Re: Updating Gnome menu without logout/login

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 10:43:59 +0400 George Chelidze <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > I have the following problem with my sarge installation: > > When I install a new desktop application and if it has a > correspondent item in a menu, I can see it in debian menu but not in > my gnome m

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Re: How to reject spam with embedded graphics

> Am 2007-03-07 17:24:58, schrieb Javier Viegas: > > I don?t reccomend to block mails, based on IP addresses, this is for sure > > going to cause a lot of false positive and block tons of legit mails, the > > common thing is to use adsl or cable connection with dynamic IP so if a > > spammer used t

Etch isapnptools?

Hi, will be isapnptools (pnpdump, isapnp,...) at Etch, or have to use it from Sarge? ad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

Sorry, still not used to that my can't handle mailinglists accordingly Am 13.03.2007 um 20:33 schrieb David Baron: LVM comes to mind. Unfortunately, there is no clean way to switch over to it. Unionfs seems like a very eligant way of simply overlaying directories on multiple partitions. How

Re: Bug in acroread?

Mike McCarty wrote: Joe Hart wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I can't print in the forward direction until I quit the program and restart it. What happens

Re: daylight savings time

John Hasler wrote: Marty Landman writes: I've got NTP running... NTP has nothing to do with DST. The servers send UTC. It is up to the clients to deal with their time zones. Only problem is that I am getting the time as an hour earlier than it really is, since the new daylight savings time

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

On 13.03.07 15:34, Bob McGowan wrote: > sort -n -o from_number from_number > > sort -n -o to_number to_number [deleted] > sort -m from_number to_number | uniq | wc -l > 122010 > > This is still almost 12000 too big (only 17 less than the 'uniq' on the > separate files). So, I run this:

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007, Mike McClain wrote: On 3/5/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more confi

Re: Using quotes in bash script parameters

> > > > eval does the trick: > > > > SUBJECT="This is a test mail" > > WARNMSG="An error occurred" > > WARNCMD="mail -s \"${SUBJECT}\" root" > > echo "echo $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD" > > eval $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD > > oops, sorry, quotes are required here: > > eval "$WARNMSG | $WARNCMD" well, hum you see

Re: Using quotes in bash script parameters

On 14/03/2007 12:20, Cédric Lucantis wrote: well, hum you see what I mean don't you? :) eval "echo $WARNMSG | $WARNCMD" Yes thanks ;), I already tried it after your second message and was just going to reply now, it indeed works fine. Thanks again. -- Ciao, Marco. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Is that all there is to it??

Tarek Soliman wrote: An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I was really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and have to reinsta

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> Joe Hart wrote: >>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> I doubt that this is specific to debian, but has anyone noticed this bug in acroread? I've noticed that if I print pages in reverse, I

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > If you want to install Oracle on Linux (and *lots* of companies do, > > so don't bleat about not infecting your system with closed-source), > > you need X. > > No, you only need a few libraries. The Display can be a local > workstation. > > I know this, I've done it, as far back as 1998 when

Re: Updating Gnome menu without logout/login

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 George Chelidze wrote: > Greg Vickers wrote: > >> Hi George, >> >> George Chelidze wrote: >> >>> Hello All, >>> >>> I have the following problem with my sarge installation: >>> >>> When I install a new desktop application and if it has a >>> correspon

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > WTF, I see Windows mentality has become the norm. > > > > and RIP TelnetD (IOW the telnet Daemon) right out of the machine. > > OpenSSH (as done by OpenBSD devs) is what should be defacto standard. > > > I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where > they run telne

Re: Is that all there is to it??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cassiano Leal wrote: > Tarek Soliman wrote: >> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before >> you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. > > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I was >

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:06AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > Is there any compatibility issues as far as versions of X, the server > being non-linux (or even not the same distro as the workstation), etc? > Nope. X is a protocol, much the same as FTP or HTTP. If your client (or server in t

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

> Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? > > A) rm -- --oops > Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among other things, nuking the parent folder too? -- Tarek

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 06:54:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where > > they run telnetd on all the Solaris and Linux servers be

Re: Is that all there is to it??

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:43:24 -0300 Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tarek Soliman wrote: > > An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try > > before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. > > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do i

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:17:40AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > The place I talk about has legacy stuff (long forgotten cron jobs on > random servers) that used to telnet and FTP stuff around) > Eeek! > I was trying to tell the admins to switch and they said that they were > told not to, beca

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:33:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:06AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > > > Is there any compatibility issues as far as versions of X, the server > > being non-linux (or even not the same distro as the workstation), etc? > > > Nope.

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 08:52:36PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Why not just go bioethanol in a larger percentage year round? Portland is, > > and it might go statewide by the end of the session. Gasoline sales are > > banned here for the better. > > Probably because to

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

> > > I wish it could really be that way everywhere. I have been places where > > > they run telnetd on all the Solaris and Linux servers because (get this) > > > windows only comes with a telnet client and not an ssh client. > > > > They do know about putty, right? It's only a few kB... > > >

Re: emacs21 held hostage to installing other packages

On 2007-03-14, Charles Blair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I recently installed the testing (etch) incarnation of debian, > and have added emacs (emacs21). I would like to add gnumeric > and a number of other packages, but aptitude warns me that, to > do so, I have to downgrade some things (libc

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 07:11 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > > If you want to install Oracle on Linux (and *lots* of companies do, > > > so don't bleat about not infecting your system with closed-source), > > > you need X. > > > > No, you only need a few libraries. The Display can be a local > > wo

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 07:39 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:33:19AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 07:11:06AM -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > > > > > Is there any compatibility issues as far as versions of X, the server > > > being non-linux (

Re: Is that all there is to it??

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Cassiano Leal wrote: > > Tarek Soliman wrote: > >> An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before > >> you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. > >

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400 > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > For documents on the web I have this inelegant and heinous trick: I > > google for them. If a doc is in PDF format, Google will give you the

Re: xorg.conf & multiple screen

> I have a laptop with only VGA output (not s-video output), so in order > to connect my laptop to the LCD-TV I made a VGA to TV converter (VGA > to TV ). > My laptop have resolution of 1024x768, my external LCD monitor have also

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

On 3/14/07, Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Q) In the CLI, how do you rm (remove) a file that begins with a hyphen ? > > A) rm -- --oops > Wasn't there a similar horror story where a program would save a directory as .* or *. or whatever, and then rm -R .* would expand to .. among othe

OT: Bunny’s way to world domination (Was : Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions)

Hi Atis. Atis, 14.03.2007 14:31: > Regards, > Atis > > \.../) > (O.o) > (> <) This is Bunny. Copy Bunny into your signature to help him on his > way to world domination. I can’t be helped, but your Bunny looks more like a mouse to me. My archive shows me Bunny to look like this: (\_/) (O.o) (>

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 15:43:03 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > and RIP TelnetD (IOW the telnet Daemon) right out of the machine. > OpenSSH (as done by OpenBSD devs) is what should be defacto standard. I'm curious about telnet(d)-ssl. I don't know any reason to use it over ss

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:58:49 +0100 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:23:27 +0100 > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > >> As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge pack

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:15:02 +0100 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-02-25 15:49:20, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > The US is the biggest energy market in the world, though China is > > The USA are consuming over 40% of the worlds petrol resources > and it is WHY THEY TRY TO

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:15:50 +0100 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2007-03-05 22:23:00, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > > You mean the wars which had overwhelming majority support from both > > houses of congress? You mean the wars of which Hillary Clinton > > said the following [0

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:11:36 -0400 Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 04:30:52PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 16:12:39 -0400 > > Juergen Fiedler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > For documents on the web I have this inelegant a

Re: daylight savings time

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:54:44 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Hasler wrote: > > Marty Landman writes: > >> I've got NTP running... > > > > NTP has nothing to do with DST. The servers send UTC. It is up to > > the clients to deal with their time zones. > > > >> Onl

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/13/07 18:59, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:15:02 +0100 Michelle Konzack > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Am 2007-02-25 15:49:20, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: >>> The US is the biggest energy market in the world, though >>> China is >>

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[debian-user] Reusing LIVE ISO images of CDs and DVDs

Question: I know there is a documented debian process for editing existing CDs and DVDs but I don't know the details??? The literature just says to edit the ISO image placed on the hard drive. I also have some other concerns. Details: I have a number of live CDs and DVDs. Apparently, one can

Re: Is that all there is to it??

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 23:33:32 -0400 Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > The only reason I can think of for reinstalling is a security compromise, but > how do you know if you have that problem? If you don't know then you have to > reinstall on a regular basis for security reasons. If you

Re: Running Unstable (was: Is that all there is to it??)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wednesday 14 March 2007 08:30, Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic steps to do it? I > was really eager to try sid, but didn't want to break my etch and > have to reinstall everything

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

> I just remember that expertise often doesn't > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > Like say, social skills. It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. Not to say all dorks are super

Re: Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0100 Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, still not used to that my can't handle mailinglists accordingly [snip] > 1) you should have used lvm in the first place :) I wanted to, but since I was leaving Windows on one partition, the installer wouldn't

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

Celejar wrote: > claimed that: "UNO resources telling me that there are currently 27% of > jobless peoples in the USA, 8% in France and arround 5% in Germany." > Anyone have an explanation or source for these figures? I am under the > impression that the US has among the lowest unemployment figures

Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

Hi folks, I know much has already been said, and I certainly am not interested in starting a flame war, but isn't it time to move on? Both sides have made their point and I doubt the experiment will be repeated in future. But haven't we had enough? The longer this situation continues the more

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 09:32:33 -0500 Tarek Soliman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just remember that expertise often doesn't > > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > > > > Like say, social skills. > It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot > aquir

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 04:35:07 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I agree. There is a tendency on the list to chastise topical questions > with "google for it" while OT threads go on for ever. BTW the list's > track record in actually answering and solving *topical* questio

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 07:40:13 -0800 Bill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know much has already been said, and I certainly am not > interested in starting a flame war, but isn't it time > to move on? > > Both sides have made their point and I doubt the experiment > will be repeated

Re: Repartitioning, difficult and easy.

Am 14.03.2007 um 15:36 schrieb Celejar: On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:05:52 +0100 Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ## if you wan't to transfer root (/boot can't be on lvm so you later have to move it somewhere else if it's on the same FS) Doesn't GRUB understand LVM these days [1]? hmm

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

> > > I just remember that expertise often doesn't > > > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > > > > > > > Like say, social skills. > > It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot > > aquire more knowledge quickly without sacrificing social skills. > >

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 10:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: > What is this all about? I've been following d-u pretty closely > recently, and I haven't seen much DT discussion here. > > Celejar > Ideally, bridging the gap. Not that I've any inflated sense of my own importance, or ability to resolve the

mysql with mono

Hi, I am trying to use the mysql connector for .net with monodevelop. But the "mysql" namespace does not show up. I do: sudo gacutil -i MySql.Data.dll while I am in the directory where I have the .dll. Does it have to be a special directory ? /usr/lib/mono or /usr/lib/mono/1.0 or /usr/lib/mono/

Re: [debian-user] Reusing LIVE ISO images of CDs and DVDs

On Wednesday 14 March 2007 07:08, Ted Hilts - Thunderbird Acct. wrote: > Question: > I know there is a documented debian process for editing > existing CDs and DVDs but I don't know the details??? The > literature just says to edit the ISO image placed on the hard > drive. I also have some other c

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:05 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/13/07 18:59, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 17:15:02 +0100 Michelle Konzack > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Am 2007-02-25 15:49:20, schrieb Roberto C. Sanchez: > >>> The US is the biggest energy market in the world, thou

Re: Is that all there is to it??

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tarek Soliman wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 01:27:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Cassiano Leal wrote: >>> Tarek Soliman wrote: An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "t

Re: Bug in acroread?

Celejar wrote: > So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't even > looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). Isn't Acroread statically linked? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: >> Ah the hidden dependencies. xpdf is a dummy package, that pulls in >> xpdf-reader and xpdf-utils and xpdf-common. Adding those up comes quite >> close to what acroread uses, so I guess my comparison is pretty useless. > > Um, no.

Re: Is that all there is to it??

Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007 08:43:24 -0300 Cassiano Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tarek Soliman wrote: An even nicer thing is that you can run sid in a chroot and "try before you upgrade" if you have enough space on a partition. Really? I didn't know that. What are the basic step

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 04:35 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: [snip] > I agree. There is a tendency on the list to chastise topical questions > with "google for it" while OT threads go on for ever. BTW the list's > track record in actually answering and solving *topical* questions, in > my opinion,

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't even > > looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). > > Isn't Acroread statically linked? Yes, and as a rule, Debian frowns heavily on

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Tue, 2007-03-13 at 23:23 -0400, Celejar wrote: > *Poof*. I'm really disillusioned about you, Michelle. OTOH, being > reminded that highly technically adept people can still have lunatic > political beliefs is reassuring; whenever I feel insecure about my > conservative opinions due to the masses

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill wrote: > On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 10:45 -0400, Celejar wrote: >> What is this all about? I've been following d-u pretty closely >> recently, and I haven't seen much DT discussion here. >> >> Celejar >> > > Ideally, bridging the gap. > > Not that I

fallo en apt-get solucionado por fin!

Hola amigos despues de una semana con el problema al final me lo solucionaron el el foro debian-es, para recordar el error se resumía en esto: failed in buffer_read(fd): files list for package `libvisual0.2': Input/output error pues bien, este error hace referencia al fichero libvisual0.2.list

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 09:32 -0500, Tarek Soliman wrote: > > I just remember that expertise often doesn't > > carry over to areas outside of one's core competence. > > > > Like say, social skills. > It seems that in pursuit of knowledge, one hits a wall where one cannot > aquire more knowledge quic

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Hi folks, > >I know much has already been said, and I certainly am not >interested in starting a flame war, but isn't it time >to move on? > >Both sides have made their point and I doubt the experiment >will be repeated in future. But haven't we had enou

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 07:40 -0800, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > I know much has already been said, and I certainly am not > interested in starting a flame war, but isn't it time > to move on? > > Both sides have made their point and I doubt the experiment > will be repeated in future. But haven'

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OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

Atis wrote: >> On 03/04/07 10:51, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] > ..the problem is not rpms, but mill wing speed and color in overcast > weather, as in white camo against white fog or clouds. Think of this as "enforced Darwinism"! Right, after several generations we will have high-speed, high-m

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

Joe Hart wrote: Michelle comes up with some strange figures. I suppose it comes from her anti-American attitude. On the other hand, her Debian knowledge is first rate. "his", IIRC. -- Kent West http://kentwest.blogspot.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

man vs info

In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory: SEE ALSO The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the command info coreutils sync should give you access to

Re: man vs info

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:35:08AM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory: > > SEE ALSO >The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If >the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the >c

Re: man vs info

Mike McClain writes: > In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory: > SEE ALSO >The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If >the info and sync programs are properly installed at your site, the >command > info coreutils sync

Re: man vs info

On 3/14/07, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike McClain writes: > Has anyone seen am example where there was any more information in the info > pages than the man pages? Yes, emacs. And gmake, and autoconf, and ... -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http:/

Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike

On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 12:35 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > Etch being release on April 2, 2007 (tentative per last nights > announcements) is EONs ahead of Sarge's and Woody's release cycles. > It'll only be about 4-5 months late. Consider less than 2 years for > Etch. Sarge was HOW Long? And How lon

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 04:35 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > [snip] >> I agree. There is a tendency on the list to chastise topical questions >> with "google for it" while OT threads go on for ever. BTW the list's >> track record

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kent West wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Michelle comes up with some strange figures. I suppose >> it comes from her anti-American attitude. On the other hand, her Debian >> knowledge is first rate. >> > > "his", IIRC. > > Sorry, Michelle to me is

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > Sorry, Michelle to me is feminine name. Michel on the other hand is > masculine. If I was wrong, I apologize. How am I to tell which pronoun > to use when I cannot see the person? I can blame the English language > for having perso

Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:16 -0800, Bill wrote: > On Wed, 2007-14-03 at 12:35 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Etch being release on April 2, 2007 (tentative per last nights > > announcements) is EONs ahead of Sarge's and Woody's release cycles. > > It'll only be about 4-5 months late. Consider less t

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 10:34, Joe Hart wrote: > Celejar wrote: > [snip] > > I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not > support acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. Can you post a link (from the archives) to the post

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: On 13.03.07 15:34, Bob McGowan wrote: sort -n -o from_number from_number sort -n -o to_number to_number [deleted] sort -m from_number to_number | uniq | wc -l 122010 This is still almost 12000 too big (only 17 less than the 'uniq' on the separate files)

adept error

While I run adept for updating, after downloading packages while installing, in details screen, I get the following error. How to avoid it? Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server Xlib: No protocol specified dpkg-preconfigure: cannot connect to X server :0.0 debconf: unable to initialize fro

Re: OT: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 11:39, Kent West wrote: > Atis wrote: >>> >> On 03/04/07 10:51, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> [snip] >>> > ..the problem is not rpms, but mill wing speed and color in overcast >>> > weather, as in white camo against white fog or clouds. >>> >>> Th

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/14/07 10:34, Joe Hart wrote: >> Celejar wrote: > > [snip] >> I agree, yet I get when I point out that Debian does not >> support acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. > > Can you post a link (from the ar

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Sorry, Michelle to me is feminine name. Michel on the other hand is >> masculine. If I was wrong, I apologize. How am I to tell which pronoun >> to use when I ca

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > Since this is already a off-topic thread... > > So does Dutch, German, French, ItalianNow that I stop and think > about it, I can't think of any that don't. > Well, English has the concept of a neuter article (the). the dog --> el p

Re: Bug in acroread?

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 16:34:36 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [...] > I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not support > acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. It is probably not worth to harp on this much longer, but as far as I remember it you received some

Re: adept error

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 L.V.Gandhi wrote: > While I run adept for updating, after downloading packages while > installing, > in details screen, I get the following error. How to avoid it? > Xlib: connection to ":0.0" refused by server > Xlib: No protocol specified > > dpkg-p

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-03-14 at 10:16 -0500, John Hasler wrote: >> Celejar wrote: >>> So acroread uses about 10 times as much space as xpdf (and I haven't even >>> looked closely at acroread's dependencies vs. those of xpdf). >> Isn't Acror

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 16:34:36 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > [...] > >> I agree, yet I get berated when I point out that Debian does not support >> acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure. > > It is probably no

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:04:56PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> Since this is already a off-topic thread... >> >> So does Dutch, German, French, ItalianNow that I stop and think >> about it, I can't think of any that don't.

Re: Bug in acroread?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 14:03, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/14/07 10:34, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Celejar wrote: >> [snip] >>> I agree, yet I get when I point out that Debian does not >>> support acroread because it is proprietary to Adobe. Go figure

Re: daylight savings time

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 08:38, chris dunn wrote: [snip] > all of which is patently untrue, in that the TCI Government in their > infinite wisdom have chosen to follow the absurd (for us) US adjustments > to the DST dates. > > Presumably this occurs because the Gr

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 14:04, Joe Hart wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 06:32:38PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Sorry, Michelle to me is feminine name. Michel on the other hand is >>> masculine. If I was wrong, I apologize. How am I t

Re: daylight savings time

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 08:38:27 -0500, chris dunn wrote: [...] > I'm living in the Turks & Caicos Islands (in the sunny Caribbean). > > Running Debian Testing which is kept up to date. > > "zdump -v America/Grand_Turk | grep 2007" gives me : > > 117:America/Grand_Turk Sun Apr 1 04:59:59 200

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/14/07 10:28, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > then. Imagine people losing ALL savings and not being able to recover > any of it. Huh, sort of like the retirement accounts of today... Huh? Are you referring to the people who concentrated *all* their

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Kent West wrote: > > Joe Hart wrote: > >> Michelle comes up with some strange figures. I suppose > >> it comes from her anti-American attitude. On the other hand, her > >> Debian knowledge is first rate. >

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