Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
In what way does "ubuntu.org" have a terrorist agenda? I mean dude, they use like a hippie name and they live in the country "africa". How can they not be terrorist-supporting weed smoking lefties? Or does pacifist equate to terrorist in your dictionary? Well, I seem to remember that Bus

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Jean-Michel Hiver
Roberto Sanchez wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:02 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" semantica

Re: Console Password Manager?

2004-12-27 Thread Vineet Kumar
* William Ballard ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041226 20:38]: > On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Douglas Ward wrote: > > If you just want something for carrying encrypted passwords, get an older > > model Palm from eBay; many of the +4 year old models are > > $30 and less. > > It's useless to c

Re: 2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-27 Thread Jonathan Lassoff
You need a kernel that supports large amounts of RAM. You could get the sources and compile it yourself which can take some time, but I personally found very easy to do. I would think that there is a .deb package of a kernel with this support as well, but I don't know that much about apt. Perhaps d

2 GB RAM support in woody

2004-12-27 Thread saravanan ganapathy
Hai, I installed woody on my dual processor,2 GB RAM server. I have enabled smp support by installing kernel-image-2.4.18-smp. Now it shows dual processor. But the os detects my RAM as 900 MB only. How do I enable the os to detect actual RAM(2 GB)? Please help me Sarav

Re: sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second |> IDE and a CD-ROM as secondary. Two suggestions: [1] Maybe this is related to the problem reported as Bug #287225 against udev at http://bugs.debian.org. If your problem is (in part)

Re: sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Jim McCloskey
|> Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE |> and a CD-ROM as secondary. Two suggestions: [1] Maybe this is related to the problem reported as Bug #287225 against udev at http://bugs.debian.org If your problem is (in part) the same, you'll find a workaround

Displayed Image Quality

2004-12-27 Thread John and Holly Klug
I recently downloaded Sarge.  The appearance of images in gpdf appears to be quite poor compared to adobe acrobat when the image is viewed at a lower resolution than originally scanned.  There appears to be some kind of very large grained dithering, which makes the image quite difficult to vi

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 19:05 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > >>Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > >>for which he owed millions/billions on. They ha

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-27 Thread Thomas Hood
On Tue, 28 Dec 2004 01:10:08 +0100, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: > I still have alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: No > such device when I run Alsamixer. And I don't have any /dev/dsp of > mixer or sequencer. They were there a few days ago but something > happened (?). Ar

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 18:14 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > OK, how

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 19:14 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > Not that I ever really thought about this before, but given Linux users' > > tendency towards *good* beer, suddenly I have to wonder if it's a > > coincidence or not... > > If it isn't then it is just one more wa

Re: Installation

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
YH wrote: Hello, It is my first time to install Debian as I've got a gift of 8 CDs for 3.0 r2. Then, I failed to install the first CD as it cannot read a NANO package. It seems that the CD is damaged and there is no debian vendor near me. My PC only connected by 56 k modem. Is it possible to co

Re: numlockx problem?

2004-12-27 Thread Greg Norris
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:45:16PM -0600, Rob Benton wrote: > First let me make sure I'm looking at the right file: > > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55numlockx > /etc/X11/Xsession.d/55numlockx.dpkg-dist > > The first one is the currently installed version right? Dpkg leaves *.dpkg-dist files when it thin

Re: gconfd filling up my logs

2004-12-27 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:03:40PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote: > gconfd spews out stuff to my syslog and messages: > Is this normal Yes. > Can I disable this stuff ? No. > Do I really need this gconf thing (running GNOME) ? Only if you want to run Gnome, since it's kinda the underpinnings o

Re: Installation

2004-12-27 Thread YH
Hello, It is my first time to install Debian as I've got a gift of 8 CDs for 3.0 r2. Then, I failed to install the first CD as it cannot read a NANO package. It seems that the CD is damaged and there is no debian vendor near me. My PC only connected by 56 k modem. Is it possible to continue the

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > what i did try was Alan's suggestion of the Debian rescue disk. I > have never used it in a capacity such as this. I used the 2.2.20- > compact rescue, root, driver-1 and driver-2 binaries. I am able to > boot from the hard drive (woohoo) but

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
> >I have never done what I am about to suggest, but try this: > >1. copy the whole contents of the directory /lib/modules/xxx/ from the >computer where you got your replacement /boot onto the computer that >you are trying to get going again. Here 'xxx' represents the kernel version >string of th

[OT] choice between USR8054 and DI-524 routers

2004-12-27 Thread H. S.
I am faced this choice and I am not sure which one to pick: D-Links DI-524 or USR 8054 (or USR808054CAN). I have never used a H/W router before, only my Debian machine as a router. I have been researching on the web about these two routers. USR8054 has 256 bit encryption, so that is good. Recen

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 07:12 pm, Alex Malinovich wrote: > What's amusing is that I've taken 30 from here to the east coast > before, but no further west than Illinois. Though I am hoping to move > to either Oregon or Washington at some point in '05 so when I do I > guess I can just hop on g

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: Not that I ever really thought about this before, but given Linux users' tendency towards *good* beer, suddenly I have to wonder if it's a coincidence or not... If it isn't then it is just one more way I'm the odd man out. Love Linux, loathe beer no matter who makes it.

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 18:30 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: --snip-- > > Walmarts tend to be located at major highway junctions in the western > > US. There are, at most a few dozen possible locations, all in Idaho > > and Oregon. > > Nailed it! Wood Village owes it's entire existence to 30, 30By

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread William Ballard
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:48:58PM -0600, Rick Taylor wrote: > What would be a good name? > > Fred? Alice? Chief Running Current? We'll call it "QuikProtect." (from Dilbert: the whole joke is on the internet, but all links are plagarized; google it). "If you have a sound card it swears at you."

Re: ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 19:17 -0600, Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: > I note that ncftp is perhaps ten times bigger than ncftp2 and is a > rewrite of it with ncurses being in it. And ncftp2 has no SOCKS in it. > (It's barefoot?) > > What is the difference between the two? Or rather, what d

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Rick Taylor
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 11:11, Ron Johnson > On Sun, 2004-12-26 at 12:37 +0100, Mauro Darida wrote: > > On Wed, 22 Dec 2004 at 14:10:33 +, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > > One word: Ubuntu > > > > > > www.ubuntulinux.org > > > > > > You could do that with Debian, but why not just use something

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 27 20:26 -0600]: > On Monday 27 December 2004 03:42 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in > > the US are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. They are > > numbered low-to-high from south-t

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 06:04 pm, Paul E Condon wrote: > I84 goes from Echo, Utah west to Portland, Oregon. Over much of its > length US30 is closely parallel or shares the same pavement. In > several cities along I84, it appears that US30 is the de facto > business route, and I84 the city by-p

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Dec 27 20:16 -0600]: > Heath makes a HAM radio model > called Apache. Well, made. Past tense, sadly. RIP Heathkit. They also used Commanche and other American Indian tribal names as well as the generic Warrior. - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:42 pm, Steve Lamb wrote: > ObUselessGeographyLesson: East/West numbered high/free-ways in > the US are even numbered. North/South are odd numbered. They are > numbered low-to-high from south-to-north and west-to-east. Not any more. OR-551 runs north-south and is

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:30 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > What part of the world is that? Portland, OR, USA. Current home of Linus Torvalds, the Open Source Development Labs, the largest American base of Linux users, and the best beer you're going to get without "Imported" on the label. Not t

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 04:09 pm, Roberto Sanchez wrote: > Does anyone remember a few years back (or maybe more than a few) > when it was thought the Washington Redskins would have to change > their name because of the political incorrectness of it? Yeah, I do. I still think it was stupid. J

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:25 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > name a product "Apache". OK, how much is that bet for? Boeing (and before that, McDonnell-Douglas) ma

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 03:19 pm, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, whatcha' 'spect from a bunch o' gol darned Commie Atheistic > Hippies up there in Starbuck-land??? > > They probably wear Birkenstocks, too More like Nike sandals (Oregon company), and this time of year, only properly worn with

Re: Linux Functionality? (OT)

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:37PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>US-30/I-84 freeway to WalMart and ask the kid in the electronics > >What part of the world is that? > > Erm, somewhere in the Nothern half of the US.

ncftp versus ncftp2 -- Debian packages for woody

2004-12-27 Thread Gayle Lee Fairless
I note that ncftp is perhaps ten times bigger than ncftp2 and is a rewrite of it with ncurses being in it. And ncftp2 has no SOCKS in it. (It's barefoot?) What is the difference between the two? Or rather, what does it mean? It appears that ncftp is more of a GUI application since n

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:31:49PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: > > >On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > >> At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> info> wrote: > >> > >> >* Harl

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
dorn hetzel wrote: On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:56:10PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling some software, and then got into conflicts with different versions of the C libraries

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Peter Nuttall
On Monday 27 Dec 2004 21:49, Steve Lamb wrote: > To give a sledgehammer example what you're doing is saying that the > *Republic* of the United States of America, the Irish *Republican?* Army > and the People's *Republic* of China are somehow in cahoots with one > another because they all, as

Re: oops, I broke something :)

2004-12-27 Thread dorn hetzel
On Sat, Dec 25, 2004 at 05:56:10PM -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: > On Sat, 25 Dec 2004 17:29:41 -0500, dorn hetzel > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I installed GCC 3.4.3 to fix problems compiling > > some software, and then got into conflicts with > > different versions of the C libraries (or at > >

Re: Debian Geek Toolkit Question

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
Paul E Condon wrote: > So, what do people recommend as a tool kit item for > starting or debugging broken computers? http://www.sysresccd.org/ >From the website: "SystemRescueCd is a linux system on a bootable cdrom for repairing your system and your data after a crash." Adam -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Harland Christofferson wrote: > while getting ready to build a raid 1 array, i accidentally deleted > the /boot files. the partition is still there however and is still > flagged as boot partition. > > although i have a boot floppy for this machine, i could not retrieve >

Re: Hard Disk Errors

2004-12-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004, Kenneth Jacker wrote: > [testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp] > > Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog: > >Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ >status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } >Dec 27 11:59:34

Moving from Woody to Sarge

2004-12-27 Thread Syed Huq
Hi, Question from a newbie. I am currently using 3.0r1(Woody) and would like to move to Sarge soon. I had to use a specific xserver-mach4 for my ATI card. If I use Apt to do the upgrade to Sarge, do I need to re-do my xserver or that piece remains as is. Are there possible things that could brea

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
cfk wrote: On Monday 27 December 2004 15:37, René Seindal wrote: Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would name a product "Apache". There's the Apache attack helicopter,

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest in Iraq either way. If I remember correctly, the USA al

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-27 Thread Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie
Thomas Hood wrote: Um, I think you're trying to build the 2.4 modules from the source package (the /usr/src/modules/alsa gives it away). With 2.6, you need to build the modules within the kernel tree itself. Please note, first, that ALSA modules are shipped in kernel-image-2.6* packages, so if

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:02 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" semantically -- with so-called r

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread cfk
On Monday 27 December 2004 15:37, René Seindal wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > There's the Apache attack helic

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 00:37 +0100, René Seindal wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): > > > You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that > > no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would > > name a product "Apache". > > There's the Apache attack

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: US-30/I-84 freeway to WalMart and ask the kid in the electronics What part of the world is that? Erm, somewhere in the Nothern half of the US. I'm guessing norther Oregon, Southern Washington or maybe somewhere in Wisc

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread René Seindal
Ron Johnson wrote (28-12-2004 00:25): You missed the smiley face. Still, bet you dime to a dollar that no company nowadays, especially a national or transnational, would name a product "Apache". There's the Apache attack helicopter, which the producer probably sells to a few select friends of the

Re: Make another Server

2004-12-27 Thread Adam Aube
AntonioCadiz wrote: > I have a debian server (Master) with apache, postfix, mysql, ... and I > want to have now other debian server (Slave) whith the same data and > configuration than Master. I want that Master make schedulle copies of > itself in Slave. If Master fails, i want to connect Slave a

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, you wrote: >On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: >> At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> info> wrote: >> >> >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 >> 17:47]: >> > >> >> >cat /etc/lilo.c

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:11 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 01:15 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > > > By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is > > completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as > > far as market volume is concerned. >

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 22:57 +, Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > > for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest > > in

Re: OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 15:15 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote: [snip] > > > One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > Why? Debian didn't pick a boring name. Neither did Apache, and that > name (arguably) isn't politically correct. ab

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Benjamin A'Lee wrote: If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied Iraq with weapons, when it was fighting Iran. And to the Taliban when it was fighting the USSR. How does that make the USA better than the rest of the world, exactly? It doesn't. Difference is we didn't let those past pract

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 16:56 -0600, Kent West wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > > > > > > > John 1:1 > > Yep; that one should be free of controversy. Well, whatcha' 'spect from a bunch o' gol darned Commie Atheistic Hippies up there in Starbuc

Re: OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:56 pm, Kent West wrote: > William Ballard wrote: > > >One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) > > John 1:1 > > Yep; that one should be free of controversy. Hah! No kidding. For those who do not have a Bible, the verse cited reads, "In the beginning was the W

OT: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:51 pm, William Ballard wrote: > Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it. > > Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special > software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and > source texts for politically sensitive words an

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 01:15 pm, Eugen Leitl wrote: > By mainstream I understand high two-digit percentile. OS X is > completely niche with its 2-3% penetration. Debian doesn't exist as > far as market volume is concerned. Maybe in your area, but the local trade rags put Windows only arou

Re: sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 23:32:20 +0100, Chris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE and a > CD-ROM > as secondary. > > I see in /etc/udev/scripts a script for cdsymlinks - this reads > /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. > > Have no /proc/sys/dev

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 02:46:33PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: > Russia - IIRC, Implicated in the same scam and/or sold arms to Saddam > for which he owed millions/billions on. They had a finacial interest in > Iraq either way. If I remember correctly, the USA also supplied

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread cfk
On Monday 27 December 2004 14:36, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > > On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > > > > > --snip-- > > > > > > > > You y

OT: Re: Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
William Ballard wrote: One must pick boring names, like "Word" :-) John 1:1 Yep; that one should be free of controversy. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread William Ballard
Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it. Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and source texts for politically sensitive words and culturally sensitive phrases. It's better to avoid such names alto

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Sam Watkins wrote: In what way does "ubuntu.org" have a terrorist agenda? Or does pacifist equate to terrorist in your dictionary? When a pacifist defends those who behead innocents on video tape is there a difference? "Terrorist" has become such a bull-shit word. No. Terrorist isn't use

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 20:21 +, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > > > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > > Daniel B. wrote: > > --snip-- > > > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? Back > > > > in the

sid - udev, cdsymlinks.sh and kernel module cdrom

2004-12-27 Thread Chris
Have no cdrom info in /dev. Have a CD burner as primary on second IDE and a CD-ROM as secondary. I see in /etc/udev/scripts a script for cdsymlinks - this reads /proc/sys/dev/cdrom/info. Have no /proc/sys/dev/cdrom - a little googling suggests that this needs a modprobe cdrom and this does crea

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:02 +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: > On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he > > obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" > > semantically -- with so-called revolu

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Eric d'Alibut writes: > Be afraid kiddies; be very afraid. I'm not a "kiddie", and the only thing I see to fear here is that the sort of lunacy you are trying to promulgate is being taken seriously by far too many otherwise rational people. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:49 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Eric d'Alibut wrote: [snip > To give a sledgehammer example what you're doing is saying that the > *Republic* of the United States of America, the Irish *Republican?* Army and > the People's *Republic* of China are somehow in cahoots wit

[Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-27 Thread Sam Watkins
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 03:42:09PM -0500, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he > obviously does not hesitate to associate himself -- even if "only" > semantically -- with so-called revolutionary movements known for their > terrorist agendas. In wha

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Eric d'Alibut wrote: Discussions of the politics of computing are hardly thought "ridiculous" by most serious people. Correct, however, this is not a rational discussion. > I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, Here you claim ignorance... > but he obviously does not hesita

Re: Umask 002 policy

2004-12-27 Thread Cameron Hutchison
Once upon a time Vineet Kumar said... > * Cameron Hutchison ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [041222 14:56]: > > # find $dir -type f -print0 | xargs -0 chmod g=u,o=-rwx > > To reduce this yet further, you could do it as > > chmod -R g=u $dir > > This handles both directories and files in one pass, setting g

video mode extensions and i855GM

2004-12-27 Thread Yves Grenier
Hi! My asus laptop is running debian sarge, kernel 2.6.7, xfree86 4.3.0. The chipset is Intel 855GM and I use i810 driver. I would like to change the gamma of the display, and I do not succeed. I tried xgamma. It showed old and new gamma, but it had no effect on the screen. No error message! I

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Eugen Leitl
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 12:49:08PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > > as far as mainstream is concerned. > > Well, look who they've been trained by. Out of a population of available systems at the time the Redmond one was se

Re: Linux Functionality?

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 27 December 2004 02:13 am, Eugen Leitl wrote: > Most people run shit. Usability and security are mutually exclusive, > as far as mainstream is concerned. Well, look who they've been trained by. > It's perfectly possible to turn a Unix into a point-and-drool box, and > if it ever h

Re: Alternate OSes based on Debian

2004-12-27 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 20:50:40 +1100, Sam Watkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > this thread is ridiculous, unworthy of further comment. Discussions of the politics of computing are hardly thought "ridiculous" by most serious people. I don't have any idea what Shuttleworth's politics are, but he obvi

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 27.12.2004 at 14:09 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Daniel B. wrote: > --snip-- > > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? Back > > > in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand. > > > > > You h

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 01:59:53PM -0500, Harland Christofferson wrote: > At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > info> wrote: > > >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 > 17:47]: > > > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf > >[..] > >> image=/vmlinuz > >> labe

Re: OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 13:55 -0600, Kent West wrote: > Daniel B. wrote: --snip-- > > You young whippersnappers are using modeline _generators_? > > Back in the good old days I calculated modeline values by hand. > > > You had hands?! Luxury! We had to do it in our heads. And we enjoyed it! And I su

Re: exim4 doesn't connect to smarthost

2004-12-27 Thread Robin Battey
I just struggled with this for a few hours, found and solved the problem, and thought I'd post a response to explain what (I think) is going on in your situation. Exim (at least, exim4) in its infinite wisdom, caches transport "hints" in its retry and wait_transport databases. When my smarth

Re: Hard Disk Errors

2004-12-27 Thread Laurent CARON
Kenneth Jacker wrote: [testing/sarge; 2.4.26-1-686-smp] Suddenly, I'm seeing the following error messages in /var/log/syslog: Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \ status=0x51 { DriveReady SeekComplete Error } Dec 27 11:59:34 acme kernel: hda: dma_intr: \

OT: Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Daniel B. wrote: Rogério Brito wrote: ... For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good modelines for that). [*] http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines You young whippersnappers are

Re: $PATH and /etc/profile

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Sam Halliday wrote: ... it IS differnet. if you start from the console, you should really do > `startx &` to detach from the console and allow you to continue working > on the console and X; hence 2 logins. No. That's not 2 logins. It's two things (a console shell and a whole X session) spawned

/dev/uba in 2.6.9 and 2.6.10 and cdrecord

2004-12-27 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, I have an external ATAPI<->USB adapter with a DVD writer, so I can burn by using my USB interface. In 2.6.8 and preceeding, this device was mounted as a SCSI device, getting a device node /dev/sr0 and a SCSI ID. With kernel 2.6.9 and 2.6.10, my device is mounted as /dev/uba, and is not recog

Re: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

2004-12-27 Thread Darryl Clarke
On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 11:57:48 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:42 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > > Hi List, > > > > Ever since I did a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago to get gnome 2.8 > > on my 'testing' box my syslog is filled with: > > > > Device not ready

Re: Debian's at(1) is so bad, what does GNU use?

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: A> nohup sh -c "(sleep 100h; move-my-toes)" & Yeah, never rebooted where you live. Does at survive a reboot? Of course. Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do people use 1280x1024? (was Re: custom gdm screen resolution? [SOLVED - work around])

2004-12-27 Thread Daniel B.
Rogério Brito wrote: ... For that very reason I'm using 1280x960 at 86Hz of refresh rate for quite some time (thanks to the Colas Modeline Generator [*] for generating good modelines for that). [*] http://koala.ilog.fr/cgi-bin/nph-colas-modelines You young whippersnappers are using modeline _gener

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Harland Christofferson
At Monday, 27 December 2004, Alexander Schmehl <[EMAIL PROTECTED] info> wrote: >* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >> >cat /etc/lilo.conf >[..] >> image=/vmlinuz >> label=Linux >> read-only >> # restricted >> # alias=1 >> initrd=/ini

Re: Sarge box not rebooting..

2004-12-27 Thread Miquel van Smoorenburg
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Robert Waldner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Mon, 27 Dec 2004 12:25:08 +0100, John Smith writes: >>On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 10:48 +0100, Robert Waldner wrote: >>> I have a HP DL380 here with Sarge (current as of now) on it. Problem > >> It must be one of the most men

Re: deleted /boot files

2004-12-27 Thread Alexander Schmehl
* Harland Christofferson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [041227 17:47]: > >cat /etc/lilo.conf [..] > image=/vmlinuz > label=Linux > read-only > # restricted > # alias=1 > initrd=/initrd.img You need to symlink boot/initrd.img-2.4.18-k7 to /initrd.img signature.asc Descr

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread Dani Belz
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 11:40:04AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Endianto writes: > > I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. > > Junk KPPP. Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then start the > connection with pon and stop it with poff. If you must have

Re: resolv.conf

2004-12-27 Thread John Hasler
Endianto writes: > I connects to internet from KDE 3.2. KDE, Internet, KPPP then connect. Junk KPPP. Run pppconfig as root and answer the questions. Then start the connection with pon and stop it with poff. If you must have a GUI install gpppon, which is a GUI for pon and poff. -- John Hasler

Re: wireless pcmcia card

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Tsai
I would recommend Orinoco, good Open Source community and very compatible with airsnort ;). Ryan D'Baisse wrote: On Sun, 26 Dec 2004 16:30:19 +, Glyn Tebbutt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've also got 2 of these cards, once it was up and running it was fanastic, the only issue i had with it

Re: Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread John Smith
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 17:08 +, Adrian S. Glover wrote: > Hello! > Adrian > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hi Adrian, in case of a misconfigured xserver you can do a couple of things that all come to basically the same thing: modifying your /etc/X11/XF86Config-4 This is your central xserver config

Re: Debian vs. Fedora on Laptops

2004-12-27 Thread Paul Tsai
I have debian installed on a toshiba m35 laptop. I before I used RedHat and FreeBSD. I'll be honest with you, with the M35, there is a lot of new hardware that isn't "fully" supported. For instance, the synaptics touchpad, you have to set the framerate to 40 or else you get funky behavior in

Re: Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive.

2004-12-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-12-27 at 12:42 -0500, Darryl Clarke wrote: > Hi List, > > Ever since I did a dist-upgrade a couple of weeks ago to get gnome 2.8 > on my 'testing' box my syslog is filled with: > > Device not ready. Make sure there is a disc in the drive. > > Now, this is because of gnome's volume

Re: Problem starting x server

2004-12-27 Thread Kent West
Adrian S. Glover wrote: Hello! I'm new to Debian and this GNU/linux. I've installed from CD but the machine returns an error saying "I cannot start x server, it is likely that it is not set up correctly etc etc". Setting up X is one of the most common difficulties newbies have, especially if

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