Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)

2014-10-14 Thread Olav Vitters
'm guessing you'll have a good chance to ensure that those bugs are looked at and maybe exceptions made if need be. However, if your argument is that "systemd against the users' will", or that you have no influence. Then 1) whatever, I'd argue the opposite and 2) y

Re: OT: flac splitting according to .cue file.

2011-11-24 Thread Olav Lavell
: $ bchunk -w 1.bin 1.cue track.wav Then of course I would encode the tracks, tag them, rename them. -- Olav Lavell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Lavell
d in the gsettings "registry". Thank you for your continued interest. -- Olav Lavell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/860dce19637f3b5f49eca48e3e37b...@freeict.nl

Re: Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-11 Thread Olav Lavell
On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:42:56 + (UTC), Camaleón wrote: On Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:06:13 +0100, Olav Lavell wrote: I decided not to resist futilely and to go along with the recent Gnome upgrade in Wheezy. So now I can't type anymore :( Longer version: I depend on the "International

Dead keys in Gnome3/Shell?

2011-11-10 Thread Olav Lavell
to English as well. Also, is there an alternative for the ugly but trusty keyboard switcher panel applet we used to have in old Gnome? Thank you. -- Olav Lavell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact li

More USB install-images please!

2011-09-26 Thread Jan Olav Agle
I sometimes install Debian on machines belonging to family and friends. On my latest install I tried the boot.img.gz on an USB-stick. It failed halfway trough, complaining about a missing suitable ISO-image. Not wasting time, I dd'ed the netinstall iso onto the stick and installed. As far as I kno

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Olav Lavell
ctively researched. Also, http://www.openscience.org/ may be of some interest for Nayyar. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Help with Linux command

2004-12-31 Thread Olav
ome needs to be swapped. > > just edit /etc/fstab and swap it in there ( 2nd column ) > > (as root) > umount /home > umount /usr > mount -av > > and you should be back in biz Right, but do not forget to move the data. > or do it the super hard way and reboot, powe

Re: PDF Form Editing.

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
pect everyone to have Acrobat on their computers. > Did you google the question? I answered it a while ago: > http://groups.google.com.au/groups?hl=en&lr=&selm=2Ja8H-5OX-29%40gated-at.bofh.it Fine solution, but seemingly for a totally different problem. Sorry! :) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

System will not reboot

2004-12-30 Thread Olav
do anything critical just yet. So, what would you do? :) (apart from waiting a few days, drive up there and reinstall from scratch) Can I force Sarge to rescan all hardware? What would be clever diagnostics in this case? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Olav
uted with Gnome 2.8 and is has exactly that feature that you describe. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Windows vs Linux Functionality?

2004-12-26 Thread Olav
th? Thanks. > > Well, Linux is certainly less user friendly Wrong, but that has been addressed already. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Using xvncviewer to talk to Windows remote desktop?

2004-11-24 Thread Olav
You either need vncserver installed on the Windows desktop, > or you need to use rdesktop instead of xvncviewer on the Linux box. Correct. And a neat Gnome frontend for both rdesktop and vnc-viewer would be tsclient (available in testing). Installing it will also pull in rdesktop. -- Met vriende

RE: Linux on an old machine

2004-11-23 Thread Olav
o apt-get install x-window-system after installing just a basic system and you get the bare minimum (X plus twm). Here are two links about installing an older version of RedHat. Maybe of some use. <http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/toshiba.html> -- Met vriendelijke groeten / kind regard

Re: Will debian grow and stay

2004-11-17 Thread Olav
nate (some of) the time of their developers (or hire contractors) to contribute to the free software that they are using in their daily operations. For example, many contributions to Debian have come from employees of ISP's, who were improving the platform on which they built their busin

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-09 Thread Olav
n't trust it for my organization's production servers. > > I can't believe that Other Distros (which release on semi-annual > schedules) have fewer bugs than how many that testing has at any > one moment. Perhaps we shouldn't trust those other distros for pr

Re: compaq armada m700

2004-10-18 Thread Olav
r the display and i'm using those reported by knoppix > > but i'm not so sure they are the right one. > > G. So tell us the model of the laptop and/or monitor, and tell us > why you are not sure it is right. I think it's a Compaq Armada M700. Could be wrong, tho :)

Re: Help abt playing file over MODEM

2004-10-11 Thread Olav
t; > > > So, can u help me ... > > I am developing my project using J2se Are you required to use Java? For what you want, you may want to look at these solutions: <http://bayonne.sourceforge.net/> <http://www.asterisk.org/> <http://alpha.greenie.net/vgetty/> &

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav Lavell
), No you're correct. > so IMHO not a good idea to use for home... I think it's not much of an issue if the computer is used mainly by one person, and if he is the owner of the mount point what could go wrong? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FAT32 as mount for /home?

2004-10-08 Thread Olav
know what to do with them! Still your stuff would be easily available from Linux. Of course, "My Documents" could be a separate partition from the Windows system partition too. -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Help

2004-10-03 Thread Olav Sindre Vik Støylen
Hi :) I've just installed Debian on my computer laptop, but the screen size is disapointingly small.. What can i do, i've searched all over the web for drivers, but cannot find anything. I have a "Standard PCI graphic card". On advanced, i thank you. Olav Sindre

Re: Is there a stable mail client for linux?

2004-10-01 Thread Olav
a bit like the route my mail took :) Nowadays I store all my mail in an IMAP server. The server does not give a damn about which client I use to read or send mail. Could as well be Pine, Squirrelmail or (ahem) one of the evil Outlooks. But I prefer Evolution. -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Olav Lavell
at all. Which is fine by me, because I like to store RealAudio and RealVideo streams in their native formats: they're smaller than almost anything else and readily usable with mplayer. Great for having an archive of radio shows for example. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSC

Re: Using mplayer save RealMedia audio in a sensible format?

2004-09-30 Thread Olav Lavell
with your favorite converter -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: keeping woody

2004-09-28 Thread Olav Lavell
ble release. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Advice needed to speed up very slow machine

2004-09-26 Thread Olav Lavell
l has a couple of those chips lying around somewhere, gathering dust. But I would never pay more for them than an absolutely symbolic price. Or like, "if I buy a pack of CDRs you give me the SIMMs for free, right?" > Thanks for any suggestion you might make... > > Don -- Me

Re: Samba: is there a "findsmb" command?

2004-09-15 Thread Olav
etcat.org/software/nbtscan.html>. It has several output options that are quite useful in scripts. -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is it possible to access an iMac over LAN from Debian ?

2004-09-15 Thread Olav
solution in it's own right. It does offer the bonus of Windows compatability though. If someone would come along with a Windows laptop, they would just need to plug it into the LAN network, type in a password and they will be happy. For me, Samba is about convenience. -- Olav <[EMA

Re: exim port

2004-09-14 Thread Olav Lavell
l to you on a port other than 25? Can't be done I guess. -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Sarge install hangs on ide-cd detection?

2004-09-13 Thread Olav
st? Newer version? This one I downloaded only a week ago. Or do I in fact have a cdrom drive that is not compatible with 2.6? TIA -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: bind in jail?

2004-09-13 Thread Olav
Op ma 13-09-2004, om 07:03 schreef Paolo Alexis Falcone: > On Mon, 13 Sep 2004 05:42:55 +0200, Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Do most people who run bind or bind9 on Debian, recompile the program to > > run in a chroot environment ("jail")? Or perhaps, shou

Re: What happens after I install Sarge

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
Op ma 13-09-2004, om 05:46 schreef John Hasler: > Olav writes: > > Do I then change "testing" to "stable" in sources.list and will it be > > reasonable to expect that everything will continue to work from that > > point? > > Replace "testing&qu

bind in jail?

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
e...) TIA -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What happens after I install Sarge

2004-09-12 Thread Olav
will take place in a couple of weeks now, right? TIA -- Olav <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Remove unrequired dependencies

2004-09-12 Thread Olav Lavell
at the deborphan utility, which is installable by apt-get install deborphan -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

LILO

2003-12-05 Thread Hans Olav Eggestad
I tried to install debian (v3.0) on my laptop, but LILO did not work. Are there any alternatives? (like GRUB (which do work on my laptop (RedHat))) -- ## Hans Olav Eggestad Centre for Soil and

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Okay, learning every day :) Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:26 schreef John Hasler: > Olav Lavell writes: > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just one. > > Exim isn't part of the Debian base. Don't confuse 'base' with 'standard'

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 21-10-2003, om 19:13 schreef Roberto Sanchez: > Olav Lavell wrote: > > >>The Debian base system is too much? > > > > Isn't it? > > > > Why would one ever install Exim in a _base_ system? To name just > > one. > > I believe beca

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-21 Thread Olav Lavell
Op di 21-10-2003, om 01:25 schreef John Hasler: > Olav Lavell writes: > > Denbian still installs too much stuff I did not ask for. It's not a > > "minimal" distribution > > The Debian base system is too much? Isn't it? Why would one ever install Exim in

Re: No X configuration offered during install of Woody (30r1)

2003-10-20 Thread Olav Lavell
On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > This is one of the things I love about debian -- it doesn't make any > assumptions about what you want on your machine. It installs the very > basics necessary to run the OS and update your packages, and then you > can choose what to add to your set

Re: speedy spam

2003-10-14 Thread Olav Lavell
me mailing list like debian-user is of course, simply to subscribe and wait for the addresses to flow in. I just think there's nothing you can do on the mailing list level, every one should just take care of their own defences :( -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: windows NT

2003-10-11 Thread Olav Lavell
t; stupidity. Ah. Then think about what you just did. Why punch someone on the nose who is maybe just setting his/her first steps into the world of Debian? Should we not want to encourage & educate people like that, rather than scare them off? > The world doesn't need more morons. Coul

Re: Weather Stations

2003-10-11 Thread Olav Lavell
Op za 11-10-2003, om 04:51 schreef Arnt Karlsen: > ..http://www.ibutton.com/weather/ ? Found it from > http://www.google.com/search?q=linux+PC+%22weather+station+sensors%22 Or perhaps even <http://www.wunderground.com/weatherstation/index.asp>? -- Met vriendelijke groet, Ol

Re: MS mail bombs

2003-09-22 Thread Olav Lavell
ble from an ISP point of view, since after all they do have to put the technology in place which does not come gratis either. But that does not make it any more satifactory from the consumer point of view. Customers need to pay more again, only because of the sh*t that Microsoft has thrown upon the

procmail "solution" against swen

2003-09-22 Thread Olav Lavell
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Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system

2003-09-18 Thread Olav Lavell
Google :) <http://www.microwerks.net/%7Ehugo/> <http://www.mondorescue.org/docs/1.6x-howto/quickstart.html> -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Creating an diskimage of a debian system

2003-09-18 Thread Olav Lavell
itions only - but has some nice features too. I think every OS hacker/tinkerer/engineer who is dealing with both Linux and Windows systems needs both programs in his/her toolbox. > Thank you. > > Peace. Yeah ;) -- Met vriendelijke groet, Olav. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL