kweather

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should do? Thanks, Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Font changes after dist-upgrade to Firefox2/IceWeasel

2006-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 14:55:41 -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 10:49:55PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > After upgrading Firefox some some web pages now have much smaller fonts. > > > I'm > > > curious what caused that change. > > > > I also noticed (and disliked) thi

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-11-29 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paolo! > I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, > i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu > goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed > to hibernate using ubuntu. I have verified that echo disk > > /sys/

Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Sharrea Day
Hi all I want to try Debian (been using Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4-5 years) but cannot find any information on Debian support for the nVidia nForce 590SLI chipset. Support is built into the kernel in Mdv 2007 but I understand (perhaps incorrectly?) that Debian is not constantly updated for

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > thanks for a hint. however, we have 3 printers where this would have to > be applied + additional one. then, i would have to have > - single sided > - double sided short edge > - double sided long edge > for all three... it means 10 different printers... and with st

Re: debian squid proxy server

2006-11-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 28 Nov 2006 15:29:33 +0100 "debian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > there is an internet application and i have some clients who needs to > > connect to it. > > Firewall is setup, proxy server is squid. > > The internet application is using different ports, my proxy server > > listens only

Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC problem

2006-11-29 Thread thea nicolescu
hi, i have a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC network card and i have just installed a kanotix on my hd, but i can't connect to the internet because the system wobn't recognzie my card. here's below some info, i have googled alot on the issues and i see that this card poses alot of

Apache2 Mysql Auth problem

2006-11-29 Thread Dave Whiteley
An upgrade has broken my Apache installation. I have been using old modules to allow autentication from a MySQL database for years. The most recent upgrade to Apache2 has killed this because the relevent modules have been changed/split/renamed. I think I have re-configured accordingly, but I a

Re: Time Limits

2006-11-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 28.11.06 17:37, David Baron wrote: > Anything around to limit the amount of user's time running a particular > program? man ulimit > Login time limits? /etc/pam.d/*, module pam_limits.so, docs: /usr/doc/libpam-doc/txt/pam.txt.gz (pkg libpam-doc) -- Matus UHLAR - fantomas, [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC problem

2006-11-29 Thread thea nicolescu
hi, i have a Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC network card and i have just installed a kanotix on my hd, but i can't connect to the internet because the system wobn't recognzie my card. here's below some info, i have googled alot on the issues and i see that this card poses alot of

re: chicken pot pie

2006-11-29 Thread Janos Donovelin
whats up Revis, look I know I am crazy but look this over. I made some good money lst week of one just like it. bye,, Caple New Film "April In December" Coming To Theaters In April Company: The Motion Picture Group Sy: MPRG Price: $0.18 4 day target: $0.45 Michelle Alexander, co-author of th

i thought you were doing Xmas dinner

2006-11-29 Thread Anna
whats up Deluca, hey this was in my inbox. i read up on this company and it is pretty awesome. read it over. see ya,, Fannie New Film "April In December" Coming To Theaters In April Company: The Motion Picture Group Sy: MPRG Price: $0.18 4 day target: $0.45 Michelle Alexander, co-author of t

did dad talk to you yet

2006-11-29 Thread Leszko Miszeczlo
dear Yung, I was looking this over. This is one of those emails I was telling you about. toodles,, Woodham New Film "April In December" Coming To Theaters In April Company: The Motion Picture Group Sy: MPRG Price: $0.18 4 day target: $0.45 Michelle Alexander, co-author of the blockbuster hi

Re: Re: Trend Micro Interscan VirusWall 6 on Debian Sarge[Crypt GPG Optional:Decrypt/Verify FAILED]

2006-11-29 Thread Nick
Hi, I'm working on a similar installation.. and I've found that some files are "missing" or better "unreachable" I was wondering about that "index.htm"... that was "missing" and so searched it.. I've found that there are two files: web.idx and web.pkg that contain the "missing" files. Now I

SQL question about performance...

2006-11-29 Thread Dirk
Hi! (I've asked this before but my account seemed to be deleted for some reason...) I have the choice between VARCHAR(8) and INT(10) to store unsigned crc32 values in hex or as decimal integer. Which one would result in more speed after putting an INDEX on it? VARCHAR(8) or INT(10)? ...I use myS

restarting isdnutils fails

2006-11-29 Thread Rainer Dorsch
Hello, I am running a sarge system with an AVM Fritzcard DSL providing ISDN as well. vbox3 serves as answering machine. Sometimes the card hangs and I restart the connection completely using silverboxy:/etc/init.d# cat /usr/local/bin/restartPPP #!/bin/bash if ! /sbin/ifconfig |grep ppp0 > /dev

Re: Cannot remove a pcakge

2006-11-29 Thread Andras Lorincz
Thanks, Finally I managed removig xgl by deletig all xgl.* files from /var/lib/dpkg/info/, but probably it would have been cleaner with commentig out those lines. On 11/28/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:29:36 +0200, Andras Lorincz wrote: > Hello, > >

Re: SQL question about performance...

2006-11-29 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 29.11.2006 at 11:51 +0100, Dirk wrote: > Hi! > (I've asked this before but my account seemed to be deleted for some > reason...) > > I have the choice between VARCHAR(8) and INT(10) to store unsigned crc32 > values in hex or as decimal integer. > > Which one would result in more sp

Re: Trend Micro Interscan VirusWall 6 on Debian Sarge[Crypt GPG Optional:Decrypt/Verify FAILED]

2006-11-29 Thread Nick
Making a similar installation just today, I've resolved installing gawk that was missing and making a link from /usr/bin/awk to /bin/awk Now it works :) Ciao Nick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Multiple desktop icons for encrypted devices?

2006-11-29 Thread Magnus Therning
On Sid I've just noticed a rather irritating new behaviour. I have a LUKS encrypted partition on my USB memory stick. In an earlier attempt to get it mounted under a "nice" name I gave the filesystem (ext3) a name ("Stick"). That wasn't honoured at all so I added a HAL policy that sets the volum

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 02:13, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Folks, > > It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and > dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, . > To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what > extent can one m

Re: First Look at Debian

2006-11-29 Thread Anton Piatek
Etch is pretty well supported on Thinkpads, so have fun. In case you do need help with hardware configuration, thinkwiki.org is very helpful Anton Baz wrote: > David - > > Just cautious - my experiences with "Sarge" were not favorable. Someone > from the Thinkpad mailing list strongly suggeste

Re: CVS commit with custom date

2006-11-29 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 07:03, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > On Nov 28, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:11:18PM -0800, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> Is there a way to perform a cvs commit with a custom date, rather > >> than the current dat

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread michael
On Mon, 2006-11-06 at 01:10 +1100, John O'Hagan wrote: > Or the whole thing could even be done with (I think!): > > #tr -d '\n' < IN | tr ' ' '\n' | grep -B1 Processor | grep -v 'Processor\|--' > > i.e., remove the newlines, replace all the spaces with newlines, then grep > for > the line befo

Apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... 0%"

2006-11-29 Thread David Baron
It worked yesterday. Could be failed update killed it? Kpackage will display installed packages, not new or updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread David Bruce
I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails

Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
Hi, I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I managed to get English and Danish spell checking to work by installing aspell, ispell, myspell, and ienglish, idanish and gnome-spell. My problem is that

debian kernel git tree?

2006-11-29 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm wondering whether there's a git tree somewhere for the debian kernel? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread michael
I guess a complete rephrase is best. What I want is "how many processors does each WAITING job in lsf queues require?". From 'bhist' I get outputs such as below (see whitespace anywhere in "num Processors") and cannot determine a sure way of always parsing it... Thanks, Michael EXAMPLES: ~/b

Re: Font changes after dist-upgrade to Firefox2/IceWeasel

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Wahl
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:55:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > There is a new about:config item, "layout.css.dpi", which according to > > the mozilla website should take over this functionality, but this is > > broken for me. I get serious rendering bugs if I change the default > > setting

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-29 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Surachai Locharoen escribe: > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? > > mpgtx does it I think... Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt j. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpk760ILU

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Micha Feigin writes: > In terms of history first came dpkg, next dselect, then apt-get and then > aptitude. Both apt-get and aptitude work with dpkg behind the scenes. > synaptic (I think that there is also a kde version) is just a glorified > GUI based aptitude AFAIK. Aptitude, Apt-get, and Synap

Re: Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:49:38PM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: > Hi all > I want to try Debian (been using Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4-5 years) > but cannot find any information on Debian support for the nVidia nForce > 590SLI chipset. Support is built into the kernel in Mdv 2007 but I > unders

Media player

2006-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear all, I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my debian pc, how can i do? I have found this http://www.bxlug.be/articles/129 Trying add this deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge m

Re: Xaralx on testing

2006-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:42:22 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:50:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> Do you really need to have rev. 1764? The xaralx package 0.7r1692-2 from >> the testing/non-free repository works fine for me. >> > That works here.

supported hardware ?

2006-11-29 Thread Moses M. Gallegos
Hello, Does anyone know if Debian is supported on the new Dell Optiplex 740 Dekstop with the AMD Athlon 64X2 dual-core processor? Thanks for the help! 01001101 0110 01110011 01100101 01110011 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 00:38:03 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 28/11/06 16:37, wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:04:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Florian Kulzer on 27/11/06 16:50, wrote: > >>>On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:46:25 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > This is the same in KDE

emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
I'm running a stable/sarge system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux ratty 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux and have the latest 'emacs21' loaded: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l emacs21* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Having worked at places which are majority windows and minority *nix, I > can honestly say that the windows approach tends to encourage "tasking" > of "junior" level admins to repetitive tasks by hand, because the > "senior" admins don't want to do it themselves (i.e., t

icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello there, I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since this upgrade I cannot any longer click on an URL from my mail client (icedove) so that it open the link in a new tab in firefox. I did check in Desktop/Preferences/Preferred Applications/ and everything seems ok. A

Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:51:55AM -0500, David Bruce wrote: > I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power > outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and > says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
I have been experiencing similar problems with Debian Etch (rc1) repositories mentioned at Debian Help: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ It sure would be nice if there was a Debian version of this "source-o-matic" sources.list generator: http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic and/or a Debian vers

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 07:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my > debian pc, how can i do? I have found this http://www.bxlug.be/articles/12

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 09:26]: > Surachai Locharoen escribe: > > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? The Debian "quelcom" package package provides a nice set of utilities. See also: http://linux-sound.org/snded.html RLH -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:40:16AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Wouldn't the new way be the old way. I often say that the problems that > Microsoft is "solving" with Windows now were solved 20+ years ago under the > Unix(-like) tools. Prime example would be remote desktops. Windows only > r

Re: kweather

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should > do? It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edit the confi

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Виталий Ищенко
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 16:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > sorry. > Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my debian pc, > how can i d

Re: icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:43, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello there, > > I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since > this upgrade I cannot any longer click on an URL from my mail client > (icedove) so that it open the link in a new tab in firefox. I did > check in

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
Anyhow, he said that most amusing thing about Microsoft was that they are just getting around now to solving the problems that UNIX solved 20 years ago or more and still managing to make new mistakes in the process. This is rather fun. I remember that in 1995 I didn't now UNIX (I used to live in

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 16:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, sorry. > Now, I would like to have a media pla

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:14:35AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 07:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > > sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my > > de

Re: icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
For some reason my default had changed. Thanks a bunch ! -M On 11/29/06, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:43, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello there, > > I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since > this upgrade I cannot any longer

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > Cheers, > > Brian > no deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main I got t

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > > > > > Cheer

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:32:37PM +, michael wrote: > I guess a complete rephrase is best. > > What I want is "how many processors does each WAITING job in lsf queues > require?". From 'bhist' I get outputs such as below (see whitespace > anywhere in "num Processors") and cannot determine a

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread Romain Francoise
Emacs 21 was released in October 2001, the various 21.x releases since then were maintenance releases so the various modes haven't been updated. If you want a recent Emacs, use the `emacs-snapshot' package, sarge packages are available from my repo, see: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Em

Apt Proxy Issue

2006-11-29 Thread Ali Jawad
Hi Ive been trying to setup apt-get to work with my proxy "it wont work without it" and I have not had any luck till now ..below is my apt.conf file..apt-get update executes successfully but apt-get install resolves the hostnames and just waits for headers untill it times out.. Acquire::http::Pro

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
John Hasler wrote: s. keeling writes: And the downside is, you might say: apt-get remove $SOME_GNOME_PROGRAM and it will also remove Gnome (if you let it); Ditto KDE. Gnome and KDE are metapackage which have no contents. They exist only to pull in all the real packages th

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) window to display the definition of a word. But the window is entirely too small, and invariably requires tedious scrolling. The

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread charles norwood
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > > Hi list. > > What applications use famd? > > man -k famd > > famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon > > Thanks, > > Chuck > > $ apt-cache rde

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
Arlie Stephens wrote: Hi Folks, It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, . To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what extent can one mix and match between them? I notice some

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > > > S

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > В Срд, 29/

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/28/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things > straight, so here is what I found out. You can either set your > Windows time to local wall-clock time or UTC. You

how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). I tried dvdrip and cinelerra (from http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/build

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 13:39]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: > > > >Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) > >window to display the definition of a word. But the window is

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 11:49 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > > > On

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/28/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things > >> straight, so here is what I found out. You c

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well hidden, badly named registry key that magically makes Windows read UTC time from the BIOS. If someone know

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well > hidden, badly named registry key that mag

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) I have deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main mplayer

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > >> With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > >> use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probab

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 19:36 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Emacs 21 was released in October 2001, the various 21.x releases since > then were maintenance releases so the various modes haven't been > updated. > > If you want a recent Emacs, use the `emacs-snapshot' package, sarge > packages are a

Re: Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC problem

2006-11-29 Thread srg krn
What is the output of "ifconfig -a" in your machine? Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Erik Steffl wrote: I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). Hello Try acidrip - It's a graphical front end on the excellen

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Adam Hardy wrote: I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic. I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very wrongly. Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear unti

trouble with dhcp3-client "Can't allocate interface etlease {"

2006-11-29 Thread C Sights
Hi all, Please CC me in response: I am not subscribed to list I am having trouble with dhcp3-client. First the trouble, then why I think it is dhcp3-client. I: When I try to start the network I get this error: ---

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:42:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > any pointers to solutions? Programs to use? Settings? Howtos? Well, mplayer's mencoder works on VOBs if you're willing to dig through the options. Something like: mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4 -lavcopts vbitr

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) >

samba timeouts

2006-11-29 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I am having fun running samba across a wireless network. When mounting a samba mount (debian to debian) I often get the following errors smb_add_request: request [81001dbd7080, mid=15039] timed out! Which seem to precede the network dropping badly. I am not sure if it is a problem wit

kmail segfaults badly

2006-11-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Kmail segfaults badly, here. Last lines from strace are below. Is there something I can do, besides removing/renaming any reference to kmail inside ~/.kde or ~/kmail, which I already did? The only uncommon thing around kde here is that I ugraded to the backported version, which rendered my control

Re: Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Sharrea Day
Doug, Thanks VERY much for your help. I'll try to get a copy of Etch for AMD64 on DVDs (I have limited data usage on my satellite internet connection). Thanks again. Regards Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy, give Linux to a friend today Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main > > > > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would E

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> deb http://www.debian-multimedi

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Wulfy
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTE

My First apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin 'broke'

2006-11-29 Thread Geoffrey R Thompson
Hi, I have been using Debian for about six months, and have yet to have any issues when upgrading system components with apt-get update / upgrade - until today. After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict between my config file and the new one being offered. I

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
charles norwood wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: Hi list. What applications use famd? man -k famd famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon Thanks, Chuck $ a

Why is Caudium running?

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Moseley
Over time my desktop machines tend to collect a lot of packages I no longer use. For example, I see Caudium is running: $ ps aux | grep caudium root 16162 0.1 0.3 11436 2888 ?SNov28 2:22 /usr/bin/pike7.6 -M/usr/lib/caudium/etc/modules /usr/lib/caudium/start-caudium --pid-f

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> >> >> >> > Sorry, I am a newbie.

Re: SQL question about performance...

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
Dirk wrote: Hi! (I've asked this before but my account seemed to be deleted for some reason...) I have the choice between VARCHAR(8) and INT(10) to store unsigned crc32 values in hex or as decimal integer. Which one would result in more speed after putting an INDEX on it? VARCHAR(8) or INT(10)?

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread Romain Francoise
michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a distant memory of editting Fortran codes and being able to > jump from an IF to the next corresponding ELSE or END IF. (I thought > f90-next-block would do this but it seems not). Do you know of the > correct lisp package/command that does this? C-M-

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > charles norwood wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > >> > >>>Hi list. > >>>What applications use famd? > >>>man -k fam

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 23:02 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a distant memory of editting Fortran codes and being able to > > jump from an IF to the next corresponding ELSE or END IF. (I thought > > f90-next-block would do this but it seems not). Do

My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-29 Thread Geoffrey R Thompson
Hi, I have been using Debian for about six months, and have yet to have any issues when upgrading system components with apt-get update / upgrade - until today. After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict between my config file and the new one being offered. I

Re: My First apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin 'broke'

2006-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Geoffrey R Thompson writes: > After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict > between my config file and the new one being offered. I selected the > ?keep my config file? option ? hoping this would get me through. In > hindsight, I probably should have looked at the dif

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: ^^ Should "dists" be repeated like that? --

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Brian Durant wrote: OK, maybe I am posting the wrong error message? Here is what I get after I update in Synaptic: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found It looks to me like the path is correct, however I

Re: scponly connection problem

2006-11-29 Thread Edwin Siegenthaler
Hi Alejandro, I run into the same problem and it took me quite a while till found a solution that worked for me. It was provided by a guy called Steffen Zieger (http://steffenzieger.de/index.php/2006/07/02/chroot-sftp-users-mit-scponly/) So, all credits to him! You create a chrooted environme

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