Etch-and-a-half? When?

2008-02-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Here's a quote from the LCA: State of Debian article on lwn.net: "The Etch-and-a-half release will be happening soon. This is a version of Etch which offers a 2.6.24 kernel - needed to make Etch work on newer hardware. The original 2.6.18 kernel will remain an option for Etch users."

realtime-lsm module and vanilla 2.6.24 kernel

2008-02-07 Thread Dietrich Bollmann
Hi, I would like to use the new vanilla 2.6.24 kernel with the realtime-lsm module. But it seems to be not possible anymore to configure the vanilla 2.6.24 kernel to compile the security capabilities as module as described in the README for the Debian realtime-lsm package in /usr/share/doc/realti

qla2xxx mailbox timeout crashes lenny

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
When running rsnapshot backups from an IBM fibre channel disk system using LVM2 snapshots to a Promise fibre channel disk system, the qla2xxx driver causes a system crash and reboot. I'm running Lenny with kernel 2.6.22--3-vserver-amd64 and stock Debian qla2xxx module. I've already replaced the Qlo

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-02-07 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 28, 2008 5:05 PM, Geosand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > Well, an update: I just ran the nvidia script today (169.09) and it > > worked. I told it to not look for a precompiled interface on > > nvidia.com, so it did some compiling on its own, I think, but anyways, > > af

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread cothrige
steve <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. its web > crawlers, they touch everything, scary huh. mailing lists are archived > all over the net. search for your email address on any search engine > you'll see quite surprising results if you post re

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* ChadDavis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 21:42]: > > You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your > firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client > software to that machine, for access by your clients. > > I don't have a firewall software, but i have

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread John Hasler
Steve Reilly writes: > its got nothing to with any announcement by debian list. It has everything to do with the fact that Debian publically archives all Debian lists except -private. > search for your email address on any search engine you'll see quite > surprising results if you post regularly

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread John Hasler
ChadDavis writes: > I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my > profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that > I'd ever made to the debian list. All Debian lists except -private are publically archived by Debian. Google very helpfully inde

Re: No SYNACK to port 80?

2008-02-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Feb 1, 12:20 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there. I'm having a strange problem. Sometimes, for short periods > of time, when connecting to my web server from an external IP address, > the connection doesn't complete. But at the same time, I can connect > from a local

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ChadDavis wrote: | I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to | my profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post | that I'd ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all | of my posts t

Re: this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 08 February 2008 04:23, ChadDavis wrote: > I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my How could it help others if it was not? Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: security concerns for home work network

2008-02-07 Thread ChadDavis
> You could place an old machine on the "dmz" port of your > firewall/router (you DO have a firewall, don't you?), and copy client > software to that machine, for access by your clients. > I don't have a firewall software, but i have the DSL router and nothing comes through unless i port forward.

this list is on google groups

2008-02-07 Thread ChadDavis
I didn't realize that until I joined a Google Group for Rails, went to my profile page and saw that Google could quickly display every post that I'd ever made to the debian list. Kind of scarey to think that all of my posts to a list were being kept on record with out my knowing. I'm sure that th

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > handled? On my machine Hebrew is reversed in the console. If someone > could enlighten me as to how to install new locales (I've googled and > cannot figure it out) then I'll try it and report back. As root, "dpkg-reconfigure locales" gives me a curses base

Re: Question about flac

2008-02-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrius wrote: Hi, there is new CD box on the table that should get inside PC. On the box is mark "24bits/96khz recording". In Rhytmbox preferences string to flack next: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! flacenc name=enc So, encoding is going only about 44100khz sampling like for casual C

Re: Thinkpad t61p

2008-02-07 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Feb 6, 2008 9:48 PM, Baz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone have Debian (Etch, Lenny, Sid) running on this relatively new > Thinkpad? Sebastian I have a very young installation of sid running on a T61 (not a T61p, but pretty close) Everything works fine, but I haven't messed with wifi or soun

Re: Help! OpenOffice upgrade went wrong!

2008-02-07 Thread H.S.
ai wrote: Hi all, I did a dist-upgrade yesterday and since then, all the menus in Open Office have disappeared ; all menu text characters were replaced by empty square boxes. Same happens in all Open Office apps: Write, Calc, etc. I run the testing distribution on a HP e-PC 42 (PIV 1.6 Mhz).

qla2xxx mailbox timeout crashes lenny

2008-02-07 Thread Daniel Bakken
When running rsnapshot backups from an IBM fibre channel disk system using LVM2 snapshots to a Promise fibre channel disk system, the qla2xxx driver causes a system crash and reboot. I'm running Lenny with kernel 2.6.22--3-vserver-amd64 and stock Debian qla2xxx module. I've already replaced the Qlo

How to set Samba and Cups on different servers ?

2008-02-07 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi guys, I'm looking for Samba printing gurus on this list and my sencere appologies for sending this email to wide alias. Could you help with your advice on how to set samba on one server and cups on another server? At the moment I have Samba+OpenLDAP+CUPS on the same server but I need to move CU

Re: Accessing a TV adapter via my network

2008-02-07 Thread Barry Samuels
On 05/02/08 10:13:37, Nate Duehr wrote: > > On Feb 5, 2008, at 2:26 AM, Barry Samuels wrote: > > > I don't intend a cardboard box to be a permanent solution but I've > > no intention of buying a case until I know that the whole setup > > works. Looks like it's time to get a case. The Hauppauge

Re: computer case; was Re: Accessing a TV adapter via my network

2008-02-07 Thread Barry Samuels
On 05/02/08 17:44:26, PETER EASTHOPE wrote: > Barry, > > At Feb 5, 2008, at 2:26 AM you wrote, > "... buying a case until I know that the whole setup works." > > So many computers are discarded these days; few > people really need to buy a computer let alone > a case. The problem is finding pe

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread David Brodbeck
On Feb 7, 2008, at 10:56 AM, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: Emacs's bidirectional text rendering is still non-existing. I recall that there was a patch for bidi support in Emacs. But I have no idea what ever came up with it. It's buggy and based on an old version of Emacs. Last time I tried to bu

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 11:40, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 07/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Maybe "Greco-Latin" was the wrong way to write what I meant. A >> longer, but hopefully clearer, method would be "alphabets of Greek >> and Latin descen

Question about flack

2008-02-07 Thread Andrius
Hi, there is new CD box on the table that should get inside PC. On the box is mark "24bits/96khz recording". In Rhytmbox preferences string to flack next: audio/x-raw-int,rate=44100,channels=2 ! flacenc name=enc So, encoding is going only about 44100khz sampling like for casual CD. How to make t

Re: How can I find if a DHCP server is available

2008-02-07 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 03:25:07PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/08 14:15, Tony Heal wrote: > > I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. > > Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 13:42]: > Hi, > > Has anybody found a work-around bug #462243 > (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462243). It was > merged with an upstream bug in Xorg > (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14162). It happens in my > Debian sid system,

Re: How can I find if a DHCP server is available

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 14:15, Tony Heal wrote: > I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. > Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard > packages not already installed by the sarge / etch ISO. > > > > Any

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Seb ha scritto: kkbswitch is nice. It doesn't crash X in my system. However, it doesn't seem to allow "cycling" the layouts with a shortcut key (I'm used to 'Ctrl-Win-Alt-spc' for that). Thanks for the tip. That's something you have to configure in xorg.conf. In my configuration (see previ

Re: texlive vs. tetex

2008-02-07 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Rick Dooling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080207 13:28]: > Hi, all: > > I've searched the group for messages on these. > > I have one machine running Etch with tetex. > > Another newer machine where I haven't installed tetex or texlive. > > Anybody with recent experience moving from tetex to texlive

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Seb
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:34:26 +0100, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Yes. I switched to kkbswitch because I had problems with KDE's > management of multiple layouts, although setxkbmap does not crash here > (I am using as a work-around for a bug in xkb-data). kkbswitch is

Help! OpenOffice upgrade went wrong!

2008-02-07 Thread ai
Hi all, I did a dist-upgrade yesterday and since then, all the menus in Open Office have disappeared ; all menu text characters were replaced by empty square boxes. Same happens in all Open Office apps: Write, Calc, etc. I run the testing distribution on a HP e-PC 42 (PIV 1.6 Mhz). Has anybody

Re: Question Regarding Directory Prompts

2008-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:40:19PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: >> The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My >> memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc >> regarding this. Is it set somewhere else? > > probably i

How can I find if a DHCP server is available

2008-02-07 Thread Tony Heal
I need to determine if a DHCP server is available on a remote system. Without changing my static network config or adding any non standard packages not already installed by the sarge / etch ISO. Any ideas? Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 x9317

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
You don't need setxkbmap to switch between different keyboard layouts. I also use KDE, but I prefer to use kkbswitch and set up X as follows: Thanks Davide, are you on Debian sid too? Yes. I switched to kkbswitch because I had problems with KDE's management of multiple layouts, altho

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Seb
On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:17:13 +0100, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You don't need setxkbmap to switch between different keyboard > layouts. I also use KDE, but I prefer to use kkbswitch and set up X as > follows: [...] Thanks Davide, are you on Debian sid too? Cheers,

Re: setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Davide Mancusi
Seb ha scritto: Hi, Has anybody found a work-around bug #462243 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462243). It was merged with an upstream bug in Xorg (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14162). It happens in my Debian sid system, with a M$ Natural Ergonomic (4000 v1.0

Re: texlive vs. tetex

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Rick Dooling: > > Anybody with recent experience moving from tetex to texlive on Etch? I don't do much Latex anymore, but the migration should be painless. You just may have to hunt down some packages you are using with 'apt-cache search'es. Texlive appears to be the future, so I wouldn't instal

Re: Logging a kernel panic (remotely)

2008-02-07 Thread Ronny Adsetts
Douglas A. Tutty said at 16/01/2008 14:48: On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:08:44PM +, Ronny Adsetts wrote: I'm trying to solve a problem with a headless server on a remote site that panics from time to time. Unfortunately we have no remote console. Is there a way to get the kernel to either to t

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-07 Thread Peter Jordan
Anthony Campbell, 02/07/08 17:11: >> I think that means that the card is not "on". Look in >> /sys/class/mumblemumblemumble/iwl3945/device/rf_kill. It should be 0 >> for the card to be on, 1 for the card to be off, by way of the radio >> control button/switch on your machine. >> >> A > > > I co

setxkbmap crashes Xorg

2008-02-07 Thread Seb
Hi, Has anybody found a work-around bug #462243 (http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=462243). It was merged with an upstream bug in Xorg (https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=14162). It happens in my Debian sid system, with a M$ Natural Ergonomic (4000 v1.0) keyboard, whenev

texlive vs. tetex

2008-02-07 Thread Rick Dooling
Hi, all: I've searched the group for messages on these. I have one machine running Etch with tetex. Another newer machine where I haven't installed tetex or texlive. Anybody with recent experience moving from tetex to texlive on Etch? Or anybody just going with texlive having any unexpected pr

xen 3.2 - usage with DRBD for Windows/HVM DomU's..

2008-02-07 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi, I'm running debian/unstable with drbd from experimental on a 2 node xen/drbd cluster ii linux-image-2.6.18-6-xen-amd64 ii xen-hypervisor-3.2-1-amd64 3.2.0-2 ii xen-utils-3.2-1 3.2.0-2 ii xen-utils-common 3.1.0-1 ii drbd8-source 2:8.2.4-1 ii drbd

Re: Non-understood advice - was Re: dist-upgrade from sarge to etch - package

2008-02-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 19:06:27 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 10:53:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer was heard to say: > > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 20:34:14 +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > > > On Tue, 05 Feb 2008 18:54:08 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > Check for non-Debian pa

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Kleene: > > 4. Keyboard shortcuts die if I pass the cursor over certain ads (especially >at nytimes.com); I think they're javascript. To get the shortcuts back, I >can move the cursor out of the iceweasel window and the bring it back, >taking care not to pass over the offending a

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:11:14PM +0200, Emre Sahin wrote: > marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Steve Lamb said... > >> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance > >> it > >> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really > >> chugging

Re: Dbus, Hald Groups?

2008-02-07 Thread Kevin Buhr
David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Dbus is running in the 111 "crontab" group! > Hal is running in the 127 "boinc" Are! Note that "ps", by default, displays process *users*, not groups. For "dbus" and "hal", the correct users are "messagebus" and "haldaemon". Since these names are unusua

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:11:32 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > As far as I know there is no such thing as Flash 10 Thanks; I stand corrected. I remembered that there was a version that didn't reach Linux for a long time, but it was v9. At the moment I have libflash-mozplugin 0.4.13-8, and I don't see

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7-Feb-08, at 12:37 PM, Steve Kleene wrote: I have libflash-mozplugin installed but not flashplugin-nonfree. As far as I can tell, they're both Flash 9. I figure the sites that don't work are Flash 10, which isn't available for Lin

Re: SOLVED-How to configure modem

2008-02-07 Thread Andrius
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:11:46PM +, Andrius wrote: Just to tune a PC. The old PC was kicked off in the street about week ago. It was big temptation not to leave it. A lot of stuff find a new place - floppy, second hard; cdrw. And modem. Actually, what is possible

Re: SOLVED-How to configure modem

2008-02-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 05:11:46PM +, Andrius wrote: > Just to tune a PC. The old PC was kicked off in the street about week > ago. It was big temptation not to leave it. A lot of stuff find a new > place - floppy, second hard; cdrw. And modem. > Actually, what is possible to do with mother

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 07/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe "Greco-Latin" was the wrong way to write what I meant. A > longer, but hopefully clearer, method would be "alphabets of Greek > and Latin descent". Not to continue this perpetually, but I think that you mean Latin decent. Although, t

Re: Question Regarding Directory Prompts

2008-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My > memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc > regarding this. Is it set somewhere else? The default value of PS1 (the prompts in bour

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Kleene
On Wed, 06 Feb 2008 15:00:41 -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and tabs as designed > with one not-so-small problem. It opens *every* window or tab that was ever > opened before, nopt just the ones that were open when it crashed or was > shutdown.

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 06:47:39AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/07/08 04:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 06/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is > >> > >> B

Re: SOLVED-How to configure modem

2008-02-07 Thread Andrius
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:43:43PM +, Andrius wrote: Minicom is ready to cal and send files. Unfortunatelly there is no phone line about me so there is no what to do more. If you don't have a phone line, then why were you bothering to configure a modem? %s/botherin

Re: SOLVED-How to configure modem

2008-02-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 04:43:43PM +, Andrius wrote: > Minicom is ready to cal and send files. Unfortunatelly there is no phone > line about me so there is no what to do more. If you don't have a phone line, then why were you bothering to configure a modem? %s/bothering/bothering us Doug.

Re: Question Regarding Directory Prompts

2008-02-07 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:01:20AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:01:20 -0500 > From: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Question Regarding Directory Prompts > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current di

Re: SOLVED-How to configure modem

2008-02-07 Thread Andrius
Minicom is ready to cal and send files. Unfortunatelly there is no phone line about me so there is no what to do more. Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help me out to install Debian

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Anupam Jamatia: > > Dear Sir , There are ladies present as well. :) > i have an PC with P-4 , 256MB RAM, with 1.60 GHz , now i want to > install Debian and XP with dual mode , i have already installed XP in my > system with 3 partitins C,D, and E with 20,9, and 9 GB respectively...now > how to in

Help me out to install Debian

2008-02-07 Thread Anupam Jamatia
Dear Sir , i have an PC with P-4 , 256MB RAM, with 1.60 GHz , now i want to install Debian and XP with dual mode , i have already installed XP in my system with 3 partitins C,D, and E with 20,9, and 9 GB respectively...now how to install Debian OS in the system , its confused to isntall Debian afte

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
> > I think that means that the card is not "on". Look in > /sys/class/mumblemumblemumble/iwl3945/device/rf_kill. It should be 0 > for the card to be on, 1 for the card to be off, by way of the radio > control button/switch on your machine. > > A I couldn;t find that entry but I'll have anothe

Re: Question Regarding Directory Prompts

2008-02-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Thomas H. George wrote: The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc regarding this. Is it set somewhere else? probably in /etc/bash.bashrc, /etc/bashrc, /etc/profile or ~/.bash_profile Also, see the b

Question Regarding Directory Prompts

2008-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
The prompt always shows the entire chain to the current directory. My memory says this was not always so. There is nothing in .bashrc regarding this. Is it set somewhere else? The reason I ask is that I am trying to work with a One Laptop per Child (olpc) laptop and the prompt never shows e

Come join me on Bypass Internet Filters…

2008-02-07 Thread ProxyPromo
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Java Grey Windows/Blank Windows/Sun are stupid

2008-02-07 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Hi list, let me first say that Sun are incredibly stupid. I mean really. Astoundingly stupid. Stultifingly stupid. This bug http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=6429775 has been closed. Which is wrong, this bug should really be open, because it ain't fixed. I'm using a non-reparen

Re: Dbus, Hald Groups?

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Baron: > Dbus is running in the 111 "crontab" group! > Hal is running in the 127 "boinc" group! > > Are these number reserved for these? Debian uses the UID range from (I think) 500-999 for system users (users which don't belong to a person, but are used by daemons provided by specific pack

Dbus, Hald Groups?

2008-02-07 Thread David Baron
Dbus is running in the 111 "crontab" group! Hal is running in the 127 "boinc" group! Are these number reserved for these? To access these, do I need to be a "member" of these groups? This could be why kde4 seems to need root privileges to start a session! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 08:14, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Mihira Fernando wrote the following on 02/07/2008 04:13 AM: >> Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Greetings; >>> >>> Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. >>> >>> I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 08:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: >> On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. >>> Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 07:29, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 07/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is >> >> >> >> But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet...

svn-fast-backup -- how to use remote destination?

2008-02-07 Thread michael
I tried to see if `svn-fast-backup` would perform backup to a remote computer (as per rsync syntax) but it seems to fail (see below)... anybody got any insights? Is this something worth asking for? Thanks, Michael [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/share/doc/subversion$ sudo \ svn-fast-backup /usr/local/S

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mihira Fernando wrote the following on 02/07/2008 04:13 AM: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; >> >> Well, just ran into a another frequent problem. >> >> I just re-booted and restarted Iceweasel. (22 windows, >> I don't know how many tabs.) I had a bad feeling as >> soon as I saw that all the

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:33 AM: > On 02/06/08 15:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and >> tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It >> opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened >> before, nopt just the ones that

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:53 AM: > On 02/06/08 16:27, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: >>> On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh or new link, I ge

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Ron Johnson wrote the following on 02/07/2008 06:49 AM: > On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. > >> Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a >> link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing >> nothing. It dis

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 07/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is > >> > >> But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... > >> > >> Well, that and the fact that (compared to "calligraphic", > >> pictographi

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mike Bird: > > I can understand not updating Stable but the lack of migrations to Testing > means that we have to run bleeding edge Sid 2.6.24 kernels on nine-month > old production laptops (Thinkpad T61) which have been supported by the > kernel since 2.6.23 was released four months ago. (We had

Re: Iceweasel problems - YouTube infiltration

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/08 16:27, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Mike Bird wrote the following on 02/06/2008 04:05 PM: >> On Wed February 6 2008 13:42:55 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >>> Everytime I try to get an internet page, either refresh >>> or new link, I get the following

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/08 15:06, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. > > Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a > link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing > nothing. It displays "STOPPED"

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/07/08 04:44, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 06/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is >> >> But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... >> >> Well

Re: Iceweasel problems - where to report them?

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/08 21:08, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:59:28PM -0500, dick thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: >> I am too. What happens is that Iceweasel starts off fine and then >> randomly drops out completely. You c

Re: Iceweasel problems - 2 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/06/08 15:00, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > When I restart Iceweasel it reopens all the windows and > tabs as designed with one not-so-small problem. It > opens *every* window or tab that was ever opened > before, nopt just the ones that were open when

Re: I: cancel my email address

2008-02-07 Thread Noluthando Sofuthe
[EMAIL PROTECTED] please cancel this email address

Re: Iceweasel problems - 3 of 3

2008-02-07 Thread Robin
On 06/02/2008, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Well, this is the third of the most aggravating problems. > > Iceweasel will just "go to sleep". I have clicked on a > link or pasted a url in the address bar and it is doing > nothing. It displays "STOPPED" in the status bar and > will

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread Micha
On Wed, 6 Feb 2008 19:11:32 - marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Steve Lamb said... > > After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it > > seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really > > chugging on dealing with my document which was a me

Re: mutt's IMAP support

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> I am now seeing that mutt has a "trash" option which moves mail to a >> designated trash folder instead of deleting from the server. I don't use >> that, though. (Coincidentally, it appears to be buggy: #448241.) > > And it is this that I was referring to

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 06/02/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > However, I vehemently disagree that email should be ascii. This is > > But that's how the US maintains it's hegemony over the Internet... > > Well, that and the fact that (compared to "calligraphic", > pictographic & hieroglyphic languag

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-07 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 06/02/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use display_filter=bidiv - that is, pipe the message through bidiv > before displaying it. > > Editing Hebrew requires some adjustments in vim (or whatever editor you > use) to display "reversed". > Thanks, Tzafir. Mind sharing those V

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread Emre Sahin
marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Steve Lamb said... >> After you suggested using AbiWord I gave it a whirl. At first glance it >> seemed to work nicely but after 2-3 times I noticed that it was really >> chugging on dealing with my document which was a mere 25 pages of prose >> so far. Unl

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

2008-02-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu February 7 2008 01:14:40 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Yes. :) It's just that the rules for a package to move from unstable to > testing are quite tough. Which they should be, because every transition > to testing might be the last one for a package before the release. This is particularly a probl

CVS: how to restore a deleted directory

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Sabatini
Hi all, if I am in a directory managed by CVS and I do: rm FILE then cvs up will download the file. But if I do instead: rm -rf DIR cvs up won't download again the removed directory. Same problem seems to occurr when in a new CVS version new dir are added, cvs up doesn't seem to downlad them.

Re: CVS: how to restore a deleted directory

2008-02-07 Thread Stefano Sabatini
On date Thursday 2008-02-07 10:31:40 +0100, Stefano Sabatini wrote: > Hi all, > > if I am in a directory managed by CVS and I do: > > rm FILE > then cvs up will download the file. > > But if I do instead: > rm -rf DIR > cvs up > > won't download again the removed directory. > > Same problem se

Release: KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Compuintg Geeks (v1.0)

2008-02-07 Thread Kuniyasu Suzaki
Dear, We released KNOPPIX5.1.1 for Trusted Computing Geeks (v1.0). http://unit.aist.go.jp/itri/knoppix/index-en.html It includes trusted computing software based on TPM(Trusted Platform Module). Debian packages on KNOPPIX is validated by Remote Attestation. OpenPlatformTrustServices is includ

Re: mutt's IMAP support

2008-02-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Jochen Schulz wrote: I am now seeing that mutt has a "trash" option which moves mail to a designated trash folder instead of deleting from the server. I don't use that, though. (Coincidentally, it appears to be buggy: #448241.) And it is this that I was referring to since it is what matches

Re: maturedebs: sightly stable unstable

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Paul Dwerryhouse: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 01:48:14PM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Gentlemen, why not let the others get cut on the cutting edge of >> Debian sid whilst we relax and wait oh, say 72 hours for the packages >> we want to stabilize? Slightly stable unstable, but not too stable a

mutt's IMAP support (was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > The main problem that I saw is that on delete operations it does > something that is insanely slower than TBird. For example, on TBird I > can mark 25 messages as deleted, hit delete, and within about a second > they are in the trash folder. Deletion in

Re: vim + LaTeX (Was: What am I missing without mutt?)

2008-02-07 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 06 Feb 2008, marc wrote: > Steve Lamb said... > > s. keeling wrote: > > > Just curious, but what's wrong with breaking it up by chapters and > > > figuring out how to merge it all together later? "lpr chap*" too much > > > to remember? > > > > Now email that ream of paper. > > Scanner? >

Re: Problems with apache2 and charsets

2008-02-07 Thread Carles Pagès
On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 12:36:54AM +0100, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > Le Wednesday 06 February 2008 23:45:34 Carles Pagès, vous avez écrit : > > Hello, > > > > My apache seems to ignore the charset meta data in the html files, so > > iso-8859-1 htmls are not properly displayed. If I store them in utf-