Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 12, 2008 12:06 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Mon February 11 2008 01:34:09 pm Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >> > On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: >

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 12, 2008 6:04 AM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: > > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm > > wary of > > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 13, 2008 1:42 AM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes > > > to > > > papers I download

Re: Password problems

2008-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 16 2008 02:59:31 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > I changed my password using passwd...and now some apps want the old > password...others want the new one! > > For example when I do sudo aptitude update in a terminal sudo will only > accept the new password...however if I run Synaptic...

Re: Sound Juicer and Amarok collection failure on Etch

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 17 February 2008 18:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:15PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Recently, I discovered that CDs ripped using Sound Juicer no longer > > register properly in Amarok. This used to work fine, but now when I > > The problem is that sound-jui

Re: unable to burn debian ISO

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 19 2008 03:04:25 pm Claude Marinier wrote: > Greetings, > > I have successfully burned three ISO image files onto CD for the stable > SPARC distribution but cannot burn CD1. I have made four attempts each time > downloading from a different mirror. I burned 3 amd64 and three i386 d

Re: Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 16 2008 09:44:12 am alexandre suzuki wrote: > I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then > upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about > two things: > > 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 > (from Sarge r7) and I don´t know if they do the > security ch

Re: debian multimedia gpg key changed location

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:59:52 am Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just remembered to download the debian-keyring package and should have > done that earlier. It seems to have a pgp key in it for debian multimedia > too. debian-multimedia-keyring is the one you need for the debian-multimedia.org multi

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:06:14 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... OpenOffice has been printing for me for years. Have you configured your printer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. > > I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at > "setting up ssl-cert". > > I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Ive noticed this on amd64 and i386 also. I grabbed

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. You need tp prepend "amd64-" to your boot comm

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. Disregard my last reply, I misunderstood. If y

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with debian (what I know, to some degree anyway). > It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. > But managers want run centos instead. Di

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
> Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > > > >> why debian? > >> why centos? > >> > > > > Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with > > debian (what I know,

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" to kernel 2.6.2

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. Can anybody enlighten me? Lilo has always worked well for me. I find grub easier to use when booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the ke

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: > I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I > don't find a discussion of this. > > Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my > machines are Athalons. I've been wondering about this to.

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 02:25:18 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want > Pretty Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it > that is an old family favorite. Pysol might do the trick. There are quite a few solitai

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i > can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. It does get sent to

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:55:27 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: > >> On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > >>> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > >

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 07:03:31 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > OK _ ran alsaconf and it went fine. I was already in the audio group (I > remembered that one . . . ) and then I ran alsamixer and the channels are > unmuted but still no sound . . . > > What next? What commands should I execute to get

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2006 #1233

2006-05-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun May 28 2006 04:37 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > godammit unsubscibe me to this bombardement of emails or send me CORRECT > info on how to do it, last time I tried i got 50 email back saying failed > and you already passed my threshold of annoyance > >[EMA

console screen size

2006-05-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I need a 640x480 frame buffer. Is there a way I can change that from the command line, or in grub's menu.list maybe? I've taken a look but can't seem to find info on how to do

Re: console screen size

2006-06-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 1 2006 05:41 am, Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Thursday, 1. June 2006 00:33, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On this particular machine I am working on I get a text screen size of > > > 80x25. I'd like to change it to 80x30, or perhaps I n

Re: (SOLVED?) Re: MP3 encoding?

2006-06-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun June 11 2006 12:29 am, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Well, lame does a conversion and does not give me any errors. I can > play the file with 'play' from sox, and sox will take it as input to > another conversion, so it seems good (and suggests that sox does do > decoding, but not encoding, of .mp

Re: debian-marillat

2006-06-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed June 21 2006 10:34 am, Raquel Rice wrote: > Does anyone know if that repository has been closed, moved, or what? It has moved. Check http://debian.video.free.fr/ for details. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Debian over SATA.

2006-06-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 29 2006 09:51, jbmorla wrote: > I have a Bonzaï Debian ISO CD that boots in serial ata, > > But I don’t know where to upload it so that you can try it. If you happen to be using KDE it has a nifty little public file server applet you can dock into the taskbar. Then your friend (or an

Re: Is it possible to install ftp servers w/o 421 Service not available errors?

2006-07-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 2 2006 13:13, Dirk wrote: > Seriously, > I've tried proftpd, vsftpd and another one I don't remember on different > machines (all with debian) and randomly they bitch around giving me 421! > > Is it possible to run a ftp server with debian? Or will I finally have > to switch to FreeBSD

sound with ut2004

2006-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
After playing unrealtournament 2004 and quiting I don't have any sound anymore. If I try to use amarok or ut2004 again I get no sound unless I reboot. Is there a way to restart the sound system without rebooting? I'm running sarge amd64. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: sound with ut2004

2006-07-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 16 2006 08:16 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Saturday 15 July 2006 12:53, Alan Ianson wrote: > > After playing unrealtournament 2004 and quiting I don't have any sound > > anymore. > > I bet you're using OSS for sound, and you have a cheap, single-channel &

Re: CD writer wear out?

2006-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 17 2006 12:54 pm, Art Edwards wrote: > I have had several CD burners die. They read just fine, but they stop > writing after a very finite number (say tens) of CD's. My hardware vendor > says that this is rare. Has anyone else had this experience? Is there > something I should be doing?

Re: openoffice (is it broken?)

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu May 1 2008 02:52:30 am Daniel Dalton wrote: > Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I > installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks > to be openoffice. OO and pigeon work fine on my lenny box. I use iceweasel 2.0.0.14 rather tha

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon May 5 2008 10:24:35 am Paul Cartwright wrote: > I was having problems with sound, so I decided to upgrade to lenny. > I am now on > $ uname -a > 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 20:20:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > > > I might go to 2.6.24-1 soon, but with 22-3 I got my NVIDIA drivers to > inst

Re: framebuffer + nvidia

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu May 8 2008 03:11:40 pm Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > recently got a new laptop, with a nvidia gpu. I have installed the > nvidia driver for X. But I also like using the vt's as well. > > How do I drive them in a high mode the 80x40 and can I use frame buffers > at the same time as using the nv

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 06:51:16 am Doug Mitton wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the UseNet > group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the mailing list) but > not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. I haven't used usenet newsgroups in a

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 04:31:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > here's the first few lines: > > --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-language: > Content-transfer-encoding: base64 > > U

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny > character and hung. I went to

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat May 17 2008 08:21:53 am seeds wrote: > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? A friend of mine bought an mp3 player (some generic brand) that didn't automount for unknown reasons. I mounted it manually but adding an entry in /etc/fstab like below and it mounts fine that way

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon May 19 2008 07:58:01 am Preston Boyington wrote: > Uwe Bugla wrote: > > I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to > > adjust a workstation to another monitor. > > > > Traditionallly that works by the following command: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. > > > > If

Default X resolution

2008-05-19 Thread Alan Ianson
Is it possible to get x to use 1024x768 by default that way xfree86 used to do? I would still like other resolutions available so I can use them when I need them but most of the time 1024x768 does what I want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: "Stale" jigdo files

2007-03-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri March 30 2007 21:04, Clayborne Arevalo wrote: > Please BCC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. > > I'm trying to download the DVD installer images for AMD64 via jigdo > using the templates available at > cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/amd64/jigdo-cd/ I just built those DVD's for i

A couple questions about gnome.

2007-04-01 Thread Alan Ianson
When I select an odt (openoffice) file from gnome's Places -> Recent Documents menu an error window opens and says "could not find a sutable application". How can I configure gnome to use openoffice for .odt and other openoffice file formats? I had another question too, but I have forgotten what

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:06, somethin2cool wrote: > > man mount > No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), Says who!? ;) > I asked what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having > been using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than > he

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:23, Default User wrote: > So far, two wireless adapters have been mentioned as working with Etch, > (assembly required): > > Netgear WG511U V2 pcmcia card > Netgear WG511T pcmcia card > > Is anyone out there using any other currently available wireless > adapters with Et

Re: windows download

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:26, Tim Casey wrote: > how do you get into grub to add another hard drive to the boot list or do > ineed to add lilo or something? Ps the drive is a seperate drive with > windows on it /boot/grub/menu.lst is where your grub config is, lots of comments in there. Don't me

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 06:57, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: > Lo > > I've a few burning needs, so if anyone knows the answers - let me know! :D > > 1) I need a graphical way of searching text files for a string - and > getting it to replace it (makes for easy re-configuring of files after a > p

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 16:41, bigoperm wrote: > I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is > the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge > (over Etch) without using any data? There is no (official) downgrade path, only upgrade. > My intui

Re: Which apt/sources.list to use

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2007-03-05 at 08:58 +0800, Rudi Starcevic wrote: > Do you think I can just manually add these and all will be fine? Yes, that's the way I do it. Find a mirror that is close so you get good transfer rates at http://debian.org/mirrors > deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main cont

Re: what's with epiphany?

2007-05-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 22:50 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I > visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What > is up with that? After the initial crash, it's usually fine, but the > constant first crash w

Re: Audio control problem

2007-06-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun June 17 2007 07:09, Barry Samuels wrote: > I am running 32-bit Debian Testing with a 2.6.20.1 kernel. I am using > Alsa modules from that kernel. I don't have any other Alsa packages > installed except alsamixergui. > > I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe mainboard which has a Realtek ALC882M > chi

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Friday 22 June 2007 10:32, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi, > > This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>by Hagar de l'Est > < [EMAIL PROTECTED] >. > Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us. It is important. But alas, we'll likely have

Re: time zone

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-24-06 at 19:59 +, j j wrote: > Hello > > The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is > there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? I think tzconfig will setup your time zone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :) > Dear Debianists, > > I have been working with an engineering modelling program called ASCEND. > You can get it from sourceforge and it has a wikipedia page. > > See: > > http://ascendwiki.

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 10:18 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange > with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open > standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article > [1] points out that it has the same

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2007-27-06 at 12:34 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: > Hi Folks, > > I want that some of the members of the group comments something > about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration > I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like > Doom3, etc in linux

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed September 20 2006 05:21, John Kelly wrote: > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! This outfit is more like spam nazi's. What they are trying to do is commendable, the way they do it is not. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: spamcop

2006-09-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu September 21 2006 09:26, Raquel wrote: > > Sorry, but I don't want to say that. I want only to remark that > > debian mailing lists are source of spam. > > Additionally I'm not happy with my current solution (whitelist), > > but right now I don't have a plan to add and additional specific

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 22 2006 11:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Travis Crook wrote: > > Ditto! Debian just works! I've tried a couple of other distros, and > > they don't "just work". > > Before we all get too syrupy here, I've posted a problem here > which never got addressed, and had another user contact

idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello All, I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from idsoftware. I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it is on the MB and it has always worked well enough to make me happy. It looks like I am going to have to get a sound card to get sound working

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
games may need a sound card to work?? I'll have to dig a bit. > On 9/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello All, > > > > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from > > idsoftware. > > I don't have a sound car

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 29 2006 12:49 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/29/06 14:18, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri September 29 2006 12:00 pm, derek wrote: > >> Make sure you have alsa-base,alsa-oss,and alsa-utils installed,run > >> alsa-conf too. > > > > Yep, those

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 29 2006 02:08 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:04 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from > > idsoftware. I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it > > is o

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 29 2006 02:08 pm, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > If you can get sound in SDL apps now, I would guess it would work with > ioquake3 too. http://www.icculus.org/quake3/ Thanks for that link. ioquake3 runs great here. I was pleasantly surprised to see x86_64 as well as spark (IIRC) binarie

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri September 29 2006 02:22 pm, Pollywog wrote: > > Yep, those are all installed. Sound does work here but not with Q3 and > > Doom 3. I'll check RTCW later today. > > > > I'm not certain but I think those games may need a sound card to work?? > > I think I used this command to get sound to work

Re: idsoftware games

2006-09-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat September 30 2006 03:28 am, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Fri, 2006-09-29 at 11:04 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I am trying to get sound working with quake 3 / doom 3 / RTCW from > > idsoftware. I don't have a sound card in this box. I just use whatever it > > is o

Re: Debian-friendly ISP in Milwaukee area?

2006-10-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat October 7 2006 04:43 pm, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > Hello, all! > > In my recent posting, I have stated that I am trying to log onto a > dial-up ISP that doesn't support Linux, and requested help. I do not > hold out much hope for help, so I'd like to try another avenue. > > Does any one know

Re: Debian-friendly ISP in Milwaukee area?

2006-10-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat October 7 2006 05:08 pm, you wrote: > On Oct 7, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sat October 7 2006 04:43 pm, Jeffrey Rolland wrote: > >> Hello, all! > >> > >> In my recent posting, I have stated that I am trying to log onto a > >>

Re: problems with CD-Writer (solved)

2006-10-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun October 8 2006 07:24 am, Brad Brock wrote: > Wodim helps me burn my ISO files to CDs. But I'm still > curious with cdrecord. Is it imposible to use cdrecord > in my computer..?? wodim is a debianised cdrecord. It's new and that's about all I know about it. > By the way, is there any GUI f

Re: GRUB Configuration

2006-10-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 13 2006 12:29, Gilberto Martins wrote: > Hi. > > The Scenery: > I want to configure GRUB to show all the options without timeout. > I tried "timeout=0", but it made de default option start automatically > > The Questions: > 1) How can I configure GRUB without timeout ? I just want it

Re: installing Debian on a dual boot Fedora Core 5/Windows PC

2006-10-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri October 13 2006 12:46, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks? > > I run Fedora Core 5 and Windows on my PC in a dual boot situation using > GRUB. > > If I install Debian too will it be OK? > > Will I end up with two GRUBs? > > What happens here? > > Michael Fothergill By default deb

Re: mp3 organizer

2006-10-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun October 15 2006 12:33 pm, J Merritt wrote: > I am trying to find a good mp3 organizer that will run under Debian. > Features: organizing mp3 audio files (by ID3v1/v2 data) into subfolders by > artist or category, rewrite ID3 tags, etc. Is anyone aware of such a > package? I use Amarok, it's

Re: what mirros provide 64 bit ?

2006-10-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun October 15 2006 12:08 am, Jabka Atu wrote: > Howdy,.. > > I'd like to add 64 bit mirros to mirror list where can find some ? > i use to use this one : > deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable main contrib > non-free Welcome to the fold.. :) Here's a list of known mirr

Re: what mirros provide 64 bit ?

2006-10-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun October 15 2006 02:15 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Sun October 15 2006 12:08 am, Jabka Atu wrote: > > Howdy,.. > > > > I'd like to add 64 bit mirros to mirror list where can find some ? > > i use to use this one : > > deb http://mirror.hamakor.or

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon October 16 2006 06:47 am, David Baron wrote: > Yes, they are "closed" but the drivers are apparently the same. The glx > maybe not. I get much better results with those on Nvidia's site than those > on Sid. I keep the Sid nvidia-kernel-source package around because when > this is upgrades,

Re: nvidia-xconfig and xserver-xorg-video-nv

2006-10-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon October 16 2006 20:06, Carl Fink wrote: > I just set up Debian on my HP laptop, as mentioned in two previous threads. > With the help of kernel package developer Frans Pop (thank you!), I was > able to get past the previously-reported problem and boot into Linux. > > I have xorg running, but

Re: nvidia-xconfig and xserver-xorg-video-nv

2006-10-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue October 17 2006 03:49, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 10:38:09PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I use the nvidia drivers also for my FX 5700LE. There is a pre built > > module for it in unstable and it seems to be working great here. > > > > What are yo

Re: questions about your product

2006-10-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue October 17 2006 11:26, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > good afternoon... i'm new to the Linux OS (i've used windows my entire > life), and was curious if your latest version available for download could > be supported by my PC. my PC contains: Asus A8N-SLI Premium Motherboard > AMD Athlon 64 X2

Re: Compiling a Nvidia module [was Re: Compiling a kernel]

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 25 2006 06:39, David Baron wrote: > On Wednesday 25 October 2006 13:29, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > > > With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and > > > grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia.

Re: cdrecord replacement (wodim) fails (WORKS NOW)

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 25 2006 09:12, Wayne Topa wrote: > Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Just upgraded cdrecord and k3b to burn a Knoppix CD and find that > > the new replacement for cdrecord, wodim, can't handle it. It fails > > saying the file is larger the the CD. > >

Re: cdrecord replacement (wodim) fails (WORKS NOW)

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 25 2006 09:45, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > [...] > > > I wonder why the change to wodim, cdrecord has been the main stay for cd > > burning for as long as I can remember. If wodim is the default now I hope > > it will work as well as cdrecord has all these years. > > http://l

Re: openvpn 2.0.7-1 404 not found error

2006-10-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed October 25 2006 11:53, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Hi: > > When I try to install the latest version of openvpn (in etch, anyway) > aptitude returns a 404 Not Found error. Is it really not there? packages.debian.org says 2.09-1 is currently there. Maybe you need to update your sources.list??

Free space on USB drive incorrect

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Ianson
When I mount a usb stick the free space is incorrectly reported as 112KB when it is actually around 400 MB. I can write a small file to the drive but I'd like to be able to write some larger files. Maybe my fstab needs fixing. I've been using the following for some time. I'm pretty sure I have w

Re: Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 updated

2006-11-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 10 2006 08:18, Yuriy Padlyak wrote: > Hi All! > > How can I update to sarge to http://www.us.debian.org/News/2006/20061106 > without CD? An installed copy of debian is always upto date, if you've updated with apt-get / dselect / aptitude. There are also gui apps to keep updated bu

Re: Reload KDE menus without logging out?

2006-11-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat November 11 2006 13:52, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I've noticed that occasionally a new program won't show up in my KDE or > Debian menus until after I close and restart the X session. Is there a > way to force KDE to reread its available menus without logging out > first? update-menus should

Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List, I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I can log into the site but web pages don't seem to load up in the browser. This is only the case when running testing or unstable, I can navigate the site just fine with sarge. This has been the case since shortl

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 17:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Sunday 12 November 2006 19:53, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Suggestions? Please! :) > > Which browser are you using? If it is firefox, try disabling the extensions > and see if it works. I usually use konqueror but it does

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 17:34, John Hasler wrote: > Alan Ianson writes: > > It could be something about the scotiaonline.com website but I just don't > > know. > > Looks like a buggy site. It (falsely) claims that I have Javascript > disabled and then tells me it supp

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 17:54, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:53:52PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > can log into the site but web pages don't seem to

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 18:53, Stephen Yorke wrote: > I use ScotiaOnline on all my PCs/OSs... > > Have had it work with FireFox, IE 6 and the recent IE 7 (Beta 1, 2, RC1 > & Release)...it just works. Yep. same here. Never have any problem using the site with windows. I don't use windows a heck of

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 19:19, Michael Waters wrote: > On Sun, 12 Nov 2006 18:38 -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun November 12 2006 17:54, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:53:52PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > Hello List, > > > &g

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 19:16, Stephen Yorke wrote: > All I run is Etch at home right now...guess I should'a mentioned > that...sorry. Hmm. I must have some kind of problem and/or conflict on my box then. I wonder what it could be? > -Original Message- > From: Alan Ians

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 22:46, Amit Joshi wrote: > I recently installed gcc and Anjuta for C programming. > All dependencies have been installed. > > So whenever I try to compile a program, it returns an error saying: > Error: stdio.h: Can't find file or directory. > > Never experienced such a prob

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 12 2006 21:48, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, Nov 12, 2006 at 04:53:52PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > Hello List, > > > > I am having trouble browsing my banks web site to do online banking. I > > can log into the site but web pages don'

Re: Can't find header files.

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 00:06, Amit Joshi wrote: > On Monday 13 November 2006 12:53, Amit Joshi wrote: > > On Monday 13 November 2006 12:23, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > > > > Do you have the linux-kernel-headers package installed for your kernel > > > vers

Re: how many CDs for v3.1 r3?

2006-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon November 13 2006 05:04, anonymous wrote: > I was planning to download and test install Debian for the first time. > However, when I browsed the website below: > > http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/3.1_r3/i386/iso-cd/ > > for a download, I found out that I would need to download 18 CDs: 15

Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Ianson
Hi All, I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I noticed) I have no sound in the unreal games (ut-goty, ut2003 and ut2004). I haven't changed anything that I am aware of. I see this in ~/.xsession-errors but I don't know what it means. "open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file

Re: Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 6 2008 09:01:51 pm lee wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:56:42 -0800 > > Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I > > noticed) I have no sound in the unre

Re: Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 6 2008 11:50:07 pm Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-11-07 04:56 +0100, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I noticed) I > > have no sound in the unreal games (ut-goty, ut2003 and ut2004). I haven't > > chan

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 7 2008 08:15:53 am Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not sure > how m

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 9 2008 12:24:23 pm Robert Caruso wrote: > Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was somehow > joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly attempted to > unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get over 50 e-mails a > day from this

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