Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Scott
I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those packages but I thought

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience or > comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash? GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: I've been blocked

2004-08-08 Thread Vince Hoang
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:00:33PM -0400, Tong wrote: > Sorry to everybody for those short annoying testing messages. > It turned out that the very message that I wanted to post very > much did get blocked, and I now know the reason. Your messages to the list are setting off SpamAssassin. X-Rc-

USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Glenn Meehan
Hi, I'm trying to read some usb memory. I can read it in windows. I can't read it with debian. I can: modprobe usbcore modprobe usb-uhci modprobe usb-storage mount gives: none on /proc/bus/usb type usbfs (rw) root:/proc/scsi>ls /proc/bus/usb 001 002 003 devices drivers root:/proc/scsi>l

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-08 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 07:28:56PM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > I run Sid. Whenever Debian makes a major release, it doesn't affect me > at all, right, because in theory I'm already running the same or later > versions of everything that's being released. > > Right? > Right. You should know

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-08 Thread Brian Nelson
On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:04:31PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Brian Nelson wrote: > > >On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 09:20:28AM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > > > > > >>Other vendors switched to X.org at the time of the licence change. > >>Presumably they're supporting newer hardware now than

Re: Sid is Sid, before or after a release, right?

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:39:25AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > reliability. Run testing otherwise for general day to day work / > development but bring it up to date every month or so. > Run unstable if you want the latest/greatest on the day, if a brand new I run Sid and update it every d

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-08 Thread robin
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Once upon a time John Hasler said... Tong writes: Thanks, John, that's something I am thinking of as the last resort. Why as a last resort? Hard disk crash. I've gone through the same pain as the original poster.

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Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Glenn Meehan
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:12, Fernando wrote: > Hi. In debian sid with kernel 2.6.6 in fstab i use this: > > usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 > > and it works perfect, try it ;). Where does your file system get mounted? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: USB Memory

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Fraser
I'd guess /proc/bus/usb, by that fstab entry. Cheers, Paul Fraser [EMAIL PROTECTED] Glenn Meehan wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 18:12, Fernando wrote: Hi. In debian sid with kernel 2.6.6 in fstab i use this: usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbdevfs defaults 0 0 and it works perfect, try it ;). Where doe

Re: OT Linux patents and Hurd?

2004-08-08 Thread Martin Dickopp
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Paul writes: >> Has any read that a possible 283 patent violations could be in the >> Linux kernel? > > Yes. > >> Does anyone know the possible ramifications of this? > > Not as dire as you think. I wish I could share your optimism. There is no lack of c

Re: Problems finding X when configuring

2004-08-08 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Paul E Condon (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 02:35:56AM +0200, Andreas Janssen wrote: >> Shawn McCuan (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: >> >> > Whenever i try to configure anything (by running ./configure), It >> > always stops at "/Checking for X/" or "/Checking for libX

How to make starting disket?

2004-08-08 Thread Juhani Vainio
I installed Sarge from net. The installation program did not propose to make starting diskette. I installed grub to mbr and everything is ok, but I want to make also a starting disket. Mr Murphy, you know. -- Juhani Vainio, Nurmes

RE: Problem installing "module-init-tools"

2004-08-08 Thread Christophe Lemaire
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2004 01:48:10 + > > >Using either aptitude or apt-get, I receive the >following message during >install: > >Unpacking module-init-tools >(from .../module-init-tools_3.1-pre5-1_i386.deb) ... >md5sum: MD5 check failed for '/etc/modprobe.conf' >dpkg: error

Locale LC_ALL=""

2004-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
Within my app I get an error "Cannot set locale to ''." which is probably do to my locale LC_ALL="". LANG and all other LC_... are set to "en". Variable LANG is set in the environment file to "en". How can I set LC_ALL="en" and any other LC_... to a different value? O. Wyss -- How to enhance you

[Debian-user] Re: smbauth problems with Windows 2003 Server

2004-08-08 Thread Didar Hussain
On Fri, Aug 06, 2004 at 10:43:16AM -0500, Nathan Kroll wrote: > > We have a script on our webmail that allows users to change their > > email/nt passwords. We used to be using NT 4/5 and just recently > > upgraded our PDC to Windows server 2003. Since then, smbauth doesn't > > work. When run on

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Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-08 Thread Otto Wyss
> I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). > It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill > it). > Use cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI and then burn it with the gotten numbers cdrecord dev=ATAPI:x,x,x O. Wyss -- How to enhance

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-08 Thread John L Fjellstad
Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > And *always* use 'set -u' in shell scripts. :-) What does that do? I looked in bash manual, and couldn't find anything... (always ready to learn something new:-) ) -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis custodiet ipsos custode

How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Jaap Haitsma
I came across this website http://popcon.debian.org/ It shows statistics how many people have installed a certain package on what kind of system etc. etc. If you want to anonymously report what packages you are using you have to have the popularity-contest package installed. I guess many people

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of > them sends reports) Why would you assume that? I don't use popcon; it's possible that 99.9% of users don't use it. Who knows? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
Tim Connors wrote: "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:28:08 -0600: x> I don't know if that would even have a prayer of working, but I don't want to do anything malicious; I'm just sick of getting duplicates! .procmailrc: # if testing, don't do duplicate test

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread George Roman
i never heard about popcon :) and i use debian (woody&sarge&sid) for almost 2 years. George Roman Technical Support RDS Timisoara Branch - Network Operations Center Tel: +4 0356 400 200 Tel: +4 0256 200 033 Fax: +4 0256 294 510 www.rdsnet.ro =

Re: can't login on console

2004-08-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
> after i upgraded a few weeks ago some packages on testing, i cant login > anymore to the text-console (tty). The graphical login is still working. "cant login"? Are you getting a error message? If you give more detail maybe we can help more. Did you check the various log files? Run 'sleep 60; d

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
John L Fjellstad wrote: Paul Gear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: And *always* use 'set -u' in shell scripts. :-) What does that do? I looked in bash manual, and couldn't find anything... (always ready to learn something new:-) ) help set -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAI

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Patrick Donker
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of them sends reports) Why would you assume that? I don't use popcon; it's possible that 99.9% of users don't use it. Who knows? I know I

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
> As stated in my OP, my console mouse works fine. > >> Step three - Configure X to read from /dev/gpmdata. >> [...] > > So I googled/read/did. But as I said, it didn't work -- in fact after > startx, my console mouse is destroyed (there is an extremely long delay > when starting X). So if gpm i

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
Chris Metzler wrote: On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 05:02:09 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chris Metzler wrote: On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 21:04:31 +0800 John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do you justify that pov? At present, we have more platforms than ever before, m

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Jaap Haitsma
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of them sends reports) Why would you assume that? I don't use popcon; it's possible that 99.9% of users don't use it. Who knows? Oops, I mea

Re: Gphoto2 -- Sony DSC F707V Driver?

2004-08-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
> I'm running Debian/sarge (kernel-2.4.26-1-686) with gphoto-2.1.4-2 and > libgphoto2-2-2.1.4-5. > > fine with my "pen disk"), but apparently 'gtkam' can't find an > appropriate driver/module. Does the version of the gphoto libraries support this camera? Verify this. And if you use 'gphoto -P -R'

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those pac

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
Jaap Haitsma wrote: William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of them sends reports) Why would you assume that? I don't use popcon; it's possible that 99.9% of users don't use it. Wh

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread George Roman
" right" is a relative word. debian is the right choice for me, if others (people who use other dist) prefer to reinstall their systems with each new release it is their business. George Roman Technical Support RDS Timisoara Branch - Network Operations Center Tel: +4 0356 400 200 Tel: +4 0256 20

Re: OT: Winblowz antivirus management on Linux

2004-08-08 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 05:47:51PM +0700, cep welly ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Please set your mailer/editor linewrap to 68-75 characters. I strongly recommend 72 as a good default. While many mail clients will accomodate unwrapped text: - Some don't. Be considerate. - Many more fail to w

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Werner Mahr
Am Sonntag, 8. August 2004 13:02 schrieb Jaap Haitsma: > According to Google stats 1% of them is using Linux. So there are around 5M > users of Linux. Many Browsers Identify themselves as IE, Opera as example does this as default even under Linux. -- MfG usw. Werner Mahr registered Linuxuser

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:46, Otto Wyss wrote: > > I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs > > (forever). It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C > > does not kill it). > > Use > > cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI > > and then burn it with the gotten n

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
George Roman wrote: " right" is a relative word. debian is the right choice for me, if others (people who use other dist) prefer to reinstall their systems with each new release it is their business. Which distros need to be reinstalled for each new release? -- Cheers John -- spambait [EMAIL PR

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Paul Scott
John Summerfield wrote: Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it take

Re: dselect disorientation

2004-08-08 Thread Jim Bailey
On Aug 07, 09:32, Dieter wrote: > I lost the orientation with dselect.-( Can anyone tell how to get it > back?-) I think I made somathing wrong but I don't know what. > I don't understand why there are so many packages to be removed and > downgraded. > Is there a good way to get a "clean" status ba

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
Jaap Haitsma <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sun, 08 Aug 2004 13:02:12 +0200: > William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > > > >>Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of > >>them sends reports) > > > > > > Why would you

Proposed release date of sarge?

2004-08-08 Thread Mark C
Seen the debian installer is now rc1 (having just tried it again, it a 100% improvement of the woody installer), and having read a few posts from Steve Langasek, with regards to the installer hopefully going officially live around September, can we expect that sarge goes from testing to stable?

Ntp in sid doing strange things?

2004-08-08 Thread Tim Connors
I apt-get upgraded my sid box at home a bit over a week ago (with at least these time related packages installed: adjtimex, ntp, ntp-doc, ntp-server, ntp-simple, ntpdate), and then noticed that the box was losing quite a bit of time, without a reboot having happened at all recently. It was losing s

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
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offlineimap is slow during the initial sync

2004-08-08 Thread Enrico Zini
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New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread John Hasler
William Ballard writes: > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks clone

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread John Fleming
- Original Message - From: "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:45 AM Subject: Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest) > George Roman wrote: > > >" right" is a relative word. debian is the right cho

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 07:59:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > William Ballard writes: > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. > > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There > is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 03:14:10PM +0200, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > [John Hasler] > > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. > > Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. :) > > > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > > system

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
John Fleming wrote: - Original Message - From: "John Summerfield" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, August 08, 2004 6:45 AM Subject: Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest) George Roman wrote: " right" is a relative word. debi

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread John Summerfield
John Hasler wrote: William Ballard writes: GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting system suitable for small business. It will n

Re: Debian with GeForce4 MX 440 64 MB

2004-08-08 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 01:21:16AM +0100, Paul Nolan wrote: > Tomy Alarie wrote: > >Hi, im trying to install my new video card with a fresh installation of > >debian. Can anyone give me the steps to do it ? > > > >Thanks, > >Tomy > > I have the same card ^_^ > All I did was download the binary dr

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Petter Reinholdtsen
[John Hasler] > I consider SQL-Ledger superior, but that isn't saying much either. Thank you, as one of the sql-ledger maintainers. :) > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks > clone. It would be in

Re: dselect disorientation

2004-08-08 Thread Dieter
O sorry for that noise! I have my orientation back: I installed (some times ago) upgrade-system and this package installed /etc/apt/preferences (which is unusable for my dist-selection). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Unidentified subject!

2004-08-08 Thread Mike Schiraldi
I'm running Debian testing, and i'm up-to-date, and when i run gnumeric, i get: ** (gnumeric:11997): WARNING **: No builtin or dynamically loaded modules were found. Pango will not work correctly. This probably means there was an error in the creation of: '/etc/pango/pango.modules'

Re: XFree vs. xorg

2004-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 06:58:57PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > The d-i team is having nightmares right now because packages they depend > on keep changing. What ever happened to the idea of a "freeze"? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of Proofreading http:

How to test new installer?

2004-08-08 Thread stan
I need to build a new "unstable" machine for some testing, and I thought this might be a good oportunity to test the new installer. How does one use it, at this point? Is there a specia; set of disk images? -- "They that would give up essential liberty for temporary safety deserve neither liber

Re: Ntp in sid doing strange things?

2004-08-08 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004, Tim Connors wrote: > Has anyone else who has upgraded within the last few days seen this? I upgrade every day, and had a fresh reboot 3 days ago. Ntp is working fine with about 6 higher strata servers. Check and make sure something weird didn't happen in anything common to yo

sound problem

2004-08-08 Thread Michael Sherman
Hello all. I've recently installed Sarge with the new installer, I am using the 2.6.3-1-386 kernel, I selected linux26 during installation. I have a CMI8738 sound chip on board and the OS seems to be able to see it - I checked the dmesg, and that what it says "cmpci: found CM8738 adapter at io 0x

Re: New Accounting Project

2004-08-08 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > There is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > system suitable for small business. It will not be a Quickbooks clone. > There isn't much there yet, but I hope to soon put up a tentative > rationale and maybe some code from a toy system I wrote years ago. > Please

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 02:08, Paul Scott wrote: > I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and > GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html > have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing w

Re: sound problem

2004-08-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 09:37, Michael Sherman wrote: > Hello all. > > I've recently installed Sarge with the new installer, > I am using the 2.6.3-1-386 kernel, I selected linux26 > during installation. > I have a CMI8738 sound chip on board and the OS seems > to be able to see it - I checked the

Re: How to test new installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:45:15AM -0400, stan wrote: > I need to build a new "unstable" machine for some testing, and I thought > this might be a good oportunity to test the new installer. > > How does one use it, at this point? Is there a specia; set of disk images? Here's the debian-installer

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread David P James
On Sun 8 August 2004 03:24, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:08:29AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > > Debian packages: SQL-ledger and KMyMoney2. Anyone have experience > > or comments on the these packages as replacements for GnuCash? > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that is

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2004-08-08 Thread Ishwar Rattan
Ask Yahoo why the your postings are blocked. If the system does not work as promised (or percieved), bite the bullet and reinstall or find something (RH?) that works for you. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:50:43AM -0400, David P James wrote: > > GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. > > I don't find GnuCash terribly usable for personal finances. The > double-entry bookeeping that GnuCash uses doesn't work very well with > personal finances. In

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 15:23, Tong wrote: > Hi, > > You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing > dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration > questions when installing via apt-get install ? dpkg-reconfigure debconf Set your sele

Re: How to test new installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:45:15AM -0400, stan wrote: > I need to build a new "unstable" machine for some testing, and I thought > this might be a good oportunity to test the new installer. > > How does one use it, at this point? Is there a specia; set of disk images? > If you mean, how do you g

Re: Sarge

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 14:47, Patrick Donker wrote: > Peeps, > > Anyone knows when Sarge will be released? I have a Compaq ML370 waiting > for me, but I'd rather install the latest and greatest on it. Question > is, how long before I can install? According to Colin, we need to get the installer

Re: I hate it when that happens...

2004-08-08 Thread listcomm
> > Unless you have something like "snapshot" running, you will invariably > > lose whatever it is that you've just been working on, backups or not. > > So go use Solaris. Solaris is not optimized for the X86 architecture; also, it is a disk hog. Additionally, as I mentioned, the "snapshot" feat

OT: Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 11:50:43AM -0400, David P James wrote: GnuCash is the best of the lot, but that isn't saying very much. For personal finance I use KMyMoney2, since conceptually it's far more like Quicken on Windows (and probably MS Money as well). I fo

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Tong
Thanks Kent and Alexis for the reply, here are all the info that you required... On Sat, 07 Aug 2004 22:06:26 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Tong wrote: > > >>>Step two - configure gpm. >>>[...] >> >>As stated in my OP, my console mouse works fine. >> >> >>>Step three - Configure X to read from /

Re: Bogus reply-to

2004-08-08 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-08-08, Tim Connors penned: > "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Sat, 7 Aug 2004 20:28:08 -0600: > x> I don't know if that would even have a prayer of working, but I don't >> want to do anything malicious; I'm just sick of getting duplicates! > > .procmailrc: > > # if testing, d

Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-08 Thread Paul E Condon
I have both KDE and Gnome on my Sarge. I have both kdm and gdm display managers. When I stop kdm and start gdm, I get the gdm login screen and when I use it I am logged into the KDE desktop, which is not what I want. What is the Debian correct way to bring up the Gnome desttop on a system where b

Re: New Accounting Project Was: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Allan Wind
On 2004-08-08T07:59:50-0500, John Hasler wrote: > There > is a new Alioth project called Advacs to produce an accounting > system suitable for small business. How is GNU Enterprise (http://www.gnuenterprise.org/) doing these days? /Allan signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 09:10:36AM -0700, William Ballard wrote: > The only problem with GnuCash was the U/I: it made it exceedingly > awkward to work with large #s of accounts, because of all the modal > dialogs to enter them. Nothing wrong with the concept. As you said, what Money/Quicken cal

Re: Sarge

2004-08-08 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > This seems good, I have tested it. Now, the mid-September release > time-frame seems realistic, for Sarge. Surely you mean a mid-September freeze, not release? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabootu's Minister of

Openoffice has stopped working (sarge)

2004-08-08 Thread Joan Tur
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo! Openoffice seems not to work any more. I've tryed running it as user and root with no luck (sarge version = 1.1.2). - - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ooffice OpenOffice.org for Debian - see /usr/share/doc/openoffice.org/README.Debian.gz running o

Re: Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:25, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have both KDE and Gnome on my Sarge. I have both kdm and gdm > display managers. When I stop kdm and start gdm, I get the > gdm login screen and when I use it I am logged into the KDE > desktop, which is not what I want. > > What is the Debian

Re: Debian with GeForce4 MX 440 64 MB

2004-08-08 Thread Don Jackson
I recently did several new installs that use this video card. I have found the easiest method (using the new Debian Installer and kernel 2.6.7) is do the install, and then when X does not come up, reboot using the Knoppix CDROM, let Knoppix do it's thing and find the settings, then copy the Kno

Re: Configuration DB

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2004-08-07 at 15:09, Tong wrote: > Yes, that is my question -- is there any way to avoid those hard and > tedious questions, since I've answered them once, and the system should > have kept the answer somewhere, or, Debian just forgets those answers > right away? then how do you do reconfig

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Kent West
Tong wrote: # /etc/gpm.conf - configuration file for gpm(1) device=/dev/psaux responsiveness= repeat_type=ms3 type=autops2 append="" sample_rate= Assuming you have a PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel, I'd suggest "imps2" for the type in gpm.conf, and "ImPS/2" for the protocol in XF86Config-4. If

Sarge will not print text, but Fedora Core will

2004-08-08 Thread Joe Potter
I now have checked printing by putting Fedora Core 2 on this box. After following Sarge since the damn beginning and printing to my trusty HP 920c deskjet the cups team has finally screwed up printing in Sarge just as we freeze it. This is a tad irritating. It started in Sid with the introducti

Re: Sarge

2004-08-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 12:43, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > This seems good, I have tested it. Now, the mid-September release > > time-frame seems realistic, for Sarge. > > Surely you mean a mid-September freeze, not release? Ooops, yes. -

Re: Switching between KDE and Gnome - How?

2004-08-08 Thread Kent West
matt zagrabelny wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:25, Paul E Condon wrote: I have both KDE and Gnome on my Sarge. I have both kdm and gdm display managers. When I stop kdm and start gdm, I get the gdm login screen and when I use it I am logged into the KDE desktop, which is not what I want. What

Re: Openoffice has stopped working (sarge)

2004-08-08 Thread matt zagrabelny
On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 11:46, Joan Tur wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hallo! > > Openoffice seems not to work any more. I've tryed running it as user and root > with no luck (sarge version = 1.1.2). > > - - > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ooffice > OpenOffice.org for De

Re: How to test new installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Don Jackson
On Sunday 08 August 2004 10:34 am, Jason Rennie wrote: > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:45:15AM -0400, stan wrote: > > I need to build a new "unstable" machine for some testing, and I thought > > this might be a good oportunity to test the new installer. > > > > How does one use it, at this point? Is t

Want anonymous proxy server IP address mapping utility

2004-08-08 Thread listcomm
Thus far, my web searches have not turned up anything like the Windows "multiproxy", "winnow", etc. utilities for Linux. I know I can set up for anonymous proxy use on a one-at-a-time basis, but I want the (very useful) additional features of the above mentioned Gatesware-based utilities. Does any

Re: Sarge

2004-08-08 Thread Mark C
Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2004-08-08 at 12:43, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:22:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: This seems good, I have tested it. Now, the mid-September release time-frame seems realistic, for Sarge. Surely you mean a mid-September freeze, not release? If this in

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread gnari
"Jaap Haitsma" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > William Ballard wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 12:19:54PM +0200, Jaap Haitsma wrote: > > > >>Are there only around 1000 debian users on the world (assumption 60% of > >>them sends reports) > > > > > > Why would you ass

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Tong
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 12:03:40 -0500, Kent West wrote: >>Please note that there may not be any reasonable explanation for the >>freezing mouse under X, based on the fact that >> >>1. startx destroy gpm mouse >>2. uninstall gpm with purge while XF86Config-4 kept as original won't work >>either -- X

Re: udev, atapi cdrw drives and cdrecord

2004-08-08 Thread Wayne Topa
Otto Wyss([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I am trying to use cdrecord to make a cd. But it seemingly hangs (forever). > > It outputs the information below and then suspends (and ctrl C does not kill > > it). > > > Use > > cdrecord --scanbus dev=ATAPI > > and then burn it with

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Tong
Continue on with my last post... No, as I doubt, it does not work. On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 12:03:40 -0500, Kent West wrote: > Assuming you have a PS/2 mouse with a scroll wheel, I'd suggest "imps2" > for the type in gpm.conf, and "ImPS/2" for the protocol in XF86Config-4. ps/2 has been working fine

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Steve Lamb
Werner Mahr wrote: > Many Browsers Identify themselves as IE, Opera as example does this as default > even under Linux. Not exactly true. It still identifies itself as Opera in the string, it just presents it in a way that most checks think it is IE. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm

Re: How to specify configuration priority level when install pkgs via apt-get

2004-08-08 Thread Tong
On Sun, 08 Aug 2004 12:18:24 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> You can specify priority level for the configuration questions when doing >> dpkg-reconfig. How can you specify priority level for the configuration >> questions when installing via apt-get install ? > > dpkg-reconfigure debconf Th

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Kent West
Tong wrote: The mouse has been working fine until one power failure. My box had been continuously up for about 1 months before that. I have never changed the input device part of XF86Config-4. If gpm is not the one, then power-failure and some weird error of my FS might be. Hmm; this is info I h

alsa, kernel 2.6.7, Creative Labs SB Audigy

2004-08-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I've been using alsa with medium success for the last year or so, some apps would work, some wouldn't, but it didn't bother me since some would be able to do the job. But now, (after the last upgrade?) nothing works fine. Alsaplayer gives a chopped jumpy sound, and so on. Is there any way of resett

Re: mouse not working under X, while ok in gpm

2004-08-08 Thread Alexis Huxley
> ... > type=autops2 > ... The only difference I have here is the type is just 'ps2' and I have an a non-empty 'append'. These will both affect the 'input' side of gpm. So I think these differences are ok. > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Configured Mouse" > Driver

Re: OpenOffice won't print anymore

2004-08-08 Thread Henry Hollenberg
Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello, I do know what is going on, nevertheless there is an easy workaround: you can export our file as PDF, and print it. I can also print it to a PostScript file and then ftp that straight to the printer.but either one is a pain. Was wondering when OpenOffice was going to

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