why linux?

For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was simple. I downloaded the relevan

Re: restarting proftpd

Hi Mark. Mark Grieveson, 21.05.2007 02:13: > Thanks Tom, that works. When I start it [proftpd], I get the following: > > debian:/home/mark# /etc/init.d/proftpd restart > Stopping ftp server: proftpd. > Starting ftp server: proftpd - IPv6 getaddrinfo 'debian.example.com' > error: No address assoc

Re: network interfaces fail to start on boot

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:37:34AM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: Putting this back on list. > On 5/21/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:58:27PM +0200, David Fuchs wrote: > >> hi all, > >> > >> I just installed Etch on a system with 3 network interfaces: eth0,

Re: why linux?

S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this was simple. I downloade

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Mon, May 21, 2007 09:55:22 AM +0300, Andrei Popescu ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > By forum I meant whole Debian, not this list (should have put some > quotes around). > > > Of course. How can you ask such a ridiculous question? Please think a > > bit more before posting. First of all, going by

Re: why linux?

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. If by that you meant it to behave like Windows then you are out of luck. Debian is GNU/Linux. Interestingly it works very nice for me. The only troubles I have are

Re: why linux?

2007/5/21, S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With Windows all this wa

Re: restarting proftpd

Hi again. Mark Grieveson, 21.05.2007 02:13: > This ("debian.example.com) was the suggestion I received from the > original set up of my system (that being Etch). Should I add something > to this file? An ip address or something? Oh and BTW: you should not use possibly existent hostnames for your

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007/5/21, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Raffaele Morelli wrote: > > 2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >: > > I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an > old box with a small hard disk: > df -h > Filesyste

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

Raffaele Morelli wrote: 2007/5/16, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >: I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/h

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > Joey is, I believe, referring to a healthy level of off-topic > discussions on *any* list, not to creating a specific area for > "off-topic" messages. For the messages to be "social lubricant", they > need to be *interspersed* with the

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I did that and showed them to my girlfriend who's the expert on fonts > and she wasn't impressed. In what way was she not impressed? If she wasn't impressed the same way she probably isn't impressed with Times or Arial, then that's fine. If she wasn't im

Re: why linux?

No offense. I think you asked a right question: why Linux? And, this question supposed to be asked to yourself first, why Linux? Why do you intended to use another OS other than Microsoft Windows? What did you expected from Linux? If Linux was not as powerful as Windows, why Linux? If Linux is so h

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

Raffaele Morelli wrote: Any other good suggestions, please ? With 33Mb in / there's really poor room to work, and a kernel install requires space for modules, around 50 for me. du -sh /lib/modules/* Easier said than done: '/' has 93 MB used, and 73 of that is in '/lib': /lib$ du -h -s

Re: Unable to connect to network

On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: > > Just had another thought on this, following another thread. Tried 'ifup > > -a' to see what would happen. Came back 'ifup command unknown'. > > its in /sbin so you either need the

reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

Dear Debianists, I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a 20GB drive. Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB drive. I used to have Fedora Core 6 on the 20 GB drive but now I wiped it

Re: why linux?

On Mon, 21 May 2007 02:57:09 -0400 (EDT) S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use > one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read > images from m

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: <.> As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic involved in such a group. The best "contributors" were mostly the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 06:19:12AM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: If the volume of messages in an off-topic thread is large enough that an entire separate list is being considered, the off-top

Re: why linux?

On 05/21/2007 01:57 AM, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. [...] This is an opportunity for us as a group to ignore and reject what should obviously be seen as a troll post. S C, the newsgroup comp.os.linux.advocacy would be a better place to

[OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Mic

Re: why linux?

S C escribe: > When I go to someplace like freenode/#debian I am ignored Do you hear like... somebody's talking!? signature.asc Description: Digital signature

./configure failed (twinkle)

Hello, in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did ./configure and I got: .. checking for qt-mt >= 3.3.0 qt-mt < 4.0... yes checking value of $QTDIR... not set configure: error: Set $QTDIR to the Qt directory, eg. /usr/lib/qt3 I set QTDIR at /usr and it was ok for tis error, but now ./co

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Eve

Re: why linux?

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: [Reformatted below to a screen width and with line endings. Please try to wrap your lines at 72 characters or so. Suggested commands indented below by one tab stop for legibility.] > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like

Re: reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

On 05/21/2007 03:11 AM, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a 20GB drive. Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB drive. I used to have F

Re: why linux?

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. Welcome! (Debian *is* a real OS. Let's leave it at that) I conclude that you have missed out on the debian-user mailing list for months then. > However, I still canno

Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

Hello, I've recently installed Etch onto this box. For those who aren't aware, it's a 32Mb / 266mhz arm box. It's got enough power for what I need, but I'm obviously looking to strip what gets loaded down to a bare minimum. As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's insid

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

Gerard Robin wrote: > Hello, > in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did ./configure and I got: > .. > checking for qt-mt >= 3.3.0 qt-mt < 4.0... yes > > checking value of $QTDIR... not set > configure: error: Set $QTDIR to the Qt directory, eg. /usr/lib/qt3 > > I set QTDIR at /usr and

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

George Barnett: > > As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and > I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which > I understart are the serial keyboard/mouse bits. These are both kernel threads (as you can see from ps output where such threa

Re: Debian on the Linksys NSLU2

Jochen Schulz wrote: George Barnett: As the box has no KVM (well, there is a serial port, but it's inside and I'm unlikely to open it) I'd like to remove kpsmoused and kseriod which I understart are the serial keyboard/mouse bits. These are both kernel threads (as you can see from ps output w

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

I've used this on-line book which can also be purchased as a hard copy if you like. http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz Chaim On Monday 21 May 2007 11:38:34 Deboo ^ wrote: > Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the > books that doesn't let you leave it. > > My choice

[OT] Re: Changing screens

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 13:56:16 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 08:38:25PM +0200, Matthias Brennwald wrote: > > Dear all > > > > I've got a laptop (Apple PowerBook G4) that I use both at home and on > > the road (with Debian Etch installed). At home, the laptop is c

Re: Ubuntu - change available screen resolutions

RobG wrote: Hi, I have installed Ubuntu using VMWare Fusion beta on Mac OS X. During installation, I accidentally didn't include the correct screen resolutions and so only have the default 1024x786 and smaller. I have a MacBook and also use an external monitor, so I need to include 1280x1024 (ext

Re: Touchpad speed

Matthias Brennwald wrote: Dear all moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1, 1, and

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

Julian De Marchi wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Ti

trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

Hi, I'm trying to upgrade my system from glibc-2.3 to 2.5 and gcc-4.1.1 to 4.1.2. I did "wajig build glibc" but this results in a request for gcc-4.1.2. However, doing "wajig build gcc-4.1" complains about absence of glibc-2.5. How should I proceed? -- my place on the web: floss-and-misc.blogspo

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

Miles Fidelman wrote: Julian De Marchi wrote: Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2.

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: > I've used this on-line book which can also be purchased as a hard copy if you > like. > > http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz ... and which can also be installed for offline use: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude show ruteb

Re: Unable to connect to network

Pete wrote: On Monday 21 May 2007 06:19:29 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 12:32:50AM +0100, Pete wrote: [...] I have tried pinging known servers like Google on both the faulty Debian and the working Xubuntu and get identical results. /etc/resolv.conf gives identical resu

emacs21 font rendering

Hi This is my first post to the list so if i have done anything untoward please let me know. I am on debian etch using gnome I have been trying to get emacs or emacs21 as it seems to be called to work properly. It is not rendering fonts so words in the buffers are not there they are merely bloc

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: From: Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did ./configure and I got: .. checking for qt-mt

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007/5/21, Uwe Dippel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Raffaele Morelli wrote: > Any other good suggestions, please ? > > > With 33Mb in / there's really poor room to work, and a kernel install > requires space for modules, around 50 for me. > du -sh /lib/modules/* Easier said than done: '/' has 93 M

Re: OT VPS Hosting

On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:53 -0500, Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: > Hello Everyone, > > I have an off topic question, I hope that someone help me, I bought a > hosting plan with Dreamhost but is just simply anything but a > hosting company I have like a day of downtime each week, is horrible

Re: Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:19:34AM +0800, Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box > with a small hard disk: > df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / ... > /de

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > > I tried: > > > video=rivafb:1280x960 > > > video=vesafb:1280x960 > > > > > > but neither worked. > > > > You do realize that you may need to compile a custom kernel t

Re: Touchpad speed

Matthias Brennwald wrote: > Dear all > > moving the cursor with the touchpad of my PowerBook G4 is very slow in > Debian Etch. I played around with the settings in xorg.conf, and that > helped a bit, but it's still rather slow. I mainly played with > 'AccelFactor' (I used values 0.001, 0.01, 0.1,

Re: mounting LVM partitions fails after etch upgrade

dear all, a while back I posted to this list because my file systems on LVM over RAID1 would not mount cleanly anymore after upgrade from sarge to etch. this weekend I had time to poke around in the data on both the disks, and found out what was wrong. as it turns out, since almost a year, *no*

pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

Dear all, the last upgrade in testing made me transit from tetex to texlive. All works fine but my impression is that pdflatex now produces much bigger (more than twice as big) pdf-file (~ 600 pages) as before with tetex. Has any one else made similar experiences? -- Regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To

Re: keeping ooffice in foreground

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 01:21, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > is there any way how to force ooffice, oocalc, oowriter, ... not to go > into background? when i issue soffice, it works exactly this way, but i > would like to have it (if possible) for oo* as well

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 09:19:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:42:56PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:00:23PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 05:32, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my system from glibc-2.3 to 2.5 and gcc-4.1.1 to > 4.1.2. > I did "wajig build glibc" but this results in a request for gcc-4.1.2. > However, doing "wajig build gcc-4.1" co

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

On 5/21/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear all, the last upgrade in testing made me transit from tetex to texlive. All works fine but my impression is that pdflatex now produces much bigger (more than twice as big) pdf-file (~ 600 pages) as before with tetex. Has any one else

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:31:30PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:35:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > Is the PSU really more failure prone than any other component? > > it is my understanding, having long ago lost the source, that the PSU > is the *most*

Re: emacs21 font rendering

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 21:17 +1000, flebber wrote: > Hi > > This is my first post to the list so if i have done anything untoward > please let me know. > > I am on debian etch using gnome I have been trying to get emacs or > emacs21 as it seems to be called to work properly. > > It is not render

Re: keeping ooffice in foreground

AMD64 has had a native OOo2 build for *quite* some time. Why are you still using a chrooted 32-bit build? hmmm, i think i should say *WOW* now... i wasn't aware of the fact that native 64bit ooffice is available. thanks for pointing that out. regards, -- Lubos [EMAIL PROTECTED]" http://www.l

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 10:50:27PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 02:44:10PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > It would be helpful if that code of conduct had its own page and be > > enumerated so that it could be referred to directly when we try to > > self-

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:08:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the > books that doesn't let you leave it. Unix System Administration Handbook, Nemeth et. al. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: why linux?

On 5/21/07, Andrew M.A. Cater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:57:09AM -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, Then other Debianistas replied with (arguably justifiable) flames agains

Help setting up network printer

I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am trying to add the printer using Printers off the Kmenu->Settings. I know the name of the compute

Re: Unable to connect to network

On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:44:09PM +0100, Pete <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In response to Andrew, not certain if resolv.conf is getting updated. Once > again not certain how to check. Type "cat /etc/resolv.conf". > Ping was by IP address. Can you ping by hostname? e.g., ping w

Re: Ubuntu - change available screen resolutions

On May 21, 12:00 pm, RobG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, I have installed Ubuntu using VMWare Fusion beta on Mac OS X. > During installation, I accidentally didn't include the correct screen > resolutions and so only have the default 1024x786 and smaller. I have > a MacBook and also use an extern

CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:07:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/19/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >>> I only make a computer every 10 years or so. I went a little >>> bleeding-edge

Re: Help setting up network printer

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 08:00, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: > I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared > from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the > desktop and wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am tr

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > and for some contributors (yes, answering questions is also a way of > contributing, so you - the DDs - don't have

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

Kushal Kumaran wrote: > I hope you mean the file size has increased, not the page count. > > The newer pdflatex embeds all (most?) fonts in the pdf file. Try > running pdffonts on pdf files produced by different versions of > pdflatex. I believe this is typically what you want, especially when >

clvm + GFS troubles

Hello, Using Debian 4.0 Etch, I am trying to configure an initial ha FS cluster with GFS and CLVM. Read the docs, but still struggling with clvm and GFS. Able to even format a volume with GFS and gfs_fsck it. But when tried to mount it, got a segmentation fault. All listed kernel modules seem to b

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

On 2007-05-21, Miles Fidelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Everyday Use by Michael Stutz >>> >>> 3. Linux Server Hack

SOS pour un jeune ivoirien

bonjour Monsieur ou Madame, Je m'appelle ARRA Jean Jonathan et je suis issu d'une famille nombreuse.Ma mère elle est une ménagère et mon père, lui père de quinze enfants dont moi qui suis le dernier, était fonctionnaire à la retraite et propriétaire d'une pétite plantation à Bouaké.Durant

Re: Help setting up network printer

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: > I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from > an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and > wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am trying to add the printer

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

Hello, I have noticed that, by default, pdflatex is no more pdflatex: does your pdflatex links tp pdftex ? my two cents, Jerome Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Kushal Kumaran wrote: I hope you mean the file size has increased, not the page count. The newer pdflatex embeds all (most?) fonts in the p

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Sat, 19 May 2007 08:44:09 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 09:11:37PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > > > However, I do think it would be good to add language to the description > > of the mailing list that suggests that people take off-topic > > conv

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 09:02 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:08:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the > > books that doesn't let you leave it. > > Unix System Administration Handbook, Nemeth et. al. > There

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > hope they put a stop to this, this time. As people have pointed out; this is exactly the issue. There *are no* moderators! d-u is (currently)

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Monday 21 May 2007, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 19 May 2007 17:02:01 +0200 > "M. Fioretti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really > > hope they put a stop to this, this time. > > As people have pointed out; this is exactly the

Re: restarting proftpd

> Just add the following to your /etc/hosts: > ::1 debian.example.com > This associates the IPv6 version of 127.0.0.1 to your localhost. > Regards, Mathias Thanks Mathias. That eliminated the error. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

APE sound compression

I see more and more people are using Monkey's audio http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ lossless compression to compress music. Is there some way to use this compression on Linux? I have found some posts, but none of that worked for me. I use Etch. 1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-user-spanish/2005/12/m

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

"Beginning Linux Programing", that helped me a lot and a czech book "333 tipu a triku pro Linux" (333 tips and tricks for Linux).That was great when I tried to start to work in the command line.

Re: CM-Stacker plus... (was Re: getting a new Debian box)

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/20/07 15:02, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 06:07:33PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/07 08:05, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I only make a computer every 10 years or so. I went a little bleedi

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

On 5/21/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kushal Kumaran wrote: > I hope you mean the file size has increased, not the page count. > > The newer pdflatex embeds all (most?) fonts in the pdf file. Try > running pdffonts on pdf files produced by different versions of > pdflatex. I

question about bonding mode 0

Hello Don t know if it is really the place but I have read recently that bounding mode 0 (round robin) was not a good solution if the interfaces of the group are on the same switch due to packets duplication. But I don t understand why ? Is it because all interfaces concerned share the same ma

Re: Help setting up network printer

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 09:00:20 -0400, Eric A. Bonney, CPA wrote: I am trying to setup a Dell Printer on my laptop that is being shared from an XP Pro desktop. The printer does work fine locally on the desktop and wirelessly from another WinXP Pro laptop. I am tryin

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

Daniel Burrows wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:21:17PM -0700, pedxing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: On May 17, 8:50 pm, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To me, ideally, nothing would be written to the flash at all until either sync or umount. Yes, I wait. Yes, I also

bonding mode 0

Bonjour Meme si ce n est pas vraiment l endroit j en appelle a votre grande comprehension Ayant mis une interface bonding en place sous debian recemment en mode 0 (round robin) tout semble bien marcher Mais je voudrais avoir un avis sur l affirmation suivante : le mode 0 si les interfaces sont s

Re: APE sound compression

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/21/07 10:32, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > I see more and more people are using Monkey's audio > http://www.monkeysaudio.com/ lossless compression to compress music. Is > there some way to use this compression on Linux? I have found some > posts, bu

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

On 05/21/2007 06:48 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:47:06AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: From: Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, in /usr/local/src/twinkle-1.0.1/ I did ./c

Re: Help setting up network printer

Did you set up a samba user? I ran into this issue myself. Once samba is set up, you need to run smbpasswd -a Use a user already setup on the system. Then try the authentication again. I'm sorry if youve already done this. Quoting "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Florian Kulzer wrot

Re: reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:11 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debianists, > > I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it > and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a > 20GB drive. > > Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB dr

Re: pdflatex from TeXLive produces much bigger pdf-file than in teTeX?

On 5/21/07, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I have noticed that, by default, pdflatex is no more pdflatex: does your pdflatex links tp pdftex ? That has been usual for some time now. The pdfetex binary changes behaviour depending on what name it is called with. See the TeX F

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to upgrade my system from glibc-2.3 to 2.5 and gcc-4.1.1 to > 4.1.2. I did "wajig build glibc" but this results in a request for > gcc-4.1.2. However, doing "wajig build gcc-4.1" complains about absence of > glibc-2.5. How should I proceed? > Not

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 11:51:17PM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrei Popescu) writes: > > > IMHO forcing people to take off-topic discussions out of the forum > > (read Debian community) is not good. Debian is based on volunteers > > and for some contributors (yes, answering que

Re: why linux?

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:57 -0400, S C wrote: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use > one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read > images from my digital camera. With Win

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

Deboo ^ wrote: Can eveyone list the best of UNIX/Linux books. In other words the books that doesn't let you leave it. My choices are: 1. Unix Power Tools (I think there's no second to this one and this is the King of all Unix/Linux books) 2. The Linux Cookbook: Tips and Techniques for Eve

usbmount: works partially

I'm on a near-vanilla 2.6.21.1 (usb-storage compiled-in), etch, udev/usbmount. When the system is up and running, hotplugging of my external USB disk and USB thumb drive works as expected. But the device are not mounted automatically when the systems is started and they are plugged in/powered on. C

Re: APE sound compression

> deb http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/unstable ./ > > Maybe this also has a deb-src that you can build on amd64? Success with http://www.rarewares.org/debian/packages/stable/monkeys-audio_3.96.b8-1_i386.deb Just install it with dpkg --force-architecture,depends monkeys-audio_3.96.b8-1_

[Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: > > <.> > > As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer > > organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic inv

[OT]rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:22 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Just in case you missed my initial proposal, I was suggesting a separate > > list for OT, but still within the Debian project. This way when OT gets > > out of hand posters could move the thre

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:18:37AM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 02:44:29AM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:06:39PM -0400, cga2000 wrote: > > > > > > I tried: > > > > video=rivafb:1280x960 > > > > video=vesafb:1280x960 > > > > > > > > but neither worke

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT > thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt > attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs, > ridiculing (often wittily) political or religio

Re: Moving Software RAID5 from Gentoo

On 20 May 2007, at 10:04, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.20.0038 +0200]: I am not sure if the installer will automatically recognize an existing RAID and set it up for you while preserving the data. If it does not, you can jump over to a

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