Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Dexter
see commands: "apt-cache" and "apt-get". Those are commands for searching and installing debian packages on command line. Maybe you can make some script of it. See manuals. Dexter2 On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 06:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hello, > > Could someone tell me of commands th

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-07 Thread roberto
--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: I'm not sure if it will do what you want (match an end with a for > or if) but might be a good starting place for further investigation. thank you very much, i think now i have enough material to achieve what i need; i'll let you know if success (or

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Mal Beaton
David E. Fox wrote: > On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700 > Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup >>once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where >>9 track tape was most common). If you had a d

what to do if package can not be removed?

2005-07-07 Thread andreas . sumper
Hi list! I have a strange behaviour with openvpn. I wanted to upgrade from 1.6.0 to 2.0 by typing apt-get install openvpn after inserting the sarge entries in my sources.list. But it stopped with some strange error-codes like 143 So I tried to remove it by typing apt-get remove openvpn. devasta

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Mal Beaton wrote: > rsync to get a complete picture of the system then rdiff-backup for > incremental changes. I actually keep a seperate old box with big disks > just for the backup. I like rdiff-backup as you can do such stuff as > restore this file as it was x days ago. Beats having to dig out t

Re: Debian Install Problem...

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 12:46:24PM -0500, Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: > > > >>I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that > >>has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got > >>through the entire base configu

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:33:03PM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:58:32AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: >> >> Thanks for the suggestion. I would like to try texlive. However I don't >> like to compile stuff on my own and will leave that to Debian > maintai

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:42:59AM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote: > > Hello. > > > > I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to > > 3.1 stable > > and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of

Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Thanks, but 'apt-cache stats' tells me that the number of listed (Normal) packages (I run unstable) is 16286 while 'synaptic' puts that number at 16486. malebo On 7/7/05, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > see commands: "apt-cache" and "apt-get". Those are commands for > searching and installing

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 04:02:03AM -0700, Arias Hung wrote: > Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older > packages than unstable. Hi I did something recently like this, but It is not always a 'true' downgrade. I had a 'sid' pc but the last update was 6 months a g

Re: When minimized, window dissappears...

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:41:32PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Redefined Horizons wrote: > > >I'm running Gnome on Debian Sarge. When I minimize an application > >window in Gnome, the window "dissappears" and I can't get it back. I'm > >used to seeing the window on the taskbar in Windows, but I can'

Retiring promise 378 => Linux mdadm SW Raid + Windows Dynamic Disks

2005-07-07 Thread Enrique F . Céspedes Sánchez
My hardware: 2 SATA HD's and promise fastrack 378. Operating systems: Linux and Windows XP. Can I create a raid 0 with mdadm(or other) for linux partitions and dynamnic disks in raid 0 for windows xp partitions in the sames two hard disks? I wanna retire my promise raid 0. Sorry for my english, t

Re: device problem

2005-07-07 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 08:47:08PM -0700, ken keanon wrote: > I am having a problem with changing device-event > number. I have a usb mouse and a usb tablet. On > boot-up, the mouse is mouse0, event1 and the tablet is > mouse1, event2. Once I go online with my usb ADSL > router, the mouse becomes m

Re: debian reference html

2005-07-07 Thread Peter J Ross
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 03:54:48PM +0200, roberto wrote: > --- Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > > aptitude install debian-reference-en > > thanks, it works, but how to use lynx to display this > debian-reference-en instead of konqueror, which is automatically > started in my sys

totem not running

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Hardy
I have run totem for six months without a hitch. Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, .nautilus, .metacity. This cured my windows manager problem. However now totem will not run. I tried to lau

Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Dexter
Well, I don't know, maybe they use different cache. But I'm curious, why do you need to know number of available packages? What is this information good for? Dexter2 On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Thanks, but 'apt-cache stats' tells me that the number of listed

LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
Hello. I am trying to install my software for an UPS, but I got some problems. BCS:/home/bogdans/Linux# ls resource S99winpower setup.bin setup.bin.lax setup_console.bin setup_console.bin.lax BCS:/home/bogdans/Linux# ./setup.bin /home/bogdans/Linux/resource/jre/bin/i386/native_threads/java: er

Re: Cannot mount usb-storage device (camera)

2005-07-07 Thread Erhard Schultchen
By the way, EFI partition type is NOT set as suggested elsewhere. However I guess the hardware sector count "250593 512-byte hdwr sectors (128 MB)" might be wrong after all - Does anyone know which kernel options need to be tweeked to get this straight? Erhard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2005-07-07 Thread Glug autoresponder
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How to capture sound from streaming flash player?

2005-07-07 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I'm trying to capture sound from a website. Sound comes from flash player, so I can't use mplayer. It seems the only solution is to capture the sound from the sound card, but after much googling and experimenting for hours, I can't do it. Would anyone please help? Basically, I understand

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:16:22PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > Hello. > I am trying to install my software for an UPS, but I got some problems. > > BCS:/home/bogdans/Linux# ls > resource S99winpower setup.bin setup.bin.lax setup_console.bin > setup_console.bin.lax > > BCS:/home/bogdans/Linux

Need help with samsung ML-2250

2005-07-07 Thread John Foster
Subject: Need help with samsung ML-2250 From: John Foster <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have a spanking new Samsung ML-2250 printer installed. I set it up (Debian Unstable with KDE) and I had to use a driver from Samsung [who knew?] yep guys they actually have a Gnome based installer on the factory Cd

Re: (Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:07:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nicos Gollan writes: > > Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I > > hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to > > override its decisions. > > IMHO this vote was more about pow

Re: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:17:21AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I keep getting the following message showing up on my root consoles: > > > > > >>svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request > > > > > > It's been a nuisance during upgrade, because when aptitude decide

Re: How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
I'm just a very curious guy... On 7/7/05, Dexter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I don't know, maybe they use different cache. > But I'm curious, why do you need to know number of available packages? > What is this information good for? >Dexter2 > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 10:14 +0200, Tshep

exim3, mbox, maildir, exim4

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
I would like to upgrade from exim3 to exim 4 (now that I have upgraded from woody to sarge), and also from mbox to maildir format. Should I upgrade the mailbox format before, during, or after upgrading exim? Or are the two upgrades completely independent? Does setting exim to use maildirs cause

Raid10 on Debian Sarge!

2005-07-07 Thread h2t-nl
Hi all, Somebody can share his/her experience for Raid10 configuration on Debian Sarge using e.g. Promise S150 SX4-M or Adaptec 2410SA controller card. Which config is adviseable? Using HW-raid or Linux SW-raid. Your feedback will be appreciated. Regards, Hok Hie -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:16:22PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > > Hello. > > I am trying to install my software for an UPS, but I got some problems. > > > > BCS:/home/bogdans/Linux# ls > > resource S99winpower setup.bin setup.bin.la

Re: exim3, mbox, maildir, exim4

2005-07-07 Thread Dick Davies
* Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [0708 15:08]: > I would like to upgrade from exim3 to exim 4 (now that I have > upgraded from woody to sarge), and also from mbox to maildir > format. Should I upgrade the mailbox format before, during, or > after upgrading exim? Or are the two upgrades complete

mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread roberto
Hi, i'm trying to use mc for file managing and i'm currently stuck at the help description of mc where they tell you the shortcuts for "shell command line"; just try to do: F1 > Contents > Shell Command Line then you see a list of shortcuts for using command line but i do not understand what th

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread Robert Vangel
roberto wrote: Hi, i'm trying to use mc for file managing and i'm currently stuck at the help description of mc where they tell you the shortcuts for "shell command line"; just try to do: F1 > Contents > Shell Command Line then you see a list of shortcuts for using command line but i do not un

firewall and Xresolution ?

2005-07-07 Thread joao . miguel . ferreira . 19740720
Hello Debian people, I'm new on Debian. I have worked before with RH, Mandrake and fedora mainlly. I've just intalled a new Debian and have 2 questions 1) is there a simple way interfaces to setting up a simple firewall (blocking all except http and ssh), some scritp or some GUI... ? 2) the sam

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 roberto's comments on mc confusion were as follows: # what is "M-Tab" "M-Enter" "C-Enter" and so-on... "M-Tab", or Alt-Tab is the mc equivalent to the Tab key in the shell. It does command-line completion. "M-Enter", or Alt-Enter puts the currently s

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Roman Muñoz
Hi, (I changed the subject so to find it will be more easy for people googleing or the like. I hope) I have no idea about raid 10, but these are the important things I found about raid on sarge 1) Cheap fake raid cards as Promise (I don't know if this is the case), etc, don't work on 2.6. You co

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:58:18PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:48:36PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > I'd like to make a task launcher that opens an application I have > > installed on my Debian system with Synaptic. > > I don't think you mean Synaptic. Or ma

Re: totem not running

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote : > I have run totem for six months without a hitch. > > Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete > gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, > .nautilus, .metacity. This cured my win

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread roberto
--- Lorenzo Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > roberto's comments on mc confusion were as follows: > # what is "M-Tab" "M-Enter" "C-Enter" and so-on... > "M-Tab", or Alt-Tab is the mc equivalent to the Tab key in the shell. It does > command-line completion. > > "M-Enter", or Alt-Enter pu

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Quoting Bogdan Sicleru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Tha package you want is called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 and is in the oldlibs section of _Woody_. http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_contents.pl?word=LIBSTDC%2B%2B-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2&sear

Re: Call for Mentor

2005-07-07 Thread Dominique Dumont
"Tom Allison" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I've been sitting on the list for a while now and am interested in > creating a series of deb packages for perl modules. But I think I need > a mentor to introduce me to how things work and what my first reading > list or RTFM should be. > > This is an o

Re: installing sarge to lvm

2005-07-07 Thread Josh Battles
Rick Pasotto said: > > That certainly makes sense but HOW DO I DO IT? The installer gives me no > option either to format (select fstype) the logical volumes nor to > specify a mount point. The installer creates the volume groups and > logical volumes but then does nothing with them. When I set up

Re: mc confusion

2005-07-07 Thread michael
> ok it works correctly, even if to do what mc-help says i have to press the > "Esc" key because the > M-Tab or C-Tab combination do dimply what they have ever done: > - switch between windows > - switch between panels > > while the meta keys do not do anything (they are useless like the windows

Fwd: iptables related query

2005-07-07 Thread Yuriy Kuznetsov
Hi, I have aked kind of the same question regarding iptable last week. Look through replies and you'get an idea on how to start with your own iptables scripts from scratch :-) Regards, Yuriy -- Forwarded message -- From: J.A. de Vries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Jul 4, 2005 9:40 AM

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread h2t-nl
Hi Roman, It´s oke to me regarding the subject.. Are you talking about SATA raid here or ATA raid? Because I want to use SATA raid. In my case it doesn´t really matter which raid is to be active. If SW raid as good as the HW raid then I can life with that. The main interested part of my question

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread Jeffrin Jose
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 21:42 -0600, Elmer E. Dow wrote: > After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed > Sarge > a while ago and plan to stick with it. All support to you. > Now I need to select a package manager > to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for off

external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Pete Hicks
I am trying to mount an external 80GB acomdata usb drive on a Sarge laptop with a 2.6.12 kernel. I get the following output from hotplug in syslog: Jul 7 08:16:00 moonglum kernel: hub 1-0:1.0: over-current change on port 1 Jul 7 08:16:00 moonglum kernel: hub 4-0:1.0: over-current change on port

RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a In this experiment I configured as follows: 1st Hard Drive /boot 400mb swap 2GB partition for Raid volume 37 GB 2nd - 4th HD partition for Raid volume 37 GB. A few questions have came up: When I replace a hard drive (simulated crash

Re: Raid on Sarge

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:16:22AM -0700, h2t-nl wrote: > The main interested part of my question is whether somebody on the list > already using or tested with somekind of sata controller! Almost none of the SATA controllers that advertise RAID are real hardware RAID; the RAID features of them ar

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > > In this experiment I configured as follows: > 1st Hard Drive > /boot 400mb > swap 2GB > partition for Raid volume 37 GB > > 2nd - 4th HD > partition for Raid vo

Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Lale
I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files, and the result is a playable audio CD. If I burn a disc using both files, the CD will not play on

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-07 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:09:19AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > you may or may not know that as we speak some great soul is hacking away > on making TeXLive for Debian! There are many details that needed to be > taken care of in respect to Debian and TexLive. But hopefully it will be

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Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Elmer E. Dow wrote: After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentatio

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Bogdan Sicleru <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 08:37 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> Tha package you want is called libstdc++2.9-glibc2.1 and is in the > >> oldlibs section of _Woody_. > >> > >> http:/

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a >> >> In this experiment I configured as follows: >> 1st Hard Drive >> /boot 400mb >> swap 2GB >> partition for Ra

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:57:01AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:53:34AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > >> I have been experiementing with the RAID stuff in Debian 3.1r0a > >> > >> In this experiment I configured

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel > 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I > can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files, and the > result is a

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
> You never mentioned a RAID controller so I assumed software RAID. > If you have a hardware RAID controller then the steps are usually > unique to that hardware and you need to consult its documentation. > That would be a typo - I have no raid controllor - just IDE. What I should have said was

GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Meistro Master
I've recently come back to Debian after several years of disappointing work on other platforms (mainly Mac). In the past, I had used Windowmaker as my window manager and a few GNUstep apps (GNUmail, mainly). Is GNUstep still a useful platform; is it popular? I see that there have been some recent

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > There something that you can try to do instead of double-clicking on > item (this way you'll also experience the user-friendliness of linux): > open a terminal (gnome-terminal or Konsole under KDE (yeah this ugly > command line)) and

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Cam
I too have loved windowmaker... i'm not using it right now (i've been wondering about the development status myself). Anyway, the thing i've been using lately is openbox. It's rad because it can still run the windowmaker dock-apps you're used to, and it's pretty customizeable. The only thing tha

Re: totem not running

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Hardy
Brice Méalier on 07/07/05 16:06, wrote: On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:22:14AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote : I have run totem for six months without a hitch. Yesterday I had a problem with gnome-panel and had to delete my complete gnome configuration by removing the directories .gnome, .gconf, .naut

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Michael Martinell
On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: >> If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? > > You restore from backups or do a new install. > There has got to be a better solution than that. I never want to consider my backups to be a first line of defense against hardware failure.

Sid: latest upgrade broke kmail

2005-07-07 Thread Martin Henne
Hi all, I upgraded my sid today and kmail crashes when started. The debugger says, there's a segfault in QString in libqt-mt.so.3, but while knode and e.g. kdevelop3 is not affected, I could not believe it's QString, because this class is used almost everywhere at KDE (at least I think it is).

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:50:49PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > The JAR file that contains com/zerog/lax/LAX is not in your classpath. > > You need > > to set your CLASSPATH to include it, or pass the -cp option on the > > c

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:57:06AM -0700, Meistro Master wrote: > I've recently come back to Debian after several years of disappointing > work on other platforms (mainly Mac). In the past, I had used > Windowmaker as my window manager and a few GNUstep apps (GNUmail, > mainly). > > Is GNUstep sti

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:49:25 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was a recent major release of WindowMaker to 0.91. I don't > think it is dying at all. To the best I can figure, there are still > many actively developed GNUstep apps out there, with new ones > occasionall

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Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:17:18PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 05:02:13PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > There something that you can try to do instead of double-clicking on > > item (this way you'll also experience the user-friendliness of linux): > > open a terminal

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > I'd say that we should just keep new users away from the > > command line. I do all my work there, but it ceased to be > > the best way for new users to interact with a computer about > > 15 years ago. The problem with the command l

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 14:47 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 07:50:49PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 11:19 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > The JAR file that contains com/zerog/lax/LAX is not in your classpath. > > > You need > > >

OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Kent West
At the risk of starting yet another war about top-posting, I just came across this (year-old) blog by what appears to be the guy who wrote (with a couple of others) the IMAP support in Microsoft's Entourage ("Outlook for the Mac") product. Two things he said that caught my attention: 1) He says h

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > At the risk of starting yet another war about top-posting, I just came > across this (year-old) blog by what appears to be the guy who wrote > (with a couple of others) the IMAP support in Microsoft's Entourage > ("Outlook for the Mac") p

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Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 07 July 2005 10:57, Meistro Master <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is GNUstep still a useful platform; Yes. > is it popular? Not really. > I really do enjoy the NeXT/OPEN/AFTER/step environment, but don't want > to get reacquainted with something that's dying a

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong > fstype: > > % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive > mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/uba, >missing codepage or other error >

Re: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe Soundproblem: modules (snd_intel8x0) loaded but sound is playing only one second

2005-07-07 Thread Daniel Schwark
Hi, ich bin auch total verzweifelt und hoffe, dass Du die Zeit hast mir zu antworten. Auf der Suche nach den richtigen Einstellungen für genau das gleiche Maiboard, A7N8X-Deluxe, finde ich nicht wirklich die wahre Lösung für meine Linuxprobleme. Zwar bekomme ich Sound hin aber nicht über ALSA, s

Re: Sid: latest upgrade broke kmail

2005-07-07 Thread Jules Dubois
On Thursday 07 July 2005 12:14, Martin Henne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I upgraded my sid today and kmail crashes when started. > The debugger says, there's a segfault in QString in > libqt-mt.so.3 > [...] > Does anyone else have this problem? Yes: http://bugs.debian.org/c

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen R Laniel wrote: > I wonder if I may be so bold as to suggest the final word > about top- or bottom-posting. Here it is: Nope. Here's the final word. > Your email program should be smart enough to customize to > your preference. Pipe dream. > Email messages should look like so:

Alsa default card (card0) with multiple cards

2005-07-07 Thread lance
How do I make a sound card my default card at boot using alsa? I have 2 cards, ICE1712 and Intel8x0. ICE1712 is loaded as card0 at boot. Using alsaconf I can change cards so that Intel8x0 is card0 and ICE1712 card1. alsaconf asks if I want to modify /etc/modprobe.d/sound or /etc/modprobe.c

Re: setting up clamav-freshclam on debian-user mailing list

2005-07-07 Thread David A. Cobb
Chris Isomaki wrote: Did you ever resolve this? I'm running into the same problem, and there is no solution posted to the list. Sorry to bother you. Thanks in advance. I can't really say I resolved it. But it seems to have gone away with the most recent ClamAV version(s). I'm showing ClamA

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-07 Thread Brice Méalier
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 03:36:29PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote : > On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 09:15:33PM +0200, Brice Méalier wrote: > > > I'd say that we should just keep new users away from the > > > command line. I do all my work there, but it ceased to be > > > the best way for new users to inte

Networked sound

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
Hi, I am very eager to establish some sort of networked sound. By that I refer to having my sound applications output on a different host on the LAN. Before I start hacking away at it, I would like to know if some of you have made it work. Any easy entry-points? I am already using arts on the r

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Chris Lale
Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel 2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wav files (recorded with sound-recorder). I can burn a CD with cdrecord using either one of the files

Scrolling windows contents leads to temporary freeze and blank areas on the screen

2005-07-07 Thread Joao Carlos de Lima Roscoe
I have just got sarge installed in a IBM Netfinity 3500, with kde and gnome. Everything is running smoothly, except for a kde glitch: When I scroll a window contents (by getting a new line in a console window or by using the scroll bar in an text editor o web browse), I frequently experience a

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-07 Thread roach
On Thursday 07 July 2005 04:45, Jon Roed wrote: > Everything was just way to big, the colors were okay.  I figured out how to > return most of it to normal, but the panel icons are still huge.  I had to > go into the Control Center and change all the text sizes to the right ones, > and change all t

Re: Cannot burn audio tracks with cdrecord

2005-07-07 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 22:33:07 +0100 Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rodney D. Myers wrote: > > >On Thu, 07 Jul 2005 17:10:41 +0100 > >Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>I have this problem in both Stable (Sarge) and Unstable with kernel > >>2.6.8-2-386. I have two .wa

Speedtouch+pppd+br2684ctl

2005-07-07 Thread Paladin
Hello everyone. I've recently installed an ADSL modem as my primary connection to the internet. The modem that my provider gave me is a Speedtouch. I have this installed on a Debian sarge machine, which uses a 2.4 kernel. This was one of the first problems I had: this kernel does not support h

convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread belahcene
Hi, Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one which is recognized by a linux reader like xine, totem or evem real player, I couldn't read it on mozilla, there is no plugin for wmv for linux!! thanks for help bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: Networked sound

2005-07-07 Thread Andrew Nelson
Anders Breindahl wrote: > Hi, > > I am very eager to establish some sort of networked sound. By that I refer to > having my sound applications output on a different host on the LAN. > Before I start hacking away at it, I would like to know if some of you have > made it work. Any easy entry-point

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 00:25, belahcene wrote: > Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one > which is recognized by a linux reader `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should work. Provided, that you got mplayer to play the file. If it doesn't work,

Re: external USB acomdata drive

2005-07-07 Thread Pete Hicks
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 04:38:55PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 08:52:59AM -0700, Pete Hicks wrote: > >> However, when I try and mount the drive, I can an error saying wrong >> fstype: >> >> % sudo mount -t vfat /dev/uba /mnt/extdrive >> mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad su

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Friday 08 July 2005 00:58, Anders Breindahl wrote: > `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should work. Sorry, I meant to say: `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -oac lavc -o outfile.avi' Regards, Anders Breindahl. pgpsLHqS7wksB.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting

2005-07-07 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stephen R Laniel's comments on Re: OT (and Flamebait): Top-Posting were as follows: # On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 02:52:41PM -0500, Kent West wrote: # # # This is some stuff that a guy wrote # # # # I dis

Re: DBM support for mod_rewrite

2005-07-07 Thread PJ
Nicklas, Create this symbolic link: ln -s /lib/libdb1.so.2 /usr/lib/libdb1.so and then run configure again. Resgard Pj

(SOLVED) Re: Ethereal - Assertion Failed when starting (Sid)

2005-07-07 Thread Adam Aube
Adam Aube wrote: > When starting ethereal on Sid, the following error message occurs: [snipped] > Ethereal then quits. Ethereal and all its packages are completely > up-to-date (as of 7/2/05). Searching the archives provided no information. > I filed a bug report about this (#316650), but it do

Re: RAID 5 questions (software)

2005-07-07 Thread Andy Smith
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 01:34:15PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Thu, July 7, 2005 11:11 am, Andy Smith said: > > >> If the first hard drive crashes how do you recover? > > > > You restore from backups or do a new install. > > > > There has got to be a better solution than that. I neve

Re: convert wmv video format ?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 12:58:23AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > On Friday 08 July 2005 00:25, belahcene wrote: > > Is there possibility to convert the wmv window video format to one > > which is recognized by a linux reader > > `mencoder infile.wmv -ovc lavc -ovc lavc -o outfile.avi' should

Re: GNUstep still kicking?

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:59:12AM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Thu, 7 Jul 2005 14:49:25 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There was a recent major release of WindowMaker to 0.91. I don't > > think it is dying at all. To the best I can figure, there are still >

Re: LIBSTDC++-LIBC6.1-1.SO.2

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 10:40:42PM +0300, Bogdan Sicleru wrote: > Well...this program was on my cd that came with the UPS.That's why I > wanted this one.At your advice I searched a little through the packets > and I found something called upsd. > I installed it..but I don't know how to use it.It's

Re: Speedtouch+pppd+br2684ctl

2005-07-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Jul 07, 2005 at 11:25:33PM +0100, Paladin wrote: > Hello everyone. > > I've recently installed an ADSL modem as my primary connection to > the internet. The modem that my provider gave me is a Speedtouch. I > have this installed on a Debian sarge machine, which uses a 2.4 > kernel. This

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