Re: Getting Linux and XP to cooperate on the BIOS clock settings

2006-10-02 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:42:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a dual-boot system, running XP Pro and Debian linux. After > switching from sarge to etch, I kept seeing a message on linux boot > about "Superblock last write time is in the future. Fix? yes". > > The boot proceeds no

Program za obracun zakonske zatezne kamate

2006-10-02 Thread zatezna . kamata
PROGRAM ZA OBRACUN ZAKONSKE ZATEZNE KAMATE Kamata ver 2.72 Zasto? U velikoj ponudi kredita, dozvoljenih minusa te raznih drugih kreditnih aranzmana, dali ste se zapitali, koliko ja to kamatu treba da platim? Da li ste se ikada zapitali da li Vam kamatu na struju, telefon, mobilni i

Re: keyjnote crashes computer

2006-10-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Anthony Campbell wrote: I installed the Debian version of a new pdf presentation programme called keyjnote. It refused to run. I got the original version from sourceforge and that also failed to run. This is version 0.8.2. I emailed the author, who said it was something to do with sound recognit

Re: diakonos package: description troll?

2006-10-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 02 October 2006 05:55, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Vincent. > > Vincent Lefevre, 02.10.2006 13:27: > > In package diakonos: > > > > Description: Customizable, usable console-based text editor > > > > Does that mean that some text editors distributed in Debian are not > > usable? > >

Re: Getting Linux and XP to cooperate on the BIOS clock settings

2006-10-02 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 07:42:18PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a dual-boot system, running XP Pro and Debian linux. After > switching from sarge to etch, I kept seeing a message on linux boot > about "Superblock last write time is in the future. Fix? yes". ... ... > > Is there a w

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrei Popescu wrote: > Imagine someone writing a piece of documentation for a software, but > after some time stops keeping it up-to-date. Is the license only for technical documents or would it also be applicable to, say, works of fiction or business/political missives which contain some tec

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Lamb
Tyler Smith wrote: > I understand there have been some situations where an author attempted > to undermine the license by declaring an entire document to be > invariant. This is clearly not the case here, though. That is immaterial. It's like saying that if code were pretty much entirely free

Re: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread Hernán Freschi
Mladen Adamovic wrote: > 3. USB drives are nowadays at least at my place so cheap, like 2GB for 50 eur and that will be enough... > Gmail AdSense suggested this: 1GB USB Flash Drive $16 - www.[nospamheheheeh].com - Wholesale USB flash drives 2GB USB Flash Drive $20, 4GB $33 I guess their h

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In international copyright law, there are rights belonging to the author > that he cannot sign away. These include the right to be considered the > author. This means that if the document mentions him as author (perhaps > on a title page) it is illegal to change that

Re: Debian AMD64 boots only at random: how to use labels/fstab/grub

2006-10-02 Thread Jim Crilly
On 10/02/06 09:40:00AM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > Sorry, I forgot that bit ;( > > The command 'mkswap -L label device' will create a swap area and add a > label for it. This should probably be done from a rescue disk > environment, so you don't confuse the running kernel with changes to its >

Re: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread David Jardine
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:31:28PM -0700, Kevin B. McCarty wrote: [...] > The trick here is that the -vesa package Provides "xserver-xorg-video". > So if you install xserver-xorg-video-vesa FIRST, then xserver-xorg's > dependency on "xserver-xorg-video-all | xserver-xorg-video" is satisfied > wi

Re: apt bug 388708

2006-10-02 Thread Hamish Moffatt
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 02:52:51PM +, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Debian Bug report logs - #388708 > apt: Upgrading to this version (0.6.46) makes status file unparseable > > did I miss detail how to remedy to APT not working anymore? The bug report includes some workaround instructions. (This

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-02 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 16:37:14 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sure, in both cases one can't just take the books, change the author name > and viola, have a new book. But that isn't the same as being considered the > author as neither book list the true author. Of course those a

Re: backing up a new laptop

2006-10-02 Thread Greg Madden
On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 15:18:14 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My son just got himself a Lenovo thinkpad with wifi, ethernet, a > tablet, and Windows XP. For reasons I will not go into here, he > wants to make sure his Windows XP system remains functional even > though he prefers Linux, and plans

mozilla firefox about:config

2006-10-02 Thread Peter Easthope
I've spent a good part of the day trying to arrange that thunderbird is invoked when I click on a mailto link in the firefox. I created the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js containing the line user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/home/peter/firefox.mailto.sh"); Yet a

X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
Greetings! I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't open display: :0.0. I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. I have mount /proc inside the chroot. At first I thought it may have been a permissi

Re: mozilla firefox about:config

2006-10-02 Thread Jeff
Peter Easthope wrote: I've spent a good part of the day trying to arrange that thunderbird is invoked when I click on a mailto link in the firefox. I created the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js containing the line user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.mailto","/home/peter/fire

RE: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
I may be wrong on this BUT... I have just done a similar task for a LiveCD which I created and in order to run X programs from within a CHROOT environment I had to do 2 things... First, on your actual box within X, run "Xnest -ac :1" Second, with in your CHROOT, run "export DISPLAY=localhost:1" o

RE: Minimal X-Windows Setup

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
This worked GREAT...although it only saved me 1MB in my final LiveCD ISO but hey...it is a start. I guess it is all about how you enter your package list...I put what I really wanted before xserver-xorg and it worked like a champ...none of that extra stuff. Thanks a lot. -Yorke -Original Mes

Re: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
James Richardson wrote: > Greetings! > > I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my > laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't > open display: :0.0. > > I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. > > I have mount /proc inside the chroot. > >

Re: X programs inside chroot

2006-10-02 Thread James Richardson
James Richardson wrote: > Greetings! > > I have setup an i386 chroot (sarge) on my amd64 (also sarge) on my > laptop. However I cannot run X programs inside. I get the error can't > open display: :0.0. > > I get the error from xterm and OpenOffice. > > I have mount /proc inside the chroot. > >

Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Buys
Anybody having problems with gnupg and apt-get saying 'no pubkey found...'? This is an etch install, apt-get complains not founding key even after I do a vmtesting:/home/bruno# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 4F368D5D gpg: requesting key 4F368D5D from hkp server keyring.debian.org gpg:

modern Gnucash still needs libglib1.2?

2006-10-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I just noticed that 'gnucash' depends on 'guile-g-wrap', which in turn depends on 'libglib1.2'. Is there anything available there not yet in 'libglib2.0' or has 'guile-g-wrap' not ported yet? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: > Anybody having problems with gnupg and apt-get saying 'no pubkey > found...'? This is an etch install, apt-get complains not founding key > even after I do a > > vmtesting:/home/bruno# gpg --keyserver keyring.debian.org --recv 4F368D5D > gpg: re

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-02 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Tuesday 03 October 2006 00:37, Bruno Buys wrote: > 1F41B907 Actually you need the debian-keyring package installed then gpg --keyring /usr/share/keyrings/debian-archive-keyring.gpg --export --armour 1F41B907 | apt-key add - To get Marillat's key into the secure apt keyring. Stephen -- GPG

RE: Getting Linux and XP to cooperate on the BIOS clock settings

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
robomod@ wrote: > I have a dual-boot system, running XP Pro and Debian linux. I prefer to run XP on the hardware and run Debian (and others) on VMware Player: http://www.vmware.com/products/player/ VM of 3.1r1 (Sarge) minimal (comes up in base-install, you pick root password, etc.): ht

RE: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Jon Dowland wrote: > I've failed to install Etch inside vmware player It's my understanding that you can't create virtual machines using VMware Player -- you need to buy VMware Workstation (or better). HTH, David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

RE: Making a Debian Bootable USB Pen Drive

2006-10-02 Thread David Christensen
Nuno Miguel dos Santos Baeta wrote: > I want to install Debian in a USB pen drive. Beware that you can't install an operating system on all USB flash drives. I have a 128 MB model that seems to have a ROM boot sector (?). I don't know all the gory details, but the bottom line is that it works on

Re: mozilla firefox about:config

2006-10-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/02/2006 06:55 PM, Peter Easthope wrote: I've spent a good part of the day trying to arrange that thunderbird is invoked when I click on a mailto link in the firefox. I created the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js containing the line user_pref("network.protocol-handler.app.m

Re: [Quasi Solved] dma errors on boot

2006-10-02 Thread Andras Lorincz
I reinstalled debian and doesn't appears anymore, but I don't know why. On 9/27/06, Andras Lorincz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I ran smartctl -t short /dev/hda gave no errors and then ran smartctl -t long /dev/hda and also ended without errors. The output from smartclt -l selftest /dev/hda is:  

Re: request for VMware image of Etch beta 3 release minimal netinstall

2006-10-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 2 Oct 2006 22:34:45 -0700 "David Christensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > > I've failed to install Etch inside vmware player > > It's my understanding that you can't create virtual machines using > VMware Player -- you need to buy VMware Workstation (or better). > >

Re: mozilla firefox about:config

2006-10-02 Thread Arthur Marsh
Jeff wrote, On 2006-10-03 11:59: Peter Easthope wrote: I've spent a good part of the day trying to arrange that thunderbird is invoked when I click on a mailto link in the firefox. I created the file ~/.mozilla/firefox/qi0tjy0b.default/user.js containing the line user_pref("network.protocol-han

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