Re: Scim in sid [solved] --> General guide for SCIM under English

2008-01-16 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 01:41:51PM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > If it is to activate SCIM under LANG=en_US.UTF-8, you should have > played with im-switch. > > Did you read link mentioned in my im-switch package? > http://wiki.debian.org/JapaneseEnvironmentE > Thanks. I fo

Re: Open Office and German / Japanese Input

2008-01-16 Thread Joel Roth
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:20:35PM +0900, Dietrich Bollmann wrote: > Hi, > > Every now and then I have to write something in German or Japanese. And > normally this entails about one week of trials to make Open Office work > again with "scim" or "uim" (both input methods). When finally > everyth

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of > wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's a witch. The sad th

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-16 Thread pedxing
On Jan 15, 5:40 pm, Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyone using a powerline ethernet with debian?  I've got > some difficult to wire locations so I thought I'd investigate > my options.  I've tried wireless and it's a bit spotty so > I'm hoping that some debian folks have some good experie

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > ... > > > > > > > > It's been quite a while, and we

Linux/Active Directory - Multible Subdomains

2008-01-16 Thread Aiko Barz
Hi, Question: Is it possible to create an Active Directory forest with multible subdomains and make Linux know everything about each Windows domain? Right now, we have one domain and it is possible to do authentication against the Active Directory. But now, another department would like to have i

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-16 Thread johnny
> Copying a 1GB file... > ... **only n-devices active** > ... 10MB/S average throughput > > Copying a 1GB file... > ... **with one other g-device active** > ... 7MB/S average throughput. I dunno, I copy movies server <-> laptop for a considerable test time and mrtg says I stay about 8/9Mbps. I w

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 17:37:16 +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > ... > > > > It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole movie. > > > > > > and apparently, one can re

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dan H
On Wed, 16 Jan 2008 02:02:07 +0100 (CET) "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, why don't your lines wrap at ca. 80 chars? Missed that lesson? Huh? I set Claws to wrap at 70. I thought it would do that automatically before sending the message... Fixed. --D. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Andre
Hi there I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off Etch's leftovers? Thanks

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Ulrich Schweitzer
On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are > close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over > first, you aren't looking far enough up the road. And if you are > following too closely to r

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Javier Barroso
If the lastest kernel hangs, you could probe with the previous kernel I think this is the reason On Jan 16, 2008 11:02 AM, Andre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dis

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "This text in English or Dutch." > > On that page, right under the "$Revision: 2.4 $", click on the word > "English". > Thanks. Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת

Re: Apache2 + LDAP (autentication and Group)

2008-01-16 Thread Márcio Luciano Donada
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, My configuration is: AuthType Basic AuthName "Essa area e de acesso restrito, tudo o que for feito esta sendo monitorado!" AuthBasicProvider ldap AuthzLDAPAuthoritative off AuthLDAPBi

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > > the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of > > wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's a witch. > > The sad thing is that I know people who's minds w

Logging a kernel panic (remotely)

2008-01-16 Thread Ronny Adsetts
Hi, (Please Cc me on replies as I'm not subscribed) I'm trying to solve a problem with a headless server on a remote site that panics from time to time. Unfortunately we have no remote console. Is there a way to get the kernel to either to to write the panic to disk or to log it remotely? I'

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Andre: > Hi there > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > that the old kernel is quite useless with the new system (with all its > new libraries and stuff)? If so, how do I get rid off

Re: Logging a kernel panic (remotely)

2008-01-16 Thread Julian De Marchi
Does anyone have any advice to offer? Maybe if your syslog (syslog-ng) daemon writes it logs to a remote node... An IP KVM would be a good alternative to the serial console. :-) Julian -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-16 Thread Barry Samuels
On 15/01/08 16:35:41, Scott Lair wrote: > > Anyone using a powerline ethernet with debian? I've got > some difficult to wire locations so I thought I'd investigate > my options. I've tried wireless and it's a bit spotty so > I'm hoping that some debian folks have some good experiences > with pow

Can't Click OK in QEMU

2008-01-16 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hi Guys, I'm trying to install Windows XP, for a second time, with qemu. I keep betting stuck with a "Display Settings" dialog box at the end of the install process. QEMU won't let me click OK and the last time I quit here when I ran windows it would continually cycle through the reboot process

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to > boot a machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > init-process may get called, which will most likely depend on _a lot_ of > libs, but that's

Change default directory in a package

2008-01-16 Thread Rodrigo Tavares
Hello, When I install a program in Windows, it's need to set one directory. I would like make the same with packages debian. How I can do it ? Is there any tool for this work ? Best regards, Faria Abra sua conta no Yahoo! Mail, o único sem limite de espaço para

Re: Movies, household network and 54g limits... (maybe...)

2008-01-16 Thread Peter Teunissen
On Wed, January 16, 2008 10:20, johnny wrote: > >> Copying a 1GB file... >> ... **only n-devices active** >> ... 10MB/S average throughput >> >> Copying a 1GB file... >> ... **with one other g-device active** >> ... 7MB/S average throughput. > > I dunno, I copy movies server <-> laptop for a cons

Re: how to install sun java plugin for iceweasel in Debian?

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 13, 2008 1:56 PM, Amogh Hooshdar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I forgot to mention that I use Debian AMD 64 bit. Is this the cause of > the problem? Yes it is. Sun has still not distributed a Java browser plugin for 64-bit on any OS. -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wi

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Paul Cartwright: > I have a question about this, please. > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > death, > and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia driver work? It never fails, > I need t

Re: Change default directory in a package

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 16, 2008 8:41 AM, Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > When I install a program in Windows, it's need to > set one directory. > > > I would like make the same with packages debian. > > How I can do it ? > > Is there any tool for this work ? The only mechanism I c

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed January 16 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > I have a question about this, please. > > I have an NVIDIA card, and after some updates I get the black screen of > > death, and I have to change my video driver to nv and restart X. > > If I reboot into an older kernel, will my nvidia drive

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 16, 2008 9:20 AM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > can I reboot into the older kernel and will the nvidia driver work? Absolutely. I ran into a similar issue where I installed a new kernel without building ndiswrapper for it. I had uninstalled the module source package, so

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:49:56PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've yet to find out how to set this up, but am working on it. of course it > doesn't help that the spam from the list has virtually stopped now, so have > almost no mailing list spam to test this out with. If you still need a test

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Andre: > > > > I recently moved to Lenny from Etch via dist-upgrade. Now I got two > > kernel options in grub available for boot. Doesn't a dist-upgrade mean > > that the old kernel is quite useless

Re: Logging a kernel panic (remotely)

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:08:44PM +, Ronny Adsetts wrote: > I'm trying to solve a problem with a headless server on a remote site that > panics from time to time. Unfortunately we have no remote console. Is there > a way to get the kernel to either to to write the panic to disk or to log >

Re: Change default directory in a package

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:41:07AM -0300, Rodrigo Tavares wrote: > When I install a program in Windows, it's need to > set one directory. > > I would like make the same with packages debian. > > How I can do it ? > > Is there any tool for this work ? > That's not how unix's work. P

Help Offering in Geographical programs design

2008-01-16 Thread Jabka Atu
I don't know if any one here need it but still: In the last few month i work with Mathimatical analysys of srfuaces : This isn't plain geographical work but it a bit related. Since i can't free the full source (Copy rights local laws and more ) i can free small individual part of code (under LGPL)

Re: Change default directory in a package

2008-01-16 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/16, Rodrigo Tavares <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > When I install a program in Windows, it's need to > set one directory. > I would like make the same with packages debian. > How I can do it ? > Is there any tool for this work ? Hello, Debian uses the Linux File System Standard , you can rea

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [snip] > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > > the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of > > wood and therefore, she'll float,

Help with debconf

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Gonzalez
Hi, Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions on install? I have this packet that is configured the first time it's installed, but then never asks again if you don't dpkg-reconfigure it. However, if I remove t

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 12:42 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 01/15/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > > > the witch weighs the same as a duck,

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > > > the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of > > > wood and therefore, she'll float, so she's a witch. > > > > The sad thing is that I know people wh

Re: samsung printer ML-3051nd on Debian

2008-01-16 Thread H.S.
David wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Anybody know what kind of support does Debian have for Samsung laser >> printer ML-3051nd? I am thinking of recommending this one for a small >> office of a friend's. Support in Linux is very important. I was also >> considering Brother HL-5250DN but it is

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread judd
On 15 Jan, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote: >> > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> >>> The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made by one

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-16 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 16 January 2008 15:33, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, Jan 11, 2008 at 10:49:56PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I've yet to find out how to set this up, but am working on it. of course > > it doesn't help that the spam from the list has virtually stopped now, so > > have almost no mail

boot (grub) problems

2008-01-16 Thread Rick Pasotto
I am currently running 2.6.22-3-k7 and update to testing daily. I seldome reboot but the last several times the grub menu has not displayed and the boot messages on the screen are pretty much illegible. I can sort of make out the words but there seems to be some kind of overlay on the letters makin

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Robert Hodgins
> Given that you're in the country that invented the witch-hunt, that's > not much surprise. I wasn't aware that he was from Babylonia! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witch-hunt#Antiquity -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. > wrote: > > No, the Kernel doesn't depend on those libraries. Evenything you need to > > boot a > > machine is in /boot and /lib/modules/`uname -r`. From then on, any > > init-process >

Re: debian-user help idea

2008-01-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:57:10AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:29:44AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > I was thinking how d-u folks like to have lots of useful facts to help > > in problem solving. Then I thought how that kind of information is > > normally sent to the

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: > Hi, > > Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package > configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions > on install? I'm sure there is a way to do the second, and there is a debconf-doc package yo

[OT* aiutatemi a verificare 'what is going on!'

2008-01-16 Thread Ennio- Sr
Scusate! sono giorni che cerco di far passare un messaggio, ma pare proprio che sia rimasto incastrato in qualche ingranaggio nascosto in un labirinto ... [E dire che ho anche rifatto la subscription!] Non mi risponde il 'maestro di lista' e il 'maggiordomo' non raccoglie le mie richieste di aiuto

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman wrote: anything that kills your motherboard (short circuit in the memory, CPU overheating, etc.) also takes out your RAID controller. T

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Andre
Ahhh, good thing to know. I think the problem was that with dist-upgrade all those new packages came along, and I was subconsciously thinking they were installed due to dependencies on the new kernel and thus wouldn't work with the old kernel. But apparently there are some packages (some of the

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote: > On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are > > close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over > > first, you aren'

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:56:28AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:23:37AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:56:28AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:55:15AM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: >

Re: questions about log messages

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Ross Boylan: > Second, I also keep seeing stuff like this: > Jan 15 09:23:00 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection disabled > (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) > Jan 15 09:23:02 cotton kernel: wlan0: CTS protection enabled > (BSSID=00:45:4d:80:b6:24) > > I think CTS protection is clear to send protec

Re: Php & GD problem getting "captchas" to work

2008-01-16 Thread John W Foster
On Thu, 2008-01-10 at 18:48 -0600, John W Foster wrote: > I am trying to get "captchas" to working on my Mediawiki installation, > to use in conjunction with a guestbook. The author of the Mediawiki > extension, which is written in php, says that the reason that the > 'capchas' do not work is a pro

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > > I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean looking > guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish Inquisition or the > Business Software Alliance. (Is the

Re: boot (grub) problems

2008-01-16 Thread Robin
On 16/01/2008, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am currently running 2.6.22-3-k7 and update to testing daily. I > seldome reboot but the last several times the grub menu has not > displayed and the boot messages on the screen are pretty much illegible. > I can sort of make out the word

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 10:07:41AM +0100, Dan H wrote: > > Again: There is NO NEED to "scroll" through redundant stuff! You need to EDIT > the irrelevant stuff away! What's so hard to understand about this? > > Do you notice that this posting, although it is deep in an ongoing thread, > covers

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:29:49PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 04:17:42PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 12:00:28PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:49:52PM -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > > > > In fact, it's a social convention, a ma

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote: > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made

Re: My favorite radio stations

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 02:27:36PM -0500, Peter Smerdon wrote: > "Jamiil Abduqadir" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On my windows xp I listen to this radio stations, but for some reason, > > debian, laterst and stable version, does not play any music whe I log ing > > using iceweasel or any of t

Re: My favorite radio stations

2008-01-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:41:58AM -0500, Jamiil Abduqadir wrote: > First and foremost, I would like to thank you Peter, Cesar and David for > your prompt response; each and everyone of you submitted an opinion just as > valid as the other's opinions were. > Having stated that, I want you to know t

Re: [SOLVED] Re: Transparent proxy - forwarding does not work

2008-01-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:08:55PM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 08:11:34AM -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Alex Samad wrote: [snip] Well, this solution is far more complicated than what I w

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only because nvidia's such a fat-ass hog. Otherwise it would be a bout 3 MiB.

external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Preston Boyington
I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? Has anyone done this from a Windows machine and could maybe give me some examples? Thanks,

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > [snip] > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > > > > I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunch of mean > > looking guys at my door. I figure it's either the Spanish >

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Eduardo M KALINOWSKI: > Александър Л. Димитров wrote: >> Having mulitple entries in grub isn't really much of a distraction. And the >> kernel images don't eat a lot of memory, too. Mine is currently 1.8 MiB, >> /lib/modules is 12 Mib, but that's only because nvidia's such a fat-ass hog. >> O

Re: external drive as partial mirror

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Preston Boyington: > I have been given an external drive and was wondering if there would be > a problem with my making it a partial mirror. Does the mirror require > any particular permissions or can I leave the drive Fat32? I think there are ways to mount a Fat32 with any given UID, p

Broken mouse cursor under X

2008-01-16 Thread Laurent Fousse
Hello, Since a recent upgrade I have broken mouse cursors under X. Instead of the regular cursor I get some sort of translation/vertical mirror of it. It affects all cursors (the all-purpose arrow cursor, the text cursor, the hand-that-points-at-a-link cursor...). Unfortunately the `import' comma

bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Adam Hardy
I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when they are not the last session to close. Is that normal? Or is there

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Vikki Roemer
On Jan 16, 2008 6:25 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells > open > sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command > immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Александър Л . Димитров
Quoth Adam Hardy: > I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh > shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save > every command immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash > sessions, when they are not the last session to close. > >

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-16 18:38:08 -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 6:25 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and > > ssh shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash > > doesn't save every command immediately and l

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > > > > > > I'd tell you why that's not true but there's a bunc

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Adam Hardy wrote: I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells open sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when they are not the last session to close. Is that

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-01-17 05:37:34 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > set -o histappend > > appends the history file instead of overwriting it. $ set -o histappend bash: set: histappend: invalid option name But even if it can append commands, would bash do that *immediately*? It seems that bash can save the h

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-01-17 05:37:34 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: set -o histappend appends the history file instead of overwriting it. $ set -o histappend bash: set: histappend: invalid option name Sorry about that. It should be "shopt -s histappend" But even if it can appen

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

2008-01-16 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 23:23:43 +0100 Александър Л. Димитров <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoth David Baron: > > I have been having network problems lately. Comes up for a second, then > > dies, > > repeatedly. > > > > So I get the same emails, over and over again. Fetchmail can apparently get >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 20:07:08 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/14/08 18:58, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 03:25:14PM -0800, Raquel wrote: > >> On Tue, 15 Jan 2008 09:52:04 +1100 > >> Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: bash history

2008-01-16 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Jan 16, 2008 3:25 PM, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use alot of console windows in X as well as having shells and ssh shells > open > sometimes for the same user. I notice that bash doesn't save every command > immediately and loses the history from simultaneous bash sessions, when

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if > > > > the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of > > > > wood and therefore, she'll

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread David
Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, then she must be made of wood and therefore, she'll f

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:46:38 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Its also to recommended to set the line wrap variable in your editor to > about 72 or so. I don't know how to set that in Slypheed Claws. Configuration / Preferences / Compose / Wrapping > Chris. Celejar --

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 09:28:30AM -0800, David Brodbeck wrote: > On Jan 15, 2008, at 6:14 PM, Gregory Seidman wrote: > >On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:40:15PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>On Jan 15, 9:10 am, Gregory Seidman >>[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>I have an existing setup that uses fo

Re: Etch to Lenny, two kernel options now, why?

2008-01-16 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 06:10:34PM +0100, ??. wrote: > Quoth Douglas A. Tutty: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 01:39:51PM +0100, ??. > > wrote: > > There's and advantage to having some kind of static-linked shell (at > > le

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > [snip] > > > > > > > > Well, now you're just contradicting. > >

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 16, 2008 8:08 AM, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 16/01/2008, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If ducks float, they must be made of wood (or small rocks), > > > > > so if the witch weighs the same as a duck, t

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:43:23PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 05:12:07PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 12:53:34PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:

tn3270 emulation, connection problems

2008-01-16 Thread joseph lockhart
i am wondering if anyone has experience with the c3270, x3270, s3270 packages? the help and documentation for these seems more sketchy than most. The computers i use for work run attachmate's extra! which is a tn3270 emulator. the computers that they connect to are ibm 3270's (as far as i can tell

GUI programming

2008-01-16 Thread hce
Hi, Sorry for an off topic, but for your opinion. I am going to work on GUI programming using C++ and running on both Debian platform and Window. Which GUI package is popular, QT4, OpenGL, or something else? Thank you. Kind Regards, Jim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: powerline ethernet

2008-01-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:35:41AM -0500, Scott Lair wrote: > > Anyone using a powerline ethernet with debian? I've got > some difficult to wire locations so I thought I'd investigate > my options. I've tried wireless and it's a bit spotty so > I'm hoping that some debian folks have some good ex

Re: GUI programming

2008-01-16 Thread Jozef Peterka
Hi there, just a short note: there are MANY popular toolkits, mostly qt(KDE), gtk(GNOME), wx, etc. etc. But, you are probably asking about multiplatformness of those. So let see ... look at all the great mozilla software, they are writen with GTK + toolkit, and as you can now firefox, thunderbird

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-16 Thread Scott Gifford
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] > The motherboard I'm using is an intel d945gnt. It has an intel Martix > driver that will let me do RAID 5 in the bios. Then, linux should see > one big whopping device. That sounds like the easiest solution to me. > > Option two is to use linux software RAID.