Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Your replies are a tad hard to follow, but here's some tips that should help make things more readable: http://wiki.ursine.ca/Best_Online_Quoting_Practices S C wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > That rant was nothing; you should have seen the hoops I had to

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

2007-05-24 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 23 May 2007 20:57:31 -0400 "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Patrick, > 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 se

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 18:12:36 -0400 Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 wan

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 01:16, Artur G. Sibagatullin wrote: > Hi! >> I don't do Hal. What happens if you just use mount? With type vfat, >> you can just use the option utf8. > If I use mount command it work fine. > If HAL mounts it #mount gives: > /dev/sdb1 on /

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 02:30, Dan H wrote: [snip] > > In fact, to those that really want to get at the data, a properly > encrypted (as in: unguessable passphrase, long enough key) laptop will > make any other approach than directly attacking the laptop more > f

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 21:17:50 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If I gpg a tarball today with whatever algorithm is current, in 10 > years that algorithm may be long cracked. Will the gpg authors keep > support for it? Perhaps. Just yesterday I had a similar problem which pr

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 13:45:32 -0400 (EDT) S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, and this you could > not possibly know, irreplaceable pictures digital pictures are on the > hard drive and I will not jeopardize their existence for any reason. > That means no installing anything new, at leat until I

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 23 May 2007 14:10:02 -0400 (EDT) S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for responding. Responses (rationalizations?) are in relevant > sections of your text. Please learn how to quote properly (like I did above), or get a mail reader that does it automatically (which one doesn't, anywa

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

2007-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 May 2007, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >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

[Semi-OT] Retrieving those old passphrases (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 02:50, Dan H wrote: [snip] > > One more problem I would have had is that I might have forgotten my old > passphrase. Fortunately I've been using one and the same passphrase for > over 10 years now, which in itself isn't so good, so I could

Re: heimdal kerberos on debian?

2007-05-24 Thread Predrag Gavrilovic
Project pages are at: http://www.pdc.kth.se/heimdal/ and manual at: http://www.h5l.se/manual/heimdal-0-7-branch/info/heimdal.html and you can install it too. Heimdal communicates with LDAP trough unix sockets and I believe that there is still a problem that heimdal expects it to be in /var/run/l

Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

2007-05-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:37:02 +0200, kristian DOT mailinglists AT ewetel DOT net wrote: > - Nachricht von Florian Kulzer - > Datum: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:01:00 +0200 >Betreff: Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate) > An: debian-user AT lists DOT debian DOT org >

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 03:09, Dan H wrote: > On Thu, 24 May 2007 02:48:35 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 05/24/07 02:30, Dan H wrote: >>> In fact, to those that really want to get at the data, a properly >>> encrypted (as in: unguessable

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-24 Thread Dan H
On Thu, 24 May 2007 02:48:35 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 05/24/07 02:30, Dan H wrote: > > In fact, to those that really want to get at the data, a properly > > encrypted (as in: unguessable passphrase, long enough key) laptop > > will make any other approach than directly att

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

2007-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Ken Hu wrote: >> 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 >>

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

2007-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 23 May 2007, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>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

Offline TexLive Installation

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
This stuff takes at least 600m and is not used every day. Is it possible to install it offline, i.e. to a CD or DVD, and then insert this when I am using Tex with these language/font options? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

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

2007-05-24 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 08:57:31PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > 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 lo

Re: mailclient behind proxy

2007-05-24 Thread Willi Mann
thanigai rajan schrieb: > Hi all, > In my SQUID on ETCH configuration, > My LAN has 192.168.0.0/24, and isp router has 192.168.1.254 > there is no problem with browsing. > while i configuring the mail client(Thunder bird, evolution etc) it says > the > error as "213.34.24.45 network not reachabl

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-24 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 5/23/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -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 w

Re: xterm fonts - problem solved and able to replicate

2007-05-24 Thread Thomas Dickey
Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and > then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the > screen size. So I edited .Xresources and added a xterm*geometry option > to a reasonable geometry size. http://invisibl

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-24 Thread Artur G. Sibagatullin
> I'm sure there's a udev option to change that behavior. I tried to add fdi file with my options true true but HAL doesn't load them -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

routing table setup

2007-05-24 Thread William Xu
Hi all, I have got some problem setting up the routing table. Currently, the table is, ,[ netstat -nr ] | 10.1.1.10.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp1 | 166.111.210.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U 0 0 0 eth1 | 0.0.0.0 166.111.2

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

2007-05-24 Thread Atis
On 5/24/07, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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 to add a counter sti

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

2007-05-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: > > Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way > > to mount HFS on Linux. > > > > Of course my Mac can read cdrom or dvdrom, but what I need is to plug my > > usb external hard driv

Re: UTF encoding when mounting USB stick

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 06:33, Artur G. Sibagatullin wrote: >> I'm sure there's a udev option to change that behavior. > I tried to add fdi file with my options > >bool="true"> > > type="bool">true > type="bool">true >

Re: Offline TexLive Installation

2007-05-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:42:35PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > This stuff takes at least 600m and is not used every day. > > Is it possible to install it offline, i.e. to a CD or DVD, and then insert > this when I am using Tex with these language/font options? > Considering the hassle that would

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

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 07:05, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: >>> Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way >>> to mount HFS on Linux. >>> >>> Of course m

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

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 04:41, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Eric A. Bonney wrote: >> Ken Hu wrote: >>> 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

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote: > > 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 :) > >

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:02 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: > On 5/23/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dusty Wilson wrote in Article > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted > > I have data that was exported from MySQL > > Query Browser to what appears > > > to be an OpenXML-formatted Excel docume

Re: OpenGL rendering problem

2007-05-24 Thread Eftaxiopoulos Dimitrios
Thanks for the reply. The output of LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo is [EMAIL PROTECTED]:LIBGL_DEBUG=verbose glxinfo name of display: :0.0 libGL: XF86DRIGetClientDriverName: 5.2.0 r200 (screen 0) libGL: OpenDriver: trying /usr/lib/dri/r200_dri.so drmOpenByBusid: Searching for BusID pci::01:00.0

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

2007-05-24 Thread Kelly Harding
Linux should and does work fine with HFS+ as I used my iBook G4 the othe rnight in target disk mode and mounted it on my athlon64 (using Mepis), worked flawlessly. Fat32 (vfat) works with Macs, NTFS won't. OS X will get ZFS with v10.5, if they added XFS too it'd make life so much easier! Kelly

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > 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. Somethin

How to Dual-Head? [Was: xrandr only shows one video card]

2007-05-24 Thread Kent West
On 5/22/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 08:17:22PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > I don't really understand all the geek-speak from what I've been able > to find, but it appears to me that xinerama has been deprecated in > favor of xrandr. Only thing is, I

Re: printer setuo

2007-05-24 Thread Chris Lale
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm new to linux and have etch installed with gnome and things seem to be ok > but I can't get my printer installed. Welcome to Debian! Try the NewbieDOC wiki [1] - it may help you to get started. [1] http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Setting_up_a_parallel_printer_using

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

2007-05-24 Thread Marko Randjelovic
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: >> ¼ Wed 2007-05-23 ¼ 21:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty Ð0 >>> What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? >> Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way >> to mount HFS on Linux. > >> Of course my Mac can read c

TEST

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
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Re: urlview regexp

2007-05-24 Thread Andre Berger
* Andrei Popescu (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: fetchmail: POP3< -ERR unable to scan $HOME/Maildir

2007-05-24 Thread »Steven Ringwald«
Ron Johnson wrote: I believe this happens after i accidently did something similar to `rm -rf *' in $HOME(it's `rsync --delete'). I just fix Maildir by `maildirmake ~/Maildir', but the problem still exists. Why is POP looking in $HOME/Maildir? ~/Maildir is where emails are deposited after bein

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

2007-05-24 Thread Bob McGowan
Marko Randjelovic wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: ¼ Wed 2007-05-23 ¼ 21:25 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty Ð0 What filesystems can your Mac OSx read and write? Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way to mount HFS on Linux. Of course my Mac

Re: Offline TexLive Installation

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-24, David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This stuff takes at least 600m and is not used every day. > > Is it possible to install it offline, i.e. to a CD or DVD, and then insert > this when I am using Tex with these language/font options? > I installed texlive in aptitude - I opene

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 08:49, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote: >>> On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

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

2007-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 05:29:40PM +0200, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > The hfs & hfs+ drivers might not (probably aren't??) built by > > default. You'd have to roll your own kernel. Not too difficult. > > > > They are built as module in Etch kernel (2.6.18-4). So your root > partition cannot

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 08:47, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/23/07 20:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: >>> On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> > It would be very ni

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

2007-05-24 Thread André Luiz Rodrigues Ferreira
Hi all!!! How about this? http://www.debianart.org/cchost/?ccm=/media/files/si0ux/132 Regards, 2007/5/23, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Wiseman escribió: > Hi: > > I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, w

how can i make my package better ?

2007-05-24 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello ,... i have started learning how to create Debian packages. using the official http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html and " Debian maintainers' guide " i created my first package. i need to understand how to alter the pack

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-19 18:29:53, schrieb Joe Hart: > You're really showing your colors by that statement. Yes, we already > know that you are quite ant-American, but to actually hope for a nuclear > attack? Be real. How can you claim to be so against war by wishing > something like that occurring? But y

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-18 17:08:42, schrieb Roberto C. Sánchez: > Really? Would that be why France, Russia and Germany all agreed that > Saddam had WMDs? I mean is it different because they agreed when > Clinton president? I am officier of the french Army and I had not agreed, (I know the truth since I was

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-19 19:47:36, schrieb Mark Grieveson: > The issue is that one of the residents will create hundreds of new > "untitled folders" on the desktop. Further, she'll mess around with > the panels, the shortcuts on the desktops, and sometimes change the > permissions on the home directory (ie,

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-21 02:57:09, schrieb S C: > For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real Why trying? -- It just works! > OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use Hmmm, "cups" installed? I use Xcdroast with my Teac CD-R55S to burn CD's > one to ba

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-21 07:33:42, schrieb Ron Johnson: > 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

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-21 13:54:42, schrieb David A. Parker: > George N. White III wrote: > >If you don't want to be ignored, you could try a commercial distribution. > >Debian is mainly supported by the user community -- nobody gets fired > >for ignoring complaints. > > Have you tried Ubuntu? Why? Did they

Re: [OT] Re: sed fails to upgrade on debian sid; file date of 1969?

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-22 10:47:15, schrieb Nyizsnyik Ferenc: > On Mon, 21 May 2007 16:57:52 -0400 > nick lidakis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thinkpad:/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES# ls -alt sed.mo > > c---rwxrwx 5389 2484475149 353247318 247, 62 Dec 31 1969 sed.mo > > So sed is one of the oldest Unix c

Re: The previous nonsense

2007-05-24 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-05-21 19:02:17, schrieb S C: > The following packages have unmet dependencies: >k3b: Depends: kdelibs4c2a (>= 4:3.5.5-1) but it is not installable > Depends: libdbus-qt-1-1c2 (>= 0.62.git.20060814) but it is not > installable > Depends: libice6 (>= 1:1.0.0) but

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

2007-05-24 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I have removed several of those stickers successfully by slightly > warming the area and just carefully tearing those off. It depends on the > composition of the surface it's attached to, of course. If there should > remai

TEST

2007-05-24 Thread David Baron
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Re: TEST

2007-05-24 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
Hi, On Thu May 24, 2007 at 20:35:21 +0300, David Baron wrote: > This is a test so please ignore. Yes, you will be ignored now by lists.debian.org. Greetings Martin Debian Listmaster of the Day. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] /root]# man real-life No manual entry for real-life -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

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

2007-05-24 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Thu, 24 May 2007 09:15 +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 > > The purpose I need this is for my usb external harddisk, I wish I can > plug it to mac and linux box. 1. Mac OSX uses the HFS+ file

Re: how can i make my package better ?

2007-05-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:14:40PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hello ,... > i have started learning how to create Debian packages. > using the official > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html and " > Debian maintainers' guid

Re: securing desktop

2007-05-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:27:46PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > How is this possibel? > You can not change the permission of ${HOME} if you are NOT root. > You certainly can change the permissions on $HOME if you are not root: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ pwd /home [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home$ ll

Re: trouble building glibc-2.5 and gcc-4.1.2

2007-05-24 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 07:27:53PM +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I had the same problem with my Devel-Station and my Laptop to get > glibc 2.5 running. It took me over 2 days to get all dependencies > in the right order. > Why on earth would you update glibc without just upgrading the rest

Creating a local repos

2007-05-24 Thread Abu Zaher
Hi, I'm trying to create a local repos from the files downloaded in /var/cache/apt/archives with apt-move. After installing apt-move and configuring apt-move.conf file, i ran apt-move and it created a local repos in /mirrors/debian dir. Then i added this entry in my /etc/apt/sources.list as the f

Re: TEST

2007-05-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 24 May 2007 20:05, Martin Zobel-Helas wrote: > Hi, > > On Thu May 24, 2007 at 20:35:21 +0300, David Baron wrote: > > This is a test so please ignore. > > Yes, you will be ignored now by lists.debian.org. > > Greetings > Martin > > Debian Listmaster of the Day. If you are genuinly Debia

Re: TEST

2007-05-24 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.24.2136 +0200]: > If you are genuinly Debian Listmaster of the Day, you have just, > so it seems made a sarcastic comment to someone sending a test > message. I am almost sure it was a joke. -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I r

modem and default gw

2007-05-24 Thread remigio
Hi, on my pc I have installed a network pci card and an internal softmodem. Both them work fine but I have a problem with the default gateway. In /etc/network/interfaces is defined a gateway that is used by the nic, and the command ip route shows this defgw. When I use Kppp and the modem to connect

Re: Creating a local repos

2007-05-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:32:50AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: > Now if i try 2 install/reinstall a package that i know already in my > local repos, apt-get again fetches that file from ftp.debian.org > whereas it should be fetching that from my local repos and install > that instanly. But if I remov

Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate)

2007-05-24 Thread kristian . mailinglists
- Nachricht von [EMAIL PROTECTED] - On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 08:37:02 +0200, kristian DOT mailinglists AT ewetel DOT net wrote: - Nachricht von Florian Kulzer - Datum: Wed, 23 May 2007 22:01:00 +0200 Betreff: Re: Complete KDE crash (since last upadate) A

Re: modem and default gw

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:42:10PM -0700, remigio wrote: > on my pc I have installed a network pci card and an internal > softmodem. Both them work fine but I have a problem with the default > gateway. > In /etc/network/interfaces is defined a gateway that is used by the > nic, and the command ip r

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Never heard of ODF, or is it specific to *Office programmes? > > Personally, I save my latex as latex. The origional contents are > > plainly visible. > > Never heard of ODF It's the OpenOffice.org 2.0 document format, > ak

Re: Creating a local repos

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 01:32:50AM +0600, Abu Zaher wrote: > I'm trying to create a local repos from the files downloaded in > /var/cache/apt/archives with apt-move. After installing apt-move and > deb file:///mirrors/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free > > Now if i try 2 install/reinstall a

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-24 Thread csanyipal
On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 05:37:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:03:49PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > > > > This abowe is in Hungarian. > I have this on my system: > > $ cat /etc/default/locale > # File generated by update-locale > LANG=en_US > > Perhaps you could

A virus has been detected!!

2007-05-24 Thread MAILSW
A mail containing a computer virus has been detected. The mail has been intercepted & did not reach the intended recipient. From: debian-user@lists.debian.org To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Hi Virus: Scenarios/Incoming/SpamLogic/SPAMLOGIC_FILTER: The operation completed successfully. Scenarios

Mike Capture not working in Debian Testing/Creative Live Soundblaster

2007-05-24 Thread David Dawson
I'm running Debian Testing and the mike capture recently stopped working. The card is a Creative Soundblaster Live. The problem is that the system will not allow any app to get mike audio. On the other hand I *can* get mike audio through the card if I switch on the mixer monitor. I tried setting th

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-24 Thread csanyipal
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 11:39:31PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4 restart > Restarting PostgreSQL 7.4 database server: main. > > I think it is all OK, except that that I cant open in my browser the > webpage: localhost/tutos/php/admin/scheme.php >

Re: How to Dual-Head? [Was: xrandr only shows one video card]

2007-05-24 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Kent West napisał(a): On 5/22/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks for the response. So obviously, I'm clueless about how to get dual-head working now that xinerama appears to be unusable (with the "i810/intel" driver update which breaks it). Anyone have any pointers to d

Re: modem and default gw

2007-05-24 Thread Andreas Janssen
remigio (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > on my pc I have installed a network pci card and an internal > softmodem. Both them work fine but I have a problem with the default > gateway. > In /etc/network/interfaces is defined a gateway that is used by the > nic, and the command ip route shows this def

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 16:18, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 12:03:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>> Never heard of ODF, or is it specific to *Office programmes? >>> Personally, I save my latex as latex. The origional contents are >>

Re: routing table setup

2007-05-24 Thread Matías Palomec
On 5/24/07, William Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I have got some problem setting up the routing table. Currently, the table is, ,[ netstat -nr ] | 10.1.1.10.0.0.0 255.255.255.255 UH0 0 0 ppp1 | 166.111.210.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.254.0 U

need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the verbatim environment But I do not know of a way to type the character without switching from LaTeX mode to text mode. I have found two work-arounds: (1) Use query-replace

libxcb-xlib0

2007-05-24 Thread Waqar Malik
The latest package in unstable (1.0-3) does not seem to have the patch available in the package in the experimental repository (an older version). This patch allows setting the variable LIBXCB_SLOPPY_LOCK and allows program to overcome the following error xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion

Re: modem and default gw

2007-05-24 Thread Marko Randjelovic
remigio wrote: > Hi, > on my pc I have installed a network pci card and an internal > softmodem. Both them work fine but I have a problem with the default > gateway. > In /etc/network/interfaces is defined a gateway that is used by the > nic, and the command ip route shows this defgw. > When I use

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:08:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > There is something to be said for casting something in plain text in > > bronze and gold plating it. > > Buffered lignin-free paper. > Burns. Bronze melts. Pottery breaks. Acid rain eats granite. I guess the bottom line is

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/25/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the verbatim environment But I do not know of a way to type the character without switching from LaTeX mode to text mode.

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070524 19:07]: > On 5/25/07, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for >> typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the >> verbatim environment > You can use C-q to insert a litera

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-25, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for > typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the verbatim > environment > > But I do not know of a way to type the character without switching > from LaTeX mode to t

Re: how can i make my package better ?

2007-05-24 Thread Jose Luis Rivas Contreras
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jabka Atu escribió: > Hello ,... > i have started learning how to create Debian packages. > using the official > http://www.debian.org/doc/debian-policy/ch-controlfields.html and " > Debian maintainers' guide " i created my first package. > > i need t

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Dan H wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Wed, 23 May 2007 14:10:02 -0400 (EDT) > S C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Thanks for responding. Responses (rationalizations?) are in relevant >> sections of your text. > > Please learn how to quote properly (l

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070524 19:49]: > On 2007-05-25, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for >> typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the verbatim >> environment >> >> But I do not know of a way

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Then when my two licenses numbers became invalid for online play, I > stopped playing twitch games all together. How'd that happen? -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] --

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 25 May 2007 00:24:04 GMT, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-25, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While in LaTeX mode in XEmacs, I frequently have need for > typewriter-style double quotes ("), such as when I am in the verbatim > environment > > But I do not know o

Which Kernel for 32bit Debian on ADM64 CPU

2007-05-24 Thread Chaim Keren Tzion
Hi, I would like to run 32 bit Debian Testing/Larry on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ CPU. Which kernel should I choose? I switched from the default 2.6.18-4-486 to 2.6.18-4-amd64 but I am having trouble compiling an Nvidia module. I get: ld: Relocatable linking with relocati

Re: Which Kernel for 32bit Debian on ADM64 CPU

2007-05-24 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 5/25/07, Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I would like to run 32 bit Debian Testing/Larry on my AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ CPU. Which kernel should I choose? I switched from the default 2.6.18-4-486 to 2.6.18-4-amd64 but I am having trouble compiling an Nv

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Paul Johnson
Greg Folkert wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > 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 i

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 24 May 2007, Russell L. Harris wrote: The XEmacs implementation which I am running appears to differ from the implementation which you are running. When in LaTeX mode, the first press of " produces a contiguous pair of single left-quotes: `` and the second press of " produces a contiguo

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 18:58, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 06:08:21PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >>> There is something to be said for casting something in plain text in >>> bronze and gold plating it. >> Buffered lignin-free paper. >

Re: need typewriter-style quotes in LaTeX mode of emacs

2007-05-24 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-25, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> There is another way to do this. It is a closely guarded secret, but >> I'll share it with you if you promise not to tell anyone else. Here it >> is: >> hit the " key >> hit the " key _a second time_ > > The XEmacs implement

Re: Which Kernel for 32bit Debian on ADM64 CPU

2007-05-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/24/07 20:12, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 5/25/07, Chaim Keren Tzion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I would like to run 32 bit Debian Testing/Larry on my AMD Athlon(tm) >> 64 X2 >> Dual Core Processor 4400+ CPU. >> >> Which kernel should I

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread S C
I tried both using the Debian installation and a live Kubuntu disc but the memory stick I have doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Yet. Eventually, what it "wants" will be immaterial. Thanks, however, for the suggestion Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:45:32

Re: why linux?

2007-05-24 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 24, 2007 at 10:34:54PM -0400, S C wrote: > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at > 01:45:32PM -0400, S C was heard to say: >> I tried both using the Debian installation and a live Kubuntu disc >> but the memory stick I have doesn't seem to want to cooperat

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