kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

hi all, I've installed linux-image-2.6.17-1-k7 and I want to use the realtime-lsm module for using realtime features needed from Jackd there is a particular procedure to install it? I've tried without success "module-assistant install realtime-lsm" thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: OS X Terminal.app and Aptitude

Ian Brandt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey wrote: >>> - Horizontal borders in Aptitude (e.g. in the search or quit >>> dialogs) become '?' characters. >> >> This is more interesting. Those dashes look like they're double-width. I >> have >> a hunch that your locale on Debian is se

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

On Jul 12, 2006 at 21:52, Art Edwards praised the llamas by saying: > I posted the same initial message on the three sites I thought were > appropriate. My plea for honesty was a measure of frustration with > what should be well-established packages. It turns out that in the newer > distros, the st

Re: Why?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > In many other facets of the install process questions are posed and > > reasonable defaults are suggested yet a choice can be made. I think > > the same approach shoul

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-12 16:54:21 -0500]: > I use a 12" piece of 2x4 wood to prop up the rear of my never-moves, > always-on work laptop. That gives room to circulate air underneath, > and the fan hardly ever comes on. Once or twice a week for a a few > minutes. > I've do

Re: CPU temperature question

Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I have a temperature question. When I'm working, normally I see in a file '/proc/acpi/thermal_zone/THRM/temperature' something between 51 C to 55 C. It is not to much ?? If it is a problem, what can I do about ? oops. that link I

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

On Wednesday, 12.07.2006 at 16:20 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard and > CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs Debian > Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of getting > an Athlon 64 as the new CPU. > > Does an

[SATA]Which controller?

Hi,   My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 hard disks to do some Oracle labs, but I think I need to slot in a controller. Could someone g

Re: SOLUTION: How do I tell Aptitude to Ignore a Broken Package?

On Mon, 2006-07-10 at 22:14 -0700, Jeff Stevens wrote: > I've installed anjuta from unstable on my testing box using 'dpkg > --ignore-depends anjuta'. Of course, 'aptitude upgrade' throws a > dependency error so I'm unable to upgrade. Is there an elegant way to > tell aptitude to ignore the broke

Encoding avi's to DVD format

Hi, I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The command that I want to run in my mind is: encode --use-an-index mymovie1.avi mymovie2.avi mymovie3.avi --outfile dvd.iso Can anyone help me? -- To U

Re: Why not?

* Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-12 17:50:02 -0500]: > I'm with Steve here; why should I care about GTK vs. Qt when an app > 'Just Works' for me? I switch about with impunity based on what I like. > Me three. -- Cheers, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:06:03PM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > I see. > > Linux is now mature enough for home applications - multimedia etc, also > for small office - LAN, internet, Word. I use it for both for a couple of > months and I like it. > > The only drawback is this damned end-user

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

On 7/12/06, Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Please answer only to the list the mail is originating. Agreed. Cross posting is bad form. On top, I am wondering why we have so many ' tell the truth mail lately. Dan Brown started it! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Removing USB memory

I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears immediately. However the device may be busy in the background, and if I remove the stick too early files copied to the stick

dselect stopped after trying to update menu.lst

Hello, I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything, so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any. I was upgrading my system using dselect and after purging linux-image-2.6.1

SMTP data timeout

Hi Is anyone experiencing SMTP problems from the Uk. I seem to be experiencing issues whereby every now and again where Exim gives me a message like so: SMTP data timeout (message abandoned) on connection from mra04.ch.as12513.net [82.153.254.72] F=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Weird thing is that I su

Re: Why not?

On Wed, 12 Jul 2006 11:53:00 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Liam O'Toole wrote: > > your KDE session. But again, it's not something that the user would > > normally want to do: the whole point of using a desktop environment > > is to avail of a set of consistent software components

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:43, itom wrote: > hi all, I've installed linux-image-2.6.17-1-k7 and I want to use the > realtime-lsm module for using realtime features needed from Jackd > > there is a particular procedure to install it? > > I've tried without success "module-assistant install realtime

Re: Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17

Modprobe should do the trick... -- Cheers, Dave signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Orinoco Silver wireless works w/2.6.15 but not 2.6.17

* Paul Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-07-12 16:01:39 -0700]: > Any ideas why I can't get an Orinoco Silver card: > > Lucent Technologies WaveLAN/IEEE Version 01.01 > manfid 0x0156, 0x0002 > > works with a stock 2.6.15 kernel but not with a 2.6.17? > > Something to do with device names and ude

apt: latex depencies issue, fail to install

Hi list, I use latex frequently to write schoolreports, and today I tried to run latex for the first time since I installed Debian Etch. Latex is no longer installed. When I try to install latex I get the following apt-output: debian:~# apt-get install latex209-base latex209-binReading package list

Odp: Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

I always suspend instead of shutting down for the same reason . I don't see any negatives. (very old Compaq, Win 2K) regards Greg Ryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-07-12 19:45 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I? -BEGIN PGP SIGNED

Re: Please clarify correct sid packages for 2.6.16 and for 2.6.17?

RParr wrote: > George Borisov wrote: >> >> What processor have you got? >> > > Dual Opteron; that's why I originally installed the linux*-amd64-k8 > versions. Hmm, I can't even see the 64 bit kernels in my apt-cache. This would make sense, as I'm not running 64bit. Over to someone else on t

Re: Why?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 05:47:56PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > ... > And -both- gdm -and- kdm can be told to start up either kdm or gnome. > (xdm doesn't seem to have this feature.) Back when I first tried using it (around 2001) KDM presented a login box with the following items: Text e

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Excuse me for chiming in, but I think many places simply look > for the best performance and productivity/dollar(euro). We do use the PGI > compiler, > mostly because gnu had not had a f90-f95 compiler, and partly because > of, maybe, a 10% improvement in

recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

I am looking for a lightweight calendar program that can handle appointments in vcalendar format for import export (to sync against my nokia phone). Preferably gtk2 so that it will be able to handle hebrew but I would settle for something that works at first. I tried evolution, but beside being a

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

On Thursday 13 July 2006 09:43, itom wrote: > hi all, I've installed linux-image-2.6.17-1-k7 and I want to use the > realtime-lsm module for using realtime features needed from Jackd > > there is a particular procedure to install it? > > I've tried without success "module-assistant install realtime

YOU WON THE COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO

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Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:50 +0200 John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD > format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The > command that I want to run in my mind is: > > encode --use-an-index

Using tar to extract files from tape

I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to post it again. The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file from a tape backup made with a backup application? On a sarge machine, I have a WangDAT 3100 tape drive from the late 1990s. The tape from which I would li

Re: YOU WON THE COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO

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Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400: > I tried: > > # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz > tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error > tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now > tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now > > When I tried the tvf options for tar, I get the same resul

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into > DVD format. The most effective method I've found is AviToVob http://inferno.slug.org/cgi-bin/wiki?AviToVob - -- September 11th, 2001 The proudest day for gun control and centr

debian-user: Firewire?

So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone with no desire to program use FireWire? I'm also having the "no sound" problem, but I'll browse through some of the other thousands of posts with that subject firs

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

--- Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday, 11.07.2006 at 02:02 -0700, michael > bailey wrote: > > > I am interested in obtaining a new motherboard > and > > CPU. The current CPU is a Pentium III and runs > Debian > > Sarge (kernel 2.4.27-3-686). I am thinking of > getting > > an A

Re: apt: latex depencies issue, fail to install

Le jeudi 13 juillet 2006 à 11:50 +0200, Vegard L. Rekaa a écrit : > Hi list, > > I use latex frequently to write schoolreports, and today I tried to > run latex for the first time since I installed Debian Etch. Latex is > no longer installed. When I try to install latex I get the following > apt-

Re: YOU WON THE COCA-COLA ONLINE PROMO

2006/7/13, Mirco Piccin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Oh yes, guy!! We all have won a lot of money ;-) No problems, so, with future develop of opensourcez!! ah, ok...but, in which bank account do we arrive it? and who favour it?...: I'm a spam box full of these mail...:S...orrible -- heba -- T

Odp: Re: How to create autorunning CD?

I got some idea. Debian can autoplay DVD's and music CD's, but you have to set explicitely the program that will open the disc in gnome settings. standard is xine. You could record your autorunning CDs as mixed - music/data CD with dummy music track and replace xine with some script that will o

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

David R. Litwin wrote: > The question is this: Why should I ever turn off my laptop on a normal > occasion (normal being every-day, standard, stationary usage)? Because you care about the planet... > If I don't > want it on, I can suspend it in some way: Waking-up is faster than > booting-up.

Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

I just finished installing Debian Etch on my (sortof) new computer. (I got a new computer for my wife and got to upgrade my debian box to her old computer.) :] Everything in the install went fine. However when I reboot and try to log into my system for the first time I get an error message on my

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

John O'Hagan wrote: ... May I suggest simply typing m-a in a terminal, which should give you a menu-based front-end for module-assistant. Using this you can easily go through the steps required for building and installing the module. Otherwise, the procedure is: #m-a update which checks whic

Re: Removing USB memory

Issue a 'sync' command just before unmounting. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Last amd64 etch snapshot (Jul 10) - I need md5 hash of md5sums.txt from snapshot DVDs

Maybe somebody have last amd64 etch snapshot (Jul 10)? Can you give me hash-sum of md5sums.txt file from DVD 1, DVD 2 a and DVD 3? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Odp: Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

Hi, It's not a problem of desktop and GUI. I could really live with blackscreen and "./configure/make/make install" instead of "setup.exe". If only "./configure..." was more-less equally reliable as "setup.exe". I know it is Technically. If you have all proper dependencies, "includes", "dev"

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

* Goswin von Brederlow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006:07:13:13:47:58+0200] scribed: > The amd64.debian.net is at the same level as sarge if you include the > proposed updates. The only difference to official sarge is that the > ftp-master hasn't pushed those proposed updates into our sarge yet > (for

x freeze with ATI driver and openoffice.

For a year or more I have noticed X freezes for 10-30 seconds on changing screen modes or starting. I haven't bothered doing much to investigate it since I don't Ctrl Alt +/- much, and can wait a bit on boot. However it seems (on doing a testing update for the first time in months) that recent

Re: Why?

On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 01:31:56PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Wed, Jul 12, 2006 at 12:27:15PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > > In many other facets of the install process questions are posed and > > reasonable defaults are suggested yet a choice can be made. I think > > the same approach shoul

Re: Why?

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 01:29:35PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > snip... > The reason is that there is no reason to change. One or the other has to > be the default: should we toss a coin? > -- > John Hasler The default could be to have the display manager, on initial startup, get a random number

Re: Kernel Panic on my new custom kernel

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Mon, 16 May 2005 10:04:11 +0200 Bezecny Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Roed napsal(a): > > >>I had the same problem building 2.6.11, and solved it with the --initrd > >>option

Re: ckermit debian package is not .deb! How will I install it?

https://www.google.com/accounts/ServiceLogin?service=pages&continue=http%3A%2F%2Fpages.google.com%3A80%2F On Mon, 16 May 2005 16:40:51 +0530 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/13/05, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * Siju George: > > > > > > If I download the ckermit debia

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

> From: Dave Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I've done the same here, because of the high ambient heat in > Bangkok. Built a little rack to set the slab on, and heat > problems went away. My Sony laptop does have little feet at the back for that very reason, while the Dell 600M does not. Th

Re: Odp: Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

On Thursday 13 July 2006 15:39, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > Hi, > It's not a problem of desktop and GUI. I could really live with > blackscreen and "./configure/make/make install" instead of "setup.exe". If > only "./configure..." was more-less equally reliable as "setup.exe". > > I know it is Tech

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:26:56AM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWire? you have

Re: kernel 2.6.17 and Realtime-lsm-source

On Friday 14 July 2006 00:32, Arthur Marsh wrote: > John O'Hagan wrote: > ... > > >[...] >>#m-a a-i realtime-lsm >> > > (auto-install) which ensures you have the kernel headers and other > > necessary packages installed, downloads the module source if needed, then > > builds and installs it. Simpl

Re: [SATA]Which controller?

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 hard disks to do some Oracle labs, but I think I need

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Alec Berryman wrote: Haines Brown on 2006-07-13 09:48:02 -0400: I tried: # tar xvf /dev/st0 *.xyz tar: /dev/st0: Cannot read: Input/output error tar: At beginning of tape, quitting now tar: Error is not recoverable: exiting now When I tried the tvf optio

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: > I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to > post it again. > > The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file > from a tape backup made with a backup application? Depends on the format. "Tape

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWire? So you think/say that *everyone* who wants to use

Re: dselect stopped after trying to update menu.lst

[KS] wrote: > Hello, > > I tried to search the list's messages from the last couple of weeks to > see if others might have experienced this problem. Didn't see anything, > so I'm posting here. Point me to other similar posts if there were any. > > I was upgrading my system using dselect and after

Re: Removing USB memory

Magnus Therning wrote: I'm running a GNOME desktop on a Debian Sid system. I've noticed that if I right-click a USB memory stick icon on the desktop and choose "Unmount Volume" the icon disappears immediately. However the device may be busy in the background, and if I remove the stick too early

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? Can someone > with no desire to program use FireWir

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:54:39PM -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >> So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > >> only with compiling the

Re: [SATA]Which controller?

On 13-jul-2006, at 18:05, Justin Piszcz wrote: On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, JB MORLA wrote: Hi, My Debian box is on an Hitachi hard disk ATAPI/IDE/SATA. "normal" Linux distributions don't see this motherboard/controller/ hard disk configuration. The processor is an AMD 64 I would like to add 2 h

Daylight Savings Time Extended

I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated already for next years extension of daylight savings time in the United States. I can find updates, but nothing stating that libc6 has been updated for this change in Daylight Savings time specifically. I need to report

Re: Using tar to extract files from tape

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > gpgkeys: HTTP fetch error 7: couldn't connect: eof > Haines Brown wrote: > > I asked this question before, but received no answer. Sorry to > > post it again. > > > > The question is a simple one: can I use tar to extract a file > > from a tape backup made

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:53:44AM EDT, Redefined Horizons wrote: [..] > > [2] What key combination can I use to bring up the command line? > try Alt+Ctrl+F1.. F2.. etc. Thanks cga -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: > That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if > left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. That's scary. I've been using my laptop 24/7 plugged into the mains. Can you refer me to some documentation wh

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

On Thursday 13 July 2006 07:26, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux comes > only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? That's one way. The other is to use a Debian kernel which already has this done for you. > Can someone with no desir

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it doesn't seem > to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but it doesn't handle > hebrew, and the icalendar.el file doesn't seem to be able to handle the job How about KOrganize

Re: debian-user: Firewire?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > On 7/13/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Chuckk > Hubbard wrote: >> So do I understand correctly, that FireWire support in Linux >> comes only with compiling the kernel with specific add-ons? >> Can someone with no des

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerry DuVal wrote: > I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been > updated already for next years extension of daylight savings time > in the United States. I can find updates, but nothing stating > that libc6 has been updated fo

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it >> doesn't seem to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but >> it doesn't handle hebrew, and the icalen

RE: Daylight Savings Time Extended

Stable branch. The data is in libc6 Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Ron Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 13, 2006 2:03 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended -

Re: Sarge and Athlon 64

On Thursday, 13.07.2006 at 07:27 -0700, michael bailey wrote: > Would the above advice still apply if I wanted to use my 32 bit > software and data with a Socket 754 Sempron CPU i.e. I would use a > Sempron which has AMD64 support built in, but I would not use the 64 > bit capability ? It's alway

Re: Why?

Paul E Condon writes: > The default could be to have the display manager, on initial startup, get > a random number from /dev/random, and use it instead of a human coin > toss. And then we could have lots of fun trying to get new users who are having problems to tell us which desktop they were ran

How many serious backport problems have there been?

I know things on backports.org can't be guaranteed, but what is their track record. Do they just warn you but in reality most people experience few problems, or has it been people's experience that backports are a headache. Also, I know they don't have an official security team, but historically

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: > >> I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it > >> doesn't seem to handle the export part. I also tried emacs, but > >> it doesn't handle hebrew, and

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: > I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated > already for next years extension of daylight savings time in the United > States. Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but the US extended a bad p

How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is timestamped 2006-07-08. $ apt-cache policy linux-source-2.6.16 linux-source-2.6.16: Installed: 2.6.16-16 Candidate: 2.6.16-16 Version t

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Thursday 13 July 2006 05:45, Micha Feigin wrote: I tried evolution, but beside being a ridiculous bloatware it doesn't seem to handle the e

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been >> updated already for next years extension of daylight savings >> time in the United States. > > Not that this

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 09:09:50 +0200 John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a whole bunch of home movies which I'd like to encode into DVD > format. I would like to do this with a selection screen as well. The > command that I want to run in my mind is: > > encode --use-an-index

Re: recomendation for a lightweight calendar program that can import/export vcalendar

In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:50:28 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly supplicatory, did polemicize thusly: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 11:05, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrot

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

I'll give that a shot cga. Any suggestions on how I fix the resolution problem? Do I need to reconfigure X-Windows? What command would I use to do that on Debian Etch? Thanks, Scott Huey On 7/13/06, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 10:53:44AM EDT, Redefined Horizons

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Sean Perry on Thursday 13 Jul 2006 01:37 wrote: > >> That said, most laptop batteries degrade performance significantly if >> left plugged into the mains 24/7. So only plug in for refills. > > That's scary. > > I've been using my laptop 24/7 plugged into the mains. >

Re: dell poweredge 830 RESULTS

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:25:12AM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >okay gang, help me out here. I've got a buddy coming over tomorrow > >with a dell poweredge 830. So, he calls and asks if i have any windows > >server software for his sweet new server for hishouse. I l

SIOCGMIIPHY failed... HELP ME!!!

Hi all, I have a laptop with Debian Etch and every second I have this messages in my syslog: Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(eth1)[3712]: SIOCGMIIPHY failed: Operation not supported Jul 13 21:24:07 localhost ifplugd(irda0)[3719]: SIOCGMIIPHY failed: Operation not supported Jul 13 21:24:08 l

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:26:21PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'll give that a shot cga. > > Any suggestions on how I fix the resolution problem? Do I need to > reconfigure X-Windows? probably. > > What command would I use to do that on Debian Etch? dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg you

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on > 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is timestamped 2006-07-08. > > $ apt-cache policy linux-source-2.6.16 > linux-

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

Thanks Andrew. Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor? Is that something Linux can detect, or do I need to try and dig up the monitor manual? Landon On 7/13/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:26:21PM -0700, Redefined Horizon

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 11:52:29 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Not that this surprises me given the current administration, but > the US extended a bad policy without informing the public when it > happened? WTF? Should be getting rid of DST, not extending > it... the half the

/etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and Etch

Hello List, I have recently installed Etch from scratch: I have just noticed there is no /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script script inside /etc/dhcp3 Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENOIT jgmbenoit_at_mailsnare_dot_net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: > >> I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been > >> updated already for next years extension of daylight savings > >> time in the United States. > >

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Thanks Andrew. you're welcome. please don't top-post, it makes conversations hard to follow... > > Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor? Is > that something Linux can detect, or do I need to try and

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, which was released on >> 2006-07-06. linux-source-2.6.16 v2.6.16-16 is tim

Re: Daylight Savings Time Extended

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 13 July 2006 12:11, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> On Thursday 13 July 2006 10:32, Jerry DuVal wrote: I am trying to determine if the timezone data in libc6 has been updated already for next ye

Re: Encoding avi's to DVD format

I use a tool with the name DEVEDE and there is as .deb in etch. It uses mencoder(mplayer encoder) and it makes great work If want only a simple convert from avi(or any other format supported by mplayer) to dvd... On 7/13/06, John Oxley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi,I have a whole bunch of home movi

Re: Problem with screen resolution being to high after install...

On 7/13/06, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Jul 13, 2006 at 12:45:29PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > Thanks Andrew. you're welcome. please don't top-post, it makes conversations hard to follow... > > Where do I find the supported screen resolutions for my monitor?

Re: How to know which 2.6.16 "sub-minor" kernel I'm running

On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 15:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-07-13 at 14:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> The latest 2.6.16 version is 2.6.16.24, w

Re: /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script and Etch

Hello, it appears that (now ?) dhclient-script is in /sbin Jerome Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, I have recently installed Etch from scratch: I have just noticed there is no /etc/dhcp3/dhclient-script script inside /etc/dhcp3 Is it expected ? Thanks in advance, Jerome -- Jerome BENO

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