Joe Hart wrote:
> Jochen Schulz wrote:
>> Correct. And on the EU level they are even discussing to make
>> a similar law obligatory for all member states.
>
> The EU is not a body (yet) that can enforce laws. Therefore,
> they cannot mandate laws.
Correct me if I am wrong, please, but I believe J
When I installed etch on an extra box I had plans for it to be a
file and web development server. Then my wife needed a computer,
so I gave it to her. But I wanted to tune it a bit, and started
by removing all those software services she doesn't need. I used
tasksel to remove the following tasks:
Thanks for your help.
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> 1.You run Debian. You need a mail transport agent. Many
> scripts are set up to mail information to root. Without a MTA,
> this doesn't happen. Out-of-the-box exim4 on Etch will deliver
> local mail only.
Ahhh, that explains why my other
Nigel Henry wrote:
> On Friday 23 March 2007 06:54, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I tried with both apt-get and aptitude and here is the output
>> (it's long):
[snip output from aptitude]
> I resolved it by stopping the daemon using SysV-init Editor,
> then simply running
Michael M. wrote:
> The things you are suggesting are routinely and actively
> discouraged on this list -- apt-pinning, mixing branches. Yes
> you *can* do it, but be prepared to face the chorus of "you
> should be sticking to stable" when you ask for
I run etch and ask questions here and have ne
On 06/30/2007 03:00 PM, William Pursell wrote:
> Keep in mind that CVS is extremely old, and entirely obsolete.
> Subversion was a new implementation of the same idea, and did
> in fact address many of CVS's shortcomings.
I second that.
> However, if you are going to look into using a VCS (Versio
Is it preferable to submit a bug report to Debian or to the
upstream project? Assume it is not a Debian only package, like
GNOME for example.
I have searched for the answer and found This:
http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
_If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to th
On 07/06/2007 11:40 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 10:43:43AM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> >
> > http://www.debian.org/Bugs/Reporting
> > _If you file a bug in Debian, don't send a copy to the
> > upstream software maintainers yourself, as
On 07/07/2007 10:30 AM, andy wrote:
> Jeff D wrote:
>> in iceweasel, if you put about:plugins in the address bar,
>> does it show that the java plugin is loaded?
>>
> Yes, about:plugins shows 3 main groups of
> application/x-java-bean, x-java-vm, and x-java-applet
>
> Am I supposed to be seein
On 07/07/2007 10:50 AM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Is it preferable to submit a bug report to Debian or to the
>> upstream project? Assume it is not a Debian only package, like
>> GNOME for example.
>
> This is a judgement call on your part. If you h
I have OOo 2.0.4 installed from the stable repository. I want to
install 2.2.1 from backports so I added backports to my sources.
When I try to install with "aptitude -t etch-backports install
openoffice.org", aptitude proposes an interesting solution. From
what I see, I don't think I should ac
On 07/24/2007 04:50 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote:
>On 07/24/2007 12:20 AM, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
> > When I try to install with "aptitude -t etch-backports
> > install openoffice.org", aptitude proposes an interesting
> > solution. From what I see, I don't thin
On 07/24/2007 08:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 11:51:28PM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> Should I purge OOo first? This is my first attempt to install
>> from backports, so I am not sure about this. I have searched,
>> but did not find anyt
On 07/24/2007 01:50 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:25:21 -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> On 07/24/2007 08:40 AM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>>>
>>> aptitude likes to make you panic...
>>
>> LOL! And it works too. I have seen output s
On 07/24/2007 03:30 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 02:53:53PM -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> On 07/24/2007 01:50 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>>> On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 12:25:21 -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>>>> It says the packages *
On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote:
> Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts
> package to use for a desktop machine.
I have only installed one font package and have no experience
with any others.
msttcorefonts
It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
http://www.
On 07/28/2007 01:30 PM, Alan Ianson wrote:
> On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> msttcorefonts
>>
>> It is available in the debian-multimedia repository.
>> http://www.debian-multimedia.org/
>
> This package is in contrib. No need for debian-mu
On 07/31/2007 09:30 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> IIUC websites shouldn't care about/need to know what browser is
> used, as long as they are following the standards.
You do understand correctly, but emphasis must be placed on the
word "shouldn't". Websites *should* not need to care or know
about
On 07/31/2007 01:50 PM, John Hasler wrote:
> Glen Pfeiffer writes:
>> Accept that it will not display the same on all browsers.
>
> Why do you think it should display the same on all browsers?
> Or even on all instances of the same browser?
Oh, I don't. But there are c
On 08/27/2007 10:50 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote:
> So, is there a reasonably priced hoster/registrar based solely
> on Free Software? Or, are all of these traits mutually
> exclusive?
I use www.dreamhost.com which runs Debian on all their servers.
They also offer registration, but I don't know any
I tried mounting a directory like so:
mount --bind -o umask=0117 /home/files /home/glen/files
What I am shooting for, is that all files created in
/home/glen/files will have the permissions 660. But the above
command seems to have no effect on permissions of created files.
I have also tried
On 09/01/2007 01:00 PM, Bob Proulx wrote:
> Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> I tried mounting a directory like so:
>>
>> mount --bind -o umask=0117 /home/files /home/glen/files
>>
>> What I am shooting for, is that all files created in
>> /home/glen/files will h
On 10/03/2007 02:00 PM, mack stout wrote:
> or if other users might be willing to testify that their
> company uses debian.
Not my company, but:
http://www.dreamhost.com/ runs mainly on Debian.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreamhost
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On 04/05/2008 10:50 AM, Bob Cox wrote:
> [snip]
>
> //gaia/fileserver on /mnt/fileserver type cifs (rw,mand)
>
> It is worth mentioning that there is an entry in /etc/hosts for
> gaia.
>
I recall reading that cifs needs an IP address but an entry in
your /etc/hosts will work.
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Glen
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Fernando Cacciola wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
>> You still have sarge, unless you changed the sources.list to
>> point to something else. You've got the most recent sarge w/
>> security updates (I think that is on by default). I guess
>> that's 3.1 r3 or so.
>
> Q: That's because "Etch"
David Baron wrote:
> Most recently, how much of the heavy traffic on this list has
> had anything to do with Debian? With Linux? With computers?
Likewise, how many threads have we had discussing the OT posts?
Quite a few. :-P
Instead of complaining about the list, which has been done a lot
l
Wei Chen wrote:
> So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use.
> Testing is the best choice because it is neither too dangerous
> nor too old.
What do you think about adding a new release type maybe called
"current"? Then our release structure would look like this:
Ron Johnson wrote:
> ---- Glen Pfeiffer wrote:
>> What do you think about adding a new release type maybe
>> called "current"?
>> [snip]
>
> That's called http://www.backports.org
Thank you for reminding me. I have not yet had the
opportunity to use
On 04/02/2007 04:50 PM, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 00:45 +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote:
>> There have been a lot of talk and suggestions, for example,
>> Joey Hess described Constantly Usable Testing, it sounds a
>> bit like your suggestion.
>> http://kitenet.net/~joey/code/debian/cu
On 04/03/2007 10:50 AM, Joe Hart wrote:
> Greg Folkert wrote:
>> This is not the right forum for me to express my opinions as
>> to what is wrong with GPLV3.
>
> This tirade of yours, I would like to hear so if you'd like to
> voice your opinion, I'm asking.
I too am interested. Do you think we c
On 04/06/2007 05:20 PM, Randy Patterson wrote:
> I have searched for a way to mount that directory to the local
> file systems and use it from there but can't seem to find
> exactly how to do that. I would like to mount it to something
> like;
>
> /home/randy/workspace
You can use the smbmount uti
On 04/07/2007 07:00 AM, Randy Patterson wrote:
> Thanks so much for your help Glen! It worked perfectly!
That's great! I am glad I could help.
Do you want to setup autofs now?
Autofs automatically mounts resources when you access them. It is
commonly used for CD, DVD and floppy drives. It is als
On 04/13/2007 10:50 AM, Ralph Katz wrote:
> See the bug (latest messages),
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=418911 turns
> out I missed one key step that has trapped others, too.
Has it been considered that we could automate the recommended
steps to upgrade? That would certainly
On 04/15/2007 10:31 AM, andy wrote:
> My wife, using Etch, was writing a long document in OOo, went
> to go and save it as *.doc (for transport to work) and the
> document crashed. Now everything except the very earliest save
> is gone! She is *not* impressed (so much for my Linux
> advocacy!).
As
I searched the archives and the web but I have not found helpful
answers to these questions.
1. What are the drawbacks of using the Debian packaged ruby
applications like 'rails' instead of the available gem?
2. What are the benefits of using the Debian packaged ruby
applications like 'rail
On 04/26/2007 12:10 AM, Kevin Mark wrote:
> Debian has 2 groups involved in Ruby, both have home pages and mailing
> lists on the Debian 'alioth' site. This page[0] will explain the
> pkg-ruby-extras policy on gems. If you need more details, ask the
> mailing list related to them.
> [0] http://pkg-
On 06/11/2007 10:30 AM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 11, 2007, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote:
[snip]
>> BTW, I do have a copy of Martin Kraft's book just in case I
>> missed something in it. Please tell me.
>
> You could also try icewm. I run it on my PII-233 with 64 MB
> ram desktop.
>
>
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