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

2005-08-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 08:51:23AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > IIRC there have been some forums setup to help debian users. But they > were never a success. email has a kind of immediacy that the web doesn't. Not sure why. -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: support for nvidia nforce2?

2005-08-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:55:32PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >I'm considering buying an abit with nforce2 chipset. How does Debian > > play with it? Any experiences? Another option would be the kt600 > > via-based boards. Is nforce2 worth the

Re: support for nvidia nforce2?

2005-08-29 Thread Hendrik Boom
y like to hear from some other users of this board. -- hendrik > > Bruno > > > > > > > > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 01:55:32PM +0200, Dominique Dumont wrote: > > > > > >>Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Still no joy with the Kyro card.

2005-08-30 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 08:18:59AM -0700, SimonF wrote: > Since this doesn't seem to appear on "linux.debian.user" I'll try > sending it directly... > > >Unfortunately, it has a PCI Hercules Kyro card, which works > >great under Windows, but only in text mode for Linux. > This is not stricltly tru

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

2005-08-31 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 06:41:27AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > No, it was in hopes that out of each state, there would be at least N > > number > > of people who knew how to read. > > Bzt. And let's try this again. Paul... think carefully. Exactly what > would they

Re: xorg + xinerama - but on an on-demand basis

2005-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 03:46:45PM +0200, Kai Grossjohann wrote: > You could start two instances of the X server, each running one > instance of gdm. One would be running on vty7, one on vty8, and you > could switch between them with Ctrl-Alt-F7 and Ctrl-Alt-F8. I tried that. It didn't work. gd

Re: Debian-laptop.org

2005-09-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 01, 2005 at 11:51:19AM -0400, Philip Schwartz wrote: > Sorry for the confusion, The flash site is not the debain-laptop.org site. ^^ I just looked up www.debain-laptop.org and it immediately reffered me to www.microsoft.com. Loo

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 11:58:20AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > yes you need to put > > deb http://ftp./debian/ stable main... > deb-src http:///debian/ stable main ... > > sources.list tells apt where to find the packages. > > but you also need to edit /etc/apt/apt.conf My

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained because of a > few old commercial programs (such as wordperfect and so) > which depends yet on it. I a

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > So, until some time in the far future, people should not say to > newbies that release code names and release status names ('stable', > 'testing', etc.) are interchangeable. They are not. Existing support > for release code names i

Re: Do we still need libc5?

2005-09-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:32:41AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 04:33:13AM +0200, Jeroen van Wolffelaar wrote: > > > > I already proposed to remove the whole libc5 chaintools and > > dependencies before woody release. A few users complained beca

Re: Windows Server to Debian migration

2005-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:12:04PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:02:09PM -0400, Joseph H. Fry wrote: > > > > Thanks to all of you who have responded so far! > > > > Right now I am trying to decide how I will migrate from a test server I will > > be setting up to to

Re: question for sources.list

2005-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 02:32:11PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Sep 03, 2005 at 11:46:19AM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2005 at 10:40:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > > > > So, until some time in the far future, people should not say to

Re: Apt for organising things other than executables?

2005-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 03:51:53PM +0100, Max wrote: > > Dear All, > > Is there a dead easy way of registering a file as having a dependency in > apt? Can you perhaps recommend a web site that's nice and short and easy > to follow with instructions on how to do this? And oh, in addition to > sh

Re: i got badblocks :-|

2005-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 03:59:08PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > > > Roel Schroeven wrote: > > >cc wrote: > > > >>my hard disk run into badblocks, > >>when i run a program which produce much disk activities, > >>many messages will appear like this: > >> > >>" > >>Info fld=0x2023f6a, Current sd

Was this question too technical for this group? : Is the %ESP register special?

2005-09-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
Was this question too technical for this list? If so, where do you recommend I ask it again? -- hendrik > 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 clar

Re: How to install Brother 2070N

2005-09-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 04, 2005 at 11:09:19PM -0400, [KS] wrote: > > I am trying to see if I can get this Brother HL-2070N printer to work > with my Debian Sid work station. > > I have connected the printer to the switch of my home network > (192.168.xyz). The printer got an IP address from my DHCP server >

Re: Is it safe to dist-upgrade kde* now?

2005-09-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 04:13:56AM +0100, Peter J Ross wrote: > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 12:43:39PM +1000, Brendon Lloyd Higgins wrote: > > > Kim Adil wrote (Tuesday 06 September 2005 4:56 pm): > > > Subject says it all I think. I and many others had to roll back, and I > > > was advised to hold b

Re: Help!

2005-09-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:17:11PM +0100, antgel wrote: > Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 07:48:53AM -0400, George Boyce wrote: > > > >>I'm not sure what to do from here! I typed in ENTER - no good. I tried > >>LOGONstill no good! Keeps > >>bringing me to "username"@Debian1

KDE uses sound but xmms won't.

2005-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
Yes, when KDE starts up we hear its theme music. But once KDE is up, there's no sound aby more. Instead we get a dialogue telling us to check that our audio system is configured properly. Now we have a multiboot system -- one same Debian sarge partition, but two kernels. The problem occurs only

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:51:24PM -0400, Angelo Bertolli wrote: > Michael Martinell wrote: > > The point is, the playing field isn't fair. Since a user's computer > already comes with Windows, they MUST go through an installation process > to install Debian. The idea is to make that installa

Re: Help!

2005-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:27:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 10:52:50AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > For some products, Stephen's position is simply silly. Consider, > > for example, a Boeing 747. Another example is a C compiler. > > There are many more. Too many to li

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-09 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 08, 2005 at 04:39:22PM +0200, Rakotomandimby Mihamina wrote: > Hi, > I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up. > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR) > > That lilo loads three linux installation at the moment (one Debian, one > Mandriva and one Fedor

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 09:49:53PM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > On Fri, September 9, 2005 8:53 pm, Carl Fink wrote: > > On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 05:30:29PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >> If you install an OS, expect to read docs, period. > > > > No. > > > > Any information needed to m

Re: Help!

2005-09-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 08:39:16AM -0500, Michael Martinell wrote: > > By the way how did you know I consider calligraphy to be art? Quill pens and > parchment are cool - I just can't figure out the delete feature. Didn't read the manual, evidently. I believe the delete feature was an abrasive

Re: Help!

2005-09-11 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Sep 10, 2005 at 05:56:32PM -0400, C Shore wrote: > > Seriously, the standard man page format wasn't designed for mass usage, > it was for the sysadmin who needed a reference to remind them of some > obscure (or not) feature they had forgotten, not to teach the usage of > the command. A

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 06:32:39AM -0400, Hugh Lawson wrote: > Rakotomandimby Mihamina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Hi, > > I will have to reinstall my windows XP because I messed it up. > > I know it will fire my bootloader (lilo on the MBR) > > If you have a floppy drive, one of these shou

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 06:31:00AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > mkboot only works if you have lilo installed. > > those commands and gazillion other equivalent/similarly > named commands all have assumptions in order to work And boy, is it confusing if you don't know what the assumptions are!

Re: reinstall lilo after windows

2005-09-12 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 02:26:22PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > vi lilo.conf > > > boot = /dev/fd0 > > > > > > root = /dev/hda1 > > > > Won't that make it boot from /dev/hda

Re: still no sound juicer (was Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today)

2005-09-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 11:17:23PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Thu, Sep 15, 2005 at 01:13:16PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > er .. a little question. What packages will be removed if I remove gnome > > and gnome-desktop-environment. I am guessing since there are > > metapackages, nothing else will be r

Re: configuring muttrc

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 09:34:15AM +0100, Jon Dowland wrote: > On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 09:50:28PM +, Sam Rosenfeld wrote: > > Precisely what information do I need to get a working mutt for Debian > > 3.1? Once I get it working I think I can tailor it for my needs. > > It should work out-of-t

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:02:42AM +0500, Fritz Brown wrote: > OK, everybody, THANKS! I finally got it installed without it asking me for > all the extra packages (which is where the overwhelming part came in). Now, > the only thing is I don't know how to start the GUI. I took most of the > d

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Sep 23, 2005 at 10:43:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2005-09-23 at 14:45 +0200, Malte Cornils wrote: > > Hello, > > > > we've been trying to make a program (ITK/VTK image processing for a > > university > > project) work. Unfortunately, the process needs slightly above 2 GiB of

Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:34:15AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Malte Cornils wrote: > > > > Does anyone have a clue why 2 GiB is the limit? > > It is not for me. I can malloc() up to 2.9G. > > > It seems malloc restricts itself to

change in Debian policy? WAS: Re: annoying screensaver

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 07:47:07AM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > > Actually, it was pointed more to the way things are getting covered up > as dists move towards the black box approach. Not that easier isn't > better in many/most cases, but it strikes me that an easy to follow > trail back to t

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 08:11:24AM -0700, Daniel Garcia wrote: > > Why is it interesting to have a different partition > for / and for /home? I have never seen the point in a > home > computer. Isnt it more painful to have to calculate > the size for each partition > > Thanks > Daniel Whe I upgr

Re: classics Re: More than 2, but less than 3 GiB per process memory?

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 11:38:07AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > > Here is the very simple test program. > > > > > > #include > > > #include > > > #include > > > > > >

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:18:15PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Michael writes: > > I don't want to fork out dosh for a modem/router. > > The "router" can be an old junker pc running Linux. It can even be one of your two PC's, as long as you're willing to dedicate it to Linux. And you'd have to p

Re: pointer for home networking

2005-09-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 06:39:13PM -0600, Glenn English wrote: > On Mon, 2005-09-26 at 22:54 +0100, michael wrote: > > I've had a look about but can't find a basic guide to setting up a home > > network. There seems much discussion of 'deeper' stuff but I'm stymied for > > setting up my first home

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-27 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 01:10:56AM -0700, Tony Godshall wrote: > > Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, > and even windows (gah!). Think we'll ever get Windows to recognise LVM? :-) -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe"

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: > --- Tony Godshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, > > and even windows (gah!). > > > > So there is truth in the rumours that Windows Vista is going to be > Linux based?

Re: No Swap

2005-10-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 03, 2005 at 11:15:03PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Curtis Vaughan wrote: > > > Can someone help me figure out why I don't seem to be using the swap > > partition. > > > > Here is an output of fdisk -l > > > > Disk /dev/hda: 10.0 GB, 10056130560 bytes > > 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 19485

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:50:59PM +0300, klkl lklk wrote: > Hi all, > i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GREAT! > When i was using woody,my sound driver was called ens-1371 ( > Well, i was quite happy that ssarge had autodetected and loaded the correct > alsa driver wi

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 07, 2005 at 05:39:50PM +0200, Hendrik Sattler wrote: > Louis Woods wrote: > > I just got sound working on my desktop. I first installed the following > > packages: > > > > 1) alsa-base > > 2) alsa-oss > > 3) alsa-utils > [...] > > Now my only problem is that (same as above) I have to r

Re: Moved to sarge: Great, but no sound!

2005-10-07 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 10:20:45PM +0200, Louis Woods wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >On Tue, Oct 04, 2005 at 08:50:59PM +0300, klkl lklk wrote: > > > > > >>Hi all, > >>i've recently moved from my beloved woody to sarge:Sarge IS GREAT! > &

Re: operate system without keyboard

2005-10-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 09:31:28AM +0200, steef wrote: > hja wrote: > > >i am running debian 'testing' on a desktop. i would like to be able to > >operate the system without a hardware keyboard but instead use a mouse > >and on-screen keyboard. i started with removing the section on 'keyboard > >i

command-line printing abiword and openoffice docs

2005-10-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
Is there a way to print abiword or openoffice documents from the command line without having X up or going all interactive? Say, from a Makefile? Is such available for another word processor? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? C

Re: command-line printing abiword and openoffice docs

2005-10-08 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 10:01:34AM -0400, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 10/8/05, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to print abiword or openoffice documents > > from the command line without having X up or going all > > interactive? > > > &g

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 12:01:56AM -0700, Roy Pluschke wrote: > On Mon, 2005-10-10 at 12:57 +0700, Ms Linuz wrote: > > Roy Pluschke wrote: > > > > >Is there a howto for dual booting an existing linux system with windows > > >2000. Everything I've found so far assumes windows is installed and > >

Re: Dual booting -- Adding windows to a Linux system

2005-10-10 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 10, 2005 at 09:02:01AM +, Florian Dorpmueller wrote: > >But one thing that I'm not sure and not really know, will windows work OK > >if it installed not on the first partition of the disk ? > >Even I believe this will work, but better be carefull. > > > >--w.h-- > > > > Possible bu

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-14 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: > On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: > > > > You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why > > use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a > > firewall or backup server? > >

Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 01:03:30AM -0400, Marty wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >Actually, I've tried using old klunkers to do backups, and discovered > >that they can't take large hard disks. One of mine won't go beyond > >about 128 gig; the other get

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-16 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Oct 16, 2005 at 07:24:03PM +0100, marc wrote: > > Sorry for not having responded to this thread yet, but I'm still trying > out all the suggestions. I thought that Pan would do, but it has a > couple of flaws that I can't live with. One that hits me is that it seems to retain headers fo

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 04:16:45PM +0100, Jan T. Kim wrote: > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 08:57:43AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > > Roberto writes: > > > > However, IMHO, anything dealing with mathematics (in which I include > > >

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > is that you don't have to remember different shortcut keys, such as > > C-a for jumping to the top of the line, C-g for interrupting, > > and

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:35:54AM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Roberto writes: > > XML is great if you are trying to get to programs or machines to talk. > > There probably is a problem for which XML is the best solution, but I > haven't seen it yet. XML is desinged to be at least a marginal solu

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:59:34AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > No mechanism even for multiple virtual CLI consoles. > > I'd like verification of that. I remember my first run in with unix back > in my Netcom days. Even then screen was around.

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 10:09:18AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > I *definitely* remember using emacs like this. I do not remember what > > operating system it was on. It may well have been 15 years ago. > > Not denying that. But you said there w

Re: Newsreader: Best of the bunch?

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
een mixed ) > > 2005/10/19, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 09:08:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > programming. (One important aspect of that kind of integration > > > > is that you d

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:25:21PM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Hi all, > > My question is, I suppose OT, since things go wrong long before bootup, > but with the many fine folks here, I hope you will permit me, and > perhaps even provide me with an answer! :-) Please, please make a backup.

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 03:34:32PM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > as henrique(?) said ... make backups .. > > but i would counter that as, it's too late, to backup AFTER you detect > whacky disks problems ... > the backup process will aggrevate the flaky disks that is > misbehaving,

Re: OT: Damaged harddisk and/or disk controller - ps

2005-10-19 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 12:44:06AM +0200, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > Linus' backup strategy, Is that the one wher you posting it all on usenet and find it later in the archives? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PRO

Re: Firefox - No Scrollbars

2005-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 03:39:47PM +0100, Ben Whyte wrote: > Iain Stephen wrote: > > >Hi all, > > > >After an update a few weeks ago (which if I remember, updated Firefox) > >all the scrollbars in Firefox have dissapeared. Nothing I have tried has > >restored them and no aother programs are affect

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-21 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 01:02:25PM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: > On Fri, 2005-10-21 at 10:42 -0400, j j wrote: > > I thought I overlooked something when I discovered RPMS. If it worked > > soomthly, then I'll be doing the same. > > alien -i *.rpm > > > > Is there a big difference from the last RC

Re: How to make a rescue disk ?

2005-10-23 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 06:51:45AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sun, Oct 23, 2005 at 10:07:31AM +, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > > Hello, > > I'm looking for procedure / howto about creating rescue CD disk. > > Thanks. > > Bruno > > > > Download either the full CD1 or the net install CD

Re: OOo 2.0 compatibilty w/OOo 1.x

2005-10-24 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 01:15:39AM -0400, [KS] wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > > I know it probably goes without saying but OOo 2.0 will be compatible > > with > > the 1.x saved files; and not in the way Micro$oft Word sense of compatible. > > I > > just started a project in OOo 1.13 and am mil

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 01:58:11AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > > > > >300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, I > >had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, I > >was down to 1 (one) GB left; so, something we

Re: OOo2.0 space concern

2005-10-25 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Oct 25, 2005 at 05:33:31PM -0700, Bill Wohler wrote: > kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > >> > >> 300 MB of space would have been fine. However, before the install, > >> I had over 10 (ten) GBs of space left on my 40 GB drive. Afterward, > >> I

Re: https on testing/unstable

2005-10-28 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 11:45:25PM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu October 27 2005 08:06 pm, [KS] wrote: > > Oliver Lupton wrote: > > > Maybe check you have openssl installed on your testing/unstable box > > > > That is supposed to be installed on the server and not the client. > > Firefox/Mozil

penguins in svg

2005-11-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
The see-no-evil hear-no-evil speak-no-evil penguins are available in SVG form from the original artist, at http://dugnet.com/klown/wallpaper/show.php?id=_wallpaper/_linux/seehearspeak -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. Everyone else's email in intact. I read my mail with mutt. I use the exim that comes with sarge, undoctored except for a minimal configuration done at installation time, w

ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
I don't mean I sent a message and it disappeared. I mean all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished. On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since th

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:56:09PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > Clive Menzies wrote: > >On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >>>Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > >&

Re: ALL my email vanished

2005-12-01 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 11:36:58PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (01/12/05 18:21), Hendrik Boom wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 10:55:10AM -0500, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > > without a trace. Some new

all my email vanished -- again

2005-12-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
Yes, last night all the massages I had left in /var/mail/hendrik vanished *again*. Just like the night before. Of course, by the time I got to look at my mail, a few new ones had arrived. I'm starting to think it's not just a fluke. >From the archive on lists.debian.org (since this message, whi

Re: Changing from Stable to Testing/Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:51:13AM -0800, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > When I installed it I went for the Stable version, but > now I'm thinking of switching over either to Testing > or to Unstable. First I wanted to ask how unstable the > Unstable distro is?. Normally, Unstable s

Re: Changing from Stable to Testing/Unstable

2005-12-02 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Dec 02, 2005 at 06:51:13AM -0800, Alejandro Salas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > When I installed it I went for the Stable version, but > now I'm thinking of switching over either to Testing > or to Unstable. First I wanted to ask how unstable the > Unstable distro is?.Cuz I heard that most

Email survived last night. (was: Re: all my email vanished -- again)

2005-12-03 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 12:28:41AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > David Kirchner wrote: > >On 12/2/05, Hendrik Boom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>Yes, last night all the massages I had left in /var/mail/hendrik > >>vanished *again*. Just like the night before. Of

Re: reply to list (mailing list) in thunderbird?

2005-12-04 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 02:03:45PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > Is it possible with mozilla thunderbird to do reply to list like some other > > mailing list friendly email clients can do (such as sylpheed-claws). > > > > I'm a Thunderbird user and I only have this problem on a fe

sarge security upgrade wedged on smsclient

2005-12-05 Thread Hendrik Boom
I've had various problems with this upgrade in the last few days, all having to do with smsclient. Yesterday I tried again, using script to make a log so that I could report the exact messages that occurred. As usual, I used aptitude interactuively to do the routine security updates. I typed

Re: my email vanished

2005-12-06 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Tue, Dec 06, 2005 at 07:17:23PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Hello Hendrik, > > Am 2005-12-01 10:55:10, schrieb Hendrik Boom: > > Last nighe all my email in /var/spool/mail/hendrik vanished > > without a trace. Some new mail has appeared since the vanishing. > &g

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