Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-04-30 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:23:36PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:08:26PM -0500, Mumia W wrote: > >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. > >>How would you do that? > > > >You could create a bootscript that uses the "at" command, like so; > >

Re: DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-30 23:50]: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... > > I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution > > monitor (1600x1200). It works fine but it is convinced I have 75x75 > > DPI, so everything is

Re: Firefox SPAM filtering (Observation)

2006-04-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Sorry, I accidentally sent this directly to Steve, but the rest of the list might find it useful. Steve Ahola wrote: I'm trying to figure out the syntax for the YahooFilteredBulk filter without success. TBird does not seem to include Header as one of the items to search, and adding it in manu

Re: dhclient acting up -- loss of IP address

2006-04-30 Thread Mumia W
Tom Allison wrote: I have a problem with my dhclient on my debian box. It keeps picking up an IP address and then losing it in a few seconds. [...] Could it be that you accidentally installed the zeroconf package? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-04-30 Thread Bill Moseley
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 10:07:17PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/06/120210&from=rss What happens with statically linked binaries? I've got about 25 Mysql processes that look like this in pmap -d: mapped: 148116Kwriteable/private: 140952K

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Cybe R. Wizard wrote: > > The backlash of 9-11 was like Christmas to the conservative > military-industrial complex and their puppet congress-critters. All the > things they have wanted over the years like more defense spending, less > rights for citizens and the ability to run stormtrooper like

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Sun, 30 Apr 2006 21:13:54 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:10:30PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > > - -- > > September 11th, 2001 > > The proudest day for gun control and central > > planning advocates in American history > > I've seen this .sig quite a few time

Installing Debian Etch from DVD

2006-04-30 Thread Renato S. Yamane
Hi, I trying install Debian Etch (17/04/2005) from 3 DVDs (aproximadaly 11Gb of files by torrents), but Debian Installer don´t use the files of DVDs! Debian Installer ask me about the mirror I can use to install Base System, but I need install by DVDs because the machine don´t have internet access.

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet > connection, both running Linux. > > How to transfer files between them? Hi Serena, You need at assign IP addresses to each. You can check '/sbin/ifconfig eth0' (assuming you hav

Re: dhclient acting up -- loss of IP address

2006-04-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:41:25PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > I have a problem with my dhclient on my debian box. > > It keeps picking up an IP address and then losing it in a few seconds. > > Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 > Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: boun

freemind

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. A while back I installed Freemind 0.8.0, and it works fine. I run Sarge. I installed Freemind by adding the following repositories to my sources.list (as instructed on the Freemind site): deb http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux/debian/ experimental/ deb-src http://eric.lavar.de/comp/linux

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:33:03PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience. > > > > > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi Rodolfo, > > welcome to Debian! > >

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:39, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In other words, when a nation's individuals do right by one > another, and look out for one another's welfare above their own, > there's no need for a bunch of laws. We n

Re: Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: > Top shows shared memory, but I'm not clear how to read shared memory > with ps. I'm curious how much total memory these Apache process are > using -- and how much is shared between the processes. > > Does RSS include memory that might be shared with other processes? > > $ p

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 16:39, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Correction: The Bill of Rights enumerates _some_ of these rights. > Other rights not enumerated still belong to the People (see > Amendment 9, for example). "Example"? T

Shared memory - using ps(1)

2006-04-30 Thread Bill Moseley
Top shows shared memory, but I'm not clear how to read shared memory with ps. I'm curious how much total memory these Apache process are using -- and how much is shared between the processes. Does RSS include memory that might be shared with other processes? $ ps --ppid 29903 -F UIDPID

Re: Udev rule help

2006-04-30 Thread Rob Sims
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:32:39PM -0600, Jeremy Nickurak wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Have you check this out? > > > > http://www.reactivated.net/writing_udev_rules.html > > > I have. The problem is that the set of information required to > uniquely identify these devices spans two SYSFS

Re: rerunning autodetect

2006-04-30 Thread James Westby
On (30/04/06 18:35), Mark Tilford wrote: > On 4/29/06, Mark Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >For various reasons, I had to run the installation on one computer, > >then transfer the hard drive to a different computer. How do I rerun > >the code that autodetects hardware (specifically the netw

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 02:10:30PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > - -- > September 11th, 2001 > The proudest day for gun control and central > planning advocates in American history I've seen this .sig quite a few times now, and I *still* don't understand it. Please explain. What does hijack

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-04-30 Thread tom arnall
On Sunday 30 April 2006 04:41 pm, Linas ?virblis wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > Understood, but I am doing a regex on text units which span more than one > > line. Trying to process this text w' line-by-line io would be possible > > but, as far as I can see, very awkward. > > What about streams the

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 15:26, Rich Johnson was heard to say: > On Apr 30, 2006, at 2:31 PM, Curt Howland wrote: > > [...snip...] > > Your premise is false. The "middle class" and "poor" were doing > > very well indeed without coercive "public" schooli

dhclient acting up -- loss of IP address

2006-04-30 Thread Tom Allison
I have a problem with my dhclient on my debian box. It keeps picking up an IP address and then losing it in a few seconds. Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: DHCPACK from 192.168.1.1 Apr 30 20:31:40 localhost dhclient: bound to 192.168.1.10 -- renewal in 1800 seconds. server says: Apr 30 20:1

Re: RE: Messed up X

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
um, if this is my best friend I've got bigger problems than I thought... I loaded it into emacs and searched for 'missing' and got nothing. It's 739 lines, and the last 10 are the only ones that contain the word "Warning": Warning: font renderer for ".pcf" already registered at priority 0 Warn

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 24 Apr 2006 17:54:14 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I, also, live in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the > universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out > shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local? Not m

x-lite

2006-04-30 Thread afra juraschka
hallo, bislang gibt es x-lite leider nur für i386 würde mich freuen wenn jemand eins für debian-ppc bauen würde. mfg afra

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-04-30 Thread Linas Žvirblis
tom arnall wrote: > Understood, but I am doing a regex on text units which span more than one > line. Trying to process this text w' line-by-line io would be possible but, > as far as I can see, very awkward. What about streams then? > Looking at 'top' and the 'MEM%' column, it seems to me tha

Re: rerunning autodetect

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Tilford
On 4/29/06, Mark Tilford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For various reasons, I had to run the installation on one computer, then transfer the hard drive to a different computer. How do I rerun the code that autodetects hardware (specifically the netword card)? From bootup: (DHCP program runs) et

Re: [OT] Recipe for killing a Debian threads that won't die [Was: Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die]

2006-04-30 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:12:06PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't been putting up with OT nonsense on this list for long but > here are the postfix ingredients for killing a thread that people won't > let die. Can anyone think of ingredients for other MTAs? Isn't this overkill in a

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Ok, I've fixed the resolution problem. Somewhere in my upgrading/configuring I lost the 1280x1024 setting from my xorg.conf file, which was easily fixed. Now I just need to know how to get my graphical login back. Cheers, Tyler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Gnu-Raiz
Conclusion: Is education a right or a privilege? Conclusion: Protecting rights of the individual --> Justifies war in Iraq. After all is your rights more then that of others? Does anyone see a contradiction? You can not be anti-war and pro rights --> this leads to selfishness. What

Re: DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread ArameFarpado
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > .. > dimensions: 1600x1200 (524x486 millimiters) <=== the real dimensions are > (360x266 mm) > resolution: 75x75 dots per inch <=== the real resolution is > about 110x110 DPI .. > > what should I tweak? > > TiA > Mauro Use this two options on the secti

Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-04-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 05:08:26PM -0500, Mumia W wrote: >Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>Hi, >>With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, >>e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. >>How would you do that? >>Thanks! >>H > >You could create a bootscript that uses the "at

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-30 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:12:03PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: >I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet >connection, both running Linux. > >How to transfer files between them? Many good suggestions in the thread already. ssh/scp would be my first choice, if you want something simple,

Re: Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Thanks for your help. In response to your questions: I'm using xdm /etc/init.d/xdm restart didn't do anything - I entered it into a terminal after starting x, and another prompt appeared. No error messages or anything else. I tried again after closing X, both as me and as root, same result.

Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-04-30 Thread Mumia W
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. How would you do that? Thanks! H You could create a bootscript that uses the "at" command, like so; /etc/init.d/mybootinit: echo myscript | a

Re: DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:22:27PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Sorry, > I have not been able to find the answer, even if I KNOW it must be a FAQ :( > > I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution monitor > (1600x1200). > It works fine but it is convinced I have 75x75

Re: DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Dimanche 30 Avril 2006 23:22, [EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : > Sorry, > I have not been able to find the answer, even if I KNOW it must be a FAQ :( > > I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution monitor > (1600x1200). It works fine but it is convinced I have 75x75 DPI, so >

Re: howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-04-30 Thread Wackojacko
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. How would you do that? Thanks! H Anacron may be what your looking for( apt-getable). IIRC, It runs all cron jobs that should have been run sin

DPI setting

2006-04-30 Thread MC5686
Sorry, I have not been able to find the answer, even if I KNOW it must be a FAQ :( I have a debian installation and I use a relatively high resolution monitor (1600x1200). It works fine but it is convinced I have 75x75 DPI, so everything is *very* small. Real resolution is about 110x110 DPI. How

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-04-30 Thread tom arnall
On Saturday 29 April 2006 04:22 pm, Linas ?virblis wrote: > tom arnall wrote: > > I am trying to us a perl application that handles large files (.5GB) in > > scalar variables. When I try to 'slurp' one of these files into a > > variable (e.g., '$_ = `cat filename`) I get an out of memory error. >

howto start something 5 mins after boot

2006-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, With crontab you can start things any time or day, but not in a relative way, e.g. 5 minutes after boot run a script. How would you do that? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
David Baron wrote: This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions around.) Not so AFAIK: just the partition t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:31, Curt Howland wrote: > Excuse me, prior to 1840 education was all private. Therefore, your > first "reason" is false. Yeah, and prior to 1840, so few people knew how to read that the US came up with the retarded electoral college system to make sure someone who knew

Re: Xserver-xorg crashing on Xvideo with i810 driver

2006-04-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 21:46:18 +0200, Bruno Boettcher wrote: > Hello! > > i have the following problem: > i have a medion sim 2010 latop with integrated Intel Corporation Mobile > 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller > > if u use the vesa driver, all is fine, although slow, and some pr

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 30 April 2006 04:38, Mumia W wrote: > >>Fair is fair. I don't blame Bush for the dot-com bust. I blame him for >>allowing his friends at Enron to bankrupt all California power utilties >>and eventually the state of California. > > > This didn't bankrupt California

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 30 April 2006 04:38, Mumia W wrote: > Fair is fair. I don't blame Bush for the dot-com bust. I blame him for > allowing his friends at Enron to bankrupt all California power utilties > and eventually the state of California. This didn't bankrupt Californians, it bankrupted Oregonians. C

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Kent West
John O'Hagan wrote: > [...] As a non-American who has been following this thread, l would like to > respectfully make a few comments. > > To an outsider, the preoccupations of American politics appear to be: > > -"Freedom", which seems to be code for the right to shoot people with guns; > I su

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-04-30 Thread Manaen Schlabach
On 4/29/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manaen Schlabach wrote: > I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for > a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed > ingredients? > > Ingredients > > 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers > A heavy dose of green

RE: Messed up X

2006-04-30 Thread David Baron
/var/log/Xorg.0.log is your best friend. What does it report as missing? The April 30 Xorg upgrade from Sid redoes your xorg.conf file. It warns that it might and did for me--zong the thing. Took out all the ModulePath entries. Fun. Luckily, it saves the previous one which can be dandily rename

Re: No sound out of Pcmcia saa7134 card...

2006-04-30 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Bruno Boettcher wrote: so i am quite lost about what is going wrong there seem to be no error messages whatsoever... Launch a mixer and check that the volume is up and the sound channels aren't muted. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam & anti-virus Consulta

No sound out of Pcmcia saa7134 card...

2006-04-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! recently i noticed that the PCMCIA part has made progress concerning my TV card, and that a bunch of modules is loaded (saa7134 + saa7134_dvb). launching tvtime yields channels, image etc all fine, only: there's no sound... so i added alsa-oss, but that too didn't solve the problem go

Xserver-xorg crashing on Xvideo with i810 driver

2006-04-30 Thread Bruno Boettcher
Hello! i have the following problem: i have a medion sim 2010 latop with integrated Intel Corporation Mobile 915GM/GMS/910GML Express Graphics Controller if u use the vesa driver, all is fine, although slow, and some programs don't start due to missing xvideo support (even if xdpyinfo reports

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: > The Bill of Rights, part of the Constitution, enumerate these rights. Correction: The Bill of Rights enumerates _some_ of these rights. Other rights not enumerated still belong to the People (see Amendment 9, for example). Further more, the Bill of Rights (the first ten amendme

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-30 Thread Nate Duehr
John Stumbles wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: The newbies don't remember bridges. You're going to be here for a while explaining it if you're in the mood to teach. Some of us remember when you needed them to break up a too-busy LAN into segments... Yup: a very expensive box connected via D15 cab

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 14:30:53 -0400, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Following a recent upgrade of my Etch box I have mucked up my X. I no > longer get the graphical log-on, but after logging in startx does bring > get me into my fluxbox desktop. In the past xdebconfigurator followed by > dexco

Re: messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Sunday 30 April 2006 14:30, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > Following a recent upgrade of my Etch box I have mucked up my X. I no > longer get the graphical log-on, but after logging in startx does bring > get me into my fluxbox desktop. Sorry that I can't help but I got exactly the same problem.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Steve Lamb
Rich Johnson wrote: > ROFLMAO! You're calling for the elimination of History, Citizenship, > Government, and even the ''Pledge of Allegiance''. No, there's a difference between teaching those subjects and going off on a political tirade during a Geography lesson: http://www.michellemalkin.co

Re: time incremented one hour with every boot.

2006-04-30 Thread Johan Kullstam
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On 20.04.06 11:02, Joaquin wrote: > > I'm experiencing a little problem with the system clock since I > > entered into daylight saving time: Every time I start debian it adds > > one hour, so it has became some kind of time machine... If any of

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:33, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > ==Quote > > "Not only was private education in demand, but it was quite > > successful. Literacy in the North rose from 75 percent to between > > 91 and 97 percen

messed up my X-windows in Etch

2006-04-30 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, Following a recent upgrade of my Etch box I have mucked up my X. I no longer get the graphical log-on, but after logging in startx does bring get me into my fluxbox desktop. In the past xdebconfigurator followed by dexconf solved all my problems, so I tried that. Unfortunately, xdebconfig

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:33, "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > The purpose of public education was to ensure that this could > > never happen again. > > No.  The purpose of public education *was* to ensure that the most

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Hodgins Family wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. > >> > >>When I sent that message, Thunderbird's sp

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 11:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Hodgins Family wrote: > > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > >>Kent West wrote: > >> > >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. > >> > >>When I sent that message, Thunderbird's sp

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sunday 30 April 2006 02:10, "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 2006-04-30, Mumia W penned: > > Social Security is not driven by a high profit motive; it's > > purpose is to provide stable retirement income to people, and

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 April 2006 23:40, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Not everyone has the choice that you have. For *most* people, it's > either a free education, or no education. That's why public schools > are needed. For $200, you can

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 April 2006 22:37, Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet > connection, both running Linux. > > How to transfer files between them? There are many different techniques.

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 29.04.2006 at 19:12 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet connection, both > running Linux. > > How to transfer files between them? In addition to the other options that have been discussed in this thread, sometimes it's worth considering

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 29, 2006, at 10:09 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: That's your right, but unless you can *gaurantee* that I can, for no cost, send my children to a 100% secular school with decent teaching, there is no way I can support abolishing public schools. And if you can gaura

RE: Machine Hostname

2006-04-30 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Sun, 2006-04-30 at 13:44 +0200, Amir Saad wrote: > Thanks Roberto, it worked. I have another question, will that affect on > another service that were started before setting the hostname?. I believe > that my DHCP sends the hostname but I don't know why it is not set when the > machine boots

wrong list

2006-04-30 Thread netpython
sry wrong list.

Bug in network-manager

2006-04-30 Thread netpython
Hello chris, First of all i would like to congratulate you with the beta release. I just installed PCBSD under latest vmware 5.5.1 build 19xx. I wanted to use the network manager .After i went into administrator mode and tried to press the edit button the app sigsev|ved. All this right after a fr

Re: [OT] Recipe for killing a Debian threads that won't die [Was: Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die]

2006-04-30 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 08:12:29PM +1000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't been putting up with OT nonsense on this list for long but > here are the postfix ingredients for killing a thread that people won't > let die. Can anyone think of ingredients for other MTAs? I don't know about sendm

Re: Problem with boost

2006-04-30 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Christoph Nenning wrote: Dear list, we are using qt-4, opencv and boost in our project. On my etch box dpkg -l libboost\* says: un libboost-date- (keine Beschreibung vorhanden) ii libboost-dev 1.33.1-4 Boost C++ Libraries development files ii libboost-doc 1.33.1-4 Boo

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Rich Johnson
On Apr 29, 2006, at 11:21 PM, Christopher Nelson wrote: I admit, I made a misjudging--for the *same amount* I'll pay in education taxes over my life. But there's another point. I'm paying those taxes my entire working life, which I sure hope is longer than 12 years that my children will go

Re: [debian] Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-30, Kent West penned: > > Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and > on-soapbox. Yeah, the thread's off-topic and should have died long > ago, but obviously these things are important to some of the group. > This thread will naturally die (some year! ;-) ). In the mean

Re: Printer setup howto

2006-04-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 11:23:09AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > How can I setup margins correlated to the edges of A4 paper? > > > > I have the printer HP Business Inkjet 1000 and use the hpjis driver to > > print. > > > > If I use Gnome-cups-manager to setup the printer, and I prin

boot disk for grub; network config; printer pb

2006-04-30 Thread belahcene abdelkader
Hi, i am using sarge, I want to create a boot disk from my distro, I tried mkboot, but it seems running with lilo and not grub network: there is no network configuring program, like netcardconfig, So I have to fill manually the /etc/network/interface file The configuration of printer seems dif

Re: Printer setup howto

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Csanyi Pal wrote: > Hello! > > How can I setup margins correlated to the edges of A4 paper? > > I have the printer HP Business Inkjet 1000 and use the hpjis driver to > print. > > If I use Gnome-cups-manager to setup the printer, and I print a test > page therein with format paper of A4, then

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Hodgins Family wrote: > On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > >>Kent West wrote: >> >>>Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. >> >>When I sent that message, Thunderbird's spell-checker flagged >>"Debianistas" as "Lesbianism's". >> >>Huh?!! >> >>;-) >

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
David Baron wrote: > This medium makes it practical. > > Which tools are best and simplest for this? > > (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring > and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions > around.) > > Personally, I prefer

Re: [OT] Recipe for killing a Debian threads that won't die [Was: Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die]

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I haven't been putting up with OT nonsense on this list for long but > here are the postfix ingredients for killing a thread that people won't > let die. Can anyone think of ingredients for other MTAs? > > Ingredients: > > 1. Add "header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/head

Re: Machine Hostname

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Amir Saad wrote: > > Thanks Roberto, it worked. I have another question, will that affect on > another service that were started before setting the hostname?. I believe > that my DHCP sends the hostname but I don't know why it is not set when the > machine boots. > > Thanks. > I am not sur

Re: OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Hodgins Family
On Sun, 2006-30-04 at 08:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. > When I sent that message, Thunderbird's spell-checker flagged > "Debianistas" as "Lesbianism's". > > Huh?!! > > ;-) Which begs a question! Why do pe

Printer setup howto

2006-04-30 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hello! How can I setup margins correlated to the edges of A4 paper? I have the printer HP Business Inkjet 1000 and use the hpjis driver to print. If I use Gnome-cups-manager to setup the printer, and I print a test page therein with format paper of A4, then to check margin settings, I can use

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:34:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Nice way to avoid the point. > > Nope, didn't avoid a thing. As you admit your case was constructed. > Furthermore it did not address what I said. > > > You said, and I quote: > >>> The short, sho

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:43:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>Mumia W wrote: > >> > >>>[somebody] wrote: > >>> > And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too!

OT: Ha-Ha! [Was:Politics [Was:Social Contract]]

2006-04-30 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: > Being people, even Debianistas sometimes get off-topic and on-soapbox. When I sent that message, Thunderbird's spell-checker flagged "Debianistas" as "Lesbianism's". Huh?!! ;-) -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: [debian] Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Kent West
Keith Bates wrote: > As a Debian user who is interested in the Debian distro, I am now > exercising my democratic right to protest against this total misuse of > this list I've unsubscribed. Most list participants who grow tired of a thread learn how to delete/filter such threads rather than u

Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-04-30 Thread David Baron
This medium makes it practical. Which tools are best and simplest for this? (I do not like partimage because it insists on identical sizes for restoring and this might not be the case as I have learned in moving my partitions around.) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:00:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: ... > As for me, I attended public schools throughout my education. They > > did d*mn well by me. I'll grant that I went to a high school that > > routinely ranks in the top of schools natio

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Serena Cantor wrote: I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet connection, both running Linux. How to transfer files between them? So I have that by using VMware and use nfs to share the files. But some files refuse to be shared and I have to stop the firewall, neither of which pr

RE: Machine Hostname

2006-04-30 Thread Amir Saad
Thanks Roberto, it worked. I have another question, will that affect on another service that were started before setting the hostname?. I believe that my DHCP sends the hostname but I don't know why it is not set when the machine boots. Thanks. From: Roberto

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Mumia W
Steve Lamb wrote: Mumia W wrote: The Right Wing *is* class and race warface. That's what drives them, and that's what gives them political success. Uh, no. Try again. Some of the worst offenders when it comes to class and race warfare are staunchly leftist. Where? Nepal? America no lo

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-30 Thread Anthony Chaumas-Pellet
On Sunday 30 April 2006 11:41, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Stephen Cormier writes: > > Get out the manual/search online for the specifications for the > > horizontal and > > vertical refresh rates for the screen/monitor. Then use advanced when > > reconfiguring and put in the values when asked, Debian

[OT] Recipe for killing a Debian threads that won't die [Was: Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die]

2006-04-30 Thread bcml
I haven't been putting up with OT nonsense on this list for long but here are the postfix ingredients for killing a thread that people won't let die. Can anyone think of ingredients for other MTAs? Ingredients: 1. Add "header_checks = pcre:/etc/postfix/header_checks.pcre" to main.cf 2. add to

Re: Machine Hostname

2006-04-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Amir Saad wrote: > I created a boot image and it works correctly except when setting the > hostname, I want it to read the name from the DNS then to use it. How can I > do that? I created the image on Debian > > Thanks. > I am not sure what you are asking. Are you obtaining an address from D

Re: real media player is not working

2006-04-30 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, > I've installed yesterday the real media player. solved the problem on my own with the help of irc. The real media player is too old and there's a mplayerplug-in package for sarge available, which play's windows media player files. This work's fine for mozilla. -- Best Regards, Mark -

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-30 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: >> everything appears very big. >> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? >> And a way to make it be what it should? >> When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86', >> th

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Mumia W
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Mumia W wrote: >> [...] The experts at the Social Security Administration *are* doing it, and they're doing an incredibly efficient job at it too. Social Security has less than 1% administrative overhead. No private retirement options come even close. Uh, according t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Mumia W
Larry Garfield wrote: [...] [T]he cost of public education is spread out over the entire community, rather than placed just at the feet of those with kids in the system at the moment. That reduces the amount a given family needs to pay, and spreads it over a longer period of time. My neighbo

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