Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 10:58:11PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#pop > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap > > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook > > Been there, discussed that, look at "mixing

EVMS + kernel 2.6.17

2006-10-24 Thread DI Clemens Ender
Dear community, Based on my experiences with the current testing branch (etch) I want to report the following bug: I'm posting this issue on this mailinglist, since I have no clue which package (EVMS, kernel, devicemapper userspace library, ...) is causing the misbehaviour ... All I can

Re: laptop

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:39:34AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I just bought an old IBM (Pentium) laptop. For installing, do I use > the 386 install, or something else? > > Mark > If it's an original Pentium - use the 386 install. Once installed, you can always try the 686 kernel. If you us

Re: Re: Network device (eth0)

2006-10-24 Thread Tim Post
HP printer should work fine.. can you give us an idea of what GUI (if any) you are using? Someone can easily walk you through cups or possibly even link to a tutorial with screen shots on how to set it up. Version / Model info of the HP printer may also help. There's a bunch of driver inconsistenc

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
David Hart wrote: > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#pop > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#imap > http://www.mutt.org/doc/devel/manual.html#account-hook Been there, discussed that, look at "mixing of mail" to see why it doesn't. kkthxbuhbyenow! -- Steve C.

Re: Re: Network device (eth0)

2006-10-24 Thread dowdell eleanor
I cannot get my printer to work, I have a hewlett packard printer and a compaq pcI want to know are they compatible. The computer was given to me,but the printer I had, my other pc died and could not be repaired.  I am wondering what should I do? I can't afford to go out and buy another one.  Thank

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread David Hart
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:29:10PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Yes, in a perfect world. But one may have several mail accounts. > > So, one may want to retrieve mail from one account by POP or IMAP > > and store it to an IMAP mailbox (from which all the mail from > > ever

Re: accessing usb-storage device that doesn't register as scsi

2006-10-24 Thread Tim Post
does 'modprobe ppa' help? Best, -Tim On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 07:05 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I got this wierd usb storage device today with I'm trying to access under > linux. The initialization message from dmesg: > > usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 > usb 1-2: c

accessing usb-storage device that doesn't register as scsi

2006-10-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I got this wierd usb storage device today with I'm trying to access under linux. The initialization message from dmesg: usb 1-2: new full speed USB device using uhci_hcd and address 9 usb 1-2: configuration #1 chosen from 1 choice SCSI subsystem initialized Initializing USB Mass Storage driver...

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 24 09:05 -0500]: ISTM that the purpose of such fancy names has always been to build brand recognition and brand loyalty. Why do you feel the need to have such in a non-commercial product? Are you asking this question about th

laptop

2006-10-24 Thread Mark Grieveson
I just bought an old IBM (Pentium) laptop. For installing, do I use the 386 install, or something else? Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multi NIC and Multi IP problem

2006-10-24 Thread he ccjj
I have tow NIC eth0 and eth1,and two ip: a.b.c.d and a.b.c.e,with the same gateway a.b.c.254 in my /etc/network/interfaces: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eth0 inet static address a.b.c.d netmask 255.255.255.0 gateway a.b.c.254 auto eth1 iface eth1 inet static address a.b.c.e netmask 25

GRUB Error 21 after install

2006-10-24 Thread wednspecial
I installed Debian onto a usb hard drive (sda) using a laptop that already had Debian installed. Now when I try to boot up the laptop, I get the following error: GRUB Loading stage1.5 GRUB loading, please wait... Error 21 I know that Error 21 means that GRUB can't find the disk drive. The men

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Yes, in a perfect world. But one may have several mail accounts. > So, one may want to retrieve mail from one account by POP or IMAP > and store it to an IMAP mailbox (from which all the mail from > every account is read with a MUA). Er... why? That's why modern mail

Re: Compiling a kernel

2006-10-24 Thread Michael D. Norwick
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >You have gotten a couple DIFFERENT approaches to installing a kernel on Debian. >At least one comment should send up a warning: Yes, a level-minded user. >On compiling with --initrd, I finally drank the coolade last year. Before I tried to have no >modules, compiling n

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storage -> dovecot -> MUA (tbird > or mutt depending...) > procmail clearly handles IMAP just fine, all you have to do is put a / > at the end of the location to store the mail and it handles it as IMAP. You mean Maildir? I

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 24 09:05 -0500]: > ISTM that the purpose of such fancy names has always been to > build brand recognition and brand loyalty. Why do you feel the > need to have such in a non-commercial product? Are you asking this question about the Mozilla Corporation

Re: A good howto on making a local repository

2006-10-24 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 07:36:41PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:08:36PM -0200, Eduardo wrote: > >>Does anybody have a good howto on making a local repository?? > >> > >> > > > >http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debrepository > > >

installation on AIC-7902 RAID controller

2006-10-24 Thread Kit Peters
We're trying to install Debian at work onto a SuperMicro box with one of these controllers (Ultra320 SCSI RAID) on it.  When we build the RAID in hardware, it's not recognized by the installation kernel - instead it recognizes the four physical drives that are installed. Can anyone give me any tips

Re: Weird Apache problem, hanging on particular data patterns

2006-10-24 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 06:49:21PM -0400, vashts wrote: > I just realized something. The machines I was testing the transfers > from aren't even in the same office. I thought they were, because the > transfer speeds were so high. If I do grab those files from a machine > on the same LAN they work f

Re: make-kpkg with loadable module support disabled fails?

2006-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Tommie Van Mechgelen wrote: Dear, When I use make-kpkg when loadable module support is disabled, make-kpkg is generating errors. However compiling it with make works fine. Here is the error I am getting... Enabling loadable module support makes the error go away... I am using kernel-package v

Re: A good howto on making a local repository

2006-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Oct 20, 2006 at 12:08:36PM -0200, Eduardo wrote: Does anybody have a good howto on making a local repository?? http://people.connexer.com/~roberto/howtos/debrepository And that is a good howto because I used it to set one up. H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Asus K8N-DL etch install notes

2006-10-24 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Mark T.B. Carroll wrote: I don't have the time right now to put together a full formal report, but I thought I should at least mention my experience installing the etch beta3 amd64 netinst onto a system with an Asus K8N-DL motherboard and a SATA HDD. At initial glance, everything seems to have go

onboard audio problems with Connectland USB web cam Debian Etch

2006-10-24 Thread John Kerr Anderson
Hello everyone, I have an AMD64 desktop PC running Debian Etch for amd64. The on-board uses the standard Intel ICH driver in alsa. If I try booting the computer with the Connectland USB web-cam... the built-in audio (a microphone) interferes with the onboard audio. The only solution I have foun

dh_installchangelog error

2006-10-24 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Hi, I was trying to build a package from source and it gave me an error when it tried to include the changelog file. On executing the command dh_installchangelogs -i ChangeLog.txt I get the error: install: cannot change ownership of debian/azureus/usr/share/doc/azureus/changelog.Debian': Operatio

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 05:03:06PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > >> what is your boot manager? > > > > > > lilo > > > > > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > > > > > Not as fa

Re: Weird Apache problem, hanging on particular data patterns

2006-10-24 Thread vashts
On 10/24/06, vashts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And to reiterate... I can move the files around to different drives and filesystems. They still have the problem. I have checked ALL filesystems. The transfer does seem to strangely work via Apache when done through localhost. Yet not onto machines

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:27:43PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > "Dbfx" is more cryptic possible name, and > > is very terse. > > > > and would go perfectly on my xfce desktop when web surfing to solve > problems with flgrx etc... :) flgrx? Do you mean fgrlx? Or %$#&!? > > A > >

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-10-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 10:25 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko wrote: > > > I run nvidia graphics drivers on my AMD64 3200+, in both 64 bit and 32 > > > bit sid, so they definitely work. > > > > > > Here's what I

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >> what is your boot manager? > > > > lilo > > > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > > > Not as far as I know. But I'll try rerunning lilo from the sarge > > system. Both etch and sar

Re: cdrecord replacement (wodim) fails

2006-10-24 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Wayne Topa [Tue, Oct 24 2006, 03:08:08PM]: > Just upgraded cdrecord and k3b to burn a Knoppix CD and find that > the new replacement for cdrecord, wodim, can't handle it. It fails > saying the file is larger the the CD. Show your media data, "wodim -atip". And the exact output w

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 14:02:11 -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > >Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > >MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > >developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > >support IMA

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 10:30:28 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > > MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > > developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > > support IMA

Log for dselect / dpkg

2006-10-24 Thread William Chipman
I cannot seem to find an option to have dselect log any adds, changes, deletes to my system. The FAQ seems to say that there is a --log-options option for dpkg, but it doesn't work and the log /var/log/dpkg.log line described is ignored by dpkg, except to throw an error. How do folks track the acti

Re: getting a list of manually installed package

2006-10-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 14:52 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > >>> On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:56 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: > Hello, > > I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get > the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally. > >>> I use

Re: Weird Apache problem, hanging on particular data patterns

2006-10-24 Thread vashts
And to reiterate... I can move the files around to different drives and filesystems. They still have the problem. I have checked ALL filesystems. The transfer does seem to strangely work via Apache when done through localhost. Yet not onto machines off of even the same switch. I have succesfull

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > "Debfox" would probably not have trade mark problems, has no embedded > spaces, signals the origin of thing and who has named it, and is terse. How about "Flammavolpes"? :) -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Vincent Lefevre wrote: However procmail is no longer developed and is too old to support IMAP. I'm confused by this as I'm reading the list right now using t-bird from my store connected to IMAP folders on my server at home and its setup like this: fetchma

Re: Weird Apache problem, hanging on particular data patterns

2006-10-24 Thread vashts
I already did. Nothing weird in dmesg. I also checked the filesystems thoroughly. Read what I said. :) On 10/24/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 23.10.06 10:00, Timothy Timmons wrote: > Certain files, with seemingly no obvious correlation lock shortly > after the transfer

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Paul E Condon wrote: >On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:57:18AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >>Steve Lamb wrote: >> >> >>>Hans du Plooy wrote: >>> >>> >>> Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment >>> *covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children presen

Alert from eSafe: aoxkm.zip\aoxkm.scr Infected with Win32.Mydoom.m

2006-10-24 Thread esafe
== Bapco detected hostile or unwanted content in this message. If you believe this is in error, please resend the whole message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please make sure that you specify the recipient email address(es) in your message. Your email

Re: How to control display position?

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
Shawn Lamson wrote: >On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:37:56 -0200 >Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >>This is etch with up-to-date kde. The controls of my monitor are >>locked (samsung syncmaster 753v, if someone knows how to unlock it, >>please post), no idea why. So, where is that little app

Re: mdb plugins for Konqueror or Opera?

2006-10-24 Thread Firebeam * * * *
(reading this on debian-user) David Baron wrote: Got this error on a site in both browzers: Microsoft JET Database Engine error '80004005' Unrecognized database format 'e: \domains\m\mibereshit.org\user\htdocs\mib2\db\newdb.mdb'. /newsite/flash.asp, line 6 Anyway of reading this without goi

Re: ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread 0x7a337230
On 10/24/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/24/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bruno Buys wrote: > > This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win > > partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write > > anything to it yet, jus

Re: when will nvidai-glx and nvidia-kernel-source hit etch?

2006-10-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-10-24 at 15:45 +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (26/09/06 11:46), Wackojacko wrote: > > I run nvidia graphics drivers on my AMD64 3200+, in both 64 bit and 32 > > bit sid, so they definitely work. > > > > Here's what I do. > > > > ~apt-get install module-assistant nvidia-kernel-source

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> what is your boot manager? > > lilo > >> did its configuration get corrupted? > > Not as far as I know. But I'll try rerunning lilo from the sarge > system. Both etch and sarge have compatible lilo.conf files. certainly wouldn't hurt... > >> or maybe >> you've g

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > However procmail is no longer > developed and is too old to support IMAP. I'm confused by this as I'm reading the list right now using t-bird from my store connected to IMAP folders on my server at home and its setup like this: fetchmail -> exim -> procmail -> IMAP storag

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
> "Dbfx" is more cryptic possible name, and > is very terse. > and would go perfectly on my xfce desktop when web surfing to solve problems with flgrx etc... :) A -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdrecord replacement (wodim) fails

2006-10-24 Thread Wayne Topa
Just upgraded cdrecord and k3b to burn a Knoppix CD and find that the new replacement for cdrecord, wodim, can't handle it. It fails saying the file is larger the the CD. I have burned 6-8 of these CD's with k3b/cdrecord with never a problem, unitl wodim. I am currently downloading a

printing on Canon LBP2900 [solved]

2006-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, I'd like to share my experience with connecting Canon LBP2900 printer to debian box. Debian sarge 3.1r3, standard installation with Cups printing, slimmed of Gnome desktop and exim which I don't use. Due to buggy(?) manual for Canon driver I spent two frustrating evenings on trying to make it

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:05:29PM -0500, John C wrote: } [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } >We in Linux heavily use the command-line. } >So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome } >interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) } >and not even any immediate panel

PD: Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
> > THE XTERM (or its equivalent) SHOULD BE IN MY FACE > > THE VERY FIRST TIME I LOGIN, > > requiring at most a single obvious mouse click. > > Why are you screaming? > > The correct thing to do, I believe, is to file a wishlist bug against > debian-installer. Hi, why don't you just add xterm or

Re: ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
On 10/24/06, Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno Buys wrote:> This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win> partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write> anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs from linux sounds like > a taboo, to me.

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Krauss
John C wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We in Linux heavily use the command-line. So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals. Gnome's "Add to Pane

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:46:36PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-23 at 12:22 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > RAMDISK: Conplressed image found at block 0 > > input: AT Translated Set 2 keyboard as /calss/input/input0 > > invalid argument format (err=1) > > VFS: Cannot open root dev

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Vincent Lefevre wrote: Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent support IMAP via a Perl module? The upstream version of procmail isn't m

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread José Alburquerque
John C wrote: One of the greatest features of linux *was* that each individuals desktop was as different as that individual. The box looked, operated, and sounded the way that user wanted it too. Now it seems that individuality is out-of-style and every useful tool/program that is not part o

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Not just MUAs do IMAP. MDAs can do it too. And procmail is also a > MDA (according to its documentation). However procmail is no longer > developed and is too old to support IMAP. But couldn't mailagent > support IMAP via a Perl module? Er... how and why? I'm really c

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-24 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 08:46:52PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I run a dual-boot Debian system -- one partition is sarge; the other is > > etch. The idea was that users would have a stable platform available if > > they wished, for mission-critical work, bu

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-23 09:58:22 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Vincent Lefevre writes: ^^ Bad attribution. I didn't write the following. > > That said, those types of people likely don't know about the command > > line. If they do, they are likely frightened by it. > > Only if what the

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-24 01:32:11 -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006 00:18:53 +, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > I was looking at documentation for mailagent (I use Procmail atm) > > but I could not find any mention of IMAP. Does mailagent do IMAP? > > mailagent, like

Re: SUCCESS! Re: Unable to "su" or log in as root

2006-10-24 Thread Scott Edwards
Scott Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/23/06, HomeNet NW wrote: > Greetings. Please forgive me if this topic has been covered previously. I > have been Googling all day, and so far, have not been able to find a > resolution to my problem. > > I am using Debian Sarge. I can SSH to my server

Re: what is the equivalence of nslookup

2006-10-24 Thread Pollywog
On Tuesday 24 October 2006 10:53, Serena Cantor wrote: > how to find out domain name of an IP address? > Thanks! I use 'host ip.add.re.ss' -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[SOLVED] choppy sound with via ingame, sb resets on reboot

2006-10-24 Thread B. Hoffmann
> B. Hoffmann wrote: > > Never mind, not sure what went on but eventually the configuration stuck > > to the SB card instead of the via onboard chip. > > > > Seemed to need a full power down instead of just a reboot. > > > > > > Are you using a 2.6.18-x kernel? > > H No, it's a 2.6.17-9 k7.

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread John C
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We in Linux heavily use the command-line. So, I was dismayed when my new Debian etch version displayed a Gnome interface WITHOUT ANY XTERM (or GNOME-TERMINAL or KONSOLE) and not even any immediate panel options for these terminals. Gnome's "Add to Panel" includes a t

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Paul E Condon wrote: On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:57:18AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment *covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children present! Sheesh, some people. I enjoyed that post. Well,

Re: FQDN

2006-10-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Critchlow wrote: Hi, I have not yet adjusted /etc/hosts ? Do I need to do this? What is its purpose and why cant it bypass this to use resolv.conf? I have tried restarting etc many thanks Andrew, I've not followed the discussion up to this point. I apologize if this does

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 08:57:18AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >Hans du Plooy wrote: > > > >>Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment > > > > > >*covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children present! Sheesh, some > >people. > > I enjoyed that post. > > Wel

Re: How to control display position?

2006-10-24 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 10:37:56 -0200 Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is etch with up-to-date kde. The controls of my monitor are > locked (samsung syncmaster 753v, if someone knows how to unlock it, > please post), no idea why. So, where is that little app that lets me > control the pos

Re: Can't boot after installation

2006-10-24 Thread Bob McGowan
debian wrote: Hello, i have a new poweredge 1950 with an embedded dell perc 5/i raid controller There are 2 disks in it of 72GB and are configured as RAID 1. I perform a new installation with the debian testing netcd. Everything goes well, netcard is found, DELL Perc is also found. When partion

Re: No xterm (or equivalents) immediately accessible in default etch

2006-10-24 Thread José Alburquerque
Jameson C. Burt wrote: I'll also accept your solution to start gnome-terminal from a command-line using alt-F2 Luckily, when done once, Gnome usually saves even that effort, since Gnome remembers the previous gnome-terminal application between boots. If you install the 'nautilus-open-t

Re: Etch/Cupsys/Gutenprint - failure to communicate

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Krauss
José Alburquerque wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Matthew Krauss wrote: Hi, On a clean new Etch install, I can't seem to see any Gutenprint printer drivers (ie. the Canon iP4000) from any Cupsys printer setup tool (ie. gnome-cups-manager, http://localhost:631). I have cupsys, cupsys-driver

Re: * Files under mount point '/proc' will be hidden.

2006-10-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Peter Easthope wrote: cdebootstrap installed Etch to an old Toshiba Pentium II laptop with no serious difficulty. After hours of tinkering, the Pegasus driver finally configs on eth2 and there is a LAN connection. eth0 and eth1 do not exist. Still no gateway access. During startup these lines

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 11:28:20AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > >Well, how about "Web Ferret"? "Ferret", AFAIK, only has neutral > >connotations, and in this context, perhaps good ones (nosing around > >for information). > Freaky! Many years ago I contemplated writing a web browser -- that was

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Matthew Krauss
Mike McCarty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment *covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children present! Sheesh, some people. I enjoyed that post. Well, how about "Web Ferret"? "Ferret", AFAIK, only has neutral connotatio

Re: ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Bruno Buys wrote: This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs from linux sounds like a taboo, to me. /dev/hda1 on /media/hda1 type ntfs (rw,gid=1000,uid=1000) f

beta builds broken

2006-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Maybe its just bad luck on my part, but then again maybe not. We here often recommend the daily builds or beta builds of etch as install media to newbies having hardware trouble. Well, if you look at the debian-installer page you'll find a link to http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread cothrige
* Mike McCarty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > > OTOH, why use a fancy name at all? How about "Debian Web Browser"? > > ISTM that the purpose of such fancy names has always been to > build brand recognition and brand loyalty. Why do you feel the > need to have such in a non-commercial product?

Re: ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread Sjoerd Hardeman
They claim it is more or less safe now. See http://www.linux-ntfs.org/ for more info. Sjoerd Bruno Buys wrote: > This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win > partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write > anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs f

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
P. Johnson wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment, and "ice" never has any positive connotations either. Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. Ice in those engines, however, could be a big problem. -- Marc Shap

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread P. Johnson
Hans du Plooy wrote: > Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment, and "ice" never has > any positive connotations either. Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: HELP ME

2006-10-24 Thread P. Johnson
cavallini david wrote: > I tryed to install debian on my thoshiba leptop using the netinst > version dowloaded from http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/ but I had the > problem with the ethernet network. My ethernet connection is: INTEL(R) > PRO/1000 PL NETWORK CONNECTION ... I must renounce to insta

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment *covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children present! Sheesh, some people. I enjoyed that post. Well, how about "Web Ferret"? "Ferret", AFAIK, only has neutral connotations, and in this co

Re: what is the equivalence of nslookup

2006-10-24 Thread Mike McCarty
Serena Cantor wrote: how to find out domain name of an IP address? Thanks! nslookup whois dig Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't understand

hp scanner 4670, someone installed it?

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
I was reading at sane's website this scanner is unsupported. Someone succeeded installing it?

Re: getting a list of manually installed package

2006-10-24 Thread Rob Wilco
On Wed, 2006-10-18 at 19:56 +0200, Rob Wilco wrote: Hello, I re-read the aptitude reference [1], but I haven't found a way to get the list of just the package I have installed manually, intentionally. I use this command to get a list of all the packages that are manually installed: aptitude -

Can't boot after installation

2006-10-24 Thread debian
Hello, i have a new poweredge 1950 with an embedded dell perc 5/i raid controller There are 2 disks in it of 72GB and are configured as RAID 1. I perform a new installation with the debian testing netcd. Everything goes well, netcard is found, DELL Perc is also found. When partioning the HDD in

How to control display position?

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
This is etch with up-to-date kde. The controls of my monitor are locked (samsung syncmaster 753v, if someone knows how to unlock it, please post), no idea why. So, where is that little app that lets me control the position of the display in the screen? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

ntfs rw in etch??

2006-10-24 Thread Bruno Buys
This is etch recently installed in an athlon with a ntfs win partition. Mount tells me it is writable. Can I trust? I didn't write anything to it yet, just read. Writing to ntfs from linux sounds like a taboo, to me. /dev/hda4 on / type reiserfs (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nod

Re: Weird Apache problem, hanging on particular data patterns

2006-10-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 23.10.06 10:00, Timothy Timmons wrote: > Certain files, with seemingly no obvious correlation lock shortly > after the transfer starts, usually within the first few k. I can move > the file to a different drive/partition, rename it, and it doesn't > matter. I can take a different file and it wor

Re: Security updates - slight confusion

2006-10-24 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 24 Oct 2006 12:30:06 +0100 Ken Walker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm getting a little confused about security updates > > I'm using Debian stable and daily do the apt-get update/upgrade. > > But when a package has a security update, do i have to start/stop > specific applications. > >

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-24 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > Ed Curtis wrote: > > > It's not a dual-boot. I'm not sure but I think the bios date/time had > > > something to do with it because I haven't had a problem with it since > > > resetting it and updateing with ntpdate. > > I'm unsure about modern hardware, but older machines often suffered from >

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #2285

2006-10-24 Thread Jude DaShiell
What's the advantage of using apf as opposed to lokkit? One of them might be lokkit downloads so many packages in order to work, but I'm interested in additional advantages if any. My idea of a firewall is very simple and has very few rules. Rule 1, deny all incoming traffic. Rule 2, allow f

Re: HP DL320 G4 and USB problem

2006-10-24 Thread George Borisov
Éles Tamás wrote: > Hello George, > > Thank You for answering. In the meantime I managed to get across to the > language selection by an "install acpi=off". I switched to consol and am > trying to find where on earth is that command namely rmmod. I've got Etch > beta3 "final" (build on 10.08.20

Re: Security updates - slight confusion

2006-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/06 06:30, Ken Walker wrote: > I'm getting a little confused about security updates > > I'm using Debian stable and daily do the apt-get update/upgrade. > > But when a package has a security update, do i have to start/stop specific > applicat

Security updates - slight confusion

2006-10-24 Thread Ken Walker
I'm getting a little confused about security updates I'm using Debian stable and daily do the apt-get update/upgrade. But when a package has a security update, do i have to start/stop specific applications. Like today, Python was updated due to a security fix. Is there any application i have

Re: what is the equivalence of nslookup

2006-10-24 Thread Miles Fidelman
Serena Cantor wrote: how to find out domain name of an IP address? Thanks! nslookup or dig -x Miles -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HP DL320 G4 and USB problem

2006-10-24 Thread George Borisov
Éles Tamás wrote: > > Could I ask You what was that boot parameter that made the installer not to > detect USB ? I tried to "install debian-installer/probe/usb=false" but didn't > help, installer loaded uhci_hcd again. > Also, I tried disabling all the iLO and USB parameters in BIOS but didnt he

Re: what is the equivalence of nslookup

2006-10-24 Thread Roman Busyguin
На Tue, 24 Oct 2006 03:53:25 -0700 (PDT) Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> записано: > how to find out domain name of an IP address? > Thanks! > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.y

what is the equivalence of nslookup

2006-10-24 Thread Serena Cantor
how to find out domain name of an IP address? Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

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