Luis Finotti wrote:
So, with net-install at least, using aptitude from the start might not
work "out of the box".
I just recently did a Sarge net-install and have exclusively used
aptitude. I have had no problems. Then only thing I've had to do is
mark the dependencies of packages which
Scarletdown wrote:
>Paul Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>On Friday May 6 2005 7:54 am, Kent West wrote:
>>
>>In a pinch, you can also upload an image to my wiki for display.
>>http://ursine.ca/Special:Upload
>>
>>
>. Or, if you want to get some geeky experience points,
>you can apt-get install vsftpd,
Gerhard Gaußling wrote:
Is there a "One-button One-click method" to switch javascript-support
from on to off and vice versa? I often wished that feature.
Try the PrefBar 3.1.0 extension*.
**
Author:* Aaron Anderson
*Version:* 3.1.0
*Size:* 167KB
*Date:* 2004-02-08
*Compatibility:* ( 0.9 - 1.0+)
Monique Y. Mudama wrote:
On 2005-05-10, Bill Marcum penned:
I sometimes wonder, does anybody really use profiles in Firefox?
I've had situations where I wanted to be able to run using two
different proxy configurations. The only way I found to do this was
using multiple profiles.
Try th
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Romulo Sousa wrote:
What can I do in order to get the IP from her computer all the time
the machine is booted?
I would get a dynamic dns account so you can ssh to foo.domain and never
have to worry about the ip again.
try
http://www.dyndns.org/ ;the service I use
or
http://www.technopagan.org/d
Derrick Hudson wrote:
| >
| > ... and I thought MS products would stop sucking as soon as they started
| > making vacuums.
|
| Is that a reference only us greybeards would understand? ;)
It's a play on the word "suck". If software sucks, its bad. If a
vacuum sucks, it is working.
-D
You co
This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you could
help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file to prepare it for
input into a program which will fit the data by a non-linear least
squares fitting routine. This program takes input from a file
containing two column
Paul Smith wrote:
%% Colin Ingram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
ci> This is not a debian specific question but I thought some of you
ci> could help. I am writing a shell script to parse a CSV file
Why would you choose bash to do this? The shell is great for running
commands, but
Almut Behrens wrote:
On Mon, May 23, 2005 at 04:17:44PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote:
(...)
this creates a file that looks like this:
00:00.000, 3.24557e+007
00:02.510, 3.23482e+007
00:05.007, 3.24578e+007
00:07.507, 2.77091e+007
---snip---
I now need to covert the "elapse time" c
Almut Behrens wrote:
I assume I
can make the first subexpression match zero or one time. In that
situation if the first subexpression doesn't match does $1=null?
...exactly (though it's 'undef', not null, strictly speaking). And
the nice thing is that Perl doesn't segfault or throw fat
Fred L Youhanaie wrote:
Hi Colin,
I have had to deal with this sort of things on quite a number of
occasions, and I have my own little perl script, which is very similar
to Paul's, mine came straight out of the perl cookbook ;-)
If you replace Paul's last print statement with:
print j
Geng (Nico) Chan wrote:
> Hi,
> I use sarge as the only OS in my laptop(compaq m300), it works well
> for nearly one year, but something went wrong this morning, after
> I tried to upgrade my system by using
> _#apt-get upgrade_
> Everything went ok, however after I reboot my box, the X could no
>
'Maildir' is directory ( ~/Maildir/INBOX.debian )
I'm looking for a simple backup package independant of KDE.
If you have a hint :)
Founded kbackup but not what i need.
Thanks for your help
mess-mate
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Check out dirvish
It wil
Siju George wrote:
Hi al,
I have been working on a debian woody 3.0r5 for which I have to
install a D-Link DGE-530T Gigabit NIC o it now.
Running
#modconf
and looking under
kernel/drivers/net Drivers for network interface cards
I find
dl2k - D-Link 2000-based
Siju George wrote:
The Installation of this module failed so now could someone please
tell me how I ca install this NIC??
I assume you mean the sk98lin module that I suggested to use? Exactly
what failed? Did you try the one which is available in the kernel? I
suggest trying this first
Wim De Smet wrote:
I think it's not necessarily wrong to use top posting. I just feel
like both manners of posting have their place. When you are just
including a mail for reference to something, and then make a reply
that is partly unrelated, I don't mind top posting. When it's a
discussion lik
Another point :
in sources.list : changing testing by stable or testing by sarge
returns me error when updating. Like apt can't find the repositories
Does someone remember the command to reconfigure to get the choice of
mirrors?
G
I use apt-spy to find mirrors. You can update the mi
Marty wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote:
On a side note: I installed sarge fresh a couple of months ago and I
didn't have a /etc/apt/apt.conf file or /etc/apt/preferences. I
created both by hand.
This is all very mysterious to me, all these people lacking an
apt.conf file.
I wonder ho
Marty wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote:
Apt uses its default behavior if you don't have an apt.conf file. As
for version this default behavior is to update to the newest version
available.
It seems like you are referring to package version. I was referring to
Debian version, e.g. sarge,
Colin wrote:
whole picture.
Nah, I can't buy this argument. When I look to see what entries I can put
in my sources.list file, I actually take a web browser and look at the
directory it comes from. In the "dists" directory, I can see that
"testing" and "stable" are links to names like
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Marty wrote:
This means : the package-2.0 is my system (taken from the testing
repositories at (BIG-SWITCH -4)) could be different than the
package-2.0 in the stable repositories. And APT won't see it and won't
upgrade this package. Therefore it seems it's not possib
Guillaume TESSIER wrote:
Right,
This could be interresting to debate about.
It's still about debian "version", packages version and repositories.
Broadly, package are evoluting that way : The package is in really
beta version in the unstable tree. Then most of the bugs are fixed and
this pa
Siju George wrote:
I have downloaded sarge today and am going to install it so I'll let
you know the details soon.
I happened to see something strange though!
You should probably start a new thread with your new topic. You have a
better chance of getting a response from people other than
David Jardine wrote:
However, since apt-spy took 50 minutes to run through all the
mirrors and the download itself took about 15 hours, I wonder
how useful apt-spy's tests were. I have the feeling that I
was wasting my time with apt-spy since the potential download
speeds from the various s
Stephen R Laniel wrote:
On Tue, Jun 14, 2005 at 09:20:07PM -0300, Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
This fantastic list help me on this one before.
Put this in /etc/default/bootlogd:
BOOTLOGD_ENABLE=yes
Next time you boot, every msg sent to /dev/console will end up in
/var/log/boot.
Cool! Tw
Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
Stephen R Laniel wrote on Jun, 14:
See also
http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/03/msg03789.html
This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and
neither:
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
I don't think these are neede
Greg wrote:
Paulo M C Aragão wrote:
Colin Ingram wrote on Jun, 15:
This is curious. I'm running Debian stock kernel 2.4.27-2-686 and
neither:
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTYS=y
CONFIG_LEGACY_PTY_COUNT=256
I don't think these are needed or that they are the problem
seem to be configure
Greg Madden wrote:
On Wednesday 15 June 2005 12:52 pm, Michael Martinell wrote:
-Original Message-
From: Joerg Rossdeutscher [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, June 15, 2005 2:15 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: Re: Sarge Upgrade DEBOCLE ! ! !
AFAIK dselect gets
Colin Ingram wrote:
Greg wrote:
It matters because if Paulo or anyone else is not using udev then they
want be affected by the udev/bootlogd init script bug. Mainly because
they want have /etc/init.d/udev on their system which umounts /dev/pts
so bootlogd can no longer work.
I can&#
Michal Simovic wrote:
but that's all i could do, i don't know how to pass a command line
option that would actually switch to that mode.. could you give me
some more instruction?
"vga" is not recognized by the grub command line..
An excerpt from my menu.lst file
### BEGIN AUTOMAGIC KERNEL
I'm trying to test a new kernel remotely so I would like to use grubs
fallback mechanism. I was wondering what is the difference between
doing using a config like this one taking from grub manual
default saved
timeout 10
fallback 1
title A
root (hd0,0)
kernel /kerne
I have two systems which both use LVM. I recently added disks to both
systems and my system now has problems finding physical volumes at boot
time. Only my sata drives are affected by this. On one of the systems
I have no useful log messages or outputs since the /home, and /var are
located on the
calling all lvm/raid gurus
I'm running debian sarge and I have/had a 200GB raid 1 devices with LVM2
on top. The raid one was made from hdb1 and hdc1. Recently when I was
trying to change the size of a logical volume. I noticed that my vg was
using /dev/hdc1 as a physical volume instead
Erik Karlin wrote:
on top. The raid one was made from hdb1 and hdc1. Recently when I was
trying to change the size of a logical volume. I noticed that my vg was
using /dev/hdc1 as a physical volume instead of /dev/md0.
I'm running debian sarge and I have/had a 200GB raid 1 devices wit
I haven't used tar that much so I don't know if this is the way it has
always been or if this is a bug.
Tar automatically excludes the archive being created from archive in
order to prevent an infinite loop.
$ tar -cvvf /home/colin/tartest/test/tartest.tar /home/colin/tartest/*
tar: Removing
I don't know if this is even possible but can I find out the disk
usage of a partition with a unknown or damaged filesystem?
Chris Palmer wrote:
If the filesystem is intact, you can also examine other fields (e.g.
s_blocks_count, s_free_blocks_count, s_log_block_size, et c.) to figure
out how much space is used.
Hopefully the original poster won't have to perform filesystem surgery.
:)
Nope! No reconstruction h
David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
However, that file doesn't exist:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -F /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/
Apache/ APR/ APR.pm auto/ ModPerl/ mod_perl.pm
It is located at /usr/lib/perl5/Apache2/Apache/Util.pm
At least in my installation
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On Fri, 2005-08-26 at 10:10 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
What exactly are you looking for?
There are a large number of 100% web-based tax programs available.
These work very well on Linux.
Am I the only person who has seen all of the sites that leave
confidential data
Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive
program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal
session and the octave program are still running at work. Is there a
way for me to take control of that terminal and interact with the
running octave program?
Almut Behrens wrote:
On Thu, Jun 30, 2005 at 04:29:50PM -0500, Colin Ingram wrote:
Lets say, I'm at work and I start a remote session for an interactive
program, like octave. Then I go home with and my remote terminal
session and the octave program are still running at work. Is th
roberto wrote:
Hello
i wonder if it is possible to download the entire debian reference in html
format, with ALL its
internal links and pages.
aptitude install debian-reference-en
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Greg Madden wrote:
On Sunday 04 September 2005 10:05 am, J. Grant wrote:
[Please include my email address in replies]
I'm dual booting with win2k, I have a small FAT32 partition, which I
mount and transfer files via. It is ok, but limited to 2GB per file
max. I understand that NTFS allows
Robert Wolfe wrote:
On 9/6/05, *Colin Ingram* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]
<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote:
>A different approach, if you need to rw > 2gb files. Don't dual boot,
>run Windows in Vmware or equal and use Samba to transfer the files.
>
>
Doesn't
roberto wrote:
Hi all,
i know two different packages (among others) are downloadable for math
computing:
octave and octave-forge
i have installed and currently using octave 2.1.69 but what are the
differences with octave-forge??
can i install octave-forge without conflict with octave 2.1? (apti
I am trying to install debian on a system that already contains windows XP
on a raid 0 partition. I've got some difficult hardware so bare with me on
this.
My motherboard is a nforce4 chipset and I have two disk, sda and sdb, which
are configured in a raid 0 array through the nvraid bios. I ha
I use sarge and when I recently tried to install the most recent update
to shorewall( v2.2.3-2) my system hangs when trying to configure
shorewall. ps shows the postins script zombified.
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ps axfw
PID TTY STAT TIME COMMAND
7905 ?Ss 0:00 \_ sshd: colin [pr
Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just
GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software.
http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/
thanks.
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Heimdall Midgard wrote:
2005/11/6, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote:
Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just
GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software.
http://www.snapstream.com/pr
Ron Johnson wrote:
On Sun, 2005-11-06 at 05:31 -0600, Colin Ingram wrote:
Does anyone know of any DVR software for Debian (or even just
GNU/Linux). Im looking for something like this proprietary software.
http://www.snapstream.com/products/beyondtv/
MythTV & Freevo.
cool th
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