Re: GPL v3?

On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 22:03:05 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Well, it appears that it isn't. It seems that companies have found > loopholes to create proprietary software using GPL code. I don't know > if anyone has actually taken any of these companies to court and > challen

Etch: XEN domU networking

Hello everyone Today I've found the following problem: when I start domU under xen with stock debian kernel (linux-image-2.6.18-4-xen-686) domU has no network interfaces. Discovering the problem I found that this kernel was compiled with: # CONFIG_IP_PNP is not set so it does not allow to pas

Re: cheap LCD display

Hello List, thanks for your advices: finally I bought wrt the local market which is fortunately well furnished. I bought a Benq FP93v which fit very well with my macmini (even if I have not yet get the right resolution :-)) Jerome Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:34:48PM

Re: dns cambia sempre

(suggesting the OP where to find an Italian support group) On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 11:27:14 AM +0200, Armando Sambäk ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > ho installato debian etch (sono newbie) il browser parte solo, se > cambia (sempre- dopo cca 10 minuti) il dns, il nummero mio non > rimane, qualcuno mi p

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 09:38:12 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > 1. 64 MB Used for raid1, makes md0, JFS, /boot > since grub can't read LVMs It can, these days [0]. Celejar [0] http://grub.enbug.org/LVMandRAID -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > Yes, but on a different level. You can also "migrate" data off an > existing PV if you discover it is failing, before it actually does. > Among other things. > > LVM is not just about making big pools of disk into one storage are

Re: How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup

On Wed, 4 Apr 2007 20:22:55 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-03-23 09:38:31, schrieb Celejar: > > >I do not like some of the design choices which were made with > > > fetchmail. > > >getmail does things a little differently, and for my purposes, better. > > > I

Re: Etch, nfs, and AIX v3.2

Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:28 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I'm having some problems setting up 4 nfs shares that mount reliably on an Etch box that is importing the share from an RS/6000 AIX v3.2 server. It takes about a minute to mount each share at boot, and about 1/

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 11:42:06AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:39:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: Yes writes, sorry :) > > You mean no *writes* have to happen every time something is read, and > the faster the system can access its binaries the faster it f

Beautifying Debian Etch

Hello, I installed Etch recently, with the help of the good people of this mailing list. Now, it works perfectly, but I hate its look. So I decided that I completely redesign the desktop. Now the work is complete and I wrote a short article in my blog about the redesign process. The article inc

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:39:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: Interesting, the layout I was considering with 2 drives was to have the system (including swap and /tmp) on a RAID0 array with the resultant speed boost that entails, and have /home on a RAID1 array with the p

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 16:55:57 -0700, zfh wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > --- Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:28 -0700, zfh wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> >> > Sorry to break into your offtopic rants, but I >> can't resist this one. >> > Under the Geneva Co

Unable to find volume group "m" (root on lvm2)

I think I've lost more and more sanity looking through all the posts about my issue on various mailing lists and what, and I'm still at odds why I'm having this issue with lvm. I'm using a Debian proper kernel with automagicly generated initrd. /boot is the only thing not on lvm. I'm close to a

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

On Fri, Apr 06, 2007 at 09:39:28AM +0800, Bob wrote: > Interesting, the layout I was considering with 2 drives was to have the > system (including swap and /tmp) on a RAID0 array with the resultant > speed boost that entails, and have /home on a RAID1 array with the > protection that offers. I

Re: Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:54:15PM -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: > Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge > to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the > XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them > man

Re: [OT] a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:06:27 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Daniel B. wrote: >> That's an unrealistic case that distracts from the rest of the cases. >> It's rare the you _really_ know. (Remember that "24" is fiction.) > > Oh, I am quite aware it is fiction. The problem isn

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 20:49 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > This discussion wouldn't be complete without a note about the FHS. > (see man hier and the debian policy manual). > > The FHS is a policy document about what directories can be where and > what they're used for. > > Almost the whol

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:33:39PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > No, the media has suspect motives. The Red Cross generally has OK > > motives, though they are a bit left-leaning in their official views. >

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: 8< snip Here's how I do it. I have two 80 GB drives. Each is partitioned identically with three partitions: 1. 64 MB Used for raid1, makes md0, JFS, /boot since grub can't read LVMs 2. 16 GB Used for raid1, makes md1. This one block

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:53:31PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:28 -0700, zfh wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > Sorry to break into your offtopic rants, but I can't resist this one. > > Under the Geneva Conventions, enemy combatants that wear no uniforms and > > ..

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:20:19PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > >>I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > >>plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas w

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:58:12PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > > > >> The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store > >> show up, although /xyz is not mounted of cou

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:41:03PM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > >> Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > >> > >> I want to change the name

Re: Portable Debian?

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:10:51PM +, - Tong - wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:33:24 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> > Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. > >> > I prepare a usb with many tiny linux di

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

--- Arnt Karlsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:28 -0700, zfh wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > Sorry to break into your offtopic rants, but I > can't resist this one. > > Under the Geneva Conventions, enemy combatants > that wear no uniforms and > > ..like the passe

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 22:20:21 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 05:22:30PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 03 Apr 2007 18:31:11 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> >> > I'm sorry, but who decided that the memos were of "du

Re: Portable Debian?

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 09:33:24 -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Mirco Piccin wrote: >> > Hi! >> > Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. >> > I prepare a usb wit

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > As I had stated previously I installed from the > debian-testing-i386-kde-CD-1.iso image. If I take your suggestion, > which sounds like a good one, when I boot will I be given a choice of > which system to start or will I have to manually close KDE an

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007 12:26:32 -0400 Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > > colour

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

> Is there some other way to properly erase the disk so I can start from > scratch and lay down a new filesystem? Since neither gparted, not parted, nor fdisk seemed to be able to do the job, I used dd: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdc bs=8192 After that I used parted to create a new disk label, and

Re: Disk logical backup tools

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 04:24:33 +, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both > Linux & Windoze partitions? ... > > Last time I checked, about a year or two ago, such tools didn't exist > under Linux... Thanks everyone for the respond. I

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 04 Apr 2007 16:33:28 -0700, zfh wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Sorry to break into your offtopic rants, but I can't resist this one. > Under the Geneva Conventions, enemy combatants that wear no uniforms and ..like the passengers onboard flight UA93 on 9/11? > commit acts of murder and

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

On Fri, 6 Apr 2007, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le jeudi 05 avril 2007 23:15, Randy Patterson a ?crit?: I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best

Re: convert the DVD region

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 02:27:34 +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > There are any way to rip a DVD region 4 and make a new DVD but with > another region ?? Why another region? Free you up from the DVD region shit! Check the videohelp FAQ: http://www.videohelp.com/faq.htm which includes: Region fre

backup-restore question

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Question being is it possible to restore a backup from a win32 (2003 server) ntfs filesystem via tape onto a linux machine. I want to be able to test our backups to make sure all is restorable. If this is possible how to do it into an ext3, ext2 or o

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 04:15:31PM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without > really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse > for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

On Thu, 5 Apr 2007, Randy Patterson wrote: I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir structure so that all users

Re: Newbie Questions - Program dir?

Le jeudi 05 avril 2007 23:15, Randy Patterson a écrit : > I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without > really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse > for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir > structure

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On 4/5/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > The odd thing however is, when I type 'ls /' /xyz as well as /store > show up, although /xyz is not mounted of course. How do I get rid of > this /xyz statement (and where does it come fr

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:43 -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Bob, > > Thanks for your detailed explanation. I appreciate it very much. > Hope I understand it better now: > > /xyz is a logical mount point that I can use to access my physical > partition /dev/hdb4 - correct? > Whatever name for a m

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On 4/5/07, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Manon Metten wrote: > On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 200

Re: Etch, nfs, and AIX v3.2

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 13:28 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > I'm having some problems setting up 4 nfs shares that mount reliably on > an Etch box that is importing the share from an RS/6000 AIX v3.2 > server. It takes about a minute to mount each share at boot, and about > 1/2 that time to ma

Re: hdparm question

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 16:58 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: > I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive. > For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so > drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far > as I now kno

Re: gparted -- Turn Off Automount of USB Device

> > every time I create a new partition the system mounts the partition > > immediately, and then gparted complains that it can't create the > > filesystem because the partition is mounted. > > probably some nautilus configuration, if you use GNOME I used gnome-volume-properties to turn off all th

Newbie Questions - Program dir?

I am in the process of RTFM, I'm in chapter 4 :-) and have googled without really finding an answer. When installing non-Debian packages (EsayEclipse for PHP) from tar.gz files, where is the best place to put them in the dir structure so that all users will have access to them? Is there a 'right

idle time vs uptime

Hi Folks, The other day, I had posted message about sar/top misreporting idle times. I came across the command procinfo which gives this info. The idle time seems wrong. It is almost 4 times the uptime which doesn't make sense to me. sysutils: 1.3.8.5.1 sysstat 5.0.6 sarge I would appreciate s

Re: Disk logical backup tools

- Tong - schrieb: > Hi, > > Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both > Linux & Windoze partitions? > > By logical backup I meant, at least the backup tools don't do blind sector > to sector backup. Ideally it would be something like Norton Ghost. I hope > I can use

hdparm question

I have postgresql running on an ide type system with a 300GB hard drive. For some reason the command hdparm -W 0 /dev/hda fails with error0x04 so drive cacheing can't be turned off by hdparm on this type of drive so far as I now know. There is all of that lvm stuff on the system running so it'

Etch, nfs, and AIX v3.2

I'm having some problems setting up 4 nfs shares that mount reliably on an Etch box that is importing the share from an RS/6000 AIX v3.2 server. It takes about a minute to mount each share at boot, and about 1/2 that time to manually mount one of the shares share. I get an "RPC: timed out" er

Re: Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:54:15PM -0700, Terrence Branscombe wrote: > Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge > to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the > XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them > man

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

Manon Metten wrote: On 4/5/07, *Douglas Allan Tutty* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > I want to change the nam

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

Michael Fothergill wrote: > > What is the best way to proceed here? > > My pal won't have time to install Open Office for windows on his PC. He > will just want to be able to read something into his Msoffice software > (e.g. Microsoft Draw or whatever is similar to that nowadays in Windows > la

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

Chris Lale wrote: > > There was a long discussion about this, as you recall. The results are > summarised on the NewbieDOC wiki [1]. Basically, you run > > # aptitude install -sf > > to see whether Aptitude is confused. If so, run a fix. The global fix is > > # aptitude keep-all > > [1] > http

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: >> On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > >> > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If >> > I want to see all the packages whose

Sarge to Etch, slighrly botched

Today I followed the official Etch release notes to upgrade from Sarge to Etch and all went pretty well, except for some X services, i.e., the XDM and XFS services are no longer started at boot, nor can I start them manually with /etc/init.d/. Other TCP services like SSH and MySQL listener fir

Re: Postfix-Sender and recipient restriction problem

Hi again. I configured courier-imap with "authuserdb" and change imapd file.I added user with userdb command and gave password .I tried login mail account successfully.saslbd username and mail account username is same now. deneme@ abc.def mail account's username is "deneme@ abc.def" and passwor

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On 4/5/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. > It's labeled /xyz no

Unthreaded applications?

Hi, I have an application that needs to run its own version of some system-calls (fork, wait, kill, etc.): the source-code therefore includes a small assembly-code module to do that, calling the kernel directly using "int 0x80" and bypassing the libraries. The application is not threaded, but

Re: xen, raid and initramfs failure

On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 11:45:38AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > also sprach Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.03.30.1920 +0200]: > > Failure: failed to load Module 0 no such module > > Failure: failed to load Module 1 no such module > > Failure: failed to load Module 5 no such modu

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

From: Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:58:24 +0200 Michael Fothergill wrote: > The file will need to be edited... So open OO.o, select New Presentation, copy/pas

RE: GPG and Signing

John L Fjellstad wrote on Thursday, April 05, 2007 10:43 AM -0500: > "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Instead, they built > > native S/MIME support into their MUA's, built a certificate store > > into their operating system and bought VeriSign. > > Couple of points. There are lots

Re: reiserfs to ext3

than On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 4/5/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only > allows for lowercase characters in filenames. Thanks, i am going to try now, i will inform you t

Re: shutdown - md0 busy

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 21:02 +0300, Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: > Magnus Pedersen wrote: > > > And is the machine actually shutting down? > Yes. > Should I simply ignore the message? > "topping MD array md0... failed (busy)" Yes, unless it is *causing* a real and noticeable problem. But so far from

Re: why a sound works for output and not for input??

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:41 +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I was suprised by the sound card on my laptop (Compaq ), it is great > and run correctly for the output and can hear all audio cd's and audio > file, but I can't record. > > The card is detected correctly same propreties as gi

Re: shutdown - md0 busy

Magnus Pedersen wrote: > And is the machine actually shutting down? Yes. Should I simply ignore the message? "topping MD array md0... failed (busy)" -- Artem Zolochevskiy Kaliningrad, Russia JID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

Michael Fothergill wrote: > The file will need to be edited... So open OO.o, select New Presentation, copy/paste your drawing into that new presentation, save it as .ppt. Just tried it, it works with my .odg HTH, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

why a sound works for output and not for input??

Hi, I was suprised by the sound card on my laptop (Compaq ), it is great and run correctly for the output and can hear all audio cd's and audio file, but I can't record. The card is detected correctly same propreties as given by the official installed windXP. ( on windows it works correclty), So

Re: GPL v3?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 05 April 2007 12:24, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Joe writes: > > Agreed, but how else can one do it if congress is unwilling to > > make a new law or repeal an existing one? > > "Something must be done.  This is som

Re: Portable Debian?

Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: Hi all, I need to create a portable Debian (or derivate) system. My needs are: * install the system on a bootable USB HD * install a system that autoconfigure on different hardware (I don't know in advance which video card or lan card I'll find when I'll

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

From: Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 19:27:40 +0200 On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > There are websites and software packages that I think

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I > > want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synapti

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you could do with Turbo C on DOS in the 1980's. What would be the easiest sy

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

From: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:13:36 -0400 On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Off

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > There are websites and software packages that I think can convert an odg > file to a WMF file. > > What is the best way to proceed here? > > My pal won't have time to install Open Office for windows on his PC. He > will just want t

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Mike Bird wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national "Peo

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

Greg Folkert wrote: > Then also ask him to pay for MSWindows and MSOffice for you, so you can > cater to his wishes. Uhh, , recently, for the first time in years I was forced to use MSOffice to collaborate on a document. It was the most horrible experience in years to try to cope with the inadequa

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you cou

Re: OT: sponge burning!

on Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:49:05PM + Arnt Karlsen wrote: > .."maim first" is "the lowly infanteryman" and upward's job. > I was taught to aim for the heart. Center of body mass. In other words, kill. Ciao, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I Uhhh. It's called OpenOffice.org I was told by one of the maintainers, who was really annoyed of me calling it like that. > What is the best way to proceed here? Without knowing yo

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I created it > in Open Office Draw. I sent a copy of it to my pal who I think is a 100% > MSWindows creature > > He emailed me back saying the

dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

Dear Debianists, I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I created it in Open Office Draw. I sent a copy of it to my pal who I think is a 100% MSWindows creature He emailed me back saying the .odg file was not recognised when he tried to read it in. I am not sur

Bug#417953: apt's Packages.diff: 7 days, but Christmas has 12

Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4 Severity: wishlist Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and then only keep one week of diffs in it? Doesn't the song go "on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me"...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole */

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mike Bird wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn

Re: test message

On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:26:37 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03.04.07 07:20, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > > From: "S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:20:33 +0600 > > Subject: test message > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > >

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: > >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is > >> it today, national "People from other distros" day? > > > > That would be a big negative ten

Re: Debian User List

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:10:56AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > >Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> If the list is getting RTFM questions, it also means that the manuals are > >> just not good enough to be understood. So probably trying to improve the > > Or people

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > > > It's more powerful and can do anything that apt-get can > > What are the aptitude equivalents of > > sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs Interesting point. Google found this: http://p12

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: > >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is > >> it today, national "People from oth

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

Le jeudi 5 avril 2007 13:51, Jan Willem Stumpel a écrit : > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what > you could do with Turbo C on DOS in the

Re: GPL v3?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a >> patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error. > > Joe writes: >> Agreed, but how else can one do it if congress is unwilling to m

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what > you could do with Turbo C on

Re: Some cleanup questions [solved]

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > I'm running Apache2 - always have been. I was going to remove the 1.3 > stuff, but then the description caught my eye: "support files for *all* > Apache webservers" - wasn't sure how broadly I should interpret "all > Apache webser

Re: Some cleanup questions

On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:23:46PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hans du Plooy: > > > > ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers > > ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se > > > > Do I need both? > > No, only one of them. Which one d

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is >> it today, national "People from other distros" day? > > That would be a big negative ten four good buddy

Re: Portable Debian?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Mirco Piccin wrote: >>> Hi! >>> Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. >>> I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro bootable via usb and

Re: Disk logical backup tools

On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:24, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both > Linux & Windoze partitions? from man ntfsclone: NTFSCLONE(8) NAME ntfsclone - Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue an NTFS It's part of the ntfsprogs

Re: GPG and Signing

"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > S/MIME was intended to work with a certification authority (CA) model > based on a small number of universally trusted root CA's, while PGP > assumed a distributed web of trust model based on personal > relationships between individual users. There's n

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a > favorite windowing system that I prefer an

Re: OT: Linux or Cisco

On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: > Hello all, > > I have started studying for CCNA using CBTNuggets. They're pretty good. I crammed my CCNA with that. No substitute to real world experience of course. > Meanwhile I looked for options in the Linux world and there are >

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