Re: Replying to list

2006-06-23 Thread chris roddy
Let's kick it up a notch. cmr Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: Juha Tuuna wrote: On Wednesday, 21. June 2006 15:55, Peter Hillier-Brook wrote: If it's not an FAQ, why doesn't this list use the "Reply-to" field in the address headers? A couple of times recently I've hit Reply and sent a response t

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread chris roddy
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I want to kill off this whole screwed up social security system, > and if that means I pay SS for my parents, then don't get any when I > retire, I'm honestly okay with that. Good. 'Cause that's how it's gonna be. cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-28 Thread chris roddy
Magnus Therning wrote: > - Nautilus, and yes, I use the spatial layout which probably means I'm >in minority among Gnomistas. I too prefer the spatial Nautilus. With my left hand riding the shift key and right hand on the mouse, it's as fast as using the shell for many common tasks. cmr

Re: Canon Ixus 55 on GNU/Linux?

2006-04-28 Thread chris roddy
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: >> On 2006-04-28, Dmitri Minaev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Recent Canons usually use a special protocol, called PTP (picture >>> transfer protocol) to communicate with a computer. AFAIK, this is also >>> true for Ixus 55. Install gphoto2 to download pic

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Mike McCarty wrote: > Umm, on my system, I do the same thing, using GNOME. > Is K3b part of KDE? I wasn't aware of that. If so, then how come I > can use it with GNOME? I thought KDE and GNOME were simple managers > which can invoke any number of applications. > > I've never used the GNOME CDCREATO

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Mike McCarty wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Mike McCarty wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > >> I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, >> because I

Re: What is the status of Xorg 7.0?

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Jan Brons wrote: > I am wondering if the Xorg 7.0 update problems are solved. I am using > Sid AMD64 and just want to do a apt-update but are mainly waiting for > most of the Xorg problems are solved. If I do an update I see for > example that xserver-common 6.9 xfree86-common and xprint are going

Re: Social Contract WAS: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Mike McCarty wrote: > I don't want to "change the social order" or "be > the downfall of capitalism", or "kill MicroSoft" or any of > the other "social goals" so often associated with Linux. It sounds like you have gravely misunderstood the debian social contract, or you have not read it. cmr

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Wulfy wrote: > Hmm... I know a little about midi, but not much. Since I'm able to > play it with some application, I should think it would be possible > with any... I have the same problem with the Control Centre... I've > read cryptic mentions of "sound fonts" but have never been able to > fin

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Steve Lamb wrote: > A little more pragmatism and a little less haughty zealotry. > so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your show has gotten tiresome. cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-24 Thread chris roddy
Rick Friedman wrote: > Currently, I run Debian Sid with two different partitions: / & /home. Each > partition is an ext3 filesystem. I am thinking of changing filesystems (just > to satisfy my curiosity). My system is a typical home user's system. > > I would like to hear from others their opini

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread chris roddy
Attila Horvath wrote: What is the difference between UBUNTU and DEBIAN installations/distributions? Debian is a free operating system almost always used with the Linux kernel, available on x86, m68k, sparc, alpha, ppc, arm, mips, hppa, ia64, s390, and (in development) amd64 and ppc64 hardwar

Re: Cameras.

2006-04-14 Thread chris roddy
Mitja Podreka wrote: > I have long and pleasing experience with Canon PowerShot A60/70/80 > series and all I can say that they are very good cameras, with lots of > functions and functionalities. The good point of Canon is that they > know how to make high-end professional cameras and they are usin

Re: SATA RAID 0 in Debian

2006-04-14 Thread chris roddy
Michael Schurter wrote: > Michael Schurter wrote: >> I've never worked with SATA RAID's in Debian (or Linux in general), >> so I'm sorry if this is a stupid question. > > Let me rephrase: how do I setup SATA RAID 0 in Debian? Were these set up using a hardware RAID controller? You may need to plu

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THEREA MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-13 Thread chris roddy
Kent West wrote: > It's a person who sends a reply to email by putting their response at the top > of the material to which they're responding. Shouldn't that be "responce" ? cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: gpodder 0.7

2006-04-11 Thread chris roddy
j j wrote: > I am getting this error durring installation/upgrade: > > dpkg: error processing gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gpodder/SimpleGladeApp.py ', which is also > in package python2.3-gpodder gpodder does not appear to be a part

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread chris roddy
Hodgins Family wrote: > Note - Originally the spelling of 'colour' without a U was a > sanctioned change of the Spelling Reformist Movement, which was not > exculsively accepted by Americans, but was much more popular in the US > than it was in England. Henceforth, when the movement died out, its >

Re: OS and file system encryption

2006-04-10 Thread chris roddy
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Jochen Schulz: > >> Tigran Varosyan: >> >>> I have read the Linux has software available that can encrypt the OS and the >>> file system to a degree that even with physical access to the HD, the data >>> cannot be extracted. I was told that this slows the systems down

Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

2006-04-08 Thread chris roddy
Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: > Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/" > partition)? > > I have installed Debian 3.1 with a separate "/boot" partition. I intend > installing Ubuntu 5.10 . Should I share the "/boot" partition between Debian > and Ubuntu? > There are

Re: Multi server package management

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Roddy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Simon wrote: >> Hi There, We are gathering quite a few debian servers now and have >> just started testing a debian xen server, thus giving us more debian >> servers :). Is there anything out there to manage the packages on all >> these servers? (kind of like how redhat

Re: PUHHLLLEEEEZZZE LOOK AT THESE RETARDED NAMES OF EXE's YOU DEBIANPACKAGEDUDES

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Roddy
Kent West wrote: > Hmm: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> aptitude show crossfire > E: Unable to locate package crossfire > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> aptitude show GSnes9x > E: Unable to locate package GSnes9x > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/westk:> aptitude show gtkBitchX > E: Unable to locate

Re: disableing gnome destop background?

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Roddy
Britton Kerin wrote: > I would like to be able to display pictures for my desktop background, > and change them every so often. It seems that gnome doesn't do this, > so I though I'd just do it from a script with xsetbg, but I think for > this to work I need to somehow tell gnome to not do anythin

Re: No DVD download

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Roddy
Wackojacko wrote: > Frank Lanitz wrote: >> Am Freitag 07 April 2006 16:01 schrieb steef: >>> Steve McIntyre wrote: http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#small-dvd >>> the content of this link is in dutch! my native tongue. >> >> Well, I don't think so. I've got this page in german ;) >> Greetings

Re: dune2 on debian

2006-04-07 Thread Chris Roddy
Frank Lanitz wrote: > Am Freitag 07 April 2006 10:01 schrieb Lubos Vrbka: >> is there any way how to play good old dune2 (by westwood) and maybe >> other dos games on debian? > > There is a big number of software, that emulates DOS or other "former" > systems. Maybe you look at dosemu or dosbox.

Re: resizing swap partition

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Roddy
Ron Johnson wrote: > If you are using a 2.6 kernel, then you can also use a swap *file*. > "man mkswap" tells you how to set it up. Oh! I'd forgotten about that. But I didn't know that was new with 2.6. I could swear I've used a swap file on 2.4. Maybe I'm imagining it, though. cmr -- To UN

Re: resizing swap partition

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Roddy
uch as I'd want to run on these systems. I guess I'll leave well enough alone :-) cmr Brian Schrock wrote: > On Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:13, Chris Roddy wrote: >> Resizing the data partitions on these systems to make room for a larger >> swap space would present only a

resizing swap partition

2006-04-04 Thread Chris Roddy
I've recently doubled the memory in two of my systems. Each one previously had a swap partition configured that was, in accordance with a "rule of thumb" whose origins I've forgotten, exactly two times the size of the physical memory in the system. Resizing the data partitions on these systems to

Re: Netlimiter liike tool

2006-03-24 Thread Chris Roddy
indeed you can. trickle has several options for adjusting the detection window and smoothing behavior. honestly it seems to me that this train-wreck has resulted from a poorly phrased question. "is there a netlimiter-like tool in debian" is already proposing the solution. it seems to me that the q

environment for viewing/creating ANSI art?

2006-03-02 Thread Chris Roddy
Hi -- I would like to set up an environment on my Debian system that is suitable for viewing and creating ANSI art, specifically the sort that was popular on bulletin board systems in the 90's. Based on what I could find on Google, these are usually intended for the so-called "extended ASCII" 8-b

Re: OT - Programming Languages w/o English Syntax

2003-10-17 Thread Chris Roddy
Don Werve wrote: Actually, English grammar is a nightmare to behold; there is no consistent method of handling verb conjugations, and the structure of a sentence is integral to its meaning; you can't just randomly move words around in an English sentence and expect things to work. The way a comp

woody, alsa 0.9.6: snd_ctl_open fails?

2003-08-27 Thread Chris Roddy
I'm trying (without success) to get ALSA version 0.9.6 to work in woody using kernel 2.4.18-bf2.4. I built alsa-driver and alsa-lib from the sources provided by alsa-project.org; I built them against the kernel-headers-bf2.4 package. both compiled and installed without complaint. I am using an