Re: xserver-xorg: recent upgrade blowed out my X server

2006-12-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 06:40:29PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > Oh...its good to see that it has worked with you. I had a lotta trouble with > the 2.6.8 Kernel on Debian Sarge 3.1r0 and that video card. > > Well..but here I am a bit confused. The 2.6.8 kernel doesn't even have the > module requir

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-12-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:53:26PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > > I did not want to mention this, because: > > > > - software RAID-1 has bus overhead (the same data have to be transferred > > multiple times to multiple drives, so writing may be twice as slow) On 30.11.06 17:00,

Re: "Returned mail: Data format error"

2006-12-01 Thread SAWN_2005
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Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-12-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 13:58:29 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: [...] > Even with that, I still can't make the laptop suspend via Fn-F12 > (although using g-p-m works just fine). Here's the log of > /var/log/acpid whenever I press Fn-F12: > > [Fri Dec 1 13:50:08 2006] executing action "/etc

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 20:30:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 11/30/06 15:

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > 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

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-12-01 Thread Adam Hardy
Casey T. Deccio on 30/11/06 22:45, wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote:> It worked! I had previously installed the nVidia driver using nVidia's installer. I used the same installer to uninstall (using the --uninstall argument) the module. Then I used the instructions [1

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Masato YOSHIYA
Hi all, 1) Kernel and libraries being stable for my numerical calculations, which allow me to forget about the existence of operating system. This is enabled by well-organized package dependencies. I've never had trouble in the operating system part such as necessity to reboot the system or s

ipsec and dns

2006-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
Hi all, I use openswan as a road-warrior. No issues with the connection, all is good. However, when the VPN is up, I'd like to use a different DNS server (one across the VPN) than the one that the local DHCP server provides. I have: supersede domain-name-servers 192.168.168.10 in dhclient.con

RAM slot info?

2006-12-01 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi all! Is there a way to know : - how many memory slots are empty - if not empty, which is the size of each memory bank installed? Of course, without open the case :-D !! Thanks!

Re: RAM slot info?

2006-12-01 Thread Daniele P .
On Friday 01 December 2006 10:49, Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi all! > Is there a way to know : > - how many memory slots are empty > - if not empty, which is the size of each memory bank installed? > > Of course, without open the case :-D !! Hi Mirco, Try with lm-sensors using sensor hwinfo using hwin

Re: RAM slot info?

2006-12-01 Thread Mirco Piccin
Thanks Daniele. On 12/1/06, Daniele P. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Mirco, Try with lm-sensors using sensor hwinfo using hwinfo --bios It works great!! KING regards! Bye

system recovery

2006-12-01 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I maintained a LAN web/mail server and today the server does work properly: The server is using the Etch, and I will do a 'apt-get -f dist-upgrade' each day and make some adjustments if needed, everything looks fine yesterday. Today I performed again the dist-upgrade seems nothing

podcast downloads with juice & W2000 but not with hpodder & Etch

2006-12-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
The RSS feed for a podcast is: http://broadcast.acme.org/podcast/podcast.xml "podcast.xml" has entries of the form: http://broadcast.acme.org/broadcasts/20061103.mp3"; length="25361472" type="audio/mpeg"/> The podcast receiver "Juice" running on a W2000 machine is able to download t

Re: Media player

2006-12-01 Thread Antony Gelberg
Brian Durant wrote: > So, now that this problem is solved, I still need to deal with the > original issue I posted about, which succinctly put is that I am a > newbie mucking around trying to get all of the multimedia goodies > installed. I have Helix and I have installed the w32codex, gstreamer,

Re: What is the Best Way to Create Attachments using mhonarch?

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Keck
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 10:56:57 MDT, Martin McCormick wrote: > I use nmh as the user agent for mail and have recently >been asked to send various files to coworkers that contain >attached files full of processed information. I use mhbuild(1). I can send you a wrapper script (perl) which lets

Re: RAM slot info?

2006-12-01 Thread Igor Guerrero Fonseca
There is not a way to do it in console? > lm-sensors using sensor > hwinfo using hwinfo --bios -- http://igordevlog.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Eduardo
Hi, I have a FTP server that is outside my company and the users on my network (inside the company) must put their files at this FTP vwith the help of a NFS mounted directory that I shared with SAMBA. But when anyone puts a file in there, or even if I transfer the file using SFTP, the "Created T

Re: A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.12.06 10:22, Eduardo wrote: > Hi, I have a FTP server that is outside my company and the users on my > network (inside the company) must put their files at this FTP vwith > the help of a NFS mounted directory that I shared with SAMBA. > > But when anyone puts a file in there, or even if I t

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-12-01 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 30.11.2006 at 22:53 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > On 30.11.06 15:44, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > > What is debian's opinion about hardware/software raid? > > > On Thursday, 30.11.2006 at 16:56 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > > it highly depends on the hardw

Squid rejecting 'localhost' as a name server

2006-12-01 Thread Antonio Felipe
Hi! My squid (2.5.9-10sarge2) is sending this error: WARNING: rejecting 'localhost' as a name server, because it is not a numeric IP address He's working fine, but I want to correct this error. Have anyone see this error before? Any suggestions? Thks! []s Antonio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Squid rejecting 'localhost' as a name server

2006-12-01 Thread Brad Rogers
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006 11:01:38 -0200 Antonio Felipe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Antonio, > WARNING: rejecting 'localhost' as a name server, because it is not a > He's working fine, but I want to correct this error. > Have anyone see this error before? Any suggestions? Why not replace "localho

Re: A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Eduardo
Yeap, anyways...the "Last Modified" is in the current date too, any ideas? On 12/1/06, Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 01.12.06 10:22, Eduardo wrote: > Hi, I have a FTP server that is outside my company and the users on my > network (inside the company) must put their fi

evolution+spamassassin don't detect spam (Etch)

2006-12-01 Thread JP
Hi there, I have recently started to use evolution as my mail client. However, I can't figure out how to make it work with spamassassin to detect the tons of junk mail I get every day. I have come across several posts to ubuntu/debian/gentoo... mailing lists describing different settings to make i

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:19:08AM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > On 30.11.06 17:00, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > This is only true if you use IDE and also put the mirrored pair on the > > same channel (which would be incredibly foolish). Under every other > > conceivable scenario, th

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 20:34, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:30:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Unfortunately, "finally using a vcs in the 21st century" is *not* a >> notable contribution to the world of software engineering. >> > True.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 03:31, Masato YOSHIYA wrote: > Hi all, > > 1) Kernel and libraries being stable for my numerical calculations, > which allow me to forget about the existence of operating system. This Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 1

Re: A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Juha Tuuna
On Friday, 1. December 2006 15:25, Eduardo wrote: > Yeap, anyways...the "Last Modified" is in the current date too, any ideas? This solution may be quite lame and difficult to implement but you could use extended attributes on some filesystems. See package attr and man pages for mount. -- -=[JT

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/01/06 03:31, Masato YOSHIYA wrote: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> 1) Kernel and libraries being stable for my numerical calculations, >>> which allow me to forget about the existence of operating system. This > > Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a

Re: evolution+spamassassin don't detect spam (Etch)

2006-12-01 Thread michael
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:55 -0800, JP wrote: > Hi there, > > I have recently started to use evolution as my mail client. However, I > can't figure out how to make it work with spamassassin to detect the > tons of junk mail I get every day. I have come across several posts to > ubuntu/debian/gentoo

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a > Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 > apps with no problem. Sadly this does not include any of the nice old games that I used to enjoy all those years ago. They worked ju

VCS systems on linux (WAS: Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?)

2006-12-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 20:30:58 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: Xaralx on testing

2006-12-01 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:17:43PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > I assume you noticed the remark on the webpage regarding > libstdc++5 compatibility; maybe the necessary package is not installed > by default on a standard Etch system. > It was installed and is even in Etch. $

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:10 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Thanks for replying. OK, here is what I did. I downloaded > aspell5-id-1.2-0.tar.bz2 and then unpacked the archive. The ReadMe > file explained how to compile it (newbie, I have never tried this > before). I followed the instructions and here

trying to get a Benq4300U USB scanner working .....

2006-12-01 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian people, I have tried to get my scanner to work a number of times under Fedora Core 6 on my machine (1200 MHz Athlon) but have not succeeded. I am now trying with Debian on the same machine on a second drive. It is pretty recalcitrant and it may still not work but I will post some

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a > > Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 > > apps with no problem. > > Sadly this does not include any

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 apps with no problem. Sadly this does not includ

Re: Adding additional postfix server to init daemon

2006-12-01 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:23 -0800, Adam D wrote: > I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and > would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but > looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where > to put the additional servers. I h

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-12-01 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 09:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > I keep getting these sort of msgs which looks like the entries are bad: > > > W: Couldn't stat source package list ftp://mirror.mcs.anl.gov etch/main > Packages > (/var/lib/apt/lists/mirror.mcs.anl.gov_pub_debian_dists_etch_main_binary-i386

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 10:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] > 2. Satisfying your ISP who only install on a M$ OS. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Je

evolution vs firebird (or mozilla calendar)

2006-12-01 Thread H.S.
I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.). However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync as far as the Evolution calendar goes (home (Debian Etch) and university (Ubuntu)). I

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 10:04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a >>> Windows developer) years. Windows XP will

Re: no medium found. cdrom broken?

2006-12-01 Thread H.S.
Wayne Topa wrote: H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I haven't been able to read any CD from my cdrom drive in my computer running Debian Etch for quite a few weeks. Not sure exactly when this problem started. Whenever I insert a disc, it doesn't get detected and if I try to manu

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Matthew Krauss wrote: Nate Duehr wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to GNU/Linux for its said ov

Re: evolution vs firebird (or mozilla calendar)

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:06 -0500, H.S. wrote: > I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task > manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.). > However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync > as far as the Evolution calendar

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Francis Healy wrote: The classic definition of the killer app is the one program that justifies the entire cost of the computer. NICE answer. Wish more people in business would figure that one out. Nate -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Etch status..?

2006-12-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-11-26 11:45:02, schrieb steef: > i do not understand. what is the problem?? > > quote: > >*SMP images merged with non-SMP*. After the release of > >linux-image-2.6.17-2 the SMP and non-smp images where integrated into ^^^ ^^

Re: The Linux Code

2006-12-01 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2006-11-25 10:33:13, schrieb Baz: > I saw this yesterday via Google Video. Excellent! I had no idea Linus > lives here in the Bay Area. Is this a new Video? I have: 1) Revolution OS 2) Codename Linux (ARTE TV, german) 3) Nom de Code: Linux (ARTE TV, frnech) 4

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 01 12:08 -0600]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 12/01/06 10:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] > > 2. Sa

Re: evolution+spamassassin don't detect spam (Etch)

2006-12-01 Thread JP
michael wrote: > On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 04:55 -0800, JP wrote: > > Hi there, > > > > I have recently started to use evolution as my mail client. However, I > > can't figure out how to make it work with spamassassin to detect the > > tons of junk mail I get every day. I have come across several pos

Unidentified subject!

2006-12-01 Thread 3033301355
Hola -- Mobile Email from a Cingular Wireless Customer http://www.cingular.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Linux Code

2006-12-01 Thread Baz
Michelle - I was told it came out in Sweden earlier this decade, which stands to reason: it's in English but with Swedish subtitles (or I'm guessing it's Swedish). I found it on the Google Video site. I just searched for "Linux." I believe the exact title is "The Code." If you can't find it,

Re: Media player

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Antony, On 12/1/06, Antony Gelberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > So, now that this problem is solved, I still need to deal with the > original issue I posted about, which succinctly put is that I am a > newbie mucking around trying to get all of the multimedia goodies > in

Re: How to make a prog more efieiant (in C)

2006-12-01 Thread Jabka Atu
Sorry if i mislead some one im just trieng to make my progy work better. (It's an HW assignment) btw do you mean :res_3 simatric ? char res_2,res_3; res_2=(char)num; res_3=res_2; then loop to rearnge the res_2 and (res_2==res_3)?0:1; ? On 12/1/06, Kevin Ross <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is this f

Re: The Linux Code

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:30 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Is this a new Video? Quoting myself from earlier in the thread: > I think it is "The Code", a Finnish documentary made in 2001. > http://imdb.com/title/tt0315417/ > > It was shown on Swedish (and I presume Finnish) television a few yea

Re: VCS systems on linux (WAS: Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?)

2006-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 07:00:48AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > I have never used a VCS before, but I have a question about them. I > just got a programming job again (after about 13 years). I hate to > admit, but it is on M$ using VB 6. The company uses Source Safe, which > has what I co

Re: Media player

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:49 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > I hadn't seen it before, but now that I have glanced at it, I don't > believe it has relevance for me as my system sounds work and until I > started trying to get .mp3 working, both Rythmbox, Goobox, etc. worked > fine, but could only rip .og

Re: A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 01.12.06 11:25, Eduardo wrote: > Yeap, anyways...the "Last Modified" is in the current date too, any ideas? if you modify a file, the 'last modified' time is set to actual time. You would need extension that will change the time to the one client provides. Note that basic FTP protocol does not

Re: Etch status..?

2006-12-01 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:50:58AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > Sounds like I'll have to start over and stick to one or the other. > > > > > > No, just start using aptitude, stop using apt-get, and go manually > > > through the list of packages from within aptitude, determine if they're > > > one

Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-01 Thread Arlie Stephens
Hi Folks, Like several others, I've got an etch installation with kde where the kde control panel is empty. The last time this came up, someone pointed to a kind of lost and found within kde - it shows up as one of the directory-like choices in that application menu. Sure enough, I've got a huge

Re: ipsec and dns

2006-12-01 Thread Kevin Ross
I'm pretty sure the only way to do this is to do L2TP over IPSec, and just configure your /etc/ppp/options.l2tpd file to specify your DNS servers. l2tpns may have similar options. -- Kevin

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:31, Nate Duehr wrote: > Francis Healy wrote: >> The classic definition of the killer app is the one program that >> justifies the entire cost of the computer. > > NICE answer. Wish more people in business would figure that one out. T

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. >>> >> I took a software engineering class where t

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:32, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 01 12:08 -0600]: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 12/01/06 10:55, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Dec 01,

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:54 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Are you refering to this? > > "If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the > variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the > commands (with path) to run the utilities. These variables may be set > in the en

DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread jpg
Hey gang, No reply. I guess I provided to much data ;) So to Simplify: Anyone ever use DDS2 tape drives? Cheers, -jpg > On Mon, 20 Nov 2006, jpg == [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: jpg> Subject: HP C1533A DDS2 tape drive jpg> From: jpg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> jpg> Date: Mon, 20 Nov 2006 14:16:

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have never used a VCS before, but I have a question about them. I > just got a programming job again (after about 13 years). I hate to > admit, but it is on M$ using VB 6. The company uses Source Safe, > which has what I consider to be a really big f

Re: DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:14:39AM -0800, jpg wrote: > Hey gang, > > No reply. I guess I provided to much data ;) > > > So to Simplify: > Anyone ever use DDS2 tape drives? > No. I've looked at what to use for backup and have found that a mobile hard drive (2.5") in a ruggedized enclosure (es

Re: DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread Andrew Perrin
Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be helpful? Andy -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor, _Social Forces_ U

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:04AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > Well, not exactly. CVS only does vcs-per-file. That is, it doesn't > know anything about the interrelationship between files. > The new generation vcs', like subversion and arch does keep track of > batches of dependencies. T

Re: DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:47:10 -0500 (EST) Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be > helpful? > > Andy > > I use an HP SureStore DAT8 -- DDS4 tapes. Can I help? -- Raquel

Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > Hi Folks, > > Like several others, I've got an etch installation with kde where the > kde control panel is empty. The last time this came up, someone > pointed to a kind of lost and found within kde - it shows up as one of > the direc

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-12-01 Thread Brian Durant
Hi Sven, On 12/1/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 19:54 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Are you refering to this? > > "If any of the above mentioned programs are not in your path than the > variables, ASPELL and/or PREZIP need to be set to the > commands (with pat

Re: Empty KDE Control Panel; Crowded Lost and Found

2006-12-01 Thread M-L
On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:35, Florian Kulzer sent this for all our perusal: >---> On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 12:02:54 -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: >---> > Hi Folks, >---> > >---> > Like several others, I've got an etch installation with kde where the >---> > kde control panel is empty. The last

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Duehr
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. I took a software engineering cla

can I use etch now? and 2 other questions

2006-12-01 Thread Serena Cantor
I can't wait for etch official release. What's the difference between current etch and its official release? How much disk space does minimal etch installation require? 2 common questions: 1. how to compare 2 files? I try diff, not satisfied with it. Is there command similiar to MS's fc? 2.

Re: Media player

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 23:00 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > Neither of these were installed. I installed them both and now GNOME > CD, Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer seem to work fine. GNOME CD player > plays CD's and Rhythmbox and Sound Juicer play both CD's and .mp3 > files. Goobox however, crashes imme

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-12-01 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 22:45 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > ~$ aspell -d > Error: You must specify a parameter for "-d". > ~$ aspell --master > Error: You must specify a parameter for "--master". > ~$ aspell -d id > Error: You must specify an action > ~$ aspell --lang=id > Error: You must specify an a

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:50:25PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > > The rest was just dumb luck and timing. The time was right for > something new, maybe. BSD was going strong by the time Linux popped up. > According to many who were there, the main reason that Linux got a big push was because man

Re: Java EE installation - cannot find j2se 5

2006-12-01 Thread José Alburquerque
Marko Randjelovic wrote: I installed sun-java with apt-get: sun-java5-bin - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-demo - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-doc - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-fonts - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jdk - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jre - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-source - 1.5.0-08-1 Then I dowloaded java_app_platform_sdk-5

Re: A question about "Timestamp" and "Created Time"

2006-12-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 10:22:08AM -0200, Eduardo wrote: > Hi, I have a FTP server that is outside my company and the users on my > network (inside the company) must put their files at this FTP vwith > the help of a NFS mounted directory that I shared with SAMBA. > > But when anyone puts a file i

Re: evolution+spamassassin don't detect spam (Etch)

2006-12-01 Thread Kevin Ross
I've not used Evolution, but I have used spamassassin on several servers for a few years now. Does Evolution call spamassassin directly? If not, you need to set up your mail server to filter all email through the spamc program. You could probably do it with procmail, too.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 15:50, Nate Duehr wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: >>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to devel

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 01 13:48 -0600]: > Where do you live? An igloo? It just as well have been this morning, 10F for the low, I noticed the client bridge got flakey around 13F or so last night and as the temp went lower, so did the bit rate. Maybe we got down to about 10

Large file uploads via PHP

2006-12-01 Thread John Miller
We have a user who wants to upload podcasts to her website via PHP forms (Wordpress & Drupal). Some of the podcasts are in the 60-minute+ range and take up over 100MB. Has anyone on the list had experience with this sort of thing? Our setup: Dell PowerEdge 2400, 700MHz P3, 1.25 GB RAM, runni

Re: Large file uploads via PHP

2006-12-01 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 01 Dec 2006, John Miller wrote: > We have a user who wants to upload podcasts to her website via PHP forms > (Wordpress & Drupal). Some of the podcasts are in the 60-minute+ range > and take up over 100MB. Has anyone on the list had experience with this > sort of thing? Yes. I have t

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread M-L
On Saturday 02 December 2006 08:50, Nate Duehr shared this with us all: >--> Ron Johnson wrote: >--> > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >--> > Hash: SHA1 >--> > >--> > On 12/01/06 12:30, Nate Duehr wrote: >--> >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >--> >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Joh

minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-01 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo component, not a slow-bu-versatile com

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 16:14, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:50:25PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: >> The rest was just dumb luck and timing. The time was right for >> something new, maybe. BSD was going strong by the time Linux popped up. >

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/01/06 19:25, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Dec 01 13:48 -0600]: > >> Where do you live? An igloo? > > It just as well have been this morning, 10F for the low, I noticed the > client bridge got flakey around 13

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-12-01 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:25:14AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Matthew Krauss wrote: > >Nate Duehr wrote: > >>Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >>>Hi, > >>>A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain > >>>system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff > >>>utility,

Re: DDS2 tape drives and Debian

2006-12-01 Thread jpg
> > On Fri, 1 Dec 2006 15:47:10 -0500 (EST) > Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Sorry to join the thread late - I use DDS3 tapes here. Can I be > > helpful? > > > > Andy > > > > > > I use an HP SureStore DAT8 -- DDS4 tapes. Can I help? > > -- > Raquel Hello Andy and Raquel,

shell script and variable problem

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
I have the following script I use for backup: ### #!/bin/sh BACKUPLIST=/etc/backup.lst HOSTNAME=`hostname` YEAR=`date +%Y` MONTH=`date +%B` BACKUPDIR=/srv/misc/backup/${YEAR}/${MONTH} DATE=`date +%Y%m%d` mkdir -m 2775 -p $BACKUPDIR for entry in `cat $BACKUPLIST`; do name=`echo $entry

Re: VCS systems on linux

2006-12-01 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 11:45:04AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: >> >> Well, not exactly. CVS only does vcs-per-file. That is, it doesn't >> know anything about the interrelationship between files. >> The new generation vcs', like subversion a

Re: Adding additional postfix server to init daemon

2006-12-01 Thread Done Studios System Admin
Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 18:23 -0800, Adam D wrote: >> I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and >> would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but >> looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where >> to put t

users info

2006-12-01 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi everyone What’s the file where the users info are located? Passwords, ids, … I need to change the user id of my postgres user. iuri -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.430 / Virus Database: 268.15.3/562 - Release Date: 12/1/2006 1:12

RE: users info

2006-12-01 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Just got it. “/etc/passwd” Thanks anyway iuri _ From: Iuri Sampaio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, December 02, 2006 12:08 AM To: 'debian-user@lists.debian.org' Subject: users info Hi everyone What’s the file where the users info are located? Passwords, ids,

RE: users info

2006-12-01 Thread Iuri Sampaio
Hi everyone, I’m trying to remove postgresql-8.1 form my box and I get this error message: I already tried to change the user id and group id from the file /etc/passwd. But it didn’t work. Does anyone know how to fix that? iuri conaje:~# apt-get remove --purge postgresql-8.1 postgres

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Friday 01 December 2006 14:24, Matt Price wrote: > Hi, > > I am building a linux stereo for xmas. Basically I'm making it out of > an old ibm thinkpad and an iPod w/ rockbox. > I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't > want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should

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