Re: date is wrong

David Roguin wrote: real date should be Wed Feb 09:32 art 2012 Anyone else experienced something like that? I've tried to manually set the time via gnome settings but nothing happened. The following should sync and set your hardware clock: sudo apt-get install rdate sudo rdate -s timeserver.e

Re: ia64 and i386

Mathieu Malaterre wrote: amd64 is possible. Since from amd64 you can still run x86 code ... but not the other way around. Is there a drawback when installing an amd64 kernel ? 32 bits is likely to play more video codecs than 64 bits, by virtue of the w64codecs package lacking a bit. And to the

Re: How to stop a message which requires the Enter key

Ken Heard wrote: The result was disaster. When I pushed the SOL start button it took I wouldn't say that it was a disaster, a disaster would have been if one of your partitions or disk(s) was wiped clean. :-) Right now you're merely being bothered by an annoying boot process. longer than

Re: Help About Squeeze

Markus Neviadomski wrote: of the broken disk to a new disk. On the new one, you can run fsck without pain or use one of the recovery tools on ultimate boot cd. dd is your friend: dd if=/dev/sdxx of=disk.image bs=250M I always had good luck using that tool to recover bad disks and/or transfer

Re: How to boot netinst CD from Toshiba Satellite 650?

Jeroen van Aart wrote: Charles Blair wrote: Pressing F2 at the beginning gives me a menu, but I didn't Bonus question: I should be using AMD-64 netinst, right? Looks like that laptop has a 64 bits CPU. You can use both 32 and 64 Actually if you use the laptop for a l

Re: Help About Squeeze

Markus Neviadomski wrote: Thats sound like a fake, sorry. A single-core CPU with a some piece of RAM as file server for 200 users? No... I think a 2800 Sempron will have no trouble serving files, even to 200 people. Unless they all simultaneously started copying 10+ GB of data around on the s

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

Lisi wrote: It is list policy not to send private replies to list mail. And I thought that it was rude of you to email me privately, not to mention unpleasant. What you say is untrue. The code of conduct clearly states the following: http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct "Do not

Re: Upgrade to squeeze some menu stock items disappeared

Liam O'Toole wrote: Menu icons are disabled by default in recent GNOME releases. Check the value of the gconf key /desktop/gnome/interface/menus_have_icons. Thank you for pointing out that key. I enabled it which fixed the issue. I remember having searched the gconf-editor but must have overlo

Re: Fwd: Re: [OT] Re: Defending yourself

Lisi wrote: Putting this back on list. This was a private email. It was not meant to be sent to the list. I would think it's generally accepted that it's rather rude to do so. -- http://goldmark.org/jeff/stupid-disclaimers/ http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/plural-of-virus.html -- To UNSUBSC

Re: How to boot netinst CD from Toshiba Satellite 650?

Charles Blair wrote: Pressing F2 at the beginning gives me a menu, but I didn't see anything for booting from the CD/DVD drive. Did you try F12? Additionally if you can go into the bios then select the dvd/cd drive to be the first disk to boot from. Bonus question: I should be using A

Re: Defending yourself

John Hasler wrote: Jeroen writes: I am curious if discussing list policy is on topic. See I appreciate the suggestion and I took the time to read the various documents found. However I fear that my ideas about spam fighting and MTAs in general (an

Re: Defending yourself

shawn wilson wrote: LOL. I would've tried to be a bit more graceful but the thought did cross my mind. The reply you are replying to didn't strike me as helpful or constructive. Neither does a LOL style reply, but I digress. BTW, sense we're talking "mailing list policy" and NOT debian (or

Re: Defending yourself

Ron Johnson wrote: Not forgotten, but a consequence of the policy decision to let Debian lists be open. I question the wisdom of that decision. There are ways to, on the one hand not hinder openness much at all and on the other hand prevent spam from getting through to the list. The impact

Re: Defending yourself

Tom Furie wrote: Ahem, don't you mean Jeroen? Sorry, couldn't resist. Yeah me, thanks. :-) Thing is, normally I see little to no spam from a mailing list. That's because they're managed in such a way spam hasn't got a chance of getting through. The other thing is, it's not so much about me

Re: Solicitors Outsourcing Association: the essential competitive advantage

The SOA wrote: Having trouble reading this email? Click here to view it in your web browser. This must be the most spam infested mailing list I have subscribed to, and I am only subscribed for half a day, 3 or 4 spam emails in about 8 hours. Has this list list been forgotten by its maintainer

Upgrade to squeeze some menu stock items disappeared

After I upgraded from lenny to squeeze applets as well as the default gnome menus in the panel don't show (some) stock items anymore. I am talking about things suchs as http://developer.gnome.org/gtk/2.24/gtk-Stock-Items.html#GTK-STOCK-REFRESH:CAPS This actually also appears to happen with a v