Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:33:30 +1000 > "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Thank you, everone, for your help ... so far. I'm running > > > memtest86+ on the machine right now and,

Can expect deal with dialog generated by whiptail?

2007-11-07 Thread hhding.gnu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I have some program which show some dialog by whiptail as UI to users, can I use expect to run the program without any interaction? -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (MingW32) iD8DBQFHMrxlJo9Njjkvy34RAo0gAJ9WsaqnJcUk1+NQSn9w5sX7+8D+L

Re: Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 06:41:12AM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On 07/11/2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Being a Sid user you should be subscribed to debian-devel-announce: > > > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg1.html > > > > The problem seems to be solved (at

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delive

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:31:28 -0800 Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Raquel wrote: > > I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. > > > > I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. > > > > I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. > > > > Apache2 is still dying (

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:56:45PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. > > I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. > > I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. > > Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from

Re: Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff D
Raquel wrote: I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I cannot find a reason in any

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Douglas A. Tutty shared this with us all: >--} On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:00:27AM +1100, Charlie wrote: >--} > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: >--} > >--} On Nov 6, 2007 11:18 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: --} > >--} > >--} mathematic

Re: Telnet/SSH Terminal Help

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff Grossman
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:24:27PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: s. keeling wrote: Your problem isn't related to locale. I suspect it's your terminal emulation that's buggered. Are you using xterm, rxvt, or one of the clueless children (kterm/gnome-terminal)

Apache2 Still Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Raquel
I ran mtest86+ and the memory checked out ... no errors. I ran strace /usr/sbin/apache2 and can see no errors. I have googled until my eyes are red and sore. Apache2 is still dying (stops delivering pages) after anywhere from 15 minutes to 5 hours. I cannot find a reason in any of the server lo

Re: Telnet/SSH Terminal Help

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 07:24:27PM -0800, Jeff Grossman wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > >Your problem isn't related to locale. I suspect it's your terminal > >emulation that's buggered. Are you using xterm, rxvt, or one of the > >clueless children (kterm/gnome-terminal)? > > > I am using TERM=linux

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Manu Hack
> I use Kpdf most of the time but xpdf has a smaller footprint (both > memory and disk space requirements). I have Kpdf on my main Athlon box > and xpdf on my PII. I can view a pdf directly on the PII with xpdf or I > can ssh -X into my athlon box and view it with Kpdf if I set Kpdf for > poor pe

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
I have had no X freeze on my Debian testing system since installing the xfwm4 from unstable. Patrick On Nov 7, 2007 3:39 PM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 12:59 PM, I wrote: > > > On a recently updated testing system, but using kernel 2.6.21 (because > > I can't get

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:00:27AM +1100, Charlie wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: > >--} On Nov 6, 2007 11:18 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} > >--} mathematics: > >--} > >--} How does this work? Is it a mistake? > >--} > >--} > * Lyx > >--}

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 05:44:59PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 4:32 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > web browser: > > lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus > > a couple of sites that won't work on konq). > > This makes

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:22:54PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: What device are we talking about: What device and what partition on the device? > # dd if=/dev/zero of=/sdd bs=512 count=1 > 1+0 records in > 1+0 records out > 512 bytes (512 B) copied, 0.00394563 sec

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 01:09:38PM -0700, Robert Jerrard wrote: > On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:38 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > evince, xpdf > > > > How come this is? What's the limitations of each? > > Evince is nice in

Re: Telnet/SSH Terminal Help

2007-11-07 Thread Jeff Grossman
s. keeling wrote: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: s. keeling wrote: Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: If I do an 'export LC_ALL=C' then term=l

Re: Telnet/SSH Terminal Help

2007-11-07 Thread s. keeling
Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Jeff Grossman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >>> Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >>> > On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 06:03:01AM -0700, Jeff Grossman wrote: > > > If I do an 'export LC_ALL=C' then term=linux and term=screen

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Haines Brown wrote: Kiran, Thanks for the help. I should emphazie that my promblem is not mounting the usb-key drive, but only deleting the files on it. I can copy those files, but not delete or modify them. However, if I add a test file, I can readily delete it. I suspect I damanged the file s

Re: lprng + magicfilter + hpijs => hp deskjet 680c

2007-11-07 Thread s. keeling
Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/4/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I have a HP-680C deskject printer that I wanted to make it work with > > lprng + magicfilter + hpijs. So far no luck. I seems like I'm able > > to use the filter: > > > > /etc/magicfilter/dj550c-f

Re: how to read http mails in mutt mail reader (vim)?

2007-11-07 Thread s. keeling
hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I've just installed mutt in Debian, one problem is there are some > mails from news lists with HTTP format, it was fine when I use Mozilla > mail reader, but with mutt and vim, I could not read the HTTP format > mails. One solution I can think of is to use lynx, bu

Re: Linux kernel email list??

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:07:01PM -0600, Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > Hey, > > I am trying to compile the 2.6.23.1 linux kernel and have ran into a brick > wall. I know this isn't the list for it but was wondering if someone could > point me in the direction of the appropriate list. I foun

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
Kiran, Thanks for the help. I should emphazie that my promblem is not mounting the usb-key drive, but only deleting the files on it. I can copy those files, but not delete or modify them. However, if I add a test file, I can readily delete it. I suspect I damanged the file system by removing the

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Nov 7, 2007 1:24 PM, John Masters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories: > > > > > > > Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months wh

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> > mathematics: >> >> Can't understand what you mean by this... > > Anything working with mathematics, like calculators and so on, same as > you've listed below... > >> maxima, texmacs, gnuplot, octave (many programs are coming to my mind)... > > Is this your selec

Linux kernel email list??

2007-11-07 Thread Randy Patterson - [Tech]
Hey, I am trying to compile the 2.6.23.1 linux kernel and have ran into a brick wall. I know this isn't the list for it but was wondering if someone could point me in the direction of the appropriate list. I found the list at vger.kernel.org but that is for linux kernel developers and they prob

Re: what is supposed to set $LANG?

2007-11-07 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2007-11-06 at 23:59 +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I noticed lately that $LANG is no longer set by default on my system. Seems > that it is defined correctly in /etc/defaults and when changing to root it is > also defined, but it is not defined for the default user > > seems like some progra

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 10:14:55PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I received a file.docx made with office 2007 > Is there any easy way to read it? > Thanks > Thierry Microsoft has a free converter. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=941B3470-3AE9-4AEE-8F43-C6BB74CD14

Re: Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-07 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On 07/11/2007, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Being a Sid user you should be subscribed to debian-devel-announce: > > > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/11/msg1.html > > The problem seems to be solved (at least I got upgrades). I don't think so. I don't thnik you'll get upgrades

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. > ... > I'd appreciate any su

Re: Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Haines Brown wrote: I have a SamDisk USB-key filled with photos (.png) which I used for a slide show. I now would like to delete them, but whenever the device is rebooted, the files reappear. $ ls -la /media/usb-key rwxr-xr-x file.png /brownh/brownh Post the actual output of

Re: Where to find driver for new HP printer (Color LaserJet 2605dn)

2007-11-07 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear Rick,.. Im not sure about the dn version but as said on open printing : http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-Color_LaserJet_2605 The 2605 has perfect support by hplip package Rick Thomas wrote: > > The immediate problem is for

Where to find driver for new HP printer (Color LaserJet 2605dn)

2007-11-07 Thread Rick Thomas
The immediate problem is for Sarge, but I expect I'll also discover that Etch and Lenny don't have drivers for this one either, since it's fairly new. So here's the question: I just got a new HP color LaserJet 2605dn printer. The CUPS setup doesn't seem to have a driver for it. Does any

xen on lenny stock

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Carpenter, KSC
Hey All, Long time no email. Please cc me on replies, as I can't keep up with this list and no longer subscribe. SO I got some new hardware... to wit: Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-G33M-DS2R Drives: 4 250 GB SATA Anyway, Etch worked, right up until boot time came. Every single time I tried, I got dum

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Sarunas Burdulis ha scritto: No, you need to reboot because you recompile the kernel module. Shouldn't # modprobe -r # modprobe suffice instead of reboot? Errr, yes. I suppose it should. *hides in a corner*. So the right sequence for me would be # /etc/init.d/kdm stop # modprobe -r

Re: Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?

2007-11-07 Thread MRH
Dnia 07/11/07 23:19,Rob Bochan napisaƂ: On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:16:13 pm MRH wrote: I don't play games much, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to. I have a problem with Diablo II Lord of Destruction (expansion pack) game. It works fine in DirectDraw 2D mode but is not so 'shiny', it

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-07 Thread Sarunas Burdulis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Davide Mancusi wrote: > Chris Bannister ha scritto: >> On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: >>> You will have to stop the x-server and then restart it. In fact I had to >>> reboot (aaarhhh) in order for the module to insta

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Thursday 08 November 2007 00:29, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/07/07 17:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >>> Hi, > >>> I received a file.docx made with office 2007 > >>> Is there any easy way to read it? > >> > >> I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. > > > > Hummm, excuse my ignorence

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/07 17:01, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >>> Hi, >>> I received a file.docx made with office 2007 >>> Is there any easy way to read it? >> I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. >> > > Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by c

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 7, 2007, at 4:03 PM, John Masters wrote: That's pretty much the equivalent of what most "I'm leaving the list" messages amount to. No one cares, we all just shake our heads and say, "There goes a very troubled person." Do not presume to psychoanalyse me. I see the Debian Users lis

Re: Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?

2007-11-07 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 07 November 2007 06:16:13 pm MRH wrote: > I don't play games much, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to. > I have a problem with Diablo II Lord of Destruction (expansion pack) > game. It works fine in DirectDraw 2D mode but is not so 'shiny', it > looks much better in Direct3D. Whe

Wine + Diablo II LOD + 3D on nvidia = white screen?

2007-11-07 Thread MRH
I don't play games much, but sometimes it'd be nice to be able to. I have a problem with Diablo II Lord of Destruction (expansion pack) game. It works fine in DirectDraw 2D mode but is not so 'shiny', it looks much better in Direct3D. When I set it up to run in 3D HAL mode it starts OK, but the

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread John Masters
On 15:16 Wed 07 Nov , Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:24 PM, John Masters wrote: > >> On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >>> Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to >>> add missing categories: >>> >>> >> >> >> Sorry but here's where I

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
> > Hi, > > I received a file.docx made with office 2007 > > Is there any easy way to read it? > > I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. > Hummm, excuse my ignorence, what do you mean by closed-source ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/07/07 15:14, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I received a file.docx made with office 2007 > Is there any easy way to read it? I think that SUSE has a closed-source plugin for OOo. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and

Re: fglrx upgrade to 8.42.3

2007-11-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Chris Bannister ha scritto: On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 10:51:33AM +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: You will have to stop the x-server and then restart it. In fact I had to reboot (aaarhhh) in order for the module to install correctly. Try Instead of having to reboot, you might get away with just a

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
On Nov 7, 2007, at 2:24 PM, John Masters wrote: On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories: Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the same stuff is rehashed

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Charlie
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe shared this with us all: >--} On Nov 6, 2007 11:18 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >--} > >--} mathematics: >--} >--} How does this work? Is it a mistake? >--} >--} > * Lyx >--} > >--} >--} > >--} misc utilities: >--} > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gk

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread David Brodbeck
Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories: audio editor: Audacity audio player: Amarok cd-ripper: Konqueror desktop OR window manager: KDE DBMS: MySQL, although just because I know it best. development: Emacs disc burner

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hmm .. > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > audio editor: > * > > > audio player: > * > mplayer > cd-ripper: > * > dd > desktop OR window manager: > * > Xfce4 > DBMS: > * > > development

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread John Masters
On 13:15 Tue 06 Nov , Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > Sorry but here's where I unsubscribe for a couple of months while the same stuff is rehashed as it was a few months ago. Does this totally

How to set page qouta in Cups ?

2007-11-07 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello,.. I tried to set page qouta in cups so a printer will only print n pages for each user in a day. to test this i used the Virtual Pdf printer (CUPS-PDF). i went to the console and using lpadmin i set the printer to job-page-limit = 1 : #/usr/sbin/lpadmin -p cups-pdf -o job-quota-period=8640

docx files

2007-11-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Hi, I received a file.docx made with office 2007 Is there any easy way to read it? Thanks Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread joseph lockhart
> > Here's a template where you can fill in your > favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories: > > > > audio player: > > * > vlc > > > cd-ripper: > > * > (don't use much) > > > desktop OR window manager: > > * > KDE & fluxbox > > > development: > > * > bash > > > > > disc burner: > >

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 06:33:30 +1000 "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Thank you, everone, for your help ... so far. I'm running > > memtest86+ on the machine right now and, so far, everything's > > okay. I'll let you know what I find.

Re: Debian Lenny freezes in X

2007-11-07 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Nov 6, 2007 12:59 PM, I wrote: > On a recently updated testing system, but using kernel 2.6.21 (because > I can't get the Cisco VPN client to compile with 2.6.22), I've had > intermittent freezes of X too. In fact, had one moment ago! I was > able to Ctl-Alt-F2 to a console, where I logged in

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Adrian Levi
On 08/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you, everone, for your help ... so far. I'm running > memtest86+ on the machine right now and, so far, everything's okay. > I'll let you know what I find. > > How long should I let it run? As long as you like but IMHO 1 complete cycle at a

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Nate Duehr
This set of answers will probably bore everyone to death, but I really only use Linux for servers. Desktops are better done by others (Apple). On Nov 6, 2007, at 4:15 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories:

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:38 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > evince, xpdf > > How come this is? What's the limitations of each? Evince is nice in that it remembers what slide you stopped at last time but it was a bit buggy

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Jerrard
On Wed, 2007-07-11 at 21:23 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > > add missing categor

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > evince, xpdf How come this is? What's the limitations of each? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 7:58 PM, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tag editor: > > * > etags (or is there some other kind of tag?) What's that? Me not understand. -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 8:34 PM, Robert Jerrard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > > add missing categories: > > > > audio player: > > * > gnome-cd How do I find this? > > v

Re: shutdown problem : acpi_power_off freeze

2007-11-07 Thread Giorgos Pallas
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Nov 04, 2007 at 12:28:09PM +0100, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > >> Hello to all, >> >> when I shutdown my computer it doesn't turn off but freeze with the >> message 'acpi_power_off called'. >> However the shutdown was working before I re-config my ALSA sounds (via

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-07 Thread cothrige
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:52:43PM +0800, Kenlen wrote: >> recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. . >> > > I tried w3m but I couldn't get it to work. IIRC its just that its a > different key commands so its a new learning curve. Since I didn

Deletion of files from usb-key

2007-11-07 Thread Haines Brown
I have a SamDisk USB-key filled with photos (.png) which I used for a slide show. I now would like to delete them, but whenever the device is rebooted, the files reappear. $ ls -la /media/usb-key rwxr-xr-x file.png /brownh/brownh ... Although the files are readable, I fi

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Robert Jerrard
On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > audio player: > * gnome-cd > cd-ripper: > * grip > desktop OR window manager: > * metacity > development: > * emacs, gcc, bash, mak

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories: > > audio player: > * amarok > cd-ripper: > * cdparanoia > desktop OR window manager: > * fluxbox > development: > * emacs, gcc, bash,

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:04:26 +1000 "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I give up. I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling > > and haven't been able to fix a thing. > > Are you able to run memtest86+ on the box, every time I h

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-11-07, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 10:19 AM, Emre Sevinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): >> gcc, tex, latex > > Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing? > More or less. LaTeX is a (large) set

terminals with tabs very slow to resize in compiz

2007-11-07 Thread Micha Feigin
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Re: Why kernel 2.6.23 does not appear in sid packages?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 02:31:11AM +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi. > > Magicloud Magiclouds, 07.11.2007 02:18: > >It has been a long time > >Also, I think sid's packages update little these days. Does this mean > > a new stable? > > Being a Sid user you should be subscribed to deb

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread joseph lockhart
--- Steve Kleene <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL > service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, > the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems > to be a software problem. > It had been fine si

Re: ssh port not opening

2007-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 06:26:46PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > I'm running Etch, and when I did apt-get install ssh it just installed > the ssh client. I had to install the server separately. $ apt-cache depends ssh ssh Depends: openssh-client Depends: openssh-server If you only got opens

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. > ... > I'd appreciate any su

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 08:49:10 -0500, I wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. > ... > I'd appreciate any su

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > emacs (comes with a free operating system) > > > > Me don't underst

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 5:13 PM, charlie derr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> emacs (comes with a free operating system) > > > > Me don't understand. > > > > The long-standing joke is that emacs is

Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Nov 08, 2007 at 09:52:43PM +0800, Kenlen wrote: > recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. . > I tried w3m but I couldn't get it to work. IIRC its just that its a different key commands so its a new learning curve. Since I didn't see what it would do better I didn't bother trying to

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 10:19 AM, Emre Sevinc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anything deserving great honours (EG. GCC): > gcc, tex, latex Should I suppose that TeX and LaTeX is about the same thing? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:16:11AM -0800, Raquel wrote: > On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:04:26 +1000 > "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 07/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I give up. I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling > > > and haven't been able to fix a t

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > emacs (comes with a free operating system) > > Me don't understand. charlie already answered this better than I could. > > > killer app: > > scr

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 4:32 AM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > It is not clear as to whether we should reply to you personally or post it > on the d-u list. So I will just post it to the list... The list is better actually. > > mathematics: > > Can't un

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 08:49:10AM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub > (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its > network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. > It had be

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:30:22AM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On Nov 5, 2007 3:19 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is salome? > > Daughter of Herodias, Princess of Judea. > > Ooh can I have herod? > > :) > > sorry > I thought she was daughter of Balone. Doug. -- To

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 7, 2007 4:32 AM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > web browser: > lynx, konqueror, + iceweasel (in i386 chroot for flash, javascript, plus > a couple of sites that won't work on konq). This makes me curious why i386 chroot? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com

RE: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Keith O'Brien
-Original Message- From: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 10:23 AM To: Keith O'Brien Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: what's your favourite FLOSS? On Nov 6, 2007 11:27 PM, Keith O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} word-pr

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > emacs (comes with a free operating system) Me don't understand. > killer app: > screen -x > > killer app enabler: > ssh Interesting categories, but would it not be appropriate to put these two in "anything deserving great

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 11:27 PM, Keith O'Brien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} word-processor: > * Vim/OOo Do you regard Vim a word processor, or is there something more? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Nov 6, 2007 11:18 PM, Charlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >--} mathematics: How does this work? Is it a mistake? > * Lyx > >--} > >--} misc utilities: > * Dia, VYM, K9copy, CDcat, Gkrellm, Kerry Beagle, Quanta, Unclutter, probably probably? Where does one get that? -- my place on the we

Re: salome in debian etch

2007-11-07 Thread David Fox
On Nov 5, 2007 3:19 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is salome? Daughter of Herodias, Princess of Judea. Ooh can I have herod? :) sorry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread charlie derr
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: emacs (comes with a free operating system) Me don't understand. The long-standing joke is that emacs is a great editor, but a mediocre operating system. Most often pitted against its arch-r

Re: Dell PowerEdge 2950 server with PERC 5/i RAID controller

2007-11-07 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 11:31:26AM +0100, Samuel Krieg wrote: > Maarten Vink a ?crit : > > > > Apart from that omreport will also give you information on fan speeds, > > temperature, installed hardware, etc. It also installs an SNMP agent > > that allows you to monitor RAID status, fan speeds, tem

Re: Etch and Audio CDs

2007-11-07 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-10-29 16:17:22, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > On Sat, Oct 27, 2007 at 11:48:07PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > cdda2wav > > > > ...and leave it running up to the time when it exited > > normaly after writing 100 errors on my console. > > How long does this take? between 5 and 15 m

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Steve Kleene wrote: My Etch machine at home is connected to a DSL service via a Netgear hub (router) at home. Sometime in the last two days, the machine lost its network connection to the outside world. It seems to be a software problem. It had been fine since I built it in January. Here's wha

Re: mysterious loss of internet connection

2007-11-07 Thread Christian Jaeger
Steve Kleene wrote: I'd appreciate any suggestions on how to continue chasing this down. It may go slowly, since the problem is at home but my only connection now is at work. - I'd check the output of "route -n": is "0.0.0.0" going to the router's ip? - try "tcpdump -i eth0 -p -n" during pingi

Re: Apache2 Dying

2007-11-07 Thread Raquel
On Wed, 7 Nov 2007 22:04:26 +1000 "Adrian Levi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/11/2007, Raquel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I give up. I've spent all day, and part of yesterday, googling > > and haven't been able to fix a thing. > > Are you able to run memtest86+ on the box, every time I h

RE: Which browser is better, firefox?

2007-11-07 Thread Kenlen
recommend w3m... I think better than lynx. . Best Regards From: Kenlen -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dotan Cohen Sent: Wednesday, November 07, 2007 9:41 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Which browser is better, firefox?

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2007-11-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 06:08:04PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On Nov 7, 2007 5:54 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:59:53PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > On Nov 6, 2007 8:53 PM, Andrew Sackville-West > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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