Magic for OpenOffice (file)

2004-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
A quick search in Google didn't reveal any solution (only found one reference, in Japanese). $ file -i file.sxw file.sxw: application/x-zip It would be really nice if 'file' could give proper the correct type for OpenOffice documents. Anyone who has an entry for /etc/magic that make sit happen?

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2004-05-24 Thread $B5^Jg(B!!
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Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Randall Smith wrote: If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall Thought thi

Re: e-mail from local host

2004-05-24 Thread Magnus Therning
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:56:56PM -0300, Juan Nin wrote: >From: "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT >> TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> host mailv.math.ucsb.edu [128.111.88.21]: 504 >> : >> Helo command rejected: need fully-

Removing gForge --- can I overcome 'permanent corruption of your debconf and package databases'?

2004-05-24 Thread Lucas Barbuto
Hi Debian Users, I've recently got into some trouble with the gforge package. Namely, it didn't install properly, now I can't remove it. Specifically, the packages gforge-shell-ldap and gforge-ldap-openldap can't be uninstalled, leaving apt in an unusable state. I have submitted a bug report fo

kernel compilation error

2004-05-24 Thread Rodney D. Myers
I'm attempting to compile a new kernel, using the HOWTO located here; http://newbiedoc.sourceforge.net/system/kernel-pkg.html I can get everything compiled, and installed according to the docs, with one exception. I cannot get the initrd file built/made/etc. Without that file, my computer refuse

bookmarks.html

2004-05-24 Thread Emma Jane Hogbin
An open letter to Mozilla package maintainers (and a warning to those who upgrade): I have a very simple request... Please, when versions of browsers are upgraded could you PLEASE save my bookmarks.html file? I just lost ~6 weeks of bookmarks because when I upgraded mozilla-firebird the packaging

Re: Oracle10g on debian/sid

2004-05-24 Thread Nick Willson
On 2004-05-24 23:22, Wasily wrote: > Dear all: > Did anyone successfully install Oracle10g and Oracle Developer Suit 10g > on debian/sid? For the database, yes, there are good instructions here: http://www.togaware.com/linux/survivor/Oracle_10g.shtml -- Nick signature.asc Description: Digita

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > Desired state of packages should never have been in /var/lib/dpkg/status > in the first place. (And yes, I've had this discussion with the original > author, who agreed ...) The problem isn't that "desired states" are kept in the stat

Re: OT: malicious scans

2004-05-24 Thread ghcbc
On Fri, May 14, 2004 at 05:59:37PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > Anybody know where I can get some detailed info on the > characteristics of trojans/viruses that scan for vulnerabilities ? > Specifically, I'm trying to determine if a pattern of scanned ports I have > noticed on

Postfix question....

2004-05-24 Thread Steven Sheeley
I am running Debian 3.0 stable (woody) and have Postfix installed. My Debain machine resides at 63.231.57.180 My personal machine resides at 63.231.57.177 I'm running a subnetted set of Static IP Addresses from my ISP on a DSL line. Mail is flowing to and from the Debian box and the internet j

Re: e-mail from local host

2004-05-24 Thread Juan Nin
From: "Luis Finotti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > SMTP error from remote mailer after RCPT > TO:<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > host mailv.math.ucsb.edu [128.111.88.21]: 504 > : > Helo command rejected: need fully-qualified > hostname you should have a FQDN hostname (fully-quali

fonts in unstable

2004-05-24 Thread David Sanders
I upgraded a stable box to unstable. All the Truetype fonts that were previously visible with stable disappeared in unstable. The XF86Config-4 and XftConfig have the correct font paths. Any ideas on what could be wrong? -- David Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Steven Yap
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 13:26, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > I had thought that all ALSA drivers had support for multiple audio > streams. Is this not the case? Yes and no. On hardware with built-in multi-stream playback (like in your home PC), nothing special needs to be done. For hardware without

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Randall Smith wrote: If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall This also f

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
Derrick 'dman' Hudson wrote: On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:28:58PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. | | I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java | programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I | get

e-mail from local host

2004-05-24 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear all, I have a single computer connected to the internet via DSL (non-static IP). I wanted to make a script to send me the new IP address every time I connect to the internet. Just to try it I did: - % ifconfig | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: postgres ident error

2004-05-24 Thread Tom Allison
J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 14:46:34 -0400, Tom Allison wrote: J.H.M. Dassen (Ray) wrote: PostgreSQL doesn't care about /etc/passwd. The default client authentication settings care about what user is connecting to the database server through a UNIX socket. Gee I must have mi

MY new Homepage??

2004-05-24 Thread Rmlsdl
Somehow you have found a way to INVADE my computer and Put YOURSELF as "My NEW Homepage!  I want this shit off my computer now.  I NEVER requested a new homepage and would not from something I NEVER heard of.   I am asking nicely for you to get this off my computer! Once.  After that I will repo

Re: how to install wvware ?

2004-05-24 Thread bing yu
thank you for your information and thank "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> giving me another option.(catdoc) i have installed wvware.the doc attachment can properly displayed in mutt. which is really ecouraging. but here is another problem: html attachment has a lot of character that made the f

Re: kernel panic

2004-05-24 Thread developer
>>>I am dual booting xp and linux on a single harddrive. I got both booting >>>with xp controlling the mbr and I added my linux grub bootsector to the >>>xp >>>boot.ini in order to get linux to boot. I installed debian off the sarge >>>net install cd using the 2.6 kernel. The kernel that came wi

Re: kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread Luis Finotti
Thanks Juan, Clive and Alistair! I successfully updated my kernel. I took the most immediate way (with just apt-get and updating lilo: "apt-get install kernel-image-2.4.18-386") and everything seems to working. (Now the Alsa drivers are another story...) :-) I noticed that I do not have a sourc

transcode package

2004-05-24 Thread Emanuele
Dear Debian user's. My names is Emanuele, from Italy. My system is: AmigaONE G4 800 Mhz + 512 Mb Kingston memory + Ati Radeon 9100 128 MB DDR with DebianPPC Unstable ( great system ) Today I hane tried to install with synaptic, transcode package, required for DVD-Rip software. But there is an e

Re: Sound problem (mplayer/sid)

2004-05-24 Thread Victor Munoz
> > Do you use esd for your sound? Sometimes esd just disappears on my > system, and I need to restart it to get sound again. > Not that I'm aware of. libesd0, esound, esound-clients, are installed, but I don't think I'm using them. I don't use sounds in Gnome, and I don't see anything related

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
David P James wrote: On Mon 24 May 2004 08:50, Katipo wrote: David P James wrote: On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: David P James wrote: No system is ever going to be completely accessible to the destitute, So let's make sure they stay where they belong?

See the difference

2004-05-24 Thread Dana
Feel better about yourself Make the intercourse better Natural effective formula Yeap it's worth it: http://www.terra.es/personal4/vickez/ Nomoremail: http://www.terra.es/personal4/vickez/leave.html

Report to Recipient(s)

2004-05-24 Thread Ian . Tribble
Incident Information:- Originator: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Keith Nasman) Recipients: debian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject:Re: Samba 3.0.4-3 Problem WARNING=The file attachment FILENAME you received is infected with the EXCEPTIONNAME virus. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: backport site

2004-05-24 Thread Mark Ferlatte
Hector Scaramelli said on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 07:02:42PM -0300: > Hi, > > Can anybody recommend an updated backport site to add to the > sources.list file so as to be able to upgrade the kernel and some > packages. > I am using 2.4.18-bf24. I like backports.org quite a bit. M pgphAXyB2vqdK.pg

Re: kernel panic

2004-05-24 Thread Shaul Karl
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 08:59:21AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > You are correct, the 2.6.5 is the new one. > I did not use any flags I just did a make-kpkg kernel_image and a dpkg -i > I noticed that the new boot loader menu items didn't have the initrd > lines, is that required. I didn't

Re: Samba 3.0.4-3 Problem

2004-05-24 Thread Keith Nasman
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:48:56PM +0200, Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl wrote: > Nobody any idea why Samba broke with the latest upgrade? > > Pim To quote Steve Langasek: "As some of you appear to have already correctly deduced, there is a compatibility problem with the version of the CUPS libs curre

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:34, David P James wrote: The reasons for that is a whole other issue, but it's safe to conclude that free email access isn't going to solve their destitution (because if it would, it would already have happened or at least be underway). Com

backport site

2004-05-24 Thread Hector Scaramelli
Hi, Can anybody recommend an updated backport site to add to the sources.list file so as to be able to upgrade the kernel and some packages. I am using 2.4.18-bf24. Thanks In Advance Hector -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-05-24T12:50:01Z, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: I have a number of personal acquaintances from Somalia. One is the eldest son of the ex-prime minister. Would you tell him to quit sending me email? I am *not* going to give him my bank account information, r

Re: kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread Clive Menzies
On (24/05/04 16:41), Juan Nin wrote: > > Luis Finotti wrote: > > >I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the > >kernel, but it seems that that's not the case. (I > >don't have any updates there.) > > nope... > > the kernel is the "heart" of Linux, so you have to explicitly update it

[LIM helpdesk #208] AutoReply: Important

2004-05-24 Thread Lookitsme Support via RT
Greetings, This message has been automatically generated in response to the creation of a trouble ticket regarding: "Important", a summary of which appears below. There is no need to reply to this message right now. Your ticket has been assigned an ID of [LIM helpdesk #208]. Please in

Re: Is there a list of recommended DVD RW Drives for Linux?

2004-05-24 Thread Greg Madden
On Monday 24 May 2004 10:25 am, Jake Johnson wrote: > I am looking for a dvd burner and was looking for some > recommendations. -- > Thanks, > Jake Johnson > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Browsing these archives has some good info on what works, some comments on media as well. I have a couple of Pioneers tha

hp printer

2004-05-24 Thread Dora Parks
Dear sirs; Please I need help. All of a sudden my printer Deskjet 880C serial number MY93f110ZM will print only in red ink. Ran out of black so have replaced with new cartridge TRied two different ones and still just red printing. Have replaced cartridge many times in the past without this pr

Re: modprobe nvidia gives "no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted"

2004-05-24 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Niels L. Ellegaard) writes: > nvidia: no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted. > nvidia: module license 'NVIDIA' taints kernel. > 0: nvidia: loading NVIDIA Linux x86 NVIDIA Kernel Module 1.0-5336 > Wed Jan 14 18:29:26 PST 2004 Oops. The bug has been reported. Sor

Re: kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread S.D.A.
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:54:34AM -0700 or thereabouts, Luis Finotti wrote: > Dear all, > > It seems that my kernel is a rather old version: > - > % uname -a > Linux debian 2.4.3 #2 Sat Mar 31 11:29:19 CST 2001 > i686 unknown > - > > It seems that the newe

Re: Samba problem resolved: roaming profiles wouldn't

2004-05-24 Thread Randy Orrison
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Randy Orrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Roberto Sanchez wrote: Karsten M. Self wrote: [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] "LocalProfile"=dword:0001 My only question is this: is this key documented

Re: HD Regrets

2004-05-24 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
Hi Bob I recently did a similar thing and it worked. On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 03:05:17PM -0400, Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: > I spent all of Sunday engaged in the venture of cleaning > my /etc/fstab file. > > I have two hard drives in my Linux box, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2. > When I installed Knoppi

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Colin Watson wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:48:39PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > There are apparently three package selection databases. These should be > > > either unified or cr

Re: jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:28:58PM -0500, Randall Smith wrote: | If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. | | I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java | programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I | get an import error saying the mo

Re: HD Regrets

2004-05-24 Thread Kent West
Bob Tilley (AT&T) wrote: [moved files from /dev/hda1 to /dev/hdb1] I rebooted the box and when I logged in, /hdb1 did not exist. To summarize, F'ing with the box for an inordinate amount of time revealed that /dev/hdb1 was not being auto-mounted on bootup, only /dev/hda1. I must manually "mount

ALSA strangeness

2004-05-24 Thread Alex Malinovich
I'm getting some strange results with ALSA on my work machine. Running kernel 2.6.6, (snd_intel8x0 module) ALSA works just fine. Unfortunately, the ALSA device seems to have decided to become a FIFO. I can send 10 audio clips to it simultaneously, but they get played back in the order they were rec

Re: Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:57:52AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Thomas H. George wrote: > > My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its > > internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from > > the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:to

Re: XMMS Plays Really Slow

2004-05-24 Thread Jacob S.
On Mon, 24 May 2004 11:03:13 -0700 Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:17:31AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > > I've got a computer running a mix of testing/unstable with the > > latest updates with a weird problem. > > > > I upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.25 so I could t

jython install

2004-05-24 Thread Randall Smith
If you have installed Jython, maybe you can help. I just installed Jython using apt-get install jython. I'm not a Java programmer. When I fire up the interpreter and type 'import java', I get an import error saying the module can't be found. Any help? Randall -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAI

Re: Which disk device driver

2004-05-24 Thread John Smith
Sorry, must have been asleep, was indeed initr=/initrd.img in /etc/lilo.conf. Thanks. Sincerely, Jan. On Sun, 2004-05-23 at 16:56, Alexander Schmehl wrote: > * John Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040523 13:14]: > > > My conclusion is that the disk device driver is not compiled > > or loaded in a

Re: Samba 3.0.4-3 Problem

2004-05-24 Thread Pim Bliek | PingWings.nl
Nobody any idea why Samba broke with the latest upgrade? Pim > > I'm having the same issue here on Sid. I get the following email from my > system: > > The Samba 'panic action' script, /usr/share/samba/panic-action, > was called for pid 2618 (/usr/sbin/smbd). > > Below is a backtrace for this pr

Re: Mose Wheel Scroll and less.

2004-05-24 Thread Pigeon
On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 09:01:08PM +0300, Egor Tur wrote: > Hi folk. > How can I use wheel scrolling for man (less)? > Thanx. In X? imwheel. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F pgpnW8Yyq5Rp9.pgp Description: PGP signat

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 02:30:22PM -0400, Daniel Barclay wrote: > In "123" there is no "one" or "twenty three" written there, but > that doesn't mean those words aren't used in pronouncing the number > written as "123." What digit corresponds to "and"? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread Juan Nin
Luis Finotti wrote: I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the kernel, but it seems that that's not the case. (I don't have any updates there.) nope... the kernel is the "heart" of Linux, so you have to explicitly update it since it's the most sensible part of the system So, how does o

modprobe nvidia gives "no version for "struct_module" found: kernel tainted"

2004-05-24 Thread Niels L. Ellegaard
I have some problems installing nvidia. i woudl be grateful for any help I am using the vanilla kernel 2.6.5-1-386 Sarge. I installed nvidia following the very nice instructions in /usr/share/doc/nvidia-kernel-source/README.Debian However when I try to modprobe nvidia I get the following error m

HD Regrets

2004-05-24 Thread
I spent all of Sunday engaged in the venture of cleaning my /etc/fstab file. I have two hard drives in my Linux box, /dev/hda1 and /dev/hdb2. When I installed Knoppix, I learned that the installer will only copy files to one disk. Modification of the .kconfig file is possible to enable install

Re: webmin-exim configuration problems.

2004-05-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
On Wed, 19 May 2004, Ralph Crongeyer wrote: > I see. I wonder if it's too much to ask, if you would post a message > here when it's finished? > Finally got some time to do it. But I think I missed todays deadline for getting into the archive. If so, it will be in unstable tomorrow. I've tried

libhtml-mason-perl + perl 5.8.4 : Missing File::Glob.pm?

2004-05-24 Thread James Keasley
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, I'm playing with Perl's HTML-Mason module at the moment on my unstable box. Right now, however, the config appears to be failing to work for some reason. I have checked the bug reports, and there doesn't seem to be anything related there at pre

kernel update

2004-05-24 Thread Luis Finotti
Dear all, It seems that my kernel is a rather old version: - % uname -a Linux debian 2.4.3 #2 Sat Mar 31 11:29:19 CST 2001 i686 unknown - It seems that the newer versions are 2.4.16 or later. I thought "apt-get update/upgrade" would upgrade the kernel, but

perl + apache2 howto?

2004-05-24 Thread August MacBeth
has anyone got perl + apache2 working on debian unstable sucessfully? i've got libapache2-mod-perl2 installed as well as apache2, and perl+cgi pages show up displaying text. i've enabled perl.load and restarted apache but its still not working: fargo# ls -l /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/ total 0 lr

Re: grub fails

2004-05-24 Thread Cristi Banciu
Johann Spies wrote: I have a fairly new PC with the following hardware: messages like "Loading stage1.5" on the screen. Did you edit /boot/grub/menu.lst according to your kernel ? Does anyone know about a possible incompatibility between grub and this hardware? No, I have the same hardware and it i

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
William Ballard wrote: > ... As I said in another post, year-first is ...bad for person to person communication. That's not true in geneology, even for person-to-person communication. You're confused about what makes it good or bad. It's not computers vs. people, it's something else. Daniel --

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... One way to avoid the confusion is by using the ISO format: /mm/dd. Also makes it very easy to sort by date. Still has potential for ambiguity. Not really. The only system in use that puts the year first puts the month next an

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: ... Checks will bounce unless dated like 5/6/2004, 6 MAY 2004 or May 6, 2004. Bull. I've been writing my checks like that for years. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: clamd and exim4-daemon-heavy

2004-05-24 Thread J.H.M. Dassen (Ray)
On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 13:26:55 +0200, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > since a while I have some troubles with `clamd' and `exim4-daemon-heavy' > (testing): > the `/var/log/exim4/mainlog' trace file contains error messages as: > "2004-05-22 10:54:08 1BRSGd-0001Od-Kk malware acl condition: clamd: > ClamA

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
richard lyons wrote: ... But it is entirely rational, since we write the smallest order digit at the right of numbers, to put this in the order 2004/05/06 if we are being orderly and businesslike. ...and given that write times with smaller units to the right. (Of course, we write addresses with

Re: OT: Writing numbers longhand

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
richard lyons wrote: On Thursday 06 May 2004 14:43, Paul Johnson wrote: ...1,234,567.89 is "one million, two-hundred-thirty-four thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and eighty-nine one-hundredths." Oh come on - I never heard anyone pedantic enough to spell out the decimals like that. That's not pe

Re: OT: Writing numbers longhand

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Paul Johnson wrote: "Damon L. Chesser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: ... I learned how to write numbers long-hand in 1989. The only time "and" comes into play is to separate the integer from the fraction. 1,234,567.89 is "one million, two-hundred-thirty-four thousand, five-hundred-sixty-seven and e

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Daniel B. wrote: Travis Crump wrote: ... Going through it in my mind, I pretty much treat it as any other list, dropping every 'and' but the last one. Put another way, say you have 'One thousand women, 3 hundred men, and 46 children'. How many people do you have? 'One

Re: Samba problem resolved: roaming profiles wouldn't

2004-05-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:09:13AM +0100, Randy Orrison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Roberto Sanchez wrote: > >Karsten M. Self wrote: > >>[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\System] > >>"LocalProfile"=dword:0001 > >> > >>My only question is this: is this key documented

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Shri Shrikumar
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:34, David P James wrote: > > > > > The reasons for that is a whole other > > >issue, but it's safe to conclude that free email access isn't going > > > to solve their destitution (because if it would, it would already > > > have happened or at least be underway). > > > > Co

Re: Is Enlightenment still being developed?

2004-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-24T18:19:58Z, Jake Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I really like the Enlightenment Desktop, but it doesn't seem to be > developed any longer. Is E still being worked on? Apparently so. The first hit from Google: http://enlightenment.org/pages/news.html Of course, it's rum

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Mon, May 24, 2004 at 10:46:47AM +0100, Colin Watson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, May 23, 2004 at 11:48:39PM -0700, Marc Wilson wrote: > > On Fri, May 21, 2004 at 01:03:22PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > There are apparently three package selection databases. These should be > > >

Re: [OT Why GB English is different] Re: Mozilla firefox en-gb

2004-05-24 Thread Daniel Barclay
William Ballard wrote: On Thu, May 06, 2004 at 10:22:31AM -0400, Daniel B. wrote: I wonder if Damon or his teacher confused the dropping of "ands" other than the last with dropping all "ands." My teacher used to tell us: where do you see an "and" written there? Huh? Written where? And is your tea

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2004-05-24T12:50:01Z, Katipo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a number of personal acquaintances from Somalia. One is the eldest > son of the ex-prime minister. Would you tell him to quit sending me email? I am *not* going to give him my bank account information, regardless of how much m

Re: OT Shell tricks: I'll kill you later

2004-05-24 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, May 23, 2004 at 01:18:01AM -0600, Bob Proulx ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Karsten M. Self wrote: > > while sleep 600 > > do > > ps aux | awk '/[w]hois/ {print $2}' | ( sleep 30; xargs kill ) > > done > > Clever. I like the concept. But I don't like the ps side of the

Re: Question about installing nvidia driver

2004-05-24 Thread James Ng
Thank you for your reply. After I make do the following things, the nvidia-installer can run, but I cannot still install the nvidia driver. cd /usr/src/linux make include/version.h I do not know how to solve this problem, although someone say that the solution is in the README file... RROR: Una

Re: Problem with Debian bootup

2004-05-24 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-05-21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] penned: > > I brought it upstairs (no minotor in the basement) I apologize in advance for this, but the mental imagery was just too good! Do many people have minotaurs in their basements? I guess it's a good thing you don't have one, or it would have been quite t

Is there a list of recommended DVD RW Drives for Linux?

2004-05-24 Thread Jake Johnson
I am looking for a dvd burner and was looking for some recommendations. -- Thanks, Jake Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on rings, earrings, necklaces, diamonds and

Re: How to recover files from corrupted file system?

2004-05-24 Thread tiresias
On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 18:58, Alvin Oga wrote: > and dont worry ... reiserfschk-3.6.14 doesn't always fix itself(reiserfs) > either but tends to corrupt it more than it fixed it on the disks it tried > to fix I don't get it. Why would I use reiserfschk on this? The filesystem I had before was ext3.

Re: how to install wvware ?

2004-05-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from bing yu: > i am a debian newbie, all sofware i have installed is by apt-get install > > i want to view MS doc file in mutt. here is my question, how to install > wvware Have you considered "catdoc?" % apt-cache search catdoc catdoc - MS-Word to TeX or plain text converter %

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread s. keeling
Incoming from Katipo: > My point is that in being more highly evolved, human beings are capable > of discerning where the point of suicide lies. This is where the > 'Tragedy' scenario fails. When a shared dependency upon a particular set What a load of crap. The point of the 'Tragedy of The Co

Is Enlightenment still being developed?

2004-05-24 Thread Jake Johnson
I really like the Enlightenment Desktop, but it doesn't seem to be developed any longer. Is E still being worked on? -- Thanks, Jake Johnson __ Plutoid - http://www.plutoid.com - Shop Plutoid for the best prices on rings, earri

Re: XMMS Plays Really Slow

2004-05-24 Thread Jake Johnson
Hi Jacob, Did XMMS play correctly before you upgraded the Kernel? Thanks, Jake On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 09:17:31AM -0500, Jacob S. wrote: > I've got a computer running a mix of testing/unstable with the latest > updates with a weird problem. > > I upgraded to kernel-image-2.4.25 so I could take ad

Re: How to recover files from corrupted file system?

2004-05-24 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 24 May 2004, tiresias wrote: > Hi! > > Some weeks ago, being very tired, I ran mkfs.reiserfs on the wrong > partition. This had an ext3 filesystem before I ruined the filesystem > with my mkfs-command. The result was loss of many, many files. The > partition is now unmounted and not touc

Re: Which hardware constructors for Debian ? :o(

2004-05-24 Thread Sven Sternberger
Hello! I think an interessting question. And I'm a little bit surprised about HP on this page it looks different: http://www.software.hp.com/blade-servers/debian_img.htm and debian is also listed on their testparc configuration: http://www.testdrive.compaq.com/current.shtml But if this all sucks :-

Re: How long can we avoid using kernel 2.6.x ?

2004-05-24 Thread Chris Metzler
On Mon, 24 May 2004 16:56:16 +0100 Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is it going to become essential or at least highly > desirable to shift to the new kernels in the near future? Considering that the 2.0 and 2.2 kernel trees are still being maintained, and that there are servers out

Re: How long can we avoid using kernel 2.6.x ?

2004-05-24 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 04:56:16PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > I've tried kernel 2.6.6 and encounter various problems: one is that > magicfilter no longer works properly and another is that I don't find a > config entry for my usb Epson scanner. Others will probably emerge later. > > No doubt

debootstrap problem

2004-05-24 Thread Saygon
I have a rather unusual problem. When I want to instal Debian (Sarge) i have an ( when the instalation reaches 70 %)debootstrap error( debotstrap returned 1) . The whole sytuation is more strange beceuse this is the second time I instal debian( the first ended with sucses). If anybody has an

Re: Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Thomas H. George wrote: > My Belkin UPS probably saved my computer from the power surge but its > internal programming is probably fried. I reinstalled the software from > the Linux tarball changing all the ownerships to root:tom and all the > permissions to 770. Please be specific. What soft

Re: cancel of <1X898-2no-1@gated-at.bofh.it>

2004-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Adam Funk wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Just a hint, cancels don't work on mailing lists. > > But they work on the newsgroup (version of the list), which I read. I > hadn't thought about the cancel message itself getting posted to the > list, however! It reminds me of the MS Exchange server a

Re: Installing different versions of debian package

2004-05-24 Thread Andrea Tasso
> This may sound stupid, but is it possible to install different versions of a debian > package at the same time? It is in some way not in agreement with debian distributions idea, but you could, in the source, change dependencies (in the control file) and rebuild, then install the deb w dpkg,

Re: Intel S875WP1-E with woody

2004-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have installed woody on an Intel S875WP1-E entry server board > (http://www.intel.com/design/servers/s875wp1-e/), but am having problems getting the > network cards to work. The board has 2 network cards, an Can anybody tell me how I > can get the working? Please wo

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-24 Thread Bob Proulx
Colin Watson wrote: > Desired state of packages should never have been in /var/lib/dpkg/status > in the first place. (And yes, I've had this discussion with the original > author, who agreed ...) In that case does a newer version of dpkg corrected this oversight? And if not shouldn't there be one?

How to recover files from corrupted file system?

2004-05-24 Thread tiresias
Hi! Some weeks ago, being very tired, I ran mkfs.reiserfs on the wrong partition. This had an ext3 filesystem before I ruined the filesystem with my mkfs-command. The result was loss of many, many files. The partition is now unmounted and not touched since my blow up. I have tried to find tools th

Victory at last

2004-05-24 Thread Gale Kay
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Display Catch-22

2004-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
If this is a re-posting, my apologies. The original was reported "Mail Delivery Failed" and did not appear in the list I downloaded. In another case I re-posted a message after receiving the "Mail Delivery Failed" notice, the re-posting did appear when I downloaded the list and there was a r

Re: cgi

2004-05-24 Thread Juan Nin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm working on CGI, one of my script (python or perl) launch a command (using sudo). I would like this command to keep running when the cgi stops. I tried system(), exec() and even fork() in perl and python but nothing. you can run the command with an ampersand at the end s

Re: how to install wvware?

2004-05-24 Thread Hamilton Coutinho
On Mon, May 24, 2004 at 11:22:26PM +0200, bing yu wrote: > am a debian newbie, all sofware i have installed is by apt-get install > > i want to view MS doc file in mutt. here is my question, how to install > wvware Not exactly what you asked for, but I suggest you antiword. # apt-get install

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread John Hasler
Lee Braiden writes: > Maybe you didn't INTEND to condone anything, but I got the same > impression that Katipo did. I didn't. And I don't particularly like to see political rants on debian-user. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, Wisconsin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

How long can we avoid using kernel 2.6.x ?

2004-05-24 Thread Anthony Campbell
I've tried kernel 2.6.6 and encounter various problems: one is that magicfilter no longer works properly and another is that I don't find a config entry for my usb Epson scanner. Others will probably emerge later. No doubt I can find solutions to all such problems with a lot of work but why should

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