Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? Regards, Deboo That's definitely strange. Something has been foo

Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive

2007-05-23 Thread Daniel Haude
Hello folks, for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. I think the proper driver is ppa. I connected everything but nothing happens. "Happens" in the sense t

Re: Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive

2007-05-23 Thread Dan H
> for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port > IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: > dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. Already solved -- I just had to kick the thing and the connectors a bit. Thanks to those thad would have help

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Mike McClain wrote: [...] > > If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > will tell you: > grep -B1 "Status: deinstall ok config-files" /var/lib/dpkg/status \ > | grep "Pac" | cut -d" " -f2 > and > for f in $( the above line ); do dpkg -P $f; done > will cl

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 5/21/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -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

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-23 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 5/21/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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" complai

OpenGL rendering problem

2007-05-23 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
Hello, I use Debian testing (lenny) on an i386 laptop. I use the commercial finite element package ABAQUS and when I lauch its graphical environment ABAQUS/CAE, I get the warning [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /opt/abaqus/Commands/abaqus cae ABAQUS License Manager checked out the following license(s): "c

vim: taglist / ctags on debian

2007-05-23 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello, I am trying to use taglist on my debian box. Instead of getting the script directly from: http://www.vim.org/scripts/script.php?script_id=273 I used the debian package: http://packages.debian.org/stable/editors/vim-scripts Unfortunately there is no documentation on how to install th

Re: vim: taglist / ctags on debian

2007-05-23 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Mathieu. Mathieu Malaterre, 23.05.2007 11:46: > For > instance for taglist you are supposed to do: > > ... > 2. Change to the $HOME/.vim/doc or $HOME/vimfiles/doc or $VIM/vimfiles/doc >directory, start Vim and run the ":helptags ." command to process the >taglist help file. Without thi

Re: OpenGL rendering problem

2007-05-23 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios wrote: > Hello, > I use Debian testing (lenny) on an i386 laptop. I use the commercial finite > element package ABAQUS and when I lauch its graphical environment ABAQUS/CAE, > I get the warning > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ /opt/abaqus/Commands/abaqus cae > ABAQUS License Man

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5/23/07, cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If you can't get the menu bar .. you could alway do a Ctrl+mouse button >> (right, left, middle) to bring up xterm menus. > Menubar? In an xterm? Well, atleast I am knowledgeless about this if > it's possible. I

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Michelle Konzack ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> Am 2007-05-16 15:59:10, schrieb cothrige: >> > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it >> > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in >> > /usr/bin with

Re: xen-tools freezes (debootstrap)

2007-05-23 Thread Steve Kemp
On Tue May 22, 2007 at 23:01:08 +0200, Lars wrote: > I'm running a Debian Etch xen-server and I'm having problem with the > xen-tools are freezing up when i create DomU's and i have to reboot. That's not good. > But it happens randomly, sometimes I can create DomU in the first > attempt, some

Re: Bookmarks across browsers

2007-05-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
KS wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-01 at 14:41 -0400, KS wrote: I was wondering how to keep my set of bookmarks available across all the www-browsers I have on my system. Not sure which browsers this will work for, but it's quite nice to keep FF on my notebook and work PC in sync:

Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Robert S
I've had a debian machine running for a number of years and I've upgraded from woody->sarge->etch. Looking at the listing in aptitude there are a lot of "obsolete" packages - such as gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0, python-2.1, ipchains, libdb2, libnewt0, libreadline3, slang1. I assume its safe to remove ol

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 18:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/22/07 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short here is the link: http://ww

Re: vim: taglist / ctags on debian

2007-05-23 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hi Mathias, Why don't you follow the first advice then and run the command in $HOME/.vim/doc? Because it does not work ... Anyway, I faked the proposed installation by using symlink to vim-script .vim file, *then* go into $HOME/.vim/doc and run the :helptags . commands. After doing the syml

Re: Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 23 May 2007 22:02:46 +1000 "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've had a debian machine running for a number of years and I've > upgraded from woody->sarge->etch. > > Looking at the listing in aptitude there are a lot of "obsolete" > packages - such as gcc-2.95, gcc-3.0, python-2.1,

urlview regexp

2007-05-23 Thread Andre Berger
My etch urlview doesn't resolve URLs like http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3075&p=31281&e=31281 as expected, they work when copied and pasted into my browser. The regexp used (etch's /etc/urlview/system.urlview): REGEXP (((http|https|ftp|gopher)|mailto):(//)?[^ <>"\t]

Re: urlview regexp

2007-05-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > My etch urlview doesn't resolve URLs like > > http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3075&p=31281&e=31281 > > as expected, they work when copied and pasted into my browser. > > The regexp used (etch's /etc/urlview/

Re: Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Robert S
> It could indeed wreck locally compiled packages, because aptitude has no > idea of the requirements of those packages. Have you considered > recompiling them? > Yes - when I get back from my trip overseas and am able to fix up any damage! I assume that packages that are part of etch won't be a

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 03:43, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 5/21/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 05/21/07 05:32, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I'm trying to upgrade my sys

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 07:01, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> On 05/22/07 18:07, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/22/07 15:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > At least it's related to Linux :) > > To make it shor

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:36:30AM +0400, Artur G. Sibagatullin wrote: > Hi! > I've got a problem mounting my USB stick in Debian Etch. Having vfat fs > on it mount without iocharset option. Mount cjmmand says: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,shortname=winnt,ui

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were moved, > > upgraded, remove

Re: Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 23 May 2007 23:04:45 +1000 "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > It could indeed wreck locally compiled packages, because aptitude > > has no idea of the requirements of those packages. Have you > > considered recompiling them? > > > > Yes - when I get back from my trip overseas and a

Re: Resurrecting ancient IOMEGA ZIP drive

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:31:25AM +0200, Daniel Haude wrote: > > for one last time I wanted to set in motion my old, parallel-port > IOMEGA Zip Drive to back up my stack of disks before I retire (read: > dump in the trash) the whole shebang for good. > > I think the proper driver is ppa. I conne

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-23 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:07:16AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian User List Subject: Re: ./configure failed (twinkle) On 05/22/2007 03:28 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 08:01:18PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: From: "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROT

Re: size of partitions worries me

2007-05-23 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 09:04:32PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... > >reviewed my partitions. I'm using 300M on my / partition. I have /tmp, > >/usr, /var and /home all seperate as above. My system has been running > >this configuration for a couple years now with no

Re: urlview regexp

2007-05-23 Thread Andre Berger
* Gregory Seidman (2007-05-23): > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > > My etch urlview doesn't resolve URLs like > > > > http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3075&p=31281&e=31281 > > > > as expected, they work when copied and pasted into my browser.

Re: ./configure failed (twinkle)

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/23/2007 08:36 AM, Gerard Robin wrote: Thanks for your help Mumia, the mailing list of twinkle gave me the solution: it's libboost-dev 1.34.0-1 and libboost-regex-dev 1.34.0-1 which cause the problem. I downgraded to libboost-dev 1.33.1-10 and libboost-regex-dev 1.33.1-10 and bingo the Make

Re: vim: taglist / ctags on debian

2007-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:09:01PM +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Anyway, I faked the proposed installation by using symlink to > vim-script .vim file, *then* go into $HOME/.vim/doc and run the > :helptags . commands. > After doing the symlink everything seems to be working fine. Though you f

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-23 Thread Abram B Olson
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 00:50 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Offtopic posts do not bother me. The idea of moderation, however, I > feel is repulsive. So, my recommendation is to continue the list as a > free and unmoderated list. > > That concludes my two cents. > > Mark > > I agree with Mark.

Re: urlview regexp

2007-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 02:16:31PM +0200, Andre Berger wrote: > My etch urlview doesn't resolve URLs like > > http://forum.linkstationwiki.net/viewtopic.php?f=15&t=3075&p=31281&e=31281 > > as expected, they work when copied and pasted into my browser. Set pipe_decode in mutt. (See README.Debi

Re: Bluetooth mouse scroll wheel on Etch: mh2 and lvm crypt

2007-05-23 Thread mmanns
On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:10:07 +0200 Martin Manns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What is the best way to get a kernel with the patch booting from the > encrypted root (and maintain the patch on kernel updates)? Is there a > step-by-step wiki around that I missed? No-one? Is this in the FAQ and I miss

Re: Bluetooth mouse scroll wheel on Etch: mh2 and lvm crypt

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:38:00AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007 06:10:07 +0200 > Martin Manns <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What is the best way to get a kernel with the patch booting from the > > encrypted root (and maintain the patch on kernel updates)? Is there a > >

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread cothrige
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I > > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that was pretty > > awful. > > But at the same time rxvt would be running slower (due to

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-23 Thread Roby
Artur G. Sibagatullin wrote: > Hi! > I've got a problem mounting my USB stick in Debian Etch. Having vfat fs > on it mount without iocharset option. Mount cjmmand says: > > /dev/sdb1 on /media/KINGSTON type vfat > (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev,shortname=winnt,uid=1035) > > As I understand, I need to s

dist-upgrade : remove the packages fglrx-driver/kernel...

2007-05-23 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, with unstable: apt-get dist-upgrade says: the following packages will be removed : fglrx-driver fglrx-kernel-2.6.18-4-amd64 The new following packages wil be installed: gawk libdirectfb-extra libhtml-parser-perl libhtml-tagset-perl libhtml-tree-perl libnet-dbus-perl libpoppler-glib1 libp

System freeze recovery

2007-05-23 Thread J. Santos
Quote from "Debian Reference" "8.5.2 Alt-SysRq Insurance against system malfunction is provided by the kernel compile option "Magic SysRq key". Pressing Alt-SysRq on an i386, followed by one of the keys r 0 k e i s u b, does the magic. Un`r'aw restores the keyboard after things like X crashes. Ch

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never clea

Re: dist-upgrade : remove the packages fglrx-driver/kernel...

2007-05-23 Thread robin putters
which packages replace fglrx-driver and fglrx-kernel-2.6.18-4-amd64 ? None yet, but the latest xserver-xorg doesn't work with the fglrx driver. Put your xserver-xorg package on hold before trying to upgrade, and wait until AMD releases the new driver (or even better, use the xserver-xorg-video-a

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread Thomas Dickey
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: >> cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Actually, it has been worse at times than even above. Yesterday, I >> > ran the same test and it took 20 seconds. I thought that was pretty >> > awful. >> >> But at the sa

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 05/22/2007 07:26 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: > > Another odd thing happened. Now when I start X, in the fluxbox menu, > there is only one Wrkspace, not the default 4 and I have to recreate > the other three everytime. How do I do this auto? > > Regards,

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Kushal Kumaran([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 5/23/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Mike McClain([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> <> > >> If these leftovers are due to packages removed but not purged, this > >> will tell you: > >> grep -B1 "S

This is an issue I have run into as well

2007-05-23 Thread plesko
If you have updated your debian unstable in the last 3 days (since the 21st) there are packages that cause breakage. I am ABSOLUTELY postive of this. A) I am not a linux noob B) I have installed vmware-any-any-110 patch and this does not resolve the problem. That patch is if you have insta

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread JWS
Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html (this uses ~/.Xresources). Regards, Jan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread andy
Hi all I am thinking of getting an external/USB2.0 hard-drive. This is entirely new to me, so I have a load of questions if you guys don't mind throwing your opinions into the pot on this? 1. Is this a device that can/should be rw via other (possibly non-GNU/Linux) machines? If yes, then what

Re: why linux?

2007-05-23 Thread S C
Thanks for the comments, but you are doing the same thing I was doing; making assumptions. That can sink you. I have used Unix before on a Honywell mini, using a language that was some kind of combination of BASIC and COBOL, and Debian back when it was 2.something. That is why Debian was on

Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

2007-05-23 Thread kristian . mailinglists
Hi, I have a big problem sincen the update on Monday evening, 21.5. I use an aspire laptop with sid and kernel 2.6.20. When I tried to login at kdm after the update, after giving the user and pass, the kde welcome-screen comes up. The start window with the symbols showing what loads at the

Approved Special Ed CPDUs Online for Illinois Educators

2007-05-23 Thread CPDU Coordinator at KDS, Melanie Fox
Dear Illinois Teacher, **PLEASE SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH YOUR STAFF & COLLEAGUES** CPS Educators can now take required Special Ed and other CPDUs online anytime, anywhere. The Illinois Department of Education has approved Knowledge Delivery Systems to offer online, self-paced courses that can b

Re: why linux?

2007-05-23 Thread S C
Thanks for responding. Responses (rationalizations?) are in relevant sections of your text. Rob Heilman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Smart ass answer: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index;_ylt=Ama_XmSA8wflqkjrwiMowZAjzKIX?qid=1006031517403 Seriously, many people have already responded to this

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Mike McCarty
andy wrote: Hi all I am thinking of getting an external/USB2.0 hard-drive. This is entirely new to me, so I have a load of questions if you guys don't mind throwing your opinions into the pot on this? 1. Is this a device that can/should be rw via other (possibly non-GNU/Linux) machines? If y

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-23 Thread cothrige
* Thomas Dickey ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > scrolling is one place to measure, but there are several (font choice > is another, e.g., Xft is notoriously slow). Older versions of rxvt > would stop refreshing while they were getting input, and then paint > the final screen (usually faster, but w

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
andy wrote: Hi all I am thinking of getting an external/USB2.0 hard-drive. This is entirely new to me, so I have a load of questions if you guys don't mind throwing your opinions into the pot on this? 1. Is this a device that can/should be rw via other (possibly non-GNU/Linux) machines? If y

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 09:55:47PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > What's better than fluxbox? I'd like to trash fluxbox and get > something that works OOB and is easily configurable and doesn't give > much headaches and atleast works if reinstalled, in case of > problems. I just went through this hea

debianhelp.org poster [Was: Re: This is an issue I have run into as well]

2007-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:27:27PM +0200, plesko wrote: Please check this about posting to debian-user: http://www.debianhelp.org/node/2316#comment-24861 Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein) signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:23:59PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > In practice, this probably means FAT32, if you intend > to use Microsoft OS to read and/or write it. There are ext2/3 drivers for Windows. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Alb

Re: System freeze recovery

2007-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 23 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Quote from "Debian Reference" > > "8.5.2 Alt-SysRq > > Insurance against system malfunction is provided by the kernel compile > option "Magic SysRq key". Pressing Alt-SysRq on an i386, followed by one > of the keys r 0 k e i s u b, does the magic

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: > The purpose of encryption is to prevent sharing of information. > Using it on a disc which is intended to be used on multiple > machines or OS seems, umm, odd. For portable/removable media, > the appropriate security seems to me t

have you had experience in 10G NIC?

2007-05-23 Thread chloe K
Hi all Does debian support 10G NIC? Are you using on it now? what kind of card and the brand name? Thank you very much - Be smarter than spam. See how smart SpamGuard is at giving junk email the boot with the All-new Yahoo! Mail

Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

2007-05-23 Thread Anson Gardner
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 13:12, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big problem sincen the update on Monday evening, 21.5. > I use an aspire laptop with sid and kernel 2.6.20. > > When I tried to login at kdm after the update, after giving the user > and pass, the kde welcome-screen comes u

Re: System freeze recovery

2007-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 16:25:53 +0100, J. Santos wrote: > Quote from "Debian Reference" > > "8.5.2 Alt-SysRq > > Insurance against system malfunction is provided by the kernel compile > option "Magic SysRq key". Pressing Alt-SysRq on an i386, followed by one > of the keys r 0 k e i s u b, does t

Re: Cleaning Up Alternatives

2007-05-23 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 22 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, 22 May 2007, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > /etc/alternatives has a zillion dangling symlinks. Seems these got set > > somewhere along the line but were never cleaned up as programs were > > moved, upgraded, removed. > > > > How

Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

2007-05-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 20:12:49 +0200, kristian DOT mailinglists AT ewetel DOT net wrote: > Hi, > > I have a big problem sincen the update on Monday evening, 21.5. > I use an aspire laptop with sid and kernel 2.6.20. > > When I tried to login at kdm after the update, after giving the user and >

for reference on this vmware issue

2007-05-23 Thread plesko
right from VMware's site http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=650377 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/22/2007 06:44 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/20/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu totally, I wonder why. Whatever I I'd wonder why too. There must be something else going on that you're missing. > did I couldn't get back the fluxbox menu. Not e

Re: System freeze recovery

2007-05-23 Thread José Santos
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > I just checked linux-image-2.6.18-4-486_2.6.18.dfsg.1-12etch2_i386.deb > and its config file has "CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ=y". I would expect that this > is the same for the later kernels. > > You can check yourself for your currentl

Re: Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Robert S
>> Yes - when I get back from my trip overseas and am able to fix up any >> damage! I assume that packages that are part of etch won't be >> affected?? > > Won't be affected by what? The recompilation? > No - by purging the "obsolete" packages. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: The purpose of encryption is to prevent sharing of information. Using it on a disc which is intended to be used on multiple machines or OS seems, umm, odd. For portable/removable media, the appropriate

heimdal kerberos on debian?

2007-05-23 Thread Martin Marcher
Hello, does anyone have a link to a howto for heimdal kerberos (even basic)? i couldn't find anything for debian+heimdal(+openldap - heimdal can store it's data in ldap). I found this: http://www.openinput.com/auth-howto/index.html which seems to be somewhat the reference of heimdal kerberos how

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 16:18, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] > It compromises "sharability". If the goal is to share info, then > why encrypt? If the goal is to protect info, then physical security > is the way to go. Adding encryption only slows down access in a > c

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 16:18, Mike McCarty wrote: > [snip] > > It compromises "sharability". If the goal is to share info, then > > why encrypt? If the goal is to protect info, then physical security > > is the way to go. Adding encryption only slows dow

Re: why linux?

2007-05-23 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Wed, 23 May 2007 10:45:32 -0700, S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Using Ubuntu is a good idea too, in fact I have a live cd of Kubuntu and I also have Suse Linux 10.1 and 10.2. But, and this you could not possibly know, irreplaceable pictures digital pictures are on the hard drive http:

Re: Sarge->Etch: which obsolete packages can be removed?

2007-05-23 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 24 May 2007 07:07:50 +1000 Robert S <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Yes - when I get back from my trip overseas and am able to fix up > >> any damage! I assume that packages that are part of etch won't be > >> affected?? > > > > Won't be affected by what? The recompilation? > > > No - b

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/24/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the power failure damaged your O/S installation. Nah, everything was fine afte rthe failure. I'm usign ext3 too. And I ran fsck. From one of my very earlier posts, note that I was already purging fluxbox but reinstall did not seem to giv

Sytem freeze on debian 2.6.8-2-686-smp with intel e1000 running tcpdump

2007-05-23 Thread Julien Delaporte
Hello, On dual proc Xeon with dual ethernet Intel e1000, when I run a tcpdump, according to network traffic my system freezes. The console is dead, the only way to restore the system is an electric power restart. My configuration is : # uname -a Linux 2.6.8-2-686-smp #1 SMP Tue Aug 16 12:08:30 U

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-23 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/23/07, JWS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Well, I realise this is very late, but perhaps it might still help: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/xterm.html (this uses ~/.Xresources). Regards, Jan Although nice for simple config but couldn't help me get back the xterm menus. It's again, interesting

(OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Mark Phillips
I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian, KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so the Windows Mobile OS is not very appealing. 1. Is there a way to synchronize my Kontact contacts, calendar, email, etc. with

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:12:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being > > stolen, and tapes full of sensitive data being lost, you still have > > to ask why someone wants to encryp

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 5:37:20 pm Mark Phillips wrote: > I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( > http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian, > KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so the Windows Mobile OS is not very appealing. > > 1. Is there a way

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Kevin Kempter
On Wednesday 23 May 2007 5:48:13 pm Kevin Kempter wrote: > On Wednesday 23 May 2007 5:37:20 pm Mark Phillips wrote: > > I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( > > http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian, > > KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so t

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 18:46, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 06:12:36PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> After all the stories about laptops full of sensitive data being >>> stolen,

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:20PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( > http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use Debian, > KDE/Gnome and Kontact, so the Windows Mobile OS is not very appealing. [...] I'm re

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/23/07 19:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:20PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: >> I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash ( >> http://www.geek.com/hwswrev/pda/dash/index.htm). However, I use De

Re: (OT) Looking for Cell Phone/PDA Recommendations

2007-05-23 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:28:38PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/23/07 19:15, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 04:37:20PM -0700, Mark Phillips wrote: > >> I need to buy a cell phone/pda, and I am looking at the T-Mobile Dash

Is there a "Using Debian GNU/Linux" sticker?

2007-05-23 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi: I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, which has this irritating sticker on it: "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP". I'm reluctant to remove the sticker, as lasting stickiness seems likely, but I'd love to add a counter sticker. Is there such a thing? Patrick

Re: Is there a "Using Debian GNU/Linux" sticker?

2007-05-23 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Wiseman escribió: > Hi: > > I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, which has this > irritating sticker on it: "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP". I'm > reluctant to remove the sticker, as lasting stickiness seems likely, bu

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > At least it's related to Linux :) > > To make it short here is the link: > http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html > > If you liked StarCraft (and/or other Blizzard games) then please sign. Wouldn

ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Ken Hu
Dear All: I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read ext2 filesystem. I gave it a try but it just doesn't work. The purpose I need this is for my usb exte

Re: Packaged version of killfile?

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Ken Irving wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: >> It's not perfect (because of other people's broken MUAs) - long threads >> will end up with mails that do not refer to my "killed" message-id >> (apparantly MUAs are only required to keep 8 message-ids in Referen

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It would be very nice if there was a universal cross-platform rw + > > encrypt filesystem for archives. Something that you could be confident > > that you could decrypt and access in 10 years using whatever OS was > > current then.

Re: In case of troubles with a well known forum

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > but (at least some of) the intended readers would > not get my message due to the said killfiles Isn't that the choice they made by setting such a restrictive filter in the first place? -- Paul Johnson Emai

Re: Is there a "Using Debian GNU/Linux" sticker?

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:57:31PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, which has this > irritating sticker on it: "Designed for Microsoft Windows XP". I'm > reluctant to remove the sticker, as lasting stickiness seems likely, but I'd > love t

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > But you're using Google Groups, and Paul is axing about Google Mail. Not that they're much better. GG is such a massive usenet spew source that many sites won't carry them at all. The post you replied to never

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-23 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 09:15:03AM +0800, Ken Hu wrote: > I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem > "really" can work on both Linux and Mac OSx > > I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read > ext2 filesystem. I gave it a try but it just doe

Re: I don't understand the new aptitude

2007-05-23 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan H wrote: > > (...and I just noticed I had to copy that by hand because aptitude > --and only aptitude!-- seems to disallow copying text from the xterm > it's running in! What kind of sadism is that?) Some

Re: moderation [was: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user]

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
Mark Grieveson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > I almost never make offtopic posts. I get the digest, and go through > it for items of interest, occasionally asking for help, and sometimes > attempting to offer assistance. When replying to messages in the

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > At least it's related to Linux :) > > > > To make it short here is the link: > > http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html > > > > If yo

Re: why linux?

2007-05-23 Thread Paul Johnson
S C wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. It is one. > However, I still cannot print, Have you tried troubleshooting it with the Printing HOWTO on linuxdoc.org? > format/initialize a ne

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