Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:25:31 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 10:19:14AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/27/08 10:04, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:36:21AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > > >> i'll teach you to turn awa

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On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:25:03 -0700, yinglcs wrote: > > Hi, > > I have been getting this dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'. > I have been posting my question on various forum and I still cant' resolve > it. > > dpkg: error processing > /var/cache/apt/archives/xfonts-encodings_1%

Re: dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 1:29 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:25:03 -0700, yinglcs wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> I have been getting this dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'. >> I have been posting my question on various forum and I still cant' resolve

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Re: dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'

On Tue May 27 2008 12:20:45 ying lcs wrote: > I get this: > > $ lsattr /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz > --SDi-dAc-Z-E---T- /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz > > How to change using 'chattr' command? chattr = /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hk

Re: dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 2:30 PM, Mike Bird <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue May 27 2008 12:20:45 ying lcs wrote: >> I get this: >> >> $ lsattr /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz >> --SDi-dAc-Z-E---T- /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz >> >> How to change

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Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 10:21, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: [snip] > > i DID get him to switch two of his three computers to debian... > the windows machine exists solely so he cav VPN to work with proprietary > software. that's one bugfix... well,

Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 12:38, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Hi, > > I'm looking for a decent imap server that supports hierarchical folders. > My first try was Cyrus, but that one is too pedantic when accepting > legacy emails. Other suggestions were Courier and

Re: dpkg error: unable to make backup link of '...'

On Tue May 27 2008 12:41:19 ying lcs wrote: > I have tried you suggestion. And it becomes: > > $ lsattr /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz > --Z-E- /usr/share/fonts/X11/encodings/large/big5hkscs-0.enc.gz > > But I still get the same error: Try "rm /usr/share/fonts/

Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

Hi Ron, brilliant observation. :-) I can't wait to upgrade from this ancient Mozilla, once I get this imap stuff to work... No, I can't change the dots to underscores, sorry. Cyrus appers to be really smart about dots and change them secretly to charets, or something. Is it possible to have

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > > s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > sk> i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> granted, but i didn't want my boyfrie

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 07:24:25 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/27/08 09:07, Raymond A. Meijer wrote: > > On Tue 27 May 2008 8:56, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> hey, i figure - we're already WILDLY off-topic, right? how much > >>> worse can it get? :D > >> > >> A lot worse. > > > > /me grabs pop corn an

Re: debian-offtopic list [Was: Re: obscenely OT Re: apt-get joke]

On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:32:52 am Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 04:19:13PM +0100, Steve Kemp wrote: > > If you want off-topic mail there are better places than > > debian-user to pollute. > > > > Just remember how many people receive these mails.. > > Maybe you want to advoc

Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote: > Hi Ron, > > brilliant observation. :-) I can't wait to upgrade from this ancient > Mozilla, once I get this imap stuff to work... > > No, I can't change the dots to underscores, sorry. Cyrus appers to

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Re: squid error Squid Parent: child process exited due to signal 6

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Re: maple constantly crashes

On Wed, 28 May 2008 01:18:30 +0800 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > Maple 11 is fine on my 64 bit Etch box: > have you tried Maple 12 ? > what do you mean by `compositing' ? > are you using Compiz stuff ? > It's related to what compiz does, but xfce knows how to use some of

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Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:22 -0700 "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn > > away. > wrote: > > > s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > sk> i'll t

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 17:38, Raquel wrote: > On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:22 -0700 > "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you to turn

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

On Mon, 19 May 2008 14:33:58 -0500 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > Just FYI, I went back to 2.6.24-1-686. > I had 2.6.25-1-686 + 2.6.25-2-686 running for 9 days and had 3 hard > freezes: nothing moved, no kbd, no mouse. > The logs showed nothing up to the moment. > That hasn

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. > > I wrote a C++ program that was bug free once. Worked perfectly every > time. Here's the source: Doesn't do mail, so it's not done. -- Any tech

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > oh don't worry. We'll uncover someone's homophobia quite nicely. So > > long as the topic doesn't drift to religion, we'll be okay. > > Though we're treading damn close right now. Homopho

Re: freezes in 2.6.25

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Re: freezes in 2.6.25

On Tue, 27 May 2008 18:32:21 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar writes: > > some sort of regression in the RTC code (I, and the reporter there, had > > been running 2.6.24 without any problems), since when I followed a > > suggestion in the bug thread and disabled chrony, the p

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:07:45 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. The bugs just haven't And you call yourself a Mutt user! From the manpage: BUGS None. Mutts have fleas, not bugs. ... For a more up-to-date list

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Though we're treading damn close right now. Homophobia is sometimes the > result of religous doctrine. How could religious doctrine result in a fear that everything will be like everything else? Entropy is the end-point of the un

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:06:13AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > > > Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. > > > > I wrote a C++ program that was bug free once. Worked perfectly every > > ti

Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot [was: Looking for a decent IMAP server with hierarchical folders]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 16:00, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/27/08 15:27, Public Mailing Lists wrote: >> Hi Ron, > >> brilliant observation. :-) I can't wait to upgrade from this ancient >> Mozilla, once I get this imap stuff to work... > >> No, I can't change the

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 8>-- > > # > > 8>-- EMFBI, but that won't compile in Fortran. Here's a quick and dirty patch C :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 8:19 AM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually, there are 2, maybe three other semi-active women on the > list. The reason is obvious: math is hard, computers are icky. The "maybe" one is Michelle. :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:00:52PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Though we're treading damn close right now. Homophobia is sometimes the > > result of religous doctrine. > > How could religious doctrine result in a fear tha

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:21:04PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 5:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 8>-- > > > > # > > > > 8>-- > > EMFBI, but that won't compile in Fortran. Here's a quick and dirty patch > > C > > :) > And in postscript, and a few oth

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/27/08 17:38, Raquel wrote: > > On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:22 -0700 > > > > "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 05:13:47AM +, i'll teach you

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/27/08 21:16, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Tuesday 27 May 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/27/08 17:38, Raquel wrote: >>> On Tue, 27 May 2008 13:25:22 -0700 >>> >>> "Paul Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 27 May 2008 08:07:45 am Andr

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Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

El mar, 27-05-2008 a las 15:22 +, i'll teach you to turn away. escribió: > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ASW> On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 06:36:21AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > >> [Ron, what happens if crank is female?] > ASW> Ooh! I know the answer to this one! We all crowd aro

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Re: dot in folder name in Courier or Dovecot

Public Mailing Lists <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > No, I can't change the dots to underscores, sorry. Cyrus appers to > be really smart about dots and change them secretly to charets, or > something. Is it possible to have any other imap server do this the > same way, i.e. transparently? With Dov