Re: goodbye microsoft hangs at grub prompt

2007-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 06 July 2007 12:17 pm, you wrote: > On 06/07/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried to install Debian from windows by going to > > http://goodbye-microsoft.com/ . After rebooting the computer and > > selecting the debian installer, I was placed at the grub prompt.

Re: Installing a JRE plug-in

2007-07-08 Thread andy
Bob Proulx wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: You are right. But those websites do you use Java. I think the confusion was that you did not specify client-side versus server-side. Those are two different things. Your statement appears to cover both. You are correct that the JSP server

Debian emacs21: can't bind umlaut keys

2007-07-08 Thread Peter Daum
Hi, I am using a German keyboard, but usually write languages like "Perl" at least as often as "German" and with the standard German keyboard layout chars like "[]{}" are difficult to reach. Therefore, I had already long time ago written some ELisp code to switch the binding of the umlaut keys b

Re: icedove 2 uses a lot of bandwidth

2007-07-08 Thread Lorenzo Bettini
Ron Johnson wrote: On 07/07/07 09:31, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Matthew K Poer wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 4:12 am, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I like the new features of icedove 2 (thunderbird), but when I'm using a 56k modem, I noticed that it uses a lot of bandwidth (especially upon the f

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Zach, It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these kinds of problems this way. Cheers, Jonathan Hi Jonathan, Ok, I'm curious though 1) why it

Re: WPA support for ipw2200?

2007-07-08 Thread didier gaumet
On Sat, 07 Jul 2007 10:50:53 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I can't locate a good how-to for implementing WPA support in Etch or > Lenny, and IIRC the gnome network manager doesn't support WPA. How are > people making this work? Is there an up-to-date how-to somewhere that I > haven't been able to

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> Hi Zach, >> It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather >> than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid these >> kinds of problems this way. >> Cheers, >> Jonathan > > Hi Jonathan

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Graham Williams
Received Sun 08 Jul 2007 7:23pm +1000 from Jonathan Kaye: > Zach wrote: > > > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >> Hi Zach, > >> It might be a better idea to run aptitude (or apt-get) upgrade rather > >> than dist-upgrade as a matter of routine. I think you will avoid the

Re: mutt folder browser broken?

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
Hi Andrew, On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 17:41:13 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mutt folder browser? > > mine no longer shows the message count (imap mailboxes) or mbox file > size. just shows a 0. and there is no "new message" "N" shown > either. buf

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

2007-07-08 Thread Magnus Pedersen
David Fox wrote: Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and reinstalled amarok, but this still brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. Install libxine1-ffmpeg, i just incountered this "bug" as well, the upgrade to amarok 1.4.6 and the updates to the xine

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 21:30:01 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Manon, > Even if GSpace is discontinued, I can download the uploaded data by > accessing my gmail account. So, for a secondary backup, apart from > backups on cd/dvd, it will do for me. And I cannot anticipate on >

creating a local mirror and package authentication

2007-07-08 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I have small problem authenticating the packages with apt-get I get the warning that the package is not autheticated >>> WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated! dash ash Install these packages without verification [y/N]? >>> I put the DVD image

Re: creating a local mirror and package authentication

2007-07-08 Thread Bhasker C V
Questions by Florian Kulzer > How did you add the mounted DVD image to your sources.list? Did you > use > "file:" URIs? man sources.list | egrep 'deb(-src)? file' I have an apache httpd server running on the remote system and i have added http address of the server this is my sources.list deb

[OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-08 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I've got to tell this to somebody and you people are it. I couldn't believe my eyes when I found out... Tried to register at this site: http://www.trabajaen.gob.mx/servlet/CheckSecurity/JSP/jobsite_g/alta_usuarios_nuevos.jsp?estado=0 Complete registration will only work for Mexican nation

Re: creating a local mirror and package authentication

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 17:07:02 +0530, Bhasker C V wrote: > Questions by Florian Kulzer > > > How did you add the mounted DVD image to your sources.list? Did you > > use > > "file:" URIs? > > man sources.list | egrep 'deb(-src)? file' > > I have an apache httpd server running on the remote sys

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Magnus Pedersen wrote: > David Fox wrote: >> Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and >> reinstalled amarok, but this still >> brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. >> >> > Install libxine1-ffmpeg, i just incountered this "bug" as well, the > upgrade to

How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Justin Hartman
I have a Netgear WGR614 wireless router which up until yesterday was working perfectly. I have 3 PCs running etch, ubuntu and windows on the network but since a brief power failure none of the machines can obtain a dynamic IP address from the router. I've tried turning it off, unplugging and repl

.bash_history deleted

2007-07-08 Thread Anna Machens
hey, (i'm using debian unstable ) i am totally confused. suddenly, my .bash_history file for root did not exist anymore. now, i've been checking for rootkits, sniffers, listening ports and all that, and did not find anything suspicious. is it possible, that the file could have been delete

Re: .bash_history deleted

2007-07-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Anna. Anna Machens, 08.07.2007 15:48: > (i'm using debian unstable ) > i am totally confused. suddenly, my .bash_history file for root did not > exist > anymore. That’s really odd; I experienced the same thing yesterday. Suddenly there was no history anymore but since then, the file has be

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Kent West
Justin Hartman wrote: I have a Netgear WGR614 wireless router which up until yesterday was working perfectly. I have 3 PCs running etch, ubuntu and windows on the network but since a brief power failure none of the machines can obtain a dynamic IP address from the router. I've tried turning it o

Re: .bash_history deleted

2007-07-08 Thread Eduard Bloch
> Hi Anna. > > Anna Machens, 08.07.2007 15:48: > > (i'm using debian unstable ) > > i am totally confused. suddenly, my .bash_history file for root did not > > exist > > anymore. > > That’s really odd; I experienced the same thing yesterday. Suddenly > there was no > history anymore but sinc

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Justin Hartman
On 7/8/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally broke down and bought a Belkin from Wal-Mart for $40, and yep, the problem was the router. I figured the worst that could happen is that I'd learn it wasn't the router, and I could take it back to Wal-Mart for a refund. I figured exactly

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Jeff
Justin Hartman wrote: On 7/8/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally broke down and bought a Belkin from Wal-Mart for $40, and yep, the problem was the router. I figured the worst that could happen is that I'd learn it wasn't the router, and I could take it back to Wal-Mart for a refu

Re: mutt folder browser broken?

2007-07-08 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hi Andrew, > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 17:41:13 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mutt folder browser? > > > > mine no longer shows the message count (imap mailboxes) or mbox file >

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

2007-07-08 Thread David Fox
On 7/8/07, Magnus Pedersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Install libxine1-ffmpeg, i just incountered this "bug" as well, the upgrade to amarok 1.4.6 and the updates to the xine-engine needs the ffmpeg-lib... Thanks, Magnus. That works. Now I am a happy camper. /Magnus

Re: mutt folder browser broken?

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 08:06:40 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:46:16AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > Hi Andrew, > > > > On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 17:41:13 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > Anyone else seeing weird behavior with the mutt folder browser?

Re: How Do I Keep Track OF the Files Being Downloaded From My Apache?

2007-07-08 Thread KS
Orestes leal wrote: In A Hurry, something more complex like this: cat /usr/local/apache2/logs/access_log | awk '{ print $1,$3,$4,$5,$7}' Later convert the output to HTML and put it in the web directory, so this is very basic but works for me. That should work fine till a log rotate happen

Re: .bash_history deleted

2007-07-08 Thread steef
Eduard Bloch wrote: Hi Anna. Anna Machens, 08.07.2007 15:48: (i'm using debian unstable ) i am totally confused. suddenly, my .bash_history file for root did not exist anymore. That’s really odd; I experienced the same thing yesterday. Suddenly there was no history anymore but

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread steef
Jeff wrote: Justin Hartman wrote: On 7/8/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally broke down and bought a Belkin from Wal-Mart for $40, and yep, the problem was the router. I figured the worst that could happen is that I'd learn it wasn't the router, and I could take it back to Wal-M

Re: .bash_history deleted

2007-07-08 Thread michael
Quoting Eduard Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I have seen this several times in the past, still having no idea how this happens. For a while I suspected bash_completion but I think I saw this also without bash_completion. Finally I am suspecting the filesystem journaling doing weird thin

Re: How Do I Keep Track OF the Files Being Downloaded From My Apache?

2007-07-08 Thread Sam
Hi, I have a little perl script I made a while ago, takes the path of your logfile and, optionally an output file to write to; as command line arguments. Anyway, thought you might like to tinker with it, as you might be able to alter it for your specific needs. #!/usr/b

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically and seamlessly Hi Graham, Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong just 1-2 years ago. Did all the developers suddenly abandon it? How strange.

need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and files on your filesystem in a tree structure and allows quickly moving/renaming/deleting files using the mou

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Zach wrote: > I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive. > I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple > upgrade as a matter of routine. Have you trie

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "upgrade" is extremely conservative and will bail if it encounters even something as trivial as a new dependency that needs to be installed. "dist-upgrade" is a much better alternative if you're tracking unstable or testing; with "upgrade",

UUID naming for devices

2007-07-08 Thread Arijit Sarkar
Hi all, I use ubuntu (and recently dual-boot with debian) since April this year. I don't use windows anymore, in fact i don't need to. I've learned a lot in Linux in these days. Recently I found in ubuntu "/etc/fstab", some UUID for my mounted partition rather than "/dev/sda1" etc. I found in in

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Brad, On 7/8/07, Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Even if GSpace is discontinued, I can download the uploaded data by > accessing my gmail account. So, for a secondary backup, apart from > backups on cd/dvd, it will do for me. And I cannot anticipate on > Google (dis)continuing gmail e

Re: [OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-08 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:33:46 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tried to register at this site: http://www.trabajaen.gob.mx/servlet/CheckSecurity/JSP/jobsite_g/alta_usuarios_nuevos.jsp?estado=0 Complete registration will only work for Mexican nationals because of the RFC and

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:21:39AM +0200, Jonathan Kaye > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Zach wrote: >> I think you can mark them as "hold" as in aptitude hold texlive. >> I still don't know why you want to do a dist-upgrade rather than a simple >> upgrade as a ma

Re: goodbye microsoft hangs at grub prompt

2007-07-08 Thread Robert Millan
[ Please CC me in your reply ] Do you see any error before getting to grub prompt? Which version of Windows were you using? -- Robert Millan My spam trap is [EMAIL PROTECTED] Note: this address is only intended for spam harvesters. Writing to it will get you added to my black list. -- To

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just today I wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer versions of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things because when I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I take this to be normal. If

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice > functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not > Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and > files on your filesystem in a tree structure and allows quickly > moving/renaming/deleti

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi Zach, Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? Cheers, Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since they tend to be bloated and require many libraries :) But thanks I will try Dolphin and mi

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Zach. Zach, 08.07.2007 20:59: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hi Zach, >> Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? >> Cheers, > > Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since > they tend to be bloated and require many l

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Just today I >> wanted to upgrade amarok to 1.4.6 and as a result installed newer >> versions of a couple of other packages. That certainly unblocked things >> because when I did my normal upgrade I had 193 upgrades to make. I ta

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You definitely should have a look at Thunar; it's one of the fastest file managers I've ever seen. Hi Mathias, Ok I will try it - thanks! BTW do you need to run Xfce desktop to use it? Regards, Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: FYI: Debian as a desktop system

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Interesting read? > > Very positive review of Debian Etch. > > Conclusion: > "I feel that Debian Etch is as good on the desktop as it is on the > server. It has a long rich history, a strong community, is a

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:45:56 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Manon, > Everything GSpace uploads appears as a normal e-mail (empty) with an Ah, I see. I don't know why, but I got the feeling that anything uploaded by the GSpace plugin would be handled differently, and would _

Re: Inet security

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Mike McClain wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. > > 'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you export, if you > have nothing listening that can do you harm you are secure...' >

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called "preferences" which looks something like this Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable Pin-Priority: 600 Package: * Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing Pin-Priority: 650 What do the numbers repre

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/12/technology/12apple.html > > Electronic Arts and Id announced that they would begin > releasing popular games for the Macintosh simultaneously > with Windows versi

Re: UUID naming for devices

2007-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/08/07 13:44, Arijit Sarkar wrote: Hi all, I use ubuntu (and recently dual-boot with debian) since April this year. I don't use windows anymore, in fact i don't need to. I've learned a lot in Linux in these days. Recently I found in ubuntu "/etc/fstab", some UUID for my mounted partition

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
If I wish to upgrade a package would I do "upgrade" instead of "install" in your example? Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. Here's the deal, I have three domains that all point at my server and three different webroots for them. Before I had all this server trouble I had it working just fine using NameVirturalServer and ServerName directives. However now I'm g

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And in the future, even with the EA announcement, I doubt it will change anything except with the five people who love football so much they absolutely must have the latest Madden game every year... And if they really care so much about games

Re: how hot is my xeon?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Mike McCarty wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >>> michael wrote: I've tried unsuccessfully to monitor my dual Xeon box but lm-sensors

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Zach. Zach, 08.07.2007 21:06: > On 7/8/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> You definitely should have a look at Thunar; it's one of the fastest file >> managers I've ever seen. > > Ok I will try it - thanks! BTW do you need to run Xfce desktop to use it? Thunar depends on its vf

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. ArcticFox, 08.07.2007 21:16: > However now I'm getting a message when ever I try and start > Apache that's telling me: "apache2: Could not reliably determine the > server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" > Anyone have any suggestions on how to fix this? I've never

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And in the future, even with the EA announcement, I doubt it will change anything except with the five people who love football so much they absolutely must have the latest Madden game every year...

Re: Inet security

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 11:08:39PM -0700, Mike McClain wrote: >> I saw this on usenet and wonder about the validity of this statement. >> >> 'Seriously any system is as secure as the services you expor

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:23:05PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > > > Are we ignoring the fact that Intel-based Macs can run most Linux apps > out of the box? And the rest with the Developer Tools installed? Heck, > put wine on there and you can run most Windows apps too. > If by out of the box, you

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Ron Johnson
On 07/08/07 13:29, Zach wrote: I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and files on your filesystem in a tree structure and allows quickly moving/renam

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. > > Here's the deal, I have three domains that all point at my server and > three different webroots for them. Before I had all this server trouble > I had it working just fine us

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:22 PM, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi. ArcticFox, 08.07.2007 21:16: However now I'm getting a message when ever I try and start Apache that's telling me: "apache2: Could not reliably determine the server's fully qualified domain name, using 127.0.0.1 for ServerName" Anyone hav

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thunar depends on its vfs libs, libexo and xfce4-panel. Dunno how much else this pulls in, but since Xfce is pretty lightweight, it probably won't matter that much. That sounds good :) Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > On Tue, Jun 26, 2007 at 02:58:17PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> John Hasler wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to >> gmane.linux.debian.user: >> >> > Alan Ianson writes: >> >> I believe kword su

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: $ apt-cache search file manager| grep -v ^lib | grep fm|sort Cool what does the "^lib" do? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] google desktop on Debian

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Hi, > > Google has a Debian version of its desktop: > http://desktop.google.com/linux/download.html > > Installing it on my Sid box with fvwm windowmanager and iceweasel > browser does exactly nothing: no m

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 11:10:57AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sánchez wrote in Article > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > That depends on your definition of "available." If the person receiving > > your document is on dialup and not in a position to down

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 03:32:00PM -0400, Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >$ apt-cache search file manager| grep -v ^lib | grep fm|sort > > Cool what does the "^lib" do? > It anchors the three character string literal "lib" to the start of the line: library

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Joe
steef wrote: Jeff wrote: Justin Hartman wrote: On 7/8/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I finally broke down and bought a Belkin from Wal-Mart for $40, and yep, the problem was the router. I figured the worst that could happen is that I'd learn it wasn't the router, and I could take it

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. Here's the deal, I have three domains that all point at my server and three different webroots for them. Before I had all th

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Zach
On 7/8/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It anchors the three character string literal "lib" to the start of the line: library -> matches glib -> does not match Oh, that is nifty. Zach

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Zach wrote: > >> There >> are millions and millions of MS Windows uers who can't do much beyond >> checking email, surfing the web and playing games and then millions >> more who are what I call 'corpo

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:36 PM, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. Here's the deal, I have three domains that all point at my server and three

Re: fetchmail doesn't delivery to local mailboxes?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Johnson
Orestes leal wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > Recently i've setup fetchmail to get all mail from 7 accounts (remember > that in another post was with getmail), the problem is that when fetchmail > get the mail it doesn't deliver to local mailboxes and I don

Re: Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jim McCloskey
Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> On 7/8/07, Graham Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> |> > tetex no longer exists (except historically) and to automatically |> > and seamlessly |> |> Hi Graham, |> |> Wow, this is news to me. What happened the project was going strong |> just 1-2 years

xprint config

2007-07-08 Thread Adam Hardy
I need to print some stuff to pdf but my xprint configuration seems to have something wrong with it. Although I don't have any real printers, according to the docs I should have print queues to print to ps and pdf and dump them as files in my $HOME/Xprintjobs dir. I don't have any printers

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:44:00PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: > > > Ok, new question; anyone know how to change what file apache looks for > first? (That is, I want it to load 'index.php' first, then 'index.html' > and so on.) I found it once before but I can't remember where it was. > DirectoryInd

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. ArcticFox, 08.07.2007 21:44: > Ok, new question; anyone know how to change what file apache looks for > first? (That is, I want it to load 'index.php' first, then 'index.html' > and so on.) I found it once before but I can't remember where it was. You really should just look at the Apache man

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread Jeff D
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:36 PM, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Let me know if I should send this to the Apache people. Here's the deal, I have three domains

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 08 July 2007 02:29:33 pm Zach wrote: > I am looking for a Debian package which will provide nice > functionality equivalent to the MS Windows (file) Explorer (not > Internet Explorer!) which lets you quickly view all directories and > files on your filesystem in a tree structure and allow

Re: Weird Apache errors

2007-07-08 Thread ArcticFox
On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:55 PM, Jeff D wrote: On Sun, 8 Jul 2007, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:36 PM, ArcticFox wrote: On Jul 8, 2007, at 2:29 PM, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 02:16:36PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Let me know if I should send this to the Apache peo

Re: How do I check if my Router is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Justin Hartman
On 7/8/07, Joe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The impression I got was that the installation lost power, including the server. While a computer PSU should be designed to shut down and start up in an orderly manner, nobody would be betting money on it. [SNIP] That's exactly what happened and unfortu

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 8 2007 11:59, Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi Zach, > > Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? > > Cheers, > > Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since > they tend to be bloated and require

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jul 08, 2007 at 14:16:53 -0400, Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Graham Williams wrote: [...] >> Unless you have a specific reason to stay with tetex, might be best to >> just go with the flow. My observation is that the transition, left to >> apt-get, works just fine. > > Ok and will all my comm

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Paul Cager
On 4 Jul., 15:10, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few days ago I by chance realized that the DVD-RW I had used for months to do > may backup was probably damaged: apparently it was not, because I could burn my > data onto it without problems; but when I tried to copy its content into

Re: [OT] gob.mx = IE6 only!

2007-07-08 Thread Aenn Seidhe Priest
Direct links to what the buttons lead to might be out there in the source... On 09.07.2007 at 11:51 Octavio Alvarez wrote: >On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 05:33:46 -0700, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wrote: > >> Tried to register at this site: >> >http://www.trabajaen.gob.mx/servlet/CheckSecurity/

Re: WPA support for ipw2200?

2007-07-08 Thread Ananda Samaddar
On Saturday 07 July 2007 18:50, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I can't locate a good how-to for implementing WPA support in Etch or > Lenny, and IIRC the gnome network manager doesn't support WPA. Gnome Network Manager DOES support WPA and WPA2 in Etch, if your wlan card uses the Linux Wireless extensio

Re: WPA support for ipw2200?

2007-07-08 Thread Evan
If you're card is recognized you can use WICD. You can google for it. On 7/8/07, Ananda Samaddar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 07 July 2007 18:50, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I can't locate a good how-to for implementing WPA support in Etch or > Lenny, and IIRC the gnome network manager doe

/dev/video0

2007-07-08 Thread Helen Easthope
Debian Folk, I'm still trying to get a TV display from the ATI 3D Rage II under Etch. Xawtv complains about absence of /dev/video0. The ati and fglrx drivers are present, hald and udev are alive and I installed the unstable gatos 0.0.5-16. So how should /dev/video* be created? Thanks,

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Haines Brown
Mainly because for some reason I continue to use is, worthy of mention is FileRunner. I find it particularly useful for treating my websites as just another directory like the ones on my hard disk. I might also mention I once set up emacs with a configuration file so that it resembled MC. --

Re: How to check if a DVD is damaged?

2007-07-08 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 8 Jul 2007 18:45:56 + "Manon Metten" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > GSpace than a mail client. But even without GSpace I have access to my > account by simply logging in at gmail.google.com. Then I can then open the Or even more simply at 'gmail.com' :) > Greetings, Manon. Cel

Re: Kernel 2.6.18-4 issues

2007-07-08 Thread Mike Robinson
Mike Robinson wrote: I updated using "apt-get upgrade" and the problem still persisted. It may have to do with one of the modules I built and installed. So, to introduce two variables to the equation, I decided to start over and install the 686 kernel. Without adding any new modules, the pro

Re: goodbye microsoft hangs at grub prompt

2007-07-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Robert Millan wrote: > > [ Please CC me in your reply ] > > Do you see any error before getting to grub prompt? > I think there is some error before the grub prompt appears. However, it goes by so fast that I do not know what the error is or if it is in fact an error in the first place. > W

[SOLVED] What's this error message telling me?

2007-07-08 Thread Telly Williams
On Sat, Jul 07, 2007 at 12:24:51AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jun 2007 13:22:07 -0600, Telly Williams > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> > Did you turn on audit=1 on your grub/lilo command line? If you, > you should have "avc denied" lines in

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun July 8 2007 11:59, Zach wrote: >> On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > Hi Zach, >> > Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? >> > Cheers, >> >> Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since >> they te

Re: /dev/video0

2007-07-08 Thread steve
Helen Easthope wrote: Debian Folk, I'm still trying to get a TV display from the ATI 3D Rage II under Etch. Xawtv complains about absence of /dev/video0. The ati and fglrx drivers are present, hald and udev are alive and I installed the unstable gatos 0.0.5-16. So how should /dev/video* be cre

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> 1. In your /etc/apt folder create a file called "preferences" which looks >> something like this >> Package: * >> Pin: release o=Debian,a=unstable >> Pin-Priority: 600 >> >> Package: * >> Pin: release o=Debian,a=testing >> Pin-Pr

Re: dist-upgrade problem

2007-07-08 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Zach wrote: > If I wish to upgrade a package would I do "upgrade" instead of > "install" in your example? > Should I delete this file if I wish to not do pinning? > > Zach upgrade and install are two different things. "upgrade" looks for a later version for all the packages that you have already

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