Kirk Strauser wrote:
> In a nutshell, ALSA still starts without any error messages, but any
> sound-playing program falls into an endless cycle of 100% CPU usage as soon
> as playback starts. However, if I set `startosslayer=true' in
> /etc/alsa/alsa-base.conf and restart via /etc/init.d/alsa, I
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Robert L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.18.1725 +0100]:
> > I'm wondering if anyone knows a good way with mutt to tag a message and
> > then pipe it into "spamassassin -r"...
>
> view the message, then enter
>
> | spamassassin -r
Or better still, se
Dai Yuwen wrote:
> I've a 64M USB flash disk. I searched the internet, and did the following
> steps:
>
> 1. plug USB disk into my PC
> 2. modprobe sg usb-storage
>
> Then I tried to mount it:
> mount /dev/sda1 /mnt
>
> But a messages said `/dev/sda1 is not a valid block device'.
>
> Then
nate wrote:
> deFreese, Barry said:
> > OK, this is probably a newbie question and maybe it has been covered
> > before but it's been buggin' me for a while.
> >
> > So we have Potato, Woody, Sid, Sarge. Are the Debian folks Toy Story fans
> > or is it just coincidence?
>
> no coincidence. thoug
deFreese, Barry wrote:
> > From: Robert L. Harris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> >
> > I think when we go to 4.0 they should be named after characters from
> > Tremmors...
>
> Or they could stay on theme and go with Monsters Inc. :-)
The thing about Toy Story is that it had a pretty big ensemble
nate wrote:
> Jonathan Matthews said:
> > Here's a transcript from a shell session.
>
> > jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ echo $PATH
> > ~/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/bin/X11:/usr/games
> > jaycee@bigdaddy:~$ ls ~/bin
>
> just a guess but I say your problem is there. The shell did not
> expand the
Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Why is it that when I switch to a text console with -- that
> bash does not read in my ~/.bashrc?
>
> When I pull up a terminal in X it works fine (all my command aliases are
> there). And when I log in to a text console, if explicitly type in the
> command 'bash' at
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> Er, I think you'd want to use "nice --20" or "nice -n -20" or even
> "nice --adjustment=-20"; "nice -20" implies a nice level ov positive
> twenty whic is invalid; the highest numer (and lowest priority)
> accepted is 19.
Ought to be "nice -n -20" actually; "nice --20" is
David Pastern wrote:
> Is your son obsessed with "Lunix"?
>
> BSD, Lunix, Debian and Mandrake are all versions of an illegal hacker
> operation system, invented by a Soviet computer hacker named Linyos
> Torovoltos, before the Russians lost the Cold War. [...]
That was a lovely bit of satire, w
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sun, Feb 23, 2003 at 12:18:17PM -0600, Nathan E Norman wrote:
> > > This one's been bugging me for a while now...why do Americans
> > > associate animation strictly with children?
> >
> > Two words: "Walt Disney"
>
> Not too valid when I saw a copy of "Disney's Princess
Mike Dresser wrote:
> > Huh? Princess Mononoke isn't a Disney movie at all; it's a Japanese
> > anime by Hayao Miyazaki, distributed in the USA by Miramax (at least,
> > their logo is on the DVD, and Disney's isn't).
>
> Guess who owns Miramax?
Disney owns lots of things. Is every cop show on AB
deFreese, Barry wrote:
> Actually, Fantasia was supposed to get updated every couple of years and
> re-released to show the updates in technology in animation and the growth of
> music. It was basically supposed to be a continuing work in progress but as
> you say, after he passed away that dream
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Now that I've got exim|fetchmail|razor|spamassassin|procmail|mutt
> more or less functioning properly, it is time to implement virus
> protection, especially for email:
>
> # apt-cache search virus | grep -i virus | sort
> amavis-exim - Interface between MT
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> Also sprach Craig Dickson (Tue 25 Feb 02003 at 01:30:32PM -0800):
>
> > Here are the fruits of two minutes of research using only dpkg -p, which
> > you could just as easily have done yourself:
>
> Of course, I have already done this [...]
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Over the past few weeks, I've been recieving several pieces of mail
> directly to my inbox because users are Bcc'ing (for what ever reason)
> the debian-user list. I would like to ask those people to please NOT bcc
> the list.
Bcc'ing a mailing list seems sort of odd,
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Still, there is no reason to BCC the list. Not everyone has the ability
> to customize what their filters filter on (I'm sure there are more then
> a few Evolution and OE users on the list).
Evolution can't filter on arbitrary headers? Really? I wasn't terribly
impress
Joseph A Nagy Jr wrote:
> Actually, that Reply-to-list functionality can be implimented on the
> list itself. Why list-masters don't do this is so far beyond me that I
> don't even bother asking anymore
It's because that's the wrong place for it. If you put a Reply-To:
header in, then it's a p
karrottop wrote:
> Ok, I have been having a horrible time getting java to behave, I
> thought I followed the directions explicitly but I guess I messed
> something up somewhere. Here is what I did:
>
> First I unpacked everything in /usr/java/ and added this to a line in my
> /etc/profile
>
>
Errol Neal wrote:
> I would like to know how to setup a secondary account on a Linux system
> that would have the same abilities and privledges as the "root" user, say
> an account such as "root2". I do not want to use sudo, because the people I
> work for do not want to use "sudo" before every
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> On Fri, 28 Feb 2003, Bob Proulx wrote:
>
> > There is no sensitive files installed in /root. There really is no
> > reason not to make it 755. Everyone knows what is in /root. It is
> > not a secret.
>
> oh? what do i have in my /root directories then?
If your implica
Sebastiaan wrote:
> Yes: rm /var/cache/apt/archives/*
>
> You usually update packages only, or install it once. You won't harm your
> system if you remove the old packages. If it is needed, the packages will
> be downloaded again.
Not if it isn't in the repository anymore. It's nice to be able t
bob parker wrote:
> On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 04:22, Ray wrote:
> > how do i verify that the burned cd is correctly burned?
> >
> > i burned a set of Debian 3.0r1 cds and have md5sums of the isos, but they
> > don't match the output of
> > md5sum -b /dev/cdrom
>
> Not really an expert on what happens on
Dave Selby wrote:
> When an application sends mail to ''root" where does it go ? because I cant
> find it ! All mail I have ever accessed is via the web with kmail.
>
> Is it supposed to be posted to ...
> /var/mail/ ?
By default, mail ends up in /var/spool/mail/(username), but typically
mail t
Kevin Coyner wrote:
> I'm running a strictly testing box, and just a bit ago I did an apt-get
> update and apt-get dist upgrade, and before I knew it, the system
> was downloading 89 upgrades, one of which was libc6 ver 2.3.1-14.
>
> But when I go to packages.debian.org, and look at the libc6 deb
Michael D. Schleif wrote:
> What am I missing?
>
> # apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
> Installed: 2.2.5-14.3
> Candidate: 2.2.5-14.3
> Version Table:
> *** 2.2.5-14.3 0
> 500 ftp://ftp.debian.org testing/main Packages
> 500 ftp://ftp.us.debian.org testing/main Packages
>
John Hasler wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > But I know of at least one big project that uses tcsh scripting,
> > OpenOffice.org.
>
> Thanks for the warning. I had been considering installing it.
I'm not sure it's required for installation. I don't have csh or tcsh
installed, yet the openo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> not all Unix or
> Unix-like (attention SCO) systems use or would use bash.
Nor do they all have csh. But they all have sh. If you want
least-common-denominator portability, use sh and stock Unix commands.
> I have no faith in the quality of the work of developers who w
nate wrote:
> Brian Victor said:
> > I backed up my debian installation with the following:
> >
> > tar --preserve -cv / | ssh 192.168.2.10 'cat > linuxbackup.tar.bz2'
>
> may I ask why? I have never heard of someone attempting such
> a task in that manor. I would say that the above is the source
Didier Caamano wrote:
> How can I block a user to his home directory? so he can have access to his
> home directory but no other directory on the system.
A typical user account won't have write access to anything outside its
home directory, unless you have world-writeable directories somewhere.
Alan Shutko wrote:
> Will Yardley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Alan Shutko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> >
> >> Some programs use VISUAL, some EDITOR, some both... the distinction
> >> between them has long been lost.
> >
> > Perhaps, but EDITOR is supposed to be your line editor, and VISUAL your
>
Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 23, 2003 at 06:08:00PM -0400, James D. Freels wrote:
> > Can you figure out a way to get a listing of a directory (folder in
> > Windows) and print it, without resorting to command prompt ?
>
> Why would you want to do this, when the command prompt is exactly wha
John Griffiths wrote:
> Whoops,
>
> missed a step converting a box to ext3
>
> procedure i was using was:
>
> 1) #tune2fs -j /dev/hda*
>
> for all ext2 file systems.
>
> 2) edit /etc/fstab to change all references from ext2 to auto
>
> 3) #touch/forcefsck
>
> 4) reboot
>
> only i forgot st
Steve Juranich wrote:
> I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice this, as I'm running a stock
> sid box. But I've got a machine with 256Mb ram, but GNOME is bringing
> this system to a crawl. I open up the system monitor, and I see that
> the main offenders are X (65 Mb, totally expected), Gal
Mark Ferlatte wrote:
> Heh. If I weren't lazy, I'd throw away most of the GNOME stuff... I
> don't use any of it anymore, and sawfish is unfortunately buggy.
Really? I used sawfish back in the Gnome 1.x days and was happy with it.
> Maybe one of these days I'll get around to trying Metacity...
behapy wrote:
> kdjwiskjkdf+-www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kdjfwiwji+-kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> =>
>
> www.kde.org+-333.kjkd.html
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kkk.cgi
> kbs.co.kr+-cgi-bin+-kk2.cgi
>
> I'd like to remove the first words everyliles ~+-
>
>
Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> The testing distribution has *exactly* the same problem, as the
> unstable libc is different from the testing libc.
That's true currently, but it should be temporary, right? (Of course,
it's been temporary for some time now, but at least in theory, things
are supposed to
Andy Estes wrote:
> I am running Debian Woody (3.0r1). The default shell for my user account is
> bash, and I can verify this by typing 'ps' once I am logged on. However,
> the contents of my .bashrc do not get executed by default. If I explicitely
> invoke bash (typing 'bash' at the shell), .b
Jeremy Gaddis wrote:
> hmm, space shuttle running redhat. that explains everything.
Even if it had been running Windows XP, a remark like that is in
outrageously poor taste.
Craig
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martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach karrottop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.03.2003 +0100]:
> > Are republican bashers really so bored that they have to post crap like
> > this in a debian mail list. Download some friends and tell them your
> > propoganda. Try opening up a live journal, then you
Pigeon wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 03, 2003 at 11:22:44AM -0500, Narins, Josh wrote:
> >
> >Rockets don't stay up on faith.
>
> Oh yes they do... see Matthew 17:20
Faith moves mountains? Okay. Show me. Just use faith, no explosives or
earth-moving equipment. You can't? What a surprise.
Craig
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To
Daniel Barclay wrote:
> Kenward Vaughan wrote:
> >
> > ...
> > In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be
> > _teachers_ and the rest of us would have to settle for something less,
> > because passing civilization along from one generation to the next
> > ought to be the
Victor Torrico wrote:
> Running KDE3 woody debian packages downloaded from kde site. Works great.
>
> In order to run nautilus and yelp in gnome2 I need libgnomevfs2-0 and
> libgnomevfs2-common which depends on libfam0c102.
>
> When I execute "apt-get install libfam0c102 libgnomevfs2-0
> libgno
(sigh) We're drifting farther and farther off-topic here, but what the
hell...
Brooks R. Robinson wrote:
> | How the US can justify spending so much money on Space while 33 million US
> | citizens live below the poverty line amazes me.
Actually, the answer to this one is quite simple. There are
Paul E Condon wrote:
> Suppose, all human life were to perish. In that case would the value of
> pi (3.14...) perish as well?
The value of pi is dependent on the geometrical concept of a "circle"
having a "radius" and a "circumference". These are human-created ideas,
not a priori "facts" existin
Ron Johnson wrote:
> He discovered ("take the cover off of") the mathematical model that
> rules the universe.
The mathematical model does not rule the universe. The model is an
attempt to approximate the observed behavior of the universe in a way
that allows us to predict future events. Why the
Jack Pistachio wrote:
> Does anyone know of a good app to easily convert ogg vorbis
> audio files to mp3? Preferably it would retain the info in
> the new mp3 files, and have a gnu public license of course.
Such a program would essentially just be an ogg vorbis decoder piped to
an mp3 encoder, a
Bart J. Himel wrote:
> I know this has probably already been answered, but I can't find it
> anywhere. I installed Debian Unstable on my computer a couple of weeks ago,
> but instead of installing Gnome2 it installed 1.4. When I try to use apt to
> install nautilus 2, it tells me it needs to rem
Jack Pistachio wrote:
> Well, I'm actually not sure I need to. I'm making a cd for
> my brother to use on his mp3 capable DVD player. I assumed
> that the player wouldn't be able to handle ogg encoded
> files. Perhaps I'm wrong?
Most likely you're right. However, one thing you should be aware
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> I believe the fastest way to get bipartisan support for a manned
> mission to Mars is to convince the politicians that the mainland
> Chinese are going to get there first.
Thus giving new meaning to the idea that Mars is "red"...
Craig
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Colin Watson wrote:
> They have libfam in common too, and that's having problems with the g++
> 3.2 transition: GNOME 2 uses the g++ 3.2 version (libfam0c102) while KDE
> 2 uses (and needs to continue using) the g++ 2.95 version (libfam0), and
> the two need to conflict. I'm not sure what's being
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote:
> The gcc 3.2 transition (which was announced on debian-devel-announce) isn't
> complete yet; KDE2 apparently hasn't been rebuilt against the updated
> libraries yet or not all of its dependencies have made the transition
> themselves.
>
> > and is anyone working on it?
Kirk Strauser wrote:
> At 2003-02-05T16:07:12Z, Craig Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > Since it would have an mp3 encoder, it couldn't possibly be under GPL,
> > since mp3 encoders are patent-encumbered.
>
> Not true. LAME is released under th
Travis Crump wrote:
> Colin Watson wrote:
> >That of course doesn't prevent the holders of LAME's copyright from
> >releasing it under the GPL, since the copyright holders are not
> >themselves bound by the terms of the licence,
>
> Why shouldn't they be bound by the terms of the licence?
Becau
Travis Crump wrote:
> By that logic, what is to stop some company from releasing their product
> under the 'GPL' and then never releasing the source and requiring
> per-seat 'royalties' for the use of their patented IP?
That's nonsensical, because source is what you release under GPL. If
they d
James Hughes wrote:
> Since you're talking about audio degradation issues, one thing I've
> always wondered is how much and what kind of loss is there (if any)
> when unencoding from [.ogg]|[.mp3] to .wav?
I would think none. Lossage happens during encoding, not decoding, as
long as you're deco
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I know this is off-topic but since joining this list I'm getting
> increasing levels of Spam. I've heard that using SpamCop.net to process and
> report spam can help. Is this true? Is it worth bothering with?
SpamCop is a rather arbitrarily-run service that has recei
Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Feb 2003 11:28:53 -0800 (PST)
> Jack Pistachio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Encoding to either ogg or mp3 is lossy, but when converting
> > back to wav the information in the mp3 or ogg audio should
> > be retained completely.
>
> Erm, no. These two statemen
DvB wrote:
> Kind of hard when your ISP is Yahoo! and you're not willing to pay for
> their pop server :-)
apt-get install fetchyahoo
I've been using it for months in a cron job. Works quite nicely.
Craig
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stan wrote:
> I am probably going to get a new Compaq EVO N 410c laptop. I booted one of
> these today off a Knoppix CD, and it seemed to recognize everythign
> important, with the possible exception of the modem.
>
> Would it make sense to isntall Knoppix, planing to follow Debian testing?
Soun
[CC'd to the Debian NoteEdit maintainer]
Norbert Preining wrote in debian-user:
> Hat schon irgendwer irgendwo noteedit (2.0.19) für kde3 gesehen?
I'm guessing this means, "When will sid have NoteEdit rebuilt for
KDE 3?"
That's a good question. Is the maintainer still active and still
intereste
Scalar wrote:
> This isn't about debian but about the list..
>
> Would it be acceptable for the listserver to add a few
> letters at the beginning of the subject to distinguish the
> list from other email?
>
> I use pine over telnet in 25x80 mode for email, and it is
> frequently impossible to t
martin f krafft wrote:
> also sprach Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.13.1257 +0100]:
> > (For all those who don't know what /proc/kmem is: DON'T DO THIS!)
>
> For all those who'd have to do this on a regular basis: switch to
> a better OS.
Such as? This sort of unkillable process can e
Vineet Kumar wrote:
> * Caoilte O'Connor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030214 03:46]:
> > Hey All,
> > I have a hankering for a bbc emulator, but was a bit shocked to just
> > realise that there isn't one in sid.
>
> ] 2 definitions found
> ]
> ] From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (09 FEB 02)
DSC Siltec wrote:
> Okay, I have Debian, Woody, Hotplug, USB, and a cheap junk USB camera.
>
> How do I access my pics? I'd really like three answers:
> (1) How to access them directly as files, if possible
> (2) Best way to download them as pictures, and save them
> (3) How to create nic
Alan Chandler wrote:
> As a result of what you have done, you should see the contents of your
> camera on /etc/sda1 (unless you already have scsi devices when it may
> be something different.
Only if the camera supports USB Mass Storage or is supported by some
other Linux kernel module, and he h
Jens Grivolla wrote:
> I have been using sylpheed but would like to change because of a few
> small inconveniences (e.g. no freely editable "From:", seemingly
> messed up line wrap in sylpheed claws, ...)
>
> However, I have been unable to import my Folders into any of the MUAs
> that claim to s
Barry deFreese wrote:
> Have you folks seen this "debate"?
>
> http://newsvac.newsforge.com/newsvac/02/10/23/1247236.shtml?tid=4
While I'm generally quite pro-GPL, I accept (and I believe RMS does as
well) that sometimes another license such as BSD or MIT/X is
appropriate. For example, the Ogg V
nate wrote:
> what about just killing the pid of the WM and loading a new WM?
>
> e.g.
>
> kill `pidof ratpoison` && afterstep &
... which will kill your entire X session if you happen to be running under
a .xsession script that ends with "exec ratpoison". Hence Sean's suggestion
to have an xt
nate wrote:
> Also I reccomend of course
> running BIND as a non-root uid/gid and in chroot(). This may require
> some additional setup especially for the chroot().
Or better still, use another DNS that does this automatically. I use
maradns, which by default runs as a non-privileged user in a ch
Jamin W. Collins wrote:
> I understand the concept of the BSD style license(s) (I think), but fail
> to see why it would be acceptable as a license for anything federally
> funded. With a BSD style license, anyone is free to take the result (at
> any stage) and create a closed (possibly enhanced)
Ole Sebastian Stein wrote:
> I was wondering if anybody had any good suggestion as to how to
> digitise a cd collection into ogg vorbis.
>
> - What software to use (ripping, coding)
cdparanoia for ripping, oggenc for coding. Both are in Debian; oggenc is
in the vorbis-tools package.
> - How to
Try KDE wrote:
> I noticed some shell script, for example those under /etc/cron.*/, uses
> "command > /dev/null" style. I think it's because they know the scripts
> is run under non-interactive shell. My question is, what would happen if
> ">/dev/null" is removed and the command tries to print
Michael Schulze wrote:
> i had the same problem this weekend when installing woody and gnome 2. the
> 'strange borders' are the twm window manager. try to launch sawfish or
> metacity as window manager instead.
More specifically, open an xterm, su to root, and enter the following
command:
up
Michael Schulze wrote:
> i have installed gnome 2 from experimental. now i want to change the
> gtk1 theme to match the gtk2 theme, but the gnome 2 control center has
> replaced gnomecc from gnome1 and i don't know where else to change the
> gtk1 theme.
>
> does anyone know how to change the gtk1
Paul Johnson wrote:
> Is there some apache module that will notice various IIS exploits in
> real time, look up the proper contacts and report it to the
> corresponding abuse contacts automagically?
In some circles, that would be too easily mistaken for a DDOS attack tool.
Craig
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Richard Gellert Roman wrote:
> I am not sure, if it's right to post sid-related mails here, sorry for
> the inconvenience.
Yes, this is the right place to post questions about any Debian setup.
> I recently updated my testing/unstable Debian, and had to recognize,
> that java 1.3.1 from Sun did
Rüdiger Kuhlmann wrote:
> That leaves the question how to pronounce "DEHB", "ee", "un", "deeb" and "e".
DEHB-ee-un would presumably rhyme with "day bay soon", right? (Just
kidding.)
DEHB: rhymes with EBB or WEB.
ee: rhymes with BEE or SEA.
un: rhymes with FUN or SON.
Emphasis on DEHB, which is
Tim Woodward wrote:
> I have installed Debian 2.2r4 on my system and have so far got to the
> point where X Windows is running with the Gnome version that comes with
> the Debian pack. The problem i have now is that i have changed my
> graphics card and installed the XF86_SVGA server, and when
Gary Hennigan wrote:
> "Craig Dickson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> > Tim Woodward wrote:
> >
> > > I have installed Debian 2.2r4 on my system and have so far got to the
> > > point where X Windows is running with the Gnome version that comes wi
R Ransbottom wrote:
> My first concern is what to run on win98se that will handle
> ssl and provide good terminal emulation, and samba. (I don't
> know much about windows or its culture.) What to run?
Do a Google search for "PuTTY SSH Windows". PuTTY is a nice, free terminal
emulator for Window
Colin Watson wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 31, 2002 at 01:38:38PM -0800, Craig Dickson wrote:
> > R Ransbottom wrote:
> > > My first concern is what to run on win98se that will handle
> > > ssl and provide good terminal emulation, and samba. (I don't
> > > know
Richard Kimber wrote:
> On Fri, 8 Nov 2002 12:28:48 +1100
> "Joyce, Matthew" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I have been using bmf to filter spam, for about a week now. It is
> > superb. I know I am still receiving spam, but I don't care as I don't
> > have to sort through heaps of crap anymo
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Oh my. I cannot believe what I did.
>
> # rm -rf *
>
> Whilst in my /home directory - I thought I was in /floppy.
>
> I've been digging around and stumbled across recover, but seem unable
> (?) to get it to work, though I have ext3, not ext2 on the drive.
I don't thin
Harvey Kelly wrote:
> Do you think I should start writing to essay again - or would it be
> possible to convert the partition to ext2, and use recover? Or am I
> just being overly hopeful?
You're being overly hopeful. If it were that easy, recover would have worked.
(Converting from ext3 to ex
Colin Watson wrote:
> You explain to the common man not to use unstable. :)
>
> It *certainly* shouldn't have broken in the first place, but accidents
> happen. If one doesn't have enough system administration experience to
> cope with this kind of thing (after all, it was "just" everything
> wri
Paul Mackinney wrote:
> Thanks for posting this! It kept my down-time < 5 minutes.
>
> The moral: when something big goes wrong after an apt-get upgrade, try
> again, then try deb-user.
If you can still get to it with a b0rked system. Just imagine if your
only mail and web clients had been writt
Mark A. Bialik wrote:
> ... and there are some people who run unstable because certain packages
> and/or versions of packages they need are only in unstable.
>
> The alternative would be to run a different distribution or compile from
> source, and we wouldn't want that, would we? :)
What's wro
Ross Boylan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:09:58AM +1100, Rob Weir wrote:
> > Just to satisfy my own curiosity:
> >
> > On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 12:16:32AM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > > /share (oddly, not discussed in FHS)
> >
> > What have you got in /share? I've never seen it before...
Patrick Lane wrote:
> Some of us using unstable use it because we have to. That is, we have to
> if we want to run Debian. For example, I installed unstable for XF86
> 4.2. w/o it, I had to do a mickey mouse work-around to get my xserver to
> start, which to me is way worse.
Hmm. Admittedly, the
Nathan E Norman wrote:
> I also set up seperate filesystems for directories that could
> conceivably be filled up (maliciously or otherwise); these include
> /var/log, /usr/local/src, and /opt if you are installing third party
> software.
And even more obviously, the mail and news spools, if you
Brian Nelson wrote:
> Not to promote the spread of FUD, but interestingly it has come up
> recently on debian-legal that the MIT/X11 license could possibly be
> interpreted as non-free:
>
> http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200211/msg00164.html
No, the referenced thread mere
Stephen Gran wrote:
> I have a file that I created using MS Word (I know, I know) that IU
> would like to convert into a postscript file. The problem I am having
> is that Openoffice, Abiword, etc. all mess up the formatting when I try
> to open it, so I can't just print to file there. I have no
If you upgrade to the latest Gnome2 packages in Sid (just updated today)
and find that your Gnome session refuses to start at login, downgrade all
the *bonobo* packages to the previous version and you should be fine.
I will be filing a bug on this against bonobo-activation. I see someone
else has
John M Flinchbaugh wrote:
> has anyone else run into a problem with the gnome session login? with
> gdm or startx, it gets stuck at the gnome splash screen. it shows no
> icons for loading programs like usual.
>
> logging in with no configs doesn't help either.
This has already been discussed
Kent West wrote:
> I picked up Dori Smith's "Java for the World Wide Web" book at the
> library the other day; thought I'd at least introduce myself to the
> basics of Java programming. I am not a programmer; just did the usual
> college class work in the basic languages (Pascal, Fortran, BASIC
Michael Kahle wrote:
> Is the standard, "controlled entirely by Sun"?
>
> I'm not sure how mature this is, but if your interested in Java programming
> without the politics.
> http://gcc.gnu.org/java/
I know there are other compilers/tools for Java than Sun's, but that
doesn't change the fact th
Michael Kahle wrote:
> Does the fact that they control the "standard" prohibit others from
> implementing the language with other standards if they see fit? Forking the
> project so to speak?
It's called C#. So yes, it is possible, but you can't call the resulting
language "Java" without Sun's p
Kent West wrote:
> Shaleh was the one to plug python first. But what dman says here gets my
> attention. Do others concur that python is more cross-platform and more
> OO than java?
It probably is supported on more platforms, since it's open source. More
OO... hmm. Possibly. Of course, this ope
Osamu Aoki wrote:
> I used to undelete DOS file by changing first byte of filename at the
> directory entry list from 0x5F or something to ordinary character.
>
> Then you get back DOD file. (Floppy and not in subdirectory, but it
> should wok similarly...)
That isn't close to being sufficient
sean finney wrote:
> first, just because i think *someone* should say it,
>
> On Fri, Nov 22, 2002 at 12:58:15AM +0100, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > On Thu, 21 Nov 2002 23:31:51 +
> > "Joshua Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > kill your girlfriend, then kill yourself.
>
> that was comp
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