Is it technically possible to construct a dual head machine by using two
video cards (say a PCI and AGP card)? Any tips where to look?
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/sources.list:
deb http://galeon.euber.net/galeon sid/
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian unstable main contrib non-free
And the library that satisfies libz-dev is zlib1g-dev. Not sure where
that comes from...
HTH.
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for xfstt? xfs?
Probably something like:
dpkg -l | grep ' 3\.3' | less
Then hack away at the old X packages that remain. You might want to
peruse the entire list to make sure (take out the grep).
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GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple
.
Can you point us a few ones (in debian)
To produce pdfs, use pdflatex or create a PostScript file somehow
(usually a standard output format for Unix programs) then use
ghostscript to create pdf output from that.
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?
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successfully, but consoles stay
hosed. I generally reboot in this case.
If you are very lucky, then SVGATextMode might be able to reset the
consoles. I don't think this works with any modern cards, however.
Wouldn't hurt to try, though.
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it on the list. The package
xfree-clients was missing. I don't see this mentioned as a bug for this
package. Should I file a bug report or what?
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. Next upgrade I will try the debugging output.
However, it is unlikely I will be upgrading another Debian machine soon.
Perhaps someone else on the list will try it, eventually.
Should the bug system still get an informational note, perhaps?
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know the name
of the server that you use, just recreate the symlink again (use ln).
If you are lost, do you happen to recall the name of the server when
last configuring X?
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of the link. You only need to switch to
that tty to see the status of the link.
e.g.
echo Local $PPP_LOCAL connected to remote $PPP_REMOTE /dev/ttyX
or
echo Disconnecting PPP link on `date`. /dev/ttyX
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? Debian is great for the install once and upgrade scheme, but
something always seems to break on upgrade. Having no working GUI after
an upgrade where one was installed previously seems like a pretty
serious bug.
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?
All the old packages are removed, and new ones are installed. I'd like
to know how your upgrade goes, I had to install xbase-clients manually
after the update and wonder if it is something I did.
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the problem. Am I overlooking something,
or is something else broken on my system?
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Real programmers don't comment their code. It was hard to write, it
should be hard to understand.
potato: 9:46pm up 7 days, 21:59, 8 users, load average: 1.04, 1.07, 1.12
the upgrade? Do I have to ditch some packages that depend on 5.004?
Why would dist-upgrade miss this?
Thanks for info!
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Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly
(Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick
to install perl 5.005, but it complained there was a
conflict with the already installed 5.004 package. I am attempting to
set up enough to get dselect to work, maybe it will do something.
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Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name
, obviously).
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Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly
(Ni-klows Virt), Americans invariably mangle it into (Nick-les Worth). Which
is to say that Europeans call him by name, but Americans call him by value.
12:54pm up
dselect like plague so far), I did another apt update and dist-upgrade
which will install the Perl 5.005 dependent stuff. This is going on as
I type.
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Niklaus Wirth has lamented that, whereas Europeans pronounce his name correctly
(Ni-klows Virt), Americans
in this case or is Debian seriously wanting
to
shorten release cycles?
Not that anyone asked my opinion, but OpenBSD's six month cycles seem to
be just about right. Of course, they have more control over what goes
into their distro and when.
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Niklaus
multipart messages that had missing separators. I wasn't
sure if this was a problem my end, so commented out all formail
processing in my procmailrc. Noone has written a multipart message
since, so I had no comment. Perhaps the list processor is indeed to
blame.
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instead (click file instead of
printer in the dialog box). Try feeding the result through ghostscript
to your printer using various filters available to gs. See what works
and use that instead of ljet4.
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How the Internet explodes myths...
uses, so I don't know how to change our ipchains script.
If you manage to get this to work, I'd like to know -- I've got a
machine behind IP Masqerading (NAT) and cvs doesn't work properly.
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://www.apache.org
or installed on your machine if you are lucky.)
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How the Internet explodes myths...
- the GOOD TIMES email virus hoax, brought to life courtesy Microsoft
- MAKE MONEY FAST brought to reality on Wall Street by dot-coms and Linux
might have to enable it in /etc/inittab. The line looks like:
# What to do when CTRL-ALT-DEL is pressed.
ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now
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How the Internet explodes myths...
- the GOOD TIMES email virus hoax, brought to life courtesy
this.
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How the Internet explodes myths...
- the GOOD TIMES email virus hoax, brought to life courtesy Microsoft
- MAKE MONEY FAST brought to reality on Wall Street by dot-coms and Linux
bogomips : 199.88
It makes perfect sense, for an AMD-K5. Bogomips are as their name
implies, bogus. Bogomips only make sense with respect to one particular
CPU family. There is a bogomips explanation somewhere out there, in a
FAQ somewhere else, too, no doubt.
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, the previous author was not talking about virtual hosts or
virtual servers, he was talking about running two separate web server
programs on the same port. One was Apache and the other Zeus, if I
recall. This is different than setting up multiple domains in Apache.
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name and that
fixes the problem.
You might be able to get around it by generating a cookie for the host name
as it is seen from the network:
xauth generate outside.name:0 .
Dunno if that will work or not.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task
for months with the stock kernel. When it wouldn't talk to the
network, I cp -R'd /etc and /lib from the old drive.
A puzzler, something else might be involved. Does the network work with
the old drive?
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How the Internet explodes myths...
- the GOOD
with Slink in main/binary/i386/x11.
Am I right to assume that Potato binaries won't work directly with
Slink?
Seems so.
Does he have to recompile from source to use this Potato
Xserver with Slink?
No, use the 3DLabs server. This is what I use.
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might be handy for this.
Also, prices are much lower on the Net than in the retail stores.
Check out www.computers.com for price lists. If you buy it retail,
you're nuts.
Interesting point. :)
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed
through ipchains.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
-- brian moore
to put all the old
/usr/local stuff in. This way, I can migrate to newer glibc versions as
I upgrade, or delete the old stuff in favour of newer Debian packages.
BTW, I upgraded from a much customized Slack 2.1, how old is your
system? :)
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A 'box
: may modify and delete files, may cause data loss
# Handle stdin
if [ $# -eq 0 ]
then
tr -d '\r'
fi
for file in $*
do
if [ -f $file ]
then
tr -d '\r' $file $file.tmp \
( cp $file.tmp $file; rm $file.tmp )
fi
done
-
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.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
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number of
domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out:
http://www.qmail.org
qmail is highly efficient and designed to be secure. It does have its
quirks though
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 06:27:58PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
qmail can handle an unlimited number of users in an unlimited number of
domains using the likes of vchkpw. Check out:
So can exim. The problem is not delivering email via smtp
a few key packages
updated, and you're willing to risk a few minor problems, just update
the stuff you need and see how you go.
I want to do the upgrade because of all the nifty packages available,
that require new libraries. :(
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A 'box' is something
something to auto-direct the user to the
proper server to read their mail.
The EASIEST method is to understand your IMAP server or get one that
works properly.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output
On Sat, Dec 11, 1999 at 07:21:49PM -0800, George Bonser wrote:
On Sat, 11 Dec 1999, William Burrow wrote:
You design your server to separate the paths that users are permitted to
access in a consistent, logical manner. The fact that a path exists to
the user does not mean it maps directly
.
Makes no difference in the end.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended.
-- brian moore
not interested in having to tell dselect, dpkg, or apt
to ignore dependencies. I want to tell them that I have fulfilled a
dependency via non-package means, and never be asked about that
dependency again.
Install the equivs package.
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A 'box' is something
to something similar on Linux, you have to know what they are
saying. PAP and CHAP are key words.
Has anyone else out there run into this problem and
if so is there a fix other than switching my ISP.
Are you going to find one that supports Linux? Where?
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make a
package for the non-free part now. Before, no package at all could be
made.
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended
Is Debian going to include Kermit in its next iteration, or is it too
late to include now? Notice Frank de Cruz' recent comment on
licensing...
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God
On Thu, Dec 09, 1999 at 03:24:38PM -0800, pplaw wrote:
my startx only works as root. but i need to run it as
non-root. (error message: you are not authorised to run the x
server.)
...
any suggestions?
Try editing /etc/X11/Xserver
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A 'box
to install. The reason why I wonder this, is that I don't seem to
I have no idea what an inverted DCL is... VMS backwards? :)
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A 'box' is something that accomplishes a task -- you feed in input and
out comes the output, just as God and Larry Wall intended
going bleeding edge, but
if it is overall stable as it stands, then I might go for it. I'm not
quite familiar with how Debian progresses in its development
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Linux, because I'd like to *get there* today
:)
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Your education begins where
with one
file at a time?
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Your education begins where what is called your education is over.
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, Christoph wrote:
On Tue, 11 Feb 1997, William Burrow wrote:
aa126 Debian CDs seem to lack this feature. Even a small filesystem on the
CD
aa126 would be useful, and when the ext2 compressed filesystem is
incorporated
aa126 in the main kernel, a few more packages
of the shell? I know that the kernel looks at the
start of an executable to support Java, but it should not be changing it.
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