Re: eth0 without IP on boot

2006-10-26 Thread B_Kloss
Am Mittwoch, 25. Oktober 2006 09:55 schrieb Tim Post: > Hotplug setup right? May help to post your /etc/network/interfaces file. > > Best, > -Tim > > On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 09:17 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: > > Etch > > 2.6.17-2-k7 > > different realtek, 3COM, onboards > > > > Hello, > > > > I am havi

Re: Kernel alla debian

2006-10-26 Thread Pol Hallen
> Hi friend, this is an english only list. I'm afraid ppl won't reply to > you because of that. Sorry! i writed to wrong ml. :-(( Pol -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: nividia-glx working in etch???

2006-10-26 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 23:48:47 +0100, Alle Meije Wink wrote: > >From: "Sridhar M.A." > >Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 18:24:02 +0530 > >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > > >On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:35:55AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > > I think that people on Etch either install the nvid

Virtual hosting problem

2006-10-26 Thread Laser144
Hi, On my server (Sarge with Apache2) I am trying to host multiple websites. The www.sailmaster.nl and webmail.sailmaster.nl work fine, but nubicula.xs4all.nl connects to /var/www/apache-default/ and www.gijpstuiver.nl cannot be reached. How can I fix this? My /etc/apache2/sites-available/default

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Eeltje
Tadeusz Bak schreef: > Hi, > > When using MC in a text mode (console) the Ctrl-J copies the highlighted > filename into a command line. However, this doesn't work in Gnome > Terminal, it seems that the keys combination is captured and interpreted > as a new line. Is it possible to disable such be

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Brent Clark
Eeltje wrote: It works as you described in KDE. So your problem is really a Gnome problem, not a X problem. I can not help you with Gnome... Hi Maybe you or someone else could help me with this. I dont use kde or gnome. But why is it that when I start a shell (rxvt or xterm or Eterm), (and t

Re: Fwd: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for "ftp" and "http" access

2006-10-26 Thread Mattias Wadenstein
On Wed, 25 Oct 2006, Rick Thomas wrote: Note the difference in dates of the .iso files... The images are different too as the MD5SUM files can tell you. Something strange is happening. Is it a Halloween prank? Looks like the ftp server already has the new images that have only just been b

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-26 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
" * * * AFAIK, the name change is not pure Debian, it is a GNU thing. So what does it mean? To me it means that i can finally get a decent browser released under GNU, not under a proprietary license. /Nicolaus " Hi, I still don't understand the sense of introducing new "free" logo. Tell me why

usb disk recognised but sda missing

2006-10-26 Thread Marco Mandl
Hallo, suddenly (after a reboot) my usb disk does not work anymore. The device is recognized but no device sda is created. # dmesg usb 4-5: new high speed USB device using address 6 scsi7 : SCSI emulation for USB Mass Storage devices Vendor: ST330062 Model: 2ARev: 0 0 Type:

how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread debian
Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go with CTRL-PageUP. So, is there i way that i can pause or stop

RE: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Deepak Kumar Tripathi
Title: RE: how can i see booting messages ?? use #dmesg  > debian #nano debian will show you the boot message Deepak Tripathi .---. Open Source Developer  / \       [EMAIL PROTECTED]@./       /`\_/`\       .''`.

How to set broadcasting ?

2006-10-26 Thread Michał Chojaczyk
I need run script to shere internet connection, it use ipmask to set up interfaces. Could you show me how to set up it manualy or write script without ipmask which isn't supported by debian? Best regards Michalscript:# - Configuration -# Interfaces ETH0_IP="83.1

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Andreas Berglund
debian wrote: Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go with CTRL-PageUP. So, is there i way that i can

RE: Virtual hosting problem

2006-10-26 Thread Jente Paredis
Hi Andy Forgive me if I say something not relevant; I'm fairly new to Debian. But since I have my own server with 50 domains hosted on it, I hope I can give some helpful tips. Since you are using debian, why don't you use a2ensite / a2dissite? The principle of this technique is as follows: Per w

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-26 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > I still don't understand the sense of introducing new "free" logo. Because Mozilla won't let Debian distribute their logo. > Tell me why should I use Firefox with free logo ("IceWeasel") instead of > copyrighted "Firefox" until

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 12:41:48AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > David Hart wrote: > > Been there, done that, look at the third link above to see why it does. > > ;-) > > Doesn't keep mail separate. Please, read the archives before going > further. I'm sick and tired of mutt zealots telling me

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 08:05:48PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > The goal is to mix mail. And yes, Mutt can't do that when dealing > > with multiple accounts (they all appear in a separate mailbox). > > Not true, mutt excels at mixing mail to the point where it is utte

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread David Hart
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 11:43:43PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > > > Don't expect Outlook, Thunderbird, Mutt, Pine, or even Evolution to do > > anything more than simple blob sorts or spam checking. > > You mean like Thunderbird having a built-in Bayesian scanner which cat

[solution] Re: quota usage problem

2006-10-26 Thread Christian Pinedo Zamalloa
On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 10:34:37PM +0200, Christian Pinedo Zamalloa wrote: > hi, > > I use quotas in the /home directory of a Debian GNU/Linux Sarge but I'm > having a strange behavior. I only use block limits: > > soft: 4000 > hard: 4500 > grace time : 7 dias > > When the user gets 4500 blocks

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread George Borisov
Tim Post wrote: > > Since on the topic, if someone is winning the battle to keep them out of > their inbox, sharing of spam-a rules would be much appreciated :) I'm > getting 15 - 20 of them a day. For the ones with the ads as an image (which, I assume, is what you mean) you can use the FuzzyOCR

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
debian wrote: Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go with CTRL-PageUP. So, is there i way that i can

RE: Can't boot after installation ==> ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.

2006-10-26 Thread debian
Hello, I searched the archives, but some files are not found. Anyway, i found some others where you explained some things. I could boot with the linux rescue cd and mount my /dev/sda1 I changed the bootlogd to YES but nothing is ever logged because the system can never connect to SDA1, so how co

preview-latex (AucTeX - Emacs): How to change fontsize?

2006-10-26 Thread Miĥael
Hi. I use AucTeX with preview-LaTeX in Emacs. When I preview a buffer (or an environment), the fontsize of the equations is too small. Can I change the fontsize for the preview? I tried out changing the fontsize of the document (in the options of documentclass), but it didn´t work. I have read th

problem occurred when using sysctl

2006-10-26 Thread newbie_tw
when i run command like "/sbin/sysctl -a | grep shm". it appears with some message as follow: code: error: "Success" reading key "dev.parport.parport0.autoprobe3" error: "Success" reading key "dev.parport.parport0.autoprobe2" error: "Success" reading key "dev.parport.parport0.autoprobe1" error: "S

CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two weeks ago, the memory card from my camera was stuck into a USB card reader attached to a Win2K machine. The Windows box couldn't open the card, and Linux reported: - --- SCSI device sdc: 943047310 512-byte hdwr sectors (482840 MB

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Ralph Katz
On 10/26/2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Tim Post wrote: >> Speaking of which, contacting the FTC regarding penalizing spamvertised >> stocks is futile .. does anyone know of any law requiring the FTC to >> act? Seems to me the stock should get yanked and the company >> investigated and find for such

Re: debian planet rss feed on firefox?

2006-10-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/25/2006 05:54 PM, Matt Price wrote: hi, I'm having a little trouble with the rss feed from planet debian. using firefox 2.0's native "live bookmark" features, I can generate a bookmark which fetches the titles of articles from planet debian. but when I try to click on them. I often get me

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:32 -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Does anyone believe there is any hope of recovering this data? Can you > suggest a technique or service? Try testdisk, and the tool that comes with it, photorec. Short tutorial: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/420 -- Cheers,

Re: Midnight Commander in Gnome Terminal

2006-10-26 Thread Avinash Sultanpur
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 02:28:09PM +1000, Tadeusz Bak wrote: > > Hi, > > When using MC in a text mode (console) the Ctrl-J copies the highlighted > filename into a command line. However, this doesn't work in Gnome > Terminal, it seems that the keys combination is captured and interpreted > as

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Krauss
Hi, I haven't been following this to closely so I may be missing something, but this message caught my eye. I'm not sure how experienced you are, so I will try to be very explicit -- if I tell you things you think are obvious, please forgive me. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Oct 25, 2006

Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread T.J. Duchene
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:43 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Granted, several of the new MUAs aka "mail clients" or more precisely > > "mail user agents" have some very primitive filtering capabilities, but > > ladies and gentlemen, the most practical mail filtering or sorting is

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Bill Smith
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Two weeks ago, the memory card from my camera was stuck into a USB card reader attached to a Win2K machine. The Windows box couldn't open the card, and Linux reported: - --- SCSI device sdc: 943047310 512-byte

koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: kplatopart.desktop not found.

2006-10-26 Thread Godo
Hello. This is the complete error: [16:34:52([EMAIL PROTECTED])~]> kplato koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: kplatopart.desktop not found. koffice (lib kofficecore): ERROR: Run 'kde-config --path services' to see which directories were searched, assuming kde startup had the same environment as y

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 16:04 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > Try testdisk, and the tool that comes with it, photorec. > Short tutorial: http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/420 > I've used that a few times with great success. My Palm Treo loves to mangle data on CF cards for some reason,

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-26 Thread Yao Weihua
sudo apt-get install alsa-ossedit /etc/firefox/firefoxrcFIREFOX_DSP="aoss"On 10/19/06, L. V. Gandhi < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/19/06, Jason Dunsmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/18/06, Rev. John Missing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:> When I go to a site with Flash video, the video plays bu

PCMCIA problem

2006-10-26 Thread Robotis Konstantinos
I have Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2 and I want to install a wireless pcmcia card. The kernel is configured with every module related to PCMCIA as far as I am concerned and the pcmcia-cs package is also installed. The problem is that when the the /etc/init.d/pcmcia script starts I always get fol

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 09:45 -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > > Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to > see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the > greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment, > and the next thing you g

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > Hi, I haven't been following this to closely so I may be missing > something, but this message caught my eye. I'm not sure how experienced > you are, so I will try to be very explicit -- if I tell you things you > think are obvi

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 09:45:34AM -0500, T.J. Duchene wrote: > Nothing on these lists is a personal attack, and it gets so tiresome to > see all this hostility all the time. Honestly, that's one of the > greatest problems with Debian or any other list. You make a comment, > and the next thing

Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-26 Thread celejar
Hi, I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my private wireless network which I control and can secure (with WPA or WPA2), and sometimes to other networks which are insecure (eg. airport hotspot). I use ifschem

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread B_Kloss
Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 13:29 schrieb debian: > Hello, > > I still have problems with my new installation. > There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub > starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes > to fast and it is too far up to g

How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Stefan Monnier
When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how to do it from the command line. Any hint? Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

todays etch update of xorg

2006-10-26 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
Hi! Todays (etch) update wants to update lots of xorg packages - and in the process remove (amongst other xserver-xorg-video-packages) xserver-xorg-video-nv because of unsatisfiable dependencies. Will this render my desktop unusable? I am currently using the nvidia-installer (the sh-file fro

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-26 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 00:47 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Tim Post wrote: > > A: Because it reverses the normal order of conversation. > Q: Why is top-posting considered undesirable by many? > Apologies. My desktop machines are being consumed with things apparently more important than me using th

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-10-26 at 12:04 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using > nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how > to do it from the command line. Any hint? I think you have to use pumount. -- Che

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 - Original Message From: Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org In-Reply-To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EM

Re: CF memory card data recovery?

2006-10-26 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 26 October 2006 10:56, Bill Smith was heard to say: > Can you attach the camera directly to the computer, my Olympus > does, in fact I have never taken the card out since I put it in. No, the camera reports no pictures on the card. In fact

Debian on Dell Dimension E510

2006-10-26 Thread Narendhran Vijayakumar
Hi,I am trying to install Debian 3.1 on a Dell Dimension E510. I am facing two problems1.) It is not detecting the ethernet card2.) It is not detecting the SATA hard-driveCan anyone tell me, how to over come this problem Naren

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
T.J. Duchene wrote: I'd like to start by applauding your effort to spread some oil on these waters. What follows is the $0.02 USD worth of commentary of one who has essentially abandoned contributing in whatever small way he did to this mail list. Steve, I'm sorry if you took my comments the

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:13:53PM -0400, celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my > private wireless network which I control and can secure (with WPA or > WPA2), and sometimes to ot

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Matthew Krauss
Stefan Monnier wrote: What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. Stefan You don't ask much, do you? AFAIK: PDF is not strictly speaking

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Stefan Monnier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. apropos pdf apt-cache search pdf wajig

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-26 Thread celejar
On 10/26/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:13:53PM -0400, celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > machine. I have a wireless nic which is sometimes connected to my > private wireless network which I control a

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, and a triumph of the

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Wayne Topa
Stefan Monnier([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using > nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how > to do it from the command line. Any hint? run df to find where it's mounted.

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
T.J. Duchene wrote: <> > > I'm going to delibrately make a few comments now, and if everyone gets > upset, so be it. <> Any group of people will end up arguing about stuff. Its the nature of the beast. Frankly, though most of the arguing is off-topic, the fact that people here argue is a good th

Re: Virtual hosting problem

2006-10-26 Thread nicolas
Laser144 escribió: Hi, On my server (Sarge with Apache2) I am trying to host multiple websites. The www.sailmaster.nl and webmail.sailmaster.nl work fine, but nubicula.xs4all.nl connects to /var/www/apache-default/ and www.gijpstuiver.nl cannot be reached. How can I fix this? My /etc/apache2/si

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-26 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2006-10-25 at 23:17 +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Just upgraded to the excellent new version 0.9.6 of rhythmbox, but I'm > wondering > why rhythmbox is listing half of my files in the missing files list. > > They are not missing, at least not as far as any other music player on my > machin

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: } Stefan Monnier wrote: } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only } >saved as a bitmap, whereas I'd like to keep it in vector form. } > } >

Re: unmounting usb disk from the commandline?

2006-10-26 Thread Jonathan Roberts
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm pretty sure the command is: umount [device path] run man umount to make sure. Cheers, Jon -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFQOyj+zIA+Re6e

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:18:38PM +0200, B_Kloss wrote: > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 13:29 schrieb debian: > > Hello, > > > > I still have problems with my new installation. > > There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub > > starts booting about the hdd, but i can

Re: Debian on Dell Dimension E510

2006-10-26 Thread Clive Menzies
On (26/10/06 09:50), Narendhran Vijayakumar wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to install Debian 3.1 on a Dell Dimension E510. I am facing two > problems > > 1.) It is not detecting the ethernet card > > 2.) It is not detecting the SATA hard-drive > > Can anyone tell me, how to over come this problem

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-26 Thread Albert Dengg
Carl Fink wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 11:53:36AM +0200, Zbigniew Wiech wrote: I still don't understand the sense of introducing new "free" logo. Because Mozilla won't let Debian distribute their logo. Tell me why should I use Firefox with free logo ("IceWeasel") instead of copyrighted "

micro debian

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with installing with Woody and upgrading is that the list of packages in Main is so huge it takes up a good chunk of disk space (and memory space when using aptitude)

Jerky Mouse Movement

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
After a dist-upgrade from Sarge to testing and to a kernel built from linux-source-2.6.17 my mice - one old fashioned ball mouse and one Wacom Graphire mouse - only move in jumps and starts.Clearly there is something wrong with my setup but I am having difficulty finding the fault. I built

List Archive problem?? (Was: Re: Can't boot after installation ==> ALERT! /dev/sda1 doest not exist. Dropping to a shell.)

2006-10-26 Thread Bob McGowan
debian wrote: Hello, I searched the archives, but some files are not found. Anyway, i found some others where you explained some things. I could boot with the linux rescue cd and mount my /dev/sda1 I changed the bootlogd to YES but nothing is ever logged because the system can never connect to

Re: Multiple firewall profiles with shorewall

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:03:32PM -0400, celejar wrote: > On 10/26/06, Douglas Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:13:53PM -0400, celejar wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I use shorewall to create a local (personal) firewall on my sid > >> machine. I have a wireless nic which i

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil MicroSoft Empire, an end to capitalism as we know it, an

What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Here goes my new list (If you don't use certain

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 01:14:58PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 06:18:38PM +0200, B_Kloss wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 13:29 schrieb debian: > > > Hello, > > > > > > I still have problems with my new installation. > > > There is some important information

Re: micro debian

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas Tutty wrote: Does anyone know of a project to make a micro-distribution of debian for use on older hardware? Eg 486, 32 MB, 100 MB. One problem with There is a LiveCD named DSL (D*mn Small Linux) which I occasionally run on a machine with an AMD586 16MB RAM and essentially no hard dis

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Miles Fidelman
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Here goes my new li

sareg to etch question

2006-10-26 Thread John Graves
With the impending move of etch to stable, I have a question on how to do the upgrade. I am running sarge with the 2.4.25-1-386 kernel. I understand that etch requires the 2.6.x kernel. This would imply that I have a kernel upgrade in my future. Do I want to do that upgrade on sarge? Will

Re: unmounting /media/usbdisk from the command line?

2006-10-26 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Stefan Monnier wrote: > When a USB disk is mounted by gnome-volume-manager, I can unmount it using > nautilus (via right clicking on the disk's icon), but I haven't figured how > to do it from the command line. Any hint? Here's a perl script I use. Save it somewhere in your

Re: how can i see booting messages ??

2006-10-26 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/26/2006 07:15 AM, Miles Fidelman wrote: debian wrote: Hello, I still have problems with my new installation. There is some important information (i think) displayed just after grub starts booting about the hdd, but i can't see what it is because it goes to fast and it is too far up to go

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Thu, 26 Oct 2006, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:57:21PM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > } Stefan Monnier wrote: > } >What tool can I use to extract some part of a pdf file? > } >In kpdf, I can copy a piece of the PDF image and save it, but it's only > } >saved as a bitmap,

I made a mistake.

2006-10-26 Thread Chris Walters
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid thing and for making such a stupid error. Chris

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: later taters Mmmm, taters -- Kent begin:vcard fn:Kent West n:West;Kent org:Abilene Christian University;Technology Support adr:;;ACU Box 29005;Abilene;TX;79699;USA email;internet:[EMAIL PROTECTED] title:UNIX System Administrator tel;work:325-674-2557 tel;

Re: HELP! No sound in Mozilla w/flashplayer

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Yao Weihua wrote: sudo apt-get install alsa-oss edit /etc/firefox/firefoxrc FIREFOX_DSP="aoss" Or "auto". You can see the various options near the bottom of "man firefox" under the "ENVIRONMENT" section (which interestingly, does not list "aoss"). -- Kent begin:vcard fn:Kent West n:West;

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Ok, I don't use De

Re: onboard audio problems with Connectland USB web cam Debian Etch

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
John Kerr Anderson wrote: Hello everyone, I have an AMD64 desktop PC running Debian Etch for amd64. The on-board uses the standard Intel ICH driver in alsa. If I try booting the computer with the Connectland USB web-cam... the built-in audio (a microphone) interferes with the onboard audio.

Re: I made a mistake.

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Chris Walters wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" Apology accepted. request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). That's your opinion, not necessarily mine. I will be removing myself

Re: I made a mistake.

2006-10-26 Thread Kent West
Chris Walters wrote: I wish to apologize to all who were subjected to a "Return Receipt" request on my stupid post (it really was stupid to begin with). I will be removing myself from this group for posting such a stupid thing and for making such a stupid error. No need to remove yourself (

Taters! WAS: Community hostility

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Kent West wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: later taters Mmmm, taters You remind me of Sam Gamgee! I like 'taters, too! Think I'll go cook some right now! Haven't eaten today, yet, and it's 2:00 pm here. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread cothrige
* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by this to please p

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * e-mail client [ (none) - I use GMail ] Pine via terminal, otherwise > SeaMonkey remotely Pine is non-free, and I wanted to restrict the list to FLOSS; but it's okay since including non-free ensures that debian-user is more properly repr

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] So, which one is it actually? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] So, which one is it actually? What do you mean? Some web sites cause firefox to crap out. Others cause epiphany to crap out. She uses the one which doesn't crap out. Inci

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread José Alburquerque
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. Here goes my new l

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/26/06, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > * web browser [ firefox, epiphany ] > > > So, which one is it actually? What do you mean? Some web sites cause firefox to crap out. Others cause epiphany

Mouse: Relative or Absolute, How can I Change this?

2006-10-26 Thread Thomas H. George
Somewhere I have seen an option to change the mouse position between relative and absolute but I can no longer find it. Can someone tell me where it is? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: todays etch update of xorg

2006-10-26 Thread ciol
I don't know for your problem, xorg-core conflicts with xserver-xorg-video now, maybe it's a bug. But just a tip, if you want the output in english just precede your command by LC_ALL=C, for instance : $ LC_ALL=C aptitude Andreas Rönnquist wrote: Hi! Todays (etch) update wants to update lots

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * cd-ripper [ jack ] > * audio player [ ogg123, mpg321, moc, bmp ] > * Desktop Environment [ IceWM-experimental ] > * disc burner [ K3b ] > * e-mail client [ sylpheed-claws-gtk2, mutt-ng ] > * file manager [ mc ] > * ftp [ none I use sftp ] > * i

Re: todays etch update of xorg

2006-10-26 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
On Thu Oct 26, 2006 at 18:31:53 +0200, Andreas R?nnquist wrote: > Hi! > > Todays (etch) update wants to update lots of xorg packages - and in the > process remove (amongst other xserver-xorg-video-packages) > xserver-xorg-video-nv because of unsatisfiable dependencies. > > Will this render my d

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/26/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to pleas

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread cothrige
* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > * (great honours) [ Don't know what you mean here. Best overall > > stuff perhaps? If so, GNU screen, emacs, mplayer and bash most likely. ] > > I can't say Bash is my favourite shell because it's the default, and I > never tried anything

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/26/06 13:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, REACH Waxed (Mint). - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is "common sense" really valid? For example, it is "common sense" to white-power racists that whites are superior to blacks, and that th

Re: Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]

2006-10-26 Thread Bruno Buys
Mike McCarty wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> If people around here (and elsewhere) would quit treating Linux/GNU >>> project as if it were a religion, a political statement, a way to >>> change the world paradigm, a poke in the eye at the mythically evil >>> MicroSoft Emp

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