apr 1999, Terry Gray wrote:
Bruce,
I would have been much happier with phrasing such as has not yet
responded rather than the much more pejorative broke off
Excuse my ignorance (I've only ever used dos 6.20 with 1.44M disks),
but...
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space?
I usually format to 1920k
(83 tracks doesn't always work for me, so I don't use 1992k).
The larger block size and reserved space can be looked after with
mke2fs -b 512 -m 0 ..., and
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, George Bonser wrote:
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Bruce Sass wrote:
Why is ext2 wasteful of disk space?
Backup superblock, inode table, space reserved for root, etc.
Re: superblocks, we'll just have to wait until -s, sparse superblocks
works properly (2.2.x kernels
nobody's home dir is /home on my slink box.
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On Fri, 9 Apr 1999, Frank Barknecht wrote:
Robert V. MacQuarrie hat gesagt: // Robert V. MacQuarrie wrote:
I just re-installed junkbuster and during the install/start-up it gave
this error. I've seen this error (shell-init:...) when a users
Put them where they should be, then add the files to the appropriate
/var/lib/dpkg/info/java-pkg.list file. The convention is so that the
package manager knows about the files, manually adding them to the .list
accomplishes that.
- Bruce
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On 9 Apr 1999, Gary L. Hennigan wrote:
I'm doing
Try:
cat /etc/minirc.dfl
and use the same port that minicom is using.
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Tomas Petersson wrote:
Hello, I am trying to set up a PPP connection to my ISP.
Using Minicom I can dial, log in and start PPP, so far so good.
But, how do I specify which COM port the
Try:
Checking /etc/modules and commenting out auto if it is there.
With my box,
kerneld doesn't get the serial module loaded up fast enough.
If that is not it... any error messages?
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On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Daishi Harada wrote:
Hi,
I recently installed 2.1, and I can't seem to
Hmmm,
I don't do X, and therefore don't know about any differences between an
xterm and the console.
The only way I can get minicom to fire up without error messages, yet
not work, is if I tell it to use a serial port that doesn't have a modem
attached to it. i.e., I have modems on ttyS0 and
Hmmm,
Try editing /etc/{passwd,group,shadow,gshadow} manually,
(make backups first!)
then cd /home;mv ian iehrenwald,
followed by
chown * on-every-file-with-ian-permissions
(* == iehrenwald | .iehrenwald | iehrenwald.iehrenwald ).
Maybe it is simpler to create a new account for
I've been trying to setup this monitor with XF86Setup...
and not having much luck.
Luck is a good word since I haven't been able to find anything about
it via web and usenet searches, or on the XFree86 site and the monitor
specific links provided in their FAQ.
I did find a site
On 19 Apr 1999, John Hasler wrote:
Jiri writes:
That should be #! and there shouldn't be a space after it.
The space doesn't matter.
Not as far as executing the script goes, but...
Jed picks up on #!/bin/sh and starts syntax highlighting,
#! /bin/sh results in a plain text editing session.
With only 4M RAM you will have problems with the system being very slow
(lots of swapping going on).
Installing ash and linking it to /bin/sh helps a lot, as does replacing
getty with mingetty. You may also want to look at replacing bash with
something smaller.
X recommends 8M+, it may run in 4,
You can get pine/pico/pilot binary .debs (3.96 and 4.10) from:
http://www.ompages.com/debian/pkgs/pine/pine.html
[Thanks to Santiago for making the source packages,
and to Paul for compiling and making them available.]
- Bruce
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On Thu, 6 May 1999, Fu-Dong Chiou wrote:
Hi all,
On Wed, 12 May 1999, André Bell wrote:
Everytime I run anything from the command line that requires x I get one of
these errors:
- unable to open display
- cannot connect to X server
You get those errors because X is not running.
Hmmm, (since you don't want a window manager running)
One can always manually update the dpkg DB...
ya know, take a text editor to /var/lib/dpkg/{available,status} and make
the appropriate entries, then create a package.list in the info
sub-dir... In fact, if you `fill in all the blanks' it will be just like
you installed a .deb; if you leave some
Try:
http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/slink/rkrusty/binary-i386/
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On Tue, 25 May 1999, Pollywog wrote:
On 24-May-99 Chris Hoover wrote:
does anyone know of a http site that I can get debian debs of kde 1.1.1
from?
thanks,
chris
No http that I know of. I am
On Wed, 26 May 1999, Armin Wegner wrote:
On Wed, May 26, 1999 at 02:23:34AM -0500, shadowze wrote:
...
Is there a way to stop the boot process before xdm starts?
If not I guess I will have to reinstall.
Im on the digest and not on USER so make sure Im cc:'d.
Thanks in advance.
Hi
On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, pfau wrote:
hello, folks
as I´m a debian newbie (coming from suse), may be the following
questions are stupid, but I got stuck with them.
1) Is there a way to install a deb-package which is not included in the
standard distribution.
dpkg -i package(s).deb
If I try
Hmmm, it looks like you may have installed the hamm version of KDE.
If you have a slink or potato system then try the .debs from:
http://snowcrash.tdyc.com/debian/dists/
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999, Daniel González Gasull wrote:
Hi!
Stephen Pitts [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in
debian-user:
Try:
dpkg -i pkg1.deb pkg2.deb ...
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On Tue, 1 Jun 1999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm trying to install GNOME by hand, and I need to install libgnome32 to
continue. When I try to install it, I am told that it depends on having
libgnomeui32 installed. But when I try to install
That should be:
www.ompages.com
iirc.
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On Mon, 21 Jun 1999, ktb wrote:
I found what I think you were searching for here,
http://www.debian.org/Lists-Archives/debian-user-9904/msg00668.html
Unfortunately the link to http://ompages.com is dead right now but maybe
you could
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Glass wrote:
Bruce Sass wrote:
On Wed, 14 Jun 2000, Tom Glass wrote:
I'm attempting to modify runlevel 5 to start my own app. As a start, I
deleted all links from /etc/rc5.d and replaced them with links copied in
from /etc/rc1.d. (i copied rc5.d into my home
Hi,
I figured some of you may find this interesting...
-- Forwarded message --
Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 07:39:39 +0200
From: Konrad Rosenbaum [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: KDE general mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: KDE vs. Debian GPL-statements (Fwd:
On Wed, 21 Jun 2000, Thomas Gebhardt wrote:
is there a safe way to supply the user who is sitting in front
of the console (logged in with xdm) with special permissions
(i.e., to access the floppy, /dev/audio and cdrom?
Thanks for any hint!
If you don't use PAM then check out the
On 29 Jun 2000, Gary Hennigan wrote:
Nitebirdz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Just one more little question, since I'm new to Debian. How can I notice
which packages are virtual and which other are not?
Hmm. There are very few virtual packages. That's the only one I've
Everything listed
On Wed, 5 Jul 2000 kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote:
/var - 250 - 500++ MB Need can grow appreciably with large website,
newsfeeds, databases, etc.
Webspace, newsfeeds and databases aside, APT's cache takes a large chunk
of HD space... there have been reports of Potato
Sorry for messing up the thread,
I accidentally deleted the original post.
I was going to suggest chgrping everything to staff then add
yourself to group staff, but that would mess with stuff in groups:
dip, shadow, ... and result in breakage.
How much would this break?
chown -R
On Fri, 7 Jul 2000, Bruce Sass wrote:
How much would this break?
chown -R operator /etc/* ; adduser someluckyguy operator
Doh! Forget it, please :).
I guess one cup'o'coffee ain't enough.
- Bruce
have a look at:
http or ftp://ftp.debian.org/debian-archive/
- Bruce
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On Sun, 9 Jul 2000, Stephan Hachinger wrote:
You can try out ftpsearch.lycos.com. I always find lots of outdated Debian
mirrors with old packages there.
- Original Message -
From: Marcin Kurc [EMAIL
On Thu, 10 Aug 2000, Mike Werner wrote:
So I will ask yet again. Whay not go with an installation package for all
of the evil nasty non-free software, like they did for RealPlayer? And
while I'm at it, why is some non-free stuff packaged up and other non-free
stuff uses an installation
On Fri, 25 Aug 2000, Debian User wrote:
Anyone have any ideas why a data cd comes up fine but an audio cd balks?
Audio CDs do not have a filesystem on them...
there is nothing to mount.
later,
Bruce
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Jeffrey H. Young wrote:
I have an Intel 386, with 3.5-1.44MB 5.25-1.2MG floppies, a Backpack
CDROM on my parallel port, and WDC AC21200H 1279MB hard drive1 and a ST3145A
130MB hard drive2, VGA, Serial, yada yada. Your hardware requirements says
the system should have
On Wed, 6 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
...
text database is the ONLY way to go, if it were not for that i would
have been totally fscked when my /var got hosed and my backup was
inconsistent with my current package installation which confused
dpkg. (answer: emacs /var/lib/dpkg/status took a
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
I want to be able to manually add and edit entries in the DB (i.e., given
the freedom to royally screw things up if I feel so inclined), and it
doesn't matter if it is via a text editor or a special bin editor.
I'm not convinced
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, John Griffiths wrote:
Well there is SOMETHING in /dev/called dsp...
Can anyone shed some light on this?
i believe the dsp is the digital sound processor
Actually, DSP == Digital Signal Processor
Think of it as a CPU with built in ADCs, DACs (analog-to-digital and
On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor,
if you know the codes. The special dpkg editor would just make life
easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes
On 7 Sep 2000, John Hasler wrote:
Bruce Sass writes:
The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor, if
you know the codes. The special dpkg editor would just make life
easier for those not wanting to look up or learn any codes.
Ok, but I'm not sure that it would
On 8 Sep 2000, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
Bruce == Bruce Sass [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Bruce On Thu, 7 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
...
The result is still human readable and editable with any text editor,
if you know the codes. The special
On Fri, 8 Sep 2000, David Wright wrote:
Quoting Bruce Sass ([EMAIL PROTECTED]):
What is the effective difference between telling someone to make sure
the Status field reads, install ok installed, and telling them to make
sure the second field after the package name reads, 111. Sure
On Sun, 10 Sep 2000, John L . Fjellstad wrote:
Well, if you want stability and security, having used both, I must say,
both are pretty much the same. I still aren't convinced that Debian
is somehow more stable than Redhat. Doesn't make sense. Enlightenment
0.16.3 doesn't magically become
On Mon, 11 Sep 2000, Julio Merino wrote:
I would like to know where should I put my own boot up scripts. For
example, I write one to restore my mixer setup on boot up and save it
in shutdown. I saved it in /etc/init.d and then I made the appropiate
links.
I think that /etc/init.d is not the
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, Krzys Majewski wrote:
Tip 3: there are kits available which will control the speed of the PSU fan
by means of an NTC. I bought them for US$10 in the local electronics shop
and they work fine. Alternatively a resistor in the circuit of the fan
might work too for fixed
On Tue, 12 Sep 2000, William Jensen wrote:
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On Thu, 14 Sep 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
From: Julio Merino [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It doesn't. If I create /root/.bash_profile, bash uses
it. BUT root then gets a user path, not the special
root path.
Now, on my RH machine, I have this in .bash_profile:
PATH=$HOME/bin:$PATH
export PATH
On Thu, 14 Sep 2000, Sean McIlwain wrote:
Is there a linux program that will allow a demo to be generated? For
example, A tutorial on how to use a program that will produce a movie of a X
desktop with the correct sequence of commands shown.
Hmmm, not quite what you are asking for, but maybe
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Glyn Millington wrote:
1. How can I get a minimal KDE2 - which packages do I ned tio
download for a KDE2 base? (If there's a doc. on this please
point me to it..) A quick dselect trawl through the package
lists suggests that there are dozens of KDE packages some of
which
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, Ethan Benson wrote:
except this broken MTA helpfully neglects to mention WHO the user is
that has a full mailbox. so there is no way to know who to
unsubscribe.
How many subscribers from my.netvigator.com does the list have...
trash'em all (I don't have the luxury of
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000, José Luis Gómez Dans wrote:
...
If I create a quick hack (ln -s :D) libc.so.5 to the real libc,
the think segfaults (which is to be expected, I suppose). I have thought
about compiling an older libc for installation purposes (I can always
select which version of the
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Andreas Palsson wrote:
Here's a simple question.
I've not been able to set my systems time correctly.
I've used 'hwclock' and set the hardware clock, and I guess it should be
set to GMT.
But what do I do after that?
If I use 'hwclock --hctosys' the system-time will
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Bob Nielsen wrote:
You might be able to find the problem by taking a look at
/var/lib/dpkg/info/kdebase.postrm (or even running this by hand).
I've had success in similar situations by removing
/var/lib/dpkg/info/pkgname*
If it is not too late...
You may want to look in
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
The RBL is for spammers, that is, UCE (Unsolicited Commercial Email),
UBE (Unsolicited Bulk Email), also, fraud (mailbombing etc) is
sometimes considered spam.
They are sending unsolicited and inappropriate messages to anyone who
posts on
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Where is the right place?
Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are
only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the
problem.
done
- Bruce
On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Robert Waldner wrote:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000 16:27:13 MDT, Bruce Sass writes:
On Wed, 20 Sep 2000, Oliver Elphick wrote:
Ask our list admins to unsubscribe these incompetents. Since we are
only seeing responses to list postings, that will eliminate the
problem.
done
On Fri, 22 Sep 2000, Mike Leone wrote:
but as far as whether sending there spam back to them is a good or
Mailbox full messages are NOT spam. Altho the full messages are just as
annoying, spam is email for COMMERCIAL SOLICITATION.
I though spam was any inappropriate and unsolicited message
On Sun, 24 Sep 2000, Marc Meier wrote:
I am looking for qt2.2/ kde2 binaries for potato.
http://kde.tdyc.com/Debian/
will get you sources.list entries for apt
ftp://kde.tdyc.com/pub/kde/debian/dists/potato/kde2
for a more direct approach
I have still visited the usual resources for KDE-debs
On 2 Oct 2000, Brian May wrote:
Debian You could set up an alias. HTH
That doesn't work to well if you are starting X via gdm...
/etc/X11/{k,x}dm/Xservers is the place to set it for kdm and xdm, gdm is
probably the same. They are conffiles.
LyX was mentioned in the original post...
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote:
On Tue, Oct 03, 2000 at 03:21:31PM -0400, Anderson, TimTL33E wrote:
in a northern england accent
Luxury. When I were a lad I had to run a webserver on a ZX81,
without even a 16K RAM Pack. I 'ad to load all me data from C90
On Tue, 3 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
commands. This is my modem log under windows:
...
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Initializing modem.
09-11-2000 02:52:45.70 - Send: ATcr
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: ATcr
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Recv: crlfOKcrlf
09-11-2000 02:52:45.72 - Interpreted
On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Christopher W. Aiken wrote:
On Wed, Oct 04, 2000 at 08:28:36AM -0700, Parrish M Myers wrote:
-|Does anyone rember why pine isn't included in the debian install (only
-|the sources are)... I looked at the license and it doesn't seem that
-|restrictive?
I'm a Debian newbee
On Thu, 5 Oct 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm reposting my problem, since I couldn't solve it.
So, I'm not receiving (CONNECT) from my modem. When am I supposed to get
it? Just after my ISP gives me a response? Or just after it accepts my
login?
The CONNECT message comes from your modem
On Fri, 6 Oct 2000, Thomas Guettler wrote:
On Fri, Oct 06, 2000 at 12:55:30PM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote:
Mail the maintainer, I am certain he can make potato debs available.
I am interested in KDE for potato, too. Could you mail me if there are
such debs?
They are sitting at
You can hit Shift + Num_Lock to get something like MouseKeys using
the
number pad.
...
Yes, /, *, and - seem to change the flavor of the '5' key.
I've gone through Google, the XFree86 Howto, and the X User Howto
without finding any docs on this function. Ditto the FAQ (dated
On 5 Apr 2000, Bob Hilliard wrote:
I haven't seen it documented, but from experience, I believe the
daylight saving change is only done if the hardware clock is set to
GMT (UTC=yes in /etc/default/rcS).
That would be a bug, if it was true.
GMT has nothing to do with daylight saving time, and
I haven't heard of any...
but you could try Lyx, it will convert its latex output to sgml if you
have sgml-tools installed. Docbook, linuxdoc article and linuxdoc
manpage are directly supported (with the version in Potato anyways), you
may be able to get other dtds to work if you put your mind to
On Thu, 6 Apr 2000, Chris Mason wrote:
I need a text editor I can use in a telnet session that doesn't require a
Unix course to operate. I liked Pico OK but it's not included on my system,
nor on the Debian site. Any suggestions?
You can find pine, pico and pilot .debs for Potato at:
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
/etc/init.d# ./hwclock.sh show
== hwclock --show $GMT
Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system.
I don't recall seeing any report of this problem go by on debian-boot,
but you would have to check on that list (archives or ask) or
On Tue, 11 Apr 2000, Adam Shand wrote:
Which would indicate that /sbin/hwclock is hanging the system.
yah, but why?
I suppose anything from the prog itself to libc6, something with the
timezone handling, a hardware problem, or even a combination of hardware
and software specific to your
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, w trillich wrote:
what the hell is potato, in debian/linux context?
The name of the next release of Debian, also known as Debian 2.2 or
frozen.
later,
Bruce
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Mike Rayle wrote:
I am having trouble getting Debian to install on my old 486-33.
I have a Sony cdu31a attached to an ISA SoundBlaster MultiCD sound card.
I'm using a similar setup, except the cdu31a has its own card.
During the install, I told the program to include the
On Wed, 12 Apr 2000, Serena Peters wrote:
So I try to install debian with a CD-ROM
I´ve just make partition on my hard disk and all the partition are mounted !
So during the installation, the software propose to install the operating
system kernel and modules.
When I have Select
On Thu, 13 Apr 2000, Serena Peters wrote:
I have only the following error (ALT_F3) error in archive format !
What can I do ? How can I change the archive format ?
Hmmm, that'll teach me to respond when I'm in a hurry, maybe. :/
Installing from a CD, but getting an error about a floppy,
Is there a utility to convert a text file into the format used by MS's
Office 2000?
Snooping around in the editors, misc, text processing, and utils
sections of the package tree didn't turn up anything, and a search of
the ML archive for Word or Office 2000 was equally revealing (but maybe
I was
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