Re: download swf video

2005-06-14 Thread Christian Christmann
> http://whoppix.hackingdefined.com/WHoppix-HDinstall.swf > > That file doesn't have any navigation, so you might want to get the viewer > along with its configuration and build your own short HTML page. Thank you. I could download the movie but as you mentioned I can't play it without the confi

Re: Request for window manager recommendations

2005-06-14 Thread Simon Huggins
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 04:59:47AM -0700, Steve C. Lamb wrote: > On Mon, Jun 13, 2005 at 05:56:46PM +0100, Simon Huggins wrote: > > I need to compile up 4.2.2 packages for sarge and bung them on the > > alioth page at some point. > Mmmm, upgrades. I really should see if there's something later tha

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
John Kelly wrote on Jun, 13: > When booting, I see console messages from programs using stdout and > stderr, scrolling by too fast to read. They are not logged in dmesg > or any /var/log file. > > How to capture them? This fantastic list help me on this one before. Put this in /etc/default/boo

Re: How useful is apt-spy?

2005-06-14 Thread Colin Ingram
David Jardine wrote: However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download speeds from the various s

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > This fantastic list help me on this one before. > > Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd: > > BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes > > Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in > /var/log/boot. Cool! Two things. 1) When I

Post to newsletter@programmazione.it denied

2005-06-14 Thread newsletter+owner
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Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Bill
Hi, I'd like to do a fresh install of Sarge but obviously I don't need to download all 14 cds. Is there a list or an index somewhere that describes each cd? I can't seem to find anything. b.

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > I'd like to do a fresh install of Sarge but obviously I don't need > to download all 14 cds. Is there a list or an index somewhere that > describes each cd? I can't seem to find anything. If you have a (fast) internet connection, most just downloa

Re: How to capture bootup messages?

2005-06-14 Thread Paulo M C Aragão
Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14: > See also > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and neither: CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256 seem to be configured (checked /boot/config-2.4.27-2-686), but bo

Re: packages.debian.org down? (June 14 2005)

2005-06-14 Thread Jules Dubois
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 09:22, Fernando Cacciola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Are there alternative mirrors? (trying the get kdevelop3) http://www.debian.org/mirror/list If you install and use the 'netselect-apt' package, it will time transmissions to the various mirrors

Re: sound problems with 2.6

2005-06-14 Thread Colin
Prasenjit Kapat wrote: > thanx a ton Colin. i surely appreciate it. now as I had mentioned, I > have two sound cards... using alsaconf, i can play ONLY one. > > 1. if set up snd-intel8x0 : i am able to play into the on-board intel > card but into the pci card. > > 2. if i set up snd-ens1371 : i

Re: Top posting

2005-06-14 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 06:41 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 13:01 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > --snip-- > > > No. We are close minded people, like those in the 1950s or before who > > never > > ^^ > > If I see one more post talking about "near-minded" people I'

Re: Gwebdec (Solved)

2005-06-14 Thread David R. Litwin
In the second quote above, I assume you're responding to someone who guessed what Gwebdec is, but got it wrong; you're correcting him. ButI'm not going to spend my time and effort to go find the previous email to get the context. Instead, I'm just going to dangle, makingassumptions about what your

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-14 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:58:56AM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 10:40:24AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > I just discovered the oldstable distribution. What are the implications > > of this? For example, for years I have used cbb (checkbook balancer) > > which I find

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Robert Wolfe
On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Bill wrote: I'd like to do a fresh install of Sarge but obviously I don't need to download all 14 cds. Is there a list or an index somewhere that describes each cd? I can't seem to find anything. Just do a network install -- only 1 CDROM plus it fits on a mini-CDROM :) -

Re: Brief Apt-Get and KDE Question

2005-06-14 Thread David R. Litwin
On 14/06/05, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 01:18:42AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:> I have recently gotten KDE 3.4.1 from deb> http://pkg-KDE.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1/ ./ which is apparently a> legitimate debian site from which to get KDE. Now, after doi

Re: Disk Mirroring in Sarge howto

2005-06-14 Thread Siju George
On 6/15/05, Rhomboid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One thing I forgot in system details: This is with the 2.6 kernel. > Haven't tried install with 2.4. > also did it with the 2.6 kernel but GRUB didi not install in the second hard disk! The first one works fine :-( --Siju

Re: Sarge - disk list?

2005-06-14 Thread Bill
On June 14, 2005 05:56 pm, Thomas Adam wrote: > --- Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'd like to do a fresh install of Sarge but obviously I don't > > need to download all 14 cds. Is there a list or an index > > somewhere that describes each cd? I can't seem to find > > anything. > > If

Re: Fourth Mouse Button

2005-06-14 Thread David R. Litwin
On 14/06/05, David Dorward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/14/05, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> Forgive me, but I see two problems with this:>> Firstly, Options "Buttons" does not exist Create it then.> Secondly, the ZAxisMapping has two> numbers. Shouldn't I be giving two?As I said -

Re: Ifconfig

2005-06-14 Thread David R. Litwin
Firslty, I'm not quite sure what you mean by the Top Post Thread Comment. I've not been paying attention to it. Should I? It seems it discusses the pros and cons of putting a post in a new E-Mail, or inserting it in to the last one. If this is so, which should I be doing? Nexlty, I have High-Sp

Re: Oldstable? Abandoned Packages? Alternatives?

2005-06-14 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 08:57:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > An academic question: If I wrote a standalone program in C strictly for > my own use what would be its lifetime? I have heard it argued that C > (and I assume gcc) is here forever as it is the preferred language for > writing ope

Re: [Bit OT] Printers

2005-06-14 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jun 15, 2005 at 02:06:43AM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > I have a HL-5150D too, and I have problems with some PDF files too. I use > the postscript driver and the printer is supposed to support postscript > but still some pages fail to print. I get a Syntax error message printed. I use a

Re: Gwebdec (Solved)

2005-06-14 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: > > Concerning top-posting, > > you should intersperse your comments just after the material to > which you're replying > > > In that case, I'll disperse my replies within the text. A wise move. > The only reason I've been deleting is that, on another fairly >

Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Mitja Podreka
Hello When using Thunderbird I get reminded all the time to "compact the folder to save space". I know this is good, but i want to do it when I want, not evertime I want to read my new mail! And when I click Cancel or OK button on the popup window, my cursor changes, to the one which appears

Konqueror annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Mitja Podreka
Hello Some time ago I visited a folder on my NTFS partition and since then this folder appears everytime I start Konqueror. I have setup Konqueror to use my /home/mitja folder as a home folder, but it doesn't help. -- Mitja Podreka http://mitja.kizej.net -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Gwebdec (Solved)

2005-06-14 Thread David R. Litwin
PS. I think a lot of people are hesitant to use their "good" emailaddresses on this list, such as a Gmail account, because the list mail is publicly archived, and spammers tend to scrape addresses from the archives. I'm not too concerned: It has a great spam filter. And two gigabytes of free space

debian package list

2005-06-14 Thread Simon
Hi There, Im installing a new server to replace one of our old ones. Its a LAMP(PHP) server, so i am installing a nice fresh version of sarge. The old server was running sarge as well... Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the n

Re: Konqueror annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Ryan Schultz
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:38 am, Mitja Podreka wrote: > Hello > > Some time ago I visited a folder on my NTFS partition and since then > this folder appears everytime I start Konqueror. I have setup Konqueror > to use my /home/mitja folder as a home folder, but it doesn't help. > > -

Re: debian package list (dont worry - got it)

2005-06-14 Thread Simon
Simon wrote: Hi There, Im installing a new server to replace one of our old ones. Its a LAMP(PHP) server, so i am installing a nice fresh version of sarge. The old server was running sarge as well... Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont mis

Re: /etc/debian_version - the penny drops

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday June 14 2005 1:23 pm, David Jardine wrote: > When upgrading to Sarge, I was asked if I wanted to keep my old > entry in /etc/debian_version or have it replaced by the package's > version. > > I was surprised to see that the default was to keep the old entry > (which explains why people u

Re: debian package list

2005-06-14 Thread Mart Frauenlob
Hello Simon, Simon wrote: Is there an easy place to get a list of installed packages... To make sure that i dont miss any in the new install? dpkg --get-selections should bring up all you need. Mart -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Mitja Podreka ha escrit, a 15/06/05 06:33: > Hello > > When using Thunderbird I get reminded all the time to "compact the > folder to save space". > I know this is good, but i want to do it when I want, not evertime I > want to read my new mail! > > And when I click Cancel or OK button on t

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi Mitja, > Can you give us a hint? > 1. What version of TBird? Prime reason for some headers right there. ;) User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5

Re: Setting IP address not working

2005-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 14 June 2005 22:55, Kent West wrote: ...> > I'm coming into the middle of this thread, so I may be heading the wrong > direction. What does your "/etc/network/interfaces" file contain? Nothing dramatic # This file describes the network interfaces available on your system # and how to

Re: Mailinglists

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday June 14 2005 3:38 am, VFJ - Damiaan Peeters wrote: > Which one should we use? > Things that are very important to me: > * I have several list owners each managing there own list(s) > * Not to hard to administer for the list owners (webinterface = > ok, shell = nok) > * A translation sho

Re: Bayes? - 3rd try

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday June 14 2005 10:58 am, John Fleming wrote: > Not sure what I'm doing wrong, but noone has responded to my > question - > > If Bayes is working properly, am I supposed to have a Bayes_ entry > in the X-Spam_Status header info for every email? I think that's > the way it used to be - Baye

Re: Login as a root

2005-06-14 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday June 13 2005 11:27 pm, puishor wrote: > So... the question is what should i write in .bashrc (eventually > plus the password) , so that konsole app would login me as a root > user by default ? Don't. You don't want to defeat the system's security. Giving every user all privleges is o

Re: Gwebdec (Solved)

2005-06-14 Thread Kent West
David R. Litwin wrote: > By the bye, where are the archives? http://www.debian.org/ then scroll down the left-hand pane to "Mailing List Archives", then "Users", scroll down to "debian-user", and pick your month (or just go straight to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/). You can also use the s

Re: Thunderbird annoyance

2005-06-14 Thread Jonathan Kaye
En/La Steve Lamb ha escrit, a 15/06/05 08:07: > Jonathan Kaye wrote: > >>Hi Mitja, >>Can you give us a hint? >>1. What version of TBird? > > > Prime reason for some headers right there. ;) > > User-Agent: Debian Thunderbird 1.0.2 (X11/20050331) > Right you are, Steve (*blush*). My TBird hi

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