Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:08:38AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > >It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't > >know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia > >content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the > >previo

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 02:24:27 -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > > I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most > > applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat > > Reader (v7 from the Marillat col

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 03:06 -0400, Kevin Mark escribió: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:08:38AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > > Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > > >It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't > > >know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia > > >cont

error on keyboard layout change

2006-07-25 Thread H S Rai
When it tried to change keyboard laout to enter data in davanagri (Hindi), it reults in error: "Error changing keyboard layout to in(basic)" I trie dit in KDE under debian. How to set things right? -- H.S.Rai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat Reader (v7 from the Marillat collection). In fact, I can print a Social Security f

Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
I also has this problem. There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. With all respect to WINEs people, its in very ... beta stage. It failed to open anything I tried. In my opinion strong standardisation o

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Aw, we have minesweeper, that's all anyone really needs. On 7/24/06, Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, being somewhat pleasantly

libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6

2006-07-25 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/24/2006 11:37 PM, djhack wrote: Results of perl script below: --- begin --- /lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 Use dlocate to find out what package /lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 is in. Then execute "aptitude show | grep Version", e.g. $ dlocate /lib/libgimpwidgets-2.0.so.0 libgimp2.0: /usr

Re: Mounting iso file as normal user?

2006-07-25 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I created the directory `/mnt/temp', set its permissions to 777, > then added to fstab the following line: > > image.iso /mnt/temp iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0,user,noauto 0 0 > > , then rebooted the computer. > Then I could mount `image.iso' on

Re: Mounting iso file as normal user?

2006-07-25 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/25/2006 05:37 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I created the directory `/mnt/temp', set its permissions to 777, then added to fstab the following line: image.iso /mnt/temp iso9660 ro,loop=/dev/loop0,user,noauto 0 0 , then rebooted the computer

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Zbigniew writes: > There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of > them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? > In my opinion strong standardisation of linux would help. What's the > point for

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 06:42:50AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Zbigniew writes: > > There's a lot of free games attached to childrens' magazines. Most of > > them are only for Windows, there is no way to play them on linux. > > If they are gratis, why do they need to be closed-source? > That is a

cant compile kernel

2006-07-25 Thread Brent Clark
Hi all Would anyone please assist me with as I cant compile make menuconfig [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# make menuconfig HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declaration of 'current_menu' follows non-static declaration scripts/kconfig/lk

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Welly Hartanto
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Aw, we have minesweeper, that's all anyone really needs. On 7/24/06, Cybe R. Wizard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In the Great Book it has Been Written that on Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:57:46 -0600 Art Edwards <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> didst appear within my Magick Viewing Screen and, be

Re: possible to merge partitions?

2006-07-25 Thread Deephay
Thanks all, so may be I just add a fstab entry for the formatted partition... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: [...] > > Them: Can I run my games? > > Me: Let me see 'em. > > No. > > Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. > > > > You can't imagine how frustrating that can be. > > Point them in the direction of Cedega and ask them wh

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Printing from Acroread is a pain. In particular it seems to do a really > bad job at outodetecting our network printers. It also never seems to > remember my previous settings. I've had best results by manually > selecting '

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:23:38AM -0400, Leinier C. Salfran wrote: > El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 03:06 -0400, Kevin Mark escribió: > > I wanted to go to site with v8 and had to instll wine/firefox and then > > v8 as a plugin. It was so so on speed and response. But I agree it sucks > > not because

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Printing from Acroread is a pain. In particular it seems to do a really bad job at outodetecting our network printers. It also never seems to remember my previous settings. I've had best results by manually

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html > > Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 > > Discussion here: > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=l

Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-25 Thread Eckhard Kosin
Hi, I formatted a dvd-ram with udf: mkudffs --media-type=dvdram /dev/scd0 Than after mounting the dvd-ram I can copy files to it and a diff shows that the copied files are okay. To ensure that the files have really been written I switched the writer off and on and mounted and ejected another dvd

Re: Wireless : best policy / pratice to start it

2006-07-25 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 08:51:50PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote.. > I'm looking for the best policies / practices to start wireless > networking. Briefly I use wireless in following locations: > > -home: wpa via wpa_supplicant > > -public (bars..etc..): no wep/wpa > > Both works fine. C

etch installer on dialup line?

2006-07-25 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I downloaded the latest business-card image of d-i and tried to install sid with it. Appears not possible on a dialup line: my only access is an external robotics modem that works superbly. D-i keeps looking for a network presence. Has anybody installed on a dialup line? H -- To UNS

Re: Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Eckhard Kosin wrote: Hi, I formatted a dvd-ram with udf: mkudffs --media-type=dvdram /dev/scd0 Than after mounting the dvd-ram I can copy files to it and a diff shows that the copied files are okay. To ensure that the files have really been written I switched the writer off and on and mounted

Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, CJ van den Berg wrote: On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 12:35:17PM -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/xfs/faq.html Check the FAQ, there is a 1 line bugfix patch available here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=115315508506996&w=2 Discussion her

Réponse automatique d'absence du bureau : Wow

2006-07-25 Thread PILON Nathalie
En raison des congés d'été, je suis absente de l'Institut Saint-Simon pour la période du 13 Juillet au 4 séptembre 2006 Bonne été, à bientöt.

Re: Odp: Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread John Hasler
Roberto writes: > LSB *requires* RPM! So what? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > Kopete won't let you do service discovery, Not true with 0.12. > GAIM's just plain annoying (why does it open new windows for what should > be an ignored line in STDERR?) and doesn't have service discovery I said politely that "it is not that strict about Jabber standards"

Re: cp sucks or do I not know enough?

2006-07-25 Thread Larry Irwin
We converted many production shell scripts to dos/windows batch scripts... (We had to make it possible to run our medical applications under windows...) It was no easy task... We still have no reasonable method to create symbolic links... Things like: GDATE=`date +%Y%m%d` Look like: for /f "t

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >Seemed worth trying, but "apt-file find kprinter" returns nothing. > > kprinter is part of the kdeprint package, the kde printing syst

Re: etch installer on dialup line?

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > D-i keeps looking for a network presence. > > Has anybody installed on a dialup line? Do you need really real Debian? This https://shipit.ubuntu.com/ may be interesting alternative if you can survive with (Ku|U)buntu. Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Seemed worth trying, but "apt-file find kprinter" returns nothing. kprinter is part of the kdeprint package, the kde pri

how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread LeVA
Hi! I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by google, but none of them are working. Setting my prompt to: PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$'\E[0m>' makes my prompt: [EMAIL PROTECTED];33mleva:$\E[0m> The colou

problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread kenn
Greetings. I'm having trouble installing tdsodbc from unstable (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/tdsodbc) onto my Debian 3.1 stable Having edited /etc/apt/sources.list to request unstable, I get the following when I try to install. ---

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0500, kenn wrote: [...] > servertwo:/etc# apt-get install tdsodbc [...] > The following packages have unmet dependencies: > tdsodbc: Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (>= 2.2.11-3) but it is not going > to be installed > E: Broken packages In my opinion, the next step

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction to Computing" class, back in 1976. I was also taking a 'Musical Computer' cla

Re: etch installer on dialup line?

2006-07-25 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I downloaded the latest business-card image of d-i and tried to install > sid with it. You need a slightly larger CD image. The netinst image contains only software that you would download anyway during the install, and it also contains a copy of ppp. You'll be able to in

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread kenn
Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:21:50AM -0500, kenn wrote: > [...] >> servertwo:/etc# apt-get install tdsodbc > [...] >> The following packages have unmet dependencies: >> tdsodbc: Depends: odbcinst1debian1 (>= 2.2.11-3) but it is not going >> to be installed >> E: Broken pack

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat Reader (v7 from the Marillat collection). In fact, I can print a Social Security

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread David Goodenough
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line > >and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? > > Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an "Introduction > to Computing" class,

Re: cant compile kernel

2006-07-25 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 14:24 +0200, Brent Clark escribió: > Hi all > > Would anyone please assist me with as I cant compile make menuconfig > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# make menuconfig >HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declar

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Raquel Rice
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > >Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that > >subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? > > > > > Count me in! My first programming was on an IBM 360 in an >

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:02:55AM -0500, kenn wrote: > Juergen Fiedler wrote: [...] > When I try to install odbcinst1debian1 I get [...] > W: You may want to run apt-get update to correct these problems > E: Couldn't find package odbcinst1debian1 Does 'apt-get update' report any errors? signatu

Re: cant compile kernel

2006-07-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 14:24:49 +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > Would anyone please assist me with as I cant compile make menuconfig > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/kernel-source-2.6.8# make menuconfig > HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/mconf.o > scripts/kconfig/mconf.c:91: error: static declarat

Re: No sound support for KDE

2006-07-25 Thread John O'Hagan
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 07:26, Markus Petermann wrote: > Hello, > > I have a problem with the audio output of KDE 3.5.3 (the KDE version > currently used by Debian Etch Testing): There is absolutely no sound > output. > > After the first launch of KDE I got a pop-up with the error message: > > "Sou

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 17:01 +0200, LeVA escribió: > Hi! > > I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) > > I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by google, but > none of them are working. > > Setting my prompt to: > PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL PROTECTED]'\E[1;33m'`hostname -s`:$

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Leinier C. Salfran
El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 10:21 -0500, kenn escribió: > Greetings. > > I'm having trouble installing tdsodbc from unstable > (http://packages.debian.org/unstable/libs/tdsodbc) onto my Debian 3.1 > stable > > Having edited /etc/apt/sources.list to request unstable, I get the > following when I

test3

2006-07-25 Thread Default User
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Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread kenn
Leinier C. Salfran wrote: > > > Hi. > > The first you must to do after change '/etc/apt/sources.list' is execute > 'apt-get update' .. After, 'apt-get instal xxx' > Yes, I did that, and the update was performed without error. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread Santhosh Loganathan
hello sir,     They are different types packages that provides you the solution. if you want in shell to be displayed in color means just use package vim-enhanced(by installing ) and reboot the machine as per linux idea. try to install the latest versions..     

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1632

2006-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
From: Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Printing from Acrobat To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 02:24:27 -0400 On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: >> I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most >> applications (e.g. Open

Re: Firestarter bug?

2006-07-25 Thread Default User
Thanks to both Florian Kulzer and John Fleming. Both answers work. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"?

2006-07-25 Thread Default User
Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"? I tried and tries, but was unable to do a simple Reply to List, using Evolution 2.0.4 (the default email client) from Debian Stable. Yet I can send a new message to the list just fine. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Mounting iso file as normal user?

2006-07-25 Thread Santhosh Loganathan
hello mumia,   for make work easy just create a partition and format it with required file system and try to put label for the partition. just try it

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1633

2006-07-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
>From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: etch installer on dialup line? >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:54:04 -0500 > >Hi, > >I downloaded the latest business-card image of d-i and tried to install >sid with it. > >Appears not possible on a dialup line: m

Re: problem installing tdsodbc

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:43:34AM -0500, kenn wrote: > Leinier C. Salfran wrote: > > > > > > Hi. > > > > The first you must to do after change '/etc/apt/sources.list' is execute > > 'apt-get update' .. After, 'apt-get instal xxx' > > > > Yes, I did that, and the update was performed without er

Re: Cross-referencing files in a GUI

2006-07-25 Thread John O'Hagan
On Wednesday 19 July 2006 16:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > John O'Hagan wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I would like to be able to browse a set of files according to variable > > criteria without being restricted to particular directories. > > > > A simple model to demonstrate: say I have three folders named "wo

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:08:38AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: [snip] > ... If I print from another program, that job prints fine but the > >Acrobat-spawned job is still sitting in the queue. > > It's possible that you are submitting to a queue which is attached > to the given

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > You could probably try another command that prints ps-files from the > command line, say lpr -P That *is* the command Acroread was using. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nit

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread LeVA
2006. July 25. 18:29, Leinier C. Salfran: > El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 17:01 +0200, LeVA escribió: > > Hi! > > > > I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) > > > > I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by google, > > but none of them are working. > > > > Setting my prompt to: >

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread LeVA
2006. July 25. 18:51, Santhosh Loganathan: > hello sir, > They are different types packages that provides you > the solution. if you want in shell to be displayed in color means > just use package vim-enhanced(by installing ) and reboot the machine > as per linux idea. try to instal

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the other hand, gpdf can't even DISPLAY the page correctly. Apparently the universe doesn

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Scott
Raquel Rice wrote: On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:41:57 -0700 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? Count me in! My first programming was on an

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread LeVA
2006. July 25. 19:48, LeVA: > 2006. July 25. 18:29, Leinier C. Salfran: > > El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 17:01 +0200, LeVA escribió: > > > Hi! > > > > > > I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) > > > > > > I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by > > > google, but none of them

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/25/2006 11:29 AM, Leinier C. Salfran wrote: El mar, 25-07-2006 a las 17:01 +0200, LeVA escribió: Hi! I want to make my shell's prompt colourful :) I'm using pdksh. There are tons of information provided by google, but none of them are working. Setting my prompt to: PS1=$'\E[31m'[EMAIL

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 06:41, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:04:43PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > [...] > > > > Them: Can I run my games? > > > Me: Let me see 'em. > > > No. > > > Them: I guess I'll have to stick with Windows. > > > > > > You can't imagine how frustrating

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1632

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
Please don't respond to the digest. Respond to messages in the digest. Responding to the digest itself reduces readability of the list for the rest of us. 1) It breaks threads, your response appears as a new thread. 2) It breaks the subject, making it even harder to figure out what you're bab

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 07:34, Matej Cepl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Kopete won't let you do service discovery, > > Not true with 0.12. That's odd, Debian's 3.5.3 version of Kopete still doesn't do it. 0.12 < 3.5.3... > > GAIM's just plain annoying (why does it open new windows for what s

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-25 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:10:20AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Get coding then. They let you contribute to their CVS. I don't see the point. There are very few (if any) games I would be interested in playing for either Windows or Linux that I can't get for my PS2. Is Katamari Damacy available on

Gimp 2.2.6 resolved!

2006-07-25 Thread djhack
Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 03:21:50 -0500 From: "Mumia W." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User Subject: libcairo2 and gimp 2.2.6 Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit On 07/24/2006 11:37 PM, djhack wrote: > Resul

Re: Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"?

2006-07-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:13 -0500, Default User wrote: > Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"? > > I tried and tries, but was unable to do a simple Reply to List, using > Evolution 2.0.4 (the default email client) from Debian Stable. Yet I > can send a new message to th

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Arthur Marsh
Carl Fink wrote: This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the other hand, gpdf can't even DISPLAY the page correctly. Apparently

Re: Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"?

2006-07-25 Thread Default User
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:02 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:13 -0500, Default User wrote: > > Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"? > > > > I tried and tries, but was unable to do a simple Reply to List, using > > Evolution 2.0.4 (the default email

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread James Strandboge
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 19:48 +0200, LeVA wrote: ... > This is working, so I started from there. I've added the colour codes, > but pdksh doesn't handle them. > > C'mon, I can't beleive that nobody is using the korn shell :) This is not a tutorial or anything and most of this can be found googling

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Peter Hillier-Brook
Wulfy wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old... Relax. You're not! 1967 on an English Electric 4-50 (derived from the RCA

Re: Sarge: FIrefox: Register: segfault: just me?

2006-07-25 Thread Angelina Carlton
Alexander Sack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Jul 24, 2006 at 07:02:33PM -0400, Angelina Carlton wrote: >> "Dr Adrian Midgley (In th e office)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Loading TheRegister in Firefox as came with Sarge is followed by a >> > segfault. This is new. >> > >> > Anyo

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > > This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page > > printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is > > clearly there and which other programs can print to just fine. On the > >

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > That's odd, Debian's 3.5.3 version of Kopete still doesn't do it. 0.12 < > 3.5.3... I said, that it has not been packaged for Debian yet. (3.5.3 is version of KDE, not Kopete which is there in version 0.10). > I don't have a problem with it taking advantage of kparts, it's

JFS stability [Was: Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...]

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
CJ van den Berg wrote: > This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of > headaches in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian > kernel soon to save others the pain. Just curious -- this is not the first report about crash and loss of data I heard about XFS.

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Carl Fink
On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:11:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page > > > printed, and it says that it can't connect to the CUPS server, which is > > > clea

Re: JFS stability [Was: Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...]

2006-07-25 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, Matej Cepl wrote: CJ van den Berg wrote: This bug has caused serious data loss on my systems and no end of headaches in the last two weeks. I really hope the fix goes into a debian kernel soon to save others the pain. Just curious -- this is not the first report about c

Re: how to make colour prompts for pdksh

2006-07-25 Thread LeVA
2006. July 25. 21:20, James Strandboge: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 19:48 +0200, LeVA wrote: > ... > > > This is working, so I started from there. I've added the colour > > codes, but pdksh doesn't handle them. > > > > C'mon, I can't beleive that nobody is using the korn shell :) > > This is not a tuto

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
[ apologies for the long time since replying ] Miles Fidelman wrote: > Willie Wonka wrote: > > Mumia W. wrote: > >> AFAIK, that's not the way you enable boot-logging. Just edit > >> /etc/default/bootlogd. > >> > > > > It did not take affect after a warm (re)boot -- so I'll try your suggestion -

Re: newbie question -- Using Bootlog, Startup Messages, Console

2006-07-25 Thread Willie Wonka
Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I'll echo the question about where to find that out other than a helpful > > reply on this list. > > A manpage does not always include specific info about how things are set > up in Debian, unfortunately. (You can file a wishlist bug asking the > package maintainer to i

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 23:21, Carl Fink wrote: > On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 11:11:19PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 July 2006 21:59, Arthur Marsh wrote: > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > > This is interesting. I installed kpdf to try to get this stupid page > > > > printed, and it says tha

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 25 July 2006 13:37, Matej Cepl wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > That's odd, Debian's 3.5.3 version of Kopete still doesn't do it. 0.12 < > > 3.5.3... > > I said, that it has not been packaged for Debian yet. (3.5.3 is version of > KDE, not Kopete which is there in version 0.10). Hmm, w

Re: [OT] Gimp 2.2.6 resolved!

2006-07-25 Thread Mumia W.
On 07/25/2006 01:43 PM, djhack wrote: Many many many thanks to all, and I apologize that I can't figure out how to properly reply to the thread with the "balsa" email program I currently use. [...] I'm glad it worked out. To reply to the list/thread in balsa, hit the reply button then replace

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Simon
Wulfmann, No, not the mainframe :) http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 On 7/25/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Carl Fink wrote: > Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that

Re: Jabber network vs. multi-protocol IM clients

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Paul Johnson wrote: > Hmm, what's the deal with the kopete package version being radically wrong > then? kopete is still just part of kdenetwork package, except that now they decided that they want to make swifter development cycle than KDE itself so they declared independence. Except that KDE-Qt

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-25 Thread [KS]
Ice wrote: > Is anythin else using /dev/dsp while you are trying to play sound on flash > movies in Firefox? That would stop the sound from working as only one prog > can ouput to /dev/dsp with the OSS driver. Try replaceing "aoss" to "alsa" > if your card supports the alsa protocol. or try turn

VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE

2006-07-25 Thread Yura
VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE Hi, Can you know how to be connected Debian to to the internet for to protocols: MS-CHAPv2 - protocol of authentification (widely utillized in products from Microsoft), MPPE - Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (method of coding of information at a transmission on a VPN-channe

Re: VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE

2006-07-25 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Yura wrote: > VPN MS-CHAPv2 MPPE > Hi, > > Can you know how to be connected Debian to to the internet for to > protocols: > MS-CHAPv2 - protocol of authentification (widely utillized in products > from Microsoft), > MPPE - Microsoft Point-to-Point Encryption (method of coding of > information at a

PostgreSQL & ODBC & OpenOffice

2006-07-25 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I'm new with PostgreSQL, more over I'm new with DB at all. I'm currently successfully connect to the DB "mydb" with owner "gusti" in three different modes. 1: Locally from the system user "gusti". 2: From another user in the next form: "psql -h localhost mydb gusti" and giving the c

Re: No sound support for KDE

2006-07-25 Thread Markus Petermann
Hi, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> "Sound server information message: >> Error while initializing sound driver: >> device: default can't be opened for playback (No such device) >> The sound server will continue, using the null output device." > > Make sure your username is a member of the 'audio' group.

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Wulfy
Simon wrote: Wulfmann, No, not the mainframe :) http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 Yeah... I think the one I learned on was a little larger than that... like "fill the air-conditioned room wi

Re: Re: Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-25 Thread Eckhard Kosin
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eckhard Kosin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > I formatted a dvd-ram with udf: > > > > mkudffs --media-type=dvdram /dev/scd0 > > > > Than after mounting the dvd-ram I can copy files to it and a > > diff

Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but perhaps there is a way

Re: No sound support for KDE

2006-07-25 Thread Markus Petermann
Hello, John O'Hagan wrote: > I suggest disabling the KDE sound system, to see if you can play > soundfiles with any apps that don't use it. I shutdowned KDE with "/etc/init.d/kdm" stop and tried "aplay /usr/share/sound/...". Did not work. > Try using the "Override device location" option in "S

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Matej Cepl
Leonid Grinberg wrote: > I am hopefully going to recieve an old i486 machine, and for kicks, I > thought that it would be nice to install Debian. Does anyone know how > I would go about doing this, as well as how much success I should > expect to get? Obviously, Debian no longer supports i486, but

Re: Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"?

2006-07-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:20 -0500, Default User wrote: > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 14:02 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Tue, 2006-07-25 at 12:13 -0500, Default User wrote: > > > Is "Reply to List" blocked for "debian-user@lists.debian.org"? > > > > > > I tried and tries, but was unable to do a si

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