Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

On Mon, Jul 14, 2014 at 14:38:46 +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2014 14:13:22 +0100 > Richard Lyons wrote: > > Hello Richard, > > >I see that HP and OKI both claim to offer Linux drivers, for example. > > With HP, by and large, you don't need to i

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

quot; floppies didn't fit in your pocket on the way. This is advanced technology! Thanks Steve. -- Richard Lyons 07717 842296 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140714152029.gh17...@co-ho.net

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers

ve a few months pinned on the wall, or does daylight bleach them? If you have found they run under Mint, it is a good sign that they will work under Debian. richard -- Richard Lyons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: networked multi-function colour laser printers SOLVED

is great while it works. richard -- Richard Lyons -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140715164757.gr17...@co-ho.net

Re: [OT] How to compose email

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 11:16:17AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > But html is the very antithesis of style and the epitome of excess > verbiage. No, .doc files are. richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: Jumpy Mouse on Sarge W/ 2.6 Kernel

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 11:04:04 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > I have a system with PS/2 connectors for the mouse and the keyboard. I tried > installing Sarge with the 2.6 kernel, and the mouse movement was inconsistent > and jumped all over the place. I tried booting Knoppix with a 2

Re: Need basic help with KDE Wallet

On Saturday, 10 December 2005 at 16:28:42 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005 at 12:50:44PM -0800, David E. Fox wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 12:37:28 -0700 > > Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I was confronted recently with a request for the password of my KDE >

Re: Re: hanging web pages

On Monday, 12 December 2005 at 15:46:40 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hey, I'm not sure if your resolved your problem, If so then maybe you can > help me out. I've been having the same problem and talked with several > support > technicians and they have taken me through numerous steps, ( ie

Re: Where is the script update-grub located?

On Monday, 12 December 2005 at 23:36:03 -0500, David R. Litwin wrote: > > In any case, I think anyway that update-grub could not work from > > Windows, since it's a Linux program, right? > > > I was wondering about that myself. I thought it best to at least try it, > though. Not much success sinc

Re: OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

On Monday, 12 December 2005 at 20:10:01 -0500, Matt Price wrote: [...] > > identified the problem: partition was full (mail attack). OOo Ouch. How I hate full partitions. They always happen when you have been too busy to check (obviously). Has nobody written a daemon to check periodically an

Re: OOo crashes, fails to restore!!

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 21:25:06 +1100, Arafangion wrote: > On Tuesday 13 December 2005 21:35, Richard Lyons wrote: > > How I hate full partitions. They always happen when you have been too > > busy to check (obviously). Has nobody written a daemon to check > > perio

Re: Why thoughttracker not in etch nor sid

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:18:42 +, Jon Dowland wrote: > Phenominal! JWIAW (Just What I Always Wanted - I feel as though xmas came early. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

sane access for non-root user

I've just spent over an hour googling in vain. And I am sure I should know the answer to this... New sid install (on a not-new Dell Inspiron 8200 FWIW). Installed xsane and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but still xsane finds 'no devices available' as ordinary user.

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

On Wednesday, 7 December 2005 at 22:47:47 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: > > Yes, you need to fetch all missing ia32 libs and put them into the > subtree /emul/ia32-linux/ which has been created by installing > ia32-libs. [...] > AFAICT, you'll probably at least need those (let's hope the Qt libs

Re: sane access for non-root user

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:28:18 -0500, Brad Sawatzky wrote: > > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > Installed xsane > > > and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but > > > still xsane finds

Re: sane access for non-root user

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > Installed xsane > > and can only access it as root. Added myself to scanner group, but > > still xsane finds 'no devices available

Re: file not found - hardware, fs, or driver problem?

On Wednesday, 14 December 2005 at 1:31:09 +0100, Almut Behrens wrote: [...] > > Have you run ldconfig(8) to update the ld.so.cache? Woops! That's what i forgot. I'll look again in the morning. Thanks. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: sane access for non-root user

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 18:42:38 -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > There's the 'newgrp' command if you want to avoid losing your X session > and can stand winning just one shell at a time. 'sg' is somewhat > analagous to 'su', though at atomic number 106. I think that was Rf when I was a

Re: sane access for non-root user

On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 20:53:09 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > On 12/13/05, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday, 13 December 2005 at 14:01:06 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > > > > > udev isn't setting permissions properly on the

cpp/gcc versions

I want to set up a new box with the possibility to run the latest version of qcad. Unfortunately, this is only available built against cpp3, 5 and 6. I think sid has version 4 IIRC. Can anybody tell me if it is possible to install sarge with version 3 (or 5 or 6)? TIA -- richard -- To UNS

Re: Random DNS Relpy

On Thursday, 15 December 2005 at 21:00:06 +0100, Lars wrote: > Hi > > I'm running Bind9 on Sarge and it's working fine. Except when pinging > a hostname with multiple hostnames. Fx my web and ftp server is the > same server/IP, so they all reply. I tried having only one hostname as > a A-record an

installed udev - lost mouse and NIC

Just set up a sid system on an IBM thinkpad 600E. All went well. Then I installed a load of applications and tools. Including udev. When I rebooted, I had no mouse (usb) and no NIC (PCMCIA). I recollect seeing others had suffered similar problems but a day of googling has not helped. I cannot

Re: installed udev - lost mouse and NIC

On Sunday, 18 December 2005 at 21:11:14 +, Richard Lyons wrote: > Just set up a sid system on an IBM thinkpad 600E. All went well. Then > I installed a load of applications and tools. Including udev. When I > rebooted, I had no mouse (usb) and no NIC (PCMCIA). Pilot error. Of c

2 mice under gpm with udev

Maybe this time I can ask a less stupid question... Until now, on various thinkpads with 2.4 and 2.6 kernels (<2.6.10), I have plugged in a USB mouse and it Just Worked. That is to say both the little red tit and the usb mouse were functional at once. And what worked for gpm was reproduced in X

preventing dhclient writing to root console

I'm new to dhcp, and finding it more of a complication than a simplification. I thought it would obviate the need to run bind on a local box, but name resolution within the net seems to be dependent on reserving IPs for all known boxes at the Netgear router and running bind on one that is always o

can't configure linux-image

Since installing kernel-image-2.6-686, every time apt-get, aptitude and friends run I get a stack of error messages about linux-image not being configured (see below). But when I run dpkg --configure it fails too (see below). Nonetheless, the system is running with the 2.6.14-2-686 kernel. How

Re: can't configure linux-image

On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 8:42:55 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > its scary, but maybe > > apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6-686 > > which should get all three of them and then > > apt-get install linux-image-2.6-686 > > IOW, start over? > > I faced this with the recent yaird/

Re: README files

On Tuesday, 20 December 2005 at 5:56:50 -0500, Carl Fink wrote: > On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 10:22:39PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Ed Paris wrote: > > > Hi There, > > > > > >I want to read the README.Debian.gz file. I have tried to use vi and > > >nano and all I get is gibberish. How should I a

Re: Problems with nfs server

On Monday, 19 December 2005 at 19:38:35 -0800, Matt Jerdonek wrote: > Hi Everyone, > > I'm struggling getting the NFS server to work [...] You have put all the relevant daemons in host.allow? See the NFS-Howto if not. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

udev and usb

This is driving me potty. I have two sid installs with udev. One has carried on as before (before udev, that is). WHen I unplud the usb mouse and plug it back in, I get Dec 20 19:33:41 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: USB disconnect, address 2 Dec 20 19:33:55 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: new low speed

Re: unsubscribe

On Tuesday, 20 December 2005 at 22:13:22 -0800, David Kirchner wrote: > On 12/20/05, Almut Behrens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Sometimes I'm wondering whether it's that very "REQUEST" being > > capitalized that's confusing people -- and whether simply using > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" would make it

Re: installing amd64 kernel

On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 21:12:28 +, Wackojacko wrote: > > > Aaron Stromas wrote: > >Greetings, > > > >I received a number of advices on installation of my AMD Athlon 64 [...] > > I had similar problems installing from the netinstall but luckily I had > an old PCI card to slot in

Re: Is AMD-64 mature enough to start using? (possibly on K8V-MX moptherboard)

On Wednesday, 21 December 2005 at 7:07:42 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] > Linux. Specifically, an Asus K8V-MX Athlon 64 motherboard, > an AMD Sempron64 2600, 512 meg DDR PC-3200 w/o ECC. [...] > > My question is, is the Debian AMD64 platform ready for such use? [...] > Very few happy use

Re: slide rule (OT) was: Question on backups using rsync

On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 12:50:15 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Tuesday 20 December 2005 20:35, Daniel Webb wrote: > >>(pulls out my slide ruler to figure out when it's dinner time). > > > > > >Thats properly called a slide rule. I still have one, a K&E > >log-log

Re: broken dependencies

On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 17:36:30 -0500, Nikhil Prabhakar wrote: > Hi, > Recently I tried to upgrade KDE from unstable repositories and faced > with multiple broken dependencies.Is there any way out to handle this > situation (hoping there is :-)? I've had that particular problem on a numb

Re: about remove directory

On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 19:43:51 -0300, Gabriel wrote: > Nevruz Mesut Sahin wrote: > > > Hello my firend I want to delete every thing inside > >of a directory but there are more than 100.000 files. > >I don't need any files in that directory. if I write > >rmdir -R /disk4/vmx/sirlo/mes

Re: Question about module loading from floppy

On Friday, 23 December 2005 at 14:13:19 +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote: > Hello, > > I have to start a machine with rescue CD because lilo is broken. (I > probably just have to run /sbin/lilo as root to correct this) The > problem is that booting with rescue root=/dev/sda1 won't work because > my driv

Re: Mozilla 1.5 download directory

On Thursday, 22 December 2005 at 22:45:45 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Richard wrote: > > >2005/12/22, Richard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > >>Hi all > >> > >>I am using Sid and it seems i found a bug in de latest mozilla > >>package. I am not sure if this is a mozilla bug or a debian package > >>

(OT) UK broadband with open port 25

A quick OT: Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (>=2G) who can provide an open port 25? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 10:13:35 +, Richard Lyons wrote: > A quick OT: > > Anyone here found a UK broadband supplier (>=2G) who can provide an open > port 25? Oops -- that should be 2Meg -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: java for jabref

On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 17:21:51 +, michael wrote: [...] > > sorry if being a bit dense here but how do I get "blackdown" packages? A > search on Debian packages reveals nothing connected... but a quick google gives http://www.blackdown.org/java-linux -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRI

dhcp client wifi setup

I am obviously missing the obvious here. An IBM Thinkpad, sid, orinoco wifi card talks to the Netgear DG834G router when security is disabled, but when I turn WEP on it doesn't connect. /etc/network/interfaces has iface eth0 inet dhcp wireless-essid Coig wireless-key -

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 15:13:38 -0600, Adam Fabian wrote: > konsole: xterm + screen > kate: xemacs > kcalc: gnu calc, xcalc, bc, dc > > Xterm + screen won't give you clickable tabs, but if you use > 'hardstatus alwayslastline %w', and change your shell prompt to modify > the name of the

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

On Sunday, 25 December 2005 at 1:12:53 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hi Richard, > > Richard Lyons wrote: > >But ifup eth0 gives > > > >etho: New link status: Connected (0001) > >Listening on LPF/eth0/00:02:2d:a6:07:bb > >Sending on LPF/eth

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

On Saturday, 24 December 2005 at 23:37:45 -0500, jlquinn wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > >Exiting. > > > >Failed to bring up eth0. > > > >Which tells me I left something out. But what? > > Chances are with a thinkpad that you have

problem with alternate consoles in 2.6.14?

On a sid install with kernel 2.6.14-2-686, from X, I cannot switch to another console with ctrl-alt-F2 etc. It is running xorg. This means I have to log out of X or kill it (ctrl-alt-bs still works) to get to a console. Is this a know problem of some sort? -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

On Sunday, 25 December 2005 at 13:15:45 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Hi again, > > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > >eth0 IEEE 802.11b ESSID:"Coix" Nickname "HERMES I" > > Mode:Managed Frequency:2.422 GHz Access Point: Not-

Re: MTA slow to start

On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 15:08:19 +0200, David Baron wrote: > >> > During boot up it takes about 30 seconds for MTA to start for my Etch > >> > install. With Sarge on the same box this takes less than a second. Can > >> > I fix this somehow? > > > >> Changing "mybox" to "mybox.localdomain" in

Re: problem with alternate consoles in 2.6.14?

On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 19:08:03 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 26 Dec 2005, Richard Lyons wrote: > > On a sid install with kernel 2.6.14-2-686, from X, I cannot switch to > > another console with ctrl-alt-F2 etc. It is running xorg. > > Comes up quite

Re: test

On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 20:42:46 +, Bayrouni wrote: > Ernst-Magne Vindal wrote: > >On Mon, December 26, 2005 20:19, Bayrouni said: > > > >>-- > >>Bayrouni > >>Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> > >> > >>-- > >>To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >>with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 2:13:22 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > [...] > > >Nearly! You were right that the modules were not loaded. I tried > >'modprobe ieee80211' and 'ifup eth0' and also rebooting after editi

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

On Monday, 26 December 2005 at 15:58:43 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Brad Sims wrote: > >On Sunday 25 December 2005 5:19 pm, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > > >>Thanks Brad for the suggestion. I just hope the OP likes it as much as I > >>am liking it > > > > > >Your welcome... > > > >The comman

Re: dhcp client wifi setup

On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 15:34:19 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > > [...] > > >I found that too, and tried "modprobe ieee80211_crypt_wep" The module > >loaded but the connection still obstinately failed. I found two other >

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 8:49:59 -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: > > [...] > > > Yes, this has been very useful: I like mrxvt too. It avoids the problem > > that some terminals have of trapping F10 so that you cannot

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

On Tuesday, 27 December 2005 at 18:06:36 -0200, Paulo Marcel Coelho Aragao wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote on Dec, 27: > > [...] > > > > I've recently switched from KDE to Xfce and tracking this thread has been > > > very > > > useful. I also tried mr

a poetic new year

Linux trivia department: I switched on my laptop in the bedroom this morning, intending to look up a flight arrival time. After a few moments, my wife looked across to see whether she could log on and do that. Disappointed, she reported back to me "There is only poetry on the screen." Probably

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 1:26:59 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Chinook wrote: > >Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > >>Robert Glueck wrote: > >> > >>>I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format > >>>on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard > >>>TV set. > >> > >> > >>

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: [...] > SCSI emulation is not required in v2.6. I keep reading this, but xcdroast and so on still complain every time that I should use SCSI emulation even though the kernel is 2.6.x. Is some other adjustment or setting needed

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

On Friday, 30 December 2005 at 21:55:27 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > On Friday 30 December 2005 09:24, Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > On Thursday, 29 December 2005 at 22:12:26 -0700, Jules Dubois wrote: > > [...] > >&

Re: xscreensaver + kde

On Tuesday, 3 January 2006 at 12:09:50 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > The kscreensaver-xsavers package handles the classic xscreen savers and > the xscreensaver daemon does not run under KDE. ??? I run xscreensaver under KDE. Just edit your .xinitrc to say xscreensaver & exec 'sta

Re: apt-get update public key problem

On Wednesday, 4 January 2006 at 20:58:05 -0500, Rick Friedman wrote: > On Wed January 4 2006 12:28 pm, Tom wrote: > > [04/01/2006 -- 18:10u] Rick Friedman: > > > I (as well as others) was having this problem as well untill I saw a > > > message from a Mr. Joey Hess. As per Mr. Hess' instructions,

Re: need help please

On Tuesday, 3 January 2006 at 23:32:59 -0600, Kent West wrote: > frederick c woodruff wrote: > > >I just started installing sarge on my computer all was going ok untill I > >did the log in,did ok untill at the bottom of page it askes something > >@debian $ I dont know what to tell it to get in

Re: (OT) UK broadband with open port 25

Thanks everybody for the various suggestions. Now all I have to do is compare prices and decide who I trust... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

newbies needing help for graphic login

The increasing frequency of 'help help help' messages from new users who arrive at a command line console and don't know what to do next is a good sign: more people moving from doze to Linux, more moving from fedora and suze to debian. But there is a real danger of scaring them off -- and I think

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 16:11:49 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: > [...] > >What I have in mind is that the new installer could rewrite the welcome > >text to say something like > > > >This is a new install of > >

Re: newbies needing help for graphic login

It is difficult to know which branch of this thread to re-enter. I'm happy to have started an interesting discussion, and to hear various personal histories on the way. But I was initially trying to suggest a much smaller-scale intervention. I hope you'll all forgive me if I recap. It is obviou

mc not loading and not dying (sid)

Anyone else had funny behaviour from mc lately? I have a recent sid install with mc 1:1.6.1-1. It was working yesterday (or maybe the day before). Today, when I call it, the terminal (xterm, mrxvt, or in console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor appears at the end o

Re: kernel 2.4.* vs 2.6.* and ATAPI dvd question

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 16:32:17 -0400, Greg wrote: > > > > > My experience, FWIW, Simply put: > > In kernel 2.4, ide-scsi module, we got used to the scsi-emulation concept. > > Whereas, > > In kernel 2.6, we were (somewhat confusingly, IMO) told the above, i.e.: > "SCSI emulation is

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 15:32:11 +0200, Linas Zvirblis wrote: > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > >console, makes no difference) background is blacked, and a small cursor > >appears at the end of the first line -- then it freezes and is > >unkillable. I now have six mc

Re: mc not loading and not dying (sid)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 14:45:25 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (08/01/06 16:13), Linas Zvirblis wrote: > > Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > > > > >They are still there... > > > > > >bordello:/home/richard# killall -9 mc > > >bordello:/

Re: Linux Distribution Chooser

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 21:13:17 -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Angus Mackenzie wrote: > > The Tasksel stage of the installer could indeed make life easier for the > > neophyte. It could strongly advise them to install a desktop environment by > > default and make the choice of a console an opti

Re: Reply to list [was Re: trying to use reportbug ...]

On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 9:42:08 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Dec 29, 2005 at 05:41:46PM -0700, Paul Alan Scott wrote: > > > > BTW I tried "Reply to list" for this response (from mutt) and discovered > > it's not that magical. I appararently have to first tell mutt about any >

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

On Monday, 9 January 2006 at 16:27:23 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: > > > Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel wrote: > > > > ... > > On the other hand, I don't want to re-ask old questions, and prefer the > > archive of gmane.org, which as of now contains more than 200.000 posts. > > With number

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 4:35:22 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > > It seems pretty clear that subscribers of this list don't > want/need/... a debian-newcomer list. > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: the > "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't wa

Re: Back to original topic [Was: [Poll: debian-newcomer list [Was: Re: newbies needing help for graphic login]]

On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 14:43:18 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > On Tue, Jan 10, 2006 at 04:35:22AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > Ok, then let's get back to the original topic of this thread: > > the "help help" messages won't stop (and we don't want them to > > stop) s

Re: Recommendation for newsreader

On Tuesday, 10 January 2006 at 10:06:20 -0800, Will L (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: [...] > > >> Try search the Debian archive on Nabble: > >> http://www.nabble.com/Debian-User-f32.html > > > > That is a good resource. Pity it's not subthreaded, so to speak. But > > very useful anyway. > > > >

Re: unsubscribe

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 17:02:35 +1100, Matthew Joyce wrote: > > Get back, no-one leaves! > Guards! Hehehe... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FAQ on debian newcomer list

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 1:50:52 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 11 January 2006 01:39 am, David Kirchner wrote: > > On 1/10/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I would appreciate any feedback/corrections/suggestions etc., (however > > > trivial you think they

Re: OS X & Debian LAN [was: Mac OS X and Debian Linux LAN research.]

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 13:38:41 +, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/01/06 12:42), Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Clive Menzies wrote: > > > On my LAN router (Vigor2600) I don't see hostnames for Linux clients - > > > I've wondered why but didn't think it was sufficiently important to > > > sp

Re: Ubuntu to Debian

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 10:03:34 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Jay Zach wrote: > >Brooks R. Robinson wrote: [...] > >>I recently purchased a new fancy schmancy Dell a couple of months ago, > >>and I have been delinquent in installing Linux on it. So, I recently > >>purchased an additional har

Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 0:27:12 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gene Heskett wrote: > >On Thursday 12 January 2006 00:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > [snip] > > >Touche', I had indeed momentarily forgotten that. I had also at the > >time spoken rather pointedly to my senators and rep

Re: apache2

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 8:50:38 +0100, Mauro Sanna wrote: > > Yes, you might want to subscribe to debian-user-german. See > > http://www.de.debian.org/debian-user-german-FAQ/ > > There is an italian too? There is a debian-italian list, but I am not sure whether an FAQ exists. The parall

Re: Re: (Newbie) Knoppix.

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 17:54:23 -0800, Lee Ann Spalteholz wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Roger Spalteholz Jr. I dont see my last name too often, You sure it isn't Groucho? Sorry, but this does sound like a line out of Animal Crackers... -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: HELP! My printer won't stop!!

On Wednesday, 11 January 2006 at 22:21:41 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >did you get any answers. Now my computer is doing something similar. It > >keeps printing smiley faces on every page and won't stop > > > > The usual cause of this is that the printer has lost syn

Re: Observations on greylisting (I get no spam any more)

On Sunday, 8 January 2006 at 23:02:11 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote: > I have been using the greylistd Debian package by Tor Slettnes for well over a > year now, and have found something quite astonishing: when I started using > greylistd, I received around 30-50 spams a day. I installed greylistd and

Re: apt-get update public key problem

On Thursday, 5 January 2006 at 9:13:41 -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Richard Lyons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Fetched 2972kB in 1m10s (42.4kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > > W: GPG error: ftp://ftp.nerim.net sid Release: The following signa

Re: OT --was Re: FAT patents. Do we need to revive non-US?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 13:01:05 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 11:10 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > richard writes: > > > Regrettably, the individuals who control armies and police forces make > > > more difference. > > > > Armies and police forces consist of individuals

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Thursday, 12 January 2006 at 18:41:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: [...]> > I have things set up with three fetchmail accounts (two go to > my mailboxes, one to my wife's), exim4, procmail, spamc/spamd, and > courier-imap. Of those, the hard parts (in order of difficulty) were: [...] > > 4) m

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 12:07:18 +, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > Yes, there are many examples out there to plagiarize. And I am always > finding new tweaks, and learning how to do the bits I gave up on > previously. No other MTA gives so much ente

Re: Should I Abandon Mutt and Exim4?

On Friday, 13 January 2006 at 8:47:33 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 13, 2006 at 12:07:18PM +0000, Richard Lyons wrote: [...] > } > } I'd be interested to see the results of such long-considered > } improvements (privately if you don't want to post

Re: test

On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 9:00:45 +, Joe Mc Cool wrote: > test > -- > Joe Mc Cool CEng, SMIEEE > > Tangent Computer Research BT71 7LN (www.tangent-research.com) > voice:(44)2837-548074mob:(44)7802-572441 WADR, it'

Re: Gaim problems

On Saturday, 14 January 2006 at 19:43:12 -0800, Peter Bayliss wrote: > I have just installed Debian 3.1 and everythign seems > to be working > great. however, Gaim was not installed and when i try > to do in using the Synaptic Package Manager, it fails > and tells me that "libao2 >=0.8.6" and "libg

Re: PCMCIA configuration

On Sunday, 15 January 2006 at 10:22:59 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Grr... > I've having problems with my Orinoco gold pcmcia card that used to work. > I'll assume some kind of upgrade problem maybe but whatever it is, > I'm no longer able to sort it out myself. > > >From the syslog, it appears

Re: group callander program

On Monday, 16 January 2006 at 22:34:10 -0600, Rodney Richison wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > I personally use egroupware. Since it's web based, I can access it from > > anywhere. It can do many more things than calendaring, but you can > > limit it to > > just calendaring if you would like. > > >

Re: Photo collection management

On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 11:22:52 +0100, Piotr Kopszak wrote: > Dear list, > > > Couple of days ago I decided (evidently too late!) that the amount of > pictures on CD-ROMs and on my disks has attained critical mass and I > no longer am able to get any orientation whatsover

Re: You have been invited to join 'FreePHP'

On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 18:48:47 +, martin wrote: [...] > > > I got a reply from Dan Trappe :) > > "I am still alive and still in Sheffield And still working for > PlusNet ." sent with OE6 lol OT (if this ever was a topic), but, apropos PlusNet, what does anyone here know of them

Re: Debian Mailing Lists Survey

On Tuesday, 17 January 2006 at 15:22:25 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:46:48PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [...] > > > > I'm not too big a fan of too many surveys... but that's my personal > > opinion. > > > > Johannes > > > > Actually, prior to OP message showi

Re: Replacement for webmin in Debian? was: Debian Weekly News - January 17th, 2006

On Wednesday, 18 January 2006 at 6:51:17 -0800, Mike Fedyk wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > >Mike Fedyk wrote: > > > >>Michael Bellears wrote: > >> > I have a few installs that are using webmin. What packages in > debian provide similar functionality in a web based interface? I

Re: (te)TeX recent changes ...

On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 23:34:27 +0100, Bruno Beaufils wrote: > Is there a place where recent changes in TeX packages are documented ? > > I ask that because since some times all my pdf produced files are unreadable > by people using Acrobat Reader, and even xpdf sends me insults about som

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

On Thursday, 19 January 2006 at 11:25:33 +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2006-01-02 11:25:50, schrieb Gene Heskett: > > > If that was [EMAIL PROTECTED], bounce it to every address you > > can imagine starting with sales & abuse @uol.br.com. I bounced about > > 3 of them and it stopped, have

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