Virtualbox / VMware

2009-02-10 Thread Finjan, Salam
Hallo Zusammen, ich möchte für mein debian etch Programme virtualbox oder VMware server installieren? Wie geht es überhaupt? > Mit freundlichen Grüßen > > Salam Finjan > ARGE AOK - Rechenzentrum > Bremen / Niedersachsen > Göttinger Chaussee 76 > 30453 Hannover > Tel.: 0511 / 285-17 253

snownews

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
Hi, Is there anyway to make snownews open the direct rss link when pressing o on a story? Like for example, open the direct page, it seems that my version is opening the general homepage: www.theage.com.au. Any ideas on how to get the direct story open? Or will I have to press 'enter' and cut and

Re: snownews

2009-02-10 Thread Daniel Dalton
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:50:33PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > Is there anyway to make snownews open the direct rss link when pressing > o on a story? Like for example, open the direct page, it seems that my Now I feel like an idiot, just had to look at the help and use O not o... Sorr

Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on any particular machine that is not present at the moment. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:19:59 -0800 Daniel Burrows wrote: > I think one important thing is to learn more than one language. There > are a couple reasons for this, but if I had to give you just one, here > is what it would be: > From experience, after the third or so language it's easy to pick

crontab command and permissions problem

2009-02-10 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
Hi, I'm having a problem trying to execute the "crontab" command from a perl script. I'm writing to this list cause the same set up works in another distro. Now i'm moving to Debian for convenience, but I'm having this problem i can't fix. The thing is... I'm using SNMP to automatize some pr

Differences in gnome speed

2009-02-10 Thread Markus Grunwald
Hello, my wife and me both use the gnome desktop environment of our up to date lenny system. When my wife starts her session, everything is up and working in a few seconds. When I log in, the login process takes much longer (about 20 seconds, more or less) and I have to wait "ages" when I click on

Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:56 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > any particular machine that is no

grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread PierPaolo
Noway. Grub legacy, Grub2... The boot up procedure from the bios ends, respectively, in "Grub error 22", or in a page full of "GRUBGRUBGRUBGRUB" I'm trying to install lenny 32 on an athlon xp 2.600+ some hints? -- « Affarismo, egomania, consorterie, disprezzo dell'opinione pubblica, stupidità arr

[OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Peter Hugosson-Miller
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo p...@linux624:~$ date -...@1234567890 date: invalid date `...@1234567890' p...@linux624:~$ Woohoo! -- Best Regards Peter Hugosson-Miller This email has been scanned by the DefenderSoft Email Threat Protection. For more informa

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Jordi Moles Blanco
En/na Peter Hugosson-Miller ha escrit: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo p...@linux624:~$ date -...@1234567890 date: invalid date `...@1234567890' p...@linux624:~$ Woohoo! ??? That's not the answer you are supposed to get. This is: ds feb 14

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Er... you can use wget and create a local cache of said directory... > Thank you, Nuno. However, the other filesystems have tens of gigabytes that I do not want to copy. I only want to know which files are there, not to have the actual files themselves. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Feb 10 06:27 -0600]: > Hi, > > Try this: > > date -...@1234567890 $ date -...@1234567890 Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 I'd read about this on Linux Today a day or two back. Another interesting time milestone. - Nate >> -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the be

Re: snownews

2009-02-10 Thread André Berger
* Daniel Dalton (2009-02-10): > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 09:50:33PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Is there anyway to make snownews open the direct rss link when pressing > > o on a story? Like for example, open the direct page, it seems that my > > Now I feel like an idiot, just had

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Nuno Magalhães
> Thank you, Nuno. However, the other filesystems have tens of gigabytes > that I do not want to copy. I only want to know which files are there, > not to have the actual files themselves. If you want just the names, not the content... then it would probably be a very weird combination of ls, grep

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:32:59 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Feb 10 06:27 -0600]: > > Hi, > > > > Try this: > > > > date -...@1234567890 > > $ date -...@1234567890 > Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 > > I'd read about this on Linux Today a day or two back. Another > interesting

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Benjamin Schmidt
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Thank you, Nuno. However, the other filesystems have tens of gigabytes that I do not want to copy. I only want to know which files are there, not to have the actual files themselves. If you want just the names, not the content... then it would probably be a very weird comb

Re: Cloning methods

2009-02-10 Thread Preston Boyington
Kelly Harding wrote: > 2009/2/8 Stefan Monnier: >>> What's the best method for cloning a partition? [searching for an >>> open-source software alternateive for it :P] > > If you use XFS the xfsdump/xfsrestore programs are very good. > > Theres also clonezilla which should do the job. > I've had

Re: Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-02-10 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Thanks for reply, exactly I want to run it at boot time, I am using gnome. so how to do it. thanks bela -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Differences in gnome speed

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 05:31 AM, Markus Grunwald wrote: Hello, my wife and me both use the gnome desktop environment of our up to date lenny system. When my wife starts her session, everything is up and working in a few seconds. When I log in, the login process takes much longer (about 20 seconds, more o

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
> $ find> filelist.txt > > like > > $ find ~/hugeDirectory/ > filelist.txt > > > generates you a textfile with a list of all files, directories (and special > files). Should be enough. To search, use less or grep. vi could block your > system for some minutes. > > I am not aware of some cachi

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 07:30 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:32:59 Nate Bargmann wrote: * Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Feb 10 06:27 -0600]: Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 $ date -...@1234567890 Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 I'd read about this on Linux Today a day or two back

Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread Dancing Fingers
Hey guys, I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy. One thing that I miss from the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. Word prediction would be good too. Does anyone know of a similar program(s) in the Linux world? Thanks. Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Tue, 2/10/09, PierPaolo wrote: > From: PierPaolo > Subject: grub error in fresh installation lenny > To: "debian-user" > Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:16 PM > Noway. Grub legacy, Grub2... The boot up procedure from the > bios ends, > respectively, in "Grub error 22", or in a pag

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 15:16:49 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 07:30 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:32:59 Nate Bargmann wrote: > >> * Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Feb 10 06:27 -0600]: > >>> Hi, > >>> > >>> Try this: > >>> > >>> date -...@1234567890 > >> $ date -.

Re: Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread Robert Walter
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dancing Fingers schrieb: > Hey guys, > I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy. One thing that I miss from > the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. > Word prediction would be good too. Does anyone know of a similar > pr

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread thveillon.debian
Angus Auld a écrit : > > --- On Tue, 2/10/09, PierPaolo wrote: > >> From: PierPaolo >> Subject: grub error in fresh installation lenny >> To: "debian-user" >> Date: Tuesday, February 10, 2009, 12:16 PM >> Noway. Grub legacy, Grub2... The boot up procedure from the >> bios ends, >> respectively

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Brad Rogers
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 14:30:20 +0100 Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hello Thierry, > $ date -...@1234567890 > Sat Feb 14 00:31:30 CET 2009 And; Fri Feb 13 23:31:30 GMT 2009 So, TZ dependant, then. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediate

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Which programming Language >Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:33:14 -0600 > >>On 02/09/2009 09:15 PM, Chris Jones wrote: >>> On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 08:05:49PM EST, Micha Feigin wrote: >>> >>> [

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: dburr...@debian.org >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Which programming Language >Date: Mon, 9 Feb 2009 20:19:59 -0800 > >> I think one important thing is to learn more than one language. >There >>are a couple reasons for this, but if I had

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 03:35:35PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Because according to man date: >-d, --date=STRING > display time described by STRING, not ???now??? > > my guess was that string is not time zone related. Maybe I am wrong. But I > change my time zone to Pac

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, Try this: date -...@1234567890 Hugo Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? Thus, what? Anything? Aside from the sun becoming a white dwarf before it rolls over. $date -...@9876543210 Fri Dec 22 14:13:30 CST 2282 Mark Allums -- To UNSUB

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 10 February 2009, Mark Allums wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Try this: > > > > date -...@1234567890 > > > > Hugo > > Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? Thus, what? > Anything? Aside from the sun becoming a white dwarf before it rolls > over. Bett

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread John Hasler
owens writes: > For some Engineers (particularly Electrical) that need to know how the > CPU functions, Assembler is essential. Programmers need to know how cpus work and so should learn an assembly language first. MIXAL will do. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Mark Allums writes: > Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? Only with a 64 bit kernel. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-02-10 Thread s. keeling
Abdelkader Belahcene : > Ron Johnson: > > Minbar is a GNOME app. Why do you put it in the *system* startup? > > > > Don't you really want it to start when you go into GNOME? > > Thanks for reply, > exactly I want to run it at boot time, I am using gnome. Why don't you answer the question? Gno

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Jeff D
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > any particular machine that is not present at

Re: Hardware recommendation for collocation

2009-02-10 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I'll intersperse comments on what I have sitting on my desk in front of me: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:42:57AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: > Obviously I need something that is well-supported by Debian. Ideally > I would like something with hardware drive mirroring (RAID 1), with > good suppot fro

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 04:11:27PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > $ find> filelist.txt > > > > like > > > > $ find ~/hugeDirectory/ > filelist.txt > > > > > > generates you a textfile with a list of all files, directories (and special > > files). Should be enough. To search, use less or grep.

Re: Typing Shorthand Programs in Linux?

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 05:53:59AM -0800, Dancing Fingers wrote: > Hey guys, > I'm a Debian user who has cerebral palsy. One thing that I miss from > the Windows world is a typing shorthand program to help with typing. set alias in shell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:24:09AM -0800, Angus Auld wrote: > I'm uncertain from your post if you are trying to use grub legacy or > grub2, but there is/was a clear warning that grub2 is a work in > progress, and that breakage should be expected. I have stayed with > grub legacy and have not had an

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Thomas Flaig
Am Dienstag, 10. Februar 2009 14:30 schrieb Thierry Chatelet: > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 13:32:59 Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Hugo Vanwoerkom [2009 Feb 10 06:27 -0600]: > > > Try this: > > > date -...@1234567890 > > $ date -...@1234567890 > > Fri Feb 13 17:31:30 CST 2009 > How srange: > $ date -

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
What ever mail client you are using is mangling threading and "reply levels". On 02/10/2009 09:38 AM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: ron.l.john...@cox.net To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:33:14 -0600

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-02-10 14:47 (+0100), Thomas Flaig wrote: > Acctually this is a good reason to introduce the use of UTC not only > for the BIOS but also for the user interface! ;) Maybe not. :-) But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important. Below are two attribution line

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 10:20 AM, John Hasler wrote: Mark Allums writes: Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? Only with a 64 bit kernel. And 64-bit userland. $ date -...@9876543210 date: invalid date `...@9876543210' $ uname -m x86_64 $ dpkg-architecture DEB_BUILD_ARCH=i386 DEB_

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread John Hasler
Teemu Likonen writes: > But in international communication timezone information is sometimes > important. There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when embedded in text) would transmitted and stored i

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Ron Johnson wrote: > Besides, wouldn't changing size_t would break binary compatibility > when moving data files from an older machine to a newer machine Sure, just as changing long or int. (At least long is 64-bit on amd64, not sure about int, and too lazy to check right now). That's why they're

Re: -- SPAM -- Re: Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 07:50 AM, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: Thanks for reply, exactly I want to run it at boot time, I am using gnome. so how to do it. No, you do *not* want it to run at boot time, since this is a GNOME app, and there is no GUI when the machine is being booted. It needs to start whe

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
> You may want to use: > > $ ls -laR > $ tree -a > Thanks, I did not know about tree. -- 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 ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-Е-Ё-Ж-З-И-Й-К-Л-М-Н-О-П-Р

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 12:02 PM, John Hasler wrote: Teemu Likonen writes: But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important. There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (even when embed

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: Readability and maintainability of "assembly" language. Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with assembly programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN and COBOL instructions), and the (macro, natch) assembler is designed

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > Besides, wouldn't changing size_t would break binary compatibility when > moving data files from an older machine to a newer machine? FWIW, I copy data files between my amd64 system and my x86_64 or i386 on a daily basis without a

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Readability and maintainability of "assembly" language. Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with assembly programmers in mind (and also to map closely to FORTRAN and COBOL instructions),

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on > any particular machine that is not present a

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: > > But in international communication timezone information is sometimes > > important. > > There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would > really be useful would be a standard whereby da

Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as well. I use monotone as my VCS. but I don't suppose my trials are unique to monoton

Re: grub error in fresh installation lenny

2009-02-10 Thread PierPaolo
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 15:59, thveillon.debian < thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > Angus Auld a écrit : > You should compare the partitions ordering in your bios and your > /boot/grub/device.map, just to be sure you've installed grub on the > right /boot and/or MBR, and that the root part

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-10 Thread Shams Fantar
Cahaya Lilin wrote: > Hello all.. > > I want to know is there Debian linux can install by copy the entire > files in the hard disk to another hard disk ?? > > Because i already install linux in my computer and now i want to > install linux in another computer but not install it from the cd, it

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/10 Paul E Condon : > On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, >> to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a >> small home network with a laptop, and often I need to know what's on >> any particul

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Teemu Likonen writes: But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important. There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would really be usefu

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:12AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have a > > small home network with a laptop, and often

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as well. I use monotone as my VCS. but I

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_10:12:00, John Hasler wrote: > owens writes: > > For some Engineers (particularly Electrical) that need to know how the > > CPU functions, Assembler is essential. > > Programmers need to know how cpus work and so should learn an assembly > language first. MIXAL will do. > -- > John

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 01:24 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] Assembly language as a part of pedagogy is, to me, not very useful. I think C, in an early version, with fewer whistles and bells, can be used as an effective teaching device. It is very close to what the hardware is actually doing. But that'

Re: Hardware recommendation for collocation

2009-02-10 Thread Scott Gifford
"Douglas A. Tutty" writes: > I'll intersperse comments on what I have sitting on my desk in front of > me: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:42:57AM -0500, Scott Gifford wrote: [...] >> Beyond that not much matters; any fairly modern server will be fast >> enough. > > Perhaps you need to indicate

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Jochen Schulz
Hendrik Boom: > > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now > how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as > well. I wonder why you didn't even mention LaTeX in your pos

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Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_13:11:06, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >>> Teemu Likonen writes: But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important. >>> There is no hope of it eve

Re: -- SPAM -- rc.local is not executed

2009-02-10 Thread Javier
Abdelkader Belahcene escribió: Thanks for reply, exactly I want to run it at boot time, I am using gnome. so how to do it. thanks bela In Gnome, just go to System->Preferences->Sessions, and add the program to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Micha Feigin
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:24:32 -0700 Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-10_10:12:00, John Hasler wrote: > > owens writes: > > > For some Engineers (particularly Electrical) that need to know how the > > > CPU functions, Assembler is essential. > > > > Programmers need to know how cpus work and so s

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_10:20:03, John Hasler wrote: > Mark Allums writes: > > Totally irrelevant, but: Isn't the Linux epoch 64 bits? > > Only with a 64 bit kernel. > -- > John Hasler I think you are mistaken. The current _standard_ is 64 bits for unix time. Most actual computers don't yet carry the ex

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_12:02:21, John Hasler wrote: > Teemu Likonen writes: > > But in international communication timezone information is sometimes > > important. > > There is no hope of it ever being implemented of course, but what would > really be useful would be a standard whereby dates and times (eve

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 02:09 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-02-10_13:11:06, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote: On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Teemu Likonen writes: But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 02:34 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] problem? No. Nobody runs a computer connected to the internet without connecting to an NTP server regularly. These servers simply change Except 95% of Windows users. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Supporting World Peace Through Nuclea

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-10_10:12:03, Ken Irving wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:12AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie, > > > to cache it's directory structure and have it browsable? I have

Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 02:55 PM, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] It works fine if you are the same user number on the two machines. On all my machines, I am user 1000, for example. If I were to install a different distribution that starts user numbering at 500, things would be a mess, unless someone on the

RE: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom > Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM > Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control > > I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems > (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having be

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread steef
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Re: Browsing offline filesystems

2009-02-10 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 01:55:13PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-02-10_10:12:03, Ken Irving wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:47:12AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > On 2009-02-10_12:56:53, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > Is there a tool that I can use to browse an offline file system, ie,

Re: Fresh lenny install and suspend to ram problems

2009-02-10 Thread Marco Vittorini Orgeas
I solved the problem: actually a lot of things became clearer after have read http://wiki.debian.org/Suspend, which explain a bit what the system does whenever one push the sleep button. The first half of the problem is solved by adding a file called /etc/pm/config.d/01config with the following

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:49 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >>> Readability and maintainability of "assembly" > >>> language. > >> > >> Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed partly with > >> asse

Re: slocate replacements

2009-02-10 Thread James Youngman
On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Several implementations of locate exist: the original implementation > from GNU's findutils, slocate, and mlocate. The advantages of mlocate are: > > * it indexes all the filesystem, but results of a search will only > include files th

getting debian to talk to windows

2009-02-10 Thread Larry Dick
I'm using debian 2.6.18-6-amd64 and Window XP Sp2. My network is a Windows workgroup. I've fiddled about and now can get windows to see into the debian box , it can read and write to the file system. I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked shared to all and re

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:45:49 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 12:32 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Readability and maintainability of "assembly" language. Yep. The (CISC) VAX instruction set was designed p

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Jochen Schulz wrote: > Hendrik Boom: >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (hereafter abbreviated VCS) Having been duly impressed for decades now >> how useful VCSs are for programming, I'd like to use them for writing as >> well. > > I wonder why you didn't

RE: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Stackpole, Chris wrote: >> From: news [mailto:n...@ger.gmane.org] On Behalf Of Hendrik Boom >> Sent: Tuesday, February 10, 2009 12:59 PM >> Subject: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version > control >> >> I'd like a word processor compatible with version control systems >> (here

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: [snip] Due to Obama's intent to automate medical records, do you think that it I don't think his ultimate purpose is hackable medical records, but that's another story... may be helpful to get out the old MUMPS(M) docs? Never got it's place in

NAT unreachability problem in VUZE(Azureus)

2009-02-10 Thread raman narasimhan
Sir i use vuze a lot for downloading. my problem is that it always shows *NAT reachability Problem, No Incoming Connections* (icon corresponding to NAT in the bottom right section of the screen is always red) With bit of 'googling' i found that if i can solve this problem, i can download faster wi

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

2009-02-10 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 10 February 2009 17:01:25 Larry Dick wrote: > I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked > shared to all and read only and a Windows printer. Samba, in particular mount.smbfs, should get you access to that filesystem. I'm not sure how to talk to Windows

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

2009-02-10 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Samba, in particular mount.smbfs, should get you access to that filesystem. > I'm not sure how to talk to Windows printers from Linux. A few years ago, Samba could take a printer connected to the Linux box and make Win

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: m...@allums.com >To: ron.l.john...@cox.net >Subject: Re: Which programming Language >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600 > >>Ron Johnson wrote: >> Readability and maintainability of >"assembly" language. >>> >>> Yep. The (

Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with version control

2009-02-10 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: ron.l.john...@cox.net >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Please brainstorm: Word-processor compatible with >version control >Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 13:20:26 -0600 > >>On 02/10/2009 12:59 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: >>> I'd like a word processor comp

Re: getting debian to talk to windows

2009-02-10 Thread Alexander Samad
Quoting "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." : > On Tuesday 10 February 2009 17:01:25 Larry Dick wrote: >> I'm trying to get Debian to see a windows ntfs file system that is marked >> shared to all and read only and a Windows printer. > > Samba, in particular mount.smbfs, should get you access to that files

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: m...@allums.com To: ron.l.john...@cox.net Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600 [snip] The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C in mind. I was told

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Jack Schneider
On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 17:42:15 -0600 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/10/2009 04:55 PM, Jack Schneider wrote: > [snip] > > > > Due to Obama's intent to automate medical records, do you think > > that it > > I don't think his ultimate purpose is hackable medical records, but > that's another story... >

Re: [OT] Friday the 13th

2009-02-10 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson [2009 Feb 10 13:12 -0600]: > On 02/10/2009 12:49 PM, Eric Gerlach wrote: >> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:02:21PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: >>> Teemu Likonen writes: But in international communication timezone information is sometimes important. >>> There is no hope of it ever

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: m...@allums.com To: ron.l.john...@cox.net Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600 [snip] The Motorola 68000 series was allegedly designed partly with C i

apache2 vhost error

2009-02-10 Thread Zach Uram
I'm trying to add a name-based virtual host in apache2 on my debian etch system. Here is my vhost config: /etc/apache2/sites-available/darcs ServerName darcs.jesujuva.org ServerAlias darcs.jesujuva.org DocumentRoot /var/www/darcs ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/error.log

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-10 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/10/2009 10:21 PM, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/10/2009 07:58 PM, ow...@netptc.net wrote: Original Message From: m...@allums.com To: ron.l.john...@cox.net Subject: Re: Which programming Language Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2009 12:32:26 -0600 [snip] The Motorola 68000 s

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