Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:59:08 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 th

Re: Reconnect to a specific TTY session?

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jim Hyslop wrote: > When I ssh into my Debian box from my laptop, sometimes I step away from > the laptop, and when I come back it's gone into standby. This, of > course, drops the TCP/IP connection to the Debian box. Is there any way > to re-establish the connection to the session I was running?

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

2007-03-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: >> Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. >> Just as white is the absence of color? > .."white is the absence of color?" Yup. People say that

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 19:05:38 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 p

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > want it for. It is the only failure-proof way to make sure temporary files > cannot be attacked from outside, and also that they will disappear if the Err, there are a lot of "provided that " stuff in the "cannot be attacked from the outsi

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:57:02 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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]>: >> >> > Ro

Re: ..plonk.

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 02:04:10 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Arnt Karlsen wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > >> On Wed, 7 Mar 2007 00:25:42 GMT, Barrister wrote message >> <[EMAIL PRO

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > What is the performance impact of mounting /tmp in tmpfs? Some thoughts: 1. It is a lot faster for a lot of stuff, as long as your kernel has proper swapping behaviour. This happens because tmpfs can avoid a great deal of costly operation

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 02:20:52AM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > ..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. > > On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 18:57:02 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 05:18:40PM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > >> On Mon, 19 Mar 20

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:24:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:56 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:21:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:19 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:27:32PM -0400, Kev

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:47:36PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > 1. Given a bunch of files, how can I find out the encoding of their > filenames? > 2. Which encoding is the best, more portable, should be preferred...? > > Why I need this? > I

postfix log query

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, I rec the following by logcheck. Is it anthing I should worry about? Mar 24 01:48:55 kan postfix/cleanup[25281]: B61E8F7A3: +message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Mar 24 01:48:57 kan postfix/cleanup[25281]: 2DB3FF7A3: +message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by [EMAIL PROT

Re: Speeding up boot time

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 07:06:33AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > use either of them (Well I know I don't use MySQL, but is hplip > something that I could be using and not even knowing about?) apt-cache show hplip | less -- Chris. == Don't forget to check that your /etc/apt/sources.lst entri

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

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 04:55:51PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > Keep in mind Ubuntu is using the same system as Debian, but not using > it the way it was meant to be used. Which is why Ubuntu debs don't > work on Debian and vice-versa (For the most part). I personally think Probably use differen

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

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 05:37:00PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > All that is to say that Ubuntu serves a purpose, and it's a valuable > one, IMO. It's not for everybody; nor is Debian, nor any other distro > in particular. Ubuntu at least provides an experience quite similar to > Debian while doing

Re: more sound problems

2007-03-25 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Firstly: Are you a part of the "audio" group? If not, that will make > everything cranky. You can fix this by adding yourself to the audio > group. It'll just say "The user is already a member of audio" > example: > princess:~# adduser greg audio > The user `greg' is already a m

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

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:36:01AM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > The only problem with that is that people tend to get aggravated when > they testing and Sid freeze, because they feel that they're waiting > for months for new packages to come into their version. I don't mind > myself, but I unders

Re: configuring apt.conf

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 06:43:33PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi every body > > I want to customize the apt.conf, in order to save the cache of the > packages ( by default) the cache is deleted, but it is not working, > although I followed the doc > In fact I created a local repository w

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > My machine (desktop) was last booted 7 days ago. I rebooted because of > the new kernel. That's why I pointed out the specific kernel. that is at least SOMETHING useful. If you have an i

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 23, 2007 at 09:43:49AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Aptitude was the only package manager used on this machine following > the advice of several users. Easily? Well I was lucky to have a > Ubuntu Dapper installation on another partition so I could retrieve the > needed packages an

Re: postfix log query

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:25:18PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > I rec the following by logcheck. Is it anthing I should worry about? > > Mar 24 01:48:55 kan postfix/cleanup[25281]: B61E8F7A3: > +message-id=<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (added by > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) > Mar 24 01:48:57 kan postfix

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

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:27:21PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > that is the root of why dist-upgrade breaks a lot of the time, and it > > isn't really a fault in Ubuntu, because they still provide their users > > with a lot of other things Debian doesn't. A huge forum (Our mailing > > list

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 22:50 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:24:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:56 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:21:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:19 -0400, Rick Pasot

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Kevin Mark wrote: > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool Which package contains this command? $apt-file search migration-tool gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool gdesklets: usr/share/gdesklets/migration-tool raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:12 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > My machine (desktop) was last booted 7 days ago. I rebooted because of > > the new kernel. That's why I pointed out the specific kernel. > > that is at least SOMETHING useful

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

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:15 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:27:21PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > that is the root of why dist-upgrade breaks a lot of the time, and it > > > isn't really a fault in Ubuntu, because they still provide their users > > > with a

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I guess we can't trust people to even look for themselves anymore. > > Rick Pasotto has been round filed in my book. What surprises me is that most new d-u users are repeatedly told ab

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool > > Which package contains this command? > > $apt-file search migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/share/gdes

How to work with a Wireless Projector

2007-03-25 Thread Wang Xu
I met a Panasonic PT-LB50NTU 802.11b/g wireless projector, and could not connect with it. It has an driver which can only work with windows and need DirectX. Through Kismet, I found a laptop working with it through TCP connections to its 12000/12004 port. Any suggestion? -- Wang Xu -- To UNS

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:22:39PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > > > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool > > Which package contains this command? > > $apt-file search migration-tool > gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklet

Re: Lirc at boot, Debian etch, kernel-2.6.20.3

2007-03-25 Thread mike
On Saturday 24 March 2007 19:05, mike wrote: > Thanks in advance for any help. I have googled until I'm tired; cannot seem > to locate the correct answer. > > I have a Debian etch running kernel-2.6.20.3 on a new Intel core 2 duo > machine. I built the kernel for a core 2 duo, and it's turning up a

Re: find encoding of filenames

2007-03-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:22 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> Kevin Mark wrote: >> >> >> > maybe this would help: utf8-migration-tool >> >> Which package contains this command? >> >> $apt-file search migration-tool >> gdesklets: usr/lib/gdesklets/gdesklets-migration-

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:41:22 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/25/07 17:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] >> ..you deny the "Let's roll!"-people aboard flight UA93 their lawful KIA >> status, when they "took up arms against the

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

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:26:08PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:15 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:27:21PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > > that is the root of why dist-upgrade breaks a lot of the time, and it > > > > isn't really

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread William Mok
I installed X windows system under Debian 3.1.r2, I typed 'startx' but I got the following error: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device Generic Mouse: cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" Does anyone know how this problem c

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

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 19:14:16 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 06:53:50 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >>> Paul Johnson wrote: Cloudless sky with negligable wind is an absence of weather. >>> Just as white is th

X window errpr

2007-03-25 Thread William Mok
I installed X windows system under Debian 3.1.r2, I typed 'startx' but I got the following error: xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice No such device Generic Mouse: cannot open input device PreInit failed for input device "Generic Mouse" Does anyone know how this problem can

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:32:22PM -0700, William Mok wrote: > > I installed X windows system under Debian 3.1.r2, I typed 'startx' but I > got the following error: > > xf86OpenSerial: Cannot open device /dev/input/mice > No such device > > Generic Mouse: cannot open input device > PreInit

Re: Problem with mouse in X [WAS: Re: a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 12:35:15AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Second, you could have at least changed the subject line. > (Replying to self here) I have now changed the subject line. -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com signature.asc Des

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:12 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > My machine (desktop) was last booted 7 days ago. I rebooted because of > > > the new kernel. That's why I

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:00:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:47:41PM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> ..reposting, last try was lost in gmane's auth queue. >> >> >> On Mon, 19 Mar 2007 20:31:03 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in >> [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 05:10:19AM +, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 21:00:39 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > Well, let's see. Here is a list of every executive order published in > > 2001 [0]: > > > > > > Now, I read all the orders relating to anyt

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:12 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: >>> My machine (desktop) was last booted

i810 graphics problem (was: Second Install not going so well)

2007-03-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 13:17:29 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: [...] > Well there were a few differences in terms of what I was asked during > the install. I'm guessing that the problem I'm having now has to do > with the display drivers. Last time the install couldn't sense what > the adapter was and

re: xfig exports buggy pictex?

2007-03-25 Thread Marcos Lima
Hi, If I draw a figure in Xfig and export it to PicTex, LaTex is unable to process the file. If I use and old PicTex file, LaTeX wqorks fine, but if I open the original .fig file in Xfig and export it to PicTex, LaTeX bugs with: (/usr/share/texmf/tex/generic/pictex/postpictex.tex) (/usr/share/te

Re: Using Asterisk in Debian to set up Conference Calling

2007-03-25 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! } On 3/25/07, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: } Is there really nobody on this list using asterisk and the Meetme } application? I use asterisk, but i've not already use meetme. I think that you could find a better community support looking at the asterisk mailing-list / forum. Th

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 00:46 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:12 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > > > > > My machine (desktop) was last booted 7 d

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

2007-03-25 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 00:30 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:26:08PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:15 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 03:27:21PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > > > > that is the root of

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/25/07 22:39, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 18:41:22 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote in > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/25/07 17:47, Arnt Karlsen wrote: [snip] >>> ..you deny the "Let's

Re: deleting content of /tmp

2007-03-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/25/07 20:48, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 24 Mar 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On the contrary. It makes it so that the only way that someone can get >>> to the file is by having cracked the kernel itself. That is, without >>> th

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