Re: Dumb Newbie KDE Pager Question
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ummm, rightclick on the top bar of the window (or on the taskbar icon) there should be an option saying to desktop Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, Jun 02, 2003 at 09:46:20AM -0400, RB wrote: How do I move a window from one desktop to another in the KDE pager? I come from FVWM2, where you click and drag the little window in the pager. Here's how I do it... in kcontrol, go into Desktop, then Window Behavior. Under the Advanced tab, in the Active Desktop Borders, select Only when moving windows or Always enabled. The difference between the two? * Only when moving windows - If you drag a window to the edge of the screen, after the delay you set passes that you stay on the edge of the screen, it pops over to the next desktop that direction. * Always enabled - You can move between desktops when you're not dragging a window. I hope this helps. - -- ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+2/RloE0noESYVCkRAoRRAJ0dpOPGdPaeW/I1sPQguRveoW1JiwCgh16r 6+xTloqKxC0Pe0eM7wbL3Aw= =Gjv9 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks to everyone who contributed. Emacs seems to have a very similar control structure to the ancient perfect writer on my fathers old kaypro, so i'll give it a shot as a happy return to my childhood. (BTW the tutorial sold it to me along with Neal Stephenson) Cheers. John. - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+jNM6oE0noESYVCkRAhWFAJ0Vh3t5A6KCc91qRipv+94UKfZhXACeKaJu iEGicgH7OlYgi7/gCOZXLns= =wNgB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmmm, just wrote a 1,600 article in emacs via ssh. I'm not using all the navigation aids very well yet but i can see where I'm going from here. I really liked the ispell interface. Thanks very much for all the suggestions. John John Griffiths wrote: G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I know Debian is blessed with a plethora of programs that can do this, what I'm after is a recommendation for something that feels good to write with. in a perfect world I'd like decent cut and paste, command characters for end of word/start of word, and export to a human readable open format. TIA, John - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+jTSXoE0noESYVCkRAs/1AJ43HBKXFQ8/GjMfJ2z9jnH7v2xhsACeJ3c1 afTNGEa4hdPYur+2b8PLbmY= =tlyx -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 G'day all. Due to a somewhat complicated set of circumstances I'm looking for a decent non graphical shell based text editor to write prose with. - - basically i want to be able to ssh onto my server and write from a number of remote locations. I know Debian is blessed with a plethora of programs that can do this, what I'm after is a recommendation for something that feels good to write with. in a perfect world I'd like decent cut and paste, command characters for end of word/start of word, and export to a human readable open format. TIA, John - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i4cuoE0noESYVCkRAmDHAKCDI3bECKiH7JCH8vWCbnmMDCHZqACgzZAO j9pub8ezRpxzLPaZ4W2nUKs= =5v3V -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a bunch of others. Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to write in is english (ok, australian english - close) and i want it to be read, primarily, by people, not interpreters or compilers. - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i481oE0noESYVCkRAk79AJ9Q7xvsKclHtOmfjGO+DK3jS7cQMACfZ1NB EcJTXZWXMK3FkPGzAABClpo= =Wg6f -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthew Weier O'Phinney wrote: vim, emacs, pico, nano, ... these are all text editors. How you format your text is up to you. (This was written in vim.) Yep, OK. what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. There's probably 100 things i could try, and with any evaluation there's always the chance of missing the key features, hence i'm seeking a recommendation. most debian editors, understandably, are aimed at writing code, not prose. Cheers. John -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i5OkoE0noESYVCkRAijJAKCnp4xIqGmlnvqiDk6TINLaD7mWJgCfUBRK QKRQsRLhaHCEeaisTOhgjsw= =yaly -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Travis Crump wrote: Is this a troll? I prefer vim, a good number of people prefer emacs. Both will suit your needs. No, not a troll, I want to know if any of the editors are aimed at writers rather than coders, maybe they aren't, maybe the coding tools will do the job I want adequately. But i'm asking the question because I don't know the answer. Which seems a reasonable approach to me. Thanks for your response tho john - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i5cfoE0noESYVCkRAhSxAJ9ktal2XEl3B0HaAchVpQtEu6+VgwCgk3RQ zzH0EGUzcvcGncUvqQ4Aupw= =HzjU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thanks very much. Tom Massey wrote: * John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2003-04-03 13:09]: what I'm after is a recommendation from others who might have used something like this to write 5,000 word plus english language documents. I've written a couple of 50,000 word novels, a 10,000 word Honours thesis, and numerous short stories using Emacs. I find Emacs more comfortable to use than vi/vim for longer works. The switching between command and edit modes in vi tends to break my concentration. In Emacs, I find it easier to stay focused on the writing rather than the commands needed to control the editer. But it's really a personal thing, which one you prefer. - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i5wKoE0noESYVCkRAsyRAJ9M7d7aPT5LXoqK6BftFPJtDTgIrQCgqS5E de/fXI/c51i9n/DyALxfHHE= =wtMv -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric G. Miller wrote: IMHO, it is better to write in plain text, focusing on *content* first, and worry about *presentation* much, much later. I've seen people waste enormous amounts of time formatting draft word processor documents over and over and over again in WYSIWYG word processors when they should be focusing on what the hell they're writing. I couldn't agree more. All i want to do is write the words. It's going up on a content managed, style sheeted, website, so i really just want to write the words and put in p tags later. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i6h/oE0noESYVCkRAnUUAJ403A7ZuwF6c7QQg7QogAgf8Uvc+QCfRpWK rA5djhht4Aa7KoFZjiVx7Ck= =PuE7 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto Sanchez wrote: vim also has some neat search features, syntax highlighting (if your prose happens to be C, Lisp, or some other code), online help, and a bunch of others. Thanks for that, I should clarify that the language I want to write in is english (ok, australian english - close) and i want it to be read, primarily, by people, not interpreters or compilers. OK. It was a very poorly placed attempt at a joke 8-) whoops, my bad on this list you could well have been serious. - -- I live in the Managerial Age, in a world of Admin. The greatest evil is not now done in those sordid dens of crime that Dickens loved to paint. It is not done even in concentration camps and labour camps. In those we see its final result. But it is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the office of a thoroughly nasty business concern. - - C. S. Lewis John Johnboy Griffiths - RiotACT Editor http://the-riotact.com Ph: 0412 690 643 ICQ UIN: 7933859 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG Keyserver pgp.mit.edu -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i6mOoE0noESYVCkRAi9aAKDGeOVvR6xppUlQLdmW8kNXAFTE/wCcDBqn iReM5l9REAyTkxhs4Jm8NkA= =BZ7w -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Shell based text editor for writing prose
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Waters wrote: If you haven't already tried it, you might like fte/sfte. Michael cool, it looks feature rich, what do you like about it? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+i9JpoE0noESYVCkRAuD7AJ9D2WQSD2FLoQ/c2usc1XpAYVCC0QCfTGgN ebW6DMTUSngHqTjBRyiavq8= =4xcA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Good open source primer?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Free Software, Free Society: Selected Essays of Richard M. Stallman details at: http://www.fsf.org/doc/book13.html maybe not gentle but certainly effective. stan wrote: | I found myself in a discussion wiht my bosses boss this morning. It was | about how we had time synched all the *NIX boxes. | | Somewhere in the middle of the discussion, it became quite clear that he | simply _did not understand_ the concept of obtaining a peice of software | that he did not have to pay for :-( | | I guess it never occured to me that there could be this lack of | understanding. | | I would like to provide him with a gentle introduction to open | source/public doamin software. | | Any susgestions? | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE+gM/h3f6uDPXGztkRAlp/AJ9tzt/Oadzpw1m08Bs0LPDFY9mmgwCfQ52U 0A0NFHuO5QijOSGGSyyXR94= =NXMV -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: using white noise for cryptography
In this situation would a third party with a copy of the audio environment (say through bugging) be able to use that against the crypto? Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Thu, 13 Mar 2003, sean finney wrote: 2. is there a way to inject bytes into the entropy pool of the linux kernel? If you're going to do it by sampling the noise in an audio card, you better analyze the output to check if it is indeed crypto-strong randomness. Your sampling module might need to do some math work before giving those bits to the entropy pool. And do _not_ overestimate the randomness of your noise. That will weaken your random generator a lot. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Installing freefonts, where is /usr/X11/lib/fonts in debian ?
surely serif and sans serif are about the limit of what you want for web-work? or are you talking about fonts for images? dave selby wrote: I am trying to install freefonts, according to the README I untar it in /usr/X11/lib/fonts. There is not one in debian ! it goes as far as lib. Any idea where the correwsponding lib is in debian ? Second query. I will be doing some commercial work for a web page, I have been advised that I cannot use Sharefonts, they have licences attatched, can I use freefonts ? and also can I use True Type ? Any help greatfully appreciated Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: kernel: lp0 on fire ????
Yes, you are using a retarded email client and inserting this huge disclaimer bullshit which is all one one line. You asked for that one :-) Wow, you're in a charming mood today dude. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: server side ftp
Seneca wrote: On Mon, Feb 24, 2003 at 07:14:46PM -0600, Noll, Ralph wrote: i need ftp installed so i can ftp to the box any ideas apt-cache search ftpd #apt-get install proftpd is my personal recommendation, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Explorer-type file manager
You might also look into purchasing a copy of Xandros, which is a debian-based distro; the reviews I've read of the Xandros File Manager (called xfm, but not to be confused with another filemanager by that name) make it sound like it's several steps beyond either of the above, and perhaps even less memory/CPU intensive. You'd be in a familiar environment (as I noted, it's Debian based), but have a very Windows-esque environment. working on xandros now, xfm is VERY good, there's a cheapo version of xandros if you don't want all the windows compatability hooks. I thought i was going to die the first 2 days of the transition from windows, very nearly plugged the XP box back in. 4 days in now and getting happier with things as I gain familiarity. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
good GUI file manager in woody
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
good GUI file manager in woody
g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Republication or re-dissemination, including posting to news groups or web pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital Monitor Pty Ltd. John Griffiths Tel 02 6273 4899 Capital Monitor Pty Ltd Fax 02 6273 4905 Press Gallery Mobile: 0412 690 643 Parliament Housee-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canberra ACT 2600 http://www.capmon.com Australia ICQ No: 7933859 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
good GUI file manager in woody
apologies for default stationery on previous message, plaease ignore that. g'day guys. I'm looking for a good multipane GUI file manager for woody, preferably with ftp support or would I be better off dedicating a workspace and arranging konq windows? (konq does upload right?) ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)
I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and watching the computers go tick tick tick in time with the clocks is a source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life. (ok i'm exagerating about my life, but not ntp-simple) At 09:08 PM 1/27/03 -0600, will trillich wrote: after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of ntpdate. # apt-get update snip Fetched 257kB in 4s (62.2kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done root: /mnt# apt-get install ntpd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package ntpd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package ntpd has no installation candidate root: /mnt# apt-cache show ntpd root: /mnt# odd! (suggestions welcome.) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Which COMMANDS pertain to xyz? Try apropos xyz, info xyz, and man -k xyz. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ntp ha no installation candidate (woody)
oh with the use of it, have the timeserver addy you want handy, debconf will ask you the address just type it in and away you go, give it half an hour (to sync) and then set your other boxes to query the first one (avoids unnecessary traffic to the public servers) I use ntp-simple and am immensely happy with the result the clocks in this building are also callibrated off a time server and watching the computers go tick tick tick in time with the clocks is a source of joy in the depressing harrowed wasteland of my life. (ok i'm exagerating about my life, but not ntp-simple) At 09:08 PM 1/27/03 -0600, will trillich wrote: after revisiting the longest-thread-of-the-millennium again, i thought i'd be a good citizen and get ntpd going instead of ntpdate. # apt-get update snip Fetched 257kB in 4s (62.2kB/s) Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done root: /mnt# apt-get install ntpd Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Package ntpd has no available version, but exists in the database. This typically means that the package was mentioned in a dependency and never uploaded, has been obsoleted or is not available with the contents of sources.list E: Package ntpd has no installation candidate root: /mnt# apt-cache show ntpd root: /mnt# odd! (suggestions welcome.) -- I use Debian/GNU Linux version 3.0; Linux server 2.4.20-k6 #1 Mon Jan 13 23:49:14 EST 2003 i586 unknown DEBIAN NEWBIE TIP #11 from Will Trillich [EMAIL PROTECTED] : Which COMMANDS pertain to xyz? Try apropos xyz, info xyz, and man -k xyz. Also see http://newbieDoc.sourceForge.net/ ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
can't make kernel for win4lin
G'day guys, trying to compile a kernel with win4lin patches everything seems fine until halfway through the boot when it starts complaining about not being to access modules.dep can anyone think of anything obvious i should be doing to avoid this? thanks John ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
which module for the nic Alvin? At 02:05 PM 1/21/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya have you been able to start sound and network I have a similar card A7N8X but I have hard time to have at least net installed any idea i played w/ and have working a7s-vm a7n266e and a7m266-vm sound, video, nic all seems to work ( sometimes a little hair pulling is needed mb i played with or wanna play with http://www.Linux-1u.net/1U_Features/mb.gwif.html c ya alvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ASUS266-VM
g'day all, I've got a new machine with an A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind? TIA John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
if needs must I will, but i though X 4.2.1 supported geforce2? (4.2.1 comes in knoppix) At 09:04 PM 1/20/03 -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: hi ya john you will need to get the x11 and nic drivers from nvidia.com works good other than that bending over backwards c ya alvin On Tue, 21 Jan 2003, John Griffiths wrote: g'day all, I've got a new machine with an A7N266-VM SocketA M/ATX nVidia nForce220D DDR VGA/audio/LAN mobo (hoping to get it running as a desktop box running deb) I understand the video is a nvidia 220D Geforce 2, sound a Realtek 8201L not sure what the hell the networking is (will get a new NIC if needed). i was thinking of doing a backdoor knoppix install to get the X 4.2.1. does anyone know of any other gotcha's or snafu's i need to bear in mind? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ASUS266-VM
At 10:38 PM 1/20/03 -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: But that driver does not support highly accelerated display nor framebuffer. ok, i can live without hardware acceleration, do i need framebuffer for anything in particular? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
botched ext3 conversion
Whoops, missed a step converting a box to ext3 procedure i was using was: 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda* for all ext2 file systems. 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto 3) #touch/forcefsck 4) reboot only i forgot step 2 it rebooted fine and #cat /proc/mounts shows the / file ssystem as ext 2 and the others as ext2 i was thinking of just re-runnign the procedure and rebooting. is there any danger in this? TIA John ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: botched ext3 conversion
what does #touch/forcefsck do anyway ? oops, should have read #touch /forcefsck as i understand it forces an fsck on the reboot which sets the jounal up properly WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Republication or re-dissemination, including posting to news groups or web pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital Monitor Pty Ltd. John Griffiths Tel 02 6273 4899 Capital Monitor Pty Ltd Fax 02 6273 4905 Press Gallery Mobile: 0412 690 643 Parliament Housee-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canberra ACT 2600 http://www.capmon.com Australia ICQ No: 7933859 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: botched ext3 conversion
Nope. ext3 is ext2 with a journal, basically. You might need to compile ext3 in, or have the module loaded from initrd. so could i skip re-running the tune? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: botched ext3 conversion
You don't need to redo the tune2fs -j commands. You already have journals; they're just not being used yet. Just edit /etc/fstab and reboot. I don't know why you're doing the touch/forcefsck. I don't think it's necessary. great, thanks. the forcefsck was recommended to me i didn't think it'd hurt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Curious...Are most of you in tech-related careers/schooling?
Actually, I know several journos who use Debian. It makes testing and evaluating SW packages trivial. Further to that, in the non-tech press I know many political journo's with a love affair with abiword under windows. mostly because it doesn't play silly games with them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO image
At 07:41 PM 1/13/03 -0500, alex wrote: A real beginners question. What is an ISO image? There's a lot of stuff out there but I can't find anything that defines what it is...what it does. Can someone point me to somewhere that discusses it? It's a single file which is an image of the cd you intend to burn. once you have an iso, cd burning becomes very simple and fast. most cd burning software supports it. $man mkisofs for info on how to make them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: ISO image
Can you give an example of CD burning software that doesn't support ISO images? There's some ugly windows gear that if it does support it doesn't give many clues as to how to use it. Been a few years since i burned a CD under windows tho, might be ubiquitous now. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: lightweight window manager - any sugegstions?
icewm always made me very happy in lightweight environments. At 11:12 AM 1/9/03 +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all i am doing most of my work in console and was looking for a small and fast window manager for some occasional work there. aesthetics, bells and whistles do not matter much. speed and overheads matter a lot. i have heard about ratpoison and [black | flux]box. any feedback from actual users is welcome. i am currently using windowmaker. -- regards, sandip p deshmukh --*** Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot. By Order of the Author -- Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
windows apps under debian
Hello all, I'm about to attempt a desktop linux trial in my office and need some advice on approaches to applicaiton portability. There are windows apps that are not, at this time optional so one way or another I'll have to get them to go, or stay off the linux desktop. the list of apps is: Eudora 3.05 (horrid I know, but there you go) Dreamweaver 4 (directX?) Acrobat 4 (or maybe 5) I'd prefer to do it under debian but other options will be evaluated if need be. Willing to pay for software if needed, and we have windows licences avaiable also if needed. having made the jump legacy windows apps will hopefully be retired over time, but without making the leap we keep picking up windows junk. ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning divx to play on dvd player
Throw in MPlayer (MEncoder's more popular brother) to preview your creation. Also available at that site is avidemux, which has a gui that will let you do simple edits. Once you have converted the DivX to MPEG-1 (or 2, if you want an SVCD), you go much of the same route: vcdimager to create the disk image and cdrdao to burn the image. ok, yes is fine. i've got Mencoder installed now, struggling with the correct syntax for .divx to mpeg. can anyone give me an example? much appreciated. john -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
burning divx to play on dvd player
hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too hard. does anyone know if i can just make an iso of the file and burn it down as usual? or is there mroe magic required? TIA, John, ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: burning divx to play on dvd player
wow, lots of work to get all the bits i need, thanks for that I'll have another shot next week. At 04:46 AM 1/3/03 +, Travis Crump wrote: John Griffiths wrote: hullo all. I've got a divx file (not a copyrighted one, it's from http://www.crewoftwo.com/movie/index.html and they made it themselves) that i'd like to play on a dvd player. my flatmate burns them under windows all the time but i don't ahve a windows cd bruner and figure it shouldn't me too hard. does anyone know if i can just make an iso of the file and burn it down as usual? or is there mroe magic required? TIA, John, Convert the divx to an mpeg with mencoder[get it at http://marillat.free.fr/] and then use vcdtools or vcdimager to create a bin image which you can burn to a cd using cdrdao. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian as a packet shaper
in all my years of using linux I've only read/heard about a couple people that have tried/and or use the bridging features of linux. And all of those people were discussing IDSs on another mailing list recently. By contrast I've known many people over the years who use free/openbsd in bridged mode and give it high marks. I just get the feeling it's been tested much more. I've got a debian box doing bridgeing firewalling with a patched 2.4.18 kernel. the users didn't even notice it going in until they realised that their zonealarm's had stoppped squawking about sniffers. fast network going through an old (pII) box. it was a little bleeding edge when we implemented but it's been rock solid. ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Server Recommendations
If you want to run a database backend for a CMS (if I remember correctly, that's what drupal is, right?), you'll need even more RAM -- my machine slowed noticably when I've run mysql in the past. But it's certainly do-able on this hardware, and the ram for these machines is still fairly easily obtainable and cheap. i've done this on an old 486, 16MB of RAM, with an active CMS site. it worked fine, but required a degree of patience. (lots of swapping) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: simple exim configuration
At 11:17 PM 12/18/02 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: What do I need to do to get exim to get mail from my ISP? Or at least where is the best document or tutorial to read to answer my own questions? exim doesn't fetch mail fetchmail fetches mail. from the sound of it you don't really need exim (or any MTA) at all, but you might want to have it configured to forward mail to your ISP - up to you. if you're going to be sending all your mail from mozilla mail it might not be worth worrying about. if you want to use mutt then go with option 3 for a satellite system from eximconfig and set your aliases the way you need them fetchmail to get the mail, procmail to sort it, mozilla or mutt to display it, you're all set. ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP3 to WaveConverter
mpg123 read the man page At 02:22 PM 12/16/02 -0800, suresh kumar sharma wrote: hello, does anybody knowof any mp3 to wave converter's thanks suresh __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. in any event running 2 CPU heavy events, and one of them time critical (if the cd writer buffer empties you blow the burn) is not smart. At 01:05 AM 12/16/02 +0100, Benedict Verheyen wrote: Hi, i found a script to convert mp3 files and write them to disk: #!/bin/sh for I in *.mp3 do mpg123 --cdr - $I | cdrecord -audio -pad -nofix - done cdrecord -fix This resulted in a corrupt cd. Converting them first to wav files did succeed however: #!/bin/bash # change spaces by underscores for I in *.mp3; do mv $I `echo $I | tr ' ' '_'`; done # convert from mp3 to wav for I in *.mp3; do mpg123 -w `basename $I .mp3`.wav $I; done # write to cd cdrecord dev=0,0,0 -eject -pad -audio *.wav # del wav files rm *.wav How come the first method doesn't work or was i just a one time event? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: problem converting and writing mp3 to CD
at a wild guess your cd writer is faster than your mp3 conversion. it's a Benq 32x10x40 sounds fast. If it's writing the tracks faster than mpg123 is making it that would be your problem cold. It's a script that i found on many sites though so that surprises me a bit. (it's mentioned in TLDP: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/CD-Writing-HOWTO-3.html) are you running IDE hardware? think about how it's all working mpg123 is reading the mp3 track off your HD, creating a .wav file which it's putting back down your IDE channel, cdrecord is then trying to read the .wav file UP the channel and send it to the cdwriter back DOWN that channel. if at any point in this frantic activity the cdwriter runs out of data to lay down it's going to barf. having the cdwriter on a diferrent bus to the HD might help a bit. personally I prefer not to gamble and just create the wav's and then burn them -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Dumb terminals possible with i386 Debian
No. I really don't want to be messing around with old boxes. I want something FAST like this unit so you can just press the reset button (if anything goes wrong) and get going again. Boots in about 5 seconds. http://newsforge.com/newsforge/02/12/04/2346215.shtml?tid=19 sounds exactly like what you're after. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
dhcp setup
hi all, I'm a little confused... I've run dhcp boxes (freesco and NAT'ing firewall routers) so I was expecting it to be a little easier under debian. I'm on a fixed IP network, but there are some free addresses I'd like to make available for guest boxes. I thought a dhcp server would be simple, and would just take the IP configs of the server, ask what addresses i wanted to make available and get on with handing out the leases. apt-cache search dhcpd gave me an array of software all with dizzying config options. Can anyone explain a simple way of perforing this simple task? ___ Not yet is the spirit of that pristine valour extinct in you, when girt with steel and lofty flames once we fought against the empire of heaven. We were -- that I will not deny -- vanquished in that conflict: yet the great intention was not lacking in nobility. Something or other gave Him victory: to us remained the glory of a dauntless daring. And even if my troop fell thence vanquished, yet to have attempted a lofty enterprise is still a trophy. --From La Strage degli Innocenti (The Slaughter of the Innocents) by Giambattista Marino (1569-1625) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian hotswap and 5 9's - resend please.. mail was down
Remember that 315 seconds includes time to upgrade software to fix bugs, to maintain hardware, backup databases etc. you need backups on these beasts? But i thought they never crashed?? (just joking) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acroread and anti-aliased text
woooah antialiasing (smoothing) can be turned on and off in the settings in acroread, have you looked there? At 04:51 PM 12/10/02 -0600, Gary Turner wrote: Alan Shutko wrote: Brian Stults [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm using gs 7.05. Some examples of what I described are here: The problem is definitely that the fonts were converted to type 3 (you can see by going to File-Document Properties-Fonts). Why this happened, I'm not sure. It looks from the OO PS output that it's converting a TTF to Postscript, which is a bad move for converting to PDF.[...] Your best bet would be to avoid TTF fonts for now, until/unless OO gets better handling. Not sure that's the only cause. Documents created by LaTeX and converted to PDF have the same problem. They look great in gv and xpdf, and look like crap in Acrobat (in Win). The PDF docs print nicely from either platform. Is it perhaps more related to gs? My ignorance of fonts is legendary, so where do we go from here? -- gt [EMAIL PROTECTED] It ain't so much what you don't know that gets you in trouble--- it's what you do know that ain't so.--unk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: System beeps and then hang :(
have you still got your mobo manual? sounds like it could be some kind of warning diagnostic. the graphics heavy stuff will be running the CPU hard so it might not be the graphics card. Is the box getting hot? At 07:58 AM 12/10/02 +0100, Jonas Persson wrote: Hi, i have an old PIII 500 mhz system which is about 3 years old. For about 4 months i had problem with the system beeping (the system speeker) for about 3 times each 2 seconds. I thought it was the power supply which was brokes (the fan wasn't running at all) so i switched power supply and everything ran just fine for abour 3 months. Then suddenly yesterday the box started making the stupid system beeps again and the complete system locked up. I have been running this computer for 24/7 in 3 years time. If i turn off the computer for like 5 hours and turn it on, after 1 hour i will get the same beeping. The power supply fan is working, and so is the cpu fan. I have a geoforce 256 card and i've exchanged it already once, can i be the graphic card which is broken. Since when i boot into XP windows claim that the Geoforce 256 driver has caused problems. Tried to reinstall the driver yesterday but with the same luck. Any hints in solving this problem will be very greatful. I have a list of different things that might cause the problem myself, but these are only theories. 1. Old CMOS battery, maybe it's time to replace it after 3 years ? 2. Broken graphic card, since it happends more often when i run OpenGL games/Screensavers 3. To much heeting in the machine -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: audio cd
sorry to state the bleeding obvious, but is the user in the audio group? At 08:48 PM 12/3/02 -0800, Shawn Lamson wrote: Did you try to install cdcd ? Or try running xmms from an x-term to see if there is any error message? I think that /dev/cdrom should be a sym link to /dev/hdc and should have matching permissions and you will have to make it belong to the disk group too. Here is mine: slamson@callerio:~$ l /dev/cdrom /dev/scd0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root cdrom 9 Oct 15 02:40 /dev/cdrom - /dev/scd0 brw-rw2 root cdrom 11, 0 Oct 11 01:20 /dev/scd0 (I use scsi emulation for cdrw that is why it is scd0, not hdc) other than that, I'm sorry I don't know what else to tell you. I would really try a simple cdplayer like cdplay or cdcd to see what they say about the situation when you run them. --- Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shawn, Well, here's what I have so far. file/dir group /cdromroot /dev/cdrom root /dev/hdc disk I took the liberty to add myself to group disk. In KDE control center, the CD device is listed as /dev/cdrom. I can mount data cds just fine so I don't think the group is so much the problem here. What else could be holding me back from accessing my audio cd? bp From: Shawn Lamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: audio cd Date: Tue, 3 Dec 2002 15:21:51 -0800 (PST) --- Bruce Park [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Matthew, Thanks for posting suggestions. I see that a lot of Debian users are very friendly when it comes to helping out others unlike the Redhat mailing lists. With that being said, I think Redhat is going to ban me because I've been bad mouthing them eversince I installed Debian. Anyhow, getting back to the point, I do NOT try to mount the audio cd. That would be disastrous. My /cdrom directory is also just pointing at /dev/cdrom. This in turn is pointing at /dev/hdc. How are your groups set up for these files? I think that this may be the problem. bp You can do ls -l /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom to see what the groups are... then add yourself to that group (assuming the devices have permissions on them) adduser username groupname (done as root) then you have to log out and back in... You might also try installing a simple cd player such as cdcd and try playing from there; or if using xmms start it from an x terminal window so you can see error messages. HTH __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Plus - Powerful. Affordable. Sign up now. http://mailplus.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MP# (or OGG) - WAV? How?
Actually, Moore's Law has nothing to do with storage space or bandwidth, more of both being needed to store/transmit song collections today. -- well it does allow real time compression/decompression allowing more effective use of bandwith. doesn't get you over Shannon's Law however. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: repost - anybody knows power-point substitute?
I have been able to open up most Powerpoint presentations with Open Office here, but it isn't 100% perfect. OpenOffice seems to do a decent job on M$ Office files. I have no problems at all on M$Word or Excel. you don't have to have a full version of office, MS do make viewers available for free download google for power point viewer will bring it up. crossover office will run it, haven't tried with normal wine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Debian GNU/LInux 3.0 - Win4Lin 4.0
My understanding was that "unsupported" distros could still use wn4lin but had to patch and compile the kernel themselves. Might be worth slipping a case of beer to someone in your local LUG if you're uncomfortable doing that. John At 05:48 AM 11/1/02 +0100, fritz wrote: Hello world, using Debian GNU/Linux 3.0, which works great, we have to use one business-application which is only available as Windows-programm. Trying wine and Cross-Over , both programms are unable to run our application, we are now testing Win4Lin 4.0. Unfortunately "netraverse" does not support Debian distributions. Therefor I am unable to install Win4Lin 4.0. Can anyone help us. With best regards, Fritz Ilg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: VERY OT: mass installation on XBox
Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind. And when the drums of war have reached a fever pitch and the blood boils with hate and the mind has closed, the leader will have no need in seizing the rights of the citizenry. Rather, the citizenry, infused with fear and blinded by patriotism, will offer up all of their rights unto the leader and gladly so. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar. - Julius Caesar http://www.snopes.com/quotes/caesar.htm it aint true. How do I know? For this is what I have done. And I am Caesar Caesar always wrote in the third person to my knowledge. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Worried about Exim, my mail is dissappearing?
I guess it could possibly be my firewall, but it hasn't been changed lately and this problem seems to have appeared over the last few weeks (since replacing our mail server and POP with IMAP). AFAIK, the way SMTP works is that the remote MTA connects directly to my MTA and the transfer is just between these two hosts. I don't think there's any middle-man that could be causing problems, but I could be wrong. Exim was working fine before? I'd be looking harder at the IMAP, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OpenOffice
potato users left out again? At 09:02 PM 6/20/02 -0500, Kevin C. Smith wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2002 at 09:26:06PM -0400, Neal Lippman wrote: With Openoffice 1.0 now out, I wondered if there was anyone aware of any debs for this - or is everyone just compiling their own from source? /etc/apt/sources.list add deb ftp://ftp.vpn-junkies.de/openoffice unstable main contrib -- Kevin C. Smith | A Society that will trade a little liberty for a [EMAIL PROTECTED]| little order will lose both, and deserve neither. Debian GNU/Linux (sid) |-- Thomas Jefferson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0
briliant didn't realise ximinan had done this. thanks! At 11:48 AM 6/11/02 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: On Tue, 2002-06-11 at 11:27, John Griffiths wrote: on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? If you're talking about ready-to-install debs of Moz 1.0, you can check out Ximian GNOME's debs for Mozilla. Add the line deb http://red-carpet.ximian.com/debian potato main to your /etc/apt/sources.list. If you're masochistic enough, you can always make debs from the source, though it might be a bit tough (Moz source unpacked goes up to 353MB), or from the binary tarballs. -- --paolo Paolo Alexis Falcone [EMAIL PROTECTED] GnuPG KeyID 0xEADFF6F4 Tel# 6429577 Fax# 6429561 Mobile# 09174379283 ___ I think ideology sucks. This world would be a much better place if people had less ideology, and a whole lot more I do this because it's FUN and because others might find it useful, not because I got religion. -- Linus Torvalds -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0
At 07:53 PM 6/11/02 -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: On 11/06/02 John Griffiths did speaketh: on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? You might want to just grab the binary tarball from the Mozilla website. Mike Thanks Mike, I used the ximian debs to fine effect. my situation is a little unusual because I'm exporting X-apps from a server that has no X configured (to a playstation 2 running linux which has a great X but little else), I'm finding that installing the debs work well but a lot of compiles and tarred binaries are demanding details of an environment that isn't there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0
My theory is that others experience the same (after all, it's just ones and zeros, not weather forcasting), but everyone is afraid to speak up for political reasons, since Mozilla is thought of as IE's competitor on Windows. End of troll. Dictated, but not read. YMMV IFF you are a lying SOB :-) Oleg running on windows 98 with 512MB on a celleron 400 I can tell you it's faster stabler and better than anything else out there. call me a liar at your peril -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0
(I repeated the whole experiment twice for each browser, starting them before and shutting them down after the experiment) HW: K6-2 550 w/ 256 MB (Java disabled in Netscape. Don't know about Mozilla - whichever way it comes on Woody) first problem, woody's version isn't close to the 1.0 release. BTW, starting Mozilla also takes a while : 21 seconds One could argue that the real test for browsers is rendering remote web sites with some text and some graphics in them, but as I mentioned, it's also been my (this time subjective) experience that Mozilla is several times slower. Oleg lynx beats them all for straight text. try nested tables, javascript, anigifs, and flash plugins on the same page. Thats when you find out what your browser's worth YMMV yourself, but my job takes me to these monstrosities all the time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Mozilla 1.0
on the subject of moz, does anyone know of any debs for 1.0 suitable for potato? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: MaxClient in apache
At 03:21 PM 5/30/02 +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote: I'd like to raise the MaxClient to 1500 in apache. Basically, I have to get apache source and modify the HARD_SERVER_LIMIT value in httpd.h and rebuild the .deb package. However, if I use apt-get upgrade to upgrade my system packages, I have to rebuild the apache package again. isn't max client specified in the /etc/apache/httpd.conf ? just change the number then #apachectl restart should work to my knowledge, you might want to bump up some of the other numbers in there while you're at it though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cd writing with USB CD-RW
hello all I've been using cdrecord very happily to burn cd's through ide-scsi can anyone suggest how I'd go about using a USB cdrw? Thanks for your time John WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Republication or re-dissemination, including posting to news groups or web pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital Monitor Pty Ltd. John Griffiths Tel 02 6273 4899 Capital Monitor Pty Ltd Fax 02 6273 4905 Press Gallery Mobile: 0412 690 643 Parliament Housee-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canberra ACT 2600 http://www.capmon.com Australia ICQ No: 7933859 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: the dreaded Word attachment
openoffice is the answer also for pdf files you want a recent veriosn of xpdf to handle the new 1.4 pdf format At 05:27 PM 5/29/02 -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. Like others here, I suspect, I've developed over the years a little toolbox of stratagems for dealing with the Word documents that people insist on sending me. It seems to me, though, that it's proving steadily more difficult to deal with this problem. Abiword (in my experience) used to deal well with most kinds of Word documents; but in the past year or so (I assume because people are using some new version or other of Word), it fails on more and more of the ones I am sent: /usr/bin/abiword: line 73: 2207 Aborted $ABISUITE_LIBEXEC/$ABIWORD_BINARY $@ In addition, the PDF and RTF outputs from Word used (it seems to me) to be fairly easy to deal with. But more and more in recent times, the PDF files that I have been sent yield errors of this sort: Error (0): PDF file is damaged - attempting to reconstruct xref table... Error (3428): Bad FCHECK in flate stream and/or they display and print as sequences of blank pages. In addition, Ted and Abiword both seem to choke more often than they used to on the RTF files that I am sent. Is this a solitary delusion of mine, or have others experienced something like this? Has anyone found a better way of dealing with this plague? Thanks, Jim McCloskey -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was:Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])
Last I checked Germany and Australia were both in the Eastern Hemisphere... oh we are S OT anyway only one nation on earth divides the world into US and THEM and calls it the western and eastern hemispheres. I guess you'd be from the USA then? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping[was:Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])
Ron Johnson wrote: Still, wrong hemisphere, wrong ruler... Do Aussies have the concept of New World and Old World? Is it still the RAN, the RAAF, etc? Still loyal soldiers of the Queen. the airforce is RAAF, navy is RAN, the army is the Australian Army, but the fighting units are all still 1 Royal Australian Regiment, 2 Royal Australian Regiment, etc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disable paragraphflows in mozilla?])
At 06:49 PM 5/27/02 -0400, Scott Henson wrote: WOW, sponsor one coup and everyone thinks your the bad guy. ;-) ONE? if only! I think the resentment is cause by a heady mix of cavalier US Government's and a population that doesn't care what suffering its government causes beyond the USA's borders. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: OT: debian-beer (was Re: wrapping [was: Re:disableparagraphflows in mozilla?])
(A _continent_ got the crap bombed out of it? just darwin Very strong internal isolationist sentiments allowed even Lend-Lease to only pass Congress after major arm-twisting by Roosevelt. The only reason the the USN was able to help with GB in the BoA before 07-Dec was by not making it public knowledge. it's that sentiment that really pissed off the rest of us If FDR _had_ followed US neutrality laws, .uk would now be .de. not so sure the Brits were ready unleash a chemical armageddon if the Germans had managed to land troops, it would have been hideous, but I wouldn't like to try and pick a winner. If we (along, of course, with help from Coastwatchers and RAN) hadn't been able to hold on to Guadalcanal, it would have been impossible to support ANZ even after Coral Sea. don't get us started about losing half of our fleet (the RAN) to american fire at the battle of Savo Island simply because they didn't look like american ships Does the rest of the world think we've been a super-power since 1776? Up until _late_ 1941, the US _never_ever_ had anything but a _tiny_ standing Army. 1917? 1861-65? Is that some veiled reference to some hypothetical Indonesia- of-the-future? actually the indonesia of the Sukarno era, watching them swallow timor and west papua made us a little nervous. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: latex-xpdf
Hmm. I just ran xpdf on an old pdf file that was created using TeX, and it says: Error: This document uses Type 3 fonts - some text may not be correctly displayed and gives the same kind of display as what you describe, so this may be your problem. xpdf doesn't understand Type 3 fonts. (Type 3 fonts allow for bitmapped fonts.) Type 3 fonts are horrors wherever they're used, even if they display correctly you can't cut and paste the text from them. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: safe load average
Any suggestions on how to cool this thing down (other than removing the builtin keyboard and putting bags of ice on the heatsink (I can't afford the ice or the external keyboard)). Other than a new computer or upgraded hardware, I can't afford it. More RAM perhaps to bring down the swapping load? WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Republication or re-dissemination, including posting to news groups or web pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital Monitor Pty Ltd. John Griffiths Tel 02 6273 4899 Capital Monitor Pty Ltd Fax 02 6273 4905 Press Gallery Mobile: 0412 690 643 Parliament Housee-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canberra ACT 2600 http://www.capmon.com Australia ICQ No: 7933859 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: acroread
At 11:21 PM 4/11/02 -0400, Gaelle T. Morin wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: Use instead the free xdpf or gv readers, both of which handle (almost all) PDF documents. I am using xpdf, but there are font type problems. May I know, how to get Type 3 fonts? Type 3 fonts are a bitch even under full acrobat exchange -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF
you think acrobat protects your files with their dinky password system? it's worse than useless. pdf version 1.4 is supported by most linux tools now, thats the version used in Acrobat 5. At 03:55 PM 3/20/02 -0600, hanasaki wrote: Can it password protect them? What version of Acrobat is it compatable with? Elizabeth Barham wrote: curtis [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? For creating pdf files, I've always used ghostscript. Ghostscript comes bundled with a shell script to make pdf files from postscript (ps). (ps2pdfXX - where XX is a very of pdf, such as 13 [1.3]). Elizabeth -- = = [EMAIL PROTECTED] = = Spam : Unhealthy and High in Sodium and Cholesterol = = -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: PDF
At 06:36 PM 3/19/02 -0800, Jeff wrote: curtis, 2002-Mar-19 14:43 -0800: What is the best tool for editing and creating pdf files? I think you guys are going about this the hard way. PDF is a display format, not a layout format. to make pdfs just print your layout fomat to postscript and then use one of a number of tools (pstopdf springs to mind, gomes in the gs package). To edit you edit in the layout format, and then make a new pdf from that. it's possilbe (but very painful) to edit pdf, but the format really wasn't designed with that in mind. John
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
The issue isn't whether we should keep racist material out of debian. It's a matter of providing software without racist material when people don't want racist material, joke or otherwise. Right now, there is no way to install bitchx without getting these messages. Contrast with fortunes, where a seperate offensive fortunes package has to be installed if you want it. Having racist jokes turned on by default reflects badly on debian, its developers, and its users. Perhaps we should move away from judging the quality of the humour? Surely there's no place for jokes in the software installation? Aside from aspects of professionalism, almost all humour is offensive to someone.
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
At 04:10 PM 3/14/02 -0300, Daniel Ruoso wrote: I live in Brasil, and here, Racism is crime. I think the developer should be asked to remove the Offensive Material. Lets leave national jurisprudence out of this eh? somewhere in the world, EVERYTHING is illegal...
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with red herring: No! bullshit to you free speech is free.
Re: inappropriate racist and other offensive material
b.s.! making fun of someone else's skin color is patently wrong, and i don't care how you want to slice it or garnish it with red herring: No! bullshit to you free speech is free. // please. in my country, yelling, fire, in a crowded theater (that is not on fire) is _not_ protected by free speech. slander. etc. // a) there's a public safety issue here? b) you're going to apply the laws of your country to the whole debian project? we better hope the saudi's and chinese don't start following your lead.
woody upgrade bugs
hi guys... i've just upgraded a machine from potato to woody as practice for the Great Leap Forward to come. i've got couple of things that while fixable, were certainly suboptimal... should I submit them as bugs? for example, apache access.conf was standard potato install but wouldn't upgrade, i had to remove apache and then re-install which created other problems. mysqld no longer starts up on boot (i know this can be fixed easily but surely for fit and polish it should maintain it's behaviour?) dnsutils halted the whole thing and i had to uninstall it before proceeding (wasn't really using it.. but still) not being familiar with bug submission, is anyone interested in this stuff? John
Re: Sun hardware
I think somebody has to send an email to Scott McNeally; telling him that .deb format is _way_ neater than .pkg. I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt.
Re: Sun hardware
At 09:26 AM 3/8/02 +0700, Oki DZ wrote: John Griffiths wrote: I believe he knows, last sun seminar I went to they were waxing lyrical about doing something very similar to apt. Is there any distant clue that he suffers from the NIH syndrome? I hope not. BTW, what makes it impossible the way apt does on Debian systems would work on Suns? I think it's just about the differences in directories of files. Well, the main problem would be on how apt-get update would work for products from different companies. I believe it would be doable. Due to the openness of Sun, it wouldn't be difficult to set up registered servers where you can safely and correctly download the packages from; especially the package lists (the actual .deb's could be anywhere, right?) Oki I can't think of any issues that couldn't be resolved (multiple apt sources aren't a problem, authentication and license checking should be achievable) I think it's just a lot of work in terms of repackaging everything properly to get from where they are, to where we are.
Re: Backup of debian
At 08:45 AM 2/19/02 -0500, Rob Ransbottom wrote: On Sun, 17 Feb 2002, John Griffiths wrote: So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our last backup and got... nothing at all... the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium no other drive could read the backup. even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all. What type of tape drives were you using? It was Sun branded for the Sun hardware and yes we've learned about testing recovery on other platforms
Re: erasing CDRW media?
At 03:27 PM 2/19/02 -0700, Dave Price wrote: Question... Can CDRW media be reused with cdrecord (burning ISO images)? If so, how does one go about 'erasing the media first? aloha, dave I use: cdrecord -v -eject speed=10 dev=0,0,0 blank=all speed and device address may vary for you
pdf optimisation
hi guys does anyone know a good linux/unix program/process for optimising acrobat pdf files? I've got a few hundred thousand pdf's I need to get optimised because newer acrobat/IE combinations aren't opening un-optimised files well over the web Any help would be appreciated John
Re: Backup of debian
idea for a backup with such requirements (fast, small, home-env)? General discussion (I'd prefer tape to CD-R), including directory suggestions are at: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Linux/FAQs/backups.html Peace. Oooh I've got a story here, One upon a time we needed to restore a backup from tape after a horrible system failure. the failure had taken the tape drive with it. So we put together a new system, plugged in a new tape drive, inserted our last backup and got... nothing at all... the drives (we were told by the data recovery guys) gradually degrade with the heads physically dropping and writing lower and lower on the medium we were doing parity checking of the backups, but the drive was still able to read it's own work no other drive could read the backup. even expensive professional data recovery got us bugger all. And thats why I backup to DVD-RAM now.
Re: W32/Myparty
At 02:09 PM 1/31/02 -0800, Paul 'Baloo' Johnson wrote: On Thu, 31 Jan 2002, Chris Mueller wrote: Hi, 7 mails with virus W32/Myparty got into my inbox - all of them from linux-mailinglists. This makes no sense to me. If you're on a Linux mailing list, just why are you using software by the antichrist? You might have heard of a little thing called work
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
At 10:29 AM 1/29/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/01/2002 (01:16) : In any volunteer endevaour the people who do the work decide how they shall manage their time. if putting the fish in gave someone a sense of fulfilment and kept them in the project then good for them. the free world will always be different from the command economies of closed software So your point is that since it is free code it should not be taken seriously? What is the point of free software if it should just be a joking matter? My point is it can be whatever the people willing to do the hard work want it to be WARNING - This email is confidential and may contain copyright material. If you are not the intended recipient of Capital Monitor's original e-mail, please notify me by return e-mail, delete your copy of the message, and accept our apologies for any inconvenience caused. Republication or re-dissemination, including posting to news groups or web pages, is strictly prohibited without the express prior consent of Capital Monitor Pty Ltd. John Griffiths Tel 02 6273 4899 Capital Monitor Pty Ltd Fax 02 6273 4905 Press Gallery Mobile: 0412 690 643 Parliament Housee-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Canberra ACT 2600 http://www.capmon.com Australia ICQ No: 7933859
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
At 01:07 AM 1/30/02 +0100, Preben Randhol wrote: John Griffiths [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 29/01/2002 (23:20) : My point is it can be whatever the people willing to do the hard work want it to be Which means that free software cannot be trusted and will not be of industry quality. I don't know what industry quality you get from commercial software, but i'll take the occasional flight of fancy over the garbage I have to pay for. At the risk of getting personal you really seem to lead a humourless existence.
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
I'm using some of my spare time developing software that is free in the GPL sense, but I rather use the time finding that last bug, than introduce more by putting useless easter eggs into my code. But then I think that rain is wet, so who am I to judge.[1] [1] Hitch Hiker's Guide to The Galaxy (original radio play) -- In any volunteer endevaour the people who do the work decide how they shall manage their time. if putting the fish in gave someone a sense of fulfilment and kept them in the project then good for them. the free world will always be different from the command economies of closed software
Re: Wanda swam across my desktop ??
And that fish is relevant to free vs closed software exactly how? Dima (boggle) Because the developers were free to put it in and you are free to take it out if you care enough you're not free to decide the developers priorities for them only for yourself.
Re: new photos from my party! I did not spam
this is a virus doing the sending http://theregister.co.uk/content/56/23843.html for more info. At 07:48 PM 1/28/02 -0600, Colin Watson wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2002 at 06:00:07PM +, Pollywog wrote: I did not spam the debian lists. Please, listmaster, find out who is putting my address on their spams and unsubscribe them. Please have a more careful look at the mail headers. (a) Nobody put your address on their spam; there was just no From: line, so something in your mail setup caused it to appear as if it was from you. (b) Unsubscribing someone from a Debian list doesn't stop them spamming it (let's not have that discussion here). -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: from casette tape to computer?
I want to know if there is a way I can take material on a casette tape and convert it to an audio file on my computer. You could try connecting the cassete deck to input of your soundcard :) - Adam C'mon guys, play nice what program to use? how to stop it, how to start it, how to specify where the output can be found, reasonable answers to reasonable questions.
Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
Suggestions would be very welcome at this point. Unfortunately, the suggestion to drop ICQ for another IM is not feasible, due to the infamous Circumstances Beyond My Control (tm). Thanks for any help, M Gnome ICU did everything I wanted and more, been a year since I used it though
Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
fishbowl:~ apt-cache search icq - centericq - A text-mode icq client based on ncurses X everybuddy - An all in one messaging client X gaim - GPL clone of AOL Instant Messenger - GTK version D gnomeicu - Small, fast and functional clone of Mirabilis' ICQ + jabber - Daemon for the jabber.org Open Source Instant Messenger D konverse - a Jabber client for KDE * psi - jabber client using qt - vicq - A simple, Perl-based ICQ client - licq-ssl - ICQ clone (base files) D gabber - A GNOME Jabber client. D kicq - ICQ (I seek you) client for KDE - licq - ICQ clone (base files) - micq - text based ICQ client with many features D gabber-ssl - A GNOME Jabber client. Jabber is great for jabber2jabber communication, barely functional for general ICQ work. psi is new to me John
Re: Linux ICQ client that doesn't suck?
At 04:22 PM 1/17/02 -0800, Mark Ferlatte wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 07:27:39PM -0500, dman wrote (1.00): | I'm considering installing WINE and trying to get the Windows ICQ client Ugh! That client is really really ugly. I don't care so much about how ugly it is, I just need it to work well. Unless you're running dual athlon's with a gig of RAM I'd advise staying away from the WINE + ICQ the new ICQ clients are resources pigs of the first water to begin with. ICQ have got a web-based interface these days called ICQ lite, i guess thats just a giant chat room really
Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)
that being said, and acknowledging that we aren't really nice now either, cassandra: you are welcome to come back to the forum and ask your questions in a reasonable form and manner. if we aren't offended by you, we are more than happy to do our best at helping you! I'm guessing she hasn't called YOU a complete aresehole yet
Re: john is weird!
At 08:59 AM 1/17/02 +1000, john wrote: martin f krafft wrote: snip I feel like taking the subject of this thread personally. me too
Re: Large file sizes (2+Gb)
Don't annoy me anymore with messages as un thought out as this. It feels like the sort of responses I used to get from the Redhat technical support team. Regards, Cassandra The difference being this is a volunteer list and RH tech support is paid. So maybe you should try being nice and see what that gets you. And if you don't like it you know where you can go John
Re: Requesting a trackball recomendation
Ditto. The great big trackball is comfy and incredibly accurate. My debian installation worked with it from the get-go. I've never had use for all the buttons, but I could see it fitting into a network gamer's arsenal quite nicely. With four buttons, you'd be fragging to your heart's content. Be forwarned, watching unsuspecting users of your new mouse may result in crippling laughter as they attempt to push the thing around on the desk! Branden Faulls I'm curious, What is a trackball good for? why would I want one over a normal mouse? not flaming, just curious. John
HELP horrible ssh upgrade
ok this is what happenned: ssh'd onto a potato 2.2r4 box I remotely admin, #apt-get update brought down a bunch of security lists so i did this: #apt-get -s dist-upgrade which told me it had to do an ssh upgrade now this was always going to be interesting to do remotely, but I use this service right? so it's gets to Configuring Packages and then it locks up and I lose the connection now I can't ssh back in, and web and email are down I relaise I'm going to have to drive over in my lunch hour to reset the box, but if that doesn't work does anyone have any suggestions? John
