Re: strange chars in xterm (etc)

2008-05-20 Thread Francis Earl
On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:33:17 michael wrote: > On Tue, 2008-05-20 at 04:23 -0700, Francis Earl wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > > > If I run > > > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > or > > > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PR

Re: strange chars in xterm

2008-05-20 Thread Francis Earl
What version of Debian is this? Why aren't you using UTF8? Try enabled UTF8 and see if the characters are still strange. On Tuesday 20 May 2008 4:01:49 michael wrote: > If I run > xterm -e ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > or > gnome-terminal -x ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] > from my Debian box "rat", then I ge

Re: apt-get dist-upgrade failure

2008-05-16 Thread Francis Earl
On Friday 16 May 2008 1:39:35 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/16/08 14:51, Manu Hack wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I decided to upgrade my etch box to lenny/sid but an apt-get > > dist-upgrade got stuck. Please let me know what could be done here. > > > > Thanks a lot. It says to try 'apt-get -f install'. Ha

Re: Debian or Ubuntu?

2008-05-15 Thread Francis Earl
On Thursday 15 May 2008 10:54:29 Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Saturday 10 May 2008 3:22 am, Stephen D'Souza wrote: > > > I definitely recommend Debian Etch for one reason. Debian makes > > > releases less often than Ubuntu. That means I do not need to go and > > > update my machines every 6 mont