Re: Can someone explain this kernel panic error message? [fwd]

1999-10-28 Thread John
Just an idea :) Its not a scsi CDROM drive is it, have seen similar type problems with NT booting of scsi cdrom. If it is does the kernel have support for the scsi controller ??? Syrus Nemat-Nasser wrote: Hello folks. This is not Debian-specific, but my brother-in-law got a kernel panic

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-10-28 Thread John
on 28 Oct 99, Bryan K. Walton wrote... On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Salman Ahmed wrote: J == John [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: J Firstly, when I boot, I do not get an opportunity apply any J parameters - the reference to (I think) Peter Anwin and the boot J prompt do not appear - the word

problems with mirror

1999-10-29 Thread John
Hi all, Im using the current potato with mirror 2.9-10 ive been using mirror for a while now to mirror a couple of debian branches successfully for some time. ( I set the pc to fire up at night update then poweroff in the morn :) ) But since about a week ago it completely fail or appears to f*k

Re: problems with mirror

1999-10-30 Thread John
I would expect debian.org would be a busy mirror etc etc. But why is mirror giving me errors on a local mirror with prepending what seems /bin/ls: to file names ... huh :) thanx cheers Nathan E Norman wrote: On Sat, 30 Oct 1999, Onno wrote: : The same problems here : : I use rsync

Re: kernel upgrade options addtl

1999-11-02 Thread John
on 27 Oct 99, Brad wrote... I forget to mention in my earlier message that I had read 'Linux kernel release 2.2' and 'changes 2.2 kernels' notes. Not sure I understood everything, but I ensured I had the minimum requirements including ppp v2.3.5 (confirmed by 'pppd -v'). John.

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-02 Thread John
spent trying for answers - merely my inability to get them. When I do get ppp working and go for patching, are there any apart from 8 to 12 incl that do not need to be compiled (between 2 and 13 that is?). If you do have the time to help I shall be grateful. Regards, John.

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-04 Thread John
on 03 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote... On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 05:18:00PM +, John wrote: Kern.log says the kernel is not compiled for ppp (I've not used any modules). =20 My limited experience indicates, therefore, it must have to do with the kernel - but what? I enabled 'networking

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-05 Thread John
on 05 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote... On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 06:07:31PM +, John wrote: I've obtained patches 2 to 5 but now have a problem in applying them. My /usr/src had only 'kernel-sources-2.2.1' (and the .tar.gz source which I'm leaving there for the time being) until I moved

Re: Sharing apt-gets cache dir

1999-11-06 Thread John
, but everything seems to work just fine. The only thing I havent checked is what happens when I try and run dselect (or apt) on multiple machines at the same time. Could be interesting!!! Hope this helps. John Stevenson peter karlsson wrote: I thought it be a good idea to share the apt-get

Re: kernel upgrade options

1999-11-06 Thread John
on 06 Nov 99, Matthew Gregan wrote...inter alia On Fri, Nov 05, 1999 at 05:57:58PM +, John wrote: I couldn't get this to work. My patches were in /usr/src and I got 'no such file or directory', so I moved them into the kernel source dir. and did -p0 thinking that should be right. No luck

Re: Pine

1999-11-08 Thread John
on 07 Nov 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... Which web page are using? If http://debianpine.tripod.com, don't bother. Use http://members.mint.net/frodo/pine the .debs there are known to be good. I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from this web page. However, I've

Re: Pine

1999-11-09 Thread John
on 08 Nov 99, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote... On Mon, 8 Nov 1999, John wrote: I'm inexperienced with Debian, but had no problem getting Pine from this web page. However, I've been unable to install and configure it. Pine depends on libc-client4.6 and I can't find it - in another posting you

Re: How to install pine on slink from source

1999-11-18 Thread John
on 18 Nov 99, Philip Lehman wrote... The first message in this thread did not reach me, so I don't know who initiated the query. I am a novice and asked the same question . If you go to the archives and look up Alec Smith's reply to me on 10th Nov, you will find a fully detailed step by step

fetchmail and email

1999-11-18 Thread John
is a mystery. Grateful for any assistance. John.

Re: A tool to find the site with fewest hops?

2000-02-11 Thread John
), but I figure someone else has surely written a better one already Well? Try out netselect John - Joe -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null -- Powered by the Penguin

splitting kde .debs?

2000-03-21 Thread john
if it can be done. Now I'm starting to 'flex my muscles' I appear to get a problem a day. Will anyone point me in the right direction, please. Regards, John.

Re: your mail

2000-11-28 Thread John
Obviously, the new unsubscribe instructions work every bit as well as the old instructions. I vote for putting the old crypic instructions back :-) John O On Mon, Nov 27, 2000 at 03:20:32PM -0800, Jodi Pullen wrote: Please remove me from all your mailing lists. Follow

Re: Linking Recursively

2000-11-30 Thread John
lndir is what you seem to be looking for and according to dpkg -S lndir its part of the xutils package. this is on woody of course :).. cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey all, I'm looking for a utility/script which will travel recursively through a directory tree and create links from all

Re: Totally [OT] Re: Opium

2003-11-16 Thread John
to this list. the arrogant answer to filter out this crap to a newbie is nonsense. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

testing

2003-11-25 Thread john

Frozen mouse and keyboard in new Woody installation

2003-11-26 Thread John
On bootup of newly installed 2.4 Woody, both mouse and keyboard are frozen on the first desktop manager screen. I have tried installing with KDE and again with Gnome, and the problem is the same either way. Installation goes fine. In console mode, after installation, I am able to apt-get

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
that this might be a DMA issue (which VERA seems to define as digital memory access). how can i enable Yo nori, You are sooo close! man hdparm enable dma on your dvd player. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 04:03:55PM -0800, John insinuated: I did not :) man hdparm hm, i have ... but i get: orange:~# hdparm /dev/dvd /dev/dvd not supported by hdparm Yo nori! I'm

Re: DVD playing slow -- dropping frames?

2003-11-30 Thread John
On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 08:23:27PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 30 Nov 2003 05:11:51PM -0800, John insinuated: On Sun, Nov 30, 2003 at 07:16:59PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: orange:~# ll -alF /dev/cdrom lrwxrwxrwx1 root root4 Apr 21 2001 /dev/cdrom - scd1

Anyone used a Lindows Laptop?

2003-12-04 Thread John
have purchased a Lindows Laptop but have not had much luck? I have seen a few posts that say describe upgrading the Lindows to Debian Unstable and it sounds quite easy. Just wondering if anyone has used this laptop and has any comments. Thanks for any help John www.ngogeeks.com

Keyboard or resolution problem?

2003-12-05 Thread John
One problem for us newbies is not knowing what to call our problems, which makes it hard to know how to search for a solution on our own. So I apologize in advance for wasting your time with this one. Most things work. But when I finally try to enter, e.g. anything at all on emacs, or yahoo, or

Re: Anyone used a Lindows Laptop?

2003-12-05 Thread John
a link so that I can check outt he 'lindows upgrade' article. HTH I am afraid I can't remember where I saw the link, at the time I read it I wasn't looking for a new laptop so didn't bother booking marking it although I wish I had now. cheers John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Anyone used a Lindows Laptop?

2003-12-05 Thread John
however you can't buy them without a having to pay for Windows as well. Anyway will give a follow up when I get the laptop and get a feel of how it works cheers John www.ngogeeks.com On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 17:24:17 +1100 John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I have just started looking for a new

what /dev for smartmedia reader?

2002-12-27 Thread John
_ My CD-Writer is /dev/sr0 /dev/sr1 doesn't work, nor /dev/sda1 nor /dev/sdb1. Thanks, John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what /dev for smartmedia reader? SOLVED

2002-12-27 Thread John
On Fri, Dec 27, 2002 at 10:59:27PM +0100, Hendrik Sattler wrote: John wrote: zork:/# lsmod usb-storage61464 0 (unused) usb-uhci 20940 0 (unused) usbcore60896 1 [printer usb-storage pegasus usb-uhci] (scsi stuff in statically compiled

Re: dvd playback problems and questions

2003-01-06 Thread John
on dma: hdparm -q -d1 /dev/hdd(my dvdplayer) John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thank you!

2003-08-20 Thread John
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Re: Thank you!

2003-08-21 Thread John
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Mark C [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes On Wed, 2003-08-20 at 09:03, John wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes Please see the attached file for details. [ A MIME application / octet-stream part was included here. ] PLEASE DELETE [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: xine runs slow when watching DVDs

2003-08-27 Thread John
included both the output of xvinfo and the file ~/.xine/config if that helps. I am sorry the email is so large but I was not sure what was needed. Yo pete!! Many people forget to enable dma on their dvdroms. Man hdparm look at the '-d' option Also, have you tried ogle to watch dvds? John

linux(knoppix

2003-09-04 Thread john
ik heb hier de probeer versie van knoppix. en ik wilde deze graag instaleren op mijn pc hoe moet ik dat doen. ps. ik ben pas een beginneling met dit gebeuren. ik had graag een gemakkelijk omschreven installatie rpogam of antwoord. bvdjohn.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Installing win4lin on debian

2003-02-11 Thread John
-d.i386.deb I get the same error when the deb package isn't in the directory I'm in. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Flash media reader/writers support

2003-02-22 Thread John
media card a compact flash card. See: http://pqiusa.com/products/6-in-1.htm John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ssh and X---where do I switch the remote to X-listen

2003-03-05 Thread John
Have you checked the config files for ssh, here theyre located under /etc/ssh ( debian unstable ) cheers Gary Turner wrote: I'm trying to get X and cygwin working so that I can ssh into the home machine from my notebook. I originally set my Linux box to no-listen. Like some kind of idiot, I

Re: questions about a Free Software Symposium presentation

2002-10-27 Thread John
Alvin Oga wrote: hi oleg donno about the speifics of the tokyo paper but... the guy ( christoph ) that runs telemetrybox is a bright guy and happens to be sorta religious too ... and he is/was a teacher/professor at a theological university i like to argue with him (in person), why one can

debian versus ms1998

2002-10-31 Thread John
together or not? If it proves not quite suitable can users revert easily or not? MS Word seems to have ironed out most of the problems. Can the same be said of the debian system? Grateful for some advice. John Warrington. --- [This E-mail was scanned by the Inter.Net.Works Virus Daemon

Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0

2002-10-31 Thread John
allocated to it(for me anything under 96MB is unusable) it is quite entertaining to see 4 virtual machines running at the same time on my afterstep desktop though! 5 OSs on 1 cpu!(1gb ram) nate We found that as well as RAM, a dual proc SMP box helped a great deal with VMWare. John P Foster Senior

Re: random crashing of a Debian machine - where to go?

2002-11-04 Thread John
it be that you have some salt air dirtying up the battery terminals? This has been an issue to some people here (Gold Coast Australia). John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

[Very OT, local political parody, probable Terrorist links] Re: Microsoft'splans to kill open source: TCPA

2002-11-04 Thread John
the Government blame it on the previous Government of 6 years ago. I'm sure others can extend the story, or provide alternative plots. John P Foster (not the guy who makes the beer by the way) Joyce, Matthew wrote: Righto, I will email Senator Richard 'ludite' Alston and ask him to clarify

[OT] Re: World Higher Ed: Gender Balanced True Govt(s) OutgrowingMostly-Monogendermt(s)

2002-11-10 Thread John
. John P Foster (who besides not being the guy who makes the beer doesnt believe that a true democracy means that seats in Parliament should be filled on the basis of some imaginary discrimination that infact discrimates against those who actually contribute to society) Higher Ed on True

Re: Text files in windows mode

2002-11-13 Thread John
need the package sysutils installed John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software Selection Internet Admin School

2002-11-13 Thread John
to login to that IP to page viststed - note that this doesnt necesarily(sp) identify who browsed to that page, just who last logged into that workstation... Then again I could just be full of it. John P Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: SonicBlue Rio S50

2002-11-14 Thread John
newer Rio model, and linux? Look at: http://rioutil.sourceforge.net/ This works for my rio800 John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cdrecord doesn't work

2003-03-07 Thread John
Should this not be placed in a file in /etc/modutils/... since /etc/modules.conf is automatically regenerated from all the files in /etc/modutils/... by update-modules ?? , hmm at least on unstable it is :) Brad Eisan wrote: Florian, I basically read a pile of tutorials online and put these

Re: stung by dependancies

2003-03-08 Thread John
I had problems with some compiled GTK apps on unstable, which required different libs ( png problems ), what i did was get hold of those libs and dropped them into /usr/local/lib/gtk_fix i then set up scripts for the couple of programs that need to use those libs as follows - #!/bin/sh

Re: Newbie questions

2003-03-10 Thread John
=nano %s #not sure re: quotes vs tick marks I tried both ways. Thanks for any input. John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting Ogle to work

2003-03-10 Thread John
followed the thread, I don't know if you ran: /usr/share/doc/ogle/examples/install-css.sh* That would get you a undebian library to run css. see ya John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Download accelerator

2003-03-17 Thread John
There's a gui called downloader for x , it's in unstable anyway apt-get install d4x or alternatively download the source and build it yourself http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ It supports multiple connections for downloads ( iff the other side allows it of course ) Ive been using it for a long

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-17 Thread John
Sorry, i could not resist. How about I swap your connection for my 56k modem, guaranteed to slow all connections down again, sorry I just could not help myself. :) cheers al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full

Re: download decelerator

2003-03-18 Thread John
as does downloader for x apt-get install d4x or http://www.krasu.ru/soft/chuchelo/ cheers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 14:39:18 -0700, al davis wrote: With this discussion on a download accelerator ... What I really need is the opposite. I have a full time connection. The

Re: bind8 vs bind9

2002-11-18 Thread John
, and to blacklist attempts to dos your server (possibly not completely effective, but I'm sure it helps, consider it a PART of the solution) Hope this helps, John P Foster (not the guy who makes the beer) Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Clearing a BIOS password

2002-11-18 Thread John
of this stuff, so I cant tell you anymore details. A clever Linux hackor could probably do it as root via /proc, but I have no idea how to get there. John P Foster Senior Research Scientist Golden Orb Technologies LTD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Installing to PERC4/Di

2002-12-12 Thread John
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Re: photo-quality printer recommendation

2003-12-18 Thread John
, especially since I abhor so-called win-printers. I have the HP Photosmart 7350, usb, working through cups the packages: hpijs 1.5-1 HP Inkjet Server - Ghostscript driver for HP hpoj 0.91-2 HP OfficeJet Linux driver (hpoj) So, just in case sonny boy inherits the printer :-) John

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-30 Thread john
Have you read the Grub howto at http://www.linuxorbit.com/modules.php?op=modloadname=Sectionsfile=indexre q=viewarticleartid=539page=1 ? It helped me. Maybe it'll help you. J - Original Message - From: Jonathan Lassoff [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December

Re: s key stopped working in console and xterm

2003-06-08 Thread John
On Sun, Jun 08, 2003 at 10:14:20AM +0200, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, 1. How did i break the s key and how do i fix it? I have knoppix lying around but i have no clue where to search. I edited /etc/inputrc a while back, got the syntax wrong lost my 's' key. Drove me nuts! John

Re: hard drives

2001-07-16 Thread john
I seem to recall that way back (around 1994, 1995) I found that with a Tekram IDE card (set up as secondary IDE controller) I could only see the last drive if I had it primary on the controller, with the CD as slave. It might be the IDE controller causing you grief - although I'm surprised if

Re: Off Topic: iptables, ping, traceroute

2001-07-16 Thread john
Hi! Just an interesting note We had traceroute and ping disabled on our firewall, and our support guy got _deluged_ with calls from ppl claiming the server was down 'cos they couldnt ping it. They had tried to actually use the service it offered of course (typical lusers!). So consider what

Re: question

2001-07-22 Thread John
On Sat, Jul 21, 2001 at 10:36:20AM -0700, John Matters wrote: i am having a problem. my mouse is not responding at all. When my brother left (he installed and configured everything) it was working, and then it just stopped suddenly. its not that the mouse is not plugged in or anything

Re: Debian Issues!!

2001-07-27 Thread John
You can get a debian image at: http://www.linuxiso.org/ I also installed debian (hamm) as my first linux/unix experience. Took me 3 months to get everything working. Loved every minute of it. John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ pgpz15iRlIPy0.pgp

Re: kylix open edition and Debian 2.2

2001-07-29 Thread john
Hi, I installed it on Potato last week. I had to comment out the test for a good libc, and it segfaults on exit. But it does work. Come on Woody! John P Foster Felix Natter wrote: hi, is it possible (with some tricks; libc-update, alien etc.) to run kylix open edition on Debian 2.2

Re: upgrade to testing (woody) -- failed

2001-08-12 Thread John
added it to the one I just upgraded. That got me past the upgrade But, then ldconfig c/o /lib/libdb.so.3 was not a link. So I renamed it, then linked it with libdb.so.3. Works for now anyway. john -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_

Re: File Types/Handlers

2001-08-24 Thread John
associations. John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_ pgpaYLVFYkdSV.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Installation Obstacle with X

2001-09-16 Thread John
interrupt the boot-up and get to the command line before being thrown into graphical mode? I don't remember choosing to start debian with a graphical interface. ctl-alt-F1 thru 6 should get you to a console. Rebooting's a bit drastic :) John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux

Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

2001-09-17 Thread John
? Or is there a way to do this with out recompiling? I think I'm only missing the sr_mod. apt-get install kernel-package Then in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package there is a README.gz that'll tell you what to do. John -- -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- Using [Debian] Linux

Re: recompile [was cdrecord]

2001-09-17 Thread John
On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 07:15:17AM +0200, Robert Waldner wrote: On Sun, 16 Sep 2001 21:57:23 PDT, John writes: On Sun, Sep 16, 2001 at 08:41:21PM -0700, jjheuring wrote: apt-get install kernel-package Then in /usr/share/doc/kernel-package there is a README.gz that'll tell you what

Re: ¿¬¶ôÁÖ¼¼¿ä

2001-09-19 Thread john
This seems to be a warez site, with lots of S/N for M$ products. I reported them to the M$ piracy people. Why don't some of you do the same hehehe? I hate spammers!

Re: proftpd is burning me after upgrade

2001-09-23 Thread John
nummers and we'll look at it. Sven I get the same message on bootup. The one line reads: Starting profesional ftp daemon - No certificate files found! Running Daemon mode, Sid box, ii proftpd1.2.2-1 with stock proftpd.conf John -- Sven Hoexter Earth

Re: windoe manager

2001-09-23 Thread John
file I used: -- #!/bin/sh exec icewm-gnome - if this doesn't work, rename your .xinitrc file to .xsession. One of those should work :) Or remove enlightenment. John Then, I followed the guidance of Shawn Lamson. I created /home/.xsession

DRBD with potato

2001-03-05 Thread john
Hello, Is there anyone out there who has managed to get drbd to work well(1) with potato. I'm having problems making sense of the documentation. Thanx, John P Foster (1) well meaning with heartbeat.

sigpipe and ssh

2001-03-19 Thread john
Hi all, I get this strange error when attempting to ssh to our name server. The connection comes and goes so fast, but when I do eventually get in (took 5 tries this time, I show the last 3): Mar 20 09:29:28 ns sshd[3879]: Accepted rsa for john from 203.45.165.254 port 40476 Mar 20 09:29:28 ns

Kernel panic: Attempted to kill the idle task!

2001-03-27 Thread john
: 0, stackpage=c02d5d98) Can anyone shed loight on this, or point to a URL that would help me? thanx, John P Foster

[no subject]

2001-05-22 Thread John
Hey there, I found a great retail site with all kinds of products. Home decor, office decor, travel, outdoors, kitchen, etc... Take a look around at http://www.merchandisewholesale.com just click on the images of the product to enlarge it for a better view. Sincerely, John

3 problems: Printing with CUPS, Kernel boot parameters, and KDE login.

2001-06-07 Thread John
1. I Have a lexmark 3200 printer. Using Kups, i configured my printer. The cupsomatic driver doesnt work at all, and the gimp print will print, but with some problems. When i tried to print a test page, it got about a quarter way down the page, then stopped, the head moved all the way to the

Re: SiS6326

2001-06-07 Thread John
On Wednesday 06 June 2001 13:58, Miguel Griffa wrote: At 07:20 p.m. 06/06/01 +0100, Peter Paul Millard wrote: Hello All I have the above card which fails to get started. Storm does not have it on the web site as supported progeny debian also said that they have had problems with all SiS

Re: Help Please

2001-06-07 Thread John
On Tuesday 05 June 2001 17:20, R. Jorge wrote: I have install debian GNU/Linux. I type login - root then I type the password and after that the next line comes like that: debian:~# I don't no what I have to do can you please help me? did you read the newbie help before you

Re: How can i get my printer to work??

2001-06-07 Thread John
On Monday 04 June 2001 18:45, Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? Date: Mon, Jun 04, 2001 at 03:26:25PM -0500 In reply to:John Hughes Quoting John Hughes([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Subject: Re: How can i get my printer to work?? Date: Sat, Jun 02, 2001

Re: Linux equivalents of Visual basic and Visual C++?

2001-06-08 Thread John
On Friday 08 June 2001 10:18, Sebastian Canagaratna wrote: Hi: Are there any programs around for linux which provide the sort of programming environment given by Microsoft Visual Basic and Visual C++? Thanks Sebastian

Re: Anything similar to Powerpoint?

2001-06-09 Thread John
On Saturday 09 June 2001 07:04, Anthony Campbell wrote: Is there anything for Linux that provides at least some of the facilities of Powerpoint? Try Kpresenter. looks pretty good.

some problems.

2001-06-12 Thread John
using Grub, my linux entry looks like this: title Debian kernel 2.4.5-k6 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.5-k6 root = /dev/hda2 ro idebus=66 hdd=ide-scsi initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.5-k6 however, when it boots, it does not set idebus to 66, it defaults to 33, and tells me to add idebus=xx,

Re: Canon LBP 800

2001-06-13 Thread John
On Sunday 10 June 2001 05:17, Blue Rat wrote: Basically, it all boils down to finding the driver for this printer. The page at linuxprinting.org looks pretty discouraging and doesn't offer an actual link to anything but the Canon homepage, where they have drivers for every brand of winbloze

Re: [OT]Re: your mail

2001-06-13 Thread John
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 00:26, Sachin Garg wrote: A paperless office has about as much chance as a paperless bathroom. We have paperless bathrooms in the Indian subcontinent :) Sorry, couldn't help myself ... Dont forget those automatic Japanese toilets with the water sprays.

Re: Running Windows Apps on Linux

2001-06-15 Thread John
On Thursday 14 June 2001 22:30, Ian Perry wrote: Is it possible to run Microsoft Windows Apps (such as Excel etc) in XWindows or is there a utility which allows this ? Ian VMware, win4lin, and wine. (wine is the only free one) but before you decide to use windows programs, why not see if

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-15 Thread John
proccess wise memory usage, but the linux kernel has support for up to 64 GB of ram. (a lot) John

Re: Samba and 2k

2001-06-16 Thread John
not be found. Microjerks turned smb proprietary with win2k. but its still an odd problem you have. with my LAN, i can access the linux box's SMB shares fine, but the linux box is denied access to the win2k shares. Just because win2k doesnt play very nicely. John

Re: 2.4 kernel and 4GB+ of RAM

2001-06-16 Thread John
getting a new one, with absolutely no downtime. It was kinda nice in the winter actually, kept my feet warm :) John

Re: Network Help

2001-06-16 Thread John
On Saturday 16 June 2001 12:55, Christopher W. Aiken wrote: I know this is a Debian news group, but the networking stuff should be Linux platform independant. Right? We just had a new Intel Itanium IA64 file server installed at the office. I installed TurboLinux ( O/S came with system ).

Re: Dual processor PIII 866 versus single Pentium 1.4Ghz

2001-06-20 Thread John
Ill tell you right now. DONT GET INTEL CPUS. they are horrid now-a-days. AMD chips are based off of newer architecture, have 33% more on-chip chache, and can run at even 266mhz system bus, as opposed to only 133mhz p3. Athlons also have 3 Floating point pipelines, as opposed to p3's 1. all of

Re: An *idea* that *might* put Debian on top (?)

2001-06-25 Thread John
This is true, most Windows users haven't bothered to (re)install their OS. not really... i find i need to format and reinstall windows every few months. it becomes unuseable by then. i also find that people who dont do this, start out with a nice fresh new computer, and by the end of 5

Re: OT: C++ Newbie and KDE/QT

2001-06-26 Thread John
, and find the best, is to decide what you wanted to do ,(in my case, figure out QGL) find the source to a simple example, and then create your own simpler project. Learn how to copy and past, and in the process learn the topic, and get some kind of app out of it. John

Re: iptables firewall help

2001-06-26 Thread john
Matt, I can't remember the exact URL, but somewhere in the IBM developer forums is a really good tutorial on using iptables to create a firewall. It includes some nice scripts, and is much clearer than Rusty's guides. John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com Matthew Garman wrote: I would like

OFFTOPIC: Macintosh, Outlook Express and vpopmail

2001-06-27 Thread john
on the idea. And yes, OE and Mac does seem like some kind of unholy alliance 8^). Thanks for your patience, and I apologise again for the offtopic post (even though it is on a potato box). John P Foster http://www.golden-orb.com

modconf returns to prompt

2001-11-11 Thread John
When I run modconf: zork:/# modconf zork:/# This is on sid with: Linux zork 2.4.9 #1 Sat Sep 8 10:29:35 PDT 2001 i586 unknown Not sure what more info you need. I do have a strace file at: www.bagdanoff.com John PS: Viewing the modconf.txt works with mozilla konqueror, but not on netscape

Re: Frustration (cablemodem woes)

2001-11-12 Thread John
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 04:40:10AM -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Sun, 11 Nov 2001, John wrote: Thanks!! Although I had to replace REJECT with DROP. Why's that? Using REJECT I kept getting: iptables: No chain/target/match by that name when restarting ipmasq. Did I forget

Re: java2?

2001-11-13 Thread john
.) At the recent SEAQ Conference on the Gold Coast here in Queensland I had the opportunity to talk to Prof John Gough (Inventer of Modula 2) , who designed the Object Pascal port for dotNET, and was a core consultant on Project 7 (which was the RD behind dotNET). Interestingly enough the CLR

Re: Running DirectX Games using Linux OS [Offtopic response to unrealistic zealot response]

2001-11-14 Thread john
run Evercrack in Linux I can blow Windows off my games machine completely. my 2 cents, John Foster

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