Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:44:51AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2008 00:28, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > >> http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/ > >>install.txt (use your nearest

Re: No internal mic on the dell XPS M1330 laptop

2008-08-21 Thread Magnus Pedersen
Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: Hi, I am unable to get the internal microphone to work on my dell XPS M1330 laptop. Has anybody succeeded in doing so? For the obvious answers: yes, I have googled, and have tried lots of different settings in "option snd_hda_intel model=..." settings in /etc/modprobe.d

RE: Which USB stick for Debian root filesystem

2008-08-21 Thread Tammo Schuelke
I'm using Sandisk Cruzer Contour sticks for this purpose (with our firewall hosts for example). They're quite durable and fast. USB sticks generally have problems when it comes to many write cycles (shouldn't fail within such a short time though, mean time between failure is about one million wr

Re: unsubcribe

2008-08-21 Thread simon
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Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Mag Gam
Sharchar: Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos ANy thoughts about this? Either way, thanks for

Migrate: Windows AD --> Linux

2008-08-21 Thread janskey
Hi All, I need advice on how I can migrate my AD to linux? I've seen some article using samba and openldap. Any advice? Currently we're using Windows 2003 evaluation and its going to expire. Thanks! cheers, janskey

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Kemp
On Wed Aug 20, 2008 at 16:19:57 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > With that one glaring wart hidden I have to say that I've upgraded mutt to > "viable" again. I still don't like having to search for my new mail. If you use the mutt-patched package you can take advantage of the sidebar to have

Race Conditions between initramfs interface scripts and network file mounts in Debian Etch?

2008-08-21 Thread Matthew Macdonald-Wallace
Hi all, I'm working on a system with multiple network cards configured as follows: eth0 - WAN connection eth1 ---\ |-- Bonded (bond0) Lan connection eth2 ---/ Currently, my /etc/network/interfaces file lists the interfaces in the following order: auto eth0 eth0 configuration data...

The minimum running X

2008-08-21 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to install just a minimum on my machine ( small Disk < 512M ), but running X, for example JVM or fluxbox. When I tried apt-install xserver-xorg, it install extra packages I am sure don't need and took big space. I want the minimum and required package, can I have a list please ? I've

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Daniel Burrows wrote: > Do you know how this compares to offlineimap? I've been using that > to synchronize mailboxes more-or-less happily for the last few years. I do not, no. I have not used offlineimap so cannot make any comparison. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Johann Spies wrote: > My experience is not that it is 'horribly slow and > inefficient'. Are you sure that it is not a network-related slowness? Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem! Which is going to be faster:

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Kemp wrote: > If you use the mutt-patched package you can take advantage of the > sidebar to have a toggleable list of mailboxes on the left side of > the screen. > I've further updated that to allow it to show you only folders with > new messages. See here for details, and here fo

Re: Errors DirMngr

2008-08-21 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D No more dirmngr errors -za, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Nicolas KOWALSKI
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:19:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > One of the many faults I find with mutt is its IMAP > implementation. In two words, it fails. Copying individual messages > from the current folder to any other folder, especially trash, by > downloading the message and then

Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
Hello, I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the partitoner. Can anyone please tell me what could be the matter? I had installed 4.0r3 on

Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-08-21 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid. Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" Driver "synaptics" Option "SendCoreEvents""true"

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Owen Townend
2008/8/21 Mag Gam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sharchar: > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? > Lets say I keep the fs images in /home/$user/.isos

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Owen Townend wrote: > fuse allows users with filesystem access to an image to mount it > within one of their own directories. > There are fuse drivers for iso (fuseiso), ext (fuseext2), tar > (archivemount, avfs), tar, gzip, bzip2, rar (avfs), network (fusesmb). >

Re: Errors DirMngr

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D > No more dirmngr errors No. Expect more bugs from unstable. > > -za, -- Shachar Or | שחר אור http://ox.freeallweb.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Migrate: Windows AD --> Linux

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:08, janskey wrote: > Hi All, > > I need advice on how I can migrate my AD to linux? I've seen some article > using samba and openldap. Any advice? My advice would depend on your level of skill with a shell, Linux networking and Debian. While Debian makes it and most

Re: The minimum running X

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 13:28, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to install just a minimum on my machine ( small Disk < 512M ), but > running X, for example JVM or fluxbox. > When I tried apt-install xserver-xorg, it install extra packages I am sure > don't need and took big space. > >

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. > I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y > s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the > partitoner. Can anyone p

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Jayakrishnan M
Hi, I am not sure what the issue might be (hard to guess with no much info on your setup). Just noting down something that came to my mind: I had seen one person facing similar issue (on an AMD64 machine). He had to disable USB devices in BIOS to get his installation working. Wierd, but that is wh

where are properties of X ?

2008-08-21 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, Here is the content of xorg.conf, it is working correctly, but where are the specification and properties of my X ? somewhere probably ? ( using lenny distro) . thanks [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/X11/xorg.conf # xorg.conf (X.Org X Window System server configuration file) # # This file was g

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
you should try loading the synaptics driver install it first i don't remember exactly the steps, but it is something like that! it seems that the synaptics drivers are not installed by default in laptops anymore cheers! On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:27, Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Thursday 21 August 2008 vers 03:58, Mag Gam("Mag Gam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit: Hello, > I am very interested in the fuse AND the fs image solution. Is it > possible to integrate that into auto mounter or autofs type > solution? Afuse seems do this sort things. Have a look at http://afu

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-21 Thread Johann Spies
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:55:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to > download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem! Which is > going to be > faster: > > A: Downloading 2000 messages totaling 10Mb over a 300kps connection > then

Re: where are properties of X ?

2008-08-21 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 21 Aug 2008 12:47:46 +0100 "abdelkader belahcene" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello abdelkader, > Here is the content of xorg.conf, it is working correctly, but where > are the specification and properties of my X ? somewhere probably ? X is now much, much better at figuring out mouse, an

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > Sharchar: > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > /home/$userid/& and automatically mount and unmount these fs images? > Lets say I keep the fs images i

Re: Connecting two computers using an ethernet cable

2008-08-21 Thread Rick Morneau
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 07:55:21PM +0200, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Celejar wrote: > >On Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:05:35 -0600 > >Rick Morneau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >>I have two computers that I would like to transfer files > >>between. One runs Debian Etch r3 and the other runs > >>Fed

Re: no network connection

2008-08-21 Thread Ed Sutter
I can run gconf-editor, but there is no NetworkManagerApplet under apps. I see that there is something called NetworkManager and NetworkManagerDispatcher under /usr/sbin; but when I run gconf-editor, there's no apps->NetworkManagerApplet entry. continued thanks...

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:27:11AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Up to date Sid. > > Back before the recent changes in X, I had put this in my xorg.conf: > > Section "InputDevice" > Identifier "Synaptics Touchpad" > Driver "synaptics" > Option "Se

Re: KDE Automount stopped working

2008-08-21 Thread Kumar Ravichandran
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 22:49:22 -0400, Kumar Ravichandran wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 12:05:42AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > > > > How long did you wait after these messages appeared? On my system it > > > take

Re: interface for tar

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 16:18, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 06:29:00AM -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > > Sharchar: > > > > Can I do that with autofs? Lets say I have a directory called > > /home/$userid/image_files; can I have autofs to look for > > /home/$userid/& and automatically mo

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 07:22:46AM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: > Thanks for the help. I've looked into this a bit more. You're running etch. etch's thunar does not depend on, and probably can't use thunar-volman. http://packages.debian.org/etch/thunar tells us that it suggests hal and pmount. This i

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
John O Laoi wrote: > > > Thanks for the help. > > > I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman. > > This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert! > > > The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for > sid: > > http://packages.debian.

Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
Thank you Jayakrishnan and Shachar for your replies. On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:31 PM, Jayakrishnan M <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > facing similar issue (on an AMD64 machine). He had to disable USB > devices in BIOS to get his installation working. Wierd, but that is > what happened. This could be a

Iceape (mozilla browser) Bookmarks list does not scroll during drag drop

2008-08-21 Thread H.S.
Hello, On Debian Testing, if I drag a link to the Bookmarks menu the menu opens fine. I have a large list of bookmark folders in it and I need to bring the link (mouse button still depressed) to the little down-arrow near the bottom of the list to make the list scroll up. However, it just stays th

Re: Ambit?

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Output of lspci -vvv 00:0b.0 Ethernet controller: Atheros Communications Inc. AR2413 802.11bg NIC (rev 01) Subsystem: AMBIT Microsystem Corp. Unknown device 0418 Control: I/O- Mem- BusMaster- SpecCycl

Re: where is ath9k?

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: <-- SNIP --> me. Guess which ones I use. :-) Sorry I wasn't able to help you get it running. Au contraire, thanks a lot for helping me. Right now the pcmia or usb wifi card seems the best option. Any recomm

Re: acer driver

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
Jonathan Kaye wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: If it came with WindBloz did it include a CD with software for that card? Does it have any software for that card installed? Did the card work in WindBloz? If you have WindBloz software for it you might get it working using the ndiswrapper package. H

Re: Which USB stick for Debian root filesystem

2008-08-21 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello. Today, I have experienced file system crash on my USB stick. I had been running Debian on it for less than two months, and today it just started having problems reading some files. I ran fsck and... let's just say there was not much left from my file system Yes

Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

2008-08-21 Thread Kenneth Jacker
>From rsync(1): --deletedelete extraneous files from dest dirs --delete-before receiver deletes before transfer (default) --delete-during receiver deletes during xfer, not before --delete-after receiver deletes after transfer, not befor

Icons on Gnome desktop

2008-08-21 Thread andy
Hello Minor issue really, but would be nice if I could sort it out, so help would be welcomed: My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it

Increasing screen resolution

2008-08-21 Thread andy
Hi I have started a new thread on this to avoid hijacking a similar thread from someone else. My current screen resolution is 1400x1050 with a refresh rate of 50Hz. This is my xorg.conf file: # nvidia-xconfig: X configuration file generated by nvidia-xconfig # nvidia-xconfig: version 1.0

Re: Ugly java applet fonts

2008-08-21 Thread Rob Gom
Thank you very much for your answer. I have checked debconf-utils output and it was indeed bitmap fonts set to true. However, after unsetting it, look didn't change. I have proceed further and tried to decompile java classes, but they were so obfuscated, that I had to give up (I wanted to check whi

RE: What to do about SSH brute force attempts?

2008-08-21 Thread Tammo Schuelke
If you have an existing userbase, you can't just switch to public key authentication, depending on the type of customer. pubkey auth is also generally inconvenient if people tend to use different computers. This is also a problem we just ran into. Fortunately, recent versions of OpenSSH support

RE: Which --delete* to Use in 'rsync'

2008-08-21 Thread Tammo Schuelke
The during or after options should be a bit faster because rsync already knows what to delete and doesn't have to scan for changes, but especially after may cause problems if a directory changes into a file or the other way round. I don't know how rsync handles such cases, the option should prob

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:59, Shachar Or wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. > > I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y > > s-l-o-w-l-y. It's alread

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-21 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:46:49AM +0300, Shachar Or wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 09:30, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > >> http://debian.org.ua/debian-archive/dists/bo/main/disks-i386/1997-10-13/ > > what's wrong with the files *.bin > In VirtualBox OSE 1.6.2 it boots from the floppy, appare

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. > I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y > s-l-o-w-l-y. It's already been two hours and I'm still at the > partitoner. Can anyone p

Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread H.S.
Hello, In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the dictionary does not work. So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary to work OOo

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. >> I am using the AMD64 version. But the install is proceeding v-e-r-y >> s-l-o-w-l

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote: Hello, In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the dictionary does not work. So, how do I get the the

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Nishita Desai escreveu: I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit OS? No, 32 versus 64-bits has nothing to do with the number of proc

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:50, Nishita Desai wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:14 AM, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:44, Nishita Desai wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> I am trying to install Debian GNU/Linux 4.0r4 on a Core 2 Duo machine. > >> I am using th

compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Kenn Bannerman
I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. Thanks very much. Yours sincerely, Kenn Bannerman

Re: Very slow install

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:56, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Nishita Desai escreveu: > > I have successfully installed i386 version of 4.0r4. Though I would > > still like to know why the amd64 one didn't work. And /proc/cpuinfo > > shows only one processor. I suppose that is normal for a 32-bit

emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
Hello, I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you ar

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Michael Mohn
Am 21.08.2008 um 20:43 schrieb Kenn Bannerman: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. WTF? PGP.s

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:08, Michael Mohn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > Am 21.08.2008 um 20:43 schrieb Kenn Bannerman: > > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > they are compatible with certain software programs such as: > > AutoCAD > Adobe Photoshop et al >

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: I recommend aptitude instead of apt-get, it produces much better error messages. > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Bui

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Luca Bruno
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 22 Aug 2008 00:34:55 +0530 "Nishita Desai" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I'm tring to install Emacs on Debian 4.0r4. Here's what apt-get gives me: > > ff9:/home/nishita# apt-get install emacs > Reading package lists... Done > Build

emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
-- Forwarded message -- From: Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:45 AM Subject: Re: emacs not installable To: Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:39 AM, Felipe Gallois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > try emacs21 for the X version

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-08-21 21:15 +0200, Luca Bruno wrote: > Try installing emacs22-gtk. That package does not exist in Etch. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch contrib main # deb cdrom:[

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > they are compatible with certain software programs such as: You mean distributions, I assume. > > AutoCAD > Adobe Photoshop et al > SoundForge These are software bui

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:20, Nishita Desai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: > > How does your sources.list look? > > sources.list: > > # > # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Shachar Or
On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > > they are compatible with certain software programs such as: > > You mean distributions, I assume. > > > AutoC

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 16:25, Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 22:23, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Thursday 21 August 2008 21:43, Kenn Bannerman wrote: > > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > > > they are compatible with certai

Re: Icons on Gnome desktop

2008-08-21 Thread Johan Grönqvist
andy skrev: My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is called), I can double click the device icon and then it will appear on the desktop

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread andy baxter
Kenn Bannerman wrote: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge Any info you can supply would greatly help my decision. Linux is a quite different operating sys

Re: chkrootkit hidden processes possible LKM Trojan.

2008-08-21 Thread Wackojacko
Adam Hardy wrote: However, using #chkrootkit -x lkm and #/usr/lib/chkrootkit/chkproc -v -v Wacko, you haven't got a script that does that have you? (Identifying the process that is hidden from /proc/PID?) Seems a bit laborious doing it manually more than once. Adam As per my original

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Kenn Bannerman wrote: > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > they are compatible with certain software programs such as: A better strategy would be to ask the software vendors whether or not their program is supported under Linux. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Icons on Gnome desktop

2008-08-21 Thread andy
Johan Grönqvist wrote: andy skrev: My Lenny system faithfully automounts CDs and USB data sticks,etc., but when I am in Gnome, these automounted devices are not iconised on the desktop itself. If I go into "computer" (or whatever it is called), I can double click the device icon and then it wi

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I >> use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I >> select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the >> dictionary does

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Kenn Bannerman escreveu: I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: AutoCAD Adobe Photoshop et al SoundForge No Linux distribution is compatible with those programs. And no distribution will ever be, u

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Gerlach
Nishita Desai wrote: On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: How does your sources.list look? sources.list: # # deb cdrom:[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r4a _Etch_ - Official i386 CD Binary-1 20080803-21:07]/ etch cont

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Felipe Gallois
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 17:02, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > > > Nishita Desai wrote: > >> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 12:43 AM, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On 2008-08-21 21:04 +0200, Nishita Desai wrote: >>> How does your sources.list look? >>> >> >> sources.list: >> >>

Re: emacs not installable

2008-08-21 Thread Nishita Desai
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 1:32 AM, Eric Gerlach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try adding a line like: > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian etch main > > then run "aptitude update" and try it again. That did it! Thanks a LOT. Nishita -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Network Bandwitch incremental and less

2008-08-21 Thread Enrico Farabollini
Hello Guys, I recently installed Lenny on my laptop, the strange thing is that I have the speed sheet dynamics I went from 60 Mbytes a few KByte. Any idea. Hello -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

2008-08-21 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as dual-layer with double-layer support. However, anytime I put a DVD+R DL disc in the drive, I get a message from dmesg saying "I can't find any tracks on this disc!" and I/O errors if I attempt to write to the disc. Both Nautilus and k3b

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread Eric Gerlach
H.S. wrote: Hello, In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I select the language to be EN_CA from the Tools->Language menu, the dictionary does not work. So, how do I get the the Canadian dictionary

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread H.S.
Eric Gerlach wrote: > > If I recall correctly, for the longest time one just didn't exist for > OOo. OpenOffice.org offers the following page (disclosure: I haven't > tried it): > > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Dictionaries > > I'd be interested in knowing how you make out. I was

Re: Turning off touchpad "scroll"

2008-08-21 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 21 August 2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > just put the missing stuff back into xorg.conf, as a start. X still > respects those settings, so far as I know, it just doesn't *need* > them anymore. I tried

Re: Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

2008-08-21 Thread Cassiano Leal
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as > dual-layer with double-layer support. However, anytime I put a DVD+R DL > disc in the drive, I get a message from dmesg saying "I can't find any > tracks on

Re: Dual-Layer DVD+R under Gnome?

2008-08-21 Thread ReikoShea
I also had a similar issue. I upgraded the kernel to 2.6.24 and it resolved the issue. On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 17:30 -0300, Cassiano Leal wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 5:01 PM, Todd A. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > I have a Dell DVD+-RW GSA-H73N drive, and K3B recognizes it as >

Re: Ugly java applet fonts

2008-08-21 Thread Rob Gom
Hi, I have filed a bugreport against this issue - 495988. If you have any comments, feel free to include them to that report. Regards, Robert -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread John O Laoi
I've tried some of these solutions. However, when I insert a CD say, and run # fdisk -l it does not even see the CD volume, so there is no device to mount. What could be causing that? John

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread consultores1
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:47 -0400, H.S. wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 08/21/08 13:48, H.S. wrote: > >> Hello, > >> > >> In Debian Lenny, I have my locate set as en_CA.UTF-8. However, when I > >> use OpenOffice.Org, on US American dictionary seems to be used. If I > >> select the language to be

Re: Errors DirMngr

2008-08-21 Thread Robin
2008/8/21 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 21 August 2008 14:21, Zaki Akhmad wrote: >> Problems solved. I change testing to unstable :-D >> No more dirmngr errors > > No. Expect more bugs from unstable. >> >> -za, > > -- > Shachar Or | שחר אור > http://ox.freeallweb.org/ > You do Debi

Re: KDE Automount stopped working

2008-08-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 10:34:53 -0400, Kumar Ravichandran wrote: > On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 08:19:56AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > How is the overall state of your system, is it fully upgraded? I ask > > because your version of Mutt is too new for Etch, but older than what > > you shou

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 13:52 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > They're trying to tell you something... The Debian lists are not the place to be a racist bastard, Ron. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Canada dictionary in OOo in Debian?

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 15:04 -0700, consultores1 wrote: > I'm having the same situation, it looks that the Canadian dictionary > doesn't exist yet! and by default it use U.S. dictionary. > > My preference in this case is to use British dictionary, but i can't. Make sure the en-gb packages are ins

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-08-21 at 14:43 -0400, Kenn Bannerman wrote: > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate > whether they are compatible with certain software programs such as: > > AutoCAD > Adobe Photoshop et al > SoundForge The vendors should be able to provide you with t

Re: trying to get tyan s2895 audio working --tyan support does not like debian.....help.

2008-08-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 14:46:06 -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: > after being on the phone with Tyan -- i have realized how useless they are. > I am trying to get the audio working on the board. > I have a debain 4.0 AMD 64 version. > > i did an lspci on my server and got this: [...] > 00:04.0 Mu

Re: Increasing screen resolution

2008-08-21 Thread Sudev Barar
>2008/8/21 andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [SNIP] > Section "Monitor" > Identifier "Monitor0" > VendorName "Unknown" > ModelName "Unknown" > HorizSync 30.0 - 110.0 > VertRefresh 50.0 - 150.0 > Option "DPMS" > EndSection > > > I'd like to increase the resolutio

Re: lynx upgrade issue?

2008-08-21 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: TD> On Mon, Aug 18, 2008 at 01:50:19PM +0200, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: >> gotcha. ok, so it loads lynx now without incident, but it's still >> using default oldlynx colors, which is at least a step better than default TD> Some people woul

[slightly OT] modifying Emacs html helper mode

2008-08-21 Thread gary turner
Emacs's html-helper-mode is seriously out of date vis-a-vis current html standards. It is my intention to modify the cookies to bring them up to html4.01 or xhtml1.0 recommendations, and current best practice. There are areas where I need guidance. The Debian Emacs packages install the file(s

epson R380 printer

2008-08-21 Thread Paul Cartwright
I have an Epson R380 printer setup. My problem is, whenever I print a text doc, using gedit or Kate, it finishes printing, but it doesn't do a form feed, so the paper is stuck in the printer. The printer continues to say "printing" yet Debian says the printer is idle. not sure how to fix that.. her

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