Re: Problem scrolling back in runlevel 2. Etch netinst

2008-08-24 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 04:56:10PM +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > When working in runlevel 2, as with my Etch netinst, I'm unable to scroll > back. for example I run lsmod, but only see what's on the screen, which is > the tail end of lsmod. You can only scroll back if you have not moved to a diffe

Solving sudoku with aptitude

2008-08-24 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Here is an interesting article where the author uses package dependencies and conflict handling mechanisms of the debian package management system to solve sudoku puzzles http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entry/package-management-sudoku/ Regards, Raj Kiran -- If you can't explain it s

Re: Solving sudoku with aptitude

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 10:36, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Here is an interesting article where the author uses package > dependencies and conflict handling mechanisms of the debian package > management system to solve sudoku puzzles Daniel _rocks_ > > http://algebraicthunk.net/~dburrows/blog/entr

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Mihira Fernando
On Sunday 24 August 2008 10:09:42 Vit wrote: > Hi all! > I've got problem. > On Windows PC I've got file called "CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc". When I try to acess > this pc through samba, I have "File does not exist: > smb://balls/D/CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc" error and the directory is not even > listed. (From toh

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/23/08 23:39, Vit wrote: Hi all! I've got problem. On Windows PC I've got file called "CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc". When I try to acess this pc through samba, I have "File does not exist: smb://balls/D/CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc" error and the directory is not > even listed. (From toher Windows it's ok).

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-24 12:00:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /etc/hostname. > > > > There can be problems with that. I don't remember ex

emacs keyboard macro converted to function

2008-08-24 Thread Misko
In emacs I can record keyboard macro, name it with M-x name-last-kbd-macro snd save it in buffer with M-x insert-kbd-macro When I do this I get something like: (fset 'mymacro "\C-[OA\C-[OA\C-[OC\C-[OC") I would like to have something like this: (defun mymacro () (previous-line 1)

Re: instant drawing of virtual terminal

2008-08-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 04:00:04PM +0100, hasan ali wrote: > How can I make new screenfulls of text get drawn instantly in a virtual > console, rather than having to wait for the text to scroll up. For example > when > paging with less, I have to wait for the entire screen to scroll up until I >

Re: nvidia twinview broken

2008-08-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 14:31 +0530, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi All, > > I need some help. I hope someone can acknowledge the bug that I'm going to > describe and help me root-cause and fix it. > > I have a Dell XPS M1210 notebook which comes bundled with nvidia GeForce Go > 7400 card. > 01:00

Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread j t
Just to make it clear, I'd like to be able to type in: 20080824-20080724 and it would work out the answer as 31 (I'm happy to use any date format for input - I've only used ISO8601 as an example) J :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "un

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Edward J. Shornock
t;) doesn't seem to have any knowledge of the gregorian calendar. > > Just to make it clear, I'd like to be able to type in: > > 20080824-20080724 and it would work out the answer as 31 While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used something

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
f the gregorian calendar. Just to make it clear, I'd like to be able to type in: 20080824-20080724 and it would work out the answer as 31 (I'm happy to use any date format for input - I've only used ISO8601 as an example) I think I'd write a simple Python/Perl script: conve

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread gary turner
endar. Just to make it clear, I'd like to be able to type in: 20080824-20080724 and it would work out the answer as 31 (I'm happy to use any date format for input - I've only used ISO8601 as an example) I Googled "date arithmetic", and found this, http://www.walkernews

machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-24 Thread Dexter Filmore
Got a etch r4 box (xerxes) and a m0n0wall firewall/router. Another box (shodan) used to run etch r4, too, now is on Kubuntu/etch dual boot. From Kubuntu I can't ping xerxes by name, unknown host. I can ping shodan from xerxes tho. In m0n0walls interface in dhcp leases xerxes doesn't appear. sho

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/24/08 10:54, Edward J. Shornock wrote: [snip] While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used something like $ echo $(date -d 20080824 +%j) - $(date -d 20080724 +%j) | bc 31 That a good idea. I never knew date(1) could do that. The problem, thoug

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/24/08 10:54, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > [snip] >> >> While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used >> something like >> >> $ echo $(date -d 20080824 +%j)

ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
I am quite new to ndiswrapper. For Etch, I had downloaded latest source, installed kernel headers, and then simply ./configure, make, make install. Now I am trying Testing, and since I supposed the official packages would be recent, I began to simply install ndiswrapper-common and ndiswrapper-uti

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > I am quite new to ndiswrapper. For Etch, I had downloaded latest > source, installed kernel headers, and then simply ./configure, make, > make install. Try not to do that. You may break the package management when you install software outside

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/24/08 11:32, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 11:25:31AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/24/08 10:54, Edward J. Shornock wrote: [snip] While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used something like $ echo $(date -d 20080824 +%j) - $(date -

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 11:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/24/08 10:54, Edward J. Shornock wrote: > [snip] > > > > While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used > > something like > > > > $ echo $(date -d 20080824 +%j) -

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/24 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think > it has everything you need for that). I have CD #1 and #2 and that's not seems enough to get ndiswrapper-source package

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Sergio Perticone
On 24 Ago, 17:10, "j t" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > > (I'm happy to use any date format for input - I've only used ISO8601 > as an example) Maybe something like that: #!/usr/bin/python from time import mktime, strptime from sys import argv class DummyDate: def __init__(self, strda

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
On 08/24/08 12:41, Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Sun, 2008-08-24 at 11:25 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 08/24/08 10:54, Edward J. Shornock wrote: [snip] While I'm sure someone else will provide a much better way, I've used something like $ echo $(date -d 20080824 +%j) - $(date -d 20

NFS and no_root_squash - cannot write as root - permission denied

2008-08-24 Thread Jari Aalto
Can anyone suggest what might be wrong as root user cannot write to the NFS mounted directory. At client, the mount succeeds, but write doesn't. The 'no_root_squash' is enabled at server, the UUID's match, so where is the problem[1]?. Jari AT CLIENT (192.168.1.12 / Debian unstable) $ dpkg -l

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 20:46, Paul Dufresne wrote: > 2008/8/24 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > > > > Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I > > think it has everything you need for that). > > I have CD #1 a

Re: machine doesnt appear in dhcp leases, resolve issues.

2008-08-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,24.Aug.08, 18:17:09, Dexter Filmore wrote: > And: why doesn't xerxes appear in the leases list? Am I missing something? > wrong config option in.. well, where? Compare /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf ('send host-name' might be what you're looking for). Regards, Andrei -- If you can't expla

Keyboard Not working during Install of 4.0

2008-08-24 Thread debian
I downloaded the latest netinstall CD a couple of days ago. I'm trying to install it on a AMD Dual CPU MP2400 system that currently has Debian 3.0 installed. However, as soon as the install kernel boots, the keyboard stops working. The keyboard works in the BIOS, there are no settings in there tha

Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and X. I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, including some X packages. After these had been installed, I also did an apt-get install kdm, as I wasn't sure if it had been installed, and it ha

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: > Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and > X. > > I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, > including some X packages. After these had been installed, I also did an > apt-get insta

Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-24 Thread dlc
> >I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please >post the output of the following commands: > >dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' > >stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm > >ls -l /usr/share/perl/ > muse:~# dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' iU perl 5.10.0

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:45, Shachar Or wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and > > X. > > > > I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, > > including some X packages.

Exim4 Start Problem

2008-08-24 Thread David L. Craig
I recently started working on configuring my exim4 under Sid and started getting failures when attempting to restart the daemon. I added shell traces to /etc/init.d/exim4 and get the following: muse:/etc/exim4# /etc/init.d/exim4 start Starting MTA:+ case ${QUEUERUNNER} in + start_daemon -p /var/r

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Monday 25 August 2008 00:16, Nigel Henry wrote: > > You need sux instead of su. > > > > > Nigel. > > > > -- > > Shachar Or | שחר אור > > http://ox.freeallweb.org/ > > When I try the command sux, I just get a "command not found". > > Thanks for the reply though. I'm game for trying anything at th

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread debian
> Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install KDE, and > X. > > I ran apt-get install kde, and a whole bunch of packages were installed, > including some X packages. After these had been installed, I also did an > apt-get install kdm, as I wasn't sure if it had been installed,

Re: NFS and no_root_squash - cannot write as root - permission denied

2008-08-24 Thread Bob
Jari Aalto wrote: > Can anyone suggest what might be wrong as root user cannot write to the > NFS mounted directory. > > At client, the mount succeeds, but write doesn't. The 'no_root_squash' > is enabled at server, the UUID's match, so where is the problem[1]?. > > Jari > > AT CLIENT (192.168.

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:32, Shachar Or wrote: > On Monday 25 August 2008 00:16, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > You need sux instead of su. > > > > > > > Nigel. > > > > > > -- > > > Shachar Or | שחר אור > > > http://ox.freeallweb.org/ > > > > When I try the command sux, I just get a "command not found

Re: Etch netinstl. problem starting kwrite, synaptic, gedit.etc

2008-08-24 Thread debian
On Sun, 24 Aug 2008 23:16:46 +0200 Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:45, Shachar Or wrote: > > On Sunday 24 August 2008 23:36, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > Having installed the Etch netinst. I was next looking to install > > > KDE, and X. > > > > > > I ran apt-get in

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-24 11:13:43 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I think I'd write a simple Python/Perl script: convert date1 and date2 to > seconds past epoch, subtract, and divide by 86400. In Perl, you can also use the Date::Manip module: 4. The amount of time between two dates. $date1 =

Re: ndiswrapper kernel module, precompiled version in testing?

2008-08-24 Thread Paul Dufresne
2008/8/24 Paul Dufresne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/8/24 Shachar Or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Sunday 24 August 2008 19:50, Paul Dufresne wrote: > >> Hook the system up to a wired connection, then, or use the first CD (I think >> it has everything you need for that). > I have CD #1 and #2 and that'

Re: Command-line-interface (CLI) calculator to work out the difference between 2 dates

2008-08-24 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-08-24 12:25:00 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > I was thinking that integer division might result in the occasional > rounding error. This is the contrary: AFAIK, you really want an integer division. So, integer arithmetic is OK. But a floating-point division can be a problem since when the f

Re: Dist-Upgrade Problem

2008-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 16:32:35 -0400, dlc AT radix DOT net wrote: > > > >I need to know more about the state of perl on your machine; please > >post the output of the following commands: > > > >dpkg -l perl\* | awk '/^i/{print $1,$2,$3}' > > > >stat /usr/share/perl/5.8.8/Pod/Usage.pm > > > >ls -l

Re: Exim4 Start Problem

2008-08-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 17:31:44 -0400, David L. Craig wrote: > I recently started working on configuring my exim4 under Sid > and started getting failures when attempting to restart the > daemon. I added shell traces to /etc/init.d/exim4 and get the > following: > > muse:/etc/exim4# /etc/init.d/

Re: /bin/hostname on Debian

2008-08-24 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 01:08:33PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-08-24 12:00:52 +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 12:59:43AM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > On 2008-08-23 11:34:39 +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > > > Within Debian you should not put the FQDN in /et

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: "Jesse Welling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi all, > I'm running Debian Testing for reference. The problem I'm having seems very > very suspicious to me, and please don't think this is a joke, but I think my > clipboard (or whatever takes ca

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread debian
> > -- Original message -- > From: "Jesse Welling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Hi all, >> I'm running Debian Testing for reference. The problem I'm having seems >> very >> very suspicious to me, and please don't think this is a joke, but I >> think my >> clipboard (or wh

Re: Keyboard Not working during Install of 4.0

2008-08-24 Thread debian
>> Is ps2 being dropped? Is there a kernel parameter I could pass when >> booting the netinstall disk to get the keyboard working? Thanks. >> >> >> -- >> To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> >> > > I tried booting w

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Vit
Hi! Sorry for my English, I didn't understand your question. Do you mean I could broke something? The word "fat-fingered" is confusing me. Best wishes, Vit On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 4:39 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 08/23/08 23:39, Vit wrote: > >> Hi all! >> I've got problem. >>

Re: State of 64bit desktop

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
-- Original message -- From: "Todd A. Jacobs" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Aug 23, 2008 at 03:09:23AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > For Java, icedtea-gcjwebplugin is in main. (Sun Java is not packaged > > but this free one is pretty good) > > The last time I c

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Christofer C. Bell
On Sun, Aug 24, 2008 at 10:32 PM, Vit <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > Sorry for my English, I didn't understand your question. Do you mean I could > broke something? The word "fat-fingered" is confusing me. No worries at all! Yes, the term "fat-fingered" means to have made a typo, a typing mis

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Vit
I've found some strange thing. This file and path (smb://balls/d$/) is accessible through Nautilus, but Koqueror (4.1...) and Dolphin (4.1...) says "File does not exist: smb://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/d$/CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc". Perhaps this is KDE bug, not smb problem. Vit On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 11:34 AM

Re: Samba and filenames problem

2008-08-24 Thread Ron Johnson
The question still is why the file names are different: CH3CN+2.5%Fer.doc CH3CN+2.5%25Fer.doc On 08/24/08 23:49, Vit wrote: I've found some strange thing. This file and path (smb://balls/d$/) is accessible through Nautilus, but Koqueror (4.1...) and Dolphin (4.1...) says "File does not exist:

Re: aptitude purge

2008-08-24 Thread freeman
On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 11:33:19PM +0200, Tammo Schuelke wrote: > >I didn't purge though, which means that I have this now: > >dom0:~# aptitude search ~c > >c amanda-client > >c amanda-common > >c amanda-server > > > >Is there a way to remove these entries from

Re: Keyboard Not working during Install of 4.0

2008-08-24 Thread Shachar Or
On Sunday 24 August 2008 22:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I downloaded the latest netinstall CD a couple of days ago. I'm trying to > install it on a AMD Dual CPU MP2400 system that currently has Debian 3.0 > installed. However, as soon as the install kernel boots, the keyboard > stops working. >

Re: Strange problem with copy paste.

2008-08-24 Thread seeker5528
> > I have not seen this personally, but it explains why so many Windows users > > are > > suddenly getting infected with XP Antivirus and AV2008 over the last few > > weeks. > > > > Adobe Flash ads launching clipboard hijack attack: > > > > http://blogs.zdnet.com/security/?p=1733 > > Not just wi

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Sebastian Günther wrote: > Look at account-hook and folder-hook and in combination with a nice > source statement, you everything some bloated GUI mailer has. Even more > you can easily adjust your profile on folder basis. This has never been true and is still not true. It is, of course, th

Re: A viable mutt

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Nicolas KOWALSKI wrote: > Are you sure about this ? As of the last time I tested mutt imap, yes, without question. In fact I had gone so far as to take a screencast of mutt deleting 200 messages by copying it to the local machine then uploading it to the trash folder. However, those configura

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-24 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike Pobega wrote: > I wish I was even using Debian for that long. I'm 18 now, been a user > since I was 15, Debian Sarge. I grew up in a Windows household, so it > was actually a big move for me to go to Debian at all Well, if it is any consolation at 18 I was running a BBS based on SuperBBS