Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 12:15:09PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Thanks for proving my point by focusing on one point and getting stuck on it > instead of looking at the overall picture. > > Now look at how much government grew, including how big the debt grow under > Reagan, Bush, and Bush, co

Re: When kill -9 won't do

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:48:28AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Other than rebooting the machine, is there a stronger kill signal than -9 ? > > I was scp'ing some files from a CD drive on the remote machine; the > process hung, so I ctrl-C'd on my end. Then I ssh'd into the remote > machine, and I se

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 02:19:02PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Dirk wrote: > > I would like to know If anyone can write CD's/DVD's with kernels newer > > than 2.6.8 without problems?! > > Sure. > > Without a lspci, hdparm /dev/ and a bit more information, it g

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:26:44PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > David Jardine wrote: > > >Wouldn't that give you the same result as a direct popular election, > >"mob rule" as you call it? > > I wrote the above sentence, only to realise after I'd sent it off what nonsense it was. Apologies for the n

Re: rebuilding packages

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:53:04PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > Hi All, > > caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning > stuff) I compiled a few packages from source from the project (apt-get source > ...). > I found out that in some cases (notably snmpd and glibc

Re: Debian Unstable kills MatlabR14

2005-08-29 Thread Ben Pearre
Still no luck. An excellent guess, but that turns out not to be it. http://www.mathworks.com/support/solutions/data/1-1ATCE.html?solution=1-1ATCE indicates that setting LD_ASSUME_KERNEL isn't necessary with Matlab after version 6.5.1.  And in fact I've been running Matlab quite happily under 2.6

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:39:53AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I ran out of space in a 9 Gbyte /var directory, most of the space > consumed by debug, kern.log and syslog files. With a little searching I > found the logrotate command and realized these files were being > rotated. In /var/

Re: some cron.daily scripts not running

2005-08-29 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 8/29/05, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > swk writes: > > The names are touch.test and ntpdate.cron. > > Lose the periods. > -- > John Hasler > Didn't know that was an issue so I'll check the results tomorrow. Thakns! -- swk

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:39:25PM +0200, David Jardine wrote: > > Just a thought: is your machine actually switched on at the time > logrotate is supposed to do its job? The default time is about > six in the morning and on my (home) machine it only performs on > the odd occasion that I work

Re: rack servers debian friendly

2005-08-29 Thread Pete Clarke
Having found the Netserver LPr to be not so debian friendly, I'm looking to buy a coupla used 600mhz 2u units that are more friendly. I'd like to be able to load mepis up in case of emergency etc, though the unit's will have debian sarge installed. I had a little problem with my LPr too - but

Re: A question about logrotate

2005-08-29 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 04:46:56PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > Blasphemy!!! :-) > > All *nix machines should be on around the clock. To do otherwise is > borderline sacrilege. Maybe yours wouldn't be whirring away three feet from your head when when you were in bed :) Anyway, it seem

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Dirk
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Dirk wrote: > >>I would like to know If anyone can write CD's/DVD's with kernels newer >>than 2.6.8 without problems?! > > > Sure. > > Without a lspci, hdparm /dev/ and a bit more information, it gets > difficult to know why you cannot,

gaim/gtk themes

2005-08-29 Thread Wayne Sitton
I'm running etch,KDE, and Gaim. Problem is the incomming messages window, the text is too small to read. I've changed the type of gtk theme, and even increased the font size. But it increases the font size for everything but the incoming messages window. does anyone know how to increase the fon

Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Dowie
I've got Debian running on a VMware Workstation (hosted on WinXP Pro). I'm trying to configure it to run at higher screen resolutions than the 800*600 it can manage just now. The producers of VMware have a package that I've downloaded and am now trying to configure but it seems to require:

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Michael Spang
Dirk wrote: I thought that (since 2.6.8) it is a common problem that ppl can't burn stuff with cdrecord anymore... I was told to try/use dvdrecord instead of cdrecord... cdrecord works fine for burning cds, and I'm running 2.6.13-rc6. Its just a matter of setting the device correctly. Mic

Re: Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread Martin Dowie
Should have mentioned I'm running Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 with a default installation off the net install CD. VMware is version 5.0. -- Martin Martin Dowie wrote: I've got Debian running on a VMware Workstation (hosted on WinXP Pro). I'm trying to configure it to run at higher screen resolution

Re: procmail & spamassassin

2005-08-29 Thread Enrique Morfin
> > How can i tell spamassassin or procmail to check > the > > message only once? (then deliver to each mailbox) > > Have a look at the sa-exim package, which will scan > it before it gets to > Procmail. > Thank you very much. I'm testing it right now. Don't you know something similar for clamav

Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-29 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:51:23AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > 2. I need to run a GUI to read the forum I read a small number of web-based forums and I find that a text-mode browser such as links actually makes them far more usable. If I am in a graphical environment such as X (most of the

asking for passphrase after upgrading to 2.6.8-2-686

2005-08-29 Thread Basso Marco
Hello, I got a linux sarge box with no keyboard/mouse/monitor which i use as router + server and i'm accessing it remotely via ssh. After last sarge upgrade (changed kernel from 2.4.27-2-686 to 2.6.8-2-686) it started asking for a passphrase at boot time (Enter passphrase), i have no clues a

Re: gaim/gtk themes

2005-08-29 Thread Erik Steffl
Wayne Sitton wrote: I'm running etch,KDE, and Gaim. Problem is the incomming messages window, the text is too small to read. I've changed the type of gtk theme, and even increased the font size. But it increases the font size for everything but the incoming messages window. does anyone know h

why can't I unsubscribe

2005-08-29 Thread Robert Roberts
I want to change my isp and the Debian keeps telling me that I am not subscribed. I copied and pasted all info. How do I keep getting mail if I am not subscribed. Robert -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.10.16/83 - Rel

Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Alvaro
Hi List I downloaded, patched and compiled the kernel 2.6.11.7 for using bootsplash. I used the following command: MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-3.3" make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 kernel_image But when I want to boot the computer using it, the bootsplash silent mode screen apears and it freezes. I

dpkg/dselect only sees installed packages

2005-08-29 Thread Lars Helgeland
Having just installed sarge from dvd, how do I make dpkg/dselect see the complete list of available packages, and not just those already installed by apt-get/aptitude? -- Lars -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Dirk wrote: > /dev/dvd: > IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) > unmaskirq= 0 (off) > using_dma= 0 (off) ^ hdparm -u 1 -d 1 /dev/dvd If it complains, configure your next kernel to allow DMA for ATAPI devices, and try again... > I thought th

Re: procmail & spamassassin

2005-08-29 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 14:31 -0700, Enrique Morfin wrote: > > > How can i tell spamassassin or procmail to check > > the > > > message only once? (then deliver to each mailbox) > > > > Have a look at the sa-exim package, which will scan > > it before it gets to > > Procmail. > > > Thank you very m

Re: rack servers debian friendly

2005-08-29 Thread Rodney Richison
Pete Clarke wrote: Having found the Netserver LPr to be not so debian friendly, I'm looking to buy a coupla used 600mhz 2u units that are more friendly. I'd like to be able to load mepis up in case of emergency etc, though the unit's will have debian sarge installed. I had a little proble

OT: document scanning into pdf/ps file?

2005-08-29 Thread Ishwar Rattan
I am running Debian deriveative system. Is there a way to scan in a document (as one image per page) and concatenate them into a single pdf or postscript file? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian running on VMware Workstation

2005-08-29 Thread botio
> > "You need the kernel sources installed with a valid configuration > >file for the running kernel; on SuSE, you have to do a "make > >cloneconfig" at a minimum. I don't know if the Debian kernel has > >the same option or not." > > [last help message from a VMware newsgroup] > >

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2005-08-29 Thread Robert Roberts
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Re: DVD burning with 2.6.13

2005-08-29 Thread Dirk
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Dirk wrote: > >>/dev/dvd: >> IO_support = 0 (default 16-bit) >> unmaskirq= 0 (off) >> using_dma= 0 (off) > > ^ > > hdparm -u 1 -d 1 /dev/dvd > > If it complains, configure your next kernel to allow DM

Re: unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
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Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Katipo
David Jardine wrote: I still don't see the difference between "mob rule" (as used here) and democracy - and how electoral colleges produce the latter rather than the former. That's what I said. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-29 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I have jsut tried to build a kernel 2.6.11 with make-kernel on the daily update Etch box: while I could do a few weeks ago it without difficulty, I get now error messages: I suspected that gcc-4.0 finds code errors where gcc-3.x finds nothing. Is it right ? Is there a work around ?

Re: Installation woes: How can I network boot a dell gx280, including tg3? May require kernel 2.6.12.

2005-08-29 Thread Grant Thomas
On 8/29/05, Turloch O'Tierney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Grant, > > Thanks for the pointer, I have not got it right though. > If I get the tg3 network card working I will write a detailed > description to the mailing list. > > Thank you for your time, > Turloch > > Slightly confused messages f

Re: For sid users: An overview of the KDE C++ ABI transition

2005-08-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Aug 09, 2005 at 11:31:22PM +0200, Adeodato Simó wrote: > Hello all, > > the purpose of this mail is to explain a bit, from a user point of > view, the upcoming C++ ABI transition for KDE: when will it start, and > how will it affect you. If after reading this you still have doubts, >

Sound - again, I know

2005-08-29 Thread Roger Creasy
I cannot get my sound to work correctly. System sounds work. I can play mp3's with Kaboodle. My problem is that I cannot get sound-in to work. I have a cassette player attached to my line in, and try to record using Audacity. Audacity gets no input and nothing is sent to the speakers. Any ideas as

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Katipo wrote: > David Jardine wrote: >> I still don't see the difference between "mob rule" (as used here) and >> democracy - and how electoral colleges produce the latter rather than >> the former. > That's what I said. Because the original intent of the Electoral College was for the people

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread William Ballard
All right, kids, that's enough. Don't make me take off my belt. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Steve Lamb
William Ballard wrote: > All right, kids, that's enough. > Don't make me take off my belt. Yes, the threat of William with his pants down is sure to scare anyone. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection t

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 05:23:24PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Because the original intent of the Electoral College was for the people to > elect representatives who would then look into and considered all candidates > for the Presidency and cast votes in accordance with whom they felt was th

support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Bruno Buys
I was trying to figure out how good is debian support for amd64. Will it stand, in the long run? I do regular internet/email/writing stuff, as well as multimedia editing with marillat's software. I enjoy having a huge software archive, as is the x86 case. Will I suffer under amd64? Any insights?

Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 03:01:31PM -0700, Alvaro wrote: > Hi List > > I downloaded, patched and compiled the kernel 2.6.11.7 for using > bootsplash. I used the following command: > MAKEFLAGS="CC=gcc-3.3" make-kpkg --initrd --revision=custom.1.0 > kernel_image > > But when I want to boot the compu

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 August 2005 05:23 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > Katipo wrote: > > David Jardine wrote: > >> I still don't see the difference between "mob rule" (as used here) and > >> democracy - and how electoral colleges produce the latter rather than > >> the former. > > > > That's what I said. > > B

Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread Darrell Bellerive
I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Nice place except no ADSL or cable Internet services. Until I can get a wireless link going, I will be forced to use dial-up Internet access. Residents in the area report speeds of 26,000 bps are the norm. I will be using a 3COM/US Robotics

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 29 August 2005 05:58 pm, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Parents do a piss poor job of raising their children to be concerned > citizens because they are too busy working their two jobs so they can live > in the nice neighborhood in a 5 bedroom house and drive a new Escalade and > new Mer

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-29 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:53:36PM +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > while I could do a few weeks ago it without difficulty, I get now error > messages: I suspected that gcc-4.0 finds code errors where gcc-3.x finds > nothing. Why don't you use gcc 3.x, then? -- Marc Wilson | A wise man can see

Re: kernel source and gcc-4.0

2005-08-29 Thread Joel Peter William Pitt
On 8/29/05, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello List,I have jsut tried to build a kernel 2.6.11 with make-kernel on the daily update Etch box:while I could do a few weeks ago it without difficulty,I get now error messages: I suspected thatgcc-4.0 finds code errors where gcc-3.x finds no

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon August 29 2005 06:09 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: > I was trying to figure out how good is debian support for amd64. Will it > stand, in the long run? I do regular internet/email/writing stuff, as > well as multimedia editing with marillat's software. I enjoy having a > huge software archive, as is

Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Alvaro
Yes you are ritgth pegaso:/home/aarenas/tmp/spca5xx-20050701# grep --color REISER /usr/src/linux/.config CONFIG_REISERFS_FS=m # CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK is not set # CONFIG_REISERFS_PROC_INFO is not set # CONFIG_REISERFS_FS_XATTR is not set Should I check all options? or only the two first? Alvaro.

Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Alvaro
I also have look at the ext file system pegaso:/home/aarenas/tmp/spca5xx-20050701# grep --color EXT /usr/src/linux/.config # CONFIG_KALLSYMS_EXTRA_PASS is not set CONFIG_MTD_CFI_INTELEXT=m CONFIG_IEEE1394_EXTRA_CONFIG_ROMS=y CONFIG_SERIAL_8250_EXTENDED=y CONFIG_SND_GUSEXTREME=m CONFIG_EXT2_FS=m CO

Re: pci errors

2005-08-29 Thread Ken Heard
I got a very similar result trying to install Sarge on a desktop with a Celeron Coppermine CPU and a Chaintech parent board. Information about hotplug is found at http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net/. I was able to understand the description there of what hotplug does, bit I was unable to un

Re: U.S. federal income tax program

2005-08-29 Thread Jacob S
On Sun, 28 Aug 2005 14:41:25 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 27 August 2005 06:12 am, Jacob S wrote: > > > Yes, I trust my ability to use awful software (Windows) more than I > > trust sys-admins I've never met to keep internet servers secure. > > I seriously question

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Thanks Alan, No openoffice.org for amd64 can be an issue, really. I didn't know that. Also, I don't have mirrors close to me. So, I guess 'keeping an eye' is the right movement, for now. You own a amd64 machine? Does it run too hot? Here in Rio we have like 35 Celsius this month, which is suppo

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Joe Smith
- Original Message - From: "Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:09 PM Subject: support for amd64? I was trying to figure out how good is debian support for amd64. Will it stand, in the long run? I do regular internet/ema

Two questions about building kernels

2005-08-29 Thread David A. Cobb
I'm building 2.6.12 kernels for my own machine. Two things are rather problematical: The content of .config looks like a Makefile snippet. If it is one, can I add to it the values I want for CC & CFLAGS so they are tied to a particular build configuration when I need to re-do it? and The "

Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Joe Smith
ext3 is set but ext2 is a module. I think I muss check it as well. But I'm not sure. Yes. ext3 is very much dependent on ext2. In fact I would personally compile all filesystems I might use directly into the kernel in case I some day need to do some sort of weird booting. -- To UNSUBSCRI

Exim4 & Mail Headers

2005-08-29 Thread Byron Hillis
Hi all, Just a quick question about exim. I've just finished setting it up with fetchmail->exim->procmail->courier-imap, and I must admit it's working very nice. The only thing is, I'm using the smarthost option to send mail (I'm on dial-up), and in the headers, it has... Received: from localh

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Joe, This is good news! More and more it seems that vendors are supplying amd64 as a 'not-so-expensive alternative'... Bruno Joe Smith wrote: - Original Message - From: "Bruno Buys" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Newsgroups: gmane.linux.debian.user Sent: Monday, August 29, 2005 9:09 P

Linux 2.6.10 kernel with IBM xSeries 336, HP DL360G4 & ASUS AP2400R servers

2005-08-29 Thread Ravindra Ranasinghe
Title: Message Hi   We, a research group conducting some research on VOIP, QoS, secured connections, SCPS for satellite communication links seek to purchase a few stable and powerful Intel-based servers for conducting our field trials. The potential servers that we are looking for should b

Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread David R. Litwin
I ask this here because I have no idea how to word it for Google. My appologies in advance.On windows, it is quite easy to insert a special character: For example, e with an acute accent (é) is  accessed via typing Alt+0233. Simply, how do I do this on Debian?Thank you kindly in advance.-- —A watch

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:56:45PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > I ask this here because I have no idea how to word it for Google. My > appologies in advance. > > On windows, it is quite easy to insert a special character: For example, e > with an acute accent (é) is accessed via typing Alt+02

Re: Kernel panic when booting with bootsplash initrd image in kernel 2.6.11.7

2005-08-29 Thread Alvaro
Hi I checked some file system options. Here I will past you my kernel options related to _FS. Could you tell me what module should I include into the kernel. I have compiled it again and still I can't boot without the initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.11.7 (what should be done including the reisers modul

Re: rebuilding packages

2005-08-29 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:25:39 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:53:04PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in defaults, learning > > stuff) I compiled a few packages from source from th

German keyboard layout messed up after upgrade to sarge

2005-08-29 Thread M Carlock
I have been using a German 105-key layout under woody for a while. However, I find under Gnome and KDE that the ALT-GR key no longer has any effect (which means among other things that I cannot type a '@' character), and that my ü, ö and ä keys now produce |, v and d, respectively. Strangely, the

Re: rebuilding packages

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:06:59AM +0200, John Smith wrote: > On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:25:39 -0400 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 09:53:04PM +0200, John Smith wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > > > > caused by various reasons (disagree with compiled in def

Gnome desktop sounds not playing, all other sound works fine

2005-08-29 Thread M Carlock
All sound works fine on my sarge desktop -- realplayer, music player etc. The only exception is the Gnome desktop sounds -- login, logout, error etc. These do not play at all, even when 'play' is selected for the various wav files indicated in gnome-sound-properties (all of which exist, and can b

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread David R. Litwin
You want to use the deadkeys layout.  On my system, I have it set to usethe Windows key as a "quick switch" sort of setup.  I don't always use the deadkeys, but when I need it I want it to be fairly easy. Hmm This doesn't seem like quite what I want, but it will do very nicely. I've read vaguel

Re: Problem Playing Movie Trailers & Clips

2005-08-29 Thread Debian User Leonard Chatagnier
Nick Coleman wrote: On Mon, 29 Aug 2005 16:48, Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: Had these installed but just noticed that the mplayerplug-in*.so files are now missing. Still have the mplayerplug-in*.xpt files. Reinstalled mozilla-mplayer and got mplayerplug-in.so back in /usr/lib/mozi

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 12:26:11AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > You want to use the deadkeys layout. On my system, I have it set to use > > the Windows key as a "quick switch" sort of setup. I don't always use > > the deadkeys, but when I need it I want it to be fairly easy. > > > > Hmm

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread David R. Litwin
I am still running XFree86, so I am not sure if this will apply to you.Based on the version of KDE you are using, it seems like you are on Sid. Anyhow, in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4, I have these lines in the keyboardsection:Option  "XkbLayout" "us,us_intl"Option  "Xk

Re: Alt+numbers for special characters (e with acute accent, for example)

2005-08-29 Thread David R. Litwin
I am running Sid. I beleive KDE does have a lay-out: I shall attempt to find it. I appreciate your Advice. Thank-ee.I found it. I simply changed my key-board lay out. I must say, I never thought of just using a French ley out... I'm a dolt, I suppose.

Re: support for amd64?

2005-08-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon August 29 2005 07:15 pm, Bruno Buys wrote: > Thanks Alan, > No openoffice.org for amd64 can be an issue, really. I was scarred when I found that out! The only reason I use oo at home is to open a table and get some values. I don't have to save anything. Gnumeric does open that table now w

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread j Mak
I also use usrobotics external modem. When I installed sarge, I simply filled out the pppconfig wizard and that was basically it. After that you can type 'pon' in the terminal to connect and 'poff' to disconnect from the internet. If you run kde you can use its graphic Internet connection softwar

Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-29 Thread Ð∂äđ vÎяũŞ
Hello, can someone tell me the basic system requirements for some Linux Desktops? i just need the processor speed and amount of ram required for Gnome, KDE, XFCE4, and Fluxbox, if someone could tell me these that would be just great. thanks in advance.

Re: Desktop System Requierments

2005-08-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 10:48:16PM -0600, Ð???ä?? vÎ?? wrote: > Hello, can someone tell me the basic system requirements for some Linux > Desktops? i just need the processor speed and amount of ram required for > Gnome, KDE, XFCE4, and Fluxbox, if someone could tell me these that would be >

Regalos para este 18 Septiembre

2005-08-29 Thread Bull
Title: ofertas para este 18 septiembre SI NO PUEDE VER ESTE CORREO POR FAVOR PRESIONE AQUÍ ( DAR TU DIRECCION DE BAJA DE ESTA PROMOCION )Acatando la nueva Ley del Consumidor Nº 19.496 y su modificación Nº 19.955 del 2004,en su Artículo 28b, donde regula el envío de correos electrónicos("Tod

Regalos para este 18 Septiembre

2005-08-29 Thread Bull
Title: ofertas para este 18 septiembre SI NO PUEDE VER ESTE CORREO POR FAVOR PRESIONE AQUÍ ( DAR TU DIRECCION DE BAJA DE ESTA PROMOCION )Acatando la nueva Ley del Consumidor Nº 19.496 y su modificación Nº 19.955 del 2004,en su Artículo 28b, donde regula el envío de correos electrónicos("Tod

Re: your mail [non-root shutdown]

2005-08-29 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:21:47AM +, Prabu Subroto wrote: > Dear my friends... > > I want each user of a desktop can shutdown the desktop after they are > finished with their job on the desktop. > In addition to the other posts suggestions you might look into setting up ACPI to monitor th

RE: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-29 Thread Byron Hillis
> > Can anyone share some tips, tricks, or favorite applications to > > increase the useability of a dial-up Internet connection? Lots of patience, overnight downloading, and a friend with a good broadband connection. Byron -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

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