Re: Upgraded from Squeeze to unstable - Running Password-gorilla

2011-10-02 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, After upgrade to unstable whenever I start Password Gorilla I get message: The Password Gorilla requires the "pwsafe" package. This seems to be an installation problem, as the pwsafe package ought to be part of the Password Gorilla distribution. aptitude search pwsafe gives me nothing. My

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 06:22, Doug wrote: > There must be a thousand words for being drunk.  One of the more common > in the US is "bombed." Really, really drunk is "bombed out of his skull." > Another word in frequent use is "smashed." To add to this entertaining thread, the expression "rat-arsed",

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 01:44, Lisi wrote: > I just asked my granddaughter what meal she would mean by tea and she > said "What meal?  There isn't a meal called tea."  So it hasn't yet changed > and is still used as I have described above. > > Sorry - language fascinates me! > And me. Down here in Dev

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 06:34, Klaus Wolf wrote: > If there is any one, who is not in order to use evolution, this guy > should use windoofs for his choice and do not bring up such a shit on > this list. Continuing the language discussion "shit" as a noun is both singular and plural. "A shit" is used

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/1 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 01:09:16 Stephen Powell wrote: >> In England, >> "tea" means a full meal. > > Sorry to contradict you, but this is inaccurate.  I don't know how the numbers > pan out percentage-wise, since the use of tea in that sense is both regional > and class based.

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:06:49 + (UTC) Camaleón wrote: > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > > > Hi, on a new Wheezy installation locale reports all the LC_* options set > > to "C". As a result I can't see greek, they display as question marks in > > gnome-termina

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 09:34:47 Terence wrote: > Another interesting thing (at least to me) is the distinction between > "dinner" and "supper". Does one dine or sup in the evening (I am > assuming that no one on the list would have "dinner" mid-day!). In my > experience it would seem that the us

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/1 Scott Ferguson : > On 02/10/11 11:36, John Hasler wrote: >> Stephen Powell writes: >>> And I didn't know that the British sense existed.  Amazing, isn't it? >>> Two cultures divided by a common language. >> >> Look up the British meanings of "fanny" and "stuffed". > Fanny seems to move fr

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe, you overlooked a setting in your personal settings in, e.g., ~/.profile or ~/.bashrc, etc? -- Best regards, Jörg-Volker. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.d

Re: daft newbie questions

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:37:11 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 17:33 +, Camaleón wrote: >> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 18:06:31 +0100, Andrew Wood wrote: >> >> > I thought Wheezey was still on Gnome 2.30, not even 2.32? >> >> I guessed the OP was using an Evolution from another dist

Re: [OT] FLOSS implementation of ActiveSync server?

2011-10-02 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Sunday 02 October 2011 04:53:38 Gregory Seidman, vous avez écrit : > Recent versions of MS Exchange Server implement a protocol (targeted at > mobile devices) named ActiveSync. I know that Google supports ActiveSync > for its various services, but those are the only two implementations of the >

Re: wrestling with xrandr

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Jung
Hi, > > [...] > > > >> What Debian release are you running? $ cat /etc/issue > > > > Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid > > OK. You must be mixing sources (hopefully with judicious pinning). Are you sure? $ cat /etc/issue Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid \n \l And I definitely do not have any packages i

Re: [OT] FLOSS implementation of ActiveSync server?

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:53:38 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Recent versions of MS Exchange Server implement a protocol (targeted at > mobile devices) named ActiveSync. I know that Google supports ActiveSync > for its various services, but those are the only two implementations of > the protocol A

Re: [OT] FLOSS implementation of ActiveSync server?

2011-10-02 Thread Peter Beck
Gregory Seidman quatschte am Sat, Oct 01, 2011 at 10:53:38PM -0400: > Recent versions of MS Exchange Server implement a protocol (targeted at > mobile devices) named ActiveSync. I know that Google supports ActiveSync > for its various services, but those are the only two implementations of the >

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:15:32 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:06:49 + (UTC) Camaleón > wrote: > >> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >> >> > Hi, on a new Wheezy installation locale reports all the LC_* options >> > set to "C". As a r

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 10:24, Lisi wrote: > For those for whom tea is the evening meal, supper is a hot drink (probably > made with milk) and a biscuit or sandwiches before going to bed. > This "dialect" also allows for dinner - a hot cooked meal in the middle of > the day. > > For those who have lunc

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:30 -0400, Doug wrote: > "Winzigweich?" Come now! > > Well, I suppose that;s no worse than M$. I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure "Winzigweich" is the same as M$ ;). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug wrote: > (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the > Brits do it opposite.) I could never understand that, seems like wrong nesting/closing of html tags to me. Even though i started with the UK version i prefer the US pronounciatio

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > Hi, > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > site, a customer that just would have windoofs calls me up two to three > times a week because he has any trouble with posting. > > If there is any one, who is

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > site, a customer that just would have windoofs calls me up two to three > > times a week because

Re: accessing fonts for emacs (Inconsolata)

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 19:49:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote: > I was convinced by arguments seen thru google, that I should install > `inconsolata' fonts... did so but now emacs knows nothing about it. What does that font provide to got you convinced? :-) I use "Courier-New" for monospaced fonts and

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:25 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > > site, a customer that just wo

!!! Evolution version

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Any hints from you loudmouth Klaus, the Linux Wolf :D? On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 05:26 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sat, 2011-10-01 at 16:08 +, Camaleón wrote: > > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 11:49:10 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: > > > > > Hi D6 is shipped with Evolution 2.30.3, the last version I was u

Re: !!! Evolution version

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 13:03:03 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Any hints from you loudmouth Klaus, the Linux Wolf :D? (...) (ahem...) Ralf... I dunno if the above was meant to be a joke or what but sure it does not belong to this thread. I tell you the same as Lisi: care your postings. Greetings,

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: > > It's all rather simple really! > English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect. Whether "American English" is a language or a dialect is not the point. The point is that the same words sometimes mean different things to diff

Debian 64bit Intel

2011-10-02 Thread Mario Sikora
Hi, I am looking for a 64bit Intel distribution. What would be the right one? regards, Mario -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/170345467.412139.13175

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 22:54:07 -0400 (EDT), Doug wrote: > Wonder where you looked up this stuff? http://www.urbandictionary.com The same source that was quoted earlier in the thread. -- .''`. Stephen Powell : :' : `. `'` `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@li

Re: Debian 64bit Intel

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:51:03 +0200, Mario Sikora wrote: > I am looking for a 64bit Intel distribution. > > What would be the right one? That would depend on what you are really looking for... EMT64 Intel based machines → amd64 Itanium Intel machines → ia64 http://www.debian.org/ports/index.en.

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Panayiotis Karabassis
On 10/02/2011 12:54 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:15:32 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: > >> On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 19:06:49 + (UTC) Camaleón >> wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 21:21:23 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: >>> Hi, on a new Wheezy installation locale repor

incredibuild for linux(debain).

2011-10-02 Thread Muhammad Fahad
can we use incredibuild for linux(debain). if no then is there any alternative Regards Fahad

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 04:34:47 -0400 (EDT), Terence wrote: > ... > (I am assuming that no one on the list would have "dinner" mid-day!). In the culture and society in which I grew up, "dinner" means the main meal of the day, which is usually the evening meal (circa 6 PM). The exception is Sunday, w

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:07:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > site, a customer that just would have windoofs calls me up two to three > > times a week because

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Lorenzo Sutton
On 02/10/2011 11:54, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 01:22 -0400, Doug wrote: [...] My English is completely broken Well you should probably file a bug report and be more specific about what exactly happens, how to reproduce this, what version you are running etc.. Maybe you could

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:25:22 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 12:07 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > > site, a customer that just wou

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:07:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > Are you from Windoof? You sucker! > And I deser

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:51:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > PPS: You idiot, the coders call this software version 3.x. > > I'm using alpha and beta software aka 0.x, if this software should fail, > it would be ok, but if a version 3.x fails for basics, as Evolution > does?! *Why* am I an idiot? Lisi

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Eike Lantzsch
On Saturday 01 October 2011 21:39:29 Weaver wrote: > On Sat, 1 Oct 2011 21:17:08 -0400 (EDT) > > Stephen Powell wrote: [snip] > > > > P.S. Don't ask for a napkin at a restaurant in Australia. > > You'll get very strange looks! Ask for a serviette. > > To them, a napkin is, um, well, never mind

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
Growing up it was always breakfast, dinner, lunch, supper with lunch being a late afternoon snack before chores and supper after the milking was done. The main meal of the day was dinner/noon time. Somehwere along the line lunch and dinner got changed around, likely by some city types who didn't

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:29:37PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > And what have I done to be called a liar? You must be pissed (in the English > sense). Nothing, he's still talking to Klaus. Cheers, Tom -- I like the seed code for computing masking curves. I've never seen code that made be want to d

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 13:29:46 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:25:20PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:07:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:30:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:51:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PPS: You idiot, the coders call this software version 3.x. > > > > I'm using alpha and beta software aka 0.x, if this software should fail, > > it would be ok, but if a version 3.x fai

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 13:29:42 Lorenzo Sutton wrote: > Pulling your leg, of course :) (BTW is that idiom still in fashion > now-a-days?) Yes, and it is also used by the young still. (I asked my resident grandaughter!) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 05:56:57 -0400 (EDT), Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > I'm not sure what M$ does mean ;), but I'm sure "Winzigweich" is the > same as M$ ;). M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as in the term "MS-DOS". You can probably guess why the $ is sometimes substitut

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 13:38:25 Tom Furie wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:30:45PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:51:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > > PPS: You idiot, the coders call this software version 3.x. > > > > > > I'm using alpha and beta software aka 0.x, if this soft

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Panayiotis Karabassis wrote, on 10/02/11 13:59: > I will check in a minute. Also I am pretty sure I didn't set the locale > to "C". I copied .profile, .bashrc from another computer, where locales > work. > Could there have been a .bash_profile on the problematic computer which takes precedence ov

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:37:21PM +0100, Lisi wrote: > I was put in the distribution list and it arrived in my personal inbox. The > same applies to all three. I was deliberately sent a private copy. > > Here is the relevant part of the first header: > > > Re: Wow, Evolution left me with egg

Re: incredibuild for linux(debain).

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 17:29:15 +0530, Muhammad Fahad wrote: > can we use incredibuild for linux(debain). You mean this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xoreax_Grid_Engine#IncrediBuild Looks something for Windows based environments :-? > if no then is there any alternative Wikipedia points to "cca

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug wrote: >> (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the >> Brits do it opposite.) > > I could never understand that, seems like wrong nesting/closing of > html tags to me

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Curt
On 2011-10-02, Stephen Powell wrote: >> >> Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of >> delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity for >> world domination, create initiatives such as making it the default for >> Operating System installations and ongo

launching apps from the menu

2011-10-02 Thread Richard Bown
Hi The launcher in the menu points to this script:- # #! /bin/bash # # Shell script to start the WSJT SDR # application # # # ##

Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Richard Bown
Hi me again Up to about a year ago I was using Claws Mail which has some very nice filter capabilities, expire on age in folders for instance. I moved to Evo as Claws would crash and freeze the whole machine, That was using Fedora, Has anyone had any problems with Claws mail crashing ?, it would do

Re: accessing fonts for emacs (Inconsolata)

2011-10-02 Thread Wim M
On 2011-10-02, Harry Putnam wrote: > Can anyone steer me toward more recent information on how to allow > emacs to access the true type fonts. Hi, in your .Xresources file put the following: emacs.FontBackend: xft Emacs.font: Inconsolata-12 and then call: xrdb -merge .Xresources to up

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Joe
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:18:57 +0100 Richard Bown wrote: > Hi > me again > Up to about a year ago I was using Claws Mail which has some very nice > filter capabilities, expire on age in folders for instance. > I moved to Evo as Claws would crash and freeze the whole machine, That > was using Fedora

Re: Permission Problem with xsane - more

2011-10-02 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 02:49:04PM +1100, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 02/10/11 03:25, Thomas H. George wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 29, 2011 at 04:20:01PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > >> I can run xsane as root but not as user tom although tom is a member of > >> the scanner group. What other group m

Re: launching apps from the menu

2011-10-02 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 02:12:26PM BST, Richard Bown wrote: > sleep 1 > cd /home/richard/SDR/wsjt-rev2454/ > python wsjt.py Drop the 'cd' and try: python /home/richard/SDR/wsjt-rev2454/wsjt.py If that doesn't help, define PATH in the script or use full path to the binaries/scripts you're calling

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 13:57, Stephen Powell wrote: > ~  I suspect that different national bodies convened to > decide on standardized spelling, and the two organizations occasionally > picked different standard spellings for the same word.  That's why > there are separate spelling dictionaries for Br

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Joe
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 09:09:28 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 08:47:56 -0400 (EDT), Richard Bown wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 08:43 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> M$ means Microsoft. Microsoft is often abbreviated as MS, such as > >> in the term "MS-DOS". You can pr

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Nuno writes: > i still get quirky about color instead of colour or centre vs center > (which is which btw?). Generally the simpler and more phonetic spellings are USA while the "Frenchish" ones are UK (thank Noah Webster). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.de

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Terence writes: > Another interesting thing (at least to me) is the distinction between > "dinner" and "supper". Does one dine or sup in the evening (I am > assuming that no one on the list would have "dinner" mid-day!). Here in the rural upper Midwest "dinner" happens around noon on the farm and

portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread lina
Hi, My graphic driver has not been installed, so I access from console, but in /media there is none such portable driver. I want to use it to transfer large files (more than 100G). use network really slow. But before when the graphic driver works, I can find it in /media. Thanks for any sugg

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:18:57 +0100, Richard Bown wrote: (...) > Has anyone had any problems with Claws mail crashing ?, it would do this > regularly when filtering. If its stable in squeeze I might go back to > it.as the Evo annoys me with it max 80 characters /line Can you expand that "80 chara

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:17:41 +0800, lina wrote: > My graphic driver has not been installed, You mean your VGA driver? > so I access from console, > > but in /media > > there is none such portable driver. And what kind of relation we must see between the VGA driver and your portable drive? Ki

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread lina
On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:17:41 +0800, lina wrote: > > > My graphic driver has not been installed, > > You mean your VGA driver? > > > so I access from console, > > > > but in /media > > > > there is none such portable driver. > > And what kind of r

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Weaver
On Sun, 2 Oct 2011 13:02:37 + (UTC) Curt wrote: > On 2011-10-02, Stephen Powell wrote: > >> > >> Dialects, from time to time, have a way of becoming possessed of > >> delusions of grandeur and, believing that there is an opportunity > >> for world domination, create initiatives such as maki

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : > On Sat, 01 Oct 2011 20:51:14 -0400 (EDT), Weaver wrote: >> >> It's all rather simple really! >> English is a language and 'American English' is a dialect. > > Whether "American English" is a language or a dialect is not > the point.  The point is that the same words so

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* On 2011 02 Oct 07:59 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > Similarly, center is the > American spelling and centre is the British spelling. Same word, > same meaning. How the spelling differences came about I have no > idea. I always though the 're' instead of an 'er' was a French thing. Only within

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > So "Sunday dinner" is the noon meal on Sunday. The evening meal on > Sunday is called supper. So, Monday through Saturday it's breakfast, > lunch, and dinner. On Sunday, it's breakfast, dinner, and supper. That's the convention I grew up with in Sault Ste. Marie, but of

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:47:00 +0800, lina wrote: > On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: (...) >> > But before when the graphic driver works, I can find it in /media. >> >> !? >> >> I still don't see any relation between these two (VGA driver and /media >> mount point) as you don't ev

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Stephen Powell : > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 06:20:57 -0400 (EDT), Nuno Magalhães wrote: >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 06:22, Doug wrote: >>> (That's the American placement of the comma before the close-quote; the >>> Brits do it opposite.) >> >> I could never understand that, seems like wrong nes

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > That's ridiculous. Of course it is. It's _humor_ (humour in the UK). -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/87y5x3j

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
Richard Bown wrote: >Hi >me again >Up to about a year ago I was using Claws Mail which has some very nice >filter capabilities, expire on age in folders for instance. >I moved to Evo as Claws would crash and freeze the whole machine, That >was using Fedora, >Has anyone had any problems with Claws

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote: > i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only > for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of > Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico. I agree, consul tores and try to reme

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Stephen Powell writes: > How the spelling differences came about I have no idea. In the early > days of English, there was no standardized spelling. I suspect that > different national bodies convened to decide on standardized > spelling... In the USA the "standards body" was named Noah Webster.

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 14:18:57 +0100 Richard Bown wrote: Hello Richard, > Has anyone had any problems with Claws mail crashing ?, it would do > this regularly when filtering. I've never had issues with Claws. Whether filtering or not. Occasionally, somebody does have issues, as you did, but the

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:51:52 Nate Bargmann wrote: > * On 2011 02 Oct 07:59 -0500, Stephen Powell wrote: > > Similarly, center is the > > American spelling and centre is the British spelling. Same word, > > same meaning. How the spelling differences came about I have no > > idea. > > I alway

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 15:58:01 consul tores wrote: >> i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only >> for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of >> Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico. > > I agree, con

Re: launching apps from the menu

2011-10-02 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:01:34PM BST, Richard Bown wrote: > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 14:35 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > If that doesn't help, define PATH in the script or use full path to the > > binaries/scripts you're calling. [cut] > The cd to that directory is due to it must start in its dire

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:47:40 consul tores wrote: > i am American too. Quite, I was acknowledging that! As I say, I once spent 6 weeks in America (Chile, in fact) but have never been to North America, though I did once have an ambition to go to Mexico. (I didn't get there.) Lisi -- To

Re: !!! Evolution version

2011-10-02 Thread Lisi
On Sunday 02 October 2011 12:33:48 Camaleón wrote: > I tell you the same as Lisi: care your postings. I thought that we had agreed to drop that. Or anyhow take it off list. Try "telling" people what to do a bit less. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread lina
On Oct 2, 2011, at 23:05, Camaleón wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 22:47:00 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 2, 2011 at 10:27 PM, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > But before when the graphic driver works, I can find it in /media. >>> >>> !? The fglrx driver was removed last time due to the

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread Terence
On 2 October 2011 16:07, John Hasler wrote: > The USA has no official standards body for language, of course, as it > has no official language (nor does it need one). > -- I agree that it doesn't, but certainly question your final assertion. However 60% of your states do have English as an offi

key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Thanks in advance, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Mailers

2011-10-02 Thread Claudius Hubig
[resent to the list] Hello Richard, Richard Bown wrote: >On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 17:11 +0200, Claudius Hubig wrote: >> I am currently using Claws Mail 3.7.10 on Testing and don’t see any >> crashes whatsoever. There have been a few problems with libgnutls >> breaking POP support, but they have bee

IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread Ireneusz Szcześniak
Hi, I'm planning to install an image of Debian to a number of computers. Each of these computers will have the same configuration except the hostname and the IP address. The IP configuration has to be static. I can't use a DHCP server. QUESTION; Is there a way to assign a hostname and a sta

Re: launching apps from the menu

2011-10-02 Thread Richard Bown
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 16:50 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:01:34PM BST, Richard Bown wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 14:35 +0100, Raf Czlonka wrote: > > > If that doesn't help, define PATH in the script or use full path to the > > > binaries/scripts you're calling. > > [cu

Re: !!! Evolution version

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 16:58:27 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 12:33:48 Camaleón wrote: >> I tell you the same as Lisi: care your postings. > > I thought that we had agreed to drop that. My reply was not aimed you. > Or anyhow take it off list. No, I won't. This is something tha

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread consul tores
2011/10/2 Lisi : > On Sunday 02 October 2011 16:47:40 consul tores wrote: >> i am American too. > > Quite, I was acknowledging that!  As I say, I once spent 6 weeks in America > (Chile, in fact) but have never been to North America, though I did once have > an ambition to go to Mexico.  (I didn't g

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:06:28 +0800, lina wrote: > On Oct 2, 2011, at 23:05, Camaleón wrote: (...) > The fglrx driver was removed last time due to the update of > xserver-Xorg-core. > > Today tried to downgrade the xserver, which removed the Xorg and etc. So > later come back to present xserver

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
consul tores wrote: > i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only > for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of > Geography. it is the same with North America without Mexico. In the 18th century a citizen of the USA (or of one of the colonies earl

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread lina
On Oct 3, 2011, at 0:44, Camaleón wrote: > On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:06:28 +0800, lina wrote: > >> On Oct 2, 2011, at 23:05, Camaleón wrote: > > (...) > >> The fglrx driver was removed last time due to the update of >> xserver-Xorg-core. >> >> Today tried to downgrade the xserver, which removed

Re: key shortcut rendering xterm console full screen

2011-10-02 Thread Dom
On 02/10/11 17:27, Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List: Since a while on my Wheezy box, by accident under Gnome, my fingers slide and render the xterm console full screen. As I would like to reproduce it and to scape from it, but not by accident, I want to know the involved key shortcut. Might you

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Stephen Powell
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: > > United States of America. Does "of" tell you something? > > i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only > for us; maybe it is related to common sense! or maybe low knowledge of > Geography. it is the same wi

Re: [OT] British vs. American English

2011-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Lisi writes: > but the use of electric power came over from the States... The heirs of Herr Siemens might disagree with you on that, not to mention Thomson, Faraday, etc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: portable driver

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:55:46 +0800, lina wrote: > On Oct 3, 2011, at 0:44, Camaleón wrote: (...) >>> Still don't know how to install the fglrx-driver. This is another >>> story. >> >> Okay, I read a bit of your odissey but didn't know you finally got xorg >> server removed at all... I wonder i

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 13:25 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:07:17 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 07:34 +0200, Klaus Wolf wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I use Evolution since over 10 years and I never get a problem. On other > > > site, a customer that just would have

Re: Locale set to "C"

2011-10-02 Thread Raf Czlonka
On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 01:47:30PM BST, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Panayiotis Karabassis wrote, on 10/02/11 13:59: > > > I will check in a minute. Also I am pretty sure I didn't set the locale > > to "C". I copied .profile, .bashrc from another computer, where locales > > work. > > > Could there

Re: [OT] British vs. American English (was Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face)

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 12:58:16 -0400, Stephen Powell wrote: > On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 10:58:01 -0400 (EDT), consul tores wrote: >> >> United States of America. Does "of" tell you something? >> >> i am from El Salvador of America, but we do not take "America" only for >> us; maybe it is related to comm

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Sun, 2011-10-02 at 13:30 +0100, Lisi wrote: > On Sunday 02 October 2011 11:51:30 Ralf Mardorf wrote: > > PPS: You idiot, the coders call this software version 3.x. > > > > I'm using alpha and beta software aka 0.x, if this software should fail, > > it would be ok, but if a version 3.x fails for

Re: Wow, Evolution left me with eggs in my face

2011-10-02 Thread Ralf Mardorf
PS: I've got no time to read the tons of Debian digest, but I try to read them ASAP. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/1317575248.2836.29.camel@debian

Re: IP address depending on the MAC

2011-10-02 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 02 Oct 2011 18:31:59 +0200, Ireneusz Szcześniak wrote: > I'm planning to install an image of Debian to a number of computers. > Each of these computers will have the same configuration except the > hostname and the IP address. The IP configuration has to be static. I > can't use a DHCP se

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