Re: Nuevo modem

1998-04-25 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
On Sat, Apr 25, 1998 at 12:37:06PM +0200, J. Parera wrote: Actualmente tengo un modem Mwave (no sirve para Linux) y estoy pensando en comprarme otro, agradecería que me recomendasen un buen modem, que sea externo. (o al contrario, una lista de los que no sirven) Cualquier cosa que diga

mutt+rxvt

1998-04-25 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I'm currently using Pine as my mail reader, but I'm considering switching to Mutt (or Rmail). I'm having a little trouble with mutt. First, I can't get it NOT to display characters with a bold font on an rxvt (on an xterm the colors are a total mess[1]). And second, I can't get the

Re: Problemas con un IDE

1998-04-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
On Wed, 22 Apr 1998, Antonio Vieiro Varela wrote: ¿Se puede meter el CD en el segundo IDE como maestro? ¿Se obtiene más velocidad teniendo los dos discos duros en el primer IDE o no? Teoría: da lo mismo. Práctica: no da lo mismo. Si el BIOS (o la BIOS, como ustedes dicen ;-) es un

Re: menus don't show up in hamm

1998-03-29 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Bob Nielsen wrote: Thanks for looking into this. My pleasure. It does look ok... are /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} executable? (This gotta be it!) If you do: $ chmod +x /etc/menu-methods/{wmaker,wmstyle} $ update-menus -v does it work?

Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?

1998-03-23 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I'm looking into hacking asmodem/wmppp to make one of them display for how long has the ppp line been up, but I don't have a clue on how to do that. Any ideas? Just for the record. wmppp already does that, but it depends on its own scripts to do that, and I want it to use Debian's

Random Broken Pipe

1998-03-23 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
I get this: [79 jacinta:~] while true ; do echo -n . ; /usr/sbin/update-alternatives --display WindowMaker | grep -q 'WindowMaker-newstyle' ; done .Broken pipe ..Broken pipe ..Broken pipe ...Broken pipe ..^C do you see a problem with the statement? (It's just for test purposes, I'm only

Re: Anybody know how to tell for how long has ppp-if been up?

1998-03-23 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Mon, 23 Mar 1998, Michael Beattie wrote: Cant help jumping in, is there an easy way to add/subtract times from the output of date??? Or do you mean that the time-stamp file would be null length and use its creation time? even then, how can you work out the time since creation? I'm

Re: Compute Farm

1998-02-13 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Tue, 10 Feb 1998, Tim Sailer wrote: The powers-that-be around here have almost decided to scrap Slowaris x86 for the 200 machine PPro compouter farm, and go with Linux... I need to convince them to use Debian and not RH. They want to be able to configure 1 machine and mirror the setup to

Re: wmaker_0.12.3-0.4 install scripts ...

1998-01-26 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
On Sat, 24 Jan 1998, Damir J. Naden wrote: I was wondering if anybody else has yet installed the latest (as of Jan 24 98) package of wmaker (ver. 0.12.3-0.4). I had some problems with the install scripts; one I'm sure is a bug - somewher along in the install process, I got an error saying

nsgmls and W3C HTML 4.0 recommendation

1998-01-01 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I was trying to feed the HTML declaration that comes with the HTML 4.0 recommendation to nsgmls (sp version 1.1.1-4.1), but it complains a lot. When I do: $ nsgmls -e -g -s -u HTML4.dec nsgmls:HTML4.decl:23:32:E: this system requires that characters in the document character set not

Problem with cfdisk

1997-12-18 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Someone here is having a problem with the dos side of his machine... He installed Debian 1.3.1r6. He has a computer with two IDE disks. One is Windows (/dev/hdb), the other is Debian (/dev/hda). At installation time he didn't touch the second this, and for some reason or other, he had to pull

BS in rxvt+ncurses

1997-12-05 Thread Marcelo E . Magallón
Hi, I've already asked this, and I'm sure someone must be having the same problem... No matter how I set the backspace in X11, it won't work under rxvt + some ncurses program, for example, pine. At some point the entry in /etc/terminfo/r/rxvt was changed, and the backspace stopped

Diskless WS with Debian/nfsroot 0.5

1997-07-23 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Hi, I'm trying to setup a diskless workstation using Debian. In the not so near future this can grow to a lab with 10 or more diskless WS's, and I'm just exploring right now. I installed nfsroot (it's the one in hamm as of 07/22, 0.5-1 I think), read use.doc, and also NFSroot and

Machine rebooting randomly

1997-07-16 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Hi, A couple of people here (including myself) are trying to set up a router (IP forwarder really) based on Debian. We have an old 486 (it's a Cyrix 486-40) with 4 MB of RAM for the router. According to what I have found on the web, this should do the work. We have installed Debian

Re: Debian Installation experience

1997-07-06 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
| I installed debian a few weeks ago and I noticed that when an installation | disk is corrupted you have to start the installation all over again. If I Well. Here's what I say to new users here: take seven disks, format them under DOS using a full format (not quick), copy the disks images using

How does Debian sound?

1997-06-22 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
While I was thinking of a logo for Debian, I started brainstorming about what debian is... I know, it's Debbie and Ian, but was thinking of something else. You know, Red Hat is just that, a red hat, and Slackware is, oh, well, slack. Then it occured to me that I don't know how do native English

Re: IMPORTANT: RSA Data Security Challenge participants please read

1997-02-27 Thread Marcelo E. Magallón
Bruce, I feel I have to reply after reading some follow ups, including yours. It was OK for us to participate as [EMAIL PROTECTED] in the RSA Data Security Challenge as long as we didn't have any chance of beating the Linux group. It looks as if we do have a chance. It would be real Well