Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:15:34AM +0800, Dan Jacobson wrote: > After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new > thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user Google's pickup on some groups isn't great.

Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Dan Jacobson wrote: > After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new > thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user > > Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search > isn't as good yet. looks like the

disappearing wallpaper

2003-10-31 Thread csj
It's not a big thing but my wallpaper disappeared after I "upgraded" to Gnome 2.4. I'm not using Gnome proper but simply running the "gnome-settings-daemon" as part of my fluxbox GDM session file: #!/bin/sh # # /etc/gdm/Sessions/fluxbox export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" gnome-settings-daemon & wmCalCloc

Re: Looking for a better info-file viewer

2003-10-31 Thread csj
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 09:34:43 -0800, Tom wrote: > > God, I hate trying to read info documents. I tried pinfo: at > least I could navigate ok, but I still feel overwhelmed by the > # of links each page has. > > "Info" is such a generic term I'm having trouble searching for > alternatives. What ar

Fighting Spam with procmail

2003-10-31 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, is there an easy way to pass an email message again through a procmail such that particularly created rules can be verified easily? I read sth about formail/procmail, however, have not yet seen the right way to do. From man formail: formail +1 -ds procmail What I would like to do

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread Johannes Zarl
> > I think you got Colin wrong there (Colin please correct me if *I* got > > you=20 wrong:) . Colin just gave an example how easy it is to exploit > > the=20 sudo-privilege for using dpkg. > > Ah, shoot, you're right. I totally glossed over the sudo example he > suggested. I blame work; it total

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Haines Brown wrote: > > each user has a session and a session key. this key is used to > > authenticate yourself to the Xserver. Root as a key and each user > > does. > > Yes, that makes sense. > > > so when you login as user and then switch to root, it tried to use your > >

Re: printing with lpd to remote printer

2003-10-31 Thread Rudy Gevaert
Hi Alvin, On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 03:44:09PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > when printing to the remote printer, it does all the filtering > not the "lp" local print server > > all your filtering is done on :rp: ( remoteprinter ) > and :rm: which i assume you need to change its name to the real ip# >

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > - Original Message - > From: "Johann Koenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2003 18:32 > Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) > I will keep your email for the time when and if I am able to get w

Re: X desktop settings

2003-10-31 Thread cr
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 18:48, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 04:58:05AM +1300, cr wrote: > > Can anyone confirm this - are *all* the X desktop settings kept in the > > /home/ directory? > > You mean your desktop environment, like Gnome or KDE? Yeah, all your > user-specific settings ar

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread cr
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 13:07, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > I know the finance people I have worked with love excel and are proficient > at using it, for them it is a totally useful tool. > The researchers here all us excel and it is very useful and easy to be to > wite vba functions and have them centrali

Re: Horizontal Sync

2003-10-31 Thread cr
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 23:42, Tom Hinkley wrote: > /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 > > i need to specify my HorizSync in the above configuration file so that i > can have the resolution 1024x768. I am runiing debian linux version 3.0 > (woody). I have a Blade T64 AGP graphics card installed and working with > K

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Thu, 2003-10-30 at 18:09, Paul Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 11:18:56AM -0600, Ray wrote: > > if you heard there was a movie/game/tech that had marketing running > > for 3 years before release, wouldn't that be a sign of major sucka

Re: [OT] deleting pictures from digital camera via computer?

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: > Hi all, > I am using a Nikon CoolPix 3100 digital camera. It is pretty easy to set > up in Debian unstable. It doesn't seem to be supported by gphoto2 or > gtkam, but one can mount it as a USB mass storage device after installing > hotplug, follow

Re: Simple little basic config questions

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 15:52 GMT, Kent West penned: > > I echo Colin's thought. Forget about "su" and use "sudo". It takes an > > extra 5 keystrokes per command, but it "just works", and in my opinion > > is better than forgetting you're root and d

Re: xkbmap trouble... :-(

2003-10-31 Thread Tom
* [30/10/2003 16:27] Tom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Less than a week ago, my keyboard functioned quite properly. I have a > Belgian azerty-layout, and there were only minor problems. A backslash, > which should be AltGr + the key with < and > could only be typed by > using AltGr + ). Other than that,

Re: How to set up multilingual OO including arabic?

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Johannes Graumann wrote: > Hello, > > I asked this before on the openoffice mailing list and those people told > me to go asking in a debian specific forum, which let me to repost to > the [EMAIL PROTECTED] list, but that seems to be mainly > a developers list ... so here it

Re: Linux Professional Institute Exam (with DPKG) !!!

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Andy Firman wrote: > Hi, > > Today I went to sign up for the Level 1 exams and was > surprised to see that there is now a choice between > RPM and DPKG. I did a quick search for news on this and > found this post by the Debian project leader: > > http://lists.debian.org/deb

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, L.F. wrote: > First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have > OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I > understand what you mena by "They use the space bar and not the tab". In > Windows I had everything in just one fil

Re: Multiple postgresql packages proposed

2003-10-31 Thread Andrew McMillan
On Wed, 2003-10-29 at 13:19, Oliver Elphick wrote: > I'm currently considering whether and how to have multiple versions of > the PostgreSQL packages installed at once. > > This is to get round problems with upgrading major versions, and to > allow people to have multiple database clusters, possib

RE: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstanding. > > > > Excel is pretty neat and I wish there was a DOC Edit clo

Re: fetchyahoo and maildir

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Micha Feigin wrote: > Is there a way to use the fetchyahoo program with maildirs? > It seems that using the pipe option to exim or sendmail may work but I > wasn't sure. > > -- > Micha Feigin > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a

Bye & thanx Debian

2003-10-31 Thread Haralambos Geortgilakis
Hi yall, a quick note to say bye & thanx to Debianista's. I have been testing out FreeBSD 5.1 & like it & am now using it as my main OS. A special thanx to Karsten M. Self & Rob Weir; you guys do wonders on this list! :-) *BFN* Greek Geek :-) The surest way to corrupt a youth is to in

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread kmark+debian
On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003 at 22:33 GMT, Tom penned: > > > > When I worked at Microsoft there was some discussion: far and away the > > most common use-case for Excel is entering a few rows and columns of > > data and making a chart. But nobody uses Micr

Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Marco d'Itri
On Oct 31, Dan Jacobson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new >thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user The listserver unsubscribed the gateway. Again. I'll fix it, thank you for your report. -- ciao, | M

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Haines Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 08:27 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 > > Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what > > driver are you using? If yo

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Haines Brown
> On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:26:40AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > > Is anyone running the subject video card on the subject kernel. If so what > > driver are you using? If you know where can I get a copy of your driver? > > Unfortunately, GeForce4 cards won't work with the "nv" driver included > with

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Stephen Cormier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 11:16 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start > Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > >>Current Subject getting a working

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 05:41:33AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > Rob Weir wrote: > > 3) get the non-free binary-only nvidia drivers. The "nvidia-glx-src" > >and "nvidia-kernel-src" packages make this rather easy. This is only > >an option on x86, however. > > Rob, I follow you on points 1

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Haines Brown
> Thanks you Haines. I have downloaded all the required stuff and > only need to know where to put it to install. I hope no one says it > dosent matter. That isnt the question. Where do I put the header > files? Where to put the driver files? > Sincere Thanks for your help; > Hoyt It _really_

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Richard Lyons
On Friday 31 October 2003 09:40, cr wrote: [...] > GWBasic [...] > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. Oh... the cosy, warm nostalgia of it... edlin and assembly language... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
Hey all, I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM, 1 Gig disk space). I've noticed that some processes stop overnight. Apache, mandb,

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread Dani
On Tue, 2003-10-28 at 00:51, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Speaking for myself only. I have to make do with whatever is > provided. I am trying to learn to speak debian but it is tough > when words have meanings that arnt in the dic. see there is one I > know its dictionary but to save time or whatever we

Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread A. Loonstra
For the second time during our nightly backup our kernel crashes completely. Since this is a production machine this cannot be tolerated. But the oops message is not saved anywhere. The kernel crashes when an amanda server connects to this machine and starts the backup. After about 1.6 GB of backin

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread A. Loonstra
A. Loonstra wrote: [snip original message] ksymoops says: Warning (expand_objects): object /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-686-smp/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o for module ext2 has changed since load Warning (expand_objects): object /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-686-smp/kernel/drivers/ide/ide-disk.o for module ide-disk

Re: Incremental CDR backups -- SOLVED

2003-10-31 Thread lorian
Hello Paul, > # Make image > mkisofs -r -o /tmp/cdimage /home/paulf/cdrom > # Test image > mount /tmp/cdimage -r -t iso9660 -o loop /cdrom > mc /cdrom To do a more thourough and completely automatic check, I suggest you say 'diff -rq /cdrom /home/paulf/cdrom'. This will, however, yield

Re: phonetic symbols

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "L.F." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 15:36 Subject: phonetic symbols First of all thanks to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his comments. I have OpenOffice 1.1.0; it is probably the latest version.I am not sure whether I un

Re: [debian-user] Mplayer Problem

2003-10-31 Thread Rüdiger Kuhlmann
>--[Stefan Seifert]--<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The problem is fullscreen doesn't work probably when I switch to > fullscreen the "size" of the image doesn't resize to fit the whole > screen. So a big black border is around the image of the film. You're using the X11 driver, which can't resize. You

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 07:39, A. Loonstra wrote: > A. Loonstra wrote: > [snip original message] > > ksymoops says: > Warning (expand_objects): object > /lib/modules/2.4.18-1-686-smp/kernel/fs/ext2/ext2.o for module ext2 has > changed since load > Warning (expand_objects): object > /lib/modules/2

Re: tasksel

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 10:49, Ravi Gehlot wrote: > I've been trying to get tasksel to work after a fresh installation but it > doesn't work, instead I get a question like "have you upgraded packages" ? > What is going on? > Just run: base-config. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] REMEMBER ED CURRY! h

blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
Hey all, I've got a Debian Stable box up and running with Apache, a DSL connection, and DynDNS pointing in. I'm interested in putting up a weblog, but it would need to be a very light weblog in terms of system resources as my PC kinda sorta has no resources ;-) Any recommendations o

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Eberhardt
Do a "ps -A" or, if you know the process, you can trim that down like: "ps -A | grep apache" to kick it off again: "/etc/init.d/apache start" if you look in /etc/init.d you can get the names for the other processes. Matt - Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAI

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread Matt Eberhardt
Did you check out freshmeat? http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=weblog§ion=projects you will probably need to install mysql for any type of weblog, and php if not already there Matt - Original Message - From: "BruceG" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-10-31 Thread Jakob Lell
Hello, have you checke your system memory? To check the memory, reboot the system with memtest86 and look whether you get any error messages. Regards Jakob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-10-31 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> If you haven't tried updating to testing or sid, you might give that a shot. I'm not experienced enough for *unstable*. "stable" and "unstable" refers more to the changeability of packages more than to brokenness/usability. In ot

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-31 Thread Dani
Hi. On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net |debian-testing|" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100, Dani wrote: > > I'm netinstalling Debian Sarge from a minimal CD. I boot the CD > > and it fails to autodetect the CD drive, maybe becaus

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Thursday 30 October 2003 17:41, Tom wrote: > Has anybody else been surprised by the amount of good press MS is > getting this week over longhorn? I think people are looking at the Mac > OS9 -> OSX total rewrite and projecting wishes for MS to do something as > drastic. Well, why not? To be hon

Re: Looking for a better info-file viewer

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 09:34:43AM -0800, Tom wrote: > God, I hate trying to read info documents. I tried pinfo: at least I > could navigate ok, but I still feel overwhelmed by the # of links each > page has. > > "Info" is such a generic term I'm having trouble searching for > alternatives. W

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 02:39 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - >

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
> Did you check out freshmeat? > http://freshmeat.net/search/?q=weblog§ion=projects > you will probably need to install mysql for any type of weblog, and php > if not already there > > Matt Thanks for the info. I looked at some of the packages and am impressed. My server (that's using the term a

Re: please help, lost my partition

2003-10-31 Thread Anita Lewis
In gmane.linux.debian.user, you wrote: > Hello! > > I lost my partition. One of my most important ones... > It is a 100gb partition with all my personal datas, emails, documents etc... > I had a crash in kde, and I had to reset the computer. After the boot, the > boot process said that it can not m

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Rob Weir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 23:01 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 Would that be XFree86-4.0.2 or 4.0.3 or 4.2 or 4.3. If the latter I have more downloading to do? The

X, nvida, 2.6.0-test9 and recent Sid upgrades

2003-10-31 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hello, Has anyone experienced any problems with the nvidia module and recent X upgrades to 4.2.1-13 under kernel 2.6.0-test9? The symptoms here are: xinit stops with a fatal server error just after initializing GL extensions and the screen gets quite dim - ttyNs still work but aren't 'refreshed'

Sendmail trouble with relaying

2003-10-31 Thread Erik Dörnbach
Hi, some question, I have a sendmail box running for a number of virtual domains, our main domain is say "aaa.com". I just noticed some funny things starting here, there are some guys using our server against us, by simply opening an smtp connection to us, pretending to be "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" a

Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: "Travis Crump" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Debian User List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 23:30 Subject: Re: GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 This is a subject I have a qestion about. When I do apt-get --reconfigure xserver-xf86Config

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread Marc Nozell
> Thanks for the info. I looked at some of the packages and am impressed. My > server (that's using the term a bit optimisticly) might not be up to the > task of running MySQL. It already has PHP installed, but is a little > underpowered. > Think I'll start off with a simple text-editor or use OOo,

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread Tom Hoover
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:36:48AM -0500, BruceG wrote: > Think I'll start off with a simple text-editor or use OOo, then ftp them > to the server. Not a true blog, but a starting place. Check out www.blosxom.com...easy to setup, and it uses plain text files. It's also available in testing/unstabl

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, BruceG wrote: > Thanks for the info. I looked at some of the packages and am impressed. My > server (that's using the term a bit optimisticly) might not be up to the > task of running MySQL. It already has PHP installed, but is a little > underpowered. > Think I'll start off w

Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs)

2003-10-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
- Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 02:39 Subject: Re: Acronyms (was Re: reiserfs) > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > > > > > - Original Message - > > F

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I currently have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in the config file and converted the mbox into a maildir with the same name in the same loc

RP Debian Font guide for beginners plz ...

2003-10-31 Thread e-bone
Hi, I cant figure out how to use the "smartlist" archiver. Either that or only ~ 10 messages are archived. Can someone repost the "Debian Font Guide for beginners ..." email ? I would really be interested in seeing it you could send it straight to my addy if you like. cheers, e -- To UNSU

Re: xlibmesa3-gl overwrite problem with ATI on sid

2003-10-31 Thread Mental
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:26:18AM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > using Radeon 9200 and its proprietary driver fglrx-glc22, with the > latest upgrade of today I get the message > > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xlibmesa3-gl_4.2.1-13_i386.deb (--unpack): > trying to overwrite `/usr/

Re: no sound in galeon/mozilla flash

2003-10-31 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Thu, 30 Oct 2003 04:45:35PM -0500, Mental Patient insinuated: > Nori Heikkinen wrote: > >short version: i can't get sound with flash in mozilla or galeon. > > > >longer version: > >i've installed flashplugin-nonfree and libflash0. i can see flash > >movies in my two browsers (haven't tested it

Re: Driver installation

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
"Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have the driver and kernel headers on a CD. I assume installation > is via apt-get install xx Ok what should xx be. Where > should I put the files to install them. Having no other details, if you just have a pile of .deb files somewhere, you

Re: no sound in galeon/mozilla flash

2003-10-31 Thread Mental
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 10:52:32AM -0500, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > If none of this helps, do an 'fuser -v /dev/dsp' and see what > > processes are using it. Kill them and retry using flash (you might > > have to restart the brower completely as I'm not sure that flash > > ever retries the open on

Re: AIDE output: Not implemented in db_readline_file 311

2003-10-31 Thread Geb Kos
Hello Adam, I am having the same problem. Did you already found an answer and want to share thsi with me? Thanks in Advance, Geb Kos -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: X, nvida, 2.6.0-test9 and recent Sid upgrades

2003-10-31 Thread Marcin Fusinski
Hello again, Here's an update (although I doubt anyone's that interested): hashing out glx module is a quick fix to the problem. Regards, -- "Only wimps use tape backup: _real_ men just upload their important stuff on ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it ;)" (L.B.T.) -- To UNSUBS

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 10:39 AM, David Gaudine wrote: The only option I see for maildirs in the config file is for handling aliases and .forward. My incoming mail goes to /var/spool/mail/david and isn't seen by the imap client, and the maildirs option in the config file doesn't affect th

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-31 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 07:49:24AM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 05:24:28PM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: | > On Tue, Oct 28, 2003 at 01:04:51PM -0600, Larry W. Irwin Sr. wrote: | > | I have to use a really old Phoenix S3 Trio32/64 PCI card, running | > | Debian

Re: Sound processing

2003-10-31 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake David Turetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > Pray tell, what software is out there to process/edit sound files? > > Will it allow intelligent cleaning up (filtering out specific sounds, > raising the volume level, snipping out segments) of files Try audacity. > > And how can I then b

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > On Fri, 31 Oct 2003, Joyce, Matthew wrote: > > > > > > > > > Microsoft's software has always sucked, so I can't imagine > > > they're losing too much sleep over quality or security, their Trusted > > > Computing(tm) initiative notwithstand

Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Michael D Schleif
A remote colleague has a debian system that has been running fine with stock kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686; but, until now, *not* running any SCSI devices. Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. dmesg doe

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 17:39, David Gaudine wrote: > On Thursday, October 30, 2003, at 05:38 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > Also the setup file says that courier only handles maildirs. I > > currently > > have exim installed for smtp. I uncommented the option for maildirs in > > the config file and

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Nicolas Rueff
Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > Hey all, > >I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to >make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running >Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM, >1 Gig disk space). I'v

RE: Sound processing

2003-10-31 Thread David Turetsky
> > -Original Message- > From: Deryk Barker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 11:44 AM > To: Debian Users > Subject: Re: Sound processing > > Thus spake David Turetsky ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > > > > > Pray tell, what software is out there to process/edit sou

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-10-31 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 October 2003 08:04 am, Michael D Schleif wrote: > A remote colleague has a debian system that has been running fine > with stock kernel-image-2.4.18-1-686; but, until now, *not* running > any SCSI devices. > > Last night, he added a SCSI c

debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread Andrea Tasso
hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go on, it does not. any experience ? thanks -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

crossover ethernet networking

2003-10-31 Thread Bill Lovett
I need to connect another machine to my home network, but my Linksys router is already full. My debian server happens to have a second ethernet card in addition to the main one which connects to the router. I'd like to connect the second card to the new machine via a crossover cable. How do I go a

Re: kernel 2.4 and executable permission for mounted fs

2003-10-31 Thread Andreas Goesele
Andreas Goesele <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > as it is well known the 2.4 kernel series mixed up the permissions set > at mounting for instance vfat and iso9660 partitions: As default all > files are marked as executable, creating a problem if you copy them to > ext2. One can't change tha

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 03:23:25PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > Well, why not? To be honest, I've been really happy with the stability of my > Win2k install. If MS improves stuff like memory management, it ought to > become a damn fine OS. Of course, you can whine about DRM (I'm whining with > y

Re: OOOOLLLLDDDD video card

2003-10-31 Thread Larry W. Irwin Sr.
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 11:35:13AM -0500, Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > BTW, your email address is wrong: > host bigriver.net.mail1.psmtp.com[12.158.34.245] said: > 550 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown (in reply to RCPT TO command) It should be fixed now. Thanks. > | I read somewhe

Re: crossover ethernet networking

2003-10-31 Thread Marshal Wong
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:04, Bill Lovett wrote: > I need to connect another machine to my home network, but my Linksys > router is already full. My debian server happens to have a second > ethernet card in addition to the main one which connects to the router. > I'd like to connect the second card

Re: courier-imap setup - can't authenticate and maildir Q

2003-10-31 Thread David Gaudine
On Friday, October 31, 2003, at 12:00 PM, Micha Feigin wrote: Exim's default configuration needs to be changed though in order to support maildirs, and you need to either create one (don't remember the command) you send yourself an email to create it. From the courier-base README.Debian: > Just ru

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Friday 31 October 2003 19:11, Tom wrote: > Theseus was walking in the woods one day, when he came across the house > of a giant. Now, this giant considered himself a perfect host; all who > visited him must spend the night, and must be given a bed which fits the > guest perfectly. > > Unfortuna

OT: simple V4L camera code sought

2003-10-31 Thread martin f krafft
Does anyone have some code that interacts with a camera via Video4Linux? I have some code, but I think it's using some horribly outdated methods, so I'd like to see a more complete version. xawtv and such are a little too complicated... Thanks for any hints. -- Please do not CC me when replying

Re: blog-lite for Debian Stable?

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
>> Thanks for the info. I looked at some of the packages and am >> impressed. My server (that's using the term a bit optimisticly) might >> not be up to the task of running MySQL. It already has PHP installed, >> but is a little underpowered. >> Think I'll start off with a simple text-editor or us

Re: Sarge netinst: CD-RW Sony CRX175A1

2003-10-31 Thread Dani
Hi. On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 04:58:56 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net |debian-testing|" said: > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 01:21:06PM +0100, Dani wrote: > > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 19:10:26 -0800, "Bob Nielsen nielsen-at-oz.net > > |debian-testing|" said: > > > On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 07:58:18PM +0100

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Tom
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 07:56:01PM +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > On Friday 31 October 2003 19:11, Tom wrote: > > Theseus was walking in the woods one day, when he came across the house > > of a giant. Now, this giant considered himself a perfect host; all who > > visited him must spend the night, a

Re: only one new debian-user thread a day according to google

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 00:15 GMT, Dan Jacobson penned: > After Oct 21st, this group has suddenly dwindled to only about one new > thread a day: http://groups.google.com/groups?group=linux.debian.user > > Some of us low bandwidth users read via google, as gmane.org's search > isn't as good yet. >

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-10-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Fri, 31 Oct 2003 at 10:15 GMT, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> penned: > > > On Thu, 30 Oct 2003, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > >> I'm being forced to use Excel and Powerpoint at work. I hate it. >> It's not just MS-specific, in this case: I hate data entry, and I >> hate prettifying it. > > Knoppix is y

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread BruceG
> Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > >> Hey all, >> >>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to >>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running >>Debian Stable. My PC is kind of clunky and old (100 Mhz, 16Meg RAM, >>1 Gig disk sp

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread Joey Hess
Andrea Tasso wrote: > hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it stops just after the > language selection screen, I > mean the next one opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to > go on, it does not. > any experience ? That's as far as this demo goes

Re: debian-installer-demo not working

2003-10-31 Thread David Z Maze
Andrea Tasso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > hi all, I tried debian-installer-demo, but it does not work, it > stops just after the language selection screen, I mean the next one > opens, but when you ask to load modules, that is the only way to go > on, it does not. The Debian bug-tracking system

reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Nori Heikkinen
i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set it up with the dvorak layout (oops). this is no problem for X -- i just did a `dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86` and switched the layout. but for the instances when

print command

2003-10-31 Thread Vivek Kumar
Hi, Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. like echo "**" (In bsh or ksh) Is there any short command ?? -- Vivek -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Jakob Lell
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:38, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian > install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set it > up with the dvorak layout (oops). this is no problem for X -- i just > did a `dpkg-reconfigure xserve

Re: Restarting killed processes

2003-10-31 Thread Jakob Lell
On Friday 31 October 2003 20:25, BruceG wrote: > > Ainsi parla BruceG le 304ème jour de l'an 2003: > >> Hey all, > >> > >>I recently installed sendmail / ipopd / apache /squirrelmail to > >>make a SMTP/POP mail server with a Web interface. I'm running > >>Debian Stable. My PC is kind of

Mplayer (again)

2003-10-31 Thread Stefan Seifert
hi, I've got again and hope someone could help me with this problem again. Thanks a lot for the help! I want to play some svcd or vcd with mplayer. I put the cdrom in the drive mount it. And when i say "play svcd" the mplayer error message is: Failed to open vcd Playing vcd://1 CD-ROM Device '/

Re: reconfiguring console keyboard layout

2003-10-31 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Fri, 31 Oct 2003 08:48:47PM +0100, Jakob Lell insinuated: > On Friday 31 October 2003 20:38, Nori Heikkinen wrote: > > i recently gave my laptop to another girl at work, with the debian > > install i'd done on it. what i forgot, however, was that i'd set > > it up with the dvorak layout (oops).

Re: print command

2003-10-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 02:50:17PM -0500, Vivek Kumar wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. > > like echo "**" > (In bsh or ksh) > > Is there any short command ?? A possible not good way to do this in bash: for x in `s

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