Re: Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:52:01PM -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote: > > I tried the stock Debian kernel 2.6.24 plus firmware-iwlwifi from Sid but > > although the wireless card does seem to be recognized it doesn't connect. > > I spent several days wrestling with it but gave up in the end and stayed >

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:42:17AM -0500, lostson wrote: > On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: > > Try update-menus as root > > That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I > have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, thanks though > nev

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk > permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk > repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can > check permissions aga

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf > > this is the relevant line > > repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 "$file" Can

Re: website front-end

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:30:16PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only > look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, > possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of > the URL. B

Re: I need further understanding of wine or bash

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 08:43:53PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 02:05:23PM -0400, Dylan Garrett wrote: > > > One issue that I see that you should fix (though it won't affect your > > results): > > #bin/bash! > > Should be: > > #!/usr/bin/bash > > /usr/bin/bash? where? /bi

Re: 2 ISPs ( 2 gateways) and a Debian Box

2008-04-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 12:26:22PM +0800, John Marvin L. Magsino wrote: > i have 2 ISPs ( 2 routers which act as a gateway) and a debian Box running > Apache + PHP + Mysql. what i wanted to do is to make the debian box port > forwarded to both the ISPs. You mean:?

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 06:19:22AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > On Tue, Apr 22, 2008 at 10:03:31PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in > > >

Re: Problem to turn DMA on

2008-04-26 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:00:14AM -0300, Rafael Fontenelle wrote: > Hi all. > > I got a very old notebook running debian 4.0 with kernel 2.6.25 and 2.6.21. > It has a 4GB IDE harddisk. I'm trying to enable DMA with hdparm, but it is > not working. > > The command I run and its output are: > > #

Re: lastest emacs-cvs can not start on my debian testing

2008-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 02:59:36PM +0800, Silent wrote: > Hi, all > > I just checkout the lastest emacs-cvs code and compiled on my debian testing, > but the emacs can not start up, > > my configure args : > > ./configure --disable-largefile --without-pop --without-kerberos > --without-kerberos5

Re: Trying to install the Ralink wireless drivers

2008-04-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 03:43:02PM +0100, James Allsopp wrote: > Thank you for that Mumia, but I'm not sure why to use a different site, > would apt-get install -t testing kernel-image work? I've looked at their > web-site and says it uses etch libraries, but surely that wouldn't > affect the

Re: Debian crash randomly

2008-04-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 04:30:52PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 28/04/2008, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually i recommend sid to everyone except for servers where stable is more > > suitable. > > You must enjoy debugging a lot, then. Sid really *is* unstable, like > its

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 02:31:59PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > this is what I get when I went to install xorg-dev(among other things..): > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > exim4 exim4-daemon-light > > and when it was over: > exim4 depends on exim4-daemon-

Re: Fw: Errors on upgrading from etch to lenny

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 12:08:35AM -0700, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Hi: > I wonder whether the debian-user list is still active. When posting for help > at the amd64 list, even from inexperienced users, the amd64 list usually > provides help overnight. > > See please my request for help below to

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:49:44AM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> You are 100% correct, Andrei. See those Hebrew letters at the bottom > >> of every post I make? It's to build a database of wrongly-encoded > > > > No. I didn't trim anything from what y

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 05, 2008 at 10:10:29PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 00:01:05 +0300, Dotan Cohen ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > 2008/5/5 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > $ mutt -v > > > Mutt 1.5.17 (2007-11-01) > > > > Ah, Mutt is known not to work with Hebrew. There

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 02:23:41PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > Check that "en_NZ.UTF-8" is a legal locale on your machine, and that > it should not be "en_NZ.utf8". The -a flag on the locale command will > show you. On my machine, the "utf" letters are lowercase: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ locale -a

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 01:31:28PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/5/6 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 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 > > > > I am running an UTF-8 locale and the above still like gibberish. > > > >

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 11:52:49AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > # apt-get install apt-listbugs > .. > Setting up apt-listbugs (0.0.88) ... > Errors were encountered while processing: > exim4-daemon-light > exim4 > E: Sub-process /usr/bin/dpkg returned an error code (1) > > # dpkg --config

Re: sound?

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 03:58:45PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Other than that lame thought which I expect you've checked, I have no > more ideas. Nice one! ... I get it. -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes

Re: [Kind of OT] Why's this look like gibberish to me?

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 07:52:22PM -0500, Kevin Buhr wrote: > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > Interesting, I have: > > LANG=en_NZ.UTF-8 > > and in /etc/console-tools/config > > SCREEN_FONT=lat0-sun16 > > With that setup, Dota

Re: more ash/dash/bash questions

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 06, 2008 at 09:29:44PM -0300, Otavio Exel wrote: > Hello List, > > I've been writing shell scripts to be run as root lately; > I'm not aware of any security-risk involving bash but I'd much more > rather run those scripts with ash or dash instead of bash; Obviously ash or dash have to

Re: ircii question

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 04:12:56PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > If someone wants access to your box, because of the absurd bandwidth > available to a cracker (botnet, anyone?), they'll just try every xploit > in their db, regardless of it's compatibility with your alleged system. Sure, but how ofte

Re: Debian + LVM + RAID1

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 09:29:14PM +0200, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 02:48:57PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > Truly, I don't know if you install grub onto a raid1 if it will install > > it onto the MBR of both physical HDs. > > I have not done this recently, but I a

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?-apt-listbugs

2008-05-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 07:09:28AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Wed May 7 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > > No! apt-listbugs works at the "apt level", so to see the benefits of > > apt-listbugs, you have to "apt-get install exim4-daemon-light". > > apt

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?-apt-listbugs

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 05:15:11PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I did the upgrades, no listbugs info that I could see.. except for the exim > not being configured. Weird, works for me. -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake wh

Re: framebuffer + nvidia

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 08:11:40AM +1000, 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

[tip] lynx and annoying cookie messages

2008-05-09 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Annoyed by those annoying messages in lynx whether to accept this cookie, and accept this invalid cookie path / (n) ? Then edit /etc/lynx.cfg: [..] SET_COOKIES:FALSE [..] ACCEPT_ALL_COOKIES:FALSE [..] -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/09/08 18:21, Nate Duehr wrote: > [snip] > > > > Real freedom = BSD. > > The BSD License allowed the Unix Wars to take place. > > > Freedom with an agenda = GPL. > > Everyone

Re: [OT] C++ programming: keeping count of data items read from file

2008-05-10 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:35:25AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Maybe. What I do know is that Perl's regex functionality has been > *highly* optimized over the years. So, if the task is pattern > matching over large datasets, Perl is the language to use, even over > compiled languages. Take a loo

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers]

2008-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
- Forwarded message from Ben Okopnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.13 (2006-08-11) From: Ben Okopnik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sat, 10 May 2008 13:03:36 -0400 To: The Answer Gang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: [TAG] 2-cent Tip: Poisoning the spammers I saw a web page the other

Re: Clearing SWAP

2008-05-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 11:04:33AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/10/08 10:07, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Fri, May 09, 2008 at 09:37:40PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> I'm sure there are those *cough*Paul Johnson*cough* who'd love to do > >> just that,

Re: apt-get question..

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 02:40:45AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > If you want less stuff installed, then you can tell aptitude not to > install 'recommends', If a package is listed as a recommends and you consider it should only be a suggests it is considered a bug. -- Chris. == "One, with God,

Re: exim bug

2008-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 01:06:26AM +0200, Sia Neriman wrote: > hi > i use lenny and have this error > The following partially installed packages will be configured: > exim4-daemon-light > 0 packages upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 0B of archives. After

Re: bits/news from the users of Debian?

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 09:59:08PM -0400, Jack Dodds wrote: > In hours per day, the biggest function of our Debian system is to access > the Internet. The absence of a FOSS implementation of Flash is a huge > gap. I have installed the closed source Flash 9 player and Firefox > plugin on some of t

Re: Debian with Vista

2008-05-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 14, 2008 at 12:06:52PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > John P Loes, MD wrote: > > I give up. Strawberries with ketchup? Anchovies with peanut butter? > Jonathan The grub loves them. :-) -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the

Re: missing log messages

2008-05-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 16, 2008 at 03:37:22PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-05-16 15:09, Sven Joachim wrote: > > On 2008-05-16 14:48 +0200, Bill wrote: > > > >> I'm tweaking a new kernel for my old laptop to install a new module. > >> > >> At

apt-get joke

2008-05-24 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, http://www.lessaid.net/fun/apt-get-wife.png -- Chris. == "One, with God, is always a majority, but many a martyr has been burned at the stake while the votes were being counted." -- Thomas B. Reed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Testing Changelog for Specific Packages

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 06:35:53PM +0100, Michael C wrote: > Other than sifting through the archives of debian-testing-changes, might > there be a way of tracking the introduction of updated versions of a > particular package into Testing? > > AFAIK, http://packages.debian.org/changelogs/pool/... o

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 05:25:56PM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > ok, why couldn't I find it?# cat sources.list > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ lenny main contrib non-free > deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian lenny main > > deb-src http://security.us.debian.org/ lenny/updates main cont

Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:57:39PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > I still believe that you need to find a Woman that matches you, so > apt-get -b source wife seems more likely, and besides, the apt-get > build-dep wife should prepare you for marraige ;) > > Ok, I've thought this through waaay too far

Re: gpg not working with kmail

2008-05-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 08:34:44AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Sun May 25 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > deb http://www.backports.org/debian/ etch-backports main contrib non-free > > > > Have you updated from etch -> lenny and have forgot to remove backpor

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:00:52PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Though we're treading damn close right now. Homophobia is sometimes the > > result of religous doctrine. > > How could religious doctrine result in a fear tha

Re: Wildly OT: Re: apt-get joke

2008-05-28 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:05:53AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 13:54:35 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 09:00:52PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 01:25:22PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > >

Re: KDE 4.1 beta 1

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 10:40:28AM -0700, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 12:00 PM, Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I just wasn't sure if I could compile it, without too many unstable > > requirements... > > I'm really waiting for either Kontact for KDE4 or this ne

Re: text file from Linux to windows.

2008-06-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 31, 2008 at 08:57:42AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Doug writes: > >> IIRC, each card had a sequence number. I don't know if they had > >> card-sorter machines. > > > > Yes, of course we had sorters. Card sorting machines are much older than > > computers: it's what punch cards

Running testing? -- read this.

2008-06-04 Thread Chris Bannister
- Forwarded message from Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu) From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2008 12:14:03 -0500 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Bug#484129: release.d

pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jun 04, 2008 at 01:45:47PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 4 Jun 2008 14:41:08 +0200 > Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Jochen, > > > $ gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 3710949B > > gpg: requesting key 3710949B from hkp server subkeys.pgp.net > > gpg: key

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:03:15AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > God doesn't like Kiwis? Which god? > But seriously, have you tried the verbose option? Yes. > > P.S. Also happens to keys: C02440B8 73CDA455 > > They all work for me... > > $ gpg -v --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 73CDA455

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 03:23:04PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 02:17:47 +1200 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > > The weird thing is, it works for other people. Googling on the radix64 > > Including me; I i

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 07:53:34PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > How does your DNS server resolve subkeys.pgp.net? I see five different > IP addresses, with preference given to either 213.239.206.174 or > 64.71.173.107. Try if you still have this problem when you specify one > of these IPs as the

Re: pgp import problem (was Re: [SOLVED] Re: Problems with Gnome appearance.)

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 01:05:14PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 8 Jun 2008 23:18:01 +1200 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > > Are you running etch? > > No, Lenny here. GnuPG reports it's version 1.4.6. Version: 1.4.6

Re: Weird error while upgrading fglrx-glx.

2008-06-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 03:11:20PM +0200, Carlos Parada wrote: > Anyone knows who happens with this ?? > > Thanks > > On Sat, Jun 7, 2008 at 8:27 PM, Carlos Parada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, I've got the following error when performing an apt-get dist-upgrade. > > Can you help me? > >

Re: Fw: Re: wine problems?

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 08, 2008 at 11:46:40PM +0200, Francesco Pietra wrote: > Thanks. I followed the right recipe and the carried out a fresh > install of wine. Everything shows a correct installation, like > > dpkg --status wine > > The windows application (a database) installs, though it fails to > work.

Re: cdebootstrap error: can't install system

2008-06-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 09, 2008 at 08:21:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > # ~/bin/cdeboot.sh > > + cdebootstrap sid /mnt/hdisk/sid-root http://debian.mirrors.tds.net/debian/ > > P: Retrieving Release.gpg > ... > > P: Configuring package libusb-0.1-4 > > P: Configuring package gpgv > > P: Configuri

Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jun 12, 2008 at 12:12:46PM -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Actually, using two fingers for the second mouse button is very natural, as > is dragging around with two fingers as if you were dragging around the area > you are looking at. I originally thought the lack of a second and third > bu

Re: Debian "etch" hardware compability list?

2008-06-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 06:34:36PM -0400, Andrew Reid wrote: > > Hi all -- > > I regularly buy new machines for a computing cluster we > run, which we try very hard to keep both homogeneous and > stable. It's running Debian "etch" amd64 these days. > > Lately, I've been having trouble wi

Re: Any isencrypted function available?

2008-06-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 09:12:33AM +0900, buyoppy wrote: > Is there any 'isencrypted 'function available on Debian > which judges whether some data is encrypted or not? > Thanks in advance. Maybe the "file" program from the package of the same name can do the same thing. -- Chris. == "One

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > Hi again list. > > I'm going to reply to several mails at once. Please excuse the length, Please don't do that. *You* can receive your mails in digest mode by specifying it with some command to the list server, but PLEASE don't enforce it o

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 10:51:06AM +0200, David wrote: > >> Hi again list. > >> > >> I'm going to reply

Re: making bootup fsck more user-friendly

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 04:06:55PM +0200, David wrote: > On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 3:04 PM, Chris Bannister > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jun 14, 2008 at 05:59:01PM +0200, David wrote: > > [...] > > > > > Consider: person a replies to part of your

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 11:34:36AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I'll read that. I try not to buy anything from China, but it seems that > all MBs are made there, and most of the other computing stuff too. Ha!, here in N.Z. it is extremely rare to find something *not* made in China. In fact

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jun 15, 2008 at 09:58:25PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: [..] > \indent the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution\\ > \indent for the United States of America.\\~\\ > \noindent The deist sees the universe as a vast and intricate mechanism,\\ [..] > In this example, the const

Re: silly little text problem

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 12:46:07AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > \\~\\ is an easy-to-remember way to force output of a blank line. And saves a line in the source. > It is good to know alternative commands, because in some situations > one command works while another command doesn't, and the r

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-16 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jun 16, 2008 at 08:10:46AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:55:52 +1200 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Chris, > > > So it seems like pretty well all the "cheap" stuff is Made in China. > > Traditionally

Re: postfix log query

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:44:41PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > It looks like this and the other messages ended up going to > [EMAIL PROTECTED], so I don't think you have an open proxy. Perhaps the > messages you were seeing before were because someone spoofed your > address in the From head

Re: Removing KDE messed up the network

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 26, 2007 at 08:21:14AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >Nope. Haven't even done the "configure/make/make install" dance on > this partition. BTW, what is the exact purpose of avahi-daemon? I took > a look at its description, but still don't understand. Sorry, haven't looked into mul

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 09:00:18AM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Hell, lots of people are missusing that phrase. > Which begs the question: Are they wrong? > >It raises the question. And the answer is yes. > >Everybody behaving in a certain way does not make it ri

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 02:38:30PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:41:37AM -0400, Roberto C. S�nchez wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 05:41:45AM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > >>> Which begs the question, "Is Debian m

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 07:42:27PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 11:49:35AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > [Probably a silly question, but its something that I've been thinking > > about] > > > > Is there any problems r

Re: Sarge Server with Sid Client? [was Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to ...]

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 11:25:21PM -0400, Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: > No really, all new versions are able to communicate with older versions. > In fact in your server you need is what's more stable so must of servers > (with Debian) are Sarge or Stable and you can use them even if you're in

Re: nVidia MCP55 (was: Slow internet on AMD64 running Etch)

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 04:56:28PM -0700, Dave Stephenson wrote: > On Mar 27, 5:50 pm, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Dave Stephenson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > > Did you do /etc/init/d/networking force-reload > > after adding this to th interfaces file? >

Re: fvwm vs. fvwm-crystal

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 27, 2007 at 09:32:55PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > I'll definitely give it a try sometime tomorrow afternoon, but I'm not > saying I'd dump Window Maker for it ;P > > Sounds pretty promising though. Besides running an xbindkeys > pseudo-daemon is there any way to set hotkeys in fvwm

Re: riped dvd menu

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:35:33AM +0200, gustavo halperin wrote: > Thank you, but I'm not sure about K9copy, first K9copy is KDE depend > and I prefer don't install programs that are KDE based (also Gnome based > to), second looks like K9copy use dvdauthor for the menu issues and > dvdauthor c

Re: NVIDIA and Etch : WAS Re: Problems with GRUB and SATA

2007-03-30 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 28, 2007 at 05:52:23AM +0100, Ian Broadbent wrote: > > You could of snipped the unnecessary bits. > > Chris. > errr.. that might be good advice Chris BUT, it kinda > ASSumes that I knew what the 'unnecessary bits' were ... doesn't it? > If I'd known that ... then I would

Re: Debian User List

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would be kept [OOTL] > > (out of this list) > > I said this once before and got shot down, but here it is again: > > If this list is s

Re: GPG and Signing

2007-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 04:11:09PM +0800, Robert Roach wrote: > I was wondering about that too. Went to local book store and found a > good book on both PGP and GPG: > > http://www.amazon.com/PGP-GPG-Email-Practical-Paranoid/dp/1593270712/ref=sr_1_1/104-6276993-4918331?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=117541

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 07:43:14PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > City boy! ;) Clearly apples are better because they can be eaten, rocks > are handy throwing objects, but apples can also be used in the same manor. The Lord of the manor may object. :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

lynx tip [was Re: webhttrack. start please]

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 11:33:24AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > not to mention, lynx can be great for pulling a dump of a website for > parsing by some other program to pick out the right data and plug it Tip: try the "=" key in lynx when visiting a website. -- Chris. == -- To UN

Re: cd organizer under linux suggestions

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 03:50:28PM +0800, Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: > I used gtktalog and cdcat, they are used to organize music cds, but they do > not have cddb database query support. > I wonder if ther is a ware that able to query the cddb information from freedb > and can automaticall

Re: Host's IP address can't be found

2007-05-13 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 02:35:03PM -0400, Gloria Brown wrote: > I installed Etch on a stand-alone workstation which is the sole host on > a local network and has Internet access through a hardware firewall. > > I have a MB ethernet chip, but am using a NIC card. Before the card was > eth0, but w

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Rick Thomas wrote in Article > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > >gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > >> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html > > > >Al

Editing config files [was Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - ]

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:02:40AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Ah, then it is most likely the dhcp client causing your problem with the > resolv.conf > > You can edit the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and look for this line. > > #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; > > Remove the comment and cha

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:36:48AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: [please snip unnecessary bits!] > I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I > do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some > entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was sh

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:47:43PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Even if the discharge of a firearm is illegal, doesn't mean that making > one is. The hack that you posted is not dangerous, imo. As you point > out, it is just a random string of numbers. However, applying this > random string of numbe

Re: swap

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:33:26AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007 10:28:02 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > In fact, it was poor browser performance (read inability to view some > > sites) that was the drive to buy my new box. For everything els

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Sure, but the Hindus aren't doing it in the name of God, Allah, > > Shiva or whatever. Hinduism has other problems but claiming an > > exclusive franchise on truth is not one of them. > > And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:08:42PM +1000, SB wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson: > And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor as yourself". > > That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it > actually foll

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:54:17PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > (I am currently in a hotel with a time-limited internet connection and > it will run out in a few minutes. Therefore I cannot provide the actual > citations right now. I will be back online on Friday, but by then this > thread wil

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:58:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: [Please trim unnecessary quotes] > I will quote my own message: > > The difference is that the person "dressing" the lamb is preparing it > for use, usually to eat. That serves a purpose in at least nourishing > the body. I suppose sacrif

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:17:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10 May, Joe Hart wrote: > > > ... > > > > > I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that > > they so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people > > that seem to do well on Sunday and f

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:09:36AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > By definition, the natural man is *not* a spritiual man, and hence not > bron again, and hence not a Christian. So if you are not a Christian you are not spiritual? -- Chris. ==

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > You can run xrandr from the commandline or, if you're using Kde, go into No you cant. It needs X to be running. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:27:57AM +0200, bdeferme wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >how to use dpkg to list all packages in doc section that can be installed? > > > >just list package names. > > > >Thanks! > > dpkg -l will list all the packages in /var/lib/dpkg/list and brie

Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:31AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > how to use dpkg to list all packages in doc section that can be installed? > > just list package names. You could look at grep-dctrl. I think you can search by section on the packages section on debian.org. But, I think you are bar

Re: etch help

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Try a new reply to Andrew's message. That is a bunch of nothing. That is unfair and incorrect. He is a newbie and that sort of message (your

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:42:26PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > There are also problems here: Netherlands? > There are too many political parties, so in order to have a working > government, coalitions must be formed, and in the process of forming the > coalitions, parties quite frequently must aband

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the > > seller still gets paid, and if the discs were stolen, the victim has > > some chance of recovery. That does not, of course, justi

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Yeah, I definitely do mention things about version control, > privacy, etc., more than the virtue of free software (because > strong as the latter argument is, it doesn't hold up unless people > care). Basically my argument is always

Re: [OT] Screen

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:51:12AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Word Perfect 5.0 for DOS. The ability to see EXACTLY what codes where > where made finding those formatting errors so much easier. 5.1 was the defacto standard AIR -- don't remember 5.0. How long was 5.0 in use, can you remember?

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