Re: inserting carriage return characters

2002-06-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jun-2002 Paul E Condon wrote: What is a simple way to insert a carriage return character just before each line feed (new line) character in a text file? in other words, make it look like a Windows text file? The sysutils package has two utilities -- 'fromdos' which removes ^M and

Re: inserting carriage return characters

2002-06-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
useful information. i was torn about responding, reluctant to accommodate the devil's formats, revelling in the fact that whenever i have to deal with him, i get to name the price. the quality of the sysutils package is yet another reason to appreciate gnu/linux. i'd only ever used it for

Re: Ditching Esound, for ...

2002-06-01 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 01-Jun-2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been faithful to the Esound daemon for a long time. But Esound has never been really rock solid. When at home I play mp3s on my girlfriends macintosh. The time has come to do something about this. What is the preferred sound solution on Debian

Re: /etc/init.d/network vs /etc/init.d/networking (Debian Guide?

2002-06-02 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I've discovered the /etc/network/interfaces file -- I think I should fix things there. yes, that is the correct location now Side Note: If /etc/init.d/network has been discontinued and the functionality moved to /etc/network/interfaces, perhaps someone should update Debian Guide.

Re: Debian: abandon ship?

2002-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
With hindsight, it's clear that trying to support too many architectures was a mistake. Of course, everybody makes mistakes. It is truly said that he who never made a mistake, never made anything. But what separates the doers from the wannabes is the ability to admit a mistake, change

Re: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not found when installin

2002-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jun-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote: Hi I have just done a clean install of potato and then upgraded to woody. I then tried to install a new kernel, during the install it says the following: Setting up kernel-image-2.4.18-586tsc (2.4.18-5) ... /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not

RE: /usr/sbin/mkinitrd: ldd: command not found when installin

2002-06-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 05-Jun-2002 Charlie Grosvenor wrote: I have the package libc6 installed but don't have the file /usr/bin/ldd How can I solve this problem? install libc6 again. Something must have deleted it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: Donations to Debian???

2002-06-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
But I feel that it is important that I make some contribution to the Debian group by making some kind of donation to the core Debian.org from time to time. Especially when I'm feeling really warm and fuzzy about Debians performance. as I commented in another thread the three most

Re: Pentium optimised vs not

2002-06-06 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2002 Andrew Pollock wrote: Hi, I'm working in what is a Mandrake shop, but relatively open minded about Debian. I'm already making inroads into getting Debian used as the distro of choice for infrastructure boxes. Thanks to FAI. Nice work Thomas. Mandrake alledgedly compile all

Re: kernel compile in woody

2002-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2002 Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hi! are the steps to compile a new kernel in woody the same as in potato? yep: apt-get install kernel-package acquire the kernel source (perhaps via apt-get install kernel-source-version) cd /usr/src unpack kernel cd kernel directory configure

Re: howto manage programs compiled from source ???

2002-06-07 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 07-Jun-2002 Michael D. Schleif wrote: Where is some howto explaining ins and outs and options to managing programs compiled from source under debian? Clearly, one reason to choose debian is apt/dpkg/dselect, et al. However, as we know, some programs may have to be compiled from

Re: packages available, but apt-get won't offer to install them

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Is there a command I need to run to make apt-get forget itself? did you try 'apt-get update' then 'apt-get upgrade'? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: Everytime I start a GTK app I get this: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library Why is this happening? /etc/locale.gen, give it a look. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Sylpheed not displaying japanese characters properly [woody]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Artur Matos wrote: Hi, My sylpheed instalation is not showing japanese email properly, only garbled characters. All of the other X-Windows, non-GTK applications seems to be showing japanese correctly. I`ve tried to set the option Display 2 byte alphabet and numeric with

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:32, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: Everytime I start a GTK app I get this: Gdk-WARNING **: locale not supported by C library /etc/locale.gen, give it a look. This is all that's there: is_IS

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 08:45, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: This is all that's there: is_IS ISO-8859-1 sv_SE ISO-8859-1 Does this match the locale you were trying to use? The locale the app was trying to use? Most

RE: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote: [Debian's default installation gives 2 year old emacs and 6 year old non-GNU awk, while sporting the GNU/Linux branding] Summary: Dan says the debian install process should at least ask/inform the user that he is not getting current official GNU tools

RE: Japanese under linux in general was [Re: Sylpheed not displa

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Tatsuya It seems ja_JP locale was not configured. Tatsuya Select `ja_JP.EUC-JP EUC-JP' with `dpkg-reconfigure Tatsuya locales' as root. See also the file `/etc/locale.gen'. Does this work for most programs in general? For example, Evolution doesn't display Japanese

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As to the specific awk issue, when we made the choice mawk worked better on more scripts than gawk did. This may have changed in the last 2 years or so but was still valid when potato came out. Err

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Wouldn't C be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default without editing or enabling anything . -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Debian is not GNU [at least current GNU]

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 James Troup wrote: Sean 'Shaleh' Perry [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: as I said, two years ago I found that random awk scripts worked better with mawk than gawk, this has likely changed. Err, actually you claimed that this (i.e. 'random awk scripts work[ing] better') is why

Re: C library

2002-06-11 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 11-Jun-2002 Helgi Örn wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 19:42, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: Wouldn't C be a more appropriate default locale for non-US users? sure, but you are assuming competency in coders (-: C should work by default without editing or enabling anything . Could you guys

RE: How to report a Bug (Which Package?)

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2002 Abdul Latip wrote: As suggested in http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting ; I am sending this to debian-user. I have just installed woody from scratch (due to trying ext3fs); and then I run tasksel. I selected X11; and then choose kdm out of xdm, gdm, and kdm. Apparently,

RE: make-kpkg problem?

2002-06-18 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Does anyone know what this means? I've been using make-kpkg for over a year with no problems, but this started happening a week or so ago. try doing a make-kpkg clean and then starting it again. Remember that after a clean you must run it with the --revision switch if you want to add a

RE: Need to compile gphoto2 from CVS and install into packaging

2002-06-19 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 19-Jun-2002 David Richmond wrote: Hello! Having just switched to Debian (woody) from SuSE 7.3, I recall that, under SuSE, I had to download and compile the CVS snapshot of the gphoto2 digital camera library to get my Canon PowerShot A40 digital camera recognizable under Linux. The

RE: touchpad on laptop

2002-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jun-2002 Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I've gotten debian installed on my Canon Innovabook 457CDS, but I don't know how to get the touchpad working... is there some sort of generic touchpad device? I tried using /dev/psaux just for fun but that didn't work, couldn't find any

RE: FHS LSB Compliance

2002-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jun-2002 Matthew Tedder wrote: How compliant with the FHS and LSB standards is Debian to date? Also, is LVM and ReiserFS available? We are about as FHS as one can be. The LSB is still getting fleshed out, we are fairly conforming but not perfect yet. My understanding is that reiser

Re: Various digital camera questions and Re: (FIXED!) gphoto2 fr

2002-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
If you have success getting a supposedly non supported camera working in this manner, you may want to drop the gphoto2 developers a line so they can incorporate support for that camera :). Also, I wonder if it would be possible to add support for some of these non supported in name only

RE: trying to copy the / (root) partition

2002-06-20 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 20-Jun-2002 Erik Mathisen wrote: Hello, I made a post yesterday, but I still have not been able to resolve this issue. I am putting a brand new hard drive into my system. I would like to totally remove my my original drive. I have copy and successfully made /home and other partitions

RE: djbdns ppc?

2002-06-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386 platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian, but cannot seem to find a djbdns-ppc version. Any ideas? you really should give maradns a look. Similar goals as djbdns,

Re: djbdns ppc?

2002-06-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: On Fri, Jun 21, 2002 at 08:30:35AM -0700, Sean 'Shaleh' Perry wrote: On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Daubenspeck wrote: I have been using djbdns for a while now, but only on the i386 platform. I got my hands on a G4 server and have loaded debian

Re: djbdns ppc?

2002-06-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
Compiling it is no big deal, but does maradns perform as well as djbdns does? I used to use Bind, which is like shooting yourself in the face with a large cannon. However, djbdns has performed great and been fairly perfect since I have used it... I am running it on my home lan as an

RE: What Are the CORE parts of Debian?

2002-06-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 21-Jun-2002 Matthew Tedder wrote: What exactly are the core, absolute minimum parts of Debian that would need to sit on a CD in order to boot and install it to the minimal point that one could then apt-get all the additional packages he/she wanted in the future? Networking not even

RE: Creating .deb package

2002-06-21 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jun-2002 arthur_dent wrote: Hi, Does anyone know if I can create a .deb package from a tar.gz source driver package I downloaded for an LPC3-TX (I think it's a 16bit ) 10/100 network PCMCIA card. Thanks in advance. joeyh has a recent thread where he documents packaging a pcmcia

RE: see the man pages, docs of conflicting packages

2002-06-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 22-Jun-2002 Dan Jacobson wrote: The debian package management system is neat but let's say you want to read the docs and man page of a conflicting package. Then you must drive the original package off the system to install the new package just for a look, or otherwise jump thru hoops?

RE: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-22 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
So just wondering if it's just me that has problems with twinview stuff ? Or is there any other settings that you would recommend - how well is Matrox G400 or Agp+PCI settings ? they run well ? I use a dual head matrox card every day. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How stable is dual head, twin view feature ?

2002-06-23 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
I use a dual head matrox card every day. I use a Matrox G400 AGP, works great with the blackbox window manager which I have to plug with Sean on the thread. I run the CVS build of blackbox, running a seperate server on each display which I like better than xinerama since my displays

RE: Problem connecting app to X display server

2002-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 24-Jun-2002 Sivea Key wrote: HI, I'm new to Debian and LINUX so any help would be greatly appreciated. I am trying to run a simulation program on Debian. It compiles fine (now) but whenever I try to launch the gui it tells me it can't connect to the display and that I need to run:

RE: g++ 2.96 on debian?

2002-06-24 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On 25-Jun-2002 Arun Madhurmohan wrote: Hi, I use debian linux at home and redhat linux (unfortunately) at work. Redhat comes with g++ 2.96 and that's what I use at work. I can't find an equivalent version of g++ on debian. I would prefer to work with the same version of g++ at home and

Re: g++ 2.96 on debian?

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

RE: X, Window manager, and startup question

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

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

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

RE: Replacement for X-Windows?

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

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

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

Re: Gnome 2.0 Released

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

RE: apt and packages from outside the distro

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

RE: no expect bugs??

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

Re: Which window manager to use?

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

RE: moves dot files to different directory

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

RE: unzip from sid requires libc5

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

Re: unzip from sid requires libc5

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

RE: Ot c++ programming in linux

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

RE: api calls

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

Re: fonts too large

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

Re: New Debian Installer -PGI Debian

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

Re: fonts too large

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

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

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

Re: Weird fluxbox menus

2002-09-05 Thread Sean 'Shaleh' Perry
On Thursday 05 September 2002 23:09, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I'm having a weird problem w/ fluxbox. For some reason the menus (and all submenus) have a blank separator, and the an 'exit' item (that exits the WM), I tried the menus in blackbox and they are fine. does anyone know what

Re: gcc-3.2 on a testing box

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

Re: cal

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

Re: need advice on building packages from source

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

Re: package clean

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

Re: Grammar Checker in Linux

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

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

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

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

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

Re: Metacity and Sticky apps

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

Re: Three monitors with X?

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

Re: Remote package management?

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

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

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

Re: Recent leadsmaster spammer

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

Re: Konqueror slowness

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

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

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

Re: GCC 3.2 and STLport on Woody

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

Re: apt-get and /tmp

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

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

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

Re: KDE2 helloworld.cpp

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

Re: The Real Problem With Debian

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

Re: Emacs and ALT Key in New Debian Installation

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

Re: sound but no sound

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

Re: sound but no sound

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

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

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

Re: File Manager Suggestions?

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

Re: Headers in this ML

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

Re: UnitedLinux and Debian

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

Re: MUD Game Engines

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

Re: locales

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

Re: apt questions

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

Re: Looking for a special type of editor

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

Re: MUA that supports MH-folders?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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