Re: Suspend to disk

2005-11-07 Thread Sven Hoexter
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 03:54:49PM -0500, Antonio Paiva wrote: > Hi all. > > I'm currently using Debian testing (started with Sarge and upgraded to > Etch), and I would like to know if anyone was able to reliably suspend > its computer to disk. If so, could you tell me how? I just got suspending

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Don Hayward
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 12:10:16PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe someone out there has seen this or has an idea. I have

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Dick Davies
On 07/11/05, Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So the major advantages of Solaris is better support of obsolete > systems, which are only being used because Solaris does not support > the better, modern solutions? Have you been reading a different thread? Maybe people spend all day defend

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread M-L
On Tue, 8 Nov 2005 06:26 am, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: ---> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] ---> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Hasler wrote: ---> > Bruno Buys writes: ---> >> I moved recently, and there´s no easy/cheap broadband in the new ---> >> address. So, what

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:42:07PM -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> > > > >What if you configure dhcpd to give it a fixed address? > > > > An interesting question. That works. But what does it mean? > It basically means that the DHCP server will a

Re: CHM to html ?

2005-11-07 Thread Gerhard Gaußling
Am Dienstag 08 November 2005 14:30 schrieb Armin ranjbar: > anyone known a way to convert CHM files into plain html or pdf files chmlib can handle chm files: ~$ apt-get install chmlib-bin ~$ man extract_chmLib extracts a chm file into a directory xchm uses chmlib, so try to print from xchm: xchm

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > someone out there has seen this or has an idea. > > I have a new Dell Optiplex XP system (Broadcom Ne

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:20 +, Cal Paterson wrote: > You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more > non-intuitive for a novice). > > You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/X > programs, but I reckon its possible. My xfce4 desktop starts up wh

Re: Wireless card...

2005-11-07 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya > As well as checking compatibility here in the LHCH > (http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Hardware-HOWTO/) you might also want to > look up compatibility under ndiswrapper > (http://ndiswrapper.sourceforge.net/). if you're using, its NOT a compatible hw, since you're using the windoze drivers on

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread loos
Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 16:31 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > %% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > ml> Is NIS reliable? > > Sure. Enterprises have been deploying it in huge environments for 10-15 > years or more. > > ml> It seems to me that NIS is being obsoleted, since using a secure

OT: Reminder - Trimming Replies

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
(Apologies for playing List-Cop.) Several threads lately have included replies following long quotes. Whereas the replies are in the "correct" location (yea!), leaving all of the previous material as a quotation is unnecessary and has several drawbacks (which have been discussed multiple times

Re: DHCP server problem??

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 10:10:21PM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 07.11.2005 at 12:10 -0500, Don Hayward wrote: > > > This is probably more of a Windows question (apologies for any > > offense), but I'm running a Sarge system with dhcp3-server, and maybe > > someone out there has seen this

Re: Useful GUI apps on low-mem computers?

2005-11-07 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 04:13:10PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 17:20 +, Cal Paterson wrote: > > You could try xfce4 or fluxbox (although fluxbox is slightly more > > non-intuitive for a novice). > > > > You might well need to cut down quite agressivly on unneeded daemons/

Re: symlink errors while installing java (Sun's jdk)

2005-11-07 Thread Alexander Schmehl
Hi! * Albretch Mueller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [051107 03:10]: > Well, I noticed the site wasn't online to begin with ;-) > sh-3.00# ping http://non-us.debian.org > ping: unknown host http://non-us.debian.org > do they have such thing as mirrors? Please read http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386

Mail <> Fax gateway

2005-11-07 Thread David Nicholls
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, I've been asked to put together an email <> fax gateway and am just wondering if anyone has any suggestions/pointers. I've mainly used a Postfix/CourierIMAP solution (on Sarge) for email. I've seen: http://www.faximum.com/fms/ which is a Postf

Newbie wants to install xvidcap

2005-11-07 Thread Frances Fleming
all, this is my first technical question to any board other than my LUG mailing list. I used Suse Pro 10.0/10.2 (not connected to Internet) for a year, and have only been using Debian since about April and have only ever installed using apt-get or aptitude, apart from Flash, but that took me tw

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Katipo
A bit expensive, but because we never look like getting anything except dial up through copper wire, I have had for the last 9 years, a Maestro Woomera external modem that does everything, including allowing me to monitor the speed of the connection constantly, except wash the car. Best i

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ishwar Rattan
On Mon, 7 Nov 2005, loos wrote: > Em Seg, 2005-11-07 às 16:31 -0500, Paul Smith escreveu: > > %% Michel Loos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I prefer the second version: Linux is a Research Product. You should said this the first time, and not go around in circles. You are as good as supporters

Re: dialup modem recommendation for debian sagre?

2005-11-07 Thread Rob Colling
On Monday 07 November 2005 11:22 am, Bruno Buys wrote: > John M. Gabriele wrote: > >--- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>John Hasler wrote: > >>>Bruno Buys writes: > (there are winmodems available, but I´m avoiding these). Are they > debian friendly? > >>> > >>>Some winmodems can

Re: klogctl: Invalid argument

2005-11-07 Thread Keith Edmunds
I get that error too. Preliminary investigations suggest that it may be related to the use of syslog-ng: do you use that? I've not yet found a fix for it, but I'd like to. Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Strange Bind9 behavior.

2005-11-07 Thread Account for Debian group mail
I'm getting a strange behavior (for me anyway...) on Bind9. I just set up a new Debian Sarge server with bind9. Anyway, I can do a dig lookup on a domain name from this new server using 127.0.0.1 (# dig bozo.com 127.0.0.1) and it will not find the address. Then I can go to another server and direc

Re: How to set default compiler to 4.0?

2005-11-07 Thread Anthony DeRobertis
Lennart Sorensen wrote: > Or you could start running unstable where gcc-4.0 is the default I > believe. :) Same with testing. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

dpkg: error processing instaling MySQL 5.0

2005-11-07 Thread Tim Jordan
I'm not looking for someone to solve this for me but instead to point me in a direction so that I can learn how to fix such problems. Please advise if possible... Thank you, Tim Running Debian Testing I installed qmail and removed exim4 from my system. Then later I wanted to add MySQL server

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Andy Streich
On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > correspond to millions of dollars lost.  It's not reasonable IMO to > > expect OSS

Re: Can anyone get premail -makenym to work?

2005-11-07 Thread sqrt
Mon, Nov 07, 2005 at 05:49:03PM -, Thrasher Remailer написал: I configured the URL's in ~/.premail/preferences, and it downloads the remailer stats, but I can't figure out how to get a nym to work. (using premail 0.46) $ premail -makenym Note: Assuming you don't want to use an address fil

Re:

2005-11-07 Thread Stephanie da Silva
To send mail to me, you need to add [laundry] to the end of the subject line (eg: Subject: Random message [laundry]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread mailmanmike
- Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, November 04, 2005 3:53 AM Subject: Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am able to get into X by running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg" and cho

how to pango compile ?

2005-11-07 Thread salahuddin pasha
hello, i wanna compile pango (the latest one from from http://www.pango.org/) i gave dh_make and select library then it create pango-dev and pangoDamaged i just wanna know how can i compile pango like official === libpango1.0-0 libpango1.0-common libpango1.0-dbg libp

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works > fine. > The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. > It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? Does the CAPSLOCK key activate the indicator LED? If you have a ?dm that allow

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Mike Chandler
On Monday 07 November 2005 08:52 pm, Kent West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Now I have a good mouse, and the nvidia driver is working so X works > > fine. > > The problem is now, the keyboard doesn't work at all. > > It's getting so close, please help me fix the keyboard? > > Does the CAPS

Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Scott Rebman
Hi,     I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian.  We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home to develop a better understan

Re: cannot get into X - after testing dist-upgrade 11-03-05

2005-11-07 Thread Kent West
Mike Chandler wrote: >Thanks so much Kentthe numlock light is "on" and stays on...you cannot >turn it off. None of the other (caps lock etc) buttons do anything. >(All this in KDE.) > >I think it has to do with the "newer" KDE version 3.4.2 which, when I >dist-upgraded caused all the proble

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2005-11-07 at 19:30 -0800, Andy Streich wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > > correspond to millio

Re: Solaris: The Most Advanced OS?

2005-11-07 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/8/05, Andy Streich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Monday 07 November 2005 05:28 am, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > > I doubt many people on this list have much experience working in > > > high-volume, financial transaction environments where minutes of downtime > > > correspond to millions

Re: Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Marty
Scott Rebman wrote: Hi, I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian. We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home to develop a be

Re: Re: 2.6.14 image will not install

2005-11-07 Thread Hugo Garza
I was trying to update from a 2.4.27 kernel to the new 2.6.14 kernel and kept getting the same error. I managed to fix it by running "apt-get install initramfs-tools". -- Using Opera's revolutionary e-mail client: http://www.opera.com/mail/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Numeric weirdness

2005-11-07 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I had a Duron 750 as a gateway/firewall/proxy at home, which I replaced, about two months ago, with a similar, but faster machine (AthlonXP 1700+) mostly because the Athlon PC in total is far more quiet and I have plans for a gaming server. As things happen, I need an extra desktop, s

fetchmail misbehaviour

2005-11-07 Thread Robert S
I have been fetchmail/cron to retrieve messages from my ISP'smailserver (POP). Messages are being left on the server. This systemhas been running for at least a year without a glitch. Last night I found over 2000 messages in my inbox - for some reason fetchmail hasstarted not recognising message

how can i unintsll gcc-base

2005-11-07 Thread 张勇顺
hi now there are gcc-3.3-base gcc-3.4-base gcc-4.0-base if i am unintsll anyone of them it will uninstall 100 packages at the fewest how can i do that give best advise thank you -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Deleting XP and installing Debian

2005-11-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marty wrote: Scott Rebman wrote: Hi, I have recently acquired an older (Pentium II 350MHz) computer from my work and I was planning on getting rid of Win XP home that is currently on it and installing Debian. We use Debian at school and I was looking to play around with it at home

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