Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver

2007-03-19 Thread Dan H.
Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > My friend says that DW has a "template" feature that automatizes building a > website. How would you do that without DW? > > I don't know DW, I don't know web designing, but I suspect that this is > what > CSS is for, isn't it? > > Again, how would you build

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:24:23 -0400, Roberto wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:04:42AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:03:45 -0500, Roberto wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > Really? Sweden is a member of NATO > > > > ..er

Re (3): relaying POP3

2007-03-19 Thread peasthope
Hello Matus UHLAR, > you seem have missed my question. ... I am really curious which POP3 client is not compatible with which pop3 server. Sorry I misunderstood your question. POP3 MUA is in ETH Oberon / PC Native 05.01.2003. ref. http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/ I have not identified the POP3 server

Re: how to reconfigure X after video card change

2007-03-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Default User wrote: > >> How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't >> want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ? >> > > As root, try > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 Very likely, you would like to read the header of /etc/X11/XF86Conf

Re: No cursor in X after resume.

2007-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:56:57AM -0700, Zachary Rizer wrote: > > After a recent upgrade, when I resume my Thinkpad (lid open) there > > is no cursor in X. You can see that the cursor is there and > > working, but there is no graphic for it. I have to

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 08 Mar 2007 09:35:57 +0100, steef wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > BECAUSE THEY DO NOT HAVE A FUNCTIONING ECONOMY! ... > please please: stop these (no) nonsense oneliners on this list. ..hey, what's wrong with trying to limit OT traffic here? ;o)

Keyboard-driver-bug ???

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I discovered something, which seems to be a bug. Maybe someone can verify it. In the moment I cannot test it in amd64 (my Server is down), can someone else do it ? Can someone verify thIs bug, too ? Description: The keyboard periodically switches into "Shift-modus", and some seconds

Re: Using gdb on a debian system.

2007-03-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > See http://wiki.debian.org/?HowToGetABacktrace > Nice link! Explains the concepts and commands beautifully! Long live Debian Wiki and kudos to the authors! raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 02:05:37PM -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 19:32 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > My desktop debian system is at home with no available internet > > connection. > > > > Work provides internet with no linux. > > > > is there any way to aquire .deb pa

Re: how to get gaim-sound working within KDE?

2007-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ralph Plawetzki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu schrieb: > > I'm not using kde but sound didn't work for me either. I changed in > > gaim preferences: > > > > Method: Command > > Sound command: aplay %s > > > > and it works. You might need to disable arts. > > > > HTH, > > Andrei >

Re: host aliases

2007-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I don't, in general, know the IP address. I have a system on my LAN, > accessible on the internet via a dynamic DNS name. I want to refer to > it by a short nickname. That's exactly what the 'HostName' option in How long are your hostnames? I deliberately choo

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
A. Ben Hmeda wrote: >> >> Until you at least become current on you workstation, stop asking >> questions. >> > > Do you honestly think that everyone here is using Etch? or Sarge? > On a Debian user mailing list, I expect people to use Debian. Not Ubuntu, not kanotix, not Xandros Though a

Vim highlight high-ascii characters?

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Hi all, I'm wondering is anyone knows how I can configure my Vim (7.0) to highlight ASCII characters outside of the 0-128 range. I mostly write PHP/XHTML, and sometimes I have to copy content from word processed documents, and that sometimes inserts odd, but otherwise not visually detectable char

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > and then Germany declared war on us. > > Yep. The only treaty that Hitler didn't break. One is left scratching > one's head wondering "why?" ..another "why?", is why it sti

Keyboard-driver-bug ??? (Update)

2007-03-19 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi all, I found out, that the described bug is created by KDE. It appears only, when the keyboard, choosen by KDE in controlcenter and activated, differs from the one in xorg.conf. Maybe this might help. If someone knows, which package is responsible for it, he might inform the KDE developers

Re: nvidia-glx in experimental

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/18/07 15:24, Joe Hart wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/18/07 14:14, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > As for the issue at hand, how long does it take to reinstall? > I suppose that

..plonk.

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:25:42 GMT, Barrister wrote message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: ..plonk. -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt... ;o) ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.

vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
I have done a new install of etch, and discovered a situation that I find problematic. I don't know vi or vim well enough to recognize which I am actually running by observing the behavior of the running program, so some of my description of the situation should be discounted if known to be untrue.

Monitor filesystem changes

2007-03-19 Thread Alex Lorca
Hi I have a debian etch 2.6.17 an i need to monitor the changes (create/modify/delete) in a directory that is shared between various users. I have used the interface inotify but it doesn`t show what user is making the changes. ¿Is there a way to report the chang and who made it with inotify or

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:58:04PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > > >> > >> Until you at least become current on you workstation, stop asking > >> questions. > >> > > > > Do you honestly think that everyone here is using Etch? or Sarge? > > > > On a Debian user ma

Re: dvd + xine = 100% CPU?

2007-03-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Hein wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I play .avi files with xine and get about 17% CPU usage with them. I play a DVD with xine and the CPU shoots up to 97% and xine complains about missing frames. No problem with newer PC's. A three years ago xine worked well on a thinkpad 600e (p

Re: Vim highlight high-ascii characters?

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:51PM -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm wondering is anyone knows how I can configure my Vim (7.0) to > highlight ASCII characters outside of the 0-128 range. > > I mostly write PHP/XHTML, and sometimes I have to copy content from word > processed docume

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 03/19/07 15:32, Paul E Condon wrote: > I have done a new install of etch, and discovered a situation > that I find problematic. I don't know vi or vim well enough to > recognize which I am actually running by observing the behavior > of the running program, so some of my description of the situa

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In another thread, a poster who claims to be Ian Murdock said that > Ubuntu is considered to be Debian. I say Debian is the 'One True > Way', but that Ubuntu is a 'Lesser Way' that can lead to Debian ;-) > H.S. is not claiming to be Ian Murdock, he is j

Re: Monitor filesystem changes

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 11:11, Alex Lorca wrote: > Hi > > I have a debian etch 2.6.17 an i need to monitor the changes > (create/modify/delete) in a directory that is shared between various users. > I have used the interface inotify but it doesn`t show what user

Re: Vim highlight high-ascii characters?

2007-03-19 Thread Mitch Wiedemann
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:02:51PM -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> I'm wondering is anyone knows how I can configure my Vim (7.0) to >> highlight ASCII characters outside of the 0-128 range. >> >> I mostly write PHP/XHTML, and sometimes I have to cop

rcs file

2007-03-19 Thread Tony Heal
I am trying to initialize and update an rcs file manually. Here is what I am trying to do. Debian woody rcs v 5.7-13 TWiki - 24 Nov 2001 I am using the xconf plugin to parse an xconf file. This works fine. I want to create an access page that will show each object in our object dict

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-19 Thread H.S.
Paul E Condon wrote: In another thread, a poster who claims to be Ian Murdock said that Ubuntu is I think you are referring to a post I made regarding his quote in one of his interviews. I *never* claimed to be Ian Murdock. What is the world gave you that impression? What you wrote above i

..voice recognition, was: To be M$ free....

2007-03-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 14:54:36 -0500 (EST), Don wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > I have a friend who would like to get away from Microsoft system > dependence. The show stopper seems to be voice recognition. She is > partially disabled and needs Naturally Speaking or equivalent.

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Paul E Condon wrote: > When I was using Sarge, and early upgrades to Etch, I had avoided > using vim because I never felt I had the time to learn about its > 'improved features'. Now, when I run vi, it behaves in a strange > way that I dislike, and I can get back to what I thought was vi > behavi

Re: Re (3): relaying POP3

2007-03-19 Thread John Hasler
Peter E. writes: > My first guess would be that it is MS Windows based. If you tell me how >to obtain the server identity from fetchmail, I will try. Use telnet. 'telnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp' and type 'help' at the prompt. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
Top post public apology: I acknowledge my error. I make no excuse. I am sorry. On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:00:05PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > >In another thread, a poster who claims to be Ian Murdock said that Ubuntu > >is > > I think you are referring to a post I made regardi

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
An Appeal to Authority is not always an invalid tactic. (Although it often is.) Agreed. This is a common confusion. People tend to refute Ad Hominen or Appeal to Authority, but they are often valid. If you claim that I am sick, I'll trust you more if you are a doctor. This is appeal to author

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives [solved]

2007-03-19 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:02:09PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > When I was using Sarge, and early upgrades to Etch, I had avoided > > using vim because I never felt I had the time to learn about its > > 'improved features'. Now, when I run vi, it behaves in a

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives [solved]

2007-03-19 Thread Thomas Jollans
On Monday 19 March 2007 22:22, Paul E Condon wrote: > Now, I think I have never actually used vi. Instead, I have always been > using versions of vim that were loaded when I typed 'vi'. My ignorance is > revealed, but I learn, slowly. The closest free piece of software you can get is, AFAIK, nvi (

Re: Re (3): relaying POP3

2007-03-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter E. writes: > > My first guess would be that it is MS Windows based. If you tell > > me how > >to obtain the server identity from fetchmail, I will try. > > Use telnet. 'telnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] smtp' and type 'help' at the > prompt. Do you mean som

ddclient cron job

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob, but before I do it I was wondering if it is not safe to do this. I normally run under a user account (And not root), and ddclient can't be run by anyone but the owner (It won't let you run it, even if you have group access; "/etc/ddclient.conf must o

Re: rcs file

2007-03-19 Thread Ken Irving
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:57:59PM -0400, Tony Heal wrote: > I am trying to initialize and update an rcs file manually. Here is what I am > trying to do. > > Debian woody > rcs v 5.7-13 > TWiki - 24 Nov 2001 > > I am using the xconf plugin to parse an xconf file. This works fine. > > I want to

Etch Installer RC1 and RC2 hang "Retrieving file 82 of 82"

2007-03-19 Thread Erik Cummings
Sorry if this is the wrong place...I have SOME indication that I should be posting this to debian-testing, but I've read a couple conflicting posts. Trying to install Debian Etch with Installer RC1 or RC2 daily builds (last Wed and today!) hangs after retrieving files. Using netinst iso... I'v

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 16:16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: [snip] > > And why are you arguing whether Debian is Ubuntu anyway? We're not. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF/wr1S9HxQb37XmcRAp9hAJ41e51YoqZoox+qwJMXOf

Re: Alternatives to Dreamweaver (was: Re: Wine)

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:17 -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > I'll ask him. > > On 3/19/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 13:22 -0400, Mitch Wiedemann wrote: > > Has anyone ever tried Amaya from the W3c? > >

RE: Etch Installer RC1 and RC2 hang "Retrieving file 82 of 82"

2007-03-19 Thread Erik Cummings
> -Original Message- > From: Erik Cummings [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, March 19, 2007 3:12 PM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Etch Installer RC1 and RC2 hang "Retrieving file 82 of 82" > > Sorry if this is the wrong place...I have SOME indication that I should b

Re: Etch Installer RC1 and RC2 hang "Retrieving file 82 of 82"

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:11:45PM -0700, Erik Cummings wrote: > Sorry if this is the wrong place...I have SOME indication that I > should be posting this to debian-testing, but I've read a couple > conflicting posts. > > Trying to install Debian Etch with Installer RC1 or RC2 daily builds > (last

Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew K Poer
I need an email client. I need a calender/task scheduling program. I know of these combo, "PIM" applications: IceApe IceDove w/ (Sunbird?) calender extension Evolution Kontact (Kmail/Kalendar/aKregator/K Address Book) Sylpheed w/ iCal plug-in are there others? I am extremely unorganized and need

Re: ddclient cron job

2007-03-19 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob, but before I do it I > was wondering if it is not safe to do this. > > I normally run under a user account (And not root), and ddclient can't > be run by anyone but the o

Re: make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

2007-03-19 Thread H.S.
Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k) In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters): main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™: main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to ג€˜LaplaceMat::LaplaceMa

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:41:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Isn't there a package for debian that lets you make custom CDs by > choosing what packages you want and it includes the depends that > aptitude will look for? I wonder if its available on any of the live > CDs, e.g. grml. T

web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
I just want to make sure I'm not mising anything when I'm choosing a web browser. I don't use a desktop environment as such, although I'm trying out xfce4 instead of icewm. I want an Xwindow based web browser that lets me access normal web sites. I find I need https, frames, and javascript. It

[Solved] Re: make/g++ within emacs causes wierd unicode control characters

2007-03-19 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Micha Feigin wrote: I am trying to compile from within emacs (using M-x compile which calls make -k) In the output I get wierd characters (I think unicode characters): main.cc: In function ג€˜int main(int, char**)ג€™: main.cc:16: error: no matching function for call to ג€˜Laplace

Re: Using gdb on a debian system.

2007-03-19 Thread cga2000
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:07:04PM EST, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:53:51PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > Could somebody advise on using gdb on a debian system? > > > > Currently whenever I need to take an insider look at what the code is > > really doing, I try to locate th

Re: Sneakernet .deb packages by usb thumb?

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:32:22PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:41:28PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Isn't there a package for debian that lets you make custom CDs by > > choosing what packages you want and it includes the depends that > > aptitude wil

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

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:50:51AM -0300, D G Teed wrote: > > I spent all of last summer trying to educate the managers. I've given > up. They won't read or listen. They have heard that Linux users tend to > be emotional fans of their particular distro and can present any > information to back

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

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > >Heh, Texans (and for that matter, most of the desert southwest and > >California) crack me up in thinking that they get weather more than 30 days > >out of any given year... > > Hmm. When I lived in Texas I am pr

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:47:49AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > I don't suppose you have ever served in the U.S. military, have you? > > There is not one military person currently serving in Iraq w

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:18:40PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 05:47:49 -0700, Paul wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > > > I don't suppose you have ever served

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:48:35PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..Adolf Hitler has moral standing on his Führerbefehl because he put > 400,000 men on the job, to protect Norway's 3.5 Million, that's one > per 8.5 norwegian. > Adolf Hitler has moral standing? How can someone get so divorced fr

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread John Hasler
Matthew K Poer writes: > are there others? Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Javier Vasquez
On 3/19/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] Is there another well-featured web-browser that is _not_ integrated into a desktop environment? Thanks, Doug. Dillo is frozen right now (http://www.dillo.org), so I don't know if it'll accomplish its goals any time soon, and if

Re: Using gdb on a debian system.

2007-03-19 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 03:58:15AM EST, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 23:53 -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I have tried to follow the recommendations I found in various docs, > > like rebuilding the package via an "apt-get source package" followed > > by a "dpkg -i package_name" to no ef

Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to read them and then locks the system. I have to hit RESET to restart it. I can boot

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:09:48PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > ..maybe, define "just full of all sorts of conspiracy theories", I don't > watch TV, I pick my news off the web, where I try to balance Muslim, > Crusader, Commie, Jew, Asian, LatinAmerican and Norwegian news > against what I learn

Re: audio recorder on etch?

2007-03-19 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 04:54:03AM EST, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box. > Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0 > GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so it is > difficult / i

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
So right now I use iceape. Its big and clunky I suppose, but mostly I don't like all the security bugs that keep being found in the gekko-based browsers (per the debian BTS). Well, I was trying to find a lightweight browser too. Dillo is beautifully fast, but 1-) Lack some features as you ment

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 12:44:38PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > Just saw this in the following piece: > http://www.linuxformat.co.uk/murdockint.html > > "Ubuntu has certainly raised the bar. They have had a tremendous impact > on the number of people worldwide using Debian (I do consider Ubuntu to >

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

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> True. So very true. The many long months of uninterrupted > > precipitation-less heat is the one thing I dislike about living in the > >

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian. I don't want to start a flamewar, but I don't why Debian is superior to Ubuntu for a home user. -- Software is like sex: it is better when it is free.

Re: Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:05:05PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb > installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a > shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It > spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to > read them and then

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
You mean GNUS? I love Emacs, but I eventually gave up on Gnus. I just couldn't grok it. I'm on Sylpheed now. Haven't tried Claws. I don't use any calendar. On 3/19/07, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Matthew K Poer writes: > are there others? Emacs. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:37:27PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > >And for the people who actually want to use Linux, they will > >eventually move from Ubuntu to Debian. > > I don't want to start a flamewar, but I don't why Debian is superior to > Ubuntu for a home user. > I've fou

Re: Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to read them and then locks the system. Be more clear. The message appear before or after the ke

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

2007-03-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:52:09PM -0400, Roberto C. S?nchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:33:32AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > Paul Johnson wrote: > > > >> True. So very true. The many long months of uninterrupted > > > pr

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Micha Feigin
I think that the kde solution is the most mature at the moment and leaner than evolution although it drags along a whole host of libraries when you fire it up (so does evolution though) I don't like kmail as it takes the microsoft approach and won't play nicely with other programs touching it's ma

Re: ddclient cron job

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:31:07PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 17:37:29 -0400 > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm trying to get ddclient to run as a cronjob [...] > > > > Just invoke ddclient from a script in one of the directories mentioned > in /etc/cront

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
And I'm a GNU Purist, besides my wireless drivers (Which are in contrib) I have no non-free packages installed on my system. Ubuntu doesn't offer any differentiations between non-free packages and free packages in their repositories, which upset me when I run my weekly "vrms" to find that the pr

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:35:32PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I just want to make sure I'm not mising anything when I'm choosing a web > browser. I don't use a desktop environment as such, although I'm trying > out xfce4 instead of icewm. > > I want an Xwindow based web browser that lets

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
I think that non-free software go to restricted and to multiverse, while main and universe are pure. I believe main and restricted are enabled by default, and that is why you ended up with unrar. Humm, thinking again, Ubuntu keeps restricted to a bare minimum, and unrar would certainly go to

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

2007-03-19 Thread D G Teed
On 3/19/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You gave him Sarge, right? Have him do a straight install of WindowsXP with no other CD. Watch him crash and burn as well. Or if he "excuses" the additional drivers disk(s) required to install WindowsXP then he is not at all "unbiased". Win

Re: howto increase delays in password prompt

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 11:09:55AM -0400, Mutsuura Associates, Inc. wrote: > > Can anyone tell me how to increase the delay properly? > This is just a wild guess, have you looked at the options in the files in /etc/pam.d? Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~rob

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:04:28PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > I think that non-free software go to restricted and to multiverse, > > while main and universe are pure. I believe main and restricted are > > enabled by default, and that is why you ended up with unrar. > > > Humm

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 18:35 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I just want to make sure I'm not mising anything when I'm choosing a web > browser. I don't use a desktop environment as such, although I'm trying > out xfce4 instead of icewm. > > I want an Xwindow based web browser that lets me acc

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:25:22 -0400 > Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I need an email client. I need a calender/task scheduling program. I > > know of these combo, "PIM" applications: > > IceApe > > IceDove w/ (Sunbird?) calender extension > > Evolution > > Kontact (Kmail/Kalend

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

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Now _minus_ 83, now that's bracing! The high arctic is a desert too. > > > > Beards: them that can, grow 'em; them that can't... live in Texas? :) > > > > BLT:

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:02:55PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 18 Mar 2007 21:24:23 -0400, Roberto wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Now, if any coalition troops have committed crimes in violation of the > > Geneva conventions, then yes they need to prosecuted. > > ..here

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

2007-03-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 21:06 -0300, D G Teed wrote: > Win XP installer prompts "F6 to add hardware drivers" or some such. > It makes the opportunity known. It isn't impossible for the Debian > installer to do something to introduce the possibility as I mentioned > before. Debian has expert modes,

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 09:04:46PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 17:56:49 -0500, Curt wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > > > > and then Germany declared war on us. > > > > Yep. The only treaty that Hitler didn't break. One is l

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:26 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:25:22 -0400 > > Personally, for PIM, I use my Palm. Even if you don't have a palm, you > could use one of the palm syncers, like gnome-pilot and never sync... > > Before that, I used Remind or a postgresql/

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:49:44PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Matthew K Poer writes: > > are there others? > > Emacs. Yeah, but it lacks a decent text editor. * ducks * Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Descri

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

2007-03-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > > Now _minus_ 83, now that's bracing! The high arctic is a desert too. > > > > > > Beards: th

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:05:07PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > I've been searching for browsers for a while, and I've found a few > that I like: > > kazehakase; Not very well featured, but it's small and quick if you > just need a "down to the bones" browser. > > links2; An amazing browser

Re: web browser choices

2007-03-19 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:40:06PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:05:07PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > > > I've been searching for browsers for a while, and I've found a few > > that I like: > > > > [..kazhakase..links2..galeon..chimera2..] > > > > > Chim

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

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:37:33PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 20:29 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 07:56:39PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-03-19 at 19:27 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > Okay then, what is more bra

Re: Monitor filesystem changes

2007-03-19 Thread alphadeltapapa
On Mar 19, 4:00 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03/19/07 11:11, Alex Lorca wrote: > > I have a debian etch 2.6.17 an i need to monitor the changes > > (create/modify/delete) in a directory that is shared between various users. > > I have used the interface inotify but it doesn`t sho

Re: How to make Konqueror open shell scripts in an editor instead of running them

2007-03-19 Thread alphadeltapapa
On Mar 19, 4:20 am, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Porter wrote: > > A few minutes of googling found this very useful tip. If you want Konqueror > > to open shell scripts in an editor instead of running them (usually in the > > background, which isn't usually very useful), just add the

module-assistant problem with kernel source

2007-03-19 Thread adsarebad
Hello all, I am trying to use m-a to install ndiswrapper. I am using debian stable with backports for module-assistant,build-essential,xorg,kde. m-a prepare says everything is great and I made sure its getting the linux-headers from backports. My kernel is stock from backports 2.6.18-4-k7 #1 S

module-assistant problem with kernel source

2007-03-19 Thread Gokee2
Hello all, I am trying to use m-a to install ndiswrapper. I am using debian stable with backports for module-assistant,build-essential,xorg,kde. m-a prepare says everything is great and I made sure its getting the linux-headers from backports. My kernel is stock from backports 2.6.18-4-k7

Re: Can't boot linux with GRUB

2007-03-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 06:05:05PM -0600, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > After many starts and stops and restarts I got Deb > installed via the web. GRUB was installed, did a > shutdown/restart and I can't boot to Deb/linux. It > spews out all sorts of messages too fast for me to > read t

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Matthew K Poer wrote: > Kontact (Kmail/Kalendar/aKregator/K Address Book) I use korganizer, kmail, knode, kontact etc., to read mailing lists, newsgroups. Basically whatever KDE throws at me. I am quite satisfied with it. However not all your friends/colleagues might use KDE or Linux. So if you w

Re: vi, vim, and update-alternatives

2007-03-19 Thread Joey Hess
Paul E Condon wrote: > 'vi' is not in this list, so I can't say what vim.tiny should do when > it is invoked via the update-alternatives symlink, vi, but I think it > is not doing something that its maintainers intend. Is this a bug? Or > is it working in some mode that is useful, but only to those

Re: Monitor filesystem changes

2007-03-19 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:51:19PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 19, 4:00 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 03/19/07 11:11, Alex Lorca wrote: > > > I have a debian etch 2.6.17 an i need to monitor the changes > > > (create/modify/delete) in a directory that is shared betw

Re: Favorite Email/Calender/PIM and Why

2007-03-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/19/07 18:56, Micha Feigin wrote: [snip] > > I don't like kmail as it takes the microsoft approach and won't play nicely > with other programs touching it's mail directories unless you setup a local > imap server and access everything over imap (

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