On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 06:53:10PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 4 Mar 2020 17:12:00 +
> Brian wrote:
>
> Hello Brian,
>
> >isn't quite what I meant by having the printer on the network. I assume
> >the printer is USB-connected to the server. Strictly speaking, it is the
>
> The print
On Wed, Mar 04, 2020 at 02:18:47PM +, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 04 Mar 2020 09:03:04 -0500
> The Wanderer wrote:
>
> Hello The,
>
> >I wonder whether this might therefore be the result of a change in cups,
> >rather than in hplip.
>
> Thanks for the pointer. Frankly, I have no idea what
On Thu 02 May 2019 at 23:33:06 +0200, Francesco Poli wrote:
> On Thu, 2 May 2019 20:49:28 +0100 Brian wrote:
>
> [...]
> > In #917569
> >
> > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=917569
> >
> > Francesco Poli treats upgrading one buster Soekris net5501 installation
> > to another
On Wed 30 Jan 2019 at 17:56:09 -0500, Felix Miata wrote:
> Brian composed on 2019-01-30 17:33 (UTC-0500):
>
> > You really should contribute to #80625 and let the systemd maintainers
> > know where they have gone wrong with this issue.
>
> ???
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=
On Wed 30 May 2018 at 12:40:35 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:
> I have tea4cups configured to power on my printer before printing. In order
> to do this, I
> prepended tea4cups:/ to the DeviceURI in printers.conf (if I remove this and
> power on the
> printer manually before printing, everything
On Tue 06 Mar 2018 at 18:27:29 +, Ian Jackson wrote:
> Brian writes ("Re: (solved) Re: wireless fail after stretch installation"):
> > #694068, #696755, #727740 and #777439.
>
> Thanks.
>
> I have read the bug logs and Trent Buck's message here
> https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 20:37:06 +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote:
>
> > I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All
> > was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an
>
On Sun 31 Dec 2017 at 10:10:31 +, w f wrote:
> I tried installing Debian 9.3 today. I used the netinst CD amd64 version.All
> was going well until about 4/5ths of the way through ...I suddenly got an
> error message about "ispell" and that something "british" couldn't be
> installed.(I chose "
In posting of the month John Hasler very perceptively said:
Then why do you send it?
There is no answer to that.
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On Mon 12 Aug 2013 at 11:57:42 +0200, Ana Guerrero Lopez wrote:
> Dear users and contributors,
>
> We would like publishing a special post in bits.d.o for the anniversary of
> Debian. The idea is publishing anonymous quotes from Debian users and
> developers about what Debian means for you. Ple
On Tue 01 Apr 2008 at 07:07:49 +0100, andy wrote:
> OK - I'll give the backports site a shot first, and then if no dice I'll
> compile from source.
I'd suggest a look at pbuilder and this page:
http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debcustomize
I've used it successfully to backport noncom
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:53:08AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote:
> I'm getting ready to "upgrade" my other system to the AMD 64 Athlon
> series of processors .
>
> Which netinstall cdrom is the correct? the
> debian-testing-ia64-netinst.iso
Yesterday I used the mini.iso from
http://debian-amd64.
On Tue, Aug 02, 2005 at 08:05:03PM +0200, Dom wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I'm searching for a MailWasherPro (for Windows) equivalent for my new
> Linux Debian environment. That's a mail filter software that works
> kind of like this:
>
> It downloads only headers and first 20 lines of every email messag
On Sun, May 08, 2005 at 06:04:45PM +0300, ice.dp wrote:
> On 5/8/05, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Why? What are you trying to do?
> I'm cheking my mail via GPRS. It's $1 per Mb in my country.
> It's very expencive for me. But i'm subscribed to this list,
> and I don't want to downlo
Carlos Rodrigues writes:
> I have a test installation of Debian (Sarge) and I wanted to force the
> screen resolution for XFree86 to 96dpi (because the fonts for GTK apps
> are way too big with the calculated default dpi settings), so I set
> "DisplaySize 270 203" in the "Monitor" section of "XF86
On Fri, May 06, 2005 at 07:59:24PM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> Please,
>
> how can I use my woody box to send free text messages to a mobile phone
> (in the UK) ?
Firstly, you need to obtain an account with a provider who will allow
you to send a text message from a web page. In the UK www.o2.
On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 01:57:06PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
> On Tue, 3 May 2005, Brian Potkin wrote:
>
> > See where you get with:
> >
> > smssend eurobate.sms username password network number "message"
> >
> > Brian.
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On Tue, May 03, 2005 at 08:16:52PM +0200, Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote:
>
> Hi, anyone know smssend? I have just installed it and trying to send sms
> but nothing happens. It does not give any error but the message i not
> being delivered at the mobile phone.
> Im using eurobate and have the latest p
On Fri, Oct 29, 2004 at 11:07:02PM -0600, s. keeling wrote:
> Incoming from Jules Dubois:
> >
> > Synaptic. It's what I used until I read Joey Hess' article, titled
> > something like "9 reasons to use aptitude instead of apt-get".
>
> Por favor, where is that article?
Perhaps this is the arti
On Wed, Jun 30, 2004 at 08:38:07AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Brian Potkin wrote:
>
> >Depends on what you mean by a 'sane user'. Such a user might want to
> >use a product which
> >
> >(a) is capable of communicating with the rest of the VOIP world
On Tue, Jun 29, 2004 at 10:10:04PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote:
> Has anyone tried this?
> http://www.desktoplinux.com/news/NS2762250480.html
>
> Given its parentage I'd pay close attention to my firewalls and what
> hosts it accesses and how.
>
> I'm very curious as to how well it does what
On Tue, Jun 08, 2004 at 07:01:31AM -0400, Carl Brown wrote:
> On Tuesday 08 June 2004 3:28 am, Ogya Chief wrote:
> > There is another group called "disk" or something like that. You need to
> > belong to that group as well to be able to place audio cds. I had a similar
> > problem over the weekend
On Sat, Apr 10, 2004 at 07:51:54PM -0400, Lorenzo Prince wrote:
> Whenever I go to a secure site in lynx I get the following seemingly harmless
> error:
>
> SSL error:Can't find common name in certificate-Continue? (y)
>
> I say that the error seems harmless because if I hit y or any other key e
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 07:07:59PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote:
> On (05/04/04 10:48), Brad Camroux wrote:
> > Hey all,
> >
> > I am just wondering how I might filter out emails with
> > foreign-language-encoded fonts, like Chinese or Russian.
> >
> > Thanks,
> mailfilter works well but I'm not
On Sun, Mar 28, 2004 at 04:24:23AM -0500, Thomas Pomber wrote:
> Does anybody out there know how to use kphone? For
> instance, how do I know what my "User Part of SIP url"
> is, or the host part? And how do I call someone on
> their home phone (they say you can!)?
>
> Any help whatsoever would
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 08:42:13AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> Has anyone used linphone in this list that would care to share
> h(i,e)(s,r) experiences?
> It doesn't seem that it is packaged for debian by any official
> mantainer, is it?
My experience of linphone is limited to registering w
On Sat, Feb 14, 2004 at 07:34:26PM +0800, Neilen wrote:
> Hi.
>
> I'm currently working abroad of my home county, and calling home over
> POTS is very expensive. Great (factor 10-20) discounts can be achieved
> if I use a PC to phone provider, such as pccall.com or go2call.com.
> However they all
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 08:24:52PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> Brian Potkin([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
> >
> > Its usefulness in deleting spam and mail associated with the mymail worm
> > before downloading it has been offset by the deletion of a small num
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 02:10:55PM +, Pigeon wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 01:59:32AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote:
[Snip]
> > Anyone have a similar rule to nuke this new mymail worm? I have some
> > samples if anyone can tell me how to analyse them to paste the correct
> > thing in the B
On Sat, Jan 31, 2004 at 08:54:30PM +0530, Gauri S Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> i am not a subscriber to the list. i hope this message gets posted. i
> also request you to mark a copy of your replies to me.
>
> i use debian 3.0.
>
> is there any program/ utility that will let me see jpg/ gif
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:34:53PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Bijan Soleymani wrote:
>
> >Off the top of my head:
> >tiff2ps -a image.tif > image.ps
> >
> >
> Not sure what you are saying here: cli
> tiff2ps -a image.tif > imag.ps ?
>
> man tiff2ps yields nothing
> running the above repo
On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 05:25:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> I installed mgetty-viewfax. It does indeed work! How do I get it to
> print? Nothing in the man pages that I saw.
You cannot print from within viewfax. 'lpr file.tif' should work.
Brian.
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On Sun, Jan 18, 2004 at 09:28:32AM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> >Installing the mgetty-viewfax package takes only a minute or two and
> >gets you 'viewfax', which is capable of viewing multipage tiffs. It
> >would be us
On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 10:01:37PM -0600, Damon L. Chesser wrote:
> Stephen wrote:
>
> >On Sat, Jan 17, 2004 at 08:50:58PM -0600 or thereabouts, Damon L. Chesser
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >>Anybody got any ideas how to view a multi-page .tiff file? The only
> >>thing I use windows for anymore is to
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 12:23:58AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> Charles Muller wrote:
>
> >A recent post to the list recommended Midnight Commander on the
> >desktop. I went to their site to read the explanation and look at some
> >screen shots. From what I could see, it is not clear whether MC
> >c
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 05:40:10PM -0700, Scott Berry wrote:
> Can you please lead me to a web site or is this something that Debian
> has? I just did an "apt-get install xine" with no luck.
apt-cache search xine
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On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:40:06PM -0500, Grzegorz B. Prokopski wrote:
> Hello!
>
> I badly need to communicate with a person that is using windows
> behind a masquerade of his ISP (which he doesn't control). My
> machine has routable IP address so theorhetically such a connection
> from windows
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 02:18:09PM +, Brian Potkin wrote:
> To mention several
> packages: aumix is said to be a competent utility and mp3blaster
> can play cd's and comes with nmixer;
Before everyone rushes off to download mp3b
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 01:24:46AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> i just tried out the workbone CD player that is installable via
> apt-get. It's a decent console- based player, except for one problem.
> It has no volume control.
I agree with your assessment of workbone as a decent console-based cd
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 12:56:13PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Believe it or not, I've actually made some progress. Won't bore everyone
> with the details, but it included using a different cable and 10.0.0.1
> to set it up followed by 10.0.0,2 to connect.
10.0.0.1 is the router? 10.0.0.2 t
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 09:27:44AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> Well, I got this far: pinging 10.0.0.2 worked, but I still could not
> connect to it with a browser. "Connection cannot be established."
>From a previous post I thought you were having the router as 10.0.0.1,
using the 'route add
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 11:31:26PM +, Anthony Campbell wrote:
> On 10 Dec 2003, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> > Please reply to the list in future. You type in http://10.0.0.2 where you
> > would usually type the website name. (Website names generally can be
> > exchanged for IP addresses, if you
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 02:25:05PM +0200, Kristian Niemi wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Got a file in WPS-format, which I'd of course like to open.
> I'm not quite sure if it's MS Works -format, or WordPerfect; I'm
> assuming it's MS Works.
>
> Anyway, I've tried digging through the net to find a
> converte
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 04:47:39PM -0800, shawn wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 06:15:30PM -0600, Anil Gupte wrote:
> > Where can I find some good scripting manuals that will teach me (a newbie)
> > to write bash shell scripts?
> the advanced bash scripting guide (assumes no previous
>
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 08:53:49PM +0800, Brian Walker wrote:
> I set up mailfilter in response to swen. I found that the ponly way to
> stop them was by limiting size. All other rules set in DENY or ALLOW
> seemed to be non-functional. In the end, I unset the size command, put a
> local rule for
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 07:43:42PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi,
> Since swen, I started using mailfiter with differing degrees of
> success. I tried to look at the basic docs and there is no explicit mention of
> the way the rules are evaluated. top down, bottom up, allow then deny,
> etc
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> describe below.
>
> I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
>
> $ grep -Ei 'test|mars
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 01:21:12PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I don't know much about mailfilter, but it seems as though the
> rules are being applied in the order encountered. You may need
> to move yoru DENY rule to a position after the ALLOW rules.
> Just a thought.
It may look that way
On Tue, Nov 11, 2003 at 10:26:31AM +0800, csj wrote:
> Before I file a bug report, I'd like to confirm the behavior I
> describe below.
>
> I have in my my ~/.mailfilterrc a DENY rule for "^Subject:.*Test"
> and ALLOW rules for "marssociety" and "marssocietynewsletter":
>
> $ grep -Ei 'test|mars
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 09:27:02PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[Snip question about XFConfig-4 and modelines]
> According to what I've found in Google, bug 4918 has been fixed for
> years. But I can't get Lynx to recognize either XLOADIMAGE_COMMAND or
> VIEWER to change from ImageMagick to x
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 11:38:22AM +0800, Dasn Cups wrote:
> Hi,there
> I wanna try the 'ripquery',but I don't know where it is.
> I searched somewhere, and found that this tool should be in the 'gated'
> package, but Debian has no 'gated' package.
> Many thanks!
Wherever the 'somewhere' was it c
On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:15:26AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 11:41:57PM +1100, Brendan J Simon said
>
> > Which are the most accurate at detecting spam?
>
> This is a good question, and I've never seen a comparison of this. SA +
> some simple procmail rules catches basica
On Mon, Oct 27, 2003 at 10:36:24AM -0500, stan wrote:
> I tried apt-cache search, and the Debian package search page, and I can't
> seem to find nslookup.
>
> I've got it on most of my "testingh" boxes, but the one I'm building at the
> moment doesn't have it.
For installed packages 'dpkg -S ' g
On Sun, Oct 26, 2003 at 09:11:44AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
> If you add set pop_host=pop.gmx.net, set pop_user=xxx and set pop_pass=
> to your .muttrc then mutt -f pop://
> will connect without typeing so much. :-)
Additionally, within a running mutt, you could choose to activate a
On Sat, Oct 25, 2003 at 01:14:38AM +0200, David Jardine wrote:
> It is beyond my capability (but only slightly, I feel, and it
> should be very easy for lots of people here) to produce a sort of
> interactive fetchmail that reads the headers of each message on
> the server, presents them to you
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 09:55:35PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 04:52:40PM +0100, duck wrote:
> >
> > Alternatively you could bind the f12 key to fetchmail as I have:
> > macro index "!fetchmail\n"
>
> It is already bound to "G" in mutt. I was hoping it would do it perio
On Tue, Oct 07, 2003 at 11:50:58AM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
> I am still having some problems getting mutt to work.
>
> 1. Periodic checking for pop mail ("fetch-mail") doesn't work in spite
> of pop_* being set. Should I set spoolfile to pop:// instead ?
Your spool file should be /var/mail/yo
On Sat, Oct 04, 2003 at 04:31:01PM +0530, Ashish Ariga wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> Today is the first time I typed the words "mutt". I have been using
> Evolution all along. I'm having a hard time reading the manual. I would
> like to know if it is possible for mutt to use the mail boxes of
> Evolution.
On Mon, Sep 29, 2003 at 11:31:00AM -0400, Matt Price wrote:
> anyone know if it's possible to launch an external program from mc?
> For instance, I'd like to get mc to launch openoffice when I
> double-lick or press on a .sxw file. Is there a way to do this?
/etc/mc/mc.ext is the place to look.
On Fri, Sep 19, 2003 at 01:45:16PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> > I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card,
> > which has Linux support:
> > http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.ph
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:15:35PM +0100, Oliver Elphick wrote:
> I have combined the modem and firewall by installing a Bewan adsl card,
> which has Linux support:
> http://www.bewan.com/bewan/products/adsl/bwadslpcist.php
There is also enthusiastic support for this card and the opportunity to
p
On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 05:21:51PM +, Jonathan Matthews wrote:
> After a couple of years of um-ing and ah-ing, my dad's finally got round
> to installing broadband. Specifically, BT broadband (here in the uk).
>
> He's asked me to slip in a 486 class router/firewall inbetween his
> Windows
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 11:03:12PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I've ditched X-based browsers for most of my surfing needs.
> The only time I find them really useful is when I need
> to google for pictures *and* when I must navigate Javascript-
> enabled (or should I say disabled) sites.
>
>
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 09:23:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote:
>
> > Why not try mplayer?
>
> Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and
> never with RealAudio, on my system.
>
> > If the url's plain http://, wget.
>
> Wi
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 06:33:39PM +0200, Jimmy Johansson wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I am trying to create a "mailboxfile" in /var/mail/ and I am just
> wondering what the format for such a file is and how you create one. I am
> not even sure if it is supposed to be a special kind of file or if it i
On Sun, Sep 14, 2003 at 09:13:06AM +0100, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> on Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> > eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> > multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> > gimp, or
On Thu, Sep 11, 2003 at 09:06:18PM -0400, ccn wrote:
> eFax service www.efax.com deliveres faxes as email attachments in
> multipage tiff format. When I open such an attachment using tifftopnm,
> gimp, or gimv I can only see the first page.
>
> Has anybody figured out what viewer displays all pag
On Sun, Aug 31, 2003 at 05:09:45PM -0500, Michael D Schleif wrote:
> First, I need to know -- for certain -- whether or not the file I am
> looking for is inside the RPM's that I have.
Midnight Commander can do this quite easily. Highlight the file and
press to see its contents.
> Second, how
On Sat, Aug 09, 2003 at 10:01:48PM -0400, J F wrote:
>
> Any VOIP or something like Netmeeting(tm of Microsoft, Inc) or voice applications
> for debian?
>
> I would like to talk to my friend over the internet using
> debian.
> Any recommended applications?
speak-freely is an internet telephone
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 05:33:43PM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote:
> The apt-get --download-only is neat, but what about now later when you
> want to install them? No single command to then install all you've
> recently downloaded, without editing each history entry or scanning
> ctimes of files in /v
On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 05:01:15PM +0100, Tiago Cunha wrote:
>
> Hy debian users
>
> A question from a beginner.
>
> Any recomendations on a good Debian-linux guide, with administration tools
> and basic setups??
Tiago, as a beginner you could not go far wrong in making your way to
www.debian.
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:20:58AM +, Jianan Huang wrote:
> Hi folks,
[Questions 1, 2 and 4 snipped]
> 3) Font size of characters in text windows such as Bash, Xterm etc. are too
> small. How to adjust them ?
As far as an Xterm is concerned you could create (if it does not already
exist) $
On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 11:23:48AM -0400, Lance Heller wrote:
>
> How can a FAX generated by a M$ product as a .FXO file be viewed.
> Imagemagick, netpbm, and OpenOffice1.1 don't appear to handle it.
You could run 'file whatever.fxo' and see whether it is encoded as a
group 3 or group 4 fax file
On Fri, Jul 11, 2003 at 11:25:02PM -0700, John Joe wrote:
> do you know how to monitor browser's talk with the
> server? i mean is there any Linux tool that can
> cpature that sesstion?
netcat is a Debian package and includes the abilty to do what you want.
There is also HttpSniffer, a perl scrip
On Sat, Jul 05, 2003 at 04:27:07PM +0200, Lukas Ruf wrote:
> is it possible to configure gv such that it supports bzip2-compressed
> postscript files in addition to gzip-compressed ones?
Google is amazing and good fun. Using 'gv' and 'bzip2-compressed' as
the search terms comes up with two metho
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 05:41:57PM -0700, Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Brian Potkin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030611 16:25]:
> > echo -e '\033[?17;0;64c'
> >
> > which I tested and there is now a nice magenta block cursor on one of my
> > virtual consoles. If in you
On Wed, Jun 11, 2003 at 04:44:57PM -0400, Nori Heikkinen wrote:
> this should be a really easy question, but i can't find the answer
> anywhere.
>
> how do i turn on the (big block) cursor in console mode? right now
> there's nothing, making it really hard to see where i am when i'm
> typing :)
On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 11:49:32AM -0400, Emma Jane Hogbin wrote:
> I'm trying to install opera but get the following error:
[Error messages snipped]
> Other than complain to Opera, is there anything I can do to resolve this
> dependency?
You could purge libqt3c102-mt, which may remove other o
On Sat, Apr 05, 2003 at 12:04:31AM -0500, Kevin McKinley wrote:
> Until now I've been wearing out the delete key going through my inbox. I
> finally decided to do something about it, and installed bogofilter.
>
> When I looked at /etc/bogofilter.cf, I noticed that every line is commented
> out.
>
On Sun, Mar 23, 2003 at 06:37:14PM +0700, Brian Durant wrote:
> Sorry, I guess I should add that I am a newbie to Debian systems and
> Linux in general, but have some experience with RPM based systems. I
> understand some of the basics of the Debian package system, but want to
> make sure that
On Sun, Mar 16, 2003 at 05:43:20PM -0800, nate wrote:
> what version of debian? Realplayer 8 works fine for me on 2 different
> woody machines.
>
> perhaps its a new glibc/new gcc issue causing the problems...
With the new glibc on the testing distribution Realplayer 8 works ok for
me so this ma
On Mon, Mar 17, 2003 at 12:24:00PM +1100, Russell Shaw wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I downloaded and ran the realplayer binary: rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_cs2.bin.
> It gets thru the installation and registration process, runs for a second,
> then seg.faults:
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: ./rp8_linux20_libc6_i386_
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 03:47:40PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> but this brings up a different issue. all my Gtk apps use fonts that
> are too big, so they run over the buttons and such. where can
> i control that?
You could try putting a font setting in ~/.gtkrc under `style
"default"'. I ha
On Sat, Mar 08, 2003 at 11:31:54AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote:
> terminals in X usually use the 'fixed' font (correct me if I am
> wrong). this is 7x14 over here. how would i go about if i wanted the
> fixed font to be 6x9 instead? i know that i could start the terminals
> and everything with -f
On Tue, Feb 25, 2003 at 09:02:55AM -0800, Joris Huizer wrote:
> Hello everybody,
>
> I've got this small question, I downloaded some mpg
> files but I don't seem to have the correct prog to run
> them.
>
> I've got mplayer, MPlayer 0.90rc4-2.95.4 but it can't
> run them.
A thread on debian-user
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 10:07:53PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote:
> Brian Potkin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > /usr/share/doc/tetex-doc/texmf is your rather overwhelming starting
> > point. Diving into latex/general gets you what you want.
>
> You can use the 'tex
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 05:14:58PM -0500, Travis Crump wrote:
> pretzalz@Pretzalz:~$ apt-cache search sgml-tools
> linuxdoc-tools - SGML converters for the LinuxDoc DTD only.
>
>
> What distro are you using, I can't find the dummy package in either
> testing or unstable so presumably it no long
On Mon, Feb 10, 2003 at 09:59:39AM -0800, Paul E Condon wrote:
> I just downloaded and installed Lyx using aptitude on a Sarge system.
> The package recommends also installing 'sgml-tools' which, from its
> name, sounds like a good idea, but the search function in aptitude
> cannot find a packa
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:43:04PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +0000, Brian Potkin wrote:
> >
> > dpkg -s | grep debconf
> > apt-cache show | grep debconf
>
> Probably 'dpkg -p' instead; 'dpkg -s' only shows
On Wed, Jan 15, 2003 at 02:08:56PM +0100, Florian Sukup wrote:
> Hi,
>
> just a question, I couldn't find an answer, yet.
>
> If I use
> apt-get install package_name ,
> is this package automatically configured by debconf.
If you're interested in whether a package depends on debconf prior to
i
On Fri, Jan 10, 2003 at 09:34:49AM -0800, Paul Mackinney wrote:
> OT disclaimer... what controls the standard date abbreviation? On some
> Linux systems 'ls -l' displays the year, on others it doesn't. 'finger'
> duplicates the behavior, so it appears to be some heinous system-wide
> setting.
A s
On Sat, Dec 07, 2002 at 03:06:07PM +, Jeff Penn wrote:
> My closest mirror is my ISP (Demon), but it has taken some time for the
> mirror to update since Woody was released. Is it worthwhile changing my
> sources now, or are these problems not unusual for this site?
I've used www.mirror.ac.u
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote:
> I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a
> "whatever.bin" file?
As an alternative to the useful tip you already have on making the file
executable you could also try
unzip whatever.bin
Brian
On Wed, Nov 27, 2002 at 10:09:05AM -0800, David and Dana Evans wrote:
> I know now how to install a "whatever.tar.gz" file but how do I install a
> "whatever.bin" file?
> Please help I've been reading and reading and can't find the answer.
> Thanks Dave
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
A newsgroup search on G
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:10:54PM +0200, Egor Tur wrote:
> Hi Folk.
> I want to use gv with full screen without panel ans menu.
> How can I do this? Is it possible?
> Does anybody have an idea on how to resolve this little problem?
I am not sure that what you want is entirely possible to achieve
On Mon, Nov 25, 2002 at 12:00:54PM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> hello all
>
> this is something i have tried to do but could not.
>
> typically, every day, i go to google. go to google news. switch to text
> mode. all this is done by way of links provided on the page.
>
> once in the text
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 05:43:21PM -0700, Rick Macdonald wrote:
> Why doesn't the prompt for root ever include showing the current
> directory? That would probably have saved this poor fellow as he may have
> seen that he was not in /floppy as he thought.
Surely it is relatively easy to change th
On Sat, Nov 09, 2002 at 01:14:38AM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Nope. I get lots of inodes from July (?), the partition is unmounted, but
> not for long - got to get on with it haven't I? Price of an education
> and all that.
Strange but an advance, it would seem, on what recover gave you. Hop
On Fri, Nov 08, 2002 at 09:45:40PM +, Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Oh my. I cannot believe what I did.
>
> # rm -rf *
>
> Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy.
>
> I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable
> (?) to get it to work,
On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:05:01AM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 31, 2002 at 01:09:46AM +0200, Petr Vanek wrote:
> > hi all,
> > i wont to print html but don't wont to install netscape, i
> > mean print rendered html file from command line. is there something
> > rendering ps from
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