Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] > Wine is fermented from fruit. > Distilled wine is brandy. > Beer is fermented from grain. > Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? > Sake is fermented from rice. Rice is a grain. Sake is a beer. > Mead

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: [snip] Wine is fermented from fruit. Distilled wine is brandy. Beer is fermented from grain. Distilled beer is whiskey. Corn beer? Technically, yes. Sake is fermented from r

Hallo Debian

2008-06-03 Thread Claudia Sommer
Hallo Debian, ich habe eine Live CD von Debian, wenn ich von der CD boote, öffnet sich ein Fenster mit Login und Passwort, wie lauten die ? Gruß Sommer - Gesendet von Yahoo! Mail. Dem pfiffigeren Posteingang.

Re: Uninstall programs installed in wine.

2008-06-03 Thread Christopher Judd
On Monday 02 June 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 12:15:17AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > ... > > What can you expect from me. I grew up in the Village of West > Toronto Junction, which until sometime in the 1980's was the last > officially, by-law, dry community in Canada

Re: Firefox in 32-bit chroot

2008-06-03 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 02/06/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 07:24:05PM -0500, Jordi Guti?rrez Hermoso wrote: > > On 29/05/2008, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I'm attempting to run firefox in a 32-bit chroot > > > > Why? Do you really need to do this? O

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > [...] > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that would > > put up an xmessage saying when the system was last updated, when I boot > > up Lenny? > > > > Much appreciation to

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-03 Thread Jeff Grossman
James Richardson wrote: Jeff Grossman wrote: Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole /var/ directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the enter key I knew I screwed up. I went and did a chown to root

Re: Script for when system was last updated (Resolved)

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 14:12, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Monday 02 June 2008 22:57, Mumia W.. wrote: > > On 06/02/2008 01:14 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > [...] > > > Could someone suggest a script I could put in ~/.kde/autostart that > > > would put up an xmessage saying when the system was last upda

lenny, xterm,rxvt, ncurses programs do not act on terminal size change

2008-06-03 Thread Martin Kraus
Hi, I've noticed some time ago that when I change terminal size(both urxvt,xterm) ncurses programs running inside do not get this information or do not act on this information. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is it some problem with the terminals or is it a problem with ncurses? It used t

Essentials of Employment Law Asia & Malaysia

2008-06-03 Thread Ahrals Business Forums
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(solved)Re: problem with Chinese file names

2008-06-03 Thread Serena Cantor
You are right! Thanks! --- Fan Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You probably need the utf8 option added when mounting the FAT > partition. > > Here's an example from my /etc/fstab > > /dev/sda1 /media/disk vfat rw,utf8,auto 0 1 > > Cheers, > Fan > > On Mon,

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-03 Thread James Richardson
Jeff Grossman wrote: > James Richardson wrote: >> Jeff Grossman wrote: >> >>> Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a >>> chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole >>> /var/ directory to www-data. Of course, right when I hit the >>> enter key I knew I s

Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After months of using IceWm, I installed gnome-core to get some of the functions only available with Gnome. Now eveytime I use the appearance item on the menu, when I am finished, gnome-appearance stays running, consuming 50% of cpu. I have to kill

Re: lenny, xterm,rxvt, ncurses programs do not act on terminal size change

2008-06-03 Thread Jan C. Nordholz
Hi, > I've noticed some time ago that when I change terminal size(both urxvt,xterm) > ncurses programs running inside do not get this information or do not act on > this information. Is anyone else having the same problem? Is it some problem > with the terminals or is it a problem with ncurses? I

Can't turn off screen blanking

2008-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
I'm using Sid on a Thinkpad Z61M. I can't turn off screen blanking, which happens after about 10 min. I don't have either KDE or Gnome; just icewm. I've used "xset s noblank" and "xset -dpms" and I've removed xscreensaver; no luck. I can't see anything in the BIOS that I can turn off. Any ideas?

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
Hi, Claudia, This is an English-speaking list; if you need help in German, you should contact debian-user-de. Dies ist eine Englishsprechende Liste; wenn Sie Deutsche Hilf brauchen, emailen Sie bitte die Liste debian-user-de. (I apologize to everyone in .de for my German) On Tue, Jun 03

Re: Aptitude Install Error

2008-06-03 Thread Jeff Grossman
On Tue, 3 Jun 2008 09:29:59 -0400 James Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > Jeff Grossman wrote: > > James Richardson wrote: > >> Jeff Grossman wrote: > >> > >>> Today I did a pretty bonehead move. I was trying to do a > >>> chown on a directory in /var and I ended up chowning the whole > >>>

Re: Script for when system was last updated (Resolved)

2008-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2008 08:06 AM, Nigel Henry wrote: [...] lastupd=`ls /home/djmons/History-files | sort -n | tail -1` xmessage "Last updated on $lastupd" Now the xmessage displays correctly with the date of last update. Thanks for the help with the script. Nigel. Sure, glad to be of help. -- To U

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-03 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hallo Claudia, Du hast an eine englischsprache liste gepostet, besser ist es wenn Du in deutsch an <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> postest Welche Live-CD hast Du? Ubuntu? Koppix? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator 24V Electronic Engineer Tamay Dogan Network

Re: Can't turn off screen blanking -SOLVED

2008-06-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 03 Jun 2008, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I'm using Sid on a Thinkpad Z61M. I can't turn off screen blanking, > which happens after about 10 min. I don't have either KDE or Gnome; just > icewm. > > I've used "xset s noblank" and "xset -dpms" and I've removed > xscreensaver; no luck. I can't see an

Re: Hallo Debian

2008-06-03 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Tuesday 03 June 2008 22:33:58 Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hallo Claudia, > > Du hast an eine englischsprache liste gepostet, besser ist es wenn Du in > deutsch an <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> postest > > Welche Live-CD hast Du? Ubuntu? Koppix? Could be Mepis or DSL Mihira. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Local Exim and reportbug

2008-06-03 Thread Fredrik Tolf
Hello list! I have a few Debian systems at home, and my own domain name with e-mail set up (that's the domain I'm posting this from). The SMTP server that sends mail outwards (I'm running Sendmail on Etch) uses SMTP authentication to avoid being an open relay. I use GSSAPI authentication with krb5

Re: Local Exim and reportbug

2008-06-03 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Fredrik Tolf escreveu: Hello list! I have a few Debian systems at home, and my own domain name with e-mail set up (that's the domain I'm posting this from). The SMTP server that sends mail outwards (I'm running Sendmail on Etch) uses SMTP authentication to avoid being an open relay. I use GSSAPI

Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/03/08 08:29, Frank McCormick wrote: > > After months of using IceWm, I installed gnome-core to get some of the > functions only available with Gnome. Now eveytime I use the appearance > item on the menu, when I am finished, gnome-appearance st

Kolab/Cyrus question

2008-06-03 Thread Mark J. Small
Hi everybody, I'm thinking of setting up the Kolab groupware server on one of my computers to help keep everybody organized. It looks like it will fit my needs. The computer is running etch (stable). However, I already have cyrus-imap set up on this computer (version 2.1). If I install ko

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-06-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 23:01:18 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 16:33:53 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote: > > > Am Sonntag, 1. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > > > On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:31:26 +0200, Rainer Dorsch wrote:

Re: X affecting console text color?? [solved]

2008-06-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 21:09:34 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 14:27:54 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Op Sat, May 31, 2008 at 16:39:03 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 14:10:47 +0200, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > > > My console text has the defau

Re: Script for when system was last updated

2008-06-03 Thread Nigel Henry
On Monday 02 June 2008 23:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:14:24PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Not long ago I booted Lenny, and discovered there were more than 800MB of > > updates waiting to be installed, and not a bunch of fun on dialup. > > Looking at my saved history f

Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:59:04 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/03/08 08:29, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > After months of using IceWm, I installed gnome-core to get some of >

[OT] Moonlight covenant

2008-06-03 Thread Robin
>From Groklaw Q: Why is Microsoft feeling it necessary to say this? A: They're being politicians, saying words that are supposed to make people feel better, but that actually contain no meaning or commitment. This covenant is worthless and, even worse, could be harmful to those who fall into the

Re: strange gs problem: unicode encoding problem with pdf (?)

2008-06-03 Thread Rainer Dorsch
I have currently problems with my DNS entry, please replace alzental-castle.de by bokonew.homelinux.org in URLs given below. Thanks, Rainer Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Rainer Dorsch: > Am Montag, 2. Juni 2008 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > > On Sun, Jun 01, 2008 at 16:33:53 +0200, Rainer Dorsch

Re: wireless-tools not working.

2008-06-03 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 16:41:01 +1000 Tony R Quilkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry Celejar, I'm just getting used to this mail list idea as well. > > Celejar wrote: > > On Sun, 01 Jun 2008 12:28:09 +1000 > > Tony R Quilkey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ... > > > >> The following output i

Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Ken Heard
On 26 March 2008 I purchased a computer with an Intel dual core CPU and a SATA hard drive. Since then I have off and on spent in the aggregate 77.94 hours trying to install and configure Etch on it using the third revision of net-install disk. I have so far made eight attempts to

Re: Sliding OT

2008-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 12:13:09AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 06/02/08 23:28, Marc Shapiro wrote: > >[snip] > > > >>Wine is fermented from fruit. > >>Distilled wine is brandy. > >>Beer is fermented from grain. > >>Distilled beer is whiskey. > >> > > > >Corn beer? >

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:47:01PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have > been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with > the xfs file system and KDE. On the recommendation of the installer I > used the LIL

[SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-03 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For future reference--- I had a GTK2.0-rc file sitting in my home dir. Drove Gnome absolutely nuts!! All's well that ends. On Tue, 03 Jun 2008 16:46:23 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash

Re: HotSwapping Disks

2008-06-03 Thread David Clymer
On Fri, 2008-05-30 at 15:18 +0100, UDP 514 wrote: > I have a server with hot swap disks. > > I'd like to be able to swap out a non-system disk , eg /dev/sdd and > put in a new > disk, partition it in fdisk, then mount those partitions. This all > works fine, I can partition it, > but the lin

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 07:47:01PM -0400, Ken Heard wrote: > > > What happened earlier today is more or less typical of the what I have > > been up against. I was able to complete the eighth installation with > > the xfs file syste

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 12:11:33AM -0400, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Tue, 2008-06-03 at 21:12 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I don't know what the problem is since I haven't used LILO since, I > > think, Potato (IOW, I think I was using Grub on Sarge). > > > > You

Is there any todo manager tools?

2008-06-03 Thread Ding Honghui
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I need a todo manager tools has such feature: 1. category support ( personal, business, etc ) 2. remind before due date ( by mail ,etc ) 3. relation between todo lists ( such as todo A dependence todo B ) 4. support priority ( it's better when I can g

Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.

2008-06-03 Thread freeman
On Tue, Jun 03, 2008 at 01:59:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 06/03/08 08:29, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > After months of using IceWm, I installed gnome-core to get some of the > > functions only available with Gnome. Now eveytime I use

Re: Etch won't load after eight attempts

2008-06-03 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/03/2008 06:47 PM, Ken Heard wrote: On 26 March 2008 I purchased a computer with an Intel dual core CPU and a SATA hard drive. Since then I have off and on spent in the aggregate 77.94 hours trying to install and configure Etch on it using the third revision of net-install disk.