Is there another way to do apt-get dist-upgrade with a slow internet connection?

2003-12-31 Thread Rishi Gangoly
Hi I use Knoppix 3.2 at home. I have an extreemly slow dial up connection to the NET from here. However, the speed in my office is super fast. One option to do a dist-upgrade would be to take the computer to the office and do it over the week-end, but I was wondering if there was an alternative

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2003-12-31 Thread Matt Flores
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Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:35:36PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:22:55PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: [forgot to snip on that other one!] > > received not a single response, yet I've seen embecilic posts turn into > > long threads. Sometimes makes me wonder what the real motiv

Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:22:55PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote: > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 18:27, Nano Nano wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card > > > > This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one o

Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Craig Jackson
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 18:27, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card > > This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one of three > things: either (1) the sender intended to ask debian-user this

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-31 Thread panda
Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2004, at 08:02 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: I know that I'm using testing/unstable. That doesn't mean, however, that you are running the unstable distribution. If you really wanted to know, show the contents of /etc/

US Feds being spammed? (was RE: C'mon, let's get free movie tickets!)

2003-12-31 Thread Steven Yap
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 08:28, Libre, Alex wrote: > Before going further how did you get my e-mail address. Do I know you? > Please identify yourself. > > Alex > > Well, dhs.gov is the U.S.A Department of Homeland Security. It's rather amusing if Alex Libre is an actual pers

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-31 Thread Joseph A. Nagy, Jr.
Scott C. Linnenbringer wrote: On Wed, Dec 31, 2004, at 08:02 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: I know that I'm using testing/unstable. That doesn't mean, however, that you are running the unstable distribution. If you really wanted to know, show the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list If your ma

Re: gaim problem

2003-12-31 Thread Scott C. Linnenbringer
On Wed, Dec 31, 2004, at 08:02 -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote: > I know that I'm using testing/unstable. That doesn't mean, however, that you are running the unstable distribution. If you really wanted to know, show the contents of /etc/apt/sources.list If your main repository contains either

Re: References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:54:10PM +, Pigeon wrote: > Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) > and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are > missing the References: headers from

Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card I recommend asking a smarter question. Google for "esr smart questions" to find out how. - -- .''`. Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 05:33:24PM -0600, Hoyt Bailey wrote: > Any Suggestions other than add to spam list. Looks like you're subscribed to one of the mailing lists that redistributes debian-user, not debian-user itself. Please post the full headers

Re: Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2003-12-31 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 31 at 06:47pm Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > > Paul, > > > > the worlds of RAID as opposed to leading to 5+drives on the same > > mobo. To make sure that the real intention comes out, I simply > > abandoned the first one and started

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:04:21PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use different > servers? Are they mirrored? Yes. Ad-nauseum. Visiting ftp://ftp.xx.debian.org/ (replace xx with your ISO countr

Re: question about driver packages

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:53:45PM +, Richard Kimber wrote: > I'm planning to buy a new machine with an onboard raid0 controller. It > seems from Googling that all the drivers that are available are described > as being > either for RH or Suse or

Re: The Darkness

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:08:00AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > IIRC, if it does contain the DREADED DRM, it is suppose to contain some > non-music data on the first track, thus this may be the thing that can't > be gotten past. CD DRM is usually accomp

Re: The Darkness

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:47:23PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > I take it yours doesn't have a banner on the back of the case with any > small print about copy protection? Nope, it does not. It is *very* important you take a stand: Just take the CD

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread David
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:53:54PM -0500, Russ Schneider wrote: > > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Adam Barton wrote: > > > Let us know how it goes! > > Thanks all. So far this list has been VERY helpful. :) > > I think I understand now, and once my router gets here (c'mon UPS!) I can > put this all to

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:12:13PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: > Hit the 'sync' button on the Palm cradle *first*. The USB device isn't > activated until it gets the external request. kpilot's KDE daemon just sits there checking the device every fe

Re: Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2003-12-31 Thread Scarletdown
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: Paul, the worlds of RAID as opposed to leading to 5+drives on the same mobo. To make sure that the real intention comes out, I simply abandoned the first one and started a new one. This ways the subject line is clearer - I do not care for the RAID but want another

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 20:04, Russ Schneider wrote: > Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake user. > > Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need > upgrades. > > But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use different > serv

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-31 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 22:12, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:16:01AM +, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > OK - I added commands in /etc/devfsd/conf.d to symlink /dev/pilot (and > > /dev/ palm) to /dev/tts/1 when the hotsync button is pressed. > > > > How

Re: Fas anyone gotten fwbuilder to work?

2003-12-31 Thread stan
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 03:54:28PM -0800, Jeremy T. Bouse wrote: > I'm the maintainer of fwbuilder... I just arrived home from a two week > vacation and had authorized an NMU be done but have not had a chance to > check it out myself yet. This is on my 'todo' list at this time along > with a

Re: was wondering

2003-12-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 07:59:00 -0500, Paul Morgan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 13:35:04 +0100, Mario Vukelic wrote: > > > On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 07:13, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > >> ..or PS1='\[\033[1;33m\]\u\[\033[1;[EMAIL PROTECTED];32m\]\H\[\03

Re: keyboard layout switcher for KDE

2003-12-31 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:27:50 +0100 "John L. Fjellstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > > > I think it is on kdebase , but i'm not sure... > > Looks like it's something else. Couldn't install kdebase because of > missing dependencies, but I did install almost every

References headers missing in debian-user-digest

2003-12-31 Thread Pigeon
Hi, Just catching up with several weeks' worth of list traffic (or trying to :-) ) and it seems that all the debian-user-digests dated after November 21 are missing the References: headers from the messages contained in them. The result is that when I burst the digests and view the result in mutt

Re: The Darkness

2003-12-31 Thread Pigeon
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:58:54AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Hi all, > > I've been trying to rip "Permission To Land" by The Darkness to ogg > using grip (and cdparanoia). > > cdparanoia has tremendous problems with the disc, which plays ok in a CD > player. If anyone out there has it, can

Re: Fas anyone gotten fwbuilder to work?

2003-12-31 Thread Jeremy T. Bouse
I'm the maintainer of fwbuilder... I just arrived home from a two week vacation and had authorized an NMU be done but have not had a chance to check it out myself yet. This is on my 'todo' list at this time along with a great many other things related to Debian, work and personal items.

Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Mike Olds
On Wednesday 31 December 2003 04:27 pm, Nano Nano wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card > > This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one of three > things: I've done something like this myself...yo

Re: [OT] simple to use X-toolkit/plot/image viewing for c/c++

2003-12-31 Thread Bijan Soleymani
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:02:37AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am looking for a relatively easy to use x-toolkit and something for > ploting / showing images in popup windows. The ploting is for drawing some > line graphs. > > Any sugestions ? Well since you want it to be a quick hack then I

Re: upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one of three things: either (1) the sender intended to ask debian-user this question; (2) the sender is on a shared computer and t

Re: keyboard layout switcher for KDE

2003-12-31 Thread John L. Fjellstad
Rafael Alexandre Schmitt wrote: > I think it is on kdebase , but i'm not sure... Looks like it's something else. Couldn't install kdebase because of missing dependencies, but I did install almost everything in the package, and I still don't have the keyboard switcher program. -- John L. Fjells

Re: Unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2003-12-31 Thread Jacob S.
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 17:33:24 -0600 "Hoyt Bailey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Any Suggestions other than add to spam list. > Hoyt Did you check the headers on e-mails you're receiving from the list to make sure that hoyt13 is really the address they're being mailed to? I know I have several alia

upgrade

2003-12-31 Thread WCESSNOCK
I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card

Unsuccessful unsubscribe request

2003-12-31 Thread Hoyt Bailey
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Re: Domanda

2003-12-31 Thread Luigidigi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Un "mio amico" mia dato Linux Mandrake 9, ma c'è il problema che non posso ascoltare nessun CD audio e neanche file audio da Internet. Da che dipende? butala via e instala Debian! luigi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: X refuses to load nVidia module

2003-12-31 Thread csj
On 31. December 2003 at 4:50AM -0400, Stephen Cormier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On December 29, 2003 10:59 pm, Bradley Alexander wrote: > >When I tried to load the module under 2.6.0, I got the message > >FATAL: Error inserting nvidia > >(/lib/modules/2.6.0/nvidia/nvidia.ko): Invalid module fo

Domanda

2003-12-31 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Un "mio amico" mia dato Linux Mandrake 9, ma c'è il problema che non posso ascoltare nessun CD audio e neanche file audio da Internet. Da che dipende? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Fas anyone gotten fwbuilder to work?

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Barton
I haven't tried, but it really is on my 'todo' list and I expect to start working on this soon as I want to build iptables rules using a GUI. Check Point's well GUI-ified Firewall-1 is too expensive for me, you see ;) When you get it working, please post any issues you find back to the list so

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-31 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 31 at 01:54pm "Karsten M. Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani > ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wro

Re: Struggling with Palm Pilot

2003-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:16:01AM +, Alan Chandler ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 23:10, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Tuesday 30 December 2003 22:35, Hubert Chan wrote: > > > > "Alan" == Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > > Alan> I have a palm pilo

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2003-12-31 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Paul Morgan wrote: You don't say what version you are using. The "open link in browser" stuff doesn't work in 0.3. It apparently does in 0.4, but still requires some setup. It took me like 30 seconds to find this in the Thunderbird release notes: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/linuxu

Re: OT: SCSI better than IDE?

2003-12-31 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 06:52:04PM -0500, Bijan Soleymani ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:38:23PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 02:36:03PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote: > > > On Mon, 29 Dec 2003 10:53:11 -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: > > > > Whether the *batt

RE: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 22:55:12 +0100, David Baron wrote: > Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite > painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. > > Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. > > Note that on boot now, I get a warn

RE: XP-LINUX Dual Boot - Still have problems

2003-12-31 Thread Abhay Watwe
Mark: Thanks for recommending bootpart. I used it successfully and it did the trick. It also indicated that I needed to use the LBA flag in order to get dual boot working. I can now successfully boot into linux using my XP boot loader. Thanks to all who sent in comments and suggestions. Reg

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:02:02 -0500, Marc Shapiro wrote: > How do I get Thunderbird to open a link when I click on it? I know that > Thunderbird is only a mail/news client, so it can't open it directly, but > where do I tell it which browser to open links in? I have several browsers > availabl

RE: Synching disk on logout -- switched to EXT3

2003-12-31 Thread David Baron
Thanks to all the good advice here, I made the switch to ext3. It was quite painless, was neither doable nor necessitating a CD-boot. Just did the tune2fs -j and edited the fstab and rebooted. Note that on boot now, I get a warning something like: ext2 loader warning, ext3 superblock . mount

Re: CD Writer does not work for audio CD

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 14:38:18 -0500, DGLU TR wrote: > > Not really: > I am using 2.4.22 and burning with atapi, without scsi emulation. > > hpd:/home/tony/work# cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus > > and then > > hpd:/home/tony/work# cdrecord dev=ATAPI:0,1,0 -v speed=12 bootbf*iso Cool, thanks for p

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Russ Schneider
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Adam Barton wrote: > Let us know how it goes! Thanks all. So far this list has been VERY helpful. :) I think I understand now, and once my router gets here (c'mon UPS!) I can put this all to use. That is, once I figure out how to use a router (but that's for another list

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 11:23:01 -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote: > Logical vs. Primary. Logical partitions are a work-around for the fact > that you can only have four primary partitions. So 1-4 are reserved for > primary partitions, and logical partitions start at 5. > > See, it *is* logical =) >

Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-31 Thread Johann Koenig
On Wednesday December 31 at 08:29pm Adam Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the help. I am more than reassured enough to move my Debian > > box into service now. This is good news because I could do with a > Linux box at home. > > A cron job has been set to do the updating via apt, a

Re: unsubscribe

2003-12-31 Thread Lucas Albers
Is it possible to configure the list to: Reject mails that have a blank message, and a subject of unsubscribe as the subject? OR Just forward the message to the correct unsubscribe mailing list, OR bounce back with the correct unsubscribe address. I get 20 unsubscribe messages per day on this list

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Barton
Russ, I had similar questions about updating. If you check http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200312/thrd12.html and do a search for the thread 'keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number' you should find my original posting to this mailing list with some good

libOL.so.1

2003-12-31 Thread David Goodenough
I have an old machine that I keep up to date with unstable which does not do any real work in case of disaster. All being well I then propagate the new stuff to other Debian unstable boxes on which I am doing real work. This morning I upgraded as usual, and all seemed well. One of the things th

Re: Using RAID chipsets in the motherboard.

2003-12-31 Thread Matthias Hentges
Am Die, 2003-12-30 um 20.46 schrieb Ramasubramanian Ramesh: [...] > 1) SATA is usable as host. Therefore Linux will see the disks attached to this > controller just > like other IDE disks - but perhaps as scd0 and scd1. SATA-disks in "enhanced" mode (SATA and full PATA enabled) are recogniz

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-31 Thread Nano Nano
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > As I have no to plans to 'Gnome" this, or any, of my boxen I will have to > pass. Just thought I would see what you had produced. Good Luck!! NP, I'll put it on freshmeat. Thanks for being the guinea pig. One of my 20 tries this

Re: DRIVER

2003-12-31 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 16:33:14 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > je cherche le DRIVER de la carte son OPTI82C933, s'il vous plait. > > mon email est : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ..jooo, men da blir spørsmålet om den brikken sitter fast i et ISA eller PCI eller et annet type

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:04:21 -0500 (EST) Russ Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake > user. > > Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need > upgrades. > > But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get

Re: Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Debian User
At Wednesday, 31 December 2003, Russ Schneider <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake user. > >Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need >upgrades. > >But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use d

Re: fetchmailrc and spamc

2003-12-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Finally I found what I was looking for: http://dman13.dyndns.org/~dman/config_docs/exim-spamassassin/ Jerome BENOIT wrote: Hello List, since a while I have tried to configure my laptop to fetch my emails from my pop3 box (this part is ok) _AND_ to use spamc to put away the junk emails: I can not

Re: Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2003-12-31 Thread Rafael Alexandre Schmitt
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:02:02 -0500 "Marc Shapiro" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I get Thunderbird to open a link when I click on it? I know > that Thunderbird is only a mail/news client, so it can't open it > directly, but where do I tell it which browser to open links in? I > have several

Re: keeping Debian up to date and checking the version number

2003-12-31 Thread Adam Barton
People, Thanks for the help. I am more than reassured enough to move my Debian box into service now. This is good news because I could do with a Linux box at home. A cron job has been set to do the updating via apt, and I will check apt-check-sic (I assume this is the apt-check-sic.pl script I

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Nano Nano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:47:53AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > [snip] > > Changing amver=1.7 to amver=1.4, in proj, allowed proj to finish > > without error. ./configure fails with > > Package atk was not found in the pkg-config search path >

Re: charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2003-12-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Matt Price([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Hi, > > recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid > debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts > and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states > the following: > > Mis

Mozilla-Thunderbird and URL Links?

2003-12-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
How do I get Thunderbird to open a link when I click on it? I know that Thunderbird is only a mail/news client, so it can't open it directly, but where do I tell it which browser to open links in? I have several browsers available (Konqueror, Opera, Mozilla-Firebird), but it does not use any o

Debian newbie confused over apt and packages

2003-12-31 Thread Russ Schneider
Alright, I just started using Debian after being mainly a Mandrake user. Installed Woody and I know most of the packages like Apache, etc. need upgrades. But packages.debian.org is down. Can apt-get upgrade use different servers? Are they mirrored? I was looking through the US server http://

Re: CD Writer does not work for audio CD

2003-12-31 Thread DGLU TR
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:00:43PM +0800, Robert Storey wrote: > I've always had bad luck with CDBakeoven. Things have worked much better > (for me at least) with K3b and XCDRoast. > > That having been said, before you can get any atapi CD drive to work > with cdrecord, you need to enable scsi emu

RE: C'mon, let's get free movie tickets!

2003-12-31 Thread Libre, Alex
Before going further how did you get my e-mail address. Do I know you? Please identify yourself. Alex __ Reply Separator _ Subject: C'mon, let's get free movie tickets! Author: "Julia Leonardo" at HQ-IRM-001 Date:

Re: mplayer and audio

2003-12-31 Thread D Hoyem
-- - Original Message - DATE: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 14:42:36 From: Gustavo Halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: >Hello > My mplayer like simple user can't open de audio device, only like root. >With other aplications like xmms all is ok. Also have added a simple u

Re: unsubscribe

2003-12-31 Thread Colin Watson
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:50:16AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > unsubscribe > > how mane times do I have to send this email. Try sending it somewhere *other* than the mailing list. It will continue to have absolutely no effect if you send it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] See the list footer: > To UN

Re: Re: Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2003-12-31 Thread Raiz_mpx
> From: Ramasubramanian Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Today 09:03:46 > > Paul, > Sorry for starting the second thread. But some how the first thread > seem to have given the wrong impression about why I was looking for > RAID > controller. You can easily see from the replies that it went d

fetchmailrc and spamc

2003-12-31 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, since a while I have tried to configure my laptop to fetch my emails from my pop3 box (this part is ok) _AND_ to use spamc to put away the junk emails: I can not figure out how to do that. Any sample of configuration files may be hepful, as up to now I am lost in the manuals. Thanks in

woody: devpts, pppd, and kernel-2.6: failed connection to /dev/pts/0

2003-12-31 Thread Mario Vukelic
Hi, Today I've installed kernel-image-2.6.0 from backports.org on my woody pc. Until now I've always used self-compiled kernels, but decided to change to the kernel-images now. Those have devpts compiled in,while I had that never in my own kernels. Not sure why, but in any case, I never had proble

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charter font in debian's openoffice.org1.1

2003-12-31 Thread Matt Price
Hi, recentfly upgraded to OOo1.1 using the relativley new sid debs. New version is lovely -- well-done! -- but I've lost some fonts and don't understand how to get them back. The README.Debian states the following: Missing fonts on upgrade to 1.1.0 - As part o

Re: Good front end for small postgress dtabases?

2003-12-31 Thread Wayne Topa
Colin Watson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:47:53AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Nano Nano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:57:51PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > I wondered about. I am running testing and ha

Fas anyone gotten fwbuilder to work?

2003-12-31 Thread stan
I'm trying to et fwbuilder to work. I've tried on a testing machine that I just updated today _and_ and unstable machine. In both cases when I try to run it, it complains about npt finding some files. Looks like the files are in /usr/share/fwbuilder/*. But it can't find them. Is there an environm

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 at 17:02 GMT, Josh Robinson penned: > > --=-uzmGsEA+c4X4kdWAzKLY Content-Type: text/plain > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > >> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical >> partitions start at 5. > > how wonderfully, err, logical >

[OT] Re:apac video card

2003-12-31 Thread Debian User
At Wednesday, 31 December 2003, you wrote: >i am trying to configure xfree86 w/ dpkg-reconfigure to work w/ an >old apac pci-bus video card. there is no apac driver available in >the list of drivers so i selected the vga driver, 16-bit color, and >the smallest screen size available. when gdm st

Concurrent sound playback without a sound server

2003-12-31 Thread Michel Dänzer
Inspired by a very good article about ALSA in the German magazine c't 26/2003, I finally got the ALSA dmix plugin working fine and thus rid of problems with apps blocking each other on sound playback, without needing any of the sound servers which all are unsatisfactory for me (not to mention that

Re: Public / private IP addresses

2003-12-31 Thread Nate Duehr
On Monday 29 December 2003 04:43 am, Antony Gelberg wrote: > But if they wanted to run a public email server as well, clearly that > needs a public IP address. Fine, but how does the routing aspect > work? Do I need to ditch the bridging configuration on the firewall > and reconfigure it as a rou

Re: Strange Sparc Behavior: FTP, HTTP broken

2003-12-31 Thread Nate Duehr
On Sunday 28 December 2003 05:23 pm, Scott Robert Ladd wrote: > I'm running several Linux systems, and have been doing so for quite > some time, so I'm not exactly a newbie at this stuff. But my > UltraSparc box has me completely baffled. Definitely sounds odd. > FTP and HTTP are broken to the in

Re: Booting Caper.

2003-12-31 Thread Bill Marcum
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 10:34:53PM -0800, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: > Thanks a bunch you guys. You cleared up a lot of issues and misconceptions > I had. I thought that you could boot another kernel while another was > running, although in hindsight, I don't know why I thought that as the > current r

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Josh Robinson
> Your must have set your partitions up as logical partitions. Logical > partitions start at 5. how wonderfully, err, logical j signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: web based vnc client

2003-12-31 Thread Haim Ashkenazi
Kent West wrote: > Haim Ashkenazi wrote: > >>Hi >> >>Does anybody know of a web based vnc client that can connect to hosts >>other then itself? >> >>thanx >>-- >>Haim >> >> >> >> > I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but VNC servers have a web > server natively built into them. So using a

Re: about latex and tables

2003-12-31 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 11:55:17AM +0100, Kjetil Kjernsmo wrote: > On Saturday 20 December 2003 08:43, lakshmi wrote: > > I have a table that is too big (too long) to fit on one page. Can > > LaTeX break this table by itself ? How ? > > Yep, check out supertabular, I've had good exp

Re: web based vnc client

2003-12-31 Thread Kent West
Haim Ashkenazi wrote: Hi Does anybody know of a web based vnc client that can connect to hosts other then itself? thanx -- Haim I'm not entirely sure what you're asking, but VNC servers have a web server natively built into them. So using any Java-enabled browser, you can connect and control

Re: The Darkness

2003-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 07:01:09AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:58:54AM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > > cdparanoia has tremendous problems with the disc, which plays ok in a CD > > player. If anyone out there has it, can they have a go at ripping it? > > The back label

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 15:33:55 +, Josh Robinson wrote: > all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as > new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email! > > for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite > how or why i set them up l

Re: messages in mutt: \225 etc

2003-12-31 Thread Rick Pasotto
> On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 at 14:10 GMT, Lucas Bergman penned: > > > Of course, many (most?) mail clients that writes messages in Windows > > 1252 fail to *say so* in the content-type field. This problem exists > > in web pages, too, but we're not noticing it as much anymore, since > > Mozilla has got

Re: Drives are not being detected

2003-12-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 01:16:36PM +1000, Andy Gayton wrote: > I'm running stable woody 3.0r2. > > I originally installed the machine with 2 hard drives on the primary ide > controller and a cd drive as master on the secondary controller. I > installed off cd and everything came up fine. > I'

Re: messages in mutt: \225 etc

2003-12-31 Thread Lucas Bergman
Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Lucas Bergman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003:12:31:08:10:39-0600] scribed: > > > In the "Windows 1252" character set, \225 represents a "bullet", > > which seems likely to be the intention here. See: > > > > http://www.jwz.org/docs/charsets.html > > T

Re: Drives are not being detected

2003-12-31 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Andy Gayton wrote: > > if that's a cdrw vs cdrom, you will need to do more boot/kernel fiddling > > with scsi-emulation and not just 'cdrom' issue > > It is a cdrw - but it worked with boot/kernel settings as is fine before I started > to add the new disk .. no sure why it

Re: messages in mutt: \225 etc

2003-12-31 Thread Monique Y. Herman
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 at 14:10 GMT, Lucas Bergman penned: > > Actually Latin 1, not ASCII. (ASCII only contains characters from > \000 to \177 inclusive.) > >> > Details that may be relevant: >> > >> > At least in one message's case, 'v' in mutt shows the content as >> > text/plain, 7bit, us-asci

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2003-12-31 Thread Y . MOUSSA
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Re: Re: Please suggest a mobo for >4 IDE drives.

2003-12-31 Thread Paul Morgan
On Wed, 31 Dec 2003 09:03:46 -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > Paul, > > Sorry for starting the second thread. But some how the first thread > seem to have given the wrong impression about why I was looking for RAID > controller. You can easily see from the replies that it went deep into

Re: Upgrading from stable to testing with apt-get?

2003-12-31 Thread Josh Robinson
all sorted out: thanks to all for your help. nice shiny box, working as new - and i no longer have to use pine to get at my email! for some reason, my partitions are hda5 through 8 - i have no idea quite how or why i set them up like that, but once i'd found that out, it was all ok. oh, and using

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