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

2007-04-05 Thread Mirko Scurk
Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2007-03-20 10:32:06, schrieb H.S.: >> I agree with this. In my experience, one can choose to configure every >> detail in Ubuntu by editing configuration files, the same way as in >> Debian. At the same time, Ubuntu also automates many things and provides >> a nice sim

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > * PV == Physical Volume or some kind of media usable by LVM, these > have Physical Extents on them. > * VG == Volume Group which is measure in two ways, Extents and > PVs. Logical Extents are the measur

KImageMapEditor

2007-04-05 Thread w laoye
Is this for creating an image-mapped webpage? After marking out an object in an image and specifying the url, I save up the map as a .html file. But when I open the file up with a browser, the object is not mouse-sensistive. - Never miss an email again! Yah

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >> It's more powerful and can do anything that apt-get can > > What are the aptitude equivalents of > > sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs > apt-get source grep > > Good question. >> , and in my exper

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 04 Apr 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > > all. > > It's stable enough for people who care about computers. OTOH, my > wife wouldn't care if her box were still Woody. Same for > businesses. If it does what they want, they won't change. > My wife is still using MS-DOS and refuses to change. (And

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

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirko Scurk wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: >> Am 2007-03-20 10:32:06, schrieb H.S.: >>> I agree with this. In my experience, one can choose to configure every >>> detail in Ubuntu by editing configuration files, the same way as in >>> Debian. At the

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 07:28:26 +0200 Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Atis wrote: > >> You can use both, but you will confuse aptitude in the process. > >> Aptitude keeps a database so that it knows which packages it pulled in > >> as depende

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > [snip] >> What I currently do to handle scratch installation is that: Before I do >> the installation, I rename /home to something like /abc to make sure the >> installation process won't touch it. During the inst

Grub question: any risk in doing this?

2007-04-05 Thread Anthony Campbell
I want to use Sidux to install Debian on a Thinkpad Z61M which has Ubuntu preinstalled (and I don't want to lose it). Question: is it safe to let the Sidux installation rewrite grub? More details if required: I have Ubuntu on a primary partition /dev/sda3, with /home on a logical partition /dev/sd

Re: Grub question: any risk in doing this?

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell wrote: > I want to use Sidux to install Debian on a Thinkpad Z61M which has > Ubuntu preinstalled (and I don't want to lose it). Question: is it safe > to let the Sidux installation rewrite grub? > > More details if required: I have U

Re: Emacs and accented characters

2007-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 23:10:49 +, Marco De Vitis wrote: > Hi, > I've got a small annoyance in Etch, but I think it was there in Sarge, too. > > I connect to the Debian machine via ssh (usually from OSX Terminal, but also > from PuTTy on Windows the same happens). > > The machine has LANG="

Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all, I need to create a portable Debian (or derivate) system. My needs are: * install the system on a bootable USB HD * install a system that autoconfigure on different hardware (I don't know in advance which video card or lan card I'll find when I'll use the system) *

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirto Silvio Busico wrote: > Hi all, > I need to create a portable Debian (or derivate) system. > > My needs are: > > * install the system on a bootable USB HD > * install a system that autoconfigure on different hardware (I don't > kno

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Mirco Piccin
Hi! Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro bootable via usb and with grub (to choice the preferred distro). There are a lot of minimal linux distro, and many are debian based (DamnSmallLinux, Knoppix, for example). I think tha

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mirco Piccin wrote: > Hi! > Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. > I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro bootable via usb and with > grub (to choice the preferred distro). > > There are a lot of minimal linux distro,

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread nicolas . flinois
The help is located there: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive "DebianLive: Official Debian effort to build a tool to make Live Systems, including LiveCDs and installation tools from LiveCDs (i.e to harddisks or USB keys)." Set-up a DebianLive system onto you usb HD. Gal' 2007/4/5, Mirto Silvio

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

2007-04-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Am 2007-03-20 12:14:26, schrieb Matus UHLAR - fantomas: > > the submission - still more often, because outgoing SMTP connections from > > dynamic addresses (and often even static) are being blocked by ISPs in an > > attempt to stop spam spreading from them. On 04.04.07 20:21, Michelle Konzack wr

Re: shutdown - md0 busy

2007-04-05 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Artem Zolochevskiy wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: So what do you see on the screen after the Stopping MD array md0... failed (busy) line? Will now halt md: stopping all md devices md: md0 still in use Syncronizing SCSI cache for disk sda Syncronizing SCSI cache for disk sdb Syncronizing SC

dns cambia sempre

2007-04-05 Thread Armando Sambäk
ho installato debian etch (sono newbie) il browser parte solo, se cambia (sempre- dopo cca 10 minuti) il dns, il nummero mio non rimane, qualcuno mi puo aiutare ? il resto funziona, ma lo devo impara ancora bene! ciao a tutti

Re: Postfix-Sender and recipient restriction problem

2007-04-05 Thread Semih Gokalp
Thanks Mihira very thanks.It works like below: -- smtpd_recipient_restrictions = check_recipient_access hash:/etc/postfix/recipient_access reject_unlisted_recipient check_relay_domains reject_anunth_destination reject_unverified_recipient reject_unknown_recipient_doma

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Chris Lale
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Sometime before, I read on this list that it is unwise to mix apt-get and > aptitude. By mix, I mean using apt-get one time and aptitude another time. > The reason given was that both of them use different databases. Is this > true for synaptic and aptitude as well? C

Re: Simplest way to reconstruct /etc/rc?.d

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Perrin
While I understand it's not ideal, this does seem to have done the trick. I used: for i in `ls` do update-rc.d $i defaults done -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professo

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > >> Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, >> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-

Re: Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hans du Plooy: > > ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers > ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se > > Do I need both? No, only one of them. Which one depends on whether you are running Apache2 or the earlier version. J. -- If I

Re: Disk logical backup tools

2007-04-05 Thread Wackojacko
- Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both Linux & Windoze partitions? By logical backup I meant, at least the backup tools don't do blind sector to sector backup. Ideally it would be something like Norton Ghost. I hope I can use it to backup Wi

Re: Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hans du Plooy wrote: > Hi guys, > > I'm just cleaning out old packages on my Sarge_upgraded_to_Etch server. > > Noticed these two: > > ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers > ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generatio

Re: dovecot does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nevruz Mesut Sahin: > > Deae friends in my system dovecot 1.0 is running I configured then I > wrote below commands There is no Dovecot 1.0 yet, only a number of 1.0 release candidates (latest version is RC29, I think). RC29 is in sid, RC15 is in etch. > chkconfig --level 2345 dovecot on > chkco

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 14:37 +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Greg Folkert wrote: > > * PV == Physical Volume or some kind of media usable by LVM, these > > have Physical Extents on them. > > * VG == Volume Group which is measure in tw

dovecot does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Nevruz Mesut Sahin
Deae friends in my system dovecot 1.0 is running I configured then I wrote below commands chkconfig --level 2345 dovecot on chkconfig --list dovecot dovecot 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off service dovecot restart Dovecot Imap stoping: [FAÄ°LED] Dovecot

Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I'm just cleaning out old packages on my Sarge_upgraded_to_Etch server. Noticed these two: ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se Do I need both? Thanks Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael M.
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) -- Michael M. ++ Portland, OR ++ USA "No live organism can continue for

Re: dovecot does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 03:54 -0700, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > Deae friends in my system dovecot 1.0 is running I configured then I > wrote below commands > > chkconfig --level 2345 dovecot on > chkconfig --list dovecot > dovecot 0:off 1:off 2:on 3:on 4:on 5:on 6:off Where do you get this "chk

[OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you could do with Turbo C on DOS in the 1980's. What would be the easiest system to do this? Should I le

Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Manon Metten
Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux Hi, I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing etch). I tried this: e2label /dev/hdb4 xyz e2label /dev/hdb4 stor

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manon Metten wrote: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > > > Hi, > > I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. > It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name w

Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." and an ad for making web sites for funeral homes! If I use Galeon or lynx I get to the real site.

Re: Some cleanup questions [solved]

2007-04-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, April 5, 2007 12:25, Joe Hart wrote: > Hans du Plooy wrote: >> ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers >> ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web >> se >> >> Do I need both? > > Do you use apache? or apache2? One is version 1.3 an

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > > RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) As stated previou

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* > > > compression you could do the following

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
Oops! Sorry about that! Kmail gave me an error on the first send so I didn't think it was sent out. On Thursday 05 April 2007 07:33, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome i

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like U

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even > filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32. seconded. If it's of importance also check the maximum file size of yo

kino problem: No GLIBC_2.4

2007-04-05 Thread Thomas H. George
I installed kino with apt-get. Capture from my video camera worked fine but export to dvd failed. Help showed mjpegtools was required. When apt-cache search couldn't find it I downloaded a copy from the internet. With mjpegtools installed export still failed with a message "mjpeg2enc: /lib/

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:34:03AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich > > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrot

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Dennis G. Wicks dies 05/04/2007 hora 08:28: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > [...] > > Any suggestions on how to stop this? Backup your FF private dir to be able to inspect it later and see what happened, but get it out of the way, so that you start a clean bro

Re: Help! Strange FF/Iceweasel problem

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > I think my Firefox/Weasel browser has been hi-jacked. > > Regardless the url it displays a page that says "* The Web site for the > supplied URL is under construction. Please come back and visit soon." > and an ad for making w

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:33:28AM -0500, Randy Patterson wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:22, Michael M. wrote: > > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 20:19 -0400, Javier Enrique Tiá Marín wrote: > > > Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like U

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 02:25:47PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote: > >> 5) Is there an easy and supported way to convert my current disks (and > >> data on the disks) to LVM? > > > > As Doug said, and because lv are just normal partitions that are > > mounted normally, you are just asking to move your cu

Re: kino problem: No GLIBC_2.4

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 09:01 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > I installed kino with apt-get. Capture from my video camera worked fine > but export to dvd failed. Help showed mjpegtools was required. When > apt-cache search couldn't find it I downloaded a copy from the > internet. With mjpegto

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: [snip] >> As stated previously I am a newbie in the Linux world, but one that seen >> enough to know that there is no going back now! So currently I don't really >> have a loyalty to any of the higher level window systems. I would b

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:38:13PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > >> Why Gnome is the Default Desktop for Distributions like Ubuntu/Debian, > >> RedHat/CentOS/Fedora and OpenSuse? > > > > Because Gnome is superior, of course. :-) > > > Flamebait! Oh now, now we're going to get a flamewar over which

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Mirco Piccin wrote: > > Hi! > > Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. > > I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro bootable via usb and with > > grub (to choice

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what > you could do with Turbo C on

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: > What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is > it today, national "People from other distros" day? That would be a big negative ten four good buddy: $ dpkg -S e2label e2fsprogs: /usr/share/man/man8/e2label.8.gz e2fspro

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:06:51AM -0500, Manon Metten wrote: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Mon Mar 26 16:39:10 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux > > I want to change the name and access point of a partition on my second hd. > It's labeled /xyz now (coz I could think of no better name when installing > etc

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Jan Willem Stumpel dies 05/04/2007 hora 13:51: > What would be the easiest system to do this? Should I learn Java? Or > something else? The Cairo library should probably offer everything you could want, and more. It has numerous bindings for languages, so pick one. It's written in C, and

Re: dns cambia sempre

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 11:27:14AM +0200, Armando Sambäk wrote: > ho installato debian etch (sono newbie) il browser parte solo, se cambia > (sempre- dopo cca 10 minuti) il dns, > il nummero mio non rimane, qualcuno mi puo aiutare ? il resto funziona,

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Pierre THIERRY
Scribit Douglas Allan Tutty dies 05/04/2007 hora 09:32: > Personally, I only program in two languages: Fortran and Python. So I > would suggest python. Why not Fortran? ;-) Curiously, Pierre -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] OpenPGP 0xD9D50D8A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. -- Cheers, Sven Arvidsson http://www.whiz.se PGP Key ID 760BDD22 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Emacs and accented characters

2007-04-05 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 05/04/2007 10:00, Florian Kulzer wrote: Maybe your emacs runs under an incorrect locale setting for some reason. Do you still see the correct values if you run "locale" from within emacs? (M-! lets you run a shell command if I remember correctly.) Yes, the output is the same: LANG=en_US.UT

Re: Emacs and accented characters

2007-04-05 Thread Marco De Vitis
On 05/04/2007 7:40, Kevin Mark wrote: I recently started with the keymap with deadkeys and that seems to work. Havent tried it with emacs. Sorry, what do you mean? You mean you selected a different keymap for the whole system? My accented chars seem to work fine outside emacs (e.g. in bash), t

Re: KImageMapEditor

2007-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 00:01:51 -0700, w laoye wrote: > Is this for creating an image-mapped webpage? Mostly it is just a tool to generate the image map itself, saving you the trouble of measuring the pixel coordinates yourself. It wraps this map into a very rudimentary HTML document but that see

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Pobega wrote: > > Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only > allows for lowercase characters in filenames. That would only be the filename of the tar-file, so it doesn't really mater. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)
On 4/5/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 07:34:03AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4/

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 19:09 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> . gconf spews all sorts of errors into log files. > > Not true as of 2.18.0.1-2. > Too bad that this is not in Etch. But good to know. thanks raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-05 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a > patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error. Joe writes: > Agreed, but how else can one do it if congress is unwilling to make a new > law or repeal an existing one? "Something must be done. This

Re: dovecot does not work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:02 -0700, Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > I am using Fedora core 5 Then WHY oh WHY would you ask a Debian Linux mailing list? We have neither the inclination not the reasoning to answer a completely divorced from Debian goals Distro. Go to on of the mailing lists, dedicated t

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John Hasler
Doug writes: > Minimal command line interface: > no monitor, no graphics card, no terminal, just a > dot matrix printer and a keyboard. > Yup, did that once when I _really_ needed to fix > something. You really don't want to get into that competition here.

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 03:41:20PM +0200, Pierre THIERRY wrote: > Scribit Douglas Allan Tutty dies 05/04/2007 hora 09:32: > > Personally, I only program in two languages: Fortran and Python. So I > > would suggest python. > > Why not Fortran? ;-) Python is easier to get stuff done in. My usual

Re: OT: Linux or Cisco

2007-04-05 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 09:05:57AM +0530, CCNAStuff wrote: > Hello all, > > I have started studying for CCNA using CBTNuggets. They're pretty good. I crammed my CCNA with that. No substitute to real world experience of course. > Meanwhile I looked for options in the Linux world and there are >

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new user I don't have a > favorite windowing system that I prefer an

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-05 Thread John L Fjellstad
"Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > S/MIME was intended to work with a certification authority (CA) model > based on a small number of universally trusted root CA's, while PGP > assumed a distributed web of trust model based on personal > relationships between individual users. There's n

Re: Disk logical backup tools

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:24, - Tong - wrote: > Hi, > > Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both > Linux & Windoze partitions? from man ntfsclone: NTFSCLONE(8) NAME ntfsclone - Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue an NTFS It's part of the ntfsprogs

Re: Portable Debian?

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 10:30:34AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Mirco Piccin wrote: >>> Hi! >>> Well, for xmas i do something like that as gift for my customers. >>> I prepare a usb with many tiny linux distro bootable via usb and

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is >> it today, national "People from other distros" day? > > That would be a big negative ten four good buddy

Re: Some cleanup questions

2007-04-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:23:46PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hans du Plooy: > > > > ii apache-common 1.3.34-4 support files for all Apache webservers > > ii apache2.2-common 2.2.3-3.3 Next generation, scalable, extendable web se > > > > Do I need both? > > No, only one of them. Which one d

Re: Some cleanup questions [solved]

2007-04-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:29:36PM +0100, Hans du Plooy wrote: > > I'm running Apache2 - always have been. I was going to remove the 1.3 > stuff, but then the description caught my eye: "support files for *all* > Apache webservers" - wasn't sure how broadly I should interpret "all > Apache webser

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what > you could do with Turbo C on

Re: GPL v3?

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> Software patents are an unmitigated evil. However, attempting to fix a >> patent problem with a copyright license is a serious error. > > Joe writes: >> Agreed, but how else can one do it if congress is unwilling to m

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Cédric Lucantis
Le jeudi 5 avril 2007 13:51, Jan Willem Stumpel a écrit : > I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- > plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with > colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what > you could do with Turbo C on DOS in the

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: > >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is > >> it today, national "People from oth

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > > > > It's more powerful and can do anything that apt-get can > > What are the aptitude equivalents of > > sudo apt-get build-dep texmacs Interesting point. Google found this: http://p12

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:10:56AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > >Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> If the list is getting RTFM questions, it also means that the manuals are > >> just not good enough to be understood. So probably trying to improve the > > Or people

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: > >> What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is > >> it today, national "People from other distros" day? > > > > That would be a big negative ten

Re: test message

2007-04-05 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 3 Apr 2007 09:26:37 +0200 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 03.04.07 07:20, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > > From: "S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Date: Tue, 3 Apr 2007 07:20:33 +0600 > > Subject: test message > > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > > >

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 18:17:59 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mike Bird wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn

Bug#417953: apt's Packages.diff: 7 days, but Christmas has 12

2007-04-05 Thread Dan Jacobson
Package: apt Version: 0.6.46.4 Severity: wishlist Why go through all the effort to make a Packages.diff directory, and then only keep one week of diffs in it? Doesn't the song go "on the eighth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me"...one tiny missing .diff, so I have to download the whole */

dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I created it in Open Office Draw. I sent a copy of it to my pal who I think is a 100% MSWindows creature He emailed me back saying the .odg file was not recognised when he tried to read it in. I am not sur

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I created it > in Open Office Draw. I sent a copy of it to my pal who I think is a 100% > MSWindows creature > > He emailed me back saying the

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I Uhhh. It's called OpenOffice.org I was told by one of the maintainers, who was really annoyed of me calling it like that. > What is the best way to proceed here? Without knowing yo

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-04-05 Thread dave
on Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 11:49:05PM + Arnt Karlsen wrote: > .."maim first" is "the lowly infanteryman" and upward's job. > I was taught to aim for the heart. Center of body mass. In other words, kill. Ciao, Dave -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 01:51:03PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you cou

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: > Then also ask him to pay for MSWindows and MSOffice for you, so you can > cater to his wishes. Uhh, , recently, for the first time in years I was forced to use MSOffice to collaborate on a document. It was the most horrible experience in years to try to cope with the inadequa

Re: Relabel partition didn't work

2007-04-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 18:17 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Mike Bird wrote: >>> On Thursday 05 April 2007 05:23, Joe Hart wrote: What in the world is e2label? It doesn't show up in my search. What is it today, national "Peo

Re: Newbie Question - KDE-Gnome-xfce

2007-04-05 Thread Randy Patterson
On Thursday 05 April 2007 10:46, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Randy Patterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have only had Debian up and going for about two weeks. Had Sarge > > installed but had problems with my USB hardware so just did a clean > > install of Etch. Works great!! Since I am a new

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > There are websites and software packages that I think can convert an odg > file to a WMF file. > > What is the best way to proceed here? > > My pal won't have time to install Open Office for windows on his PC. He > will just want t

Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc....

2007-04-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: dumb question about odg files and wmf files etc Date: Thu, 05 Apr 2007 13:13:36 -0400 On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 17:08 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I created a flow chart in Open Off

Re: [OT] Graphics programming

2007-04-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: I would like to try some simple graphics programming on Linux -- plotting points, lines, and arcs to a window, filling areas with colour, etc. Preferably with a C interface, something like what you could do with Turbo C on DOS in the 1980's. What would be the easiest sy

Re: mixing syanptic and aptitude

2007-04-05 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Thu, Apr 05, 2007 at 12:42:50PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 05 Apr 2007 02:20:12 -0400 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I like synaptic's GUI much better than aptitude's ncurses interface. If I > > want to see all the packages whose names start with vim, In synapti

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