Re: To be safe don't use shift key...

2003-10-09 Thread Erik Steffl
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ...or else the riaa might sue you. http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/ptech/10/08/bmg.protection.reut/index.html quote from article: Computers running Linux and older versions of the Mac operating system are unable to run the software and are able to copy the disc freely,

Re: Mozilla Mail Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 15:51, Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 16 October 2003 02:45, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote: Hi. Has anyone tried/succeeded in importing messages from Microsoft Outlook (.pst files) to Mozilla Mail? Does anyone have any idea

Re: Mozilla Mail Microsoft Outlook

2003-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2003-10-16 at 16:51, Alan Chandler wrote: ... When I did it, apt-get install courier-imap just about did all I needed. I certainly don't remember having to do any other playing about to get it to work. Obviously if you want to use it to receive mail into the Maildirs

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 19:01 GMT, Ron Johnson penned: On Fri, 2003-10-17 at 12:29, Monique Y. Herman wrote: You're right; the anglo-centric nature of most programming languages is distressing. It would be fun to code in a language based on a totally Distressing

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic control structures are pretty much english sentences. This would be fairly hard todo

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Don Werve wrote: On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 03:37:33PM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic control structures are pretty much english sentences. Actually, English grammar

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 04:10:38AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Monique Y. Herman wrote: On Fri, 17 Oct 2003 at 22:37 GMT, Erik Steffl penned: english has a fairly simple a regular grammar so it's fairly easy to create english based programming language - the basic control

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
csj wrote: On Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: [...] think about it: when learning english the only challenge is to learn how to pronounce words (and learn irregular verbs). you built vocabulary by learning words, where you pretty much only need to remember the word itself

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 01:40:19PM +0200, David Jardine insinuated: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 12:56:37AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: csj wrote: [...] Because everybody from the poor war orphan Hey, Joe, eat! to the UN Secretary General speaks it, English has become a rather

Re: update in sid has killed gnome-terminal

2003-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Oct 20, 2003 at 05:09:19PM -0400, TR wrote: I just did an upgrade in a machine running sid and after that can't star a gnome terminal anymore. Yes, and certainly you're going to get LOTS of help with that problem, given this EXTREMELY informative report you've made.

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Mon, 20 Oct 2003 11:53:34AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: the two are apples and oranges, my friend, especially when you're dealing with something that no one can have an objective point of view on, given different native languages. ??? you can

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in english, the point is that you can take few forms of sentences and have a working language (that's pretty much what BASIC (talking about

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Ron Johnson wrote: ... Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered - What is the purpose of gender in grammar/language? as far as I can tell there's no purpose (not a linguist but my native language has genders, can't find any reason other then that it has genders:-) - Is it only

Re: classic deficiancy in both windows and linux ?

2003-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
Joyce, Matthew wrote: Hey, Linux is Perfect!!! You must be an Evil Windows Troll!!! But seriously: On Thu, 2003-10-23 at 17:08, James D. Freels wrote: Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ? What's wrong

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
David Palmer. wrote: ... First in were the Gaels (Irish) through Skandinavia, then the Icenii Brythonics (which is where 'Briton' and then 'Britain' came from) and some lesser tribes, such as the Manx. But none of these spoke German, either high, middle or low. Germany as a territory was defined

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Pigeon wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 10:54:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Being a native speaker of American, I've always wondered - What is the purpose of gender in grammar/language? Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things like all the words for female genitals

Re: Gender in language (was Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: snip])

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:52:10AM +0100, Pigeon insinuated: ... Argh, this does my head in too. Especially when you come across things like all the words for female genitals in lots of languages having the masculine gender. Work that one out. yeah, or a fork being feminine,

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create various complex and ambiguous sentences in english, the point is that you can take few forms

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2003 at 06:47:13PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sun, 19 Oct 2003 12:38:45PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: ... of course, you can create

Re: way-OT: regularity of german v. english [was: Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax]

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Sat, 25 Oct 2003 11:05:22AM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 12:11:49PM -0700, Erik Steffl insinuated: Nori Heikkinen wrote: now, think of an example in which you encounter anything remotely like full sentence structure in code

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
Richard Lyons wrote: On Tuesday 28 October 2003 20:30, Monique Y. Herman wrote: [...] Hrm.. Does debian-user not set the reply-to to the list, or is this my [...] Apparently not. I wonder why not. It would surely be a good idea - for those using simpler mail clients. I use kmail and filter

mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some reason it always opens the home page. this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

mozilla mail freezes on start

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
last mozilla 1.4 worked OK, now that I upgraded to 1.5-2 when I open mail window it just freezes (all mozilla windows are completely frozen, not updated at all). I have an IMAP server (imaps) and few nntp servers configured. I can connect to IMAP server (cyrus) using other clients - so far I

SOLVED Re: mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:38, Erik Steffl wrote: I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some reason it always opens the home page. this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). right

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-02 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 18:52, Tom wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:42:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: (I have a theory, but I don't want to influence what you say). But, now I'm curious... what is your theory? Funny timing, I just said it in my previous email a couple of minutes

Re: Stable Debian == obsolete??

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Chema wrote: ... So the network installation of Sarge is my new bet. But I want to know, how really unstable is it? I don't think most people could live with Woody, so is it test the most used distro? server: I'd go with stable desktop: I'd go with unstable (that's what I use) testing,

Re: Progress meter on copying

2003-11-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Dresser wrote: On Mon, 3 Nov 2003, Rus Foster wrote: Hi All, Does anyone know of a nice way of being able to show a progress meter on copying a large file from one part of the disk to another. I tried scp localfile localfile2 but scp calls cp. you can call it like this: scp someFile

Re: Hacked: .bash_history linked somewhere

2003-11-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Mike Egglestone wrote: Hi, My server was trojaned recently, not sure how. It looks like /bin/ps was modified or replaced with a trojan. The /root/.bash_history file is set to this: chsslx1:~# ls -la .bash_history -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Nov 7 05:31 .bash_history and I can't

Re: Multimedia keys in Woody?

2004-01-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Joel Konkle-Parker wrote: What's the best way to get my keyboard's multimedia keys to work in Woody? I've used Gnome 2.4's media keys applet, but is there something available in 1.4 that can do the same thing? depends on what you mean by 'working' to make them recognized by X you need to

Re: [OT] Bruce Perens talks to BBC

2004-01-27 Thread Erik Steffl
Carl Fink wrote: On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:57:38PM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: I'd suggest that comparing ethnic groups with religious groups is rather like comparing apples to oranges. I'm assuming that you meant to imply either the expenditures for keeping the MUSLIMS safe from their

Re: SATA + debian

2004-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
David Purton wrote: Hi, I'm looking at purchasing a funky shuttle xpc SB62G2. Amongst other things this box supports Serial ATA drives. Are there likely to be any troubles installing debian on a box with a SATA hard drive? The chipsets are: North Bridge: i865G South Bridge: iCH5-R Can

Re: FireWire disk - sharing with an iBook?

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
James Tappin wrote: On Thu, 29 Jan 2004 19:05:14 + James Tappin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a Lacie Firewire pocket drive. I'd rather like to be able to use it on both my Debian (Sid) box and my iBook (Mac OsX). I have no problems making it accessible to either machine but neither seems

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Alexander Fitterling wrote: Everyone :) I am using Debian testing/unstable. I wished to get rid of klogd,sysklogd, cron/anacron - I did so. ... /var/log amounts around 400MB of size - this is way huge! I want to get rid of those files - could that be done without any problems if considering to

Re: Turn Debian into a Desktop-System what to do

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
Alex Fitterling wrote: ... I know what i want the thing is why can't debian do I wish a desktop system and wish to get rid of cron and all other grab I do not want to see on my system. other distributions can do.. I seen it you want cron. it runs number of tasks that are crucial for desktop

Re: anti-virus software for Gnu/Linux

2004-02-02 Thread Erik Steffl
MJ Inabnit wrote: Greetings: I have read several opinions regarding AV for Gnu/Linux. The last one is Rick's rant http://www.linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=virus. However, the information is dated. So what is the opinion now-a-days? I just read a post last week where a new

Re: Knoppix is Not Debian

2004-02-07 Thread Erik Steffl
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sat, Feb 07, 2004 at 10:28:03PM +0100, David Baron wrote: Once you do the HD installation, you have their, allbeit mixed, distro based on Debian and KDE. Ok, now... we've got a stupid who couldn't figure out how to read well enough to run the Debian installer. You thus

Re: window managers with maximize-vertical?

2004-02-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Tim Connors wrote: Johann Koenig [EMAIL PROTECTED] said on Sun, 8 Feb 2004 22:42:17 -0500: On Sunday February 8 at 11:34am Monique Y. Herman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that, long ago in a galaxy far, far away, I had a window manager that supported maximize-vertical (as opposed to

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working

2004-02-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Graham Campbell wrote: I just applied the latest X upgrades to Woody. My wheel mouse stopped scrolling (rest works ok). Here is the relevant entries from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : Section InputDevice Identifier Configured Mouse Driver mouse Option

Re: X upgrade, Wheel mouse stopped working

2004-02-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Graham Campbell wrote: On Friday 20 February 2004 08:14 pm, Erik Steffl wrote: Graham Campbell wrote: I just applied the latest X upgrades to Woody. My wheel mouse stopped scrolling (rest works ok). Here is the relevant entries from /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 : Section InputDevice Identifier

DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). When I run e.g. xset dpms 60 65 70 it works again (for some time). Only idea I have is that openGL unsets/reset/break dpms (that's about the only graphics

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-09 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1 (proprietary driver) The first thing I would try

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-04-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 20:13 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always

Re: DPMS stops working (ATI, openGl issue?)

2007-05-08 Thread Erik Steffl
jason.public wrote: On 4/9/07, Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-04-09 at 01:28 -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: When I start X DPMS is working (monitor is turned off), however after some time it stops working (i.e. monitor is always on). [...] fglrx-driver 8.31.5-1

how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). I tried dvdrip and cinelerra (from

SOLVED: Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
) avidemux to cut the avi (there were quite a few failed attempts, using different codes/programs etc. so hope this will help...) erik Carl Fink wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:42:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: any pointers to solutions? Programs to use? Settings? Howtos

Preview of cursors for X

2007-11-14 Thread Erik Steffl
Is there any way to preview the cursor themes for X? I have several cursor packages installed (e.g. chameleon-cursor-theme comixcursors crystalcursors dmz-cursor-theme etc.) and can change from one cursor theme to another using sudo update-alternatives --config x-cursor-theme however I cannot

Re: Perl Programming within Debian

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
David Baron wrote: ... perl discussion snipped ... With Windows, we bought a nice debugger--any one know of such a beast GPLed under Linux? Being able to watch those vairables was a life-saver. A decent IDE would be nice as well (For using .net, one has Microsoft's Visual Studion in

Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple

2007-01-03 Thread Erik Steffl
Not sure if it's standard gtk/gnome file open dialog, but it's the one used to pick application when opening an attachement and downloading files (it's probably used in other places as well). The dialog has two parts - left part has shortcut to user home dir, desktop and filesystem, right

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-10 Thread Erik Steffl
Wim De Smet wrote: ... gnome file chooser discussion snipped ... indeed very annoying) but I don't think it's open()ing every file in those directories. This would require an ordinate amount of processing power not to mention disk I/O which I'm just not seeing. it takes few minutes to open

Re: [OT/FLAME] Horrible GNOME File Picker (Was: Open (helper application chooser) for iceweasel/icedove is too simple)

2007-01-11 Thread Erik Steffl
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Wed, 2007-01-10 at 00:27 -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: it takes few minutes to open /usr/bin here (almost no load on machine), next time (I assume cache helps a lot) it takes 10-20 seconds. system: debian unstable icedove 1.5.0.9.dfsg1-1 pentium 2.4

fglrx: openGL broken for screen width greater than 1760 pixels (bug #450426)

2007-12-23 Thread Erik Steffl
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450426 Since fglrx-driver 8.42.3-2 most of the openGL screen (either full screen or windowed) is corrupted when the width of the openGL window is more than 1760 pixels. The way it looks: top of the window (1/4 or so) looks OK, the rest of

fglrx not working for resolution above 1760 (width)

2008-01-28 Thread Erik Steffl
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=450426 am I the only one seeing that bug? fglrx seems to be broken for resolution where width is above 1760 pixels, for several releases (I filed the bug Wed, 07 Nov 2007 02:14:30 -0800), just tried latest version fglrx-driver 8.45.4-1 and

pavuk: does it work for anybody? (segfaults here)

2006-09-06 Thread Erik Steffl
Just tried to use pavuk, it seems pretty unstable just trying to configure the download scenario and then reliably segfaults when starting the download (both with X frontend and commandline). There are bugs already filed (200+ days old) for this (as far as I can tell, they also mention

Re: Access to WWW via ISDN and Netscape Navigator (beginner)

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
first check if your networking is really working, try few basic commands like netstat -i, ping various machines etc... if netscape is complaining it is probavly becuase of non-working network. did you set the nameservers in /etc/resolv.conf? erik Matthias Mann wrote: Hi

Re: X-window

2000-10-12 Thread Erik Steffl
if you are using csh (or derivative) us: startx startx.log you can also try to set up your monitor (using the buttons on the monitor), I guess playing with mode lines would help also... is the screen 1) squeezed (i.e. you still see all the lines) or 2) do you just see part of

Re: ISDN + Netscape

2000-10-13 Thread Erik Steffl
Ethan Vaughn wrote: Matthias Mann wrote: Hi you! I have no problem to get a connection to my ISP. Datatransfer is working too. But i miss the file /etc/resolv.conf that i need, how i think, for a working netscape. Can you send my a copy of your resolv.conf so i have an example?

Re: Vim vs Elvis -- was Mutt's Editor

2000-10-13 Thread Erik Steffl
will trillich wrote: Bud Rogers wrote: On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, will trillich wrote: how does vim compare to elvis? which is the resource hog? which does better syntax highlighting? I don't know about relative resource use, but vim's syntax highlighting is the best I've seen.

Re: lost connectivity to ISP

2000-10-15 Thread Erik Steffl
try to figure out if the network works at all, use IP numberic addresses only, for example this one: 192.48.96.9 (ftp.uu.net), if that work you definitely have a problem with DNS and creating a valid resolv.conf file should help (you ISP should give you the DNS servers IPs) erik James

Re: make monitor power-saving blank -HOW?

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Nielsen wrote: If you want it to go into the low-power green mode (light turns amber) you can run: /usr/bin/setterm -powersave on This works in a VC. For X you need to put the following in your XF86Config: Option power_saver # enable VESA DPMS or use xset erik

Re: Questions About dpkg and friends

2000-10-16 Thread Erik Steffl
Bob Nielsen wrote: On Sun, Oct 15, 2000 at 10:14:07PM -0700, Jeff Hornsberger wrote: Hi, I just moved over from redhat and am wondering about how to do a few things in the debian package management system. 1) If you know the name of a file you need, but not what package it is part of,

Re: Weird X Problem

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
xscreensaver has a screensaver that downloads random images from the net... called web collage (or similar name)... could have been the screensaver? they all can be ran independently (they are just programs that xsreensaver run), so you might have one way or another run it... erik

Re: [OT] gcc-warnings

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
it means that an integer value was assigned to pointer variable, pointers are quite often some kinds of integers but not neccessarily so, I guessfollowing code would produce such an error message: int main(void) { void *ptr; int i = 319; ptr = i; /* problem here */ return 0; }

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
note that it won't list links to directories, you might want to use -follow see below: panther:~/rrrl total 6 drwxr-xr-x 2 esteffl pbidev 512 Oct 17 09:15 dir lrwxrwxrwx 1 esteffl pbidev 3 Oct 17 09:15 dir.link - dir -rw-r--r-- 1 esteffl pbidev14 Oct 17 09:15

Re: Simple sh or alias to list directories

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
using -d for this is confusing like hell because -d is 'well known' switch in standard unix ls - it lists directory as if it were file, i.e. does not list the content of the directory (useful with -l), it has no effect on files (they are listed just like they would be without -d) erik

Re: Wanted: Advice on Video Cards

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
I like 3dfx, fairly good performance, they provide info, opensource drivers etc... the new ones are a bit too expensive though (up to $300), the older models (voodoo 2) are about $100 (still good performance (for me) but does not match newer competing cards)... erik Andy Bastien wrote:

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
I use x-isp, it re-dials when connection is lost... I guess other ppp front-ends have similar fuctionality erik Jack wrote: how to set the ppp to redial when losting connection? thanks! -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null

Re: ppp redial

2000-10-17 Thread Erik Steffl
scripts but I hope somebody already have the whole thing figured out] of course, it has to be (mainly point 4) WM/desktop independent... (i.e. not part of some enlightenment panel or something) thanks in advance, erik John Hasler wrote: Erik Steffl writes: I use x-isp, it re-dials

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-18 Thread Erik Steffl
try to experiment with xset dpms from xterm, once you find it works, add it to one of the x startup files, I suggest xdm startup file (see /etc/X11/xdm/*), what I do is set xscreensaver to start saving in something like 10 minutes and xset dpms to turn off monitor after 30 min or something like

Re: /etc/apt/sources.list -- howto...

2000-10-18 Thread Erik Steffl
:-) sweet memories, I remember some time ago when suddenly the non-free returned errors, I spent some time figuring out what line to use - I saw that the packages are there but did not know how to construct the proper line in sources.list. I finally came up with the following line that seems to

Re: Monitor power-down/screensaver

2000-10-18 Thread Erik Steffl
you can also start xscreensaver in xdm (if you use xdm of course!) startup files - see /etc/X11/xdm/* then anybody who starts X (using xdm) will have the screensaver... erik Tim Wood wrote: --- Glyn Millington [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 12:03:15PM +0800,

Re: [OT] gcc-warning: more info

2000-10-18 Thread Erik Steffl
see below Erdmut Pfeifer wrote: On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 11:08:23AM +0200, Daniel Reuter wrote: Hello there, Thanks to all, who responded up to now. I think I'll give some more information, as I still don't understand, why the warning main.c:158: assignment makes pointer from

Re: Advice to newbie, please

2000-10-19 Thread Erik Steffl
Rudi Borth wrote: I am considering switching the operating system of my personal computer to GNU/Linux, and I would appreciate some guidance regarding two elementary questions: Q1: Would this make sense for a single user who is not a programmer? My system has been made Y2K compliant

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
yes, that's true, are you asking what the '?' is or are you just stating the fact? anyway, the other command is find, see manpages for find and grep for more info. find is the one that finds file (based on name, time last accessed, type and various other criteria), grep searches the files for

Re: what is modules.conf

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Peter Jay Salzman wrote: i've never got this straight -- 1. what is modules.conf? what is it used for? various information about modules, for example options (which irq to use etc.), you can also turn off the modules (for example if kernels looks for modules you do not have (and you do

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
dirty tricks... erik Damian Menscher wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: yes, that's true, are you asking what the '?' is or are you just stating the fact? anyway, the other command is find, see manpages for find and grep for more info. find is the one that finds

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Damian Menscher wrote: On Fri, 20 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: the main difference is a sideeffect, sort of, if grep is called for with one file as an argument it only prints the line matched, not the filename, so you get bunch of lines (each successfull match) but you have no idea

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
Colin Watson wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: calling grep just once is probably slightly more effective (even though the grep stays in cache so it's not that much of a difference, I guess) Actually loading the program from disk or cache isn't the big hit, it's the fork/exec

Re: GREP

2000-10-20 Thread Erik Steffl
is glimpse significantly better then locate? erik kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2000 at 08:30:31AM -0500, Cavaiani, Don ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I read where the grep command (along with ? command) can be used to search your whole hard drive for any file that

Re: bash_history

2000-10-21 Thread Erik Steffl
I think you can turn saving of the history on/off, see man bash: ... HISTSIZE The number of commands to remember in the command history (see HISTORY below). The default value is 500. HISTFILE The name of the file in

Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Erik Steffl
you might want to try the vga16 server, just to see if the same behaviour occurs when only basic vga functionality is used, I think that most cards work with this server fine... it's not a long term solution, of course... erik Chris Gray wrote: OK. I've installed woody on my home

Re: Help: S3 Savage4

2000-10-21 Thread Erik Steffl
at shut down. I've also discovered that I can change window managers without crashing. Chris On Sat, 21 Oct 2000, Erik Steffl wrote: you might want to try the vga16 server, just to see if the same behaviour occurs when only basic vga functionality is used, I think that most cards work

Re: Introduction.

2000-10-22 Thread Erik Steffl
Rick Hayner wrote: Hello to all here. I am a very new debian user, and I have some questions, as well as I want to introduce myself. My name is Rick Hayner, and I am 52 years of age, totally blind since birth, and also have mild Cerebral Palsy. I have been a debian user since sunday.

Re: Netscape color problem ..

2000-10-23 Thread Erik Steffl
or 32, if available erik Andrei Ivanov wrote: Thats a problem with netscape and 24 bpp color. Use 16bpp colormap. Andrei -- First there was Explorer... Then came Expedition. This summer Coming to a

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
use svga server, it recognizes the voodoo card (automatically, you don't need to specify it), when you run X, it should say the name of the chip recognized... erik Juergen Fiedler wrote: The first time I tried to install Debian on that machine, I installed the base system from

Re: Voodoo 3 2000

2000-10-24 Thread Erik Steffl
guess I could try to set it up later and perhaps configure it with XF86Setup. I never set X up maunally - and I'd rather wait with that until I really know Linux inside out. Thanks, Juergen Erik Steffl wrote: use svga server, it recognizes the voodoo card (automatically, you

insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
the message in subject: Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/m odules/2.2.17/modules.dep is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install, why do I get the message? I tried to figure out why is the /etc/modules.conf newer than

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
Philipp Schulte wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2000 at 12:17:25AM -0700, Erik Steffl wrote: Oct 25 00:08:06 jojda insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/m odules/2.2.17/modules.dep is somewhat troubling me, I have fairly plain debian unstable install, why do I get

Re: insmod: Note: /etc/modules.conf is more recent than /lib/modules/2.2.17/modules.dep

2000-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
tjm wrote: Hello, I have had the same problem although it doesn't seem to cause any adverse condition with the machine. The startup script /etc/rcS.d/S20modutils (/etc/init.d/modutils) runs depmod -a when the machine boots, but it seems that the time stamp that results from the new

Re: gnome shortcuts

2000-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
you might try to start gnome desktop, forgot which program it is, I once started it accidentally... try gnome control center..., gnome panel or something liked that... erik Debian Ghost wrote: Hey All, Silly little question here. I can swear I used to drag icons from the Gnome

Re: Make Menuconfig + curses.h

2000-10-25 Thread Erik Steffl
you need to install ncurses package (or similar name) if you are missing file but don't know the package, go to www.debian.org, Packages, the last search form let's you search for file... apt-cache might help as well... erik Hanno Böttcher wrote: Hi all! I have a problem

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
it looks lite it's a string received from modem, i.e. that the modem is set to echo. try to set it to non-echo mode by including appropriate AT command in init string. then you should see it send: send(ATE0Z^M) (I think E0 is the command to turn of echo) this, of course, might or

Re: Strange chat / pppd behaviour ... :O

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
I tihnk there is a way to specify what should be returned as connect/busy etc. strings, it can also be changed to numberic code. so I'd check AT commands reference (should have come with modem) and set it explicitly in init string erik John Hasler wrote: Kristian Rink writes:

Re: xdisplay not found by x clients

2000-10-26 Thread Erik Steffl
after you run startx you should see X desktop on the screen. use window manager's menus (or launchpad or whatever) to run programs, run xterm (or other terminal emulation program) to get command line (that's where you can start other programs from, the ones you do not find in menu) generally,

apt-get wants toupgrade my kernel package to debian kernel package

2000-10-28 Thread Erik Steffl
I downloaded debian kernel source package (+ source for alsa modules and 3dfx module). I used make-kpkg to build the kernel (and later on alsa and 3dfx modules). I specified jojda.1 as my kernel revision. the resulting *.deb (kernel + modules) were succesfully installed, so now I have: ih

Re: apt-get wants toupgrade my kernel package to debian kernel package

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
thanks, it's all clear now (I also re-read the docs, I wasn't sure what one would use epoch for...) erik Colin Watson wrote: Erik Steffl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I downloaded debian kernel source package (+ source for alsa modules and 3dfx module). I used make-kpkg

failed to create 3dfx module package: epoch not a number

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have compiled a kernel with --revision 99:jojda.2 kernel compiled OK, kernal package kernel-image-2.2.17_jojda.2_i386.deb (why is there no epoch in name?) I have 3dfx and alsa modules sources so I went on and did: make-kpkg modules_image (set MODULE_LOC first) it looks like alsa

Re: ls -R | grep char_string

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Christoph H. wrote: I would like to search all files in the current und subdirs for a char_string. Why does this commandstring not work?: ls -R | grep char_string No error , no nothing - although this certain char_string is in a simple ASCII text file! You are searching for a

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
what do you do and what errors do you get? I had no problems until I introduced epoch, it looks like package does not understand it properly (see my other post or other reply to this thread) in response to David: you probably need to recompile 3dfx (build a new package and install it)

Re: 3dfx.o

2000-10-29 Thread Erik Steffl
what particular problems do you have? I have just upgraded 2.2.14 to 2.2.17 and recompiled modules (alsa and 3dfx) and everything worked fine. however, I introduced epochs (so that my kenrel/modules packages are not overwritten by debian ones) and now 3dfx complains about incorrect version,

Re: XFree86 4.0.1 and TrueType fonts

2000-11-06 Thread Erik Steffl
John S. J. Anderson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: It's not all that hard... I went through this last night. Well, yah, it shouldn't have been. 8^/= I was doing the right thing, and for some reason, it wasn't working. Then,

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