Re: erading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Zoran Kolic
> You can always send them PDFs as a revenge... Don't be so althruistic! Send them postscript file. Zoran -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Edward Shornock (debian ml)
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:49:42PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >You could always install it directly from adobe.com. > > > > > Is it there, now? It certainly wasn't there a few days ago. Yes, it's at http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html signature.asc Descr

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 22:09 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > >Marc Shapiro: > > > > > >>Marc Shapiro wrote: > >> > >> > >>>Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> > >>>But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it > >>>is almost certain to get backported so th

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that prefer a 'stable' machine can get to all the sites that want 'the most curren

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
Marc Shapiro: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >> >> But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it >> is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that prefer a >> 'stable' machine can get to all the sites that want 'the most current >> version of

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Someone here pointed out to me that I won't have enough free temporary space on disk to compile openoffice in gentoo anyway. I must have missed that post, so, I'm almost afraid to ask... How much temp disk space does openoffice.org need to compile? -- Marc Shapir

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-10-31 Thread Deephay
On 11/1/06, Kevin B. McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Deephay wrote: > I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow > tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB > size). > The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> >> Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a > >> Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due >> to > the requirement of the program having to determine the file >> system first > (which requires that it be formatted). Or ma

Re: ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread Tim Post
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:02 +1100, M-L wrote: > > I just want to be able to get from one of my machines into the other, to > transfer a few files and that's it. > > Can someone please give me a hint where I can find a simple howto to do this. > Charlie, AoE (ATA over Ethernet) would be the

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 31 17:32 -0600]: > I kind of see this as the same type of thing as top posting, no matter how > many times you tell them, or post links to why its bad they still do it. > After about five e-mail returns they complain that my e-mails are hard to > read an

Re: The sad demise of an etch.

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:43:40PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>> > >>> Or should I do something radical to get current software, such as > >>> installing gentoo on the former etch partition? > >> ack! bite your tongue! ;-0 > > > > No... that hurts. > > > >

Re: emacs and mutt

2006-10-31 Thread Tyler
Thanks! I don't understand it, but it works. I'm only just starting to learn lisp, so I will have to do some reading before I understand everything your code does, but in the meantime I have word-wrapping (and probably a few other things as well). Cheers, Tyle -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 17:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: [snip] But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us th

Any source for Woody security updates

2006-10-31 Thread Scott Gifford
Hello, I have several Debian Woody systems that, for various reasons, are inconvenient to update. I somehow misread Debian's support policy, and though I had another year before support ended, but now I'm finding that these systems are getting out-of-date and security updates are no longer availa

Odd dhcpcd behaviour

2006-10-31 Thread cothrige
Recently, and I am guessing during an 'aptitude upgrade', dhcpcd was uninstalled. At the next boot I had no internet connection, and could not reinstall dhcpcd without one. I had to download the deb package on another computer and then copy it over via floppy to run dpkg -i. I mention this just i

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread Marty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no monitor attached so tracking this down is difficult.

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
Thanks, that seems to help. Perhaps having it on "auto" sets up a > Catch-22, wherein a floppy that needs to be formatted cannot be due to > the requirement of the program having to determine the file system first > (which requires that it be formatted). Or maybe not. Anyway, I've had > be

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
Plus - how do you get icons to display on your fluxbox work space? Install the program idesk. In your startup file, at /home/user/.fluxbox/startup, add "idesk &" (without quotes). Start fluxbox and you'll see a home icon. If my memory serves me correctly, I think it's pretty easy to cre

Re: emacs and mutt

2006-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-31 23:42:42 +, Tyler wrote: > I've got mutt up and running (although I'm still using thunderbird for > mailing lists/newsgroups, hopefully not much longer). One problem I've > run into is that I can't convince it to open emacs in text-mode. I've > got text-mode set-up for auto-fil

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 07:43:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > [snip] > > You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to fo

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-30 09:33:02 +0100, Anders Lennartsson wrote: > EMACS IN XTERM > > Now the problem is emacs in a terminal window. It does properly show > utf-8 characters when I open documents. But when I start to write it > does not correctly understand the Swedish characters from my keyboard, > which

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? I have a moderately

Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread Bruno Buys
Matt Price wrote: > hi, > > my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model > number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk > failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but > will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kin

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-31 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 12:52, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:41:51 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > > I upgraded my system recently and now have font prob

Re: vncserver

2006-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2006-10-29 11:02:25 +0800, linux china wrote: > I post my xmodmap output here, what's wrong with my default settings? > > xmodmap: up to 2 keys per modifier, (keycodes in parentheses): > > shift Shift_L (0xa), Shift_R (0xb) > lock > control Control_L (0x8), Control_R (0x9) > mod1

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 19:14, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > You shouldn't have to mount a floppy if you're going to format it. In fact, you *can't* mkfs a mounted partition, can you? - -- Ron

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:01:54PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > >* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could > >not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The > >answer, of course, is, > >"it's a floppy, you stupid machine. > >Mark > >" > > > >Change f

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 17:50, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Marc Shapiro: [snip] > But, once it does get into Sid, or whatever testing will be, then > it is almost certain to get backported so that those of us that > prefer a 'stable' machine can

Boot frozen due to swapped USB cables (Debian/stable)

2006-10-31 Thread Vincent Lefevre
After I inadvertently swapped two USB cables behind my parents' machine, the boot was freezing under Linux (Debian/stable); no problem under MS Windows, though. A first freeze was due to the discover1 package, just after the following line was printed: Detecting hardware: open_sock(): No such dev

Re: how to send command over ethernet

2006-10-31 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have 2 PCs, connect to each other by ethernet, both running Linux. How to > send command from one > PC to the other? I have only one monitor. Will output return from that PC? When you have set everything up, you'll sit at the com

Re: ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread M-L
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 11:28, Douglas Tutty shared this with us all: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:02:25AM +1100, M-L wrote: > > I want to just share files between two laptops and have cat 5e crossover > > cable to do this with ethernet cards in each lappy. > > > > Have googled endlessly and

Re: ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread M-L
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 11:18, Alejandro Bárcena Campos shared this with us all: > M-L wrote: > > I want to just share files between two laptops and have cat 5e crossover > > cable to do this with ethernet cards in each lappy. > > > > But I have no idea where to start from scratch, have neve

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread B. Hoffmann
Thank you for all the replies and good explanations, and a bit of a laugh. Jochen Schulz wrote: Yes and No. A WM is supposed to, well, manage windows (or give the user the chance to do it). Typically this includes: * place windows somewhere on the desktop (may be interactive) * decorate w

Re: ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread Alejandro Bárcena Campos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 M-L wrote: > I want to just share files between two laptops and have cat 5e crossover > cable > to do this with ethernet cards in each lappy. > > But I have no idea where to start from scratch, have never done this before I > any way. > > Have goo

Re: how to send command over ethernet

2006-10-31 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:20:53PM -0800, Serena Cantor wrote: > I have 2 PCs, connect to each other by ethernet, both running Linux. How to > send command from one > PC to the other? I have only one monitor. Will output return from that PC? > ssh Yes output comes back to the computer you're on;

Re: ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 11:02:25AM +1100, M-L wrote: > I want to just share files between two laptops and have cat 5e crossover > cable > to do this with ethernet cards in each lappy. > Have googled endlessly and found a heap of stuff that wants me to put it > through a hub with different cabl

Re: Epiphany a memory hog

2006-10-31 Thread John Hasler
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >I've been running Epiphany-browser on Fluxbox on my minimal 128MB PIII >system for 6 days non-stop. Virtual memory usage now stands at 220MB >according to top. Turn off caching. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Is there any good java obfucator you can recommend?

2006-10-31 Thread Serena Cantor
I search sarge package lists, find none. We have the perfect Group for you. Check out the handy changes to Yahoo! Groups (http://groups.yahoo.com) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

how to send command over ethernet

2006-10-31 Thread Serena Cantor
I have 2 PCs, connect to each other by ethernet, both running Linux. How to send command from one PC to the other? I have only one monitor. Will output return from that PC? Get your email and see which of your

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread W Paul Mills
Andrei Popescu wrote: anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took the easy route, made another us

request for doc: pdiff in apt repos

2006-10-31 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, Would someone help on how to generate DiffIndex/pdiffs on apt repos? Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

emacs and mutt

2006-10-31 Thread Tyler
Hi, I've got mutt up and running (although I'm still using thunderbird for mailing lists/newsgroups, hopefully not much longer). One problem I've run into is that I can't convince it to open emacs in text-mode. I've got text-mode set-up for auto-fill, which I like using for sending mail. Howe

ethernet howto

2006-10-31 Thread M-L
I want to just share files between two laptops and have cat 5e crossover cable to do this with ethernet cards in each lappy. But I have no idea where to start from scratch, have never done this before I any way. Have googled endlessly and found a heap of stuff that wants me to put it through a

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread David Jardine
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 05:29:29PM +, Dougie Nisbet wrote: > A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to > reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a > dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. > > It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no moni

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :-> Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release-critic

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jochen Schulz wrote: Marc Shapiro: What is the likelihood that this will actually make it into Etch before the December release? What is the likelyhood of etch being released in December? :-> Seriously, I hate to say it, but http://bugs.debian.org/release-critical/ doesn't look very

Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread Grok Mogger
Matt Price wrote: hi, my dad is bringing me an old toshiba tablet (don't have the model number) that seems to be having serious trouble, possibly a disk failure. I will probably install a linux distro on it eventually, but will have to figure out what makes the most sense for this kind of machi

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mark Grieveson wrote: * * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark " Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat"

Re: Epiphany a memory hog

2006-10-31 Thread Gnu_Raiz
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been running Epiphany-browser on Fluxbox on my minimal 128MB PIII >system for 6 days non-stop. Virtual memory usage now stands at 220MB >according to top. It seems that most Mozilla based browsers like Epiphany, Firefox use lots of memory.

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Gnu_Raiz
>From: Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >and these in /etc/mailcap: >application/msword; wvMime '%s'; description=Microsoft Word Document; >test=test -n "$DISPLAY" >application/msword; wvText '%s' /dev/stdout; description=Microsoft Word >Document; copiousoutput >application/msword; wordview '%s';

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-10-31 Thread Stefan Schwarzer
> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really > `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is > really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not > appears that 'e_TeX' will read in .eps files but 'pdfeTex' won't.. > tell me

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-31 Thread José Alburquerque
Andrei Popescu wrote: * ftp [ none I use sftp ] I think simply 'none' is more accurate, though gftp looks very promising (for sftp) - thanks to Jose Alburquerque for the tip Happy to be useful. :-) -- Sincerely Jose Alburquerque -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:32:46PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? Hi David, there are d

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-10-31 Thread Miles Bader
Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not discounting the RES/SHR columns because they are indeed > interesting, but not entirely useful and as someone pointed out .. a bit > cryptic. RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the sum of all programs' RSS exceeds your RAM size, your

Re: help

2006-10-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Keith James Dillard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i would like to know where u found a cm8738 sound card I found mine in a computer shop :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Paul Cager
David Baron wrote: On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut,

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (31/10/06 14:51), B. Hoffmann wrote: I' ve been installing purely a base sytem this time as opposed to before always going with the default install with Gnome. > Also for example icewm an

Re: weird sendmail problem

2006-10-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
Steve Kemp wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Note that I did leave /etc/mail in place, but I ran apt-get remove sendmail, removed the init files, and so forth. Apparantly I missed something. You should run "dpkg --purge sendmail" to remove all

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 21:24:37 +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 22:32, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > > One way would be to shut down X and remove the old nvidia-glx package > > before upgrading the nvidia-kernel-source package. After you > > auto-install the nvidia ke

Re: document processing

2006-10-31 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 21:21 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > [...] > Can't make html > [...] Bluefish is just perfect for that. It has syntax highlighting, and one-click "view in browser" capability. I recommend it for any other programming or markup also, like C, Pascal, m (Matlab file), php,

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: But the best advice is just avoid floppy disks if you possibly can. Fry's has a 1 GB USB flash drive for US$15 after the rebate. That's 700 floppies' worth and it fits on your keyring. They had a 128 MB drive for three bucks. Floppies are obsolete. I saw one Fry's

Re: how can i add delta (as x _1- x_2) in OO?

2006-10-31 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 09:09 +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > hello ... > > how can i add delta sign in formulas when i use math ? > for exmample : > Delta X = X_1 - X_2 > %DELTA This works with every greek letter. (%letter for the small one, and %LETTER for the capital.) -- Szia:

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 2006-10-31 at 11:11 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > >> However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > > > >> that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text > > > >> but collum

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:16:28PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > > > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > >

Re: weird sendmail problem

2006-10-31 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:30:23PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > Note that I did leave /etc/mail in place, but I ran apt-get remove > sendmail, removed the init files, and so forth. Apparantly I missed > something. You should run "dpkg --purge sendmail" to remove all traces of the package.

flavours of LaTeX

2006-10-31 Thread michael
Sorry to ask what must be a common question, but I can't find the answer! I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while and I've not had any probl

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-31 Thread Mark Grieveson
* * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. Mark " Change file type of "/dev/fd0" line in /etc/fstab from "auto" to "vfat" I had the same problem

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 10:41:51 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > > I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if > > > I run gaim as non-root, it takes a p

help

2006-10-31 Thread Keith James Dillard
i would like to know where u found a cm8738 sound card -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Jochen Schulz
[Disclaimer: writing this mail took some time and I frequently jumped from topic to topic. Please excuse me if it doesn't appear to be very coherent.] anthony: > > So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your > respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked

weird sendmail problem

2006-10-31 Thread Miles Fidelman
Hi Folks, I'm running postfix on my box, but a while back I installed then uninstalled sendmail. Something seems to have been left behind in an obscure location. When I reboot the machine, something creates a cron job (/etc/cron.d/sendmail). Whatever is doing this leaves the following in t

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 21:32:46 +0200 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with > her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. > What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? > >

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-31 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 22:32, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > One way would be to shut down X and remove the old nvidia-glx package > before upgrading the nvidia-kernel-source package. After you > auto-install the nvidia kernel module with module-assistant you can > install the new nvidia-glx pac

Re: python-scipy weirdness

2006-10-31 Thread Olafur Jens Sigurdsson
Þann 2006-10-31, 16:20:47 (+0900) skrifaði Lubos Vrbka: > hi guys, > > when trying to install python-scipy and some other things on my > up-to-date etch box, i encounter the following: > > python-scipy-core recommends python-scipy > --\ The following actions will resolve this dependency: >->

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 09:15:55PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > I took Word Viewer 2003 from the MS site ("View, print and copy Word > documents, even if you don't have Word installed") and tried to install > it with the version of Wine that is available for Sarge. > Error: "Newer version of Wi

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 31 October 2006 21:38, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > > herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for > >

Epiphany a memory hog

2006-10-31 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I've been running Epiphany-browser on Fluxbox on my minimal 128MB PIII system for 6 days non-stop. Virtual memory usage now stands at 220MB according to top. I don't have any extensions installed. Initial start-up was about 100MB. Even that sounds excessive, and I wonder where the problem is.

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 12:13:02PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 31 10:14 -0600]: > > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > > >> However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me > > > > >> thinking > > > > >>

Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread celejar
On 10/31/06, Nicolas Pillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2006/10/31, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was > wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable > medium this small. Damn Small Linux (DSL) may do the tri

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 13:32, David Baron wrote: > My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able > to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it > herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for > konqueror or ope

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/31/06 11:39, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >>> I personally use gdm, but I used wdm before (before getting too >>> depressed about how ugly it is.) >> Why waste RAM on something you have *no* need for and doesn't *do* >> anything tha

GPL Parental Controls

2006-10-31 Thread David Baron
My daughter has begun to do the google. I will not always be able to sit with her and she will figure out how to get into it herself. What is there around for keeping kids off the smut, for konqueror or opera? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Douglas Tutty: > to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking that > its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text but > collumns, tables, images, the works. I took Word Viewer 2003 from the MS site ("View, print and copy Word documents, even if you don't have

Re: rescue distro on 128 meg usb key?

2006-10-31 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/10/31, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I currently have only one usb key, which is 128 megs, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a distro that would run off of a removable medium this small. Damn Small Linux (DSL) may do the trick http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Andrei Popescu
anthony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your > respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her > a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took > the easy route, made another user, transferred t

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: anthony wrote: I'd like to know what exactly happened and perhaps to get my user (anthony) and my settings back iat some point so, what should the permissions be for all the settings (invisible) files in my home directory /anthony/home ? Are they each different? To get your us

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread Kent West
anthony wrote: So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took the easy route, made another user, transferred the settings and files over

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-31 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/27/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -- * Window Managers [ fvwm2 ] I will assume you mean fvwm, instead of the Potato dummy package... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-31 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/31/06, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here are a few corrections/addition to my list. This thread was really good, I learned about some interesting software ;) Tshepang Lekhonkhobe: sorry for the additional work Thank you for amending your list, and clarifying things a bit. I'

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-31 Thread anthony
So, happy as I am that you guys found an excuse to chat about your respective girlfriends here, I think mine would prefer I talked to her a bit rather than staring at a screen uttering expletives, so I took the easy route, made another user, transferred the settings and files over from /home/antho

Re: tremendous size for ".xsession-errors"

2006-10-31 Thread Kevin B. McCarty
Deephay wrote: > I have a problem with my .xsession-errors file, this file will grow > tremendous size each day (956 MB today, cleared yesterday, with a 4 GB > size). > The major source of errors comes from gnash (I am using the amd64 port > which adobe flash player won't work), gnash is not matur

Re: problems with CD-Writer (solved)

2006-10-31 Thread Joerg Schilling
>Since I have changed from Woody (2.4.27/32) to Sarge (2.6.8/16) I was >not more able to burn CD's with the tools in Debian. I have created >a private Debian Package from Jörgs cdrtools and now it works like >expected. ONLY DVD-Burning (I have a LG) does not work currently... What problems do y

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-10-31 Thread Stephen
On Fri, Oct 13, 2006 at 11:55:19PM +0200 or thereabouts, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-10-11 07:05:23, schrieb Stephen: > > > You can find ALL Mozilla/Netscape Browser on > > > WfW 3.11, Win32, Unices Linux... All you need is there. > > > > Understood Michelle -- However I was referring to *

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-31 Thread tom arnall
On Monday 30 October 2006 13:16, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if > > I run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving: > > > > gaim: symbol loo

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Clive Menzies
On (31/10/06 13:19), Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from > > KDE to Xfce to Enlightenment to Fluxbox. I'm very happy now but guess I > > may get bored and try someth

Re: installing java

2006-10-31 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:16:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: How do you install java in Sid? apt-get install sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-bin apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # If you want the JDK You'll need the non-free repository in your sources.list file. I

Re: Progrees meter in scp

2006-10-31 Thread João Schmutz
Sorry, it really is showing the total percentage in the end of the line.  62 100%  0.00kB/s    0:00:00  (1, 0.0% of 27084)    16384 100%  179.78kB/s    0:00:00  (12, 0.1% of 27084)    426 100%    52.00kB/s    0:00:00  (42, 0.2% of 27084).    3126 100%    5.15kB/s    0:00:00

Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-10-31 Thread Dougie Nisbet
A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. It is tucked away in the loft and usually has no monitor attached so tracking this down is difficult. However even if I brou

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Oct 31 10:14 -0600]: > On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 04:40:55PM +0100, Zoran Kolic wrote: > > > >> However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > > > >> that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text > > > >> but

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-10-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 08:57:44AM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote: > On 10/31/06, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > >> Since getting into Debian I've progressed down the scale (of bloat) from > >> KDE to Xfce to Enlighten

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