Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > I was under the impression that "Serbian" was written with Roman > characters, and "Croatian" with Cyrillic, but they were actually the same > language, hence "Serbo-Croatian". How close to the truth is this? "A language is a dialect

Re: Bug#215999: mldonkey source code "not found" on website

2003-10-18 Thread John Hasler
Pigeon writes: > what's to stop some prannock sending malicious control messages and > screwing up the BTS? The fact that the prannocks (I like that word) don't know they can: security through obscurity (or perhaps through lack of interest). In any case, it has yet to be a p

Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-18 Thread John Schofield
t?) Any ideas why I can't get boot to mount? I enter "mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/temp2" and get "Invalid MFT record 0 Mount: Wrongs FS type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file systems." Thanks a bunch! Schof -----

Drive gone bad

2003-10-19 Thread John Smith
Hi all, yep, I've one, 'controller failure' once every few reboots, can still access the drive though and want to save some stuff. 'rescue root=/dev/hda2' works fine, but the ext3 filesystem seems to be damaged: 'EXT3-fs: can't find group descriptor' plus read errors on a sector. Anybody any

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:32:47 +0200, Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: All in all, the built-in editor of Anjuta is exactly what I'm looking Tom Try Scite, you'll love it. Anjuta's editor is based on it. Sincerely, Jan. Using M2, Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/m2/ -- To U

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
very solution to every problem can be viewed as a stopgap in some sense. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-19 Thread John Yurcik
er? --- "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Oct 2003 11:19:34 -0700 (PDT), John > Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Hi, I have installed kernel headers (athlon 990mhz > > running debian stable) Kernel-headers 2.4.

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > To start with, it should be graphical, so vim, emacs and the like are no > option to me... What do you mean by graphical? Emacs has menus, icons, cut&paste with the mouse, mouse control of the cursor, etc. What is it that people mean by a "graphical" editor? --

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Daniel B quotes: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 05:51:16 -0500, > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Sun, 2003-10-19 at 00:03, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > &g

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
probably getting our addresses mostly from the mail->news gateway and from the address books of infected users. Spammers scrape the Web but Swen doesn't. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subj

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
klaus imgrund writes: > Anyway,some kind of forum kind of deal instead of a mailing list would > probably help but this will not happen. I certainly hope not. With a shared dialup I would not be able to participate even if I wanted to. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) D

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > What is it that people mean by a "graphical" editor? Tom writes: > Well... Built with widgets? do you mean built with a particular widget set? Emacs uses Xaw. > I can't believe *you* don't understand what I meant with "graphical". Well, I

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Chris Anderson writes: > Build emacs with --with-gtk and it'll use GTK2 Interesting: I didn't know that. How does emacs-gtk differ from emacs-xaw? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
thout the knowledge or permission of the owners (this is clearly illegal but the authorities refuse to act). There is no reason such mail should be delivered. Implementing Sender Permitted From <http://spf.pobox.com/> would put a stop to this. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) D

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread John Schofield
3 at 10:47:46PM -0700, John Schofield wrote: I'm working on a Pentium III system with two IDE hard drives. I had Red Hat 8 installed on /dev/hda2, with /boot mounted on /dev/hda1. Booting via grub. I installed Debian Woody on /dev/hdb2. /dev/hdb3 is swap, and /dev/hdb1 is a partition on which

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
hird world,please don't take that away.It's > the only thing we got! How widely available is DSL in Northeastern Brazil? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Knoppix-like install of Debian?

2003-10-19 Thread John Foster
n /etc/apt/sources.list, change each occurance of 'woody' to 'unstable.' You do not need a security deb entry. HTH Charels Thou doth entre onto vast waters filled with bugs! BEWARE -- John Foster -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
pam, but it would make the remainder a hell of a lot easier to identify and/or trace and it would stop the bastards from libeling me by sending kiddy-porn ads in my name. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > How do you KNOW where Swen is getting the addresses? By following the link Karsten posted to an article by an anti-virus vendor who has studied it. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
e, but on the other hand, they impose no obnoxious policies or terms of service, and seem to be more reliable than average. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: More on spam

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
and spam him. That's not spam. That's just a DOS attack. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-19 Thread John Yurcik
I thought of this after I sent this out, but would upgrading to testing resolve this problem? Knoppix 3.3 will "see" the video card I'm trying to install, and Debian stable doesn't. --- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, after creating the symbolic l

Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

2003-10-19 Thread John Schofield
y, October 19, 2003, at 02:19 PM, Jerome R. Acks wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 11:40:55AM -0700, John Schofield wrote: Was able to mount /boot following your last message, so I'm not shooting as much in the dark as I was. To recap. Red Hat 8 on /dev/hda, with a /dev/hda1 /boot, a /dev/hda2 /,

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread John Hasler
Daniel writes: > So? Nothing in my message attributed anything to you. (Check the > indentation level.) Complex indentations are confusing. People assume, not unreasonably, that the presence of someone's name implies the presence of something that person wrote. -- John Hasler [EMAI

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
up in knoppix to get the info here. (: --- "Scott C. Linnenbringer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 18:50:17 -0700 (PDT), John > Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > I thought of this after I sent this out, but would > > upgra

Re: uname -a & /usr/src/

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me a nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve this. (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver failure in debian.) Anyway here is the results of uname -a & my /usr/src/. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux deblnx 2.4.18-k7 #1 Sun Apr

Re: anti-spam idea for this list

2003-10-20 Thread John Hasler
t to prevent > programs from creating accounts. It also blocks blind people and anyone else using non-graphical software. > If yahoo have solved their problem this way this list can too. Yahoo doesn't care about accessibility. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-20 Thread John Yurcik
--- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for the answers.I did look at the read me > at > nvidia and it didn't illuminate what would solve > this. > (I upgraded my video card and then had Xserver > failure > in debian.) Anyway here is the res

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread John Hasler
ving a conservative Woody base system with bleeding > edge custom compiled apache and php on it. Download the source packages from Unstable, make your changes, and then build and install the packages. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread John Hasler
e packaging system happy so that, for example, packages that depend on said package won't complain when you try to install them. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread John Hasler
Olav Lavell writes: > Then how do I install a _base_ system? The base system is what is installed after you have done everything except run dselect. It consists only of those packages in section "base". -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood

Re: Eclipse installation: j2re1.4 has no installation candidate (Debian SID)

2003-10-21 Thread John Foster
deb package for Sun's jdk? Thank you in advance! Try adding this line to your /etc/apt/sources.list file 8-) deb ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/linux/devel/lang/java/blackdown.org/debian unstable non-free main -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Can Anyone tell me what this is?

2003-10-21 Thread John Foster
please read the FAQ at http://www.linux.it/~md/linux-faq Virtually your, The Moderation Robot. --- Follows the first few lines of your article Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:53:15 -0500 From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Where to announce?

2003-10-22 Thread John Foster
cial development sanction. Good Luck.! We need many more folks who are willing to allocate their efforts to enhancing the scope of Debian. -- John Foster AdVance-Computing Systems -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Apache2 and.... php

2003-10-22 Thread John Foster
apache1.3 or apache-common1.3 you are out of luck, and there are a lot of them. I am currently trying to get drupal running using this method but so far just research on how to accomplish this. I will keep you apprised of any other things that I discover. -- John Foster AdVance-Compu

Re: More on spam

2003-10-22 Thread John Hasler
it isn't done. You can't sell advertising on a TV station no one watches. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Nvidia video card not recognized

2003-10-22 Thread John Yurcik
Hello, I believe that the headers and kernel are the same yet the nvidia driver installer doesn't see it that way. The error message from the installer(which is posted in this thread basically says the headers are not correct for the kernel) Is there anything I can do to get this card recognized?

unsubscribe

2003-10-22 Thread John Agar
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Re: What would happen to Challenge/Response if ...

2003-10-23 Thread John Hasler
retrieve the virus and the "cleaned" Swen. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-23 Thread John Yurcik
1. Download and install the kernel-source package that corresponds to the kernel version you're running. 2. Unbzip the bzip file that appears in /usr/src (something like kernel-source-2.4.whatever.tar.bz2). 3. make a symbolic link to the resulting directory called /usr/src/linux (eg ln -s /usr/s

another spam attack?

2003-10-24 Thread john gennard
e). Presumably many others will have seen the same or similar. Purely as a matter of interest, does anyone know what they represent? regards,john. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread John Yurcik
Hi, I am glad to be on this list-even if it seems like one has to wade through crocodiles to be here. I got a yahoo e-mail account because I thought that I could manage this junk that accumulates in my mail. "Microsoft security update" always some odd addressee, 142 or 154kb.It doesn't appear that

Re: another spam attack?

2003-10-24 Thread john gennard
On Fri, Oct 24, 2003 at 10:01:52AM -0600, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 at 08:41 GMT, john gennard penned: > > I'm successfully using popsneaker to knock unwanted stuff off the POP > > server - nothing now gets through. > > > > Looking at today

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-24 Thread John Yurcik
ned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package ncurses has no installation candidate deblnx:~# --- Robert William Hutton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Yurcik wrote: > > 1. Download and install the ke

Re: Insidious Spam/swen/Garbage

2003-10-24 Thread John Yurcik
Thanks for all the suggestions, maybe with the exception of sticking my head in the sand, I don't receive a mere dozen of this...crap, its at least 40 sometimes double that. It's a real problem, and if I'm going to spend that much time on the computer I want to be doing something better than managi

Re: nvidia drivers & kernel headers

2003-10-25 Thread John Yurcik
Hi, Still stuck with getting the nvidia driver loaded. I have the old video card re-installed-which is how I could use debian gui. SuSE and Knoppix both recognized this card without a hitch. So why can't I get it to work in Debian? --- John Yurcik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread John Yurcik
Hi, Unfortunately I am going over my quota every couple of hours now. So until I find a reasonable solution, and it's definately not Yahoo, ( I can't even contact them) it will be adios for awhile. I have tried many things with my video card problem, including installing ncurses and running make me

Re: X11R6

2003-10-25 Thread John Yurcik
Hi, You could try dpkg-reconfigure-plow xserver-xfree86 And select frame buffer disabled. With a similar (to yours) nvidia chip that worked for me. I can't get my new nvidia to work at all though. Good luck. --- David R Hovland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do you get xwindows to start in Debi

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-26 Thread John Hasler
anged prevailing minds. No need to change minds. Just change your runlevels to whatever you want them to be. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dell 1750

2003-10-27 Thread John Zaitz
mage using kernel 2.4.22 to get everything to work. HTH -- John Zaitz Senior Systems Engineer www.works.com 1024D/644371E4 D925 FFF7 4B06 E453 C4D5 ACB4 9ED3 48CC 6443 71E4 - perl -e 'print $i=pack(

Re: rm -rf .* alternatives

2003-10-27 Thread John Hasler
; or `..' rm: cannot remove `.' or `..' toncho//tmp/foo/bar cd .. toncho//tmp/foo ls -a . .. .b .e a bar c toncho//tmp/foo cd .. toncho//tmp rm -rf foo toncho//tmp ls foo ls: foo: No such file or directory However, I always use something like .??* for the same reason I always type

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2003 #3280

2003-10-28 Thread John Stevenson
t 3-4 weeks ago, it just stopped working. I upgraded about a week ago and it started working again. John. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-28 Thread John Holland
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, John Holland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-28 Thread John Hasler
Emma Jane Hogbin writes: > The problem is that I want to release GPL, but PDFLib requires a fee for > commercial applications. Then it isn't Open Source. Please post a link to the license. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: PDFs on the fly with PHP

2003-10-29 Thread John Hasler
; leading me and some others to think she meant that she was saying that PDFlib was Open Source. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xfree86 4.3

2003-10-29 Thread John Holland
> [20031028] John Holland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > I've

Install from usb (was: Re: Straight to SID...)

2003-10-29 Thread John Smith
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 19:38, Greg Madden wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wednesday 29 October 2003 06:23 am, Tom wrote: > > To install my system, I normally boot off Woody CD, install only the > > minimal/base packages, reboot, upgrade the kernel, reboot, and then >

Re: What did I screw up?

2003-10-30 Thread John Hasler
ired* and that you can officially be > considered a *nix "poser" for uninstalling it, especially the console > version It's permissable (though frowned upon) to remove nethack from a headless server as long as it is available on the admin's workstation. -- John Hasler [E

booting from usb

2003-10-30 Thread John Smith
(Sorry Kev... http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200310/msg07137.html ) Hi All, is it possible to write one of the mutiple smaller .iso's that are available, to an usb memory stick and boot from it? Has anybody experience with usb bootable machines (positive/ n

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-30 Thread John Hasler
ts, and rotate 3D plots. Both color and grayscale postscript output are supported. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-10-31 Thread John Hasler
Erik Dörnbach wrote: > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a > feature or something? That is exactly what Sender Permitted From is about. See http://spf.pobox.com/ -- John Hasl

Re: Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-11-01 Thread John Smith
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:58, John Hasler wrote: > Erik Dörnbach wrote: > > How can I make sure the only hosts allowed to send in the name of > > "aaa.com" belong to a certain network/IP range? Guess I missed out a > > feature or something? > > That is exactl

A butchered Apache2 Installation

2003-11-01 Thread John Orford
get remove apache2-mpm-worker" is below. Hope you guys can help. John Stopping web server: Apache2apache2: could not open document config file /etc/apache2/apache2.conf invoke-rc.d: initscript apache2, action "stop" failed. dpkg: error processing apache2-mpm-worke

Re: Enquiries

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
Kelvin Lee wrote: Hi my name is kelvin from singapore. I had a question to make and that is does Debian OS accepts some windows applications like microsoft office pro, designing applications? Regards, Kelvin -- In one word NO. Although you can use other applications to enable

How to fix: glibc installed over libc6 broke system

2003-11-01 Thread John Foster
. i tried to reboot got a kernel panic no init sequence. I also tried to chroot to the files system from another stable system disk in the same box. No go. ANT tips or ideas are aooreciated. Thanks John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread John Peter
d things. Thank you for helping . John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread John Hasler
What is the gender of Unix? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
t this on your sources.list : # XFree 4.3 deb http://penguinppc.org/~daniels/sid/i386/ ./ deb http://www.schuldei.org/debian/bruby/ ./ Then run : apt-get install xserver-xfree86 -t 4.3 This was NOT verifyed by me - do it at your own risk . John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: XFree86 4.3 in stable sarge - how likely

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Damien Solley wrote: On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 20:29, John Peter wrote: Lukas Ruf wrote: Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003-11-03 10:06]: On Mon, 03 Nov 2003 09:25:13 +0100, Jaque Moreau wrote: ... you can always upgrade manually ... ! can I find the required .deb files anywhere? wbr,

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
d Grub to start it ? After that you can download and install whatever you need or desire. Let me know if you would like some guidelines on that ... Cheers John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Soundcard problem

2003-11-03 Thread John Peter
Dean & Sue wrote: i have a old motherboard msi don't know the model number! it has an on-board soundcard is there anyway to find out which soundcard drivers i need? Well, if you use discover maybe it can detect it and you can see it in dmesg after a reboot. Here is my audio section from dmesg (

Help with bsign

2003-11-05 Thread John Biundo
more specific questions. Thanks in advance. john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GUI login screen.

2003-11-05 Thread John Peter
F2 to the second, until cntrl-alt-F7 that gets you back on X ( where you were in the first place ). If your machine doesn't work like this, then you shurelly have have something strange going on ... Good luck ! John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: virtual terminal not working compaq armada

2003-11-05 Thread John Stevenson
i have a compaq armada with debian installed x runs fine, but i when i switch to a virtual terminal ctrl alt f1, ctrl alt f2, etc , i get colored stripes down the screen, its just a mess. is this anything to do with my X settings? surely not? is there any setting that changes how the virtual t

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread John Hasler
The first place to look for time servers is your ISP. ISPs often run time service on their nameservers. Try them. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: setting hardware clock from NIST

2003-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Don't _ask_ your ISP about timeservers: their first line support is just about guaranteed to be clueless. Just stick the nameserver IP numbers in the Chrony or Ntp config file and try them. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

razor discovery server down -- is there another one?

2003-11-06 Thread John Covici
Hi. The razor discovery server has been down and so I cannot report any spam -- is there another one or are we out of luck? Thanks. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread John Hasler
in this thread, the OP's problem with Ntpdate is most likely due to the machine from which he is trying to run it not being authorized to connect to Chrony. If that is not the case please file a bug report. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- T

Re: NTP packages (was: setting hardware clock from NIST)

2003-11-06 Thread John Hasler
Paul Condon writes: > Chrony ins a wrapper around ntp... No. Chrony is an independent implementation of the NTP protocol. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&q

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > I read the word(s) "single-use" in the subject line as "one-time use". So did I. Sounds useful. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread John Hasler
list. Carry the list with you. The script is a SMOP. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

X11 app color problem

2003-11-07 Thread John Smith
Hi All, a more difficult (and not install related ;-) ) X11 challenge: running an X11 app from a remote host, displaying on my local (TrueColor) workstation, it doesn't display colors correctly - a 6 color black, grey, white gif is displayed all black. Some digging revealed that the orig

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-07 Thread John Hasler
Ron writes: > SMOP? Small Matter Of Programming. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

problem with the latest libc6

2003-11-07 Thread John Covici
appreciated. -- John Covici [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Single-use root account?

2003-11-08 Thread John Hasler
Here's a one-time root script: #!/bin/bash # Onetimeroot by John Hasler 2003 # You may treat this script as if it were in the # public domain. FILE=~/onetimewords USER="onetimeuser" TMP=~/temp test -f $FILE || exit 0 read -d'\n' -a passwords < $FILE echo $USER:${pass

Re: Source list help

2003-11-08 Thread John Peter
Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free deb-src http://http.us

Re: Getting shell back locally or remote on hanging ssh connection

2003-11-09 Thread John Smith
On Sun, 2003-11-09 at 08:37, Robert Ian Smit wrote: > after returning to it after five minutes of doing something else. > Hi Bob, jus to solve your problem, depending on the version of ssh you are using, try experimenting with 'ProtocolKeepAlives' and/or 'KeepAlive' parameters in your ~/

Re: Source list help

2003-11-09 Thread John Peter
Haines Brown wrote: Shaul Karl wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2003 at 12:03:38PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was wondering where to get source to add to mu source.list in ordre to get packages from unstable. deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free

Gaim needs kernel-headers ?

2003-11-09 Thread John Peter
with this kernel ?And does it really need them ( the headers) ? Thank you . John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: kde in "testing" ?

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
nd configurations are mantained . John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[Fwd: Re: Gaim needs kernel-headers ?]

2003-11-10 Thread John Peter
--- Begin Message --- On Sun, Nov 09, 2003 at 02:45:37PM +, John Peter wrote: > Hello all > > I would like to understand why, if someone has the time to explain it ... > > I have Sarge and 2.4.22 kernel ( installed and configured by me from > sources). > I allready ha

where does uname get its info from ...etc

2003-11-10 Thread john gennard
onf - The kernel I selected for install was 2.4.22-1, so why does uname think it is 2.4.21? And, why is modprobe looking for modules for 2.4.21? I have done nothing to bring the above about - and didn't notice it before as I was concerned with other matters. Can anyone offer an

Re: What is the password of "root" when first run after the installation of the base system!

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
ems and they are all valid. No one is born with infinit wisdom - some will learn quicker then others, some will be more hardworking in learning then others - this is one of the main features of humanity - diference ! Be human, help and get helped ( and don't expect a reward for it ) ! John -

Re: Identifying kernel soruce for 2.4.18-bf2.4

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
ould it be (and this is just a guess) that you forgot to include a deb-src line in you souces.list file (/etc/apt/sources.list)? John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Installing modem.

2003-11-12 Thread John Peter
y nice and userfriendly interface for configuring modems and serial line connections. In the times I used the phone line I used it and it would work on first time ever ! Try it - apt-get install kppp ( I hope you have KDE, I don't kow if it will run as a standallone...) John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
ck here and ask for more help (and tell us where you are located). > and from what i understand there is no way that debian has the > functionlity to incorporate daylight savings time ?? Not true. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-12 Thread John Hasler
Mark Ferlatte writes: > Check that the following things are true: > ... > ... Tzconfig creates the correct /etc/localtime link. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Going to give it another shot-need more help

2003-11-13 Thread John Peter
and make installed the module. Now I need to know what lines I have to add to what files to get the module working. Well, now it's easy - just edit /etc/modules and add the name of the compiled module. It will be loaded at boot from then on. Cheers John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Geoff writes: > I tried 'apropos timezone' to jog my memory and that one didn't come up. Tzconfig has no man page. This is a bug. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: Night mare to set day light savings time

2003-11-13 Thread John Hasler
d. The system knows all about daylight savings time and will start displaying it at the proper time next spring. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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