Re: printing jpeg images A4 size

2007-02-14 Thread mlist1
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Re: plase help me install printer debian-sarge

2007-02-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tuani Panggabean wrote: > plase help me install printer debian-sarge. > speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320 > posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9) > thanks If you really need help on this you should consider taking some of the advice from http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html and

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen Chadfield
Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Never struck it when dealing with mail. Before I came to Linux I had use > Pegasus, Eudora, Groupwise something or other. When I started using > Linux at Polytech, it was Pine. I don't remember having to compact > anything to *actually* delete mail. In

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-14 Thread john gennard
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 14:02:20 +, john gennard wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 20:24:54 +, john gennard wrote: I have an IBM T20 Laptop and want to put on it Etch (Kernel 2.6.18-3) with Kde. The installation without GUI is fine, but Kde

Re: RCPT TO problem

2007-02-14 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 22:57 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (13/02/07 20:46), Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > I am using sarge with Gnome and Evolution for emailing. I need to send > > an email to a bunch o people (more or less 40 addresses). I've defined a > > list in Evolution in order to accompl

Re: plase help me install printer debian-sarge

2007-02-14 Thread csanyipal
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:12:30AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Tuani Panggabean wrote: > > plase help me install printer debian-sarge. > > speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320 > > posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9) > > thanks > > If you really need help on this you should consider tak

Re: Memory Question

2007-02-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-02-13, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Here's my question. Why do the two different versions report different a different amount of memory? The 32 bit version says I have a total of 886MB, where the

Re: plase help me install printer debian-sarge

2007-02-14 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/02/07 18:54), Tuani Panggabean wrote: > plase help me install printer debian-sarge. > speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320 > posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9) > thanks > This document will help you: http://excess.org/docs/linux_windows_printing.html Although it refers to windows, the

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Stephen wrote: The other fella Miles Fieldman, (I think) mentioned that corporations use word templates etc. Sure, for filling in a form letter, however it's been my experience that the majority of corporate branding is done in design and typesetting shops, not by Suzy or Joe using MSFT Word. I

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Tuesday 13 February 2007 22:45, Chris Bannister wrote: > > "Compact", in that sense, refering to expunging deleted messages from an > > mbox or other mail store, has been *the* common word for that action for > > literally decades, predating even the popular internet (e.g. in the days > > of BBS

unable to record eMovix CD project & K3b

2007-02-14 Thread Hrvoje Cukusic
Hi I want to burn .avi file to CD using K3b. After selecting "new eMovix Cd project", and adding desired .avi file, pressing burn, I received following message: "could not find a valid eMovix installation". After that I installed movixmaker-2 and tried again but received the same message. What sh

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Stef Daniels VK5HSX
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 07:52 -0800, Victor Muchica wrote: > It will take its time, maybe march or april, DD are doing a great > work, trying to fix all the bugs. > Currently Im using testing on my Desktop PC. > > In the past some month ago I try to made an apt-get dist-upgrade, form > sarge to etch

Re: Writer Processor

2007-02-14 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:15:14AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:44:08 +0100 > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Honestly, Kword is good enough. The biggest problem that I have is that > > I am in the Netherlands and write in English. I can't find a publisher > >

Software part of installation process

2007-02-14 Thread Charles Blair
I am trying to install debian on a machine that does not have network access. I booted from the first disk of a 15-CD set and was told it could not find my hard disk. I downloaded (using a different machine) a "netinst" version of etch, and was able to do a hard disk partition and basic ins

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-14 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 07:46:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Like most other utilities, modprobe has a --verbose qualifier. Now, > maybe it won't print anything more than what you now see, but maybe > it will. Always use the --verbose qualifier. > You are right. It did not gi

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread marc
Miles Fidelman said... > Stephen wrote: > > The other fella Miles Fieldman, (I think) mentioned that corporations > > use word templates etc. Sure, for filling in a form letter, however it's > > been my experience that the majority of corporate branding is done in > > design and typesetting shops,

Re: ATI driver and kernel 2.6.19

2007-02-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Since you are using a self compiled kernel could it be you built the radeon support into it? Look for DRM_RADEON in your kernel config file. -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: udev doesn't create the /dev/cdrom symlinks

2007-02-14 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> I looked at the rules files in /etc/udev/rules.d but couldn't quite >> understand how/when the z25-persistent-cd.rules (which is properly filled on >> my desktop but not on my Thinkpad) is supposed to be bui

RE: How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical environment]

2007-02-14 Thread Kelly
I found this on the web. mount -r -t ufs -o ro,ufstype=sunx86 /dev/hdb1 /mnt/temp4sol/1 I had to go through almost every partition but it did work. Thanks > Original Message > Subject: How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical > environment] > From: "Kent West"

freeradius configuration example

2007-02-14 Thread Brad Brock
Is there any body able to show me where to get configuration example for free radius? Thanks a lot. We won't tell. Get more on shows you hate to love (and love to hate): Yahoo! TV's Guilty Pleasures list. htt

Re: Runaway BIND

2007-02-14 Thread Rich Johnson
On Feb 13, 2007, at 11:14 PM, Andy Smith wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 10:17:49AM -0500, Rich Johnson wrote: What is surprising is that such an event brought down _another_ machine. Would it be fair to say that excessive loggers are ill-behaved? It sounds like your bind was misconfigured

Re: Writer Processor

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:15:14AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: >> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 21:44:08 +0100 >> >>> I thought I could use the net and find a publisher in the U.S. but >>> that's not how it works. Most publishers won

Re: Software part of installation process

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Charles Blair wrote: >I am trying to install debian on a machine that does not have > network access. > >I booted from the first disk of a 15-CD set and was told it could > not find my hard disk. I downloaded (using a different machine) > a "

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Mark Grieveson
> What version of flashplugin-nonfree is installed? I ask because your > machine is trying to fetch a beta version of Flash. It should be > looking for Flash 9 final. Have done an 'apt-get update && apt-get > upgrade' recently? > -- > Liam Hi. I use aptitude, and yes, I have run both aptitude

Re: Couldn't load XKB keymap... Can't switch to terminal mode

2007-02-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 18:37:04 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 21:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 21:11:54 -0800, Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] > I finally caught wind of one reported error (not found in the usual > Xorg.X.log, but in the output

WinkFlash Client (Blinkflash)

2007-02-14 Thread Matthew K Poer
Has anyone had success in using the Blinkflash (http://blinkflash.sourceforge.net/) on Sarge? I have the python2.3 and python2.3-dev packages installed, but this python script keeps returning errors. I'm not sure if it is Me, Debian, or the script. Any input would be appreciated. -- Matthew K Poe

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Paul Walsh
Daniel D Jones wrote: > messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and that's what > the drop down menu said. That was in the early '90s, over 20 years ago. > > I presume you meant "early '80s"? "You learn something new every day" the saying goes. I hadn't realised about th

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: > > > Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a > month, each at > 25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word, > but get real, it's usable That depends on how you define usa

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:38:03AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > You don't know MSFT Word well do you ? It's relatively easy to create a > TOC from a structured Word document. Doesn't take much skill at all. The > key is structure, and to work in outline view. > Have you actually verified that the TO

Re: freeradius configuration example

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 06:52 -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > Is there any body able to show me where to get > configuration example for free radius? > > Thanks a lot. > GIYF (Google Is Your Friend) 15 seconds to search, 2 minutes of my time to write. Please at least *TRY* to use Google. A simple Goog

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > upgraded to udev a 2.6.12 (or higher) kernel prior to doing an apt-get > dist-upgrade. It does fall over due to the changeover to udev and > troubles u

Re: Software part of installation process

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:16:17PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Charles Blair wrote: > >I am trying to install debian on a machine that does not have > > network access. > > > >I booted from the first disk of a 15-CD set and was told it could > > not find my hard disk. I downloaded (using a d

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Miles Fidelman
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 11:08:13PM -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a month, each at 25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word, but get real, it's usable Th

Re: Print :: Number Of Copies

2007-02-14 Thread Michael S. Peek
Greg Folkert wrote: Make sure you have cupsys-bsd installed. Setup a local CUPS printer that prints the BSD/LPRNG queue properly. Also, the Solaris queue might be set to only print 1 copy, no matter the requested number. I have cupsys-bsd installed, so maybe I don't have the queue set up proper

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:30:52AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both > installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to download > an older file that does not exist. I then downloaded the recent file from > t

Re: Software part of installation process

2007-02-14 Thread Chris Lale
Charles Blair wrote: I am trying to install debian on a machine that does not have network access. I booted from the first disk of a 15-CD set and was told it could not find my hard disk. I downloaded (using a different machine) a "netinst" version of etch, and was able to do a hard disk

Re: [Debian-User] re: Network Install

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 04:47:03PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 11:03:17AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > aptitude install python > > > > and away it goes... when done you have python. > > > > how about tcl? > > > > apt-cache search tcl > > > > this produces

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:44 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: [snip] > That depends on how you define usable. Word might handle a 25 page > document. The experience of many of my friends has been that big > documents (25 pages is not big) are a real pain Word. One friend of > mine did his thesis

Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Michael S. Peek
Hi Debian gurus, I jumped aboard the Debian bandwagon mid-Sarge, and so that's the version of Debian that our machines are currently running. As Etch nears it's completion I've been preparing for the upgrade from Sarge to Etch. Since I'm still pretty new to Debian, I'm a little iffy when it

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:33:04AM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 10:44 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > I mean, people often complain about the lack of uniformity in GUI > > programs targetted at Linux. Windows is just as bad, but people > > choose to overlook it for so

Re: Using courier-imap (was Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove)

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:01:41AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Mutt can directly read Maildir folders? (I don't see why it > shouldn't, but it just never occurred to me.) > > > changing the procmail recipe delivery folder from > > "path/to/folder" to > > Procmail? You probably like Perl, too

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael S. Peek<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But what if what I want is to keep our machines at "testing"? It seems to > have the latest and grooviest versions of stuff. So how badly would I be > shooting myself in the foot if I changed "etch" to "tes

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 09:33, Paul Walsh wrote: > Daniel D Jones wrote: > >> messages. Compact. That's what the operation was called, and >> that's what the drop down menu said. That was in the early >> '90s, over 20 years ago. >> >> > I presume you meant "

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 10:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:30:52AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > But, you have reminded me... the release went final but the debian > package hasn't been updated so it 1) can't find the file for

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Michael S. Peek
Andy Hawkins wrote: That would be just fine. As I understand it, stuff doesn't make it from unstable to testing until it's been working in unstable for a while, so the chances of testing breaking horribly are reduced. It can still happen though, so there's a possibility that in the early stages

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:30:52AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Hello. I'm having problems with the flashplugin-nonfree package. Both >> installing it, and trying to reconfigure it, fail. It attempts to download >

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael S. Peek wrote: > Okay, so, just to make sure that I understand completely. Once Etch > becomes the new stable release, does the unstable release replace the > testing release? I.e. if I leave my systems at "testing", will I come > in one day

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:17:56PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > > > Okay, so, just to make sure that I understand completely. Once Etch > becomes the new stable release, does the unstable release replace the > testing release? I.e. if I leave my systems at "testing", will I come > in one

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Andy Hawkins
Hi, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael S. Peek<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Okay, so, just to make sure that I understand completely. Once Etch > becomes the new stable release, does the unstable release replace the > testing release? I.e. if I leave my systems at "testing", wi

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Hodgins Family
> I've seen several warnings now about making sure to change "testing" to > "etch" in /etc/apt/sources.lst once Etch goes stable. (For testing > purposes I've just always left it "etch".) But what if what I want is > to keep our machines at "testing"? It seems to have the latest and > groovi

Re: Installing Etch with GUI on T20

2007-02-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:06:12 +, john gennard wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > >What is your graphics card? Please find the relevant lines in the output > >of "lspci" and post them here (lines mentioning "VGA", "graphic(s)" or > >"display"). > > The only reference to VGA etc is:- >

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread John Hasler
Joe writes: > However, since Etch has been frozen, there are a lot of packages from Sid > that are ready for Testing, but can't go there. Lenny will catch them > when it is created, thus it is possible that the large number of packages > flowing in could cause some stability problems. Don't forge

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > > upgraded to udev a 2.6.12 (or higher) kernel prior to doing an apt-get > > dist-up

Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Default User
I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". WTF ?!?! I have been trusting

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:17:56PM -0500, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Andy Hawkins wrote: > >That would be just fine. As I understand it, stuff doesn't make it from > >unstable to testing until it's been working in unstable for a while, so > >the > >chances of testing breaking horribly are reduced. >

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:15:52AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/14/07 10:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 12:30:52AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > [snip] > > But, you have reminded me... the release went final but the debian > > package hasn't been updated so it 1)

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > as has already been mentioned, just grab the tarball and install it > > yourself. > > > > But, you have reminded me... the release went final but t

Re: External monitor on Laptop

2007-02-14 Thread Bob McGowan
On the laptops I've used, this is a feature of the laptop hardware. Some of the function keys have special purposes, when used with an extra key, often marked in a different color from the rest of the keys. For example, on my Sony VAIO, there's a special key, with a blue "Fn" imprinted on it,

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joey Hess
Default User wrote: > I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD > K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 > available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the description > states is a 64-bit library "meant for AMD64 systems". >

Re: External monitor on Laptop

2007-02-14 Thread Micha Feigin
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 12:23:45 +1100 "Andrew Myers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > I'm fairly new to the Debian distro but am really enjoying using etch. > > I have Debian installed on a Dell Latitude d810 laptop, however I > generally use it with an external monitor plugged in. > > Ide

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 05:17:49PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> as has already been mentioned, just grab the tarball and install it >>>

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Niels Rasmussen
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Just get the tarball directly from Adobe. You can find it here: > http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/download.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash&promoid=BIOW > The installation instructions are on this link but I just manually stick the > two files in ~/.mozilla/plugins.

Re: Update Manager absurdity?

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joey Hess wrote: > Default User wrote: >> I am running Debian Etch-testing on an old i586 system with a 32-bit AMD >> K6-2 processor. Update Manager just did its daily check, showing 22 >> available updates. Among them was libc6-amd64, which the desc

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 07:08:55PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:18, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 12:13:08AM +1030, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > > After trying a Sarge to Etch update, I had to redo again, making sure I > > > upgraded to u

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 14 Feb 2007 10:06:38 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What version of flashplugin-nonfree is installed? I ask because your > > machine is trying to fetch a beta version of Flash. It should be > > looking for Flash 9 final. Have done an 'apt-get update && apt-get > > upgr

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree > Package: flashplugin-nonfree > Priority: optional > Section: contrib/web > Installed-Size: 124 > Maintainer: Bart Martens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Architecture: i386 > Version: 9.0.31

Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED]

2007-02-14 Thread root
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) > Subject: Re: old hardware, newer Debian [SOLVED] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Mon, Feb 12, 2007 at 05:35:59PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > > Mike McClain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I just installed sarge on a box I've happily been runn

re: How to mount Solaris disk as slave?

2007-02-14 Thread root
> Date: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 17:13:07 -0600 > From: Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: How to mount Solaris disk as slave? [Was: Using graphical > environment] > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Kelly wrote: > > It is not recognizing the data on the other drive. It only sees the > > swap sp

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 03:33:47PM + or thereabouts, Paul Walsh wrote: [ ...] > "You learn something new every day" the saying goes. > > I hadn't realised about the function of the "Compact" option 'til I > read this thread. Might (partially) explain why my windozZe laptop > goes into meltd

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel B.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 09:27:40AM -, marc wrote: Daniel B. said... ... Please note another problem with PDF: The page size and layout are fixed. Not really a problem, more of a feature of the format; the idea being that a PDF renders the same regardless of the d

Re: moving partitions

2007-02-14 Thread KS
greenproc wrote: > > If you are going to network with a single cable between two machines, it must > be a crossover ethernet cable. > If you do not have one of those, then you will have to use two cables, and > plug them into a network hub/switch. > I did some transfers last year and was advis

dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some code I got from sourceforge... I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and it is not there. I checked in synaptic and scons is in there and has not been installed. I am goi

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 14 February 2007 17:36, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Hi Debian gurus, > > I jumped aboard the Debian bandwagon mid-Sarge, and so that's the > version of Debian that our machines are currently running. As Etch > nears it's completion I've been preparing for the upgrade from Sarge to > Etch

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Bob McGowan
I've got iceweasel installed and the installed files list shows a directory called 'plugins', located here: /usr/lib/iceweasel/plugins This is where I'd look to put the Flash files, if I wanted them to be globally active (for all possible users of the system). But, you can have a private

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread KS
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > If on the average one RC bug is fixed per day, it still takes 3 months for > Etch to be released. This is just an estimate. But you didn't take into account new RC bugs being filed! The RC bug number has been hovering around the 100 mark (usually above it) since No

Re: Ubuntu vs. Debian (was Re: Introduction)

2007-02-14 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:48:21AM -0500 or thereabouts, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 01:38:03AM -0500, Stephen wrote: > > > > You don't know MSFT Word well do you ? It's relatively easy to create a > > TOC from a structured Word document. Doesn't take much skill at all. Th

Re: Stupid Noob Question: Surfing the 'Testing' edge

2007-02-14 Thread Michael S. Peek
Joe Hart wrote: According to the documentation, when Etch is made stable, a new testing will be made (in this case called Lenny), which is a direct clone of Etch. Packages will migrate from Sid to Lenny at the same pace as usual for the testing distro. However, since Etch has been frozen, there

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, Hi Andrew, Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better known, there might be more useful bug reports... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I need to use scons or SCons or whatever it is to help me compile some > code I got from sourceforge... > > I looked around for scons on my box (AMD64 Etch Desktop install) and i

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:24 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, > > > Hi Andrew, > > Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better > known, there might be

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Daniel B.
Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: ... I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always deals with) with the physical level? At the logical level, the

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-02-14 at 14:24 -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, Hi Andrew, Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better kno

Re: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-14 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about scons. Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600 -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I need to use scons or SC

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:24:27PM -0500, Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, > > > Hi Andrew, > > Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better > known, there

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: > > Just enter "reportbug other" and it will show you the entire listing of > packages. nice. A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

RE: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-14 Thread Kevin Ross
> Well maybe you don't. But I am not used compiling stuff that would normally > run on an i386 box in this way so I am a bit in the dark. However if it > works, I am going to try to make deb package file for it from scratch. The > software is called ASCEND and is a chemical engineering modelli

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 06:31:41PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache show flashplugin-nonfree >> Package: flashplugin-nonfree >> Priority: optional >> Section: contrib/web >> Installed-Size: 124

Re: removing sound-juicer

2007-02-14 Thread David Jardine
Many thanks, Andrew, for taking the trouble to provide such a lucid explanation. :) No further comment. On Tue, Feb 13, 2007 at 12:34:59PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [...] > > install a package called dep3, it is marked as manually installed and > will be left alone by aptitude. > >

Re: Attracting newbies

2007-02-14 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel B. wrote: HTML adapts to the user's browser pane width (well, if the author doesn't break HTML's ability to do that). >>> Again, to be pedantic, it's CSS that controls the layout, hence the >>> author simply provides multiple CSS, whi

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:30, Daniel B. wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: >> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez >> wrote: > ... [snip] > > At the logical level, the messages are already deleted (from the > folder). There is no way to get t

Re: dumb question about scons.....

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 13:51, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >> From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: dumb question about scons. >> Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 13:25:27 -0600 >> > On 02/14/07 13:14, Michael F

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 11:47:31AM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: Just enter "reportbug other" and it will show you the entire listing of packages. nice. It's pretty interesting how much a person can learn from man pages isn't it? To tell the trut

Re: flash plugin

2007-02-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 08:12:45PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > Glad to hear it. I'm still running Etch, but most likely will be > running sid in the near future. Etch is getting boring. It's too stable :) > heh. well, sorry to burst your bubble, but sid's not all that thrilling either. At leas

Re: monodevelop in Etch

2007-02-14 Thread kfitzgeralald
I wrote a how-to guide a couple of days ago for exactly this: http://kevinfitzgerald.net/sto/monodevelop-debian-etch.html Hope this helps, -Kevin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: > Dave Sherohman wrote: > >On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >I was complaining solely about the use of "compact" to mean "delete". > > Are you confusing the logical level (what the user almost always de

[Debian-User] Re: More on Network Install

2007-02-14 Thread Archive
First, thanks to the 10 people (you know who you are) that provided me with useful information regarding my own local mirror on my LAN. I printed out all your correspondence -- thanks!. It appears I began with some false assumptions even though I had read through the FAQ. Over about a week o

Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove

2007-02-14 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/14/07 15:26, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 02:30:48PM -0500, Daniel B. wrote: >> Dave Sherohman wrote: >>> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 12:36:55PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> I was complaining solely about the use of "compac

package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Tony Heal
I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. Apt-get -f install shows no packages in error. How can this be? Tony Package: webali

Traffic shaping for PPPoE / DSL, prio for VoIP

2007-02-14 Thread Bruno . Voigt
Hi all, what is the best way on a debian/unstable box to set up traffic shaping on a ppp interface (PPPoE/DSL) so that VoIP-Traffic (Asterisk is running on this box) is prioritized in favor of other traffic ? Which debian packages are suitable for this task? Are there any sample configurations ?

Re: package dependencies

2007-02-14 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Tony Heal wrote: I have a problem. If you look below you will see that webalizer is installed and has a dependency of either libgd2 or libgd2-noxpm. If you look further down neither libgd2 nor libgd2-xpm are installed. Apt-get –f install shows no packages in error. How can this be? Tony Pa

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