Re: two workstation on etch

2007-09-25 Thread heba
2007/9/24, Gabrielle Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok > First, do you have access to ADSL internet? > If yes, change your /etc/apt/sources.list to something like: > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib > deb-src http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contr

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-25 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi Marty, Marty wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: I find with LIRC it's usually easiest to abandon using packages and build it from scratch. It seems to be much easier to configure that way. I realize this isn't the Debian-correct(tm) way to do it but it's usually what I resort to. In the c

Re: two workstation on etch

2007-09-25 Thread Gabrielle Chatelet
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:16, heba wrote: > 2007/9/24, Gabrielle Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Ok > > First, do you have access to ADSL internet? > > If yes, change your /etc/apt/sources.list to something like: > > > > > > deb http://ftp.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free contrib > > d

Re: LPR and CUPS

2007-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For printers on UNIX hosts, you probably want to use lpr:// with the > host's address in the URL. Of course, the host has to be configured to > allow remote printing, and you'll need to know the queue name. Wow, that worked!! [I could only find addre

Re: binary packages versus source

2007-09-25 Thread pietia
s. keeling pisze: pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Joey Hess pisze: No, the debian buildds run unstable (except for the buildds used to build updates for stable). for whitch architecture are optimized ? less /boot/config-$(uname -r) No, probably you don't get it. I

MySQL: What is the default table charset

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, since the default table charset is set at compile time at MySQL (IIRC) I wonder what it is in Debian etch? (I hope it's utf-8) One more question: How could I have found at myself? Can I view the build specs (the ./configure line) anywhere? Thanks, Florian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:34 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:16 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Manoj Srivastava wrote: Firstly: Very few packages have been actively patched to link Someth

GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone help me get her machine set up to have more than one queue on her printer? The connectivit

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 23:18:50 +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:27:17PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:45 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 15:06:02 -0500, Ron Jo

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-25 Thread michael
On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 17:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/24/07 17:18, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:27:17PM +0100, michael wrote: > >>> On Mon, 2007-09-24 a

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:11:39AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:34 -0500, Mike McCarty >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >>> Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:16 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Mano

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-25 Thread michael
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:43 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 23:18:50 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 14:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:27:17PM +0100, michael wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-09-24 at 22:45 +0200, Florian Kul

bittorent thru a proxy

2007-09-25 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to use gnome-btdownload, to download a bittorent cd. I works fine when there is no proxy. But I can't use it when there is a proxy help please best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no problems with it whatsoever. I had no hardware issues or anything. It "seemed" like all the hardware was automatically detected. Now the question is, how do I know for sure? I know I could use lspci or something like that. But w

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:06:09 +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:43 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 23:18:50 +0100, michael wrote: [ snip: problems installing Gnome on unstable ] > > > python-gnome2-desktop: Depends: libwnck18 > > > > Can you post the ou

xconfig for Dell LCD's during etch install

2007-09-25 Thread C.T.F. Jansen
Greetings, Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses, correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box that has a LCD display ? I ask because Debian 3.1 failed to detect the characteristics of said LCD displays causing some extra running around to find o

canon printer driver question

2007-09-25 Thread steef
hi, does anybody know if the gutenprint driver canon ip2000 pixma also works with the canon ip2500 pixma? (googling is inconclusive) thnanks, steef -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: lirc on Debian with AMD64

2007-09-25 Thread Marty
Greg Vickers wrote: Hi Marty, Marty wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: I find with LIRC it's usually easiest to abandon using packages and build it from scratch. It seems to be much easier to configure that way. I realize this isn't the Debian-correct(tm) way to do it but it's usually what I

Re: unstable: problems installing GNOME

2007-09-25 Thread michael
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 11:36 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 10:06:09 +0100, michael wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 10:43 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 23:18:50 +0100, michael wrote: > > [ snip: problems installing Gnome on unstable ] > > > > >

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: > > However the decision came down to one factor which I did not list. When I > was reviewing SVN one thing popped into my head over and over, "Why Perl!?" What does Subversion have to do with Perl? (Not that I think your decision is wrong, I just don't know what you're referrin

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-09-25 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:12:15AM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 12:19:16 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > > I own two Epson scanners, a Perfection 2400 Photo and a Perfection V100 > > Photo. > > > > Neither wo

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Marcello Barreto de Medeiros
Hello Amit, i could try to install a package called lshw (apt-get install lshw). DESCRIPTION lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware configuration of the machine. It can report exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboard configurati

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:57:35PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Not having to learn LaTeX would be the head of my list. While I am sure > it is a fine and dandy language for what it does and I know there are people > who have produced some nice text using it I do not wish to learn a third > co

Re: binary packages versus source

2007-09-25 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:41:05AM +0200, pietia wrote: >>> for whitch architecture are optimized ? >> >> less /boot/config-$(uname -r) > > No, probably you don't get it. If i have pentium (686) it doesn't mean > that > I use binary packages optimized for 686 in debian (x86) system. > >

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:57:35PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I use grep for this purpose. It is difficult for me to imagine an advantage offered by OpenOffice whi

Re: binary packages versus source

2007-09-25 Thread s. keeling
pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling pisze: > > pietia <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Joey Hess pisze: > >> > >>> No, the debian buildds run unstable (except for the buildds used to build > >>> updates for stable). > >> > >> for whitch architecture are optimized ? > > > > less /boot/config-$

Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

2007-09-25 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Hi, I searched this group on this error message, which I get at odd times on Debian Etch, usually when using Mutt or xpdf to read an attachment. I'll go to those groups too, but sometimes I think I see it even from the command line. Anyone else? Or does anyone know what it means? Thanks, rd --

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/24/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 03:48:37PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > > I was wondering how to reply to a message but in a way so everybody in > > the list gets it, but without starting a whole new thread. > As far as I know (I don't use the web interfa

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:07:19 -0400 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > > On 9/24/07, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> gmail currently does not have a reply-to-list feature so replying (only) > >> to the list is a bit pain. > > > >

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 21:10, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > > One I think that will go unfulfilled. First off Word suffers from the > same problem. I found out the hard way on one of my scripting projects. So > there's precedent. The second reason is that O

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 21:44, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> David Fox wrote: >> >>> It might be worth mentioning that "sudo" doesn't work across pipes: >>> >>> For instance: >>> >>> sudo command_1 | command_2 >>> >>> The first command wi

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you're able to run client software (i.e. you're on your own system, > not on some possibly locked down public one), why not just use your > favorite proper email client? For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the google sea

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/24/07 22:16, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 09/24/2007 07:52 PM, Miles Bader wrote: >> Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: even 708 old hardware seems to be running it fine for me. >>> My objection is to having on my machine at all. >> >> I obj

Re: Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 06:07:46 -0700 BartlebyScrivener <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I searched this group on this error message, which I get at odd times > on Debian Etch, usually when using Mutt or xpdf to read an attachment. > I'll go to those groups too, but sometimes I think I see it ev

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:00:28AM -0400, Neil Watson wrote: > With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use > the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. > There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with > Word and OpenOffice

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you're able to run client software (i.e. you're on your own system, > > not on some possibly locked down public one), why not just use your > > favorite proper emai

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Marsh
On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400 > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the > > google search algorithm over my mailbox, google talk in the sidebar > > (not used often, but ver

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Jochen Schulz wrote: > What does Subversion have to do with Perl? Huh... For some reason I was under the impression it was written in Perl. It is not, it is written in C. So, uhm... that changes it to "Eww, C!" :) Mea culpa. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what

ATI or Nvidia

2007-09-25 Thread Guillermo Garron
Hi, I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI, actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it. In your Debian experience which has better support?, I have read that nVidia is better, actually I h

xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-25 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not being run. I tried putting the full path to xmodmap, which seemed to work at first but then f

OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Neil Watson wrote: > With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use > the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. > There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common with > Word and OpenOffice. To be fair I am operating out a lar

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > Do you happen to have a bug number? I do not. I found several references on the OOo forums when searching for methods of setting my documents to uncompressed for use with Subversion. On the bright side Mercurial does have a FAQ about using Mercurial with OOo document

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an o

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 09:30, Steve Lamb wrote: > Neil Watson wrote: >> With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use >> the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. >> There are no annoying format inconsistencie

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Adam Mercer
> Neil Watson wrote: > I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed > out. I've yet to see one accept LaTeX. Publishers of scientific journals accept LaTeX, most even provide a style file so that the document is formatted according to the specific journals require

Re: canon printer driver question

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:21:27PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi, > > does anybody know if the gutenprint driver canon ip2000 pixma also works > with the canon ip2500 pixma? I can only answer indirectly: the ip1500 pixma does *not* work with the ip200 pixma driver. There is a repository deb http://m

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Neil Watson
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Also the end result of my labor will be to send this out to be published. I have seen many publishers take submissions in Word, plain text or printed out. This is another good thing about TeX. You can publish your document in many

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:20:22AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than > one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing > that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone > help me get her machi

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > PDF? Haven't seen it as an acceptable format for submission, no. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I do... ---+- sig

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Miles Fidelman
Folks, I share some of the original writers interest in finding a good document management tool. It was sort of disappointing to see a discussion that has focused primarily on version control tools, and a little on TeX vs. Word vs. Open Office issues. There are a huge number of document an

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Kumar Appaiah wrote: > I am actually a bit surprised. Numerous scientific books are written > in TeX. In fact, Dr. Knuth's own books are typeset in TeX, which is > what eh created TeX for. Besides, I am really surprised publishers > won't want TeX, since a lot of books I've read have acklowledged t

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Miles Fidelman wrote: > It was sort of disappointing to see a discussion that has focused > primarily on version control tools, and a little on TeX vs. Word vs. > Open Office issues. This is D-U where the relative geek level is high. We're going to tend towards the technical solutions over th

select() in sh (POSIX is crap, but something to have anyway :)

2007-09-25 Thread Oleg Verych
07-08-2007, Vincent Lefevre: [] > Not every system has bash. If this is for compatibility, you can learn > POSIX sh, but e.g. Solaris /bin/sh is not a POSIX sh. And Windows will have `sh` soon, called "Microsoft Suxe Shell" (C) Novell. > For this reason and because POSIX sh is limited (you can't

Installing 2 Linux on one HD.

2007-09-25 Thread Yazad Khambata
Hi all, I have 2 hard drives on one I have windows installed. The other is used by me for Linux installation... I first installed Debian 4.0; during installation it asked me about GRUB and it aslo asked me if I had Windows XP/2000. All was well... I could log into Debian and on selecting "others

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
Andrei Popescu schrieb: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:57:35PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Not having to learn LaTeX would be the head of my list. While I am sure it is a fine and dandy language for what it does and I know there are people who have produced some nice text using it I do not wish

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 03:30:21PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 04:03:47PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Sun, Sep 23, 20

Put a Separated Subtitle Inside the Xvid Movie

2007-09-25 Thread Orestes Leal
Dear friends, my situation it´s this, I have a movie (Xvid) with a separate subtitle (srt) , I want to know how i can put the subtitles into the movie file for later make a vcd (Mencoder?), just that, thanks a lot to all of you. olr.

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:11:39 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:54:34 -0500, Mike McCarty >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >> >>> Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Mon, 24 Sep 2007 18:21:16 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 05:04:15 -0400, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > There are 2 approaches to application security that I am aware of: > app-armour and SELinux. Debian has SELinux, although Ubuntu now has > both and seems to be favouring app-armour for some odd reason that I > have not i

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 07:30:35 -0700, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Neil Watson wrote: >> With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can >> use the same template for all of my reports and they always look the >> same. There are no annoying format inconsistencies that a

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/25/2007 09:25 AM, Anthony Campbell wrote: I've twice thought I'd solved this one but no. To recap: my .xinitrc contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked for many months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the command is not being run. I tried putting the full path to

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/25/2007 08:41 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/24/07 22:16, Mumia W.. wrote: [...] Your Debian machine is probably not dependent upon tcl, but Debian has been dependent upon python for a long time. Base install is dependent on Python? I find that very hard to believe. Well what do you k

Re: Installing 2 Linux on one HD.

2007-09-25 Thread H.S.
Yazad Khambata wrote: > Hi all, > > I have 2 hard drives on one I have windows installed. > > The other is used by me for Linux installation... > > I first installed Debian 4.0; during installation it asked me about GRUB > and it aslo asked me if I had Windows XP/2000. All was well... I could

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 00:07:19 -0400 > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Being super lazy by nature, I count the number of key strokes to achieve >> the end result. If you are using knode all it takes is one key stroke - >> 'r'. Comparing that to your method count

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Manoj Srivastava wrote: > These people do not accept PDF? wow. I surmise it is because they have word processors for document modification during the editing process. PDF is mainly a display format, not an editable format. Seems incongruous with accepting printed submissions but fro

Re: ATI or Nvidia

2007-09-25 Thread Dan Serban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillermo Garron wrote: > Hi, > > I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am > asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI, > actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it. > Difficult question

UTF-8 support in Latex (was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 17:37:52 +0200, Hans Vogelsberger wrote: [...] > Some years ago I changed from LyX to OpenOffice. These days I tried to > change back. One of the reasons was that there is no grep possible in OO. I believe that the common desktop search tools can search and index OASIS

Re: two workstation on etch

2007-09-25 Thread heba
2007/9/25, Gabrielle Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You can do a: apt-get dist-upgrade > to upgrade those 40 packages that are not upgraded. > > thanks, done...^^ regards, -- heba -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PR

Re: undigesting and filtering by list-id

2007-09-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > OT, but one concern I have is that stuff like this gets added to > .procmailrc but rarely if ever gets taken out. Sometime it might be > nice to move to a more transparent, less arcane filtering system, and > maybe such a system could keep track of how oft

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Manoj Srivastava wrote: On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 03:11:39 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: [snip] packages. It is fewer than that. Compared to 10k source packages, however, even the bloated figure of 50 is "few". BTW, I count 29 packages. I was using the published figure for Red H

Re: xconfig for Dell LCD's during etch install

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:37:15PM +1200, C.T.F. Jansen wrote: > Greetings, > Is the Xconfig* file in X11, or whatever Xorg (?) uses, > correctly setup during the install of Debian 4.0r1 on a Dell 3000 box > that has a LCD display ? debian now uses xorg. the config file is /etc/X11/xorg.c

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:06:38 -0400 "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:38:29 -0400 > > "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For me, it's a matter of all clients sucking. Gmail gives me the > > > google

Re: Penalty of SELinux?

2007-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 11:28:13 -0500, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Manoj Srivastava wrote: > As I said, it might be a good starting place. If the patching of the > source is done right, it's dependent upon a define anyway. I don't > have high hopes for that. All the patches I

Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion. I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian, though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take this as a complaint from me, as it isn't. I'm simply informing the Debian forum of a situation. She'

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:48, you wrote: > On 25/09/2007, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 19:32, you wrote: > > > On 25/09/2007, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Monday 24 September 2007 17:54, you wrote: > > > > > On 25/09/2007, tom arnal

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: (big snip) > Anyway, that's it, FWIW. Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: (big snip) Anyway, that's it, FWIW. Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to perceived lack of help, a user is leaving (or at least it seems to me that sh

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: On Monday 24 September 2007 14:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:05:45PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: I am trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch. I can get it to install, but when I try to run it the thing dies and I g

Re: Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

2007-09-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> When I launch xpdf from a CLI or from within mc (by hitting 'enter' on > a pdf) and then close xpdf I always sees that message. I don't know > what it means, but it seems harmless. > Yes, I have the same issue but it does look quite harmless. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- T

Problem with apt-get update command: failed to fetch packages 404 not found

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lam
I have a problem with 'apt-get update' command and it bugs me for weeks. I've tried to update Debian with the command 'apt-get update' and it failed to fetch packages. I've fixed the etc/apt/sources.list file but It doesn't help me at all. I've tried apt-setup and it failed as well with the same

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> Hello Amit, > i could try to install a package called lshw (apt-get install lshw). > > DESCRIPTION >lshw is a small tool to extract detailed information on the hardware > configuration of the machine. It can report >exact memory configuration, firmware version, mainboar

Re: xmodmap again - not solved after all

2007-09-25 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Anthony Campbell wrote>: > my .xinitrc contains the line: "xmodmap ~/.Xmodmap". which has worked > for many months or even years. In the last couple of weeks the > command is not being run. [] > Has no one else seen this behaviour? I saw this behaviour when I stopped using gdm, and went to

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mark Phillips
On Tue, 2007-09-25 at 12:36 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > > (big snip) > >> Anyway, that's it, FWIW. > > > > Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. > > I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: > > (big snip) > > > >> Anyway, that's it, FWIW. > > > > Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. > > I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to > p

Re: Problem with apt-get update command: failed to fetch packages 404 not found

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Steve Lam wrote: I have a problem with 'apt-get update' command and it bugs me for weeks. I've tried to update Debian with the command 'apt-get update' and it failed to fetch packages. I've fixed the etc/apt/sources.list file but It doesn't help me at all. I've tried apt-s

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Joe
Mike McCarty wrote: I provide this only to let you know that it looks like Debian is going to lose a user to Windows shortly, due to perceived lack of concern over user's difficulties shown by those who do support for Debian. I have gently nudged her in the direction of sticking with it a little

trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the source but compile died in the 'make'. with the .rpm i got a .deb file, which i then did 'dpkg -i' on. e'thing seemed to go normal

Re: Problem with apt-get update command: failed to fetch packages 404 not found

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lam
I've replace 'sarge' with 'oldstable' once. Now I try again and apt-get update gives the same result: Failed to fetch packages 404 not found. Here is the output from apt-get update: Err http://debian.yorku.ca oldstable/main Packages 404 Not Found Err http://security.debian.org oldstable/updates/ma

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 12:36:11PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: >> On Tuesday 25 September 2007 09:55, Mike McCarty wrote: >> (big snip) >>> Anyway, that's it, FWIW. >> Long message wth no specifics. No way to help you. > > I wasn't asking for help. I'm telling you that due to > p

Is there a Vtubes solution for debian

2007-09-25 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello,... im searching for debian (free) solution to use as vtubes. Vtubes is an terminal application that creates sevral forks of terminal that connot to distant computers (MainFrames , Unix machines etc) . i don't know how the connection is mad

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Joe wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > I provide this only to let you know that it looks like Debian > > is going to lose a user to Windows shortly, due to perceived > > lack of concern over user's difficulties shown by those who do > > support for Debian. I have gently

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: Peter, i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the new gaim, called pidgin, so i attempted to install pidgin. i was able to configure the source but compile died in the 'make'. with the .rpm i got a .deb file, which i then did 'd

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Mark Phillips writes: > If you want a telephone number, and (almost) instant gratification, then > your GF should use Windows. No, she should contract for paid support for Debian. It is available. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". T

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
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Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread Michael Shuler
On 09/25/2007 01:16 PM, tom arnall wrote: > warning: pidgin-2.2.0-0.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID > a9464aa9warning: pidgin-2.2.0-0.src.rpm: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key > ID a9464aa9pidgin_2.2.0-1_i386.deb generated > debian:/home/kloro/zips/pidginRH# > debian:/home/klor

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/9/25, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thank you for the suggestion. This is definitely the tool that I was looking > for! > > I am still curious, however, if this actually shows all my hardware? I guess > the best comparison would be to Windows Device Manager where it shows you all

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Larry Irwin
On: Tuesday, September 25, 2007 2:21 PM Hal Said: There are always those who want everything and won't be happy no matter what they get. Oddly enough, I find a lot of people complain more about something they get for free than something they pay for. I've only had one item I've ever identified

Re: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 10:40, Jeff D wrote: > On Mon, 24 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 14:19, Andrei Popescu wrote: > >> On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 02:05:45PM -0700, tom arnall wrote: > >>> I am trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch. I can > >>

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than > one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing > that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone > help me get her machine s

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > I provide this only to let you know that it looks like Debian > is going to lose a user to Windows shortly, due to perceived > lack of concern over user's difficulties shown by those who do > support for Debian. The real problem here is that Linux is losing a user to Wind

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