Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sun, Nov 02, 2003 at 03:26:35AM +, Pigeon wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > > > Hi All, > > > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? > > > > > > > I'd say it's masculine for

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi All, > > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? > > > > I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. > > First, it just sounds better as "le Linux" c

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? Or "eunuchs"? Is "neuter" a masculine or feminine in French? Peace. -- Karsten M. Self <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>http://kmself.home.netcom.com/ What Part of "Gestalt" don't you und

Re: Problem with exporting an X session

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Thu, Oct 30, 2003 at 02:29:19PM -0800, Tim ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Greetings, > > I have been having problems on my debian box regarding exporting a > display from an HPOV server. WTF is an HPOV server? > I keep getting the Error: Can't open display: message. I am using ssh > and have m

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 19:24:13 +, Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > > Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a d?clam? : > > > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Kent West
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC working yet. Use the machine that yo

Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Kent West
Hoyt Bailey wrote: - Original Message - From: "Kent West" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "debian-user" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 21:43 Subject: Re: Fw: X Windos System will not start Hoyt Bailey wrote: Ok Sold. I'm game but I need to get stable "stable" enough

Re: Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:21, Jeffrey Barish wrote: > When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get > the message: > > sendto: Network is unreachable > > when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I > noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned

Re: Converting a chroot install into a real one

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 06:30:26PM +, David Goodenough ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Apart from setting up lilo and using /sbin/start-stop-daemon.REAL > instead of /sbin/start-stop-daemon what else needs to be changed when > converting a chroot install into a real one? David: Configuring lilo

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 12:06:21 -0800 (PST), "Mark Healey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: > >Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC > >working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to

Network unreachable

2003-11-01 Thread Jeffrey Barish
When I use the kernel that I built from the source for 2.4.18-686, I get the message: sendto: Network is unreachable when I try to ping another machine on my network. Using ifconfig, I noticed that eth0 had no IP address assigned. So I did ifconfig eth0 down and then ifconfig eth0 192.168.

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 22:17, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: > > > What is the gender of Unix? > > > > What is the gender of "geek"? > > I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's a

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:47:30PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 14:12 +, Rus Foster wrote: > > > Hi All, > > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? > > Masculine, of course. > > Men developed Linux, men primarily use Linux, playi

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:53:48PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: > > What is the gender of Unix? > > What is the gender of "geek"? I don't know what it is off the top of my head. It's always a tough call with foreign words. But I think the tendency no

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:50:08PM -0600, Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 21:01 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > What is the gender of Unix? > > L'unix sounds pretty cool. > > Would that make it feminine? "l'" can be either masculine or feminine. You see in french you "

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:01:38PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? Also masculine I believe. I think Debian is feminine though. Un Unix proprietaire. Une Debian Sid. La Debian, la distribution la plus libre. I think people might pronounce Debian as though it was written

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 21:01, John Hasler wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? What is the gender of "geek"? -- - Ron Johnson, Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jefferson, LA USA After seeing all the viruses, trojan horses, worms and Reply mail

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 21:01 -0600, John Hasler wrote: > What is the gender of Unix? L'unix sounds pretty cool. Would that make it feminine? -- scott c. linnenbringer<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.panix.com/~sl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 14:12 +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine, of course. Men developed Linux, men primarily use Linux, playing around with powerful operating systems built on top of Linux is a man's thing, et cet

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003, at 19:17 -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: <...> > > I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not sure I understand why you > > didn't do it this way: > > > > apt-get update > > apt-get install gaim > > One reason. The debian maintainer has a weird numbering scheme. Gaim > is a

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Greg, Your information of great help, but only leads to more questions. 1. Where does one read about such specifics as the need to have a security source to do an upgrade? What I've seen on apt says relatively little. 3. The address didn't work, and I also tried a couple others. When I

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:33:33PM -0500, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian > Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If > it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 15:20:46 -0800 Ralph Alvy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Peter wrote: > > > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > > Then I did : > > apt-ge

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread John Hasler
What is the gender of Unix? -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] (John Hasler) Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 07:42:03PM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > (I have a theory, but I don't want to influence what you say). > > But, now I'm curious... what is your theory? Funny timing, I just said it in my previous email a couple of minutes ago. My (rather facile) theory is that it'

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
On November 01, 2003 20:28, Tom wrote: > > I don't have a high degree of confidence in this statement, > but I would guess things that "cause" action "seem" masculine, and > words that "receive" action "seem" feminine. You know, the whole > Freudian nine yards. Things that jut out vs. things tha

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 9:54 am, Tom wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less > > often, used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it i

Re: Xawtv

2003-11-01 Thread techlists
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 01:11, Cristian Gutierrez wrote: > Wayne Sitton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv > >tuner/fm radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I > >boot into Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfec

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
But gaim is already available as a binary for you. No need to compile it if you just apt-get update apt-get install gaim Ralph Alvy wrote: > John Peter wrote: > >> I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. >> I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable source

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 08:13:02PM -0500, David P James wrote: > On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > > Hi All, > > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? > > > > I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. > > First, it just sounds better as "le Linux" c

Re: X Window System will not start

2003-11-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
HIP HIP Three cheers for all: I installed the kernel headers & the NVIDIA driver read the manual fixed XF86Config-4. Then startx And wounder of wonders KDE poped up. Of course I thought that I had purged it. Well if SNAFU is the way things are I'll live with it. Thanks to All You Really helped;

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread David P James
On November 01, 2003 09:12, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? > I'd say it's masculine for a couple of reasons. First, it just sounds better as "le Linux" compared to "la Linux". Second, it has a consonant ending and such words are ty

Re: Disable a Flat Screen

2003-11-01 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi I'm wondering if there is a method to disable a built in flat screen (on a laptop). I'm thinking of something like dpms. Win32 know a method (i don't kniw how) but when my laptop stands around doing nothing the screen never shuts down in linux mode. Is there a metho

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 12:11 pm, Haines Brown wrote: > > You have to update the local cache with what is available on the > > remote site... > > > > apt-get update > > > > apt-get install sudo > > > > Should really do: > > > > apt-get update && a

Re: hotplug netwotk interfaces

2003-11-01 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:41:57PM +0100, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: > Hi > > Is it somehow possible to enable a kind of hotplug with the debian > interfaces system? Please read new Thomas Hood's guides. (This is not my writing.) http://qref.sourceforge.net/Debian/reference/ch-gateway.en.html >

Disable a Flat Screen

2003-11-01 Thread Raffaele Sandrini
Hi I'm wondering if there is a method to disable a built in flat screen (on a laptop). I'm thinking of something like dpms. Win32 know a method (i don't kniw how) but when my laptop stands around doing nothing the screen never shuts down in linux mode. Is there a method/tool/XFree86 extension

2 questions: network card and internal speaker volume

2003-11-01 Thread Vikki Roemer
Hi! I have 2 questions. First, how do I turn up the volume of the internal speaker? My second question is a little more complicated. I just put in a new motherboard, and everything is working fine except the onboard nic. It uses the same chipset that the old MB's onboard nic had (sis900), and t

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:03:13PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > > >=20 > > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > > > setterm -blank 0 > > >=20 > > > but I was never able to find

Re: Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread Ralph Alvy
John Peter wrote: > I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. > I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also > added stable ), main, contrib and non-free > Then I did : > apt-get update > apt-get build-dep gaim > John I am also very new to Debian, but I'm not su

Re: Adding scsi devices ???

2003-11-01 Thread lorian
> > > Last night, he added a SCSI cdrom and tape drive to the system. He > > > insists that the AIC-7980 controller lists the devices during post. > >^^^ > >=20 > > What does the underlined expression mean? Are the

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: .. > I have an old hard disk that I want to check. > What can I do? > > Which log files should I check for error messages? > (I only have ssh access to the machine, no console). > I look at /var/log/messages and /var/log/syslog. Is it enough? what

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bijan Soleymani wrote: On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no good reason I'd know about. Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (f

Problems building Gaim

2003-11-01 Thread John Peter
I would like to install gaim from unstablle.I am on testing. I edited my sources.list to reflect unstable sources( also added stable ), main, contrib and non-free Then I did : apt-get update apt-get build-dep gaim and I get the error: E: Build-Depends dependency for gaim cannot be satisfied because

Problems installing perl ImageMagick module on "testing" machine

2003-11-01 Thread stan
I'm in desperate need to get teh perl ImageMagick module isntalled on a "testing" amchine to test some scripts. If I try to install it from dselect I get a missing dependacy. If I try to build it from CPAN the build dies horibly :-( Help! How can I get a working version of this? -- "They tha

Re: restarting a debootstrap install ...

2003-11-01 Thread Joey Hess
Undortunatly one of the things we've found when working on the Debian Installer project is that debootstrap is not particularly idempotent. If it fails it's best to delete every file it wrote to the disk, with the possible exception of the apt cache, before starting again. Otherwise you'll likely g

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 13:16, Haines Brown wrote: > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > setterm -blank 0 > > but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global > effect rather than just in account configurations. > L

Re: PAM rejecting valid username/passwd ???

2003-11-01 Thread Michael D Schleif
Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:11:01:08:58:14-0600] scribed: > Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:10:31:19:19:32-0600] scribed: > > It all started after rebooting to correct a scsi module problem ;< > > > > My logon and email fetching has been working *without* incident for m

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 19:49, Haines Brown wrote: ... > I did as you said, literally (commented out just the two proxy lines), > and it may have gone better. This time I piped the output, so know I > captured the entire file. It starts with a lot of this: > > Err cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 3

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> You have to update the local cache with what is available on the remote > site... > > apt-get update > > apt-get install sudo > > Should really do: > > apt-get update && apt-get upgrade > > First and foremost...! OK, I removed the references to cdrom in my /etc/apt/sources.list, and things

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 08:31, Haines Brown wrote: > I installed debian from cdrom, but now want to use apt-get (actually, > aptitude) to get on-line packages. To do this I ran netselect-apt > woody in the /etc/apt directory, and as a result built a > /etc/apt/sources list that had a US and a non-US

Re: dpkg --get-selections

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 06:44, Christian Schnobrich wrote: > I've got a machine with a freshly installed woody and wanted to clone > the installed software from a running system. I did as seemingly is > common lore: > > > > On source machine: > > > > > > dpkg --get-selections >selections.txt > > > >

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 10:35:05 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: >On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >>> >>>That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version >>>2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the >>>powerpuff girls?). >> >> Yes. > >Co

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-11-01 Thread A. Loonstra
Brent Miller wrote: This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent No sorry, I'm using a simple realtek 8139 NIC, and yes I know it's cheap but the 3coms I had before gave me way mor

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Mark Healey
On Sat, 1 Nov 2003 17:53:27 +, Pigeon wrote: >Go ahead and install Debian, without worrying about getting the NIC >working yet. Use the machine that you're posting from to go to >http://packages.debian.org/testing/devel/kernel-source-2.4.22.html >and download the .deb of kernel-source-2.4.22. T

SOLVED Re: mozilla doesn't open last page visited (new window)

2003-11-01 Thread Erik Steffl
On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 00:38, Erik Steffl wrote: > I have the preferences set up to open last page visited but for some > reason it always opens the home page. > > this is happening for quite some time, not sure which version, but > definitely few 1.4 and current 1.5-2 pacakge (unstable). ri

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:08:46PM +0100, Christophe Courtois wrote: > Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a d?clam? : > > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less > > often, used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is > > "officially" anything, bu

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:40:52PM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > --and pigeon, where do you suggest he place that command so that it > has global effect upon bootup? See my other post today... :-) -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&sea

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Lawrence Houston
On Sun, 2 Nov 2003, Rob Weir wrote: > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said > > The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes > > with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different > > batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine

kernel-2.6.0-test9 / sensors

2003-11-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: I want to use the i2c modules. $ lsmod | grep i2c i2c_dev10112 - i2c_sensor 2688 - i2c_viapro 6668 - i2c_core 24516 - $ grep -i sensor /usr/src/linux/.config # I2C Hardware Sensors Ch

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Deryk Barker
Thus spake Rob Weir ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said > > The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes > > with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different > > batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-r

kernel-2.6.0-test9 / nfs warning

2003-11-01 Thread Elimar Riesebieter
Hi all, just a new qustion for using 2.6.0-test9: dmesg shows: nfs warning: mount version older than kernel util-linux-2.12 is installed and recompiled witin 2.6.0 Any idea? Ciao Elimar -- >what IMHO then? IMHO - Inhalation of a Multi-leafed Herbal Opiate ;) --posting from

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > >=20 > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > > setterm -blank 0 > >=20 > > but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global > > effect rather than just in

Re: Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 01:06:01PM -0500, Jack Dodds said > I'm installing Woody on a Pentium Pro. I've done a net install, but have > not run tasksel yet. > > The net install leaves me with kernel 2.2. I'd like to have the 2.4 > kernel becasue I need the capability to mount a subdirectory, whi

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Alexander Borghgraef wrote: > Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error > messages: > > TheMachine:/home/ab# dpkg -i libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb You can't just install libc6 by itself. You must install at least three all at one time. (Or maybe just two if you don't use loc

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Rob, I think it's comming along: > > If so, apparently the following is > > wrong/insufficient:=20 > >=20 > > Acquire > > { > > Retries "0"; > > // I added this next subsection: > > http=20 > > { > > Proxy "http://127.0.0.1:3128";; > > Proxy::http.us.debian.org "DIRECT"; // Speci

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:16:59AM -0500, Haines Brown wrote: > I put this following into ~/.bash_profile: > > # to get rid of blanking of console: > setterm -blank 0 > > but I was never able to find out were in /etc to put it for a global > effect rather than just in account configur

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:54:12AM -0800, Mark Healey wrote: > I should mention that I had to download this from Broadcom. I have a > CD with a source RPM and a .tar.gz. On an earlier attempt I tried to > compile it from source but after I expanded the .tar.gz I couldn't > extract resulting .tar.

Re: How to test a hard disk?

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:57:18PM +0200, Mihalis I. Tsoukalos wrote: > Dear list, > I have the following question: > > I have an old hard disk that I want to check. > What can I do? man badblocks - use the non-destructive read-write test even if you don't care about destroying the data on the d

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Jakob Lell
On Saturday 01 November 2003 18:38, Haines Brown wrote: > Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see > anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to > the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > > > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main P

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:25:42PM -0500, ScruLoose said > The worst part is that I've heard a rumour saying the DFE-530TX comes > with various different chipsets, so if yours is from a different > batch/week/moodswing than mine, it may not be via-rhine at all. I don't > actually _know_ this, but I

Cardbus eth0: "no route to host" after sid upgrade

2003-11-01 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, after a vacation, I upgraded sid on my laptop. After pulling in 3 week's worth of upgrades, I lost ethernet connectivity, and for the life of me can't figure out what went wrong. Nothing changed in the network's configuration. I have a cardbus ethernet card in my laptop. It is connected to a

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 11:19:33AM -0700, Bob Proulx wrote: > This has the unfortunate effect that reply-to is just completely > useless. It was made useless when the original list munged it. But > two wrongs do not make a right. Three do. :-) I thought that was two wrongs don't make a right,

Re: netiquette: CCing on lists

2003-11-01 Thread Bob Proulx
Karsten M. Self wrote: > Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: > > In that situation, mutt's > > set ignore_list_reply_to = yes # fix broken mailing list software > > option is what you need! > > [...] > All the more reason why reply-to munging is harmful in > the first place. > > But in a balance of

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread wil
Hi, Backing up is always a wise thing, won't argue there:) But i didn't do anything drastic, as i mentioned in another reply this kernel has been running stable for weeks/months. I didn't change a thing except for running a dselect update and letting it install the packages which needed updating.

Installing kernel 2.4 in Woody

2003-11-01 Thread Jack Dodds
I'm installing Woody on a Pentium Pro. I've done a net install, but have not run tasksel yet. The net install leaves me with kernel 2.2. I'd like to have the 2.4 kernel becasue I need the capability to mount a subdirectory, which according to the man page is available in 2.4 but not 2.2. Befo

Re: I want to only download package

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 05:37:39PM +, koh youngman said > > Hi > > I want to only download package which is already installed my debian > So much time is needed that all installed package is typed > > for example > apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... If

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:23:27PM -0500, Haines Brown said > > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > > (111 Connection refused) > > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > > Could

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 13:54 GMT, Mark Healey penned: >> >>That simply means that you're running the linux kernel, version >>2.4.18-bf2.4, and your machine name is utonium (is this related to the >>powerpuff girls?). > > Yes. Cool! My machines tend to be super mario bros. characters. >>Where is

Re: libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:11:39PM +0100, Alexander Borghgraef said > Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error > messages: Does installing both of them at the same time with apt or dpkg work? -- Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Do I look like I wan

Re: Can't install networking.

2003-11-01 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 at 05:49 GMT, Kent West penned: > Monique Y. Herman wrote: >> >>I've never used apt-cache, but a quick look at the man page suggests >>that perhaps you hadn't yet generated the cache, so searching on it >>probably wasn't very helpful. Looks like the original poster assumed >>th

Re: Microsoft good press over Longhorn

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 06:47:14PM +1300, cr wrote: > On Sat, 01 Nov 2003 08:43, Pigeon wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 09:40:01PM +1300, cr wrote: > > > I suppose I could go all the way back to Edlin. > > > > I still use ed... > > ed - is that the DOS full screen editor?Vastly superio

Re: How can I stop the console from blanking

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> On Fri, Oct 31, 2003 at 08:39:09PM -0500, stan wrote: > > I'm setting up a machine that will rum umatended, and print some > > information on several console sessions. In testing, I find thta the > > console blanks afyer some period of time, even if daya is being writtten = > to > > it :-( > >=20

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
Jakob, a little light is begging to shine. In my reading I did not see anything about apt-cdrom, and so had to guess what had to be added to the config file. I guessed, wrong, it seems. > >   Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > >     Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1).

I want to only download package

2003-11-01 Thread koh youngman
Hi I want to only download package which is already installed my debian So much time is needed that all installed package is typed for example apt-get --reinstall install aalib1 abiword-common abiword-gnome acme ... How to do it more easier ? Sorry, My english writing is very terrible

Re: Xawtv

2003-11-01 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 11:32, Wayne Sitton wrote: > ok this is another plea for help. I've got an AverTV Studio tv tuner/fm > radio/capture card. I know it is supported because when I boot into > Knoppix from a knoppix cd the card works perfectly. > > Under my Debian Sid installation, I get a pic

Re: Kernel panic, desperate help needed.

2003-11-01 Thread Brent Miller
This may be a longshot, but are you using a wireless networking card? I get the same kp when using linux-wlan-ng with some netgear NICs under heavy load. -Brent A. Loonstra wrote: > For the second time during our nightly backup our kernel crashes > completely. Since this is a production machine

Re: NVIDIA driver install

2003-11-01 Thread Rob Weir
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 10:37:09AM -0600, Hoyt Bailey said > The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. > The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The > NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by > nvidia and provid

Re: D-link DFE-530tx

2003-11-01 Thread ScruLoose
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 03:14:56PM +0100, Kurt Sys wrote: > Quoting Rob Weir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 12:03:54PM +0100, Kurt Sys said > > > > > > I have to install a new computer. I install Debian Woody (3.0r1) from > > > boot-CD (CD1 -- NON-US). Everything works fine excep

Re: Apt-get: move from cdrom to online-sources

2003-11-01 Thread Haines Brown
> > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Packages > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111 Connection refused) > > Err http://ftp.br.debian.org woody/main Release > > Could not connect to 127.0.0.1:3128 (127.0.0.1). - connect=20 > > (111

Re: upgrade->dead system, help.

2003-11-01 Thread wil
Hiya, Thanks for the tip but I wonder if it is the kernel, this kernel has been running stable for weeks...why would it suddenly crap out after an upgrade/install of some new/updated packages. A bit more on the 2.4.18, as i mentioned that one does go through the complete boot but it couldn't get t

libc6 2.3 and libdb1-compat

2003-11-01 Thread Alexander Borghgraef
Ok, I'm trying to upgrade libc6, but I'm getting some surreal error messages: TheMachine:/home/ab# dpkg -i libc6_2.3.2-9_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package libc6. (Reading database ... 70550 files and directories currently installed.) Preparing to replace libc6 2.3.2-9 (using libc6_

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 17:48, Wesley J Landaker a déclamé : > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less > often, used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is > "officially" anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more > like a masculine noun. (I'm

Re: print command

2003-11-01 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-10-31T19:50:17Z, Vivek Kumar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there any other command to print any character say "*" 80 times.. Ooh! My turn: $ yes '*' | head -n 60 | xargs echo | sed 's/ //g' I'm sure that's optimizable somehow, but I haven't really looked at it yet. -- Kirk Stra

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Christophe Courtois
Le Samedi 1 Novembre 2003 15:12, Rus Foster a déclamé : > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? Masculine (ex: "Un Linux est plus stable qu'un Windows"). Don't ask me why. -- Christophe Courtois - Ostwald, Alsace, France http://www.courtois.cc/ - Clé PGP : 0F33E837

Re: Slightly OT

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 04:52:55PM +0800, Uwe Dippel wrote: > I used to be pretty happy with my newsserver (news.cis.dfn.de), until I > started with Debian. I can't seem to get all messages from there; for no > good reason I'd know about. > > Could anybody direct me to a newsserver (free - availab

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 02:12:31PM +, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? I think it's masculine as in "le linux". Bijan -- Bijan Soleymani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.crasseux.com signature.asc Description: Digital signature

NVIDIA driver install

2003-11-01 Thread Hoyt Bailey
The kernel header installation went very well. So that is AOK. The nvidia driver installation and I are having a problem commuciating. The NVIDIA source was placed in /install/nforce. It is a .run file provided by nvidia and provides several drivers for all nvidia chipsets. So I cd /install/nforce

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Tom
On Sat, Nov 01, 2003 at 09:48:25AM -0700, Wesley J Landaker wrote: > "Le Linux" is typically used as masculine, but I've seen it, less often, > used as feminine, "la Linux". I'm not aware that it is "officially" > anything, but to me as a French-speaker, it "feels" more like a > masculine noun.

Re: [ot] Linux gender in French

2003-11-01 Thread Wesley J Landaker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 01 November 2003 7:12 am, Rus Foster wrote: > Hi All, > Just trying to work out in French is Linux masculine or feminine? (Disclaimer: I'm not a native Francophone; but this is the experience I've had with colloquial usage of "Linux" in F

Re: Debian MSN clients can't connect

2003-11-01 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Oct 29, 2003 at 09:33:56PM -0600, Jacob S. wrote: > On Wed, 29 Oct 2003 23:24:21 + > Pigeon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I've downloaded kopete and gaim0.71 as well but I've got to sort out > > some broken dependencies before I can try compiling them on woody. > > > > Cheers, >

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