Re: flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 00:30:52 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. > Both installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts > to download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the > recent f

Re: Mail Delivery (failure [EMAIL PROTECTED])

2007-02-13 Thread info
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Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > RC bugs in stable right now is O (zero) > > RC == Release Critical (or so I've been told) > > Since Stable is already released... well you draw the conclusion. Just search bugs.debian.org to convince yourself o

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:46:35PM +1300 or thereabouts, Chris Bannister wrote: > If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a > reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen > the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Stephen
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:59:45PM +0100 or thereabouts, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [ ...] > To take this further, one would have to argue about what is ugly. There > is a continuous scale from very ugly to very beautiful. Products like M$ > Word cover the range from very ugly to somewhere in be

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: >> On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: >>> On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Dave Sheroh

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both > installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to > download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent > file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree p

Re: Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >>> What happens when you run "/etc/init.d/networking restart"? >>> > > Returned: > > Setting up IP spoofing protection: rp_filter. > Reconfiguring network interfaces...Failed to bring up eth0. > done. > > Then a series of messages scrolle

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 21:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Also, my mail data flow is: fetchmail -> postfix -> >> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. >> >> I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Win

Re: icedove and NNTP

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/13/07 15:23, Easthope wrote: >> Debian Users, > >> Xfce4 and icedove are installed on a machine here. > >> In icedove, I added a news group account and subscribed >> it to debian-user. Still no messages appear in the inbo

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian

2007-02-13 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 23:08:13 -0500, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals > a month, each at 25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of > reasons to dislike Word, but get real, it's usable and it works. I've a

Re: ATI Proprietary driver fglrx problem with Radeon 9200SE

2007-02-13 Thread Jonathan Kaye
][ wrote: > Hi, > > I've always use the fglrx-driver package for my ATI Radeon 9200SE card. > But it never occurs to me that the driver is not working properly. > > According to "How do I know fglrx is installed correctly?" > http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions# > How_do_

flash plugin

2007-02-13 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to download an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent file from the adobe site, but the flashplugin-nonfree package did not recognize it.

Re: Runaway BIND

2007-02-13 Thread Andy Smith
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: > What is surprising is that such an event brought down _another_ machine. > > Would it be fair to say that excessive loggers are ill-behaved? It sounds like your bind was misconfigured and didn't know what the IPs of the root servers

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Chris Bannister wrote: If an M$ Word user has the skill to automatically generate a TOC from a reasonably sized document, then I take my hat off to them. I have seen the results of an unsuccessful attempt, unfortunately it was a team report. :-( There are a lot of maschoists out there. If I see

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > aptitude install python > > and away it goes... when done you have python. > > how about tcl? > > apt-cache search tcl > > this produces 217 packages matching 'tcl', hmmm... lets narrow that > down by searching just the n

Re: Introduction

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 12:45:03PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > I didn't really like it because I have this thing against gnome. I had > no idea that there were alternatives, but it ran well, and piqued my Me neither. Now happily(?) running fvwm. Check it out. Look at fvwm-themes, fvwm-crystal and ch

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:22:46AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Also, my mail data flow is: > fetchmail -> postfix -> SpamAssassin -> maildrop -> Maildir. > > I fetchmail my wife's mail the same way. Windows Tbird looks over > the LAN to find it. No sweat. Ahh, across the LAN. :-) Networking :-(

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:03:13AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:01:56PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > Personally, I don't like clutter in my $HOME, so I changed the courier > config to use ~/.Maildir instead of ~/Maildir. Thats only for ls -l asthetics? > > To c

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been running woody on Couldn't you just upgrade? > > > for 5 years and find I can't run X cause the Trident tvga 9800b xorg might support the T

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 09:01:29PM +, John K Masters wrote: > I haven't tried anything yet. I'm using apt-get as I've > never really got along with aptitude. Installation was done with a netinstall > CD and just desktop environment chosen. Not that bothered about keeping or > removing sound-

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:35:15AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, that amount of > > precision doesn't really matter. > > Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't > care how ugly their printed documents look.

Re: udev doesn't create the /dev/cdrom symlinks

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: > I looked at the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d but couldn't quite > understand how/when the z25-persistent-cd.rules (which is properly filled on > my desktop but not on my Thinkpad) is supposed to be built. Does manually editing t

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 06:49:14PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one page of > a document you will be better of with LaTeX. Word output might be ok for > a quick fax, but the printed text from a half-way decent printer will > always

Re: OT: Etch/testing sources

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 01:31:59PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-12, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >== > > Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entries point to > > etch and not testing, otherwise you may end up with a broken system once > > etch goes st

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 02:31:39PM -0700, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: > On Monday 12 February 2007 14:33, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:50:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > > > I t

Re: Etch and Sarge X-server failures on two different boxes the same day

2007-02-13 Thread Marty
Ken Heard wrote: A few weeks ago I installed Etch RC1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000 P2 laptop. The installation itself went without hitch, and I set about customizing it to my taste and installing various applications. For example I replaced Gnome with KDE, as I had been using KDE since I converted to

Sarge box network connection broken

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> >> as

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> assigned by the gate

plase help me install printer debian-sarge

2007-02-13 Thread Tuani Panggabean
plase help me install printer debian-sarge. speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320 posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9) thanks Never miss an email again! Yahoo! Toolbar alerts you the instant new Mail arri

Re: handling non-native language spam

2007-02-13 Thread s. keeling
michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I was wondering what is a suitable way to handle non-native language > spam? My native language is English and I'm using Evolution to get my > email off IMAP and then it uses SpamAssassin to filter for junk. Are > there S.A. plugins to test for non-native lang

Re: Apache2 and PHP5

2007-02-13 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:46 -0500, Daniel D Jones wrote: > Running Debian unstable. I got up this morning any my server had crashed. > Haven't figured out why yet but that's another issue. Upon rebooting, > Apache2 failed to start with the following error: > > Syntax error on line 115 of /etc

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-13 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 21:11:54 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 18:20:55 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > > > (edited) > > > > > > >

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > Finally, you might think about using a whitelist setup for who is > allowed to send images and then everyone else gets the images stripped > off. You could whitelist all your local users and known others and > then dump any other images right in the blackhole and be

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 19:14, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:11:08PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: [snip] > # modprobe fglrx > FATAL: Error inserting fglrx (/lib/modules/2.6.19-mas/misc/fglrx.ko): > Operation not permitted Like most other uti

External monitor on Laptop

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Myers
Hi All, I'm fairly new to the Debian distro but am really enjoying using etch. I have Debian installed on a Dell Latitude d810 laptop, however I generally use it with an external monitor plugged in. Ideally what I'd like to do is to have the laptop display switched off while I have the external

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-13 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 04:11:08PM +0100, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > Could it be that the radeon module is still loaded? > What is the output of /sbin/lsmod ? > # lsmod Module Size Used by thermal14472 0 fan 4996 0 button

My Sarge box no longer,connects to the network

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: >>> Run "ifconfig" and see if you have an expected IP address; my first >>> suspicion is that zeroconf got installed; it tends to cause problems >>> with networking. Ken Heard replied: >> Ifconfig only reports the loop back IP address. The IP address >> assigned by the gate

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 09:12:31PM +, John K Masters wrote: > > So would I be correct in saying that using aptitude is safe, using apt-get is > safe, just don't mix the two? > without some practice, yes, don't mix them. There are several threads in the archives of the past few months ad

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 05:24:24PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > > > >xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110 > >/etc/X11/X is not executable > >xinit: Server error > > > This brings to recollection a vague memory; seems like a year or two ago > there was a

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > I'd manually look in /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config to make sure it's right; > sometimes the dpkg-reconfigure routine doesn't "take". The three legal > options for that line, according to "man Xwrapper.config", are > "rootonly", "console", and "anybody". For most situations, you'd wan

Re: A very simple documentation framework.

2007-02-13 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 06:20:24AM EST, Chris Lale wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > >So far my personal doc system amounts to a patchwork of notes and > >cheat sheets in ascii files that I grep when I need to find some piece > >of information or other. > > > >I would like to switch to something a little m

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Sergio Cuéllar Valdés" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: getting svn to work in etch... Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:06:16 -0600 2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I installed the package. Thanks. But unfortunately when I tried down loadi

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I installed the package. Thanks. But unfortunately when I tried down loading the package it failed due to a security concern: localhost:~# svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . Error validating server certificate fo

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: getting svn to work in etch... Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 18:48:38 -0500 On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:45:09PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > svn: command not found at the terminal prompt. > $ dpkg -S /u

Re: StartX problem

2007-02-13 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 03:56:05PM EST, Kent West wrote: > conn intel wrote: > >USING $ startx $(which xterm) -- :6 , I am getting the blank screen > >as said and using ctrl alt backspace i am able to return back to the > >command prompt. > >Here is the output of 'lspci' attached with the email.

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/2/13, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: One of the developers told me that if I type svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . at the terminal then I should be able to fetch the files I need to do the compilation. I tried it but I got svn: command not found

Re: getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:45:09PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > svn: command not found at the terminal prompt. > $ dpkg -S /usr/bin/svn subversion: /usr/bin/svn You want the package called subversion :-) Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http

getting svn to work in etch...

2007-02-13 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I am trying to compile a program called ascend that lives in sourceforge.net. There is a svn repository for it. One of the developers told me that if I type svn co https://pse.cheme.cmu.edu/svn/ascend/code/branches/extfn . at the terminal then I should be able to fetch

Apache2 and PHP5

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel D Jones
Running Debian unstable. I got up this morning any my server had crashed. Haven't figured out why yet but that's another issue. Upon rebooting, Apache2 failed to start with the following error: Syntax error on line 115 of /etc/apache2/apache2.conf: Syntax error on line 1 of /etc/apache2/mods

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-13 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:10:04PM EST, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 03:12 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > Well, I switched over to the nv driver, but no luck. Nice idea, though. Would that be the OSS nvidia driver? If so, I wouldn't be surprised if it had the same problem as the p

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-13 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Saturday 10 February 2007 10:10, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 02:30:33PM +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > > To make Thunderbird/Icedove to really delete those messages you can > > use File, Compact Folders and you can specify configuration option > > "Compact folders when it wi

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: Kent West wrote: I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only. or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common" and change the setting that way. I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed

How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical environment]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Kelly wrote: It is not recognizing the data on the other drive. It only sees the swap space. It is asking for the systemfile type. Here is the output. tester# moun

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > I suspect your /etc/X11/Xwrapper.config file is set to allow root only. > or better yet, do as the file says and run "dpkg-reconfigure x11-common" > and change the setting that way. I ran dpkg-reconfigure x11-common. When the option to set allowed users appeared, the o

RE: Using graphical environment

2007-02-13 Thread Kelly
It is not recognizing the data on the other drive. It only sees the swap space. It is asking for the systemfile type. Here is the output. tester# mount /dev/hda1 on

Re: Very Basic Help Needed

2007-02-13 Thread Marty
Jochen Schulz wrote: Jan Sneep: I can't find "Samba" under the "Application" button as a program to run or under the "Action" button as a known command to run? Samba is a protocol and a daemon (a constantly running program without a user interface besides it's configuration files). There are

Re: RCPT TO problem

2007-02-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/07 20:46), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > I am using sarge with Gnome and Evolution for emailing. I need to send > an email to a bunch o people (more or less 40 addresses). I've defined a > list in Evolution in order to accomplish this. But when I try to send > the email I get the following

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:40:45 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/13/07 06:17, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people > >> don't care how ugly the

Re: icedove and NNTP

2007-02-13 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/13/07 15:23, Easthope wrote: > Debian Users, > > Xfce4 and icedove are installed on a machine here. > > In icedove, I added a news group account and subscribed > it to debian-user. Still no messages appear in the inbox. > > The group is avai

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 20:48:40 -0500 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 21:16 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 > > > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > >> Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx,

Re: Writer Processor (was Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian ...)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:44:08 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 02/11/07 14:03, Joe Hart wrote: > > > >> Hal Vaughan wrote: > >> > > [snip] > > > >> I am a writer, and I used Word to write my bo

Re: Using graphical environment

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Kelly D Kennedy wrote: Kent you are the greatest. Worked like a charm. All updates are over the net now. I have another question I thought I would bounce off you if you do not mind. The server I am running this test environment on is an HP Proliant DL140. Dual Xeon 2.8 4 gig memory. We have

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 14:08:14 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 12:17:41PM EST, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans. > > > > I'm

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:17:41 -0500 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 06:41:55PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > Actually I am a bigger fan of lyx, but that's a hard sell for office fans. > > I'm just starting down the LaTex and Lyx road (from Lout since I wan

icedove and NNTP

2007-02-13 Thread Easthope
Debian Users, Xfce4 and icedove are installed on a machine here. In icedove, I added a news group account and subscribed it to debian-user. Still no messages appear in the inbox. The group is available from the server via another news reader. Someone please mention what further steps are ne

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 12:05:26 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [... snip ...] > On Sunday 11 February 2007 11:41, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 11:06:15 -0500 > > > > > If Office is the issue, and not Windows overall, then why should > > > she buy office when she can use

Re: security updates download

2007-02-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On 13 Feb 2007 12:55:11 -0800, onlineviewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to download and save all of the sarge security updates. I need to burn them to cd. I have a few machines which have no internet access, so i can not grab them with apt. Suggestions? apt-zip can wri

security updates download

2007-02-13 Thread onlineviewer
Hello All, Is there a way to download and save all of the sarge security updates. I need to burn them to cd. I have a few machines which have no internet access, so i can not grab them with apt. Suggestions? Thank you, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread John K Masters
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 12:34:59 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:58:05PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: [snip] > > If I understand the meta-package concept right, the meta-package > > depends on the real packages, but nothing depends on the > > meta

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-13 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 21:11:54 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-12 at 22:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 18:20:55 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] > > > (edited) > > > > > > daddy:~# dpkg -l xlibs\* > > > ... > > > ||/ Name Version > >

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 08:58:05PM +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:16:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +, John K Masters wrote: > > > > [... typical panic about removing gnome-desktop-environment ...] > > > > > > Just a t

Re: printing jpeg images A4 size

2007-02-13 Thread csanyipal
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:12:47AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >Anybody know how to make a jpeg image fill the entire printed page and > >print it as such? > > > > I manage it in a ridiculous way: I display them with: > http://packages.debian.org/unstable/web/wordpress > > and adjust the si

Etch AMD64 daily build netinstall hangs (nforce 430 MB).

2007-02-13 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I am trying to install etch amd64 daily build on to a geforce/nforce 6150/430 based board (Abit NF-M2 socket am2 board) but it hangs. It hangs right after it prints info about detecting 1.44 floppy. I suspect it is the network card that makes it hang. Has any one gotten network working

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Celejar wrote: I'm trying to wrap my head around 'forever less one day'. Here's a relevant discussion [0]. Reminds me of the joke we used to tell to illustrate the difference between a one-pass algorithm and a two-pass algorithm. An elderly woman was riding a bus in an unfamiliar part of town

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: Any kind of noise like that can't be good, though. Definitely time to get a new disk. Not necessarily. Some discs have a grounding strap which can develop an annoying squeal, but which is harmless to the disc. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Joey Hess
Greg Folkert wrote: > Well, you see, there are LOTS of bugs discovered in the first few months > after Stable release. Its a proved fact that testing doesn't get tested > enough, until it is migrated to stable. Many, many latent bugs are > discovered right after release. Things only tremendous amou

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-13 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 04:16:02PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:30:33PM +, John K Masters wrote: > > [... typical panic about removing gnome-desktop-environment ...] > > > > Just a thought. Being informed that gnome-desktop-environment is being > > removed

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: Kent West wrote: Now as a normal (non-root) user, run "startx". What happens? I logged in as my user and ran startx. It returned three lines: xauth: creating new authority file /home/ken/.serverauth.3110 /etc/X11/X is not executable xinit: Server error

Re: X doesn't start [Was: KDE peculiarities and questions]

2007-02-13 Thread Ken Heard
Kent West wrote: > Log into an "ordinary terminal", and stop/kill any X-related processes. > (Use "ps ax" and "kill" as necessary, or use other means such as > "/etc/init.d/kdm stop"). Earlier I had purged xserver-xorg and all its dependencies and reinstalled it. No change. Then

Re: Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-13 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
Wim De Smet wrote: On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-13 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:34:57AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West writes: > > > 3) it is fairly trivial to flag all messages with a .gif attachment as > >spam and chuck it in the right box. bogofilter is not the way to do > >that though. Even something like a procma

ATI Proprietary driver fglrx problem with Radeon 9200SE

2007-02-13 Thread ][
Hi, I've always use the fglrx-driver package for my ATI Radeon 9200SE card. But it never occurs to me that the driver is not working properly. According to "How do I know fglrx is installed correctly?" http://wiki.cchtml.com/index.php/Frequently_Asked_Questions#How_do_I_know_fglrx_is_installed_c

no motd regeneration

2007-02-13 Thread Ricardo Yanez
How can one suppress regeneration of /etc/motd in etch? The old EDITMOTD varible in /etc/default/rcS is no longer used for this purpose. Ricardo Yanez -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: installation help urgent

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 10:43 -0500, Celejar wrote: > [snip] >> Or 'sudo dpkg -i .deb' from the cli. > > Only if sudo is installed and setup properly. > You're right about that. It's one of the first things I did after install

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-13 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different >> a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of >> 886MB, where the 64-bit ve

Re: Print :: Number Of Copies

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 13:09 -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Michael S. Peek wrote: > > Hey guys, I think I may have found a bug. I wasn't able to find > > anything like it in the bug report list, and I wasn't sure how to file > > it as I don't know what package it would be associated with. > > >

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > >>> Greg Folkert wrote: > >>> > Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An > up

Re: Print :: Number Of Copies

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael S. Peek wrote: > Michael S. Peek wrote: >> >> Here's my bug: > > Oh yeah, you know what, it occurred to me that it may have something to > do with the remote machine being a solaris box not running CUPS. Maybe > that'll ring a few bells with a guru out there somewhere. So maybe it is just

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-13 Thread Carl Johnson
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Don't forget that 'aptitude search tcl' also searches only packages > names. The ara and xara packages allow for keyword searching in the description field. I use xara-gtk in the simple mode, and it has an easy form based interface for searching. -- Carl Jo

Re: Print :: Number Of Copies

2007-02-13 Thread Michael S. Peek
Michael S. Peek wrote: Hey guys, I think I may have found a bug. I wasn't able to find anything like it in the bug report list, and I wasn't sure how to file it as I don't know what package it would be associated with. Here's my bug: I have a remote printer connected to a remote machine that

Print :: Number Of Copies

2007-02-13 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hey guys, I think I may have found a bug. I wasn't able to find anything like it in the bug report list, and I wasn't sure how to file it as I don't know what package it would be associated with. Here's my bug: I have a remote printer connected to a remote machine that I am printing to via L

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
michael bailey wrote: > > Does anyone have a good idea of when the release of > stable Etch is likely ? Is there any chance that it > will be released in February or is March a more > realistic date? > I would say that is really optimistic. But dont hold me up on that. > I notice from the Fe

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >>> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An update to your howto. >>> For those who do not know, Greg is talking about >>>

Re: Beagle/Kerry

2007-02-13 Thread Wim De Smet
On 2/12/07, Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello I want to do fulltext searching in my archive of PDF files using beagle with the kerry frontend (with Debian Sid). But it seems that my PDFs are not indexed at all. All hits are for words contained in the PDF filenames. I h

Re: professional data recovery services for ex3 filesystem

2007-02-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: >> Greg Folkert wrote: >> >>> Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An >>> update to your howto. >> >> For those who do not know, Greg is talking about >> http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing

Re: Uncompressing gif Files that May or May Not be gif's

2007-02-13 Thread Martin McCormick
Andrew Sackville-West writes: > 1) don't quote spam on this list. I do apologize for doing that. I was hoping someone might recognize the style of the junk and know some really good way to make it go away. If I hadn't said it was spam, it looks just like a malfunction which, I guess, it

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/07 07:52), Victor Muchica wrote: > It will take its time, maybe march or april, DD are doing a great > work, trying to fix all the bugs. > Currently Im using testing on my Desktop PC. > > In the past some month ago I try to made an apt-get dist-upgrade, form > sarge to etch, but too many

Re: printing jpeg images A4 size

2007-02-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I have scanned document images that are jpeg files. But I want to print them so that they fill the whole printed page. It doesn't seem to work :-( The images are 1204x1644. With Imagemagick or feh they show up fullscreen, but when I print them they keep filling ab

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-13 Thread Miles Fidelman
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Miles Fidelman wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Outside of high academia & the publishing industry, most people don't care how ugly their printed documents look. I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and government who'd cont

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