Printing with lprng -- inexplicable pauses or halts

2003-03-17 Thread Carl Fink
gs 7.05-2.bunk What am I missing? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printer configuration

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
t use GNOME, I just type "magicfilterconfig" at a prompt. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Root login

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
rm (or other x terminal) prompt. This allows local accounts other than the one that started X access to the display. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "uns

Re: xv (graphics package)

2003-03-19 Thread Carl Fink
anyone know if > it is available any longer as a debian package? Maybe I'm not looking in > the right place. Nonfree license, as I remember it, forbids its exclusion. You might look at xloadimage. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum

Re: When will Sarge become Stable ?

2003-03-22 Thread Carl Fink
I've said this way more than enough times, but MORE THAN A YEAR for another stable release? This isn't a bad joke? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-15 Thread Carl Fink
One thing that occurs to me: you did do make modules make modules_install right? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Re. CD writer

2003-10-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Oct 15, 2003 at 07:19:11PM -0700, Sidney Brooks wrote: > > --- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > One thing that occurs to me: you did do > > > > make modules > > make modules_install > > > > right? > > -- >

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 r1

2003-10-18 Thread Carl Fink
tp://www.debian.org. There's an "Installation Manual" link right there on the front page that explains everything quite well. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Searching for an editor...

2003-10-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:26:45PM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote: [about emacs] > (And yes, as someone else mentioned, the CVS version cab be built > against GTK. Hopefully, there will be a release someday) One could say the same about Debian. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PRO

Re: new to debian

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
that KDE also has an login manager called kdm which you maybe want > to install instead of gdm if you use KDE instead of Gnome. Note even further that if, like me, you don't want to use either KDE or GNOME, you can apt-get install xdm instead. I prefer the most minimal, gewgaw-free

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Carl Fink
a file://. listing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Carl Fink
r /dev/scd?, > depending or your configuration and amount of drives). Also, don't mount the disk. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
word-common (= 1.0.2+cvs.2002.06.05-1) but 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-0jds1 is to be installed I *use* abiword, dammit. Is it worth writing bug reports given the current fluid state of Testing? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http:/

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 0 > 500 ftp://mirrors.kernel.org unstable/main Packages I don't know how to interpret this. Are you saying it's not in Testing? Then why do I get the messages I posted in my previous? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Ministe

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:19:16PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 19:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > > $ apt-cache policy abiword > > > abiword: > > > Installed: (none) > > > Candidate: 2.0.0+cvs.2003.09.25-1.1 > > > Vers

Re: Abiword in testing unusable

2003-11-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 06, 2003 at 08:32:51PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2003-11-06 at 20:25, Carl Fink wrote: > > Same thing as you, as I quoted above. So what's apt-get trying to > > install? > > Dunno. Show us the whole command + all messages. Okay, here's w

Re: OT: Where Best to Express My Rage at M$

2003-11-12 Thread Carl Fink
Annoying though it may be, license terms you don't like are not necessarily illegal. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe&quo

Re: Debian app to read some MS file format?

2003-09-09 Thread Carl Fink
gt; .ltf > .ods > .odt Are you familiar with http://www.filext.com? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: eFax tiff viewer?

2003-09-11 Thread Carl Fink
er displays all pages of a multipage fax? I asked this very question on this very list, years ago. Display from the ImageMagick package works fine. BTW, as of 2000 you could run the eFax viewer (Windows software) under WINE just fine. I did. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jaboot

Re: Browser problems

2003-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
use dpkg or your favorite front-end to be sure they're actually installed. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. Then I didn't have to do it for over six months and completely forgot what the program was called. Anyone want to jog my memory? Thanks. -- Carl

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-15 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 04:18:01AM +0200, Carel Fellinger wrote: > On Mon, Sep 15, 2003 at 08:40:44PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I remember, sometime last year, using a replacement sound module to capture > > streaming audio to a file. It worked quite well. > > Are you

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-16 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 07:57:57AM +0800, csj wrote: > Why not try mplayer? Because it doesn't work well with streaming stuff in general and never with RealAudio, on my system. > If the url's plain http://, wget. Will wget work with rtsp streams? -- Carl Fink

Re: Sound capture via fake driver

2003-09-17 Thread Carl Fink
Cool program. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Burned by domain name registrar for $150, suggestions?

2003-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
ways sue in small claims court. If the court accepts the case, N4E might have to send a lawyer out to deal, costing them quite a bit more than the damages win or lose. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUB

Re: Debian release schedule

2003-09-19 Thread Carl Fink
create a .deb package that is meant to be used on a computer running stable, but not have that package included in the Debian distribution. This package is not official, but it's designed for stable. If you make this package available via apt, then that's a non-official apt repository.

Re: Why such volume with W32/Swen@MM?

2003-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
via people's cache files. Debian-user is echoed as a Usenet newsgroup. I got over 1200 this weekend, and I'm a big poster to Usenet. People I know got like a dozen, and universally they are not. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading htt

TV tuner cards?

2003-09-26 Thread Carl Fink
ceive broadcast TV, accept NTSC and S-Video inputs, and in an ideal world also receive FM. Oh, and it should be cheap. In this ideal world. Anyone have experience using such a card on a laptop running Debian? Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister

Re: fsck hangs my machine unpredictably

2003-10-09 Thread Carl Fink
gt; drive is fine so I can boot OK if I unplug the defective drive, its my 180G > data drive thats screwed.) Sure. Edit /etc/fstab and add the keyword noauto to the entry for the suspect drive. You can of course check man fstab for more details. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Cellular internet?

2003-10-13 Thread Carl Fink
fact that cellular is slow -- the beauty of a Debian box is that I can schedule transfers for most things (e.g. mail, news, web pages I read every day) and read them at my leisure. I'd appreciate any anecdotes, or of course any actual reviews or articles anyone can point out to me. Thanks. --

Re: CD writer

2003-10-14 Thread Carl Fink
an anybody tell what to do to install my cd > writer. Just out of curiosity, what do you get if you type "locate ide-scsi"? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Harassment

2003-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
ans. Let me rephrase it: "The lurkers support me in email." -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lockup

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
press the reset > button. :( The most obvious thing to do is check the logs. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla/Galeon wav plugin

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
#x27;s "Helper Applications" list to use your favorite sound player to play .wav files. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
re bug". I copied 300 MB of data off it without errors after the reboot. I'll report it as a wishlist bug on the kernel. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Midnight commander won't start on new install

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
happens? Hey, why isn't mc in /usr/bin where it belongs? What if you type the full path? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
pointless obstacles in the way of performing this most common of > servicing tasks. (Hint to CD-ROM manufacturers: The lid is supposed > to come off the top of a box, not the bottom.) I take those "don't fool with the laser" warnings seriously, plus a replacement dri

Continuing sound freezes with Sarge

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
about suggesting somewhere else to ask? (Demudi?) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

CD-ROM read fails. Recovery is impossible.

2003-08-14 Thread Carl Fink
urn control to the user when DMA fails.") Would it be a bug in the IDE driver, or the CD driver? I appreciate any help. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
editor you like? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there ANY .pdf format editor for Linux with a WYSIWYG GUI

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
if possible. When I tried to cut and past I get all > of the .pdf encoding > as characters. You need Acrobat Reader version 6 or better, as far as I know, if you mean the PDF forms are meant to be filled out on a computer. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-16 Thread Carl Fink
illy, or read it at <http://www.fiafzilla.org>. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-17 Thread Carl Fink
> is the one who started Debian. That's not quite correct, although RMS was involved before a Debian distro existed. Read _Free as in Freedom_. Ian Murdock came up with the idea, but the FSF supported him very early. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Ministe

Re: [OT] Is RMS a Star Trek fan??

2003-08-18 Thread Carl Fink
I don't know about Trek in particular, but rms is a science fiction fan and has written at least one story. He was one of the Guests of Honor at I-Con (at my invitation) in 2002. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] I-Con Internet Liason and Postmaster <http://www.iconsf.org/&g

Re: rms on debian

2003-08-18 Thread Carl Fink
moral issue, and by distributing non-free software Debian is doing something *morally wrong*, as if they were picking someone's pocket or vandalizing people's cars. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSU

Re: Debian policy, major change ?

2003-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 04:51:42PM +0200, Stephane wrote: > Next debian stable to be released on 1st december: > I would love to hear some comments :) Coool. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSC

Re: explanation of the noise (was Re: Norton AntiVirus detected and quarantined a virus in a message you sent.)

2003-08-19 Thread Carl Fink
) all messages that contain attachments over 2K? (Exception there to cover PGP signatures.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem with rebooting or shutting down the system

2003-08-20 Thread Carl Fink
#x27;t > know how to get out. Ctrl-Alt-Del doesn't work. Any idea or solution??? Why log out? I just use su or sudo in an x-terminal and shut down from there. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIB

mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-01 Thread Carl Fink
-sarge0.1 mencoder: 1:0.91-sarge0.1 mjpegtools: 1:1.6.1.90-sarge0.1 Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http://www.jabootu.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
gt; I found tcmplex from transcode to be much more robust. The mencvcd script and avidemux instructions mention mplex. I'm not an expert, I use what they say to use. I had actually thought of using tcmplex but hadn't gotten around to it. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: mplex shortens MPEG1 video to under five minutes?

2003-09-02 Thread Carl Fink
a new (dated 22 August) mjpegtools, which I automatically installed. I suspect the problem is indeed iwth the current mplex, because ... > I found tcmplex from transcode to be much more robust. And it works here, too. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu'

Re: Kernel too big

1999-06-04 Thread Carl Fink
0K barrier in real mode. Don't "remove" any drivers, but compile them as modules instead of static parts of the kernel. For instance, if you need vfat support for Windows disks, or ISO9660 for CDs, or sound support, or PPP for a modem, you can compile all of those as modules and th

Re: Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ... Please Help Me ...

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Fink
/mini on your system. Win98 is effectively identical to Win95. The programs you might use are LILO and loadlin. If you install them on your Debian system, their documentation will appear in /usr/doc as well. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: Xwindow manager

1999-06-12 Thread Carl Fink
personally use icewm, because it's simple and fast. Why not install several and see which one you like the most? Almost all of them are completely free, and Debian's package system makes installing/deinstalling them pretty simple. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This

.bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-29 Thread Carl Fink
I'm actually using xterm, but I always assumed xterm was some sort of graphical shell for bash, especially since xterms show up in top or ps as "bash". So: how can I make my xterms read my bash resource files? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Compu

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
n/X11:/usr/games:/home/carlf/bin) . . . so why won't the xterm execute files in /home/carlf/bin unless I prepend an explicit path to them? I have a script, /home/carlf/bin/newsguy, but typing just "newsguy" get me "command not found", although ~carlf/bin/new

Re: .bash_profile never read in X

1999-06-30 Thread Carl Fink
xist. > > Hint: this is Bourne shell, not C shell; you never put parentheses around > variable values. Ouch. I copied the syntax from some example file years ago and never thought about it until you pointed that out. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: StarOffice help

1999-07-01 Thread Carl Fink
t cannot log into >> the server. > >Please try '127.0.0.1' instead of 'localhost'=20 >and tell us if it works... :-) On my box, SO5.1 wouldn't recognize my local caching proxy as "localhost" until I installed bind as a caching-only nam

Re: apt-get on linux / download on NT

1999-07-20 Thread Carl Fink
use dpkg to install them with the -R flag (install all the packages in a given directory)? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Fink
stable, not everything."? For that matter, what if I wanted an *older* version for some reason? Would I have to specify that in sources.list as well? Thanks for any answers. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: apt-get: upgrade one package to particular version?

1999-07-22 Thread Carl Fink
to the unstable version. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

No KDE/GNOME for stable?

1999-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
es via www.debian.org's package search engine. I should specify that I want a reasonably new release of either, not the alpha GNOME in stable. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

.xsession not being read?

1999-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
load my window manager. This is irritating. Why would .xsession not be read? Any ideas? I have three Unix books and four Linux books here, and not one describes the X startup process even well enough for me to figure out which program actually reads Xsession and .xsession files. -- Carl

Re: .xsession not being read?

1999-07-29 Thread Carl Fink
> I know I am asking a stupid question, but is the file executable, as it > should be? First thing I checked. Yes. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

.xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
ither of the other lines (or trying to background icewm) makes it fail. Any suggestions on diagnosing why? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: .xsession problem: The Next Generation

1999-07-31 Thread Carl Fink
t that warning makes me nervous. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: apt frustration

1999-08-01 Thread Carl Fink
o-date according to the unstable FTP site. >apt/deity doesn't seem to be able to do this. Gee, I just complained about this a few days ago. (I was wrong.) Problem: the files in potato depend on major infrastructural changes (glibc 2.1) and won't work on a slink system. -- Carl

Re: Your friends...... whatever.

1998-09-08 Thread Carl Fink
Some time around Mon, 07 Sep 1998 18:44:35 +1200, Michael Beattie wrote: [AOL] > . . . their clueful/clueless ratio is probably the lowest in the >industry ;-). One word: WebTV. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Your brain is actually a fabulously compl

Re: COBOL for linux

1998-09-18 Thread Carl Fink
be true with their current compiler technology. Next page of hits: http://www.deskware.com/cobol/cobol.htm http://www.acucobol.com/ Not too difficult, really. And I don't even know COBOL. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: Iomega Zip

1998-09-20 Thread Carl Fink
atted them for use on DOS/Windows machines. Granted, I did that under OS/2. (Yes, I do use lots of operating systems, why do you ask?) So one *can* reformat a Zip disk. I suspect fdformat would work, but I've never had to do it under Linux so that's a complete guess. -- Carl Fink

Re: wwwoffle - how do I use it?

1998-09-27 Thread Carl Fink
exercise for the reader. What I did was add those lines to my ip-up and ip-down scripts respectively, so when I'm dialed into my ISP, wwwoffle doesn't stop my web use, but when I'm offline, it caches requests for later. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: Printing on the stairs

1998-06-13 Thread Carl Fink
oblem. (Note: I'm cc'ing the mailing list manually because I'm told the mail-to-news gateway is one-way and I'm reading this in linux.debian.user. If the gateway has become two-way, someone tell me and I won't do this any more. Mr. Myers also cc'd in email, unle

Re: Install/Uninstall dramas (novice user)

1998-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
d should probably be as strict as possible to keep the size down. >Optional remains appropriate. Not that I am experienced enough to suggest a list, but perhaps Debian should have a "Recommended" standard setup for inexperienced users? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Dosemu

1998-06-21 Thread Carl Fink
I think my scenario is more likely. It might be worth your while to page through the conf file and read the comments. Note: because linux.debian.user isn't gatewayed *back* to the mailing list, I'm CC'ing the list and Mr. Kerr. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Q. Why d

Newton connectivity?

1998-06-28 Thread Carl Fink
ch of good Newton web pages, but nothing specific to Linux-Newton relationships. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God never bothered to patent his stuff." --Calvin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian Package Manager "Worthless Junk"???

1998-07-09 Thread Carl Fink
uot;dpkg" system that underlies it could be scripted to do so. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "God never bothered to patent his stuff." --Calvin -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Re: Debian 1.3 & libc6

1998-07-23 Thread Carl Fink
y software, not improve it. I do some beta testing, but I like to do it on purpose and only on packages I *know* I'm beta testing. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] So, who else is going to be at WorldCon? -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null

Upgrade breaks suck

1999-02-08 Thread Carl Fink
no Message-ID? Skipping "rec" --no Message-ID? Skipping "comp" --no Message-ID? Skipping "news" --no Message-ID? Skipping "soc" --no Message-ID? Nothing sent -- leaving batchfile alone. Never saw that before -- did innxmit change with the upgrade from inn 1.5 to 1.7? How should I deal with it? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Printer config: still not there

1999-03-24 Thread Carl Fink
u to know why I might not respond immediately. Is anyone working on a user-friendly printer setup program for Linux? I might volunteer for such a project. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Utility to set PC clock

1998-12-17 Thread Carl Fink
upgrade in January, so this would be a temporary fix.) Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

1999-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
autochecks the root partition, just automatically check the others instead of warning me? I have only vague knowledge of what happens when a Debian system bootstraps, so please make any answers fairly basic. Thank you. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Science and Technology Programm

Re: Warning on mounting partitions: automate e2fsck?

1999-01-17 Thread Carl Fink
> Does your /etc/fstab entry for those filesystems have the fsck-pass entry > defined? No. I never actually read the docs on fstab and didn't realize what that field meant. Thank you very much. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Science and Technology Programming, I-Con 18

Re: Do you still need screensavers these days?

1999-02-01 Thread Carl Fink
he monitor off (and power down the computer) if you've been away too long, saving electricity and wear on your system. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Science and Technology Programming, I-Con 18 April 9-11, 1999www.iconsf.org

Re: dumb WordPerfect question

1999-02-04 Thread Carl Fink
I speculate that you didn't download the whole package. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Your brain is actually a fabulously complex computer, which means that on Jan. 1, 2000, it will stop working and your body will flop around like a recently caught perch." (Dave Barry, slightly paraphrased.)

Re: Netscape

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Fink
ll. Only thing I can do about it is fill in the >text >boxes, then go back and to the combo boxes, and restart netscape when I'm done. >This gets annoying, but it's all I can find to do about it... I find if you iconify Netscape and restore it, the keyboard works aga

Re: sbpcd CDROM Problem! Need Help!

1999-08-28 Thread Carl Fink
case, use modprobe to find out if spbcd is loaded. If it is, don't fool around with configuration files, just type mount -t iso9660 /dev/cdrom /mnt -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

can't rename lockfile ...

1999-08-31 Thread Carl Fink
hich only strikes when run on a libc6 system. Upgrading to efax 0.9 from potato (which luckily doesn't depend on the newer libraries) fixed the problem instantly. I hope Johann is still reading and finds this helpful. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: kde packages

1999-09-04 Thread Carl Fink
t like KFM as a file manager, only as a web browser.) -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

Re: Reading Word format files?

1999-09-06 Thread Carl Fink
Office is free from Sun Microsystems. See www.sun.com/Staroffice (I might have the caps wrong). -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

Re: how can I disable XDM?

1999-09-12 Thread Carl Fink
[This message has also been posted.] On Sat, 11 Sep 1999 21:11:39 GMT Björn Bondén <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >How can I turn off XDM? (I'm using slink). Well, I often just su to root and "killall xdm". A more elegant way would be "init 2". -- Carl Fink

Num lock disables alt- and ctrl-key shortcuts?

1999-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
unctions, which might explain why it's immune.) Anyone out there have an insight as to where this should be reported? Running slink with a couple of potato packages, XFree86 3.3.2.3. Thanks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: Num lock disables alt- and ctrl-key shortcuts?

1999-09-13 Thread Carl Fink
st > keys, but for keypad ones do numbers, or somesuch). > > Staroffice was written intelligently in this respect and "does the > Right Thing". It appears that Realplayer does not. Thanks very much. So, it actually is a bug (in the sense of "programming error") in RealPlayer and

Re: hi i got a question

1999-09-14 Thread Carl Fink
diald actually dial? 3)What are the contents of /var/log/ppp.log? 4)Does minicom work? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Re: After running X, no console

1999-09-28 Thread Carl Fink
ping "reset" blindly in the nonprinting VT. I suspect it's a Metro-X problem. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy." -Martin Luther on Copernicus' theory that the Earth orbits the sun

Re: Slink to Potato

1999-10-01 Thread Carl Fink
king a very long time to be released. (Is it even frozen yet? I haven't kept track.) I, too, am waiting for some of the newer software with metaphorically bated breath. So, since you offered to help, the thing you could do is help test potato and get it released. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Fax format TIFF files (www.efax.com)

1999-10-03 Thread Carl Fink
fine bitmap editor (the GIMP), but apparently efax.com encapsulates multiple-page faxes into a single TIFF, and all of those programs display only the first page. Can anyone recommend a program (preferably, of course, Debianized) that will display all the pages of a fax-format TIFF? -- Carl

Re: Debian vs. RedHat

1999-04-18 Thread Carl Fink
see that as a terrible indictment of dselect? What kind of installation system makes you select your options in *increments*? Especially when, without apt, it makes you sit around for twenty minutes on each cycle while pointlessly listing packages it *isn't* installing? -- Carl Fink

Re: Lotus Notes apps???

1999-04-24 Thread Carl Fink
t only for Wintel and PowerMac. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Manager, Dueling Modems Computer Forum <http://dm.net>

Fax software

1999-05-02 Thread Carl Fink
h is, of course, why I don't own a fax machine.) Thanks for any help. If desired, I can digest personal replies for the list, but that custom appears to be dying out. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] "This fool wishes to reverse the entire science of astronomy."

Unidentified subject!

1999-05-30 Thread Carl Fink
bXt.so.6'". >Of course, the library exists (in /usr/X11R6/lib). I used strace and found that for some reason, acroread doesn't look at that directory. I linked all the libXt* files into one that it does search . . . and it segfaulted. So I deleted it and used xpdf instead. -- Carl Fi

  1   2   3   4   5   6   7   8   9   10   >