On Wed, 2002-09-25 at 08:35, Jean-Francois Dive wrote:
Some people are working on diffs download (rsync) trough apt instead of the full
packages, which should help a lot when connected trough low speed lines.
Any tips onhow to do this to reduce the download size?
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it and it works fine, thanks.
Do I remove the preferences file?
I've never had an /etc/apt/preferences file, so I suppose you don't
really need one.
It seems to be of more use for pinning packages to specific versions.
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in fact still back in stable (e.g. libc6, bummer).
It seems that I do in fact need to do a apt-get -u dist-upgrade.
Do I need to make the changes mentioned in the HOWTO?
If anyone can help shed some light on this I'd really appreciate it.
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from the command line but you need to hard code
some of the parameters etc for automatci scripting. See:
http://www.openoffice.org/servlets/ReadMsg?msgId=311849listName=discuss
Thoughts others might find this useful too.
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and if there were an export option rather than having to use Save As...
I think I'll post some requests...
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Prefs.
HTH
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see some then?
Under Linux you have to mount CDs to be able to see the files, though I
expect you Red hat installation probably automounts them for you...
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up Nautilus
go to Edit Preferences Desktop Trash
uncheck Use nautilus to draw your desktop
you need to save your session as well so it doesn't start again next
time you login.
HTH.
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my opinion, I think RH still has this by default.
Probably good for beginners who should then remove it after a little
while.
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- do yourself a favour and try it ;-)
P.S. Wait till you try the reborn Nautilus graphical shell...
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, as it explains the different kill levels that you pass
as an argument. 9 kills a process without caring what state it is in.
Will have a close read of it. Was a bit confused by the signals and
assumed that the default would be kill at all costs.
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of /dev/dsp and will not let go.
I've tried kill and killall as my user and root and it will not die.
Can anyone tell me how else I may be able to exterminate it?
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It looks quite good but it crashes as soon as I try and print :-(
Did you have the same problem?
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/toshiba.html for a lot of
comprehensive HOWTOs from people with them.
I have a Dell 8000 and they're fab with Debian Woody/Sid.
The only problem lingering is some interference between the LTmodem
driver and the IR port.
Good luck!
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the time. Galeon has a similar
option somewhere too. It's nice to be able to change the font sizes
Actually, because of the previous mentioned prob I hadn't tried this
with galeon. Might give it a go...
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created by lilo.
Cheers
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mouse-wheel-mode) but it
didn't work.
Thanks for setting me straight.
I must say, I do like the new Emacs21. Looks a bit more up to date
now but same great functionality.
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to the end of the
document?
Thanks for any tips...
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want to have to stuff around with re-fixing up my current
build system.
Also, is the Open Office app stable enough to use?
I currently use Star Office (Abiwird just isn't stable enough and no
tables :-(
People's thoughts and experience?
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can't remember the actuall command
parametersso don't want to mislead you.
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thing.
Just burn from those files.
Normally I'd use Nero under Windows.
thanks
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On Mon, 2002-05-13 at 14:07, Matthew Hannigan wrote:
Looks like
http://www.wxwindows.org/
was made for you.
That looks very interesting, thanks for the pointer Matthew.
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On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 22:28, Alister Waller wrote:
Jeff,
I like the bit about the PGP signatures being turned off.
Sheesh, and it took me while to work out how to get it there in the
first place!
It's gone...
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really lucky.
The Gimp is more than adequate for me there.
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On Sat, 2002-04-13 at 19:31, Angus Lees wrote:
and of course (`) its non-free.
It does look quite pricey.
I think I'll try codeweaver's wine first ...
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might be tempted to make use
of this for my wife (okay, maybe me too, but only occasionally).
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On Tue, 2002-04-09 at 12:21, Simon Wong wrote:
When I set it in my .emacs it shows 4 on startup but changes to 2 as
soon as the major mode is loaded.
Not sure if anyone was actually interested in what was happening here,
however, it's now fixed so I thought I'd send in the solution.
To ensure
as the major mode is loaded.
All my other settings, lpr etc seem to be retained.
I've read through the devhelp book on EMacs which is very good but
didn't discuss a major mode overpowering my .emacs
This is crazy :-(
Any other thoughts?
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Evolution use nicer fonts (eg Times or
helvetica) for plain text messages? Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
You may need to install more fonts as suggested by Peter.
Evolution uses the settings of the HTML Viewer in the Control Centre so
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It all works if I go and manually change the setting and say save for
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On Wed, 2002-04-03 at 08:32, Richard Hayes wrote:
2) http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/
I like the look of this Richard. I'm ever amazed about how much
information is really out there...
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the same thing.
Works fine for me with:
galeon 1.0.3-0.4
mozilla0.9.8-2
Can't suggest anything though :-(
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On Tue, 2002-03-19 at 22:46, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
So, looks fine to me.
Thanks all who replied. Seems to be fine.
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Afternoon,
Could someone using PGP and not Evolution confirm if my signature is
coming through as okay?
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year.
From my web researching a lot of people use them with Linux (check out
http://www.linux-laptop.net/ if you haven't for people's tips on linux
laptops).
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it affect SSH keys?
I assume for files there's no drama as long as I keep the uid the same?
People's advice wuld be appreciated
TIA
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missing something obvious here?
TIA.
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at the moment then use whatever software came
with your burner ;-)
Once burnt they should boot
Good luck
PS The Red Hat installation process is dead easy - great for newbies
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galeon 103-04
Also, you might want to check out plugger which is a multi-purpose
plugin for linux that I am evaluating at the moment
Enjoy - it can work ;-)
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This didn't make it to the list - sorry.
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:15, Simon Wong wrote:
On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 17:02, Jeff Waugh wrote:
quote who=Simon Wong
I just installed the kernel-patch-freeswan deb package and reading the
README it says set PATCH_THE_KERNEL=yes
myself :-)
I'm using firestarter (Gnome) to set my iptables up for me.
I guess I'm trusting that it does the right thing and a quick look
through the generated scripts seems OK - mind you I'm no expert and not
sure I have time to read the book you mention ;-)
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However, if I wanted to explicitly block ports always, what would I have
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that after you had explicitly allowed certain ports?
e.g. iptables -A INPUT -j DROP -d $ipaddress/$netmask --dport ALL ;-)
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Any pointers would be gratefully received, as ever :-)
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Is there a setting for it to use the IP of the host? I ha da read
through the manpage for xauth but it's quite confusing.
Chris
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Calling SSH/X gurus!
I am trying to get X11 forwarding over SSH working.
I am
gpm would deal with this better?
P.S. I have looked at many pages on the linux laptop site but have only
found people's X configs with external USB mice.
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see anything on that.
Can anyone enlighten me?
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On Tue, 2002-02-19 at 14:33, Jamie Wilkinson wrote:
This one time, at band camp, Simon Wong wrote:
Sometimes in Galeon the scrolling locks to my mouse moevement i.e. when
I move the mouse up and down, the window scrolls up/down.
If you don't release the scrollbar thumb inside the render
Option ZAxisMapping 4 5
Option Emulate3Timeout 50
EndSection
NO gpm.
Scroll wheel doesn't work.
Any tips?
That would really make my year :-)
Dean
Simon Wong wrote:
Galeon users!
Sometimes in Galeon the scrolling locks to my mouse moevement i.e
or lower case m? I think I did it with a capital M.
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Thanks *very* much :-D
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responsibilities
OK
- People who can stick things onto notice boards
sure (UNSW)
- People who want to promote things (ie: talks)
pass
- People who want to sell merchandise
pass
- People who know people who want to sell merchandise
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Though knowing some students, even if this was explicitly discouraged
some would have done it :-)
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, then rejoin them after copying back off CD at some
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On Mon, 2002-02-11 at 16:28, Hartono, Susanto wrote:
man split
Thanks - perfect!
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Somewhere I thought I had seen a command line app for splitting up large
binary files into smaller user definable chunks
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and reboot from your rescue disk that only has the kernel
image and *not* the modules, the whole system dies when youmost need it
(if the modules were moved elsewhere/deleted).
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use this now instead.
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I have come across (not sure
about v5 Acrobat though).
I thought there was a man page but couldn't find it.
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in there for enable which should be yes.
HTH.
By the way you should really be using SSH. And if you really do want to
use telnet only enable it for the period required.
TIA
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I guess the real point of my post was to ask people's advice on tracing
and debugging applications more so than this specific problem, thanks.
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there? Or is it
better to use gdb and try and trace with that?
I'm interested in the techniques people use for tracing bugs in open
source software.
If anyone can point me to some useful docs that would be good too.
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installation I found out my current modem was a winmodem, so I
You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they
work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at
http://www.linmodems.org/
Sorry can't help with your problem though...
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On Tue, 2002-01-08 at 09:50, Andre Pang wrote:
On Tue, Jan 08, 2002 at 09:46:10AM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
You could have saved some money if it's a Lucent based Winmodem as they
work well with the linmodem drivers developed by the people at
http://www.linmodems.org/
Please don't go
http://www.ibiblio.org/obp/cookbook/
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On Wed, 2002-01-02 at 17:07, Mike Holland wrote:
Is the partition mounted with the no-suid option?
This was the problem (see my prev? email).
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Bigpond
/usr/sbin/pppd: must be root to run /usr/sbin/pppd, since it is not
setuid-root
Is there some other file that the permissions need to be changed on?
This is quite annoying as it used to work :-(
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dialout cdrom floppy audio dip src staff lpadmin
lonewolf: /home/www
$ lsa /dev/ttyLT0
0 crw-r-1 root dialout 62, 64 Jan 1 15:40
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On Tue, 2001-12-18 at 23:40, Jeff Waugh wrote:
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Anyone know if you can get Evolution on CD, looked at everythinglinux but no
mention of it. 56k here so downloading is no go.
You can order Ximian CD's; check their site.
I've read that Evolution is a bit
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that it was stopping at the point where it was
trying to execute /etc/init.d/irda which I had moved to irda.disabled so
it couldn't find it.
It's fixed now...thanks!
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print duplex when I print to it.
I guess I'll have to stick to using a2ps/mpage. Thanks.
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Is the automagic stuff all total bollocks, or am I expecting too much
automagic? :)
I'm finding the automagic part to work fine for pictures but not for
html. I guess another filter is needed. I'm not using SAMBA either.
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that the duplexer is NOT installed
so I cannot choose 2 sided printing from XPP.
If I use a2ps I can set -s2 and it prints duplexed OK.
Is there some other config I need to change? When I try and change the
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On Thu, 2001-12-06 at 20:12, getadog wrote:
On Thu, Dec 06, 2001 at 08:01:47PM +1100, Simon Wong wrote:
One problem I do have is that my Gnome printing has *no* fonts in it.
The preview shows no fonts and the ps file created is text less!
I had a similar problem, I think it was because
bother using the --reinstall flag unless all
else
failed.
If that flag isn't used I get a message saying that the installed
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Google hasn't helped either :=(
I'll log a bug methinks.
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compilation? After
make modules; make modules_install; depmod -a
Do I need to do update-modules? Is that what may have caused me
problems?
TIA.
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P.S. Does it do flowcharts?
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