off-topic: pres debates

2000-10-27 Thread Ralph Zeller
It seems that a lot of us missed the presidential debates, so I'm posting this summary as a public service announcement to keep Linux users informed: --- Jim Lehrer: Welcome to the second presidential debate between Vice President Al Gore and Gov. George W. Bush. The candidates have agreed on

neibour table overflow

2000-10-27 Thread Francis Joseph Conry
Hello! I got debian installed last night on my little caseless box with an apple monitor. Starting X is very slow and the error that occurs while logging into X is neighbour table overflow Also while booting up I get an error while "Starting NFS common utilities statdlockdrcp" Any ideas?

Microsoft Hacked?

2000-10-27 Thread Kent Loobey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/business/newsid_993000/993933.stm "I can assure you that we know there has been no compromise of the integrity of the source code; that it has not been modified or tampered with in any way." We will know for sure if the next version has fewer bugs!!!

apt-get

2000-10-27 Thread Francis Joseph Conry
Well, fixed the problem, I think, oddly it that was that in etc/network/interfaces the line with the iface io inet forgot param #had a comment here and for some reason it was treating this comment as another param. Well next question, how do I change the source list for aptget? Specifically

Linux Mac's Help?

2000-10-27 Thread John Morrison
My brother-in-law who is pretty new to computing has inherited a Performa631CD. I'm not real sure but it looks like it has about 8 megs of RAM and a 350 Meg hard drive. I was just about to reformat and reinstall the original software when it occurred to me that maybe this is something he could