Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 28 April 2006 21:00, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > how exactly is my employee, who lost his job when his company > > outsourced his job to the far east, being irresponsible? He was a > > model employee, good time in, liked by all etc. Had two kids and a > > wife. No

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 28 April 2006 14:03, Mike McCarty wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 28 April 2006 12:24, Steve Lamb wrote: > >>Yes, and that's why the largest government programs in history have > >>been enacted by a Republican controlled Congress with a sitting > >> Republican President. >

real media player is not working

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Walter
Hi, I've installed yesterday the real media player. When I download a stream e.g. a readio stream it's working. When I download a video stream it say's that I don't have the right plugin installed. When I run realplay from the command line real player is saying I need an update but after I went

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Matt Johnson
- Original Message From: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM >"Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe. >The literal meaning is "pay close attention to what I say", >so it is certainly a figure of speech. I disagre

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-29 Thread Thomas Dickey
Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > but it seems from an strace of xterm that /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color > is no longer checked... I looked through the last 30 days of package > changelogs and didn't see this noted... bug report time? If so, that would be against the X libraries, ra

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-26 08:27:14, schrieb Ron Johnson: > That's because we don't need any more. It gives our brains more > room to successfully figure out how to convince people to pay US$80 > for pieces of denim cloth stitched together by workers in Malaysian > sweat shops. ;-/ Greetings Michelle Ko

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-26 10:35:22, schrieb Gene Heskett: > Yes, sad isn't it, particularly since the keyboard configs used here for > linux don't very well allow the painless typeing of such characters. > > I personally think our keyboard mapping should allow, via the alt keys, > as much of the full 8 bit

Re: GSM/UMTS-Modem on serial Port [was Re: Onboard Modem]

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-26 15:22:55, schrieb IraqiGeek: > The vodafone EDGE/UMTS cardbus adapter, which is a rebranded ericsson card > (don't know the exact model) sellsf for 99euros where I am, and an EDGE But do you know the price of a card only? They are between 350 and 500 Euro. My problem is, that Bou

Re: Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-23 17:03:12, schrieb Don Jackson: > (4 options of jumpers shown: master (two options), slave, and c-sel) 1) Master alone 2) Master with Slave present 3) Slave 4) Cable Select Greetings Michelle Konzack -- Linux-User #280138 with the Linux Coun

Re: 4GB HD only reporting half capacity (2GB) -- SOLVED!

2006-04-29 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-04-25 08:54:32, schrieb Miles Bader: > BTW, any good recs for drives? Is storagereview.com basically the best > place to look? > > I'm still using a 4.5 GB SCSI disk (with 50-pin interface) as my main > storage, and one these days would like to upgrade to something a bit > more modern (wi

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Arafangion
Matt Johnson wrote: >- Original Message >From: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM > > > >>"Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe. >>The literal meaning is "pay close attention to what I say", >>so it is certain

Backports -- limiting updates and pinning

2006-04-29 Thread Bill Moseley
I installed Postgresql 8.1 backport a few days ago. Today I did an upgrade on a Stable machine and it installed two *new* packages: The following NEW packages will be installed: libdns21 libisc11 The following packages have been kept back: aspell The following packages wil

Re: GSM/UMTS-Modem on serial Port [was Re: Onboard Modem]

2006-04-29 Thread IraqiGeek
On Friday, April 28, 2006 12:48 PM GMT, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Am 2006-04-26 15:22:55, schrieb IraqiGeek: The vodafone EDGE/UMTS cardbus adapter, which is a rebranded ericsson card (don't know the exact model) sellsf for 99euros where I am, and an EDGE But do you know th

Re: Xorg upgrade: xdm fails, xterm can't change fonts?

2006-04-29 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 10:25:32 + Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > but it seems from an strace of xterm that /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color > > is no longer checked... I looked through the last 30 days of package > > changelogs and didn't

No sound in mplayer and mplayer-plugin

2006-04-29 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Hi, I've got mplayer and mplayer-plugin for mozilla from Marillat's site installed in Sarge, as well as w32codecs. Video displays fine, but no sound is audible. Sound is OK in other apps, such as XMMS and RealPlayer, though. These are the error messages from mplayer: alsa-init: no soundcard

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 04:59:08PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote: > It's not only Aussies who add 'r' at the end of words, then English do > as well. Especially when two vowels "collide": There is no 'r' added. What you are alluding to is changing the sound of the vowel. Consider father and fat. F

OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Kent West
Mumia W wrote: Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong about using taxes to support a government program. So you're in favor of forcing Person A, at the point of a gun, to give his hard-earned dollars to Person B? Because at the basics, that's what it is. Interesting.

Which debian architecture

2006-04-29 Thread Peter Bergström
Which debian architecture should i choose for a webserver with Dual Intel Xeon (em64t)? Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which debian architecture

2006-04-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Peter Bergström wrote: Which debian architecture should i choose for a webserver with Dual Intel Xeon (em64t)? Debian AMD64 will work just fine. Shame you didn't buy a dual opteron to go with it ;) -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibodymx.net/ | Anti-spam & anti-virus Consultant|

Re: Backports -- limiting updates and pinning

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bill Moseley wrote: > I installed Postgresql 8.1 backport a few days ago. Today I did an > upgrade on a Stable machine and it installed two *new* packages: > > The following NEW packages will be installed: > libdns21 libisc11 > The following packages have been kept back: > asp

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2006-04-29, Kent West penned: > Mumia W wrote: >> Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong >> about using taxes to support a government program. > > So you're in favor of forcing Person A, at the point of a gun, to > give his hard-earned dollars to Person B? Because at the

Sound issue: slow sound?

2006-04-29 Thread Dennis Carr
OK, weirdness here. Running Sarge, all updates current. Only thing out of distro is OOo 2.0 from backports. Sound card uses snd-cmipci. Recently, sound started misbehaving. First, sound would not only fail to play, any application that called for use of sound would freeze, only to die (in the cas

Re: Cant install Sarge on my new laptop

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 04:56:00PM +0100, Zouari Fourat wrote: > i cant use lspci in shell mode, unrecognized command please don't top post. It makes it difficult for others to follow the conversation. > > On 4/28/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >On Fri, Apr 28, 2006

Re: Which debian architecture

2006-04-29 Thread Peter Bergström
But it's unofficial? Is it the recomended architecture anyway? - Original Message - From: "Martin A. Brooks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Peter Bergström" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Debian-User" Sent: Saturday, April 29, 2006 5:33 PM Subject: Re: Which debian architecture Peter Bergström wr

Re: Which debian architecture

2006-04-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Peter Bergström wrote: But it's unofficial? Hardly. I've been using Debian AMD64 for the thick end of two years. Is it the recomended architecture anyway? If you want to run a 64 bit version of Debian on that architecture then use Debian AMD64. -- Martin A. Brooks | http://www.antibody

Re: LV Device Missing

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 03:01:38AM -, Ian Petts wrote: > I'm fairly new to LVM, but I've been having an intermittant problem that > I hope someone can help me with. > > Every few (2-10ish) reboots of my machine, my LV fails to be recognised. > > [snipping diagnostic data] > > I've spent a f

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Willie Wonka
Kent West wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > George H. W. Bush made the famous campaign promise: > > Read my lips: no new taxes! > > > > Dan Quayle was his VP, and famously misspelled "potatoe". > > > 1. The spelling card Quayle was holding, given to him by the school > authorities putting on

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro card

2006-04-29 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dissabte 29 Abril 2006 06:15, Kevin Mark va escriure: > check: > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=1567&sid=3e34a7e8c694d2e67281e7287 >b6b57c6 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=358872 Thanks, but seems that is for another card. Seems that my card is type 39 and tu

[OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-04-29 Thread Manaen Schlabach
I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of "how do you address somebody..." Add politics Stir Add

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > On 2006-04-29, Kent West penned: > >>Mumia W wrote: >> >>>Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong >>>about using taxes to support a government program. >> >>So you're in favor of forcing Person A, at the point of a gun, to >>give his hard-earned do

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 09:00:48PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > how exactly is my employee, who lost his job when his company > > outsourced his job to the far east, being irresponsible? He was a > > model employee, good time in, liked by all etc. Had two kids and a >

sata sucks

2006-04-29 Thread lee
Hi, I have installed two new SATA disks I want to run in a software-RAID 1, besides some SCSI disks and an SATA DVD R/W. Once I enable all SATA ports in the BIOS, booting fails with displaying the messages 'Secondary device added' and 'Secondary device removed' in turn, indefinitely. With only tw

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 02:14:20PM -0500, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > i generally have, for testing and unstable machines, 'stable' (actually > the name, ie. sarge) in my sources.list. usually this works ok for > instances like this. Christopher, Matt, thanks for you input! Fetchmail is still runn

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro card

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:39:41PM +0200, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > A Dissabte 29 Abril 2006 06:15, Kevin Mark va escriure: > > check: > > http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=1567&sid=3e34a7e8c694d2e67281e7287 > >b6b57c6 http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?t=358872 > > Th

Re: Which debian architecture

2006-04-29 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 29.04.2006 at 18:09 +0200, Peter Bergström wrote: > But it's unofficial? Is it the recomended architecture anyway? Well, only 'technically: Etch will be the first 'real' amd64-supported-from-Day-1 release, but as others have also indicated, there's absolutely nothing wrong with Sarge

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 09:45:40PM -0500, Forrest Smith wrote: > > Since I had some fun to find out how to configure fetchmail to use > > the > > ?? Did you use fetchmailconf ?? Afair I tried, but with no good results. I had to use a tricky combination of 'aka' and 'via' statements, and the 'env

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-04-29 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/29/06, Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Bake Should that be "Half-bake"? -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com

Re: sata sucks

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:46:38PM +0200, lee wrote: > listed. Booting with all 4 SATA ports enabled fails. I haven't tried > to access the SATA disk yet. Trying to create a partition on the SATA disk with cfdisk only displays 'Illegal command' when attempting to write the changes. I tried a part

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Kent West
Willie Wonka wrote: > You mean like "Nuclear", as opposed to 'Dubbya's' *Nucular* > pronunciation??? I gotta admit; Bush's verbal gaffes can be quite entertaining. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Backports: Questions about OO.o 2.0

2006-04-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Sarge and I have installed OO.o 2.0 from the OO.o site. I also still have the Debian packaged OO.o 1.x installed. These days, I only use v2.0, I only kept 1.x around as security, until I was OK with v2.0. Since then, I have added backports to my sources.list file, but have not u

moving root partition

2006-04-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
Can any tell me the appropriate way of convincing Debian that the root filesystem has moved to a new partition? I repartitioned the system disk a few days ago, and after updating /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst everthing was working fine.. But when I 'dpkg -i' a new kernel, the old partition n

Re: moving root partition

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Digby Tarvin wrote: > Can any tell me the appropriate way of convincing Debian that the > root filesystem has moved to a new partition? > > I repartitioned the system disk a few days ago, and after updating > /etc/fstab and /boot/grub/menu.lst everthing was working fine.. > > But when I 'dpkg -i'

Reproducing my Etch kernel

2006-04-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am nearly ready to start customizing my 2.6 kernel for my hardware, but before I do that I would like to confirm my kernel build procedure by first reproducing what was left by the installer... I have searched the web and several books, and all of the instructions say to obtain the kernel with a

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 05:45:06PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > However when an author had the audacity to actually test the theory that > releasing the books for free would increase sales that is exactly what > happened. That author was Eric Flynt published by Baen. Since that day Baen > ha

Re: Reproducing my Etch kernel

2006-04-29 Thread James Westby
On (29/04/06 18:17), Digby Tarvin wrote: > I am nearly ready to start customizing my 2.6 kernel for my hardware, but > before I do that I would like to confirm my kernel build procedure by > first reproducing what was left by the installer... > > I have searched the web and several books, and all

Re: moving root partition

2006-04-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:34:32PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > Can any tell me the appropriate way of convincing Debian that the > > root filesystem has moved to a new partition? > > > > I repartitioned the system disk a few days ago, and after updating > > /etc/fsta

Re: Picture Dictionaries

2006-04-29 Thread hendrik
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:51:13AM +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to order these products for my kids but realized that it > works only on the Mac or Windows. > > http://www.gentlerevolution.com/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=G&Category_Code=CDR > > Does anyone know how these can

Re: Picture Dictionaries

2006-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:51 +0530, TAC Forums wrote: > Hi > > I wanted to order these products for my kids but realized that it > works only on the Mac or Windows. > > http://www.gentlerevolution.com/merchant.mv?Screen=CTGY&Store_Code=G&Category_Code=CDR > > Does anyone know how these can be run

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 03:48 -0700, Matt Johnson wrote: > - Original Message > From: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM > > >"Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe. > >The literal meaning is "pay close attention

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-29 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 09:11 -0700, Willie Wonka wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > > You mean like "Nuclear", as opposed to 'Dubbya's' *Nucular* > pronunciation??? Or when Bostonians say "cah" or Brits say "shedule"? -- ---

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro card

2006-04-29 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Dissabte 29 Abril 2006 18:52, Andrew Sackville-West va escriure: > > Maybe changing ACPI? Howto? Thanks :) > > good catch. try a booting with > > ACPI=off Thanks :) Seems that I have fewer errors with bt878: [dmesg for bt878] bt878: AUDIO driver version 0.0.0 loaded bt878: Bt878 AUDIO functi

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Mumia W wrote: > Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong about > using taxes to support a government program. There is when the program is highly suspect. Like the Alaskan bridge to nowhere. > It's part of the upkeep of the society. Don't buy that one, either. Qu

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Nice attitude. Vast portions of Oregon and parts of rural Washington led the > continent in unemployment for the first half of this decade. I'm sure you > would have rather let one in five people in the pacific northwest die of > starvation instead. Of course not. B

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > But that happens all the time. People who don't drive still pay taxes > for roads. And they also never take public transportation on those roads, pay for transportation across those roads, never have emergency medical services travel to them and transport them to th

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I recall correctly when I looked at the Baen site last year, they usually > release on book in a series online. Those that read the first book and like > it > will have to buy the rest of the series. Has this changed? This is up to the author. They can put t

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2006-04-29 Thread Brian Minton
On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:55:23 -0500 Ian Melnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote Hi all, I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire every couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new password database. How do I turn off password expiration? Thanks! I seem to be ha

Re: Can DVD-R do multi-session

2006-04-29 Thread T
On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 11:16:06 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: >> Can any confirm me whether DVD-R can do multi-session or not? >> > It can Thanks, Ivan. could you elaborate a bit more on this please? >> I had always thought DVD-R can only write once. But one thought >> suddenly strikes me that CD

etch: can no longer login

2006-04-29 Thread David E. Fox
Something seems to be broken in etch (I know the caveats regarding running etch vs. stable) but in the last day or so I've done an update and upgrade and something seems to be broken relative to 'su' and 'sudo' - I'm getting errors of the form: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su root su: Module is unknown S

Re: Samba Password Expiration

2006-04-29 Thread Philippe De Ryck
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 12:35 -0700, Brian Minton wrote: > On Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:55:23 -0500 Ian Melnick > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > > Hi all, > > > > I recently upgraded to sarge, and now my samba passwords expire every > > couple of weeks (i think). I also think it's using this new password >

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread chris roddy
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I want to kill off this whole screwed up social security system, > and if that means I pay SS for my parents, then don't get any when I > retire, I'm honestly okay with that. Good. 'Cause that's how it's gonna be. cmr -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Nice way to avoid the point. Nope, didn't avoid a thing. As you admit your case was constructed. Furthermore it did not address what I said. > You said, and I quote: >>> The short, short form is that EICs are issued for people being >>> irresponsible (like, h

Re: Just how do I fix this??

2006-04-29 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Friday 28 April 2006 6:03 am, Greg Folkert so eloquently stated: > On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 23:41 -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: > > I am trying to fix an unmet dependancy from my Backports installation of > > KDE 3.5. I am guessing that something is not allowing the overwriting of > > /usr/share/doc/

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 11:30:37AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience. Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi Rodolfo, > welcome to Debian! Thanks indeed, I'm glad to join the Debian users community. Rodolfo: >> In my Sarge

Re: 'M-v' not working in man pages

2006-04-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: >> When I'm reading a manual page, I do 'C-v' to go one screen ahead, >> but 'M-v' does not work to go one screen back: when I do 'M-v', >> the View menu is displayed instead. >> How can I fix that? >> I have Sarge stable, and Gnome. Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 29 April 2006 12:20, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Nice attitude. Vast portions of Oregon and parts of rural Washington led > > the continent in unemployment for the first half of this decade. I'm > > sure you would have rather let one in five people in the pacific > > n

Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Hi, Debian users. I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: everything appears very big. Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? And a way to make it be what it should? When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86', the resolution displayed

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 01:34:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Nice way to avoid the point. > > Nope, didn't avoid a thing. As you admit your case was constructed. > Furthermore it did not address what I said. > > > You said, and I quote: > >>> The short, sho

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Felix C. Stegerman
* Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-29 23:05]: > I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should > be: everything appears very big. > Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? Try $ xrandr - Felix -- Felix C. Stegerman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Any su

[Somewhat OT] Explorer destroyer

2006-04-29 Thread Martin A. Brooks
Hi This site was mentioned on my LUG list today: http://www.explorerdestroyer.com/ It's a neat idea, and a nice feeling after all those "You must use IE" screens you trip over from less thoughtful sites. I've put it on the front of my personal homepage[0] and it seems to work quite well.

Re: LV Device Missing

2006-04-29 Thread Morten O. Hansen
On Sat, 2006-04-29 at 03:01 +, Ian Petts wrote: > I'm fairly new to LVM, but I've been having an intermittant problem that > I hope someone can help me with. > > Every few (2-10ish) reboots of my machine, my LV fails to be recognised. > I also have this, happens almost every time. Do you use

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > No, the locals are more than capable of doing that. However, we aren't able > to defend ourselves against large swarms of Californians overrunning us. Ahhh yes, the tired ol' "Blame the Californians" game. Tsk. See, down here in Vegas we got that problem licked. Ever

Re: sata sucks

2006-04-29 Thread lee
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:14:18PM +0200, lee wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 06:46:38PM +0200, lee wrote: > > > listed. Booting with all 4 SATA ports enabled fails. I haven't tried > > to access the SATA disk yet. > > Trying to create a partition on the SATA disk with cfdisk only > displays 'Il

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:05:52PM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, Debian users. > > I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: > everything appears very big. > Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? > And a way to make it be what it should? > Wh

Re: dpkg-reconfigure list

2006-04-29 Thread Thilo Six
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Bruce Byfield wrote the following on 27.04.2006 21:40: > As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure > installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it > also opens a series of text-based dialogs to

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Mumia W
Steve Lamb wrote: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: But that happens all the time. People who don't drive still pay taxes for roads. And they also never take public transportation on those roads, pay for transportation across those roads, never have emergency medical services travel to them and tr

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-04-29 Thread Mumia W
Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. [...] LOL Thanks for that Manaen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Mumia W
Steve Lamb wrote: Mumia W wrote: Social Security is a government program. There's nothing wrong about using taxes to support a government program. There is when the program is highly suspect. Like the Alaskan bridge to nowhere. Social Security is not highly suspect. It's not even suspe

'out of memory' errors

2006-04-29 Thread tom arnall
i am trying to us a perl application that handles large files (.5GB) in scalar variables. when i try to 'slurp' one of these files into a variable (e.g., '$_ = `cat filename`) i get an out of memory error. (same for '@var = ') initially, i ran the script without any memory limits. that was fin

Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die

2006-04-29 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Manaen Schlabach wrote: I haven't been around this list long but here are the ingredients for a thread that won't die. Can anyone think of further needed ingredients? Ingredients 2 Dozen Broccoli Growers A heavy dose of green color 1 Social Contract 1 smidgen of "how do you address somebody...

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:05, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Hi, Debian users. > > I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than it should be: > everything appears very big. > Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? > And a way to make it be what it should? > When I run '

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Mumia W wrote: >> >> And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too! > > > Yes, they are. I was educated in a public school. > As was I. That is exactly the reason why none of my children will *ever* go to a public school. I like to think that I am succeeding in life *in

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than >> it should be: >> everything appears very big. >> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? >> And a way to make it be what it should? >> When I run 'dpkg-reconfigure -pmedium xserver-xfree86', >

Re: 'out of memory' errors

2006-04-29 Thread Linas Žvirblis
tom arnall wrote: > i am trying to us a perl application that handles large files (.5GB) in > scalar > variables. when i try to 'slurp' one of these files into a variable > (e.g., '$_ = `cat filename`) i get an out of memory error. You should consider alternative solutions, like processing f

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 29 April 2006 14:51, Steve Lamb wrote: > Because of the Californians stampeding over the border to pay > our state income taxes, pay us for room and board while they do it and in > the end, thank us for the opportunity. Maybe you Oregonians should take > that as a pointer? :P We let

Re: LV Device Missing

2006-04-29 Thread Wayne Topa
Ian Petts([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I'm fairly new to LVM, but I've been having an intermittant problem that > I hope someone can help me with. > > Every few (2-10ish) reboots of my machine, my LV fails to be recognised. > > I'm running Debian Sid with: > > === 8< === > >

Re: Screen resolution

2006-04-29 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Sun, Apr 30, 2006 at 12:46:41AM +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > >> I strongly suspect that my screen resolution is lower than > >> it should be: > >> everything appears very big. > >> Is there a way to check up the real performed resolution? > >> And a way to make it b

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Mumia W wrote: > > [somebody] wrote: > >> > >> And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too! > > > > > > Yes, they are. I was educated in a public school. > > > As was I. That is exactly the reason why

bootsplash kernel patch

2006-04-29 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I downloaded patch file kernel-patch-bootsplash_2.6.16-1.tar.gz. But it contains patches other than 2.6.16-1. From where to get bootsplash kernel patch for 2.6.16-1? -- L.V.Gandhi http://lvgandhi.tripod.com/ linux user No.205042

Re: etch: can no longer login

2006-04-29 Thread David E. Fox
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 13:27:08 -0700 "David E. Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo unmount /dev/hdd > sudo: pam_authenticate: Module is unknown > > This just happened very recently. hate replying to myself, but need some help. due to some other broken-ness, had to reboot.

rerunning autodetect

2006-04-29 Thread Mark Tilford
For various reasons, I had to run the installation on one computer, then transfer the hard drive to a different computer. How do I rerun the code that autodetects hardware (specifically the netword card)?

Beaverton Linux Group (WAS: Re: Fortune file!)

2006-04-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael M. wrote: Beaverton: http://www.bluegroup.org/ (link is dead, at least for me, but I'm pretty sure the group is still active) This site didn't work before, but it is, now. - Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Mumia W wrote: > Great. You understand that roads are a social benefit. Not having the > elderly rotting on the streets is also a social benefit. Yes, having them rot in homes is so much better because they weren't able to invest their own money in something to yield a higher return so they co

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Christopher Nelson wrote: > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >>Mumia W wrote: >> >>>[somebody] wrote: >>> And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too! >>> >>> >>>Yes, they are. I was educated in a public school. >>> >> >>As was I.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:43, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Umm. You do realize that not all private schools are Christian, > correct? Because society benefits from an educated public. If you want to do away with public education, look to Mexico first: Public education only covers through gr

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Christopher Nelson wrote: > That's your right, but unless you can *gaurantee* that I can, for no > cost, send my children to a 100% secular school with decent teaching, > there is no way I can support abolishing public schools. And if you can > gaurantee that, where does the line between public an

what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-29 Thread Serena Cantor
I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet connection, both running Linux. How to transfer files between them? __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Because society benefits from an educated public. If you want to do away > with > public education, look to Mexico first: Public education only covers through > grade six there. Yes, it does. Which, of course, has nothing to do with the public education system here.

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 April 2006 18:57, Mumia W <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Just because a few loons believe something doesn't mean > I have to buy it. But you do! You have to buy it because it's a government program. It's called taxation, coe

Re: what is the easist way to transfering files on Ethernet?

2006-04-29 Thread Leonid Grinberg
I have just set up a network of 2 PCs using Ethernet connection, both running Linux. How to transfer files between them? Wait, these are going through a router, right? I suggest using either SSH with SCP (man [ssh|scp] you will need sshd (package)) or FTP (you will need ftp-server. You can al

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:43:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>Mumia W wrote: > >> > >>>[somebody] wrote: > >>> > And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too!

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