Re: SCIM, anthy, and French

2010-06-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 14 May 2010 08:56:00 +0200, didier gaumet wrote: > Le Fri, 14 May 2010 02:31:58 + (UTC), Hendrik Boom > a écrit : > >> I'm using scim, anthy > [...] >> I'd like also the be able to switch in a French input method > [...] >> But I can&#

Re: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:23:58 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> I found an .odf validator online at http://opendocumentfellowship.com/ >> validator (upload a file and it tells you if it likes it), but it >> doesn't

It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +, Camaleón wrote: > >>> You can choose any XML validators out there :-) >>> >>> http://www.w3.org/20

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 19:08:55 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 17:04:02 +, Camaleón wrote: > >> On Fri, 04 Jun 2010 16:37:45 +0000, Hendrik Boom wrote: >> >>> On Thu, 03 Jun 2010 21:49:35 +, Camaleón wrote: >>>> Also, if you ope

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick. Was: Looking for a .fodt validator

2010-06-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/06/2010 03:13 PM, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Fri, Jun 04, 2010 at 07:08:55PM +, Hendrik Boom wrot

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a >> rescue disk to do so - but I'm assuming that it's not the root (/) >> filesystem, or you wouldn't have got this far. >> > It will co

Re: FSCK seems angry with my filesystem

2010-06-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:53:20 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Tue, 01 Jun 2010 11:38:28 +0200, Merciadri Luca wrote: > >> Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >>> If you don't unmount it, e2fsck will complain. If need be, boot from a >>> rescue disk to do so - b

Re: It looks as if OpenOffice is sick.

2010-06-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, 07 Jun 2010 00:44:32 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, 06 Jun 2010 19:09:36 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 06/06/2010 03:13 PM, hend...@topoi.pooq.com wrote: >>> On Sat, Jun 05, 2010 at 05:44:13PM +0200, Rene Engelhard wrote: >>>> Hi, >>>

Re: The purchase of a new laptop on debian

2010-06-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, 03 Dec 2009 07:53:26 +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Daniel Dalton: >> On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 03:24:31PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> >>> The only drawback is that you probably won't have that much fun >>> running stable on it, because I don't think stable supports the >>> graphics chip

gdmflexiserver goes crazy

2010-12-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
Recently, when I run gdmflexiserver in order to get a new login screen, the screen goes black and stays that way, with the monitor's little green light near the on-off switch blinking as if there's no signal. Control- alt-F7 gets me back to the existing screen (with the terminal on which I type

Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy

2010-12-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:17:21 +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Recently, when I run gdmflexiserver in order to get a new login screen, > the screen goes black and stays that way, with the monitor's little > green light near the on-off switch blinking as if there's no signal. > C

Re: gdmflexiserver goes crazy

2010-12-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, 12 Dec 2010 18:02:08 -0500, Petrus Validus wrote: >> Logging out to get to a login screen didn't work either. Now all >> ctl-alt- f* keys give me a screen with no sognal. Had to hard-reset to >> reboot. Now using a Debian stable instead of testing, just to get this >> message out. > > I

Re: debian op ppc6500/300 -- translation

2005-07-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
Approximate translation below! -- hendrik On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:32:45PM +0200, sam heijens wrote: > welke versie van debian werkt op een (apple) ppc 6500/300, > ik vond op een lijst dat dit een 'old world mac' is en dat deze normaal > debian zou moeten kunnen draaien. Wat is de maximale ver

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:23:10AM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Mark Fletcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > On Sunday 10 July 2005 21:55, Joris Huizer wrote: > > > Johan Kullstam wrote: > > > > Let me see if I understand you correctly. Your > > > > reason for having the ambiguity of wether

Re: should etch be Debian 4.0 ?

2005-07-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 03:23:18PM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Well, no matter whether the etch release next year or later is going to > > be a big or a little upgrade, etch isn't stable yet, and so if

Re: Downloading Debian CD: "stable" or "testing"?

2005-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 11:01:29PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 09:38:11PM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > If I install the stable sarge release, and someone issues a new > > debian package for some application, how do you decide whether > > to install it or not? Does apt-

Re: Sarge install perfect

2005-07-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 12, 2005 at 04:50:43AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > My thanks to everyone for your great advice, information and > help. > > Finally downloaded the ISO, checked the MD5 alogorithm. > Everything OK. Then installed. > > Install was flawless. Amazed. At least so far

subtle difference between package managers (was: Re: xorg in sid)

2005-07-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 14, 2005 at 10:47:54PM -0500, Aaron Hall wrote: > On Thu, 14 Jul 2005, Ibrahim Mubarak wrote: > > >with all three of them at the same time (apt, aptitude, and synaptic). > >That's what I am doing now. I started off with apt-get, then I got to > >know aptitude, which adds a few nice tri

Re: Is Debian Print Cartridge Refilling friendly?

2005-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
Now this is really unusual: email about printer catridges that "isn't* spam! -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]

2005-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:15:11PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > >And waiting until Sid matures??? Wow, now that is a new one. Sid means > >Still In Developement or Unstable. Never will Mature, you'll be > >waiting... ummm. Forever?! > > saw sid has got the implementation of a xorg instead of xfree8

Re: size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 06:33:13AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > > This brings up an interesting point. First of all, I do not know the > officialness of the wiki. What I mean is that I am not aware of a > psuedo-package name which would facilitate making a bug report. In keeping with the Wiki natur

Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]

2005-07-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 09:50:24AM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > The sid release will never be changed to stable. > > Packages from sid migrate into unstable (etch at present) when > > they

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:55:26PM -0400, Lorenzo Taylor wrote: > (when a previous post is required to continue the same thread and they > don't have one) This one has annoyed me, too. Perhaps a technical solution is appropriate here? Some way of creating a reply from the mailing-list archive?

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:27:44PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > It also reflects poorly on the person who couldn't be bothered to take the > time to see how the locals do things. Isn't that something that Americans are > always blasted about in good ol' Europe? Going over expecting everyone

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 07:51:27PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > btw Benjamin, when wanting to reply to a thread and you no longer have a > message from that thread, you can do so from the archives. Find the > message (such as > http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2005/07/msg02273.html), and near th

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 03:59:31PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > Cam on 20/07/05 15:17, wrote: > >try openbox. You can switch w/ openbox --replace. It's fully > >GNOME-compliant so it should be a pretty seamless switch (it was for > >me). > > That's pretty good, but it isn't installing itself as th

what gdm and xdm are (was: Re: replacing window manager ...)

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 11:47:23AM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: > > Allow me to display my ignorance: what is gdm? Is it another component > of the x-windows-system? When I re-installed x-windows, it asked me to > select gdm or xdm. It's not an acronym for gnome, is it? Let me man it. gdm and xdm a

Re: locale and it's affect on ls and sort

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 01:15:13PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > > What should I google for in order to learn *why* everything else sorts > > things differently than C? > > Try 'frickin idiots' and 'international standards organization'. Since if varies from locale to locale,

Re: replacing window manager in gnome and getting usable screen shape

2005-07-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 21, 2005 at 09:43:39AM -0600, Cam wrote: > Hi, > > On 7/21/05, Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hendrik, re your problem, could it be that you have the wrong video > > settings in your XFree86 config? > > I would say it probably is a bad XF86Config-4... maybe he could po

LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. But I'd really like to start using it for *all* my partitions. My machine also has a bunch lf FAT partitions used when I boot Windows, and accessible when I boot Linux. Ca

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:25PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > | Now that I've discovered what LVM does, I've resolved to start > | migrating my Linux systems to it. Linux partitions look easy. > | But I'd really li

Re: cahnging debian version

2005-07-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 09:19:38PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2005/7/24, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > 2) how can i do it? > > > > Edit /etc/apt/sources.list and change "stable main" to "testing main" or > > "unstable main". Then run "apt-get update" and "apt-get dist-upgrade". Thi

Re: cahnging debian version

2005-07-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 24, 2005 at 04:30:11PM -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > Quoting Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > security team. > >>> > >>> Are you sure i cannot go back to stable ? > >> > >> I don't think so, at least not without reinstalling. You can upgrade

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 11:26:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Hendrik Boom([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Sat, Jul 23, 2005 at 08:43:25PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: > > > Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > | Now that I've disc

Re: Reference to your work

2005-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:07:19PM +0530, Sandhya wrote: > Hello, > > Greetings of the day. Please allow me to introduce myself as a member of the > technical development team at EC-Council. Currently we are finalizing the > release version of our courseware that prepares aspirants for the > certi

Re: Reference to your work

2005-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 09:57:56PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (25/07/05 15:15), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 02:07:19PM +0530, Sandhya wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > > > Greetings of the day. Please allow me to introduce myself as a

Re: Why not a Desktop on a GNU/Linux Server

2005-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 01:28:51PM -0700, Anthony Simonelli wrote: > I am planning on running a Squid Proxy, Postfix, > Apache, webmail server here at my company and I was > wondering if it was alright to run a Desktop or just > X-Windows on this server. I love using the > command-line and have be

glitch during sarge install from CDROM

2005-07-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
When installing sarge, I was asked whether I wanted to install grub as bootloader to my hard disk. I said NO (I prefer lilo). Then it asked me to explain just where I did want to install the boot loader. I left the space blank and went on. Of sourse it tried to install grup noplace, and failed with

Re: glitch during sarge install from CDROM

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 06:08:24PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 07:42:57PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > When installing sarge, I was asked whether I wanted to install grub > > as bootloader to my hard disk. > > I said NO (I prefer lilo). > >

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking''

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:53:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:06 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:35:50AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > [snip] > > >and Microsoft's reaction was to announce that the next version of MS Office >

Re: LVM and Windows

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 08:06:15AM -0700, Daniel Johnson wrote: > > It contains equivalent functionality to LVM and more. > > > It makes me wonder whether it actually uses LVM, or has an independent > > implementation. > > > > From my understanding at one point they were competing technologies,

Re: OT: In defence of ``newbie-picking''

2005-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 01:53:19AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2005-07-25 at 23:06 -0500, Kent West wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Tue, Jul 26, 2005 at 04:35:50AM +0200, Anders Breindahl wrote: > [snip] > > >and Microsoft's reaction was to announce that the next version of MS Office >

Re: Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 01:06:27AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > >On Wed, Jul 20, 2005 at 04:20:17PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>As long as I boot into Debian, no problem, but if I boot into Windows, > >>the next time I reboot, grub just goes into an infinite loop

Re: Corrupt linux-source-2.6.12

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:41:57AM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Tue, 26 Jul 2005, Jason Edson wrote: > > I've tried to get it a couple times but keep getting the same error. > > The file you downloaded is corrupt. > > > The mirror I'm using is http://debian.osuosl.org but I've t

Re: Packages not authenticated - why?

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 11:48:17AM +0200, Christopher Pharo Glæserud wrote: > Christopher Pharo Glæserud, > > > You didn't really tell anyone what you actually do have installed, now > > did you? Besides, the configuration setting described in the link I sent > > you is an apt setting, not a pbui

Re: OT - DSL routers -

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 07:17:45AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Doofus writes: > > ...for the home DSL market there are far more examples of combined > > modem-routers than seperate components. > > All that I know of can be configured in "bridge mode", disabling the router > and firewall functions.

Re: Corrupt linux-source-2.6.12

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 12:49:50AM -0600, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Tuesday 26 July 2005 23:59, Jason Edson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > I've tried to get it a couple times but keep getting the same error. > > The mirror I'm using is http://debian.osuosl.org but I've tri

Re: Resizing partition

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:05:08PM +0200, Paolo Pantaleo wrote: > 2005/7/27, David Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have some dead space on my disk before logical partition hda7 that I > > want to add to hda7. Parted is not letting me resize or move the > > partition to include the dead space. Is

Re: Windows corrupts Grub on Dell

2005-07-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 27, 2005 at 08:09:08AM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed July 27 2005 05:27 am, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > [...] > > > And lilo worked fine. > > > > Is there some way to get to this list-of-phases page without > > first making grub fail? > > I

How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?

2005-07-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentium. the one that isn't VESA, or even VGA, but EGA (remember those?). I found a report dated 2002 that someone got such a setup to work with the framebuffer driver fbdev (though of course no accelerat

Re: xorg-x11 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 Packages Not Found

2005-07-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 06:54:53AM -0400, Tom Allison wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > >On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 12:26:15AM -0400, Robert James Kaes wrote: > > > >>Thanks. I added those lines, did an apt-get update and then my apt-get > >>dselect-upgrade. The required files all came in, but they came

newsreader (was Re: knoppix DVD 4.0)

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 09:59:09AM +0200, Johann Spies wrote: > > I has been a long time since I have been actively reading > newsgroups. Long ago I have used tin and gnus to do that. I would not > recoommend gnus for newbies. It is not the easiest reader to set up > but it is very powerful. I s

Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > >I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro > >PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentium. the one that isn't > >VESA, or even VGA, but EGA (remember those?). I found a report > >dated 2002 that someone got such a setup

Re: CD problem: hardware or software?

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:16:06AM -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: > I'm running testing on a PowerPC (a Mac Mini to be precise). I have an > external CD drive that i am using to rip my CD collection (i'm using an > external to avoid wear and tear on the more expensive internal drive). > The proble

Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > > >>>I'm one of those poor wretches with a Hercules Prophet Kyro > >>>PCI video card on an aging 233 MHz Pentiu

Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Are you using udev? > > I'm using whatever Debian sarge installed by default just three days ago. > How do I find out whether I'm using udev? > > > Did you loaded the correct module

Re: slightly-OT: centralized user management

2005-07-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:01:28PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Greetings, > > I currently have a small home network (1 server, 1 workstation, 1 > laptop) with only two users. What I would like to do is to setup some > sort of centralized user authentication mechanism (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

What is the driver for a framebuffer of a Hercules card? (was: Re: How do I get a /dev/fb0 from my Hercules Kyro?)

2005-08-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote: > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 01:42:51PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: > > > > > >>>I'm one of those poor wretche

Re: Hi!

2005-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:41:59AM -0700, Suzanne M ODell wrote: > I contacted the wrong list, initially, my > apologies. This list may be called debian-user, but prospective users are also very welcome. > My board is an Intel D815EEA, my > processor is Celeron 700mg w/ 256mg RAM, 20Gg HD, > I do

downloading from web

2005-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site -- series like http://foo.bat/onion/soup01.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup02.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup03.htm http://foo.bat/onion/soup04.htm and the l

Re: downloading from web

2005-08-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:57:58PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:42:24PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > A few weeks agol I think on this list, I saw a message asking > > about software to lownload series of numbered files from a web site >

Re: lame not in the debian package repository?

2005-08-17 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:53:11PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > He also incorrectly attributed the ownership of the patent(s). Just for the record, what *is* the proper patent attribution? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > Hi, > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > the characters in programs don't display right. This doesn't sound like an overheating problem to me. For one thing, the Mutt arrow problem happens to

Re: weird characters

2005-08-18 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Hi, > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheated again), some of > > the characters in programs don't display right. >

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-20 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 06:10:58AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: > > It was a kernel problem, I had not thought of that. I went ahead, > > grabbed a kernel image from sid, installed it (2.6.11) and all usb > > and scanner permissions problems dissapeared. But now there is no > > sound, I tried to

Re: Do I have to use exim?

2005-08-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 03:54:39PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > Then, edit /etc/email-addresses and add an entry like > > localusername: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Interesting. What's the relationship between this and /etc/aliases ? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Still no joy with the Kyro card.

2005-08-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
t never got X up either), so I presume the necessary technical knowledge must exist somewhere! The discussion has gotten this far last July. On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 05:02:44PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2005 at 08:25:58PM +0200, wim wrote: > > > > Are you using udev? &

Re: Re: Disk dont work with linux ?!

2005-08-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Aug 21, 2005 at 10:08:26PM +0200, Attila Szilagyi wrote: > > When you make the partition are you telling it to mount as root? > > > Yes of cours, some times debian-installer start to copy files to hdd, but > during installation broke copy process with error code 1. > On Alt+F3 consol sa

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:43:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Daniel Ramaley wrote: > > >When Xorg came out, Sarge was almost ready to become the stable release. > >Sarge is what i'm running, but i've not had any problems with my older > >hardware. If you want Xorg, try switching to the testing d

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 08:36:24AM -0500, Daniel Ramaley wrote: > > When Xorg came out, Sarge was almost ready to become the stable release. > Sarge is what i'm running, but i've not had any problems with my older > hardware. If you want Xorg, try switching to the testing distribution. > To do

Re: Switching to Debian (from Fedora)

2005-08-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 10:06:10AM +0200, A. Lanza wrote: > Hi list, > > * I noticed too that Debian runs XF86 instead of Xorg, as Fedora does. > Why this? What are the differences between them? Is video hw support > better in Xorg? Are there any licensing issues with Xorg? It's the other way aro

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my (FAT) drive?

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 05:49:58PM +0200, Tim Ruehsen wrote: > > > You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your > > operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under > > control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. > > Many people say so, but it is not

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:42:28AM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: ... ... > > Does anyone have a list of MUAs which have this functionality? > > In my experience: ... ... > > - Mutt: YES (my client of choice) Although every time I use mutt to reply to list, it complains that there's no list to mail t

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
I vote the headers should direct a reply to the list. It has always seemed lunacy to make the default the specific thing that list policy shys you shouldn't do. It's not as if it will be impossible to reply to the sender if one really wants to. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: OT mutt config (was: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > > Do you have > > subscribe debian-user > > in your ~/.muttrc? I think that mutt needs this in order to recognise > that debian-user is a mailing list. No. Upon investigating, I don't *have* a ~.muttrc! Will try immediately. --

Re: OT mutt config (was: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > > Do you have > > subscribe debian-user > > in your ~/.muttrc? I think that mutt needs this in order to recognise > that debian-user is a mailing list. *now* I do. It works. Thanks. I'll change my vote. -- hendrik -- To UN

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:47:06AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > I vote the headers should direct a reply to the list. > It has always seemed lunacy to make the default the specific thing that > list policy shys you shouldn't do. > It's not as if it will be impos

Re: OT mutt config (was: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 04:14:22PM +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 24.08.2005 at 11:07 -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 03:59:28PM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > > > > > > Do you have > > > > > > subscribe debian-u

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 09:26:59AM -0700, Patrick Rittich wrote: > Adam Hardy wrote: > >Jon Dowland on 24/08/05 13:54, wrote: > > >One thing I would like the list server to munge would be the > >receipt-confirmation header (or whatever it's called). It seems like a > >large waste of bandwidth an

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 11:11:26AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Wed, Aug 24, 2005 at 10:47:06AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > > I vote the headers should direct a reply to the list. > > It has always seemed lunacy to make the default the specific thing th

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 02:03:42PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 13:30, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > > Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java: No such file or directory > > > > This message makes you think that /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:26:27AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > > >Am 2005-08-27 02:45:47, schrieb Wulfy: > > > > > > > >>>EGroups, YahooGroups... are sick !!! > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>Are all the University lists also sick? > >> > >> > > > >TU-Muenchen? Freiburg? Mannheim

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:09:38PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Friday 26 August 2005 14:43, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Then maybe it's a shared library that's missing? I had a problem like this > > years ago with Modula 3. There's some kind of command (s

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 09:22:17AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:09:38PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > > On Friday 26 August 2005 14:43, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > > > Then maybe it's a shared library that's missing? I had a problem

Re: blind spot for java

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 03:37:54PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > Graham Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a JDK installed in /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/ when I attempt to execute > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04/bin/java > > > > I get > > > > bash: /usr/local/jdk1.5.0_04

Re: Your review of the Debian bible

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 08:48:27AM +0200, Maurits van Rees wrote: > On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 12:33:00AM +0200, martin f krafft wrote: > > > You may be interested in my Debian book, http://debiansystem.info, > (...) > > I am sorry, this message was not to go to the mailing list. Do not > > ask me how

Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Aug 26, 2005 at 04:47:28PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: > Tally thus far: > > clearly voted "reply to list"6 > clearly enough voted "reply to sender" 2 > clearly abstained1 > other ~74 I once bel

SHould I bother configuring xfree?

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
I have a machine with two sarges on it -- one was installed as a sarge system, the other as a woody, and upgraded. But xfree did not survive the upgrade -- and when I boot that one, X does not come up (everything fin on the other one, though). Now my plan is to take the one I upgraded from woody (

Diablo II in Wine for multiple users

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
My oldest son is running Diablo II and World of Warcraft on Wine on sarge. But my youngest son wants to play too. So my oldest son had a permissions question. How should he set permissions on everything involved so that they can use the same copy of these programs? (Not simultaneously of course

Re: SHould I bother configuring xfree?

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 02:10:40PM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >I have a machine with two sarges on it -- one was installed > >as a sarge system, the other as a woody, and upgraded. But > >xfree did not survive the upgrade -- and when I

Re: isp service

2005-07-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 03:57:12PM +, Andy Smith wrote: > In what country/locality? If in parts of Canada, I've had success with dsl.ca. When I use technical language to them, they assume I am technically competent and don't talk down to me. Some of their tech support staff use Linux at home

Re: ntfs access on debian

2005-07-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 01:29:03AM +0200, Olle Eriksson wrote: > On Sunday 03 July 2005 23.49, Leonardo S� wrote: > > I want to have a partition to access both on winxp and debian, however, > > i want it to be easy to use on both OSes. What I did was to format a > > NTFS partition, which i success

Re: (Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:07:44AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Nicos Gollan writes: > > Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I > > hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to > > override its decisions. > > IMHO this vote was more about pow

Re: svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jun 27, 2005 at 09:17:21AM -0400, Ugo Bellavance wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I keep getting the following message showing up on my root consoles: > > > > > >>svc: bad direction 268435456, dropping request > > > > > > It's

exim3, mbox, maildir, exim4

2005-07-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
I would like to upgrade from exim3 to exim 4 (now that I have upgraded from woody to sarge), and also from mbox to maildir format. Should I upgrade the mailbox format before, during, or after upgrading exim? Or are the two upgrades completely independent? Does setting exim to use maildirs cause

weird characters not quite fixed (was: Re: weird characters FIXED)

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Aug 27, 2005 at 03:16:12AM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 12:07:21PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:28:26PM -0400, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > > Hi, > > > My problem is, after I had to reboot (computer overheate

Is the %ESP register special?

2005-08-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
Using assembler in debian on an intel platform. Is the %ESP register special in any way (except, of course, ist use in the POP and PUSH istructions and their friends.) Let me clarify. On VMS (old VAX OS), the convnetion was that any data on the stack above the stacp poibter was forfeit -- at any

Indexing the mailing list (was:Re: FW: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?)

2005-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 06:30:15PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:57:59PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > All the severe usability and freedom-of-choice issues that hamper web > > boards > > aside, the only thing starting a redundant forum serves to do is fracture > > the

Re: What is the point of sudo?

2005-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 09:37:52PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 05:20:37PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > >It's also easier to do root-type things while in X without having to log > > >into X as root or muck about with the Xauthority files. > > > > Which running gd

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:14:24AM +0800, Katipo wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > > > It would be better if all states did that, if only > >because it provides a more accurate reflection of what the people want > >without allowing sudden changes in the public mood to unduly affect > >e

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