Experience more powerful orgasms

2005-10-22 Thread Teddy Crockett
Buyer beware - Penis patches! http://www.sulige.com/pt/ Awards are merely the badges of mediocrity. I felt like poisoning a monk. Memory feeds imagination. There's no underestimating the intelligence of the American public. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-22 Thread steef
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Robert Epprecht wrote: Excuse this probably very stupid question, but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... I've got my first external usb hd which one? and can mount it without problems as /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-386).

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-22 Thread Alan Ezust
Actually, there are a number of different wiki formats available on different systems, and many of them allow a structured markup which can be translated into a book form, and perhaps even into docbook/XML or latex. If you are not using lots of equations, Docbook/XML is a great file format to use

Re: Why don't I have /dev/inotify?

2005-10-22 Thread David Purton
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:31:16AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-03 at 11:23 +0930, David Purton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I grabbed a 2.6.13.2 kernel off kernel.org and built it with these > > options: > > > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS=y > > CONFIG_EXT2_FS_XATTR=y > > CONFIG_EXT3_FS

Re: Re: Re: X.Org Hits Testing: Xorg synaptics touchpad problem?

2005-10-22 Thread Torsten Crass
BTW, I forgot to mention that I am using kernel 2.6.12.10... Cheers -- Torsten -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: strange error apach2 + cgi error

2005-10-22 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:31:11AM -0700, Radhika wrote: > > Hi, Hi, > I am migrating my webserver from apache1.3 to apache2.I am running > apache2.0.54 on debian3.1 One of the differences between Apache 1.3 and Apache 2 in Debian is how the module loading is defined. In Apache2 you enable

Re: apt-get update problems

2005-10-22 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 02:17:55PM +0200, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi! > > thanks lots of useful information. now the situation with gpg signing is > much clearer to me. i encountered the same problem while updating my > other testing boxes - immediately after new apt (0.6.x) was installed i > coul

Re: /root/.ssh/authorized_keys and command= entries

2005-10-22 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 09:48:06PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Debian user: > > I am trying to figure out how to execute a shutdown on a Debian 3.0 machine > using "ssh root@ " syntax, but don't want to allow root logins. > > > RTFM "man sshd_config" indicates that I need the following lin

problem with fonts in sid

2005-10-22 Thread Bai-Lin Deng
Hi all, I have both kde and gnome installed in sid and found the following problem: I have specified both gtk and qt fonts at 9 pixels. However when I firstly launch gtk applications in kde, the gtk fonts seems to be smaller than qt fonts. And after I launch "gnome control center"(simply launc

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Nelson wrote: On Fri, 21 Oct 2005 11:06:33 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I setup some environment variables needed by applications in user .bash files. Starting these applications from a console works fine. But starting these applicat

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
steef wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Robert Epprecht wrote: Excuse this probably very stupid question, but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... I've got my first external usb hd which one? and can mount it without problems as /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel

[SOLVED] Dhcp request on wrong eth

2005-10-22 Thread Lars
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Well, the solution seems strange. The way my NIC's was arranged was that a old 100 Mbit was eth0 and two newer 1 Gbit was eth1 & 2. So i configurated eth1 as wan and eth2 as local-lan, and that didn't work. Now i reconfigurated so eth0 was WAN-NIC and

Re: knoppix-autoconfig

2005-10-22 Thread migno888
Hello! You can try this: Go to the chroot environment # cd / # rm -fr tmp/ # ln -s /var/tmp/ exit the chroot environment reference: http://cogent.dl.sourceforge.net/sourceforge/morphix/tech2k-mainmod-v2.pdf Section 2: Build a maindmod from scratch, page 5 Regards! Sylvie Selon Paras pradhan

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-22 Thread SpamHog
Mike, I promise you, I never meant to touch the MBR! Once you bide grub (either interactively or from any boot sector of any partition) root (hdx,y) you overrule the spell in the MBR. You can install several distros and have each recognize all the preexisting ones during the instal, an

Re: Problem with DNS resolving on Debian sarge

2005-10-22 Thread Yoav
I did that yesterday, eth0 was set to dhcp, so I set it to the static addr.you mentioned, and there haven't been any problems so far :)thank you for your help! On 10/21/05, Marc PERRUDIN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Yoav a écrit :> Hi... I'm having a problem with my connection (PPPoE) on a fresh> Deb

DHCP on samba

2005-10-22 Thread partha
Hi Every one , I have installed Samba server and i want to install dhcp on the same server . Can i do it? Regards, Partha -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Irq problem with PCMCIA Card

2005-10-22 Thread carmo
Hi, I'm trying to use debian on an IBM Thinkpad 600 to us it as a gateway ... It has two D-link DFE-690TXD PCMCIA Card connectd to it, one is connected directly on PCMCIA Port, the other is connected to a port replicator's port ... the one that is directly connected works fine, but the other

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-22 Thread Rick Friedman
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 01:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > http://openoffice.debian.net/ > 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable > It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded with target > unstable. Because it has NEW binary packages again (and was > renamed back to openoffice.

Novell Server

2005-10-22 Thread disciple
I would like to access files on a Novell Server. How do I set up my debian box to do that? Do I need some sort of Novell Client? Thanks everyone... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP on samba

2005-10-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (22/10/05 17:28), partha wrote: > Hi Every one , > > I have installed Samba server and i want to > install dhcp on the same server . Can i do it? I can't think of any good reason why not :) Regards Clive -- www.clivemenzies.co.uk ... ...strategies for business -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: partitioning and formatting external usb hd

2005-10-22 Thread Robert Epprecht
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Robert Epprecht wrote: >> >>> Excuse this probably very stupid question, >>> but before I shoot myself in my feets I'd rather ask... >>> and can mount it without problems as >>> /dev/sda1 on my Debian/Sarge machine (kernel 2.4.27-2-

Re: Novell Server

2005-10-22 Thread CoolFox
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit avec finesse, tact et "doigté": I would like to access files on a Novell Server. How do I set up my debian box to do that? Do I need some sort of Novell Client? Thanks everyone... Yes absolutely because Novell has its own control and transport protocol (IPX/SPX)

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Greg
Okay. I played with some of the mouse settings and was able to get into X but mouse wouldn't work. I googled some and found this from Kent West; If you're in X, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual terminal; if you're not in X, you're fine where you are. "apt-get install gpm" Tell gpm

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: >"apt-get install gpm" >Tell gpm that your mouse is on "/dev/psaux", of type "imps2", and to >repeat "raw". > I have since learned that the "officially" proper repeat type is "ms3". >If you have a USB mouse, the >location will be "/dev/input/mice", but you also have to have USB >suppo

Re: Novell Server

2005-10-22 Thread Dick Davies
ncpfs - utilities to use resources from NetWare servers On 22/10/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to access files on a Novell Server. How do I set up my > debian box to do that? Do I need some sort of Novell Client? > > Thanks everyone... > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE

How to start dock apps when using xdm?

2005-10-22 Thread Dimaash Smith
Hello every1. I am new to debian. Before, i used to start my X with startx command. And therefore all my dock apps where in ~/.xinitrc. Now with debian i heard that if i use xdm to start my X then .xinitrc no longer applies here. So, can anyone please explaine to me how can i start all my dock a

python apache modules

2005-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
I'm not sure if I'm doing this right, but I'm trying to put together a webpage to provide some sudoku puzzles online. As a shameless plug you can check it out at qualitysudoku.com. But that's not why I'm here. But the real point of all this is twofold: I am currently running a web page that

Re: python apache modules

2005-10-22 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > > I am currently running a web page that is a python based CGI for serving up > the > puzzles and would like to migrate this to some kind of module similar to > mod_perl (of which I'm more familiar). What packages in Stable are >

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-22 Thread SpamHog
?!?! Solved it isn't, but this workaround is FAST : 1 - boot the original system (say, on hda8), get root 2 - get into the cloned system (say, on hda10) mkdir /mnt/hda10 mount /dev/hda10 /mnt/hda10 3 - fix /dev/hda10 /mnt/etc/fstab and /dev/hda10 /mnt/grub/menu.lst as described in pr

Re: cloning a system to another partition - what to change?

2005-10-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 04:17 Sat 22 Oct , SpamHog wrote: > Mike, > > I promise you, I never meant to touch the MBR! Once you bide grub > (either interactively or from any boot sector of any partition) > >root (hdx,y) > > you overrule the spell in the MBR. I don't usually re-install Grub in the MBR eit

Re: How to start dock apps when using xdm?

2005-10-22 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:28:52AM -0400, Dimaash Smith wrote: > Hello every1. I am new to debian. Before, i used to start my X with > startx command. And therefore all my dock apps where in ~/.xinitrc. > Now with debian i heard that if i use xdm to start my X then .xinitrc > no longer applies here

Re: Apt Needs Counseling

2005-10-22 Thread Marty
Marty wrote: Freddie Witherden wrote: Here is the result of using that command: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo dpkg --force-all -P webmin-core (Reading database ... 75153 files and directories currently installed.) Removing webmin-core ... /etc/webmin/webmin.acl: No such file or directory dpkg: error

PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA not working anymore after Sid dist-upgrade

2005-10-22 Thread Marco Laverdière
Hi to all, Well I guess the subject if this message says it all: I was running happily my wireless PCMCIA Netgear MA401RA card since 3 years on my Debian Sid/2.6.5/Sony Vaio PCG-K13Q laptop when suddenly, it stopped working just after I did a dist-upgrade yesterday (October 21). Before, when

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems

2005-10-22 Thread Simo Kauppi
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 08:45:38PM -0500, Martin McCormick wrote: > A Bourn shell script I am trying to run isn't behaving like I > expected it to and I am not sure how to make it play nice. There are > a bunch of DNS zone files that need the bottom 6 lines chopped off and > I hoped to do th

apt-get and authentication

2005-10-22 Thread Rick Pasotto
Why has apt-get started giving me this message: WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! -- "Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality." -- William Ernest Hocking Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-22 Thread Michael Satterwhite
Ron Johnson wrote: | On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 01:03 -0400, j j wrote: | |>Where are the .debs? Oo developers encouraged one to use alien to |>convert rpms to deb. | | | http://openoffice.debian.net/ | 2005-10-22: 2.0 uploaded to unstable | It's done! openoffice.org 2.0.0-1 was just uploaded

Re: How to share env. variables ?

2005-10-22 Thread Bruno Costacurta
On Saturday 22 October 2005 00:54, Paulo M C Aragão wrote: > Bruno, > > > How to give kde / X11 same env.variables as logged user ? > > KDE sources all shell scripts placed in ~/.kde/env. What I do is: > > 1. ln -s /etc/environment ~/.kde/env > 2. Place all global environment variables in /etc/envi

thanks

2005-10-22 Thread aciddata
i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all programmers of it too! thanks! blesses and best wishes aciddata -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: thanks

2005-10-22 Thread John Hasler
aciddata writes: > i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all > programmers of it too! thanks! Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most users. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

gtk+extra package

2005-10-22 Thread Titus Barik
Hi all, I'm trying to compile a package which says the following during configure: linking with GTK+ 2.x checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config configure: error: Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package Where can I get this Debian package? Regards, -- Titus Barik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://

MySQL Problems With a New Data Directory

2005-10-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm using MySQL 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. I had a setup of a program I've been working on for several years that is on a RAID. I changed MySQL's data directory so it will be on the same RAID and backed up, along with all my other data and programs. Originally this was set up under a Debian-based d

Re: Bourn Shell Script While Loop Problems Solved.

2005-10-22 Thread Martin McCormick
Simo Kauppi writes: >Not sure if I understood the problem correctly, but how about: > >#! /bin/sh >filechop () { > #This function takes one file at a time and removes the bottom 6 lines. > #Get a single numerical value stating how many lines are in the file. > zlength=`wc -l $zonename|awk '{pri

top panel

2005-10-22 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. How do I restore the Applications drop-down list, and the Actions drop-down list, to the Top Panel in the default Debian (gnome-based) desktop? The right-clicked "Add to Panel" command gives the options of adding "Main Menu" and "Menu Bar", but, while similar, they do not the specifica

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 22 2005, Alan Ezust wrote: > Docbook/XML can also be converted to LaTEX (although the reverse is > not true). Actually, with a few indirect steps, LaTeX can be converted back to docbook: just run latex2html or tex4ht on the LaTeX file, then convert the resulting XML file to docbook and you

Re: MySQL Problems With a New Data Directory

2005-10-22 Thread Pooly
2005/10/22, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I'm using MySQL 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. I had a setup of a program I've been > working on for several years that is on a RAID. I changed MySQL's data > directory so it will be on the same RAID and backed up, along with all my > other data and programs.

Re: TeTeX 3 in experimental

2005-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Jim. On Oct 21 2005, Jim McCloskey wrote: > Is anyone using the TeTeX 3 packages in experimental? How functional > are they? The packages are quite good, but teTeX 3 has just been uploaded to unstable, after being available in experimental for some time. I have used those packages when they

Re: any idea if this works on Debian?

2005-10-22 Thread Joe Smith
If it is seen as a 'usb-storage' device, it will, most likely, work. The page does not detail... One thing: 16MB flash internal for video? If this memory is unremovable, and the device can't accept newer and bigger modules, this camera is quite limited... 99.99% of cameras these days support

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg wrote: Okay. I played with some of the mouse settings and was able to get into X but mouse wouldn't work. I googled some and found this from Kent West; If you're in X, press Ctrl-Alt-F2 to get to the second virtual terminal; if you're not in X, you're fine where you are. "apt-get install

Thanks for Debian (was: Re: thanks)

2005-10-22 Thread Rogério Brito
On Oct 22 2005, John Hasler wrote: > aciddata writes: > > i just wanna say that debian is great and the community and all > > programmers of it too! thanks! > > Thank you for doing something that never seems to occur to most users. Well, I'm also feeling guilty after your message of not thanking

procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread stan
Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something (like **SPAM** to the To: header in a message? What I'm trying to do is add this conditionaly if spamassain has labled the message as spam. I have a firend who is getting mail through a system with procmail. He's using Outloo

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-22 Thread Rick Friedman
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 11:14 -0500, Michael Satterwhite wrote: > OK, I'll be the first to admit that the problem is with me. Where are > these packages as far as apt is concerned? > > I tried apt-get update; apt-get install openoffice.org; It reports that > I already have the latest version. > > I

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-22 Thread William Ballard
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:08:49PM -0500, Steve Block wrote: > I think you've misunderstood one of the major purposes of XML, and that > is to be descriptive in tag choices. This is still uncomprehensible and That's what XSL is for. I think *you* misunderstand XML: the tag names don't mean a dam

Re: secure apt

2005-10-22 Thread Steve Langasek
Hi Eric, On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:16:08AM -0500, Eric wrote: > I recently upgraded testing and receive the new apt (version 0.6.41). > I have not been able to get it to stop nagging. > "apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-archive.gpg" > but that returns > "gpg: no ultimately trusted keys found >

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread ehd
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:17PM -0400, stan wrote: Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something (like **SPAM** to the To: header in a message? What I'm trying to do is add this conditionaly if spamassain has labled the message as spam. I have a firend who is gettin

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread stan
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:11:00PM +0200, ehd wrote: > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:41:17PM -0400, stan wrote: > > > >Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something > >(like **SPAM** > >to the To: header in a message? > > > >What I'm trying to do is add this conditionaly if sp

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread Chrissie Brown
stan wrote: Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something (like **SPAM** to the To: header in a message? There is an optin in spamassassin to do this. Just add the following line rewrite_subject 1 to the spamassasin config file /etc/mail/spamassassin/local.cf Look

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2005-10-22 15:41:17 -0400, stan wrote: > Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds > something (like **SPAM** to the To: header in a message? You can do this with formail. Something like that: TO=`formail -xTo:` :0 fhw * conditions | formail -I "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], $TO"

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread mikepolniak
On 15:41 Sat 22 Oct , stan wrote: > Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something (like > **SPAM** > to the To: header in a message? > > What I'm trying to do is add this conditionaly if spamassain has labled the > message > as spam. I have a firend who is getting mai

New package suggestion - scanbuttond - extension of sane packages

2005-10-22 Thread Wojciech Zabolotny
Hi All, I'd like to suggest adding a new package - "scanbuttond" (http://scanbuttond.sourceforge.net/). It is a very useful program allowing to make full use of buttons found in some scanners. -- Regards, Wojtek Zabolotny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: python apache modules

2005-10-22 Thread Tom Allison
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 10:37:27AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: I am currently running a web page that is a python based CGI for serving up the puzzles and would like to migrate this to some kind of module similar to mod_perl (of which I'm more familiar). What packages

Re: MySQL Problems With a New Data Directory

2005-10-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 22 October 2005 03:09 pm, Pooly wrote: > 2005/10/22, Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I'm using MySQL 4.0.24-10 on Sarge. I had a setup of a program I've been > > working on for several years that is on a RAID. I changed MySQL's data > > directory so it will be on the same RAID an

Re: Thanks for Debian (was: Re: thanks)

2005-10-22 Thread Martin McCormick
I will definitely second all this praise. I began using Linux in early 2000 and I chose Debian because it, at the time, was more security conscious than some of the other distributions. I work in the Network Operations group of the IT department at Oklahoma State University so one needs t

Re: New package suggestion - scanbuttond - extension of sane packages

2005-10-22 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 03:56:43PM +0200, Wojciech Zabolotny wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to suggest adding a new package - "scanbuttond" > (http://scanbuttond.sourceforge.net/). > It is a very useful program allowing to make full use of buttons found > in some scanners. You need to open a RFP bu

screen re-painting

2005-10-22 Thread Bob Hynes
Hey, I've been using Debian for about a week now and have been noticing that the screen *often* has problems repainting...pieces of the last screen I was looking at show up on the screen that I have active until I move windows around, etc...I'm sure everyone has seen that. My machine is a 350MHz

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-22 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 01:30:41PM -0400, Titus Barik wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm trying to compile a package which says the following during configure: > > linking with GTK+ 2.x > checking for pkg-config... /usr/bin/pkg-config > configure: error: Cannot find gtkextra-2.0 package > > Where can I ge

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Ian Cavnar
I'm hopingthat you mean 60 and 80 GB, as 140MB is nowhere near enough to install Debian and have anything useful for a newb on there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Under what conditions can I copy data under X and paste with gpm and > viceversa, with just the mouse strokes? > I don't believe you can. I just tried selecting text in X, switching to VT1, and pasting with my middle button. Nothing happened. So I selected text in VT1, the

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Greg
Yes, GB not MB. My bad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: DHCP on samba

2005-10-22 Thread Gautam Bakshi
Samba and dhcp have nothing to do with each other, therfore there should not be any conflict. On 10/22/05, partha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi  Every one ,I have installed Samba server and i want toinstall dhcp on the same server . Can i do it?Regards,Partha--To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTE

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Ian Cavnar
No prob. Have you installed it yet? Greg wrote: Yes, GB not MB. My bad. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: MySQL Problems With a New Data Directory

2005-10-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
Sorry for the top post, but, in short, this is solved -- so if you want more details read on: It turns out I needed to use the same password in /etc/mysql/debian.conf as I used in the original setup -- or change the old tables to match the new pw. Hal On Saturday 22 October 2005 01:49 pm, Hal

Re: secure apt

2005-10-22 Thread David Pastern
On Sat, 2005-10-22 at 13:19 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote: > Hi Eric, > > On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:16:08AM -0500, Eric wrote: > > I recently upgraded testing and receive the new apt (version 0.6.41). > > I have not been able to get it to stop nagging. > > > "apt-key add /usr/share/apt/debian-arc

ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are as follows 1) man pagename 2) In konqueror, man:pagename 3) In vim, Man pagename What about others? thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.

Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the following problem: How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a # at the begenning of a range of lines? just to be more clear, i want to rasform a=['a','b','c'] for i in a: do_something(i) print

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 02:50:48AM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a 1) Go to the first line of the code that you want to comment. 2) Press to get into command mode rather than insert mode. 3) Press 'v' to begin Visual Sele

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the following problem: How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a # at the begenning of a range of lines? just to be more clear, i want to rasform a=['a','b','c'] for i in a: d

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the > following problem: > How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a > # at the begenning of a range of lines? > > just to be more clear, i want to rasform > > a=['a','b','c'] > f

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Eric P
> If you wanted to instead replace > > line 1 > line 2 > line 3 > > with > > /* > line 1 > line 2 > line 3 > */ > > I'm not sure how you'd do it. Perhaps others do. > Actually, I would like to know how to do this in VIM. Any takers? Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Olle Eriksson
On Sunday 23 October 2005 02.50, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the > following problem: > How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a > # at the begenning of a range of lines? I usually use a macro for this, but

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 08:14:43PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hi > We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to > collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are > as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim,

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/22/05, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >We all know how important it is to read man pages. I would like to > collect info on different ways to read the man pages. My favorites are > as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim, Man pagename > >

Re: Vim question

2005-10-22 Thread Michael Marsh
On 10/22/05, Paolo Pantaleo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just started learning python (i think it is great). Now i have the > following problem: > How can i comment 10 lines of code in a shot? That is, how can i add a > # at the begenning of a range of lines? In command mode, I'd go to the *last

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Greg
I installed it and it works, however, I have a few issues. I can't get my linksys wireless card to work (WMP54G), but I can get on the net when I run cat5 from my NIC directly to rounter. (I have both a wireless card and NIC) Also, I installed gphoto2 but the system won't recongnize my camera. W

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread phyrster
On 22:24 Sat 22 Oct 2005, Chrissie Brown wrote: > stan wrote: > >Can anyone show me how to write a procmail recipe that adds something > >(like **SPAM** > >to the To: header in a message? > > There is an optin in spamassassin to do this. Just add the following line > > rewrite_subject 1 > > to

Adaptect (and other) ATA cards

2005-10-22 Thread Hal Vaughan
I've been searching for RAID cards and regular ATA cards. I want to use either a good hardware RAID card that supports RAID 5, or an ATA card that works well with Linux. While searching, I've found more comments online about RAID cards that do NOT work well with Linux than ones that do. Even

Re: rosegarden4 no sound SOLVED

2005-10-22 Thread David E. Fox
On Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:06:20 +0100 Joe Mc Cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Once I'd fired up the file I wanted to play, I had to right click on > each track and assign it to a midi device (software midi device in my > case). Hmm. I tried that, and got it haflway pointed to 128:1 (timidity) but

slow 3D game performance

2005-10-22 Thread phyrster
Hi debianners, I tried to play 'Enemy Territory' under linux but the graphic speed is unbearable. When I am the only on-line player, the graphic speed is ok. But when they are many players, the picture became skippy like a slow motion movie. Under windows, with same hardware configuration, the

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Kent West
Greg wrote: >THank you for you insight on this. FYI, I was able to make this work. >However, when I go into aptitude and look at packages to be removed, it >shows gpm. I also recall an error message that stated something to the >affect that gpm was obsolete and would be reomoved from the install

Re: gtk+extra package

2005-10-22 Thread Titus Barik
Kevin Mark wrote: libgtkextra-dev - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ (development files) libgtkextra16 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ libgtkextra17 - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ libgtkextra17-dev - A useful set of widgets for GTK+ (development files) libgtkextramm-dev - Static library an

How to install Debian ia64?

2005-10-22 Thread Li Weichen
Hello everyone, I can not install debian ia64 on my PC (em64t 2.66g/ Intel D915GAV/ 512MB*2 DDR/ ST 160g IDE/ 17" LCD/). I used the image downloaded from debian.org (http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r0a/ia64/iso-cd/debian-31r0a-ia64-n etinst.iso) and burned it into a CD, but it can not boo

Wireless Help

2005-10-22 Thread Greg
I'm a noob to Debian. I just installed the O/S on my PC. I'm impressed so far but I'm trying to get my wireless network card to work (Linksys WMP54G). I installed the wireless tools and downloaded "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread Ephemeral root
Quoting kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi >We all know how important it is to read man pages. I > would like to collect info on different ways to read the > man pages. My > favorites are as follows > > 1) man pagename > 2) In konqueror, man:pagename > 3) In vim, Man pagename > >

Re: Kernel 2.4.31 does not compile on Debian sid/unstable?

2005-10-22 Thread David
I'm sending this private reply back to the list. It's best to keep all mail on the list for several reasons - the main one here is that I may not be very helpful, I'm just guessing. On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 12:33:37PM +0200, Bo?tjan Müller wrote: > David wrote: > | On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:05:

Re: apt-get and authentication

2005-10-22 Thread Ephemeral root
Quoting Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Why has apt-get started giving me this message: > > WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! That's part of apt 0.6's new security feature. You must add to your apt set-up the gpg public key of the archives where you downloaded the pack

Re: Ready to join the club..

2005-10-22 Thread Greg
Kent West wrote: > 3) This list generally discourages top-posting (putting your reply about > the text of the message to which you're replying). Interspersed > contextual replies are preferred... Understood. Etiquette is import. Again, thanks for the help. Greg -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: ways to read man pages

2005-10-22 Thread Titus Barik
Michael Marsh wrote: info pagename info is nice, but I much prefer pinfo, which is basically the same thing with colors. Regards, -- Titus Barik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | http://www.barik.net AIM: TBarik Jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: 678.528.0256 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: SATA DVD not recognized

2005-10-22 Thread csj
On 20. October 2005 at 6:43PM +0100, marc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Perhaps what we need is a more streamlined kernel building > process. The current fallback is "roll your own kernel". I > would agree that this mentality has to go at some point. To me the important thing is that the s

Re: procmail/fetchmail question

2005-10-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 09:40:28AM +0800, phyrster wrote: > I never used spamassassin. For a one user system, how much can one benefit > form using it? Does it work well with procmail? My laptop is basically a one-user system, and still I use spamassassin. Indeed, I'm pretty sure that it's too muc

Gimp and transparency in GIF images

2005-10-22 Thread [KS]
Hi, I'm trying to create a gif image with a drop shadow which is 80% opaque with Gimp 2.2.8. When saving the image as gif it asks to convert it to an indexed image. The resulting image (gif) does not give me the transparency that a png gives. I noticed that earlier there was a need to download the

Re: Wireless Help

2005-10-22 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sat, Oct 22, 2005 at 07:33:01PM -0700, Greg wrote: > "wireless assistnat" from sourceForge.net. The file is called > "wlassistant_0.5.4a-2_i386.deb" and is sitting in my home directory. > My question is how do I install this. From my desktop, I click on the You need to handle this from the co

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