Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:53 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > Rap is not congruent with stupidity :) > > No, but the correlation is high. Not anywhere near as high as the correlation between stupidity and Windows or stupidity and RPM or alcoh

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:34 pm, Rich Rudnick wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. > > > > What a loony notion. >

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 01:53 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: >

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:04 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:34 pm, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 21:15 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > > product with a Blac

Re: updated debian development diagram -- comments?

2005-01-03 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:47:02AM +0100, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote: > * Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi Folks, > > I have updated my diagram on the debian developement model. Any comments > > appreciated! > > It's "volatile", not "volitile" > -- > Ralf Hildebrandt (i.A. des IT-Zentrum)

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:15 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > How about an expired Oregon Driver's License? I've moved up and down > the coast over the years. By the way, experience tells me that the > Willamette Valley fails the 'sounding' test. Got a good coastal town > that's not anti-owl? :)

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: > 80% of everything is [crap]. Including your recollection of Sturgeon's Law. It's 90%. 8:o) -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.dyndns.org/~baloo/ pgp

Re: cannot open root device "801"

2005-01-03 Thread Eric N. Valor
Ok. This is now starting to seriously irritate me. I can no longer build kernels anymore. Even blowing away the source tree directory and re-expanding the tarball gets me nowhere. Thankfully I retained a "safe" kernel which boots (but doesn't give me the functionality I'm after, namely Macinto

Synaptic - toolbar - help

2005-01-03 Thread jim
I am running sarge with kernel 2.6.10 Somehow the icons have vanished from the synaptic toolbar. I have set "text under icons", but no icons appear - therefore no text. Does anyone know how I can get them back? Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread René Seindal
Alvin Smith wrote (03-01-2005 04:01): On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:45 pm, Mauro Darida wrote: Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any non-english or non-european name. I think that ubuntu is probably a good name if you wan

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David Garamond
Travis Crump wrote: - No optical zooming (is it possible with gecko?) Ctrl-Alt-+ :), That's font scaling, not optical zooming :) Thanks for the tip on middle-click thingy. Regards, dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Necati DEMiR
Try giving the file system type in your mount command: mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom it didin't work. i am telling from stracth; i rebooted the machine; then # dmesg|grep hdb ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hdb: HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: > > 80% of everything is [crap]. > > Including your recollection of Sturgeon's Law. It's 90%. 8:o)

mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-03 Thread Robert S
I installed mondo/mindi on my work server recently (Woody). I tested it out on an almost identical system at home first and didn't have too many problems - managed to backup and restore a running system with no problems. I've used the stock standard "stable" packages - mondo_1.41.1-1_i386.deb

Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Nayyar Ahmed
Hello All: It want to have knowledge about some Open Source Community that is involued in developing applications and tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. As Govt. Of Pakistan have initiated a Govt. Funded Fourm which will educate Scientist of various fiel

grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-03 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
Dear all Happy new year! A series of events (recent apt-get upgrade & power failure), has brought one of my servers (software RAID-1 with SiI3112 SATA controller) to the following state: [0] GREP segfaults: helios:/# grep Segmentation fault helios:/# An strace shows the following: execve("/bin/

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 02:36 am, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: > > > 80% of everything is [crap]. > >

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello Nayyar Ahmed, you may want to visit http://scilinux.sourceforge.net/ to start. hth, Jerome Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All: It want to have knowledge about some Open Source Community that is involued in developing applications and tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, C

Re: XMMS produces tons of errors with ALSA output

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 14:50:10 +0100, Nicos Gollan wrote: > since recently (I don't know when it began, but it should be about a month), > XMMS produces tons and tons of error messages when paused. I'm using the ALSA > output The exact message is: > > ALSA lib pcm_hw.c:490:(snd_pcm_hw_delay) SNDR

Re: How to get Sound to work - Need step by step instructions

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Sun, 02 Jan 2005 23:20:05 +0100, Syed Huq wrote: >> Before you start messing around with new kernels, do yourself >> a favor and switch to Grub. Once you get it installed, it is >> much easier. Additionally, if you use symlinks like /vmlinuz >> and /vmlinuz.old and so on, you can point the sym

Re: ifupdown locking up when bringing down bridge devices

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Fri, 31 Dec 2004 09:50:07 +0100, Justin Searle at 015 wrote: > unregister_netdevice: waiting for br0 to become free. Usage count = 1 This is a kernel bug. Search the linux-kernel archives and if you don't find the bug reported there already, submit a bug report to the list. -- Thomas Hood

Re: Installing alsa-modules will remove discover1

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:10:10 +0100, kurtz wrote: > # apt-get install alsa-modules-2.4.27-1-k7 > (...) > The following packages will be REMOVED: > discover1 > > This is not what I am intending. Am I missing something? Upgrade discover1 to the unstable version before installing alsa-modules. --

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:00:18 +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point > to attach to? Currently your only choice (SFAIK) is waproamd. Check it out. The NetworkManager GNOME application has been ITPed. It will may serve your needs better o

Re: ALSA broken after upgrade

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Hood
On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 17:40:09 +0100, Hank Marquardt wrote: > depmod: *** Unresolved symbols in Known kernel bug #284356 / #287483. Short-term solution: Build your own alsa-modules package from alsa-source using make-kpkg. -- Thomas Hood -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 12:17:10 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Try giving the file system type in your mount command: > >mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdb /mnt/cdrom > > > > > it didin't work. > > i am telling from stracth; > i rebooted the machine; > then > > # dmesg|grep hdb > ide_se

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, Thomas Hood wrote: On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:00:18 +0100, Alex Polite wrote: What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point to attach to? Currently your only choice (SFAIK) is waproamd. Check it out. waproamd works fine for me, but you may be awar that waproamd was

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Black
Thomas Hood wrote: > On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 21:00:18 +0100, Alex Polite wrote: > > What debian packaged tool will let me choose a wireless access point > > to attach to? > > > Currently your only choice (SFAIK) is waproamd. Check it out. > > The NetworkManager GNOME application has been ITPed. It

Re: mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Robert S wrote: I installed mondo/mindi on my work server recently (Woody). I tested it out on an almost identical system at home first and didn't have too many problems - managed to backup and restore a running system with no problems. I've used the stock standard "stable" packages - mondo_1.

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 03 January 2005 10:17, Necati DEMiR wrote: > > # dmesg|grep hdb > ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi > ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA > hdb: HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive It looks to me as though you are using udev (or devfs). When you use ide-scsi

cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Christian Hammers
Hello Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. When I paste it via middle-click into a gnome-terminal and then explicitly use the edit->copy clipb

Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-03 Thread kynn
I've been fighting with this for a couple of days now and getting nowhere; any help would be much appreciated. I want to compile xterm with 256-color support. I downloaded the source from Debian (which comes as a small part of the MUCH larger xfree86 package), and attempted to compile the xter

Help with Zip Drive

2005-01-03 Thread Jerry Turba
I just got a parallel port Zip 100 drive. I have the ppa module loaded, along with scsi support, scsi disk support. I do not have any scsi drives, only the zip on /dev/sda4. The zip is recognized during boot, and I can read it, format it with the iomegaware tool (iw), mount it, all without problem

Re: md0 disappeared

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/01/05 13:31), Vít Baloun wrote: > Hallo Clive, > I have the same problem that you reported here: > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/12/msg02266.html > > Did you work it out? I have two md devices: md0 and md1. md0 is mounted as / > (root). After reboot I can find md0, but md1 (and

Re: how to set up 2 hard drives to cable select

2005-01-03 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Sun, 2 Jan 2005 22:45:08 -0800, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Cable select only works with one drive on the cable if it's going to > work at all. I generally consider cable select *way* more trouble than > it was ever worth, and I *really* wish hard drive manufacturers would > le

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:04:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:15 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > product with a Black African "sounding" name or not. > > > > What a loony no

can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread jianan
Hi, Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' is not yet a 'sarge' package. Any suggestion? Jianan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:19:44PM +0800, jianan wrote: > Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get > install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an > approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' is not yet a > 'sarg

Re: aic7xxx won't load?

2005-01-03 Thread Tim Kelley
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 04:16:30PM +0100, Didde Brockman wrote: > After trying a stable install which of course could not find the > drive(s) I resorted to the Debian Installer which has helped in the > passed when I had to deal with hardware not supported by woody's boot > disks. Sarge seems t

Re: can't 'apt-get install' fr a site

2005-01-03 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 22:19:44 +0800, jianan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Someone recommended me a site to download a Debian package. But 'apt-get > install' complained that it could not resolve the site address. Is there an > approved list of sites for Debian packages? The package 'knemo' i

Re: Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I've been fighting with this for a couple of days now and getting > nowhere; any help would be much appreciated. I want to compile xterm > with 256-color support. I downloaded the source from Debian (which > comes as a small part of the MUCH larger xfree86 package), an

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
Nayyar Ahmed wrote: Hello All: It want to have knowledge about some Open Source Community that is involued in developing applications and tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. The Python programming language is widely used in science and engineering: http://w

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On 29 Dec, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: >> > >The worst "terrorist" is America, with your depleted uranium >> > >"dirty-bombs" which you throw around at every opportunity, > > A

Re: Upgrade kernel from 2.67?

2005-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 04:05:35AM +0100, Agustin wrote: > On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 02:10:05 +0100, David Mandelberg wrote: > > > Agustin wrote: > >> Thanks, Adam. This is exactly what I want to do, but I'm not sure what I > >> can delete or move. How will I find this out? > > You can get rid of older

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: >> i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than >> something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a >> city wouldnt kill THAT many people, but it'd keep them out of t

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 03:43:10PM +0500, Nayyar Ahmed wrote: > Hello All: > > It want to have knowledge about some Open Source > Community that is involued in developing applications and > tools to supports various fields of science like Physics, Bio, Chemistry etc. > > As Govt. Of Pakistan have

Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Zachary Rizer
Hello d-u,   I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated audio.  Specifically, from lspci:   :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 Audio (rev 01)   A bit of googling shows what module to use (ac97_codec).  However, the system says that /dev

Re: Is there any Open Source Community of Scientists?

2005-01-03 Thread Olav Lavell
Op ma, 03-01-2005 te 08:28 -0700, schreef Paul E Condon: > CERN, the European center for research in high energy physics has > a very active computer group that supports high energy physics and > is energetically international. All of their work has financial > support from governments and is gen

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Monday January 3 2005 16:48, Zachary Rizer wrote: > I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated audio. > Specifically, from lspci: > > :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM AC'97 > Audio (rev 01) > > A bit of googling shows what module to use (

Re: grep & tar segfault - broken system

2005-01-03 Thread Alexandros Papadopoulos
On Monday 03 January 2005 12:59, Alexandros Papadopoulos wrote: > [0] GREP segfaults: > helios:/# grep > Segmentation fault > [1] TAR segfaults too: > helios:/# tar -cf boot.tar boot/ > Segmentation fault On closer inspection, I realised that "find" segfaulted too. I also checked the md5sums of

Re: Palm-Tool (something like JPilot) for console?

2005-01-03 Thread ViCToRy
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:59:21PM +0100, Dani Belz wrote: > I already have pilot-xfer installed. I use it to get data out of my > Palm. But it is binary data I can not edit. What I search is a > console tool to edit my todos, appointments, etc. based on this data > and then sync it back to my Palm

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread David P James
On Mon 3 January 2005 01:59, David Garamond wrote: > I found these gecko-based browsers in the repository. > > mozilla-browser > mozilla-firefox > kazehakase > galeon > epiphany > > Any others that I missed? > > I wonder if there's a browser with different/alternative UI. All of > the abo

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 00:47 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:15 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > How about an expired Oregon Driver's License? I've moved up and down > > the coast over the years. By the way, experience tells me that the > > Willamette Valley fails the 'soun

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 05:36 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 12:48:11AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Monday 03 January 2005 12:03 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > > > Poets aren't always stupid, but they do fall within Sturgeon's Law: > > > 80% of everything is [crap]. > > >

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Zachary Rizer (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I recently moved an installation to a new box, which has integrated > audio. Specifically, from lspci: > > :00:1f.5 Multimedia audio controller: Intel Corp. 82801BA/BAM > AC'97 Audio (rev 01) > > A bit of googling shows what module to use

dbischema [ was: Re: [OT], Database Comparer ]

2005-01-03 Thread Sam Watkins
Hi there, database people. I have persuaded my database munger program "dbischema" to work properly again, written some manpages for it, and put it in a .deb The company I wrote it for has given me permission to release it under the GPL. http://nipl.net/dbischema/ Dbischema lets you automatic

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 02 January 2005 11:53 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 23:15 -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-01-02 at 20:30 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Tom Allison wrote: > > > > > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > > > >> On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote:

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 06:24 am, William Ballard wrote: > On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:04:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:15 pm, John Hasler wrote: > > > Alvin Smith writes: > > > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a > > > > product

amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the amanda utilities). But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, access to the tape drive is denied -- /dev/nst0 is root:tape, permissions are

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles > from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirement > for residency it's sadly slipped over the last 10 years. What are you talking about? Portla

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 10:45:48AM -0700, Glenn English wrote: > Amanda is installed and commands and scripts are working well from the > command line (I did have to add the sbins to backup's path to run the > amanda utilities). > > But when I run a shell script as a cron job as user backup, acce

Re: different gecko-based browsers?

2005-01-03 Thread Travis Crump
David Garamond wrote: Travis Crump wrote: - No optical zooming (is it possible with gecko?) Ctrl-Alt-+ :), That's font scaling, not optical zooming :) No, font scaling is Ctrl-+, Ctrl-Alt-+[and for me only the + on the keypad works not the += key] zooms the entire desktop while keeping the same

Re: aic7xxx won't load, SOLVED?

2005-01-03 Thread Didde Brockman
I noticed that 2.6.10 actually contained a new aic79xxx driver which is working like magic at the moment. I managed to build a boot cd from this after quite a lot of work... Later on I also noticed that the boot disks from http://wiki.osuosl.org/display/LNX/Debian+on+Dell+Servers would work as wel

Re: Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Sat, Jan 01, 2005 at 11:27:19AM -0500, J.F.Gratton wrote: > Besides trying my PDA into each and every USB port (trial/error), is > there a way to know which port is actually ttyUSB[01] ? The USB ports on your computer do not actually correspond to specific devices. The device nodes are mapped

Re: Need Camcorder Firewire Help - Thanks

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas H. George
Thanks for the suggestions which solved my problems. I installed gscanbus and when it aborted, I ran strace gscanbus which showed the problem was a failure to open /dev/raw1394. A check showed this file was owned by root and disk but with only 660 permissions. I changed the permissions to 666 an

Re: Whence cometh grove.log

2005-01-03 Thread Andrew Schulman
> I have a file, 'grove.log' in my root folder: > > -rw-r--r-- 1 root staff 65 Oct 28 22:24 /grove.log > > It contains just one line: > > 20041028 22:24:51 grove: client (pid 20227) exited with 1 status > > Does anyone know where such a file may come from and what it means? > Log files in the

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Rich Rudnick
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:46 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 03 January 2005 08:48 am, Rich Rudnick wrote: > > > Portland ranks among the top three cities I've lived in for smiles > > from strangers, but if being 'in tune enough' is a now a requirement > > for residency it's sadly slipped

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 08:30 AM, Christian Hammers wrote: Hello Cut & paste from xterm via mouse-middle-click does not work with mozilla-firefox on a Debian Sarge desktop. It used to work with Mozilla 1.7 and it does work on my Debian Sid desktop at home. When I paste it via middle-click into a gnome-termin

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Necati DEMiR
# dmesg|grep hdb ide_setup: hdb=ide-scsi ide0: BM-DMA at 0xffa0-0xffa7, BIOS settings: hda:DMA, hdb:DMA hdb: HL-DT-ST GCE-8400B, ATAPI CD/DVD-ROM drive # ls /dev/ MAKEDEVinitctl ram14tty10 tty3 tty49 ttyS1 ttyS29 ttyS48 adsp inputram15tty11 tty30 tty5 ttyS10

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:45:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > No, Couer d'Alane, ID is *quite* racist despite having only one black > person as far as I can tell. Scary place, I'm a Scottish white boy and > I felt too black to be there. CdA is home of the KKK... You need to broaden your hori

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:26:15PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: > You missed this in searching for your answer. :) > > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html > > $ gnome-keybinding-properties Is there an equivalent answer for folks not running GNOME or KDE? I'm stumped, at presen

Re: Where to put the PDA ?

2005-01-03 Thread J.F.Gratton
Thanks for the info and since I'll get another PDA this week, I'll look into the udev tweaking just as you did. This reply gives me plenty of information on stuff I thought abnormal (for instance, seeing the PDA registering 2 ttys). Hotsyncs now work properly on my system, with a difference with w

Re: Integrated sound / ALSA / New Hardware

2005-01-03 Thread Zachary Rizer
Thanks Andreas.  I'm going to attempt to upgrade the machine to 2.6 (as I had this planned anyway).  I did an upgrade via apt, and rebooted remotely and it hasn't come back up.  I'll check it once I get home.  Thanks again for your help, it explained it very well.   ~Zaq   p.s. -- Sorry for top-pos

Re: Tool for finding and choosing access point.

2005-01-03 Thread Alex Polite
After some more googling I found kismet. It does just what I want. It's also packaged for Debian. alex -- Alex Polite http://polite.se -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Compiling xterm with 256-color support

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Dickey
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> are three old-fashioned-looking buttons, something out of the earliest > That's the toolbar option (which you can turn off). Here's a screenshot, for context: ftp://invisible-island.net/temp/utf8-demo.png and the bugs you're describing were fi

Re: mondoarchive - error in mkisofs

2005-01-03 Thread Robert S
> Was there such a file? Which file do you refer to? > Anyway, this: http://www.sorcerer.mirrors.pair.com/sources/mindi/ and > mondo has other levels. I use mondo 1.67 and mindo 0.87 with a > mindi-kernel with great success. So I tend not to change levels until my > system hardware changes and th

Re: cut&paste doest not work with mozilla-firefox on some hosts?

2005-01-03 Thread Ralph Katz
On 01/03/2005 03:00 PM, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 02:26:15PM -0500, Ralph Katz wrote: You missed this in searching for your answer. :) http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2004/10/msg03534.html $ gnome-keybinding-properties Is there an equivalent answer for folks not runnin

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Sue Spence
William Ballard wrote: You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the 90% white city. Then you can demonstrate your "tolerance" an

Re: Connection timeouts with SSH and CVS

2005-01-03 Thread Norman Davis
Problem solved! Our firewall is blocking ranges of incoming ports that just happens to incidentally work (usually, but not always) for windows. Too see your settings, type sysctl net.ipv4.ip_local_port_range The default is 32768 61000, and so my system had been picking incoming ports for SSH

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:13 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > >> i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant than > >> something intended to actually cause death... setting off a big one in a

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:01 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > On 29 Dec, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 08:28 pm, Sam Watkins wrote: > >> On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > Wrong. Natural uranium is >99% U238, with trace amounts of

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:54 +0100, René Seindal wrote: > Alvin Smith wrote (03-01-2005 04:01): > > On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:45 pm, Mauro Darida wrote: > > > > > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu." > >>> > >>>Perhaps the poster would be turned off by any n

Torrent client kills my sound

2005-01-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
Hi List. This is the third time I've had a Linux OS where a torrentclient has stopped the sound. It's beginning to bother me. Today I run Debian Sarge, earlier I had Debian Sarge and Mandrake 10.0. What happens is: I extract the folder containing the bittorrent-client Azureus, and start the progra

evolution and courier-imap-ssl

2005-01-03 Thread Darryl Cousins
Hi all, Evolution is reading correctly mail folders on my remote courier-imap-ssl server but is not downloading any mail or headers. On the server: ~/Maildir was created with maildirmake and mail is coming through procmail into the .* subfolders (also created with maildirmake) and are being stor

HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Vegard Lundby Rekaa
I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: %!PS-Adobe-3.0 %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) I tried deleting the printer with 'localhost:631' and 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:18:19PM +, Sue Spence wrote: > I was born in and frequently spend time in a major American city which > has a "white" population of ~30%. About 60% are African-American. My > father grew up there, and my sister still lives there. I can't say that > we have ever fou

Re: [Way off topic] depleted uranium

2005-01-03 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 15:37:17 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 10:13 -0500, Christopher Judd wrote: > > On 29 Dec, dorn hetzel wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 09:48:56AM -0800, bandito wrote: > > >> i think they'd be used more as an environmental contaminant

Re: mknod, /dev/hdb, /dev/cdrom problem

2005-01-03 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 21:38:34 +0200, Necati DEMiR <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > > > it is a cd-writer. i think debian knows a cd-writer is connected and > loads the module ide-scsi, but it doesn't create hdb,cdrom or sr* under > /dev/ directory. > > it is not problem for me to use my

gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
hey all, after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the gaim buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried downgrading to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has anyone else seen something like this? did i somehow remove a package that allows me to resize gtk

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 09:55 -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > First I would check that the 'backup' user is part of the 'tape' > group. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep tape /etc/group tape:x:26:backup > If not a permissions setting of 660 owned by root:tape would give > exactly what you describe

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Jacob S
On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hey all, > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the gaim > buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried downgrading > to version 1.0.2, but the problem persists. has anyone else

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

2005-01-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (03/01/05 23:09), Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote: > I used the lpr command to print an image, which gave me great problems. > The printer writes text on every 4th page saying: > %!PS-Adobe-3.0 > %%Creator: The X Print Server's PostScript DDX (xprint.mozdev.org) > > I tried deleting the pri

"best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread dorn hetzel
Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with 2.6.10ish kernel.

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:51PM -0600, Jacob S insinuated: > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > hey all, > > > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer resize the > > gaim buddy window horizontally to smaller than 216px. i tried > >

Re: amanda troubles

2005-01-03 Thread Glenn English
More diagnostics. when crontab line is "* * * 7 * echo [`whoami`]" running the job prints "[backup]" if line == "echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 status`" output == "mt: /dev/nst0: Permission denied" command line: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo [`whoami`] [backup] [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo `mt -f /dev/nst0 sta

Re: gaim won't resize horizontally

2005-01-03 Thread Nori Heikkinen
on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 06:04:33PM -0500, Nori Heikkinen insinuated: > on Mon, 03 Jan 2005 04:50:51PM -0600, Jacob S insinuated: > > On Mon, 3 Jan 2005 17:39:31 -0500 > > Nori Heikkinen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > hey all, > > > > > > after upgrading to gaim version 1.1.0, i can no longer re

Re: "best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Roberto Sanchez
dorn hetzel wrote: Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with

Re: Sarge

2005-01-03 Thread YH
Hi, Is sarge stable to install? I want to use 2.6 kernel, either I can upgrade kernel from woody or re-install completely from Sarge, which one is better? Thanks and please CC my email address. YH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

cd burning oddities

2005-01-03 Thread Chrissie Brown
Hello! Me and a friend of mine are both running Debian unstable, Kernel 2.6.7. At the last dist-upgrade ~1 month ago we began suffering from the following issues: I am a Gnome User and want to burn a Data CD via eroaster. I get the following Message: A programming error has been detected during

Re: names good for marketing

2005-01-03 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 21:18 +, Sue Spence wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > > > You need to broaden your horizons. Besides, I didn't say it's hard to be > > racist if you live in a mostly-white area: I said it's easy not to be. > > > > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I

Re: "best" high performance video card for debian

2005-01-03 Thread Mike
dorn hetzel wrote: Ok, I know this is a subjective question with subjective answers, but would anyone care to venture personal recommendations on good high performance video cards which work well and are relatively easy to get X up and running well on. Platform would be some flavor of debian with

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