Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Lamb
David E. Fox wrote: > You might check this posting[1] on Mandrake expert advocating highly > redundant rar files for the backups. Let me point out I am a big fan of RAR. Have been for, what, well over a decade now. However, some of what you're saying is untrue. > Also, with tar or gzip, you

Re: Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-06 Thread Jules Dubois
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:42, Elmer E. Dow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > I'm leaning toward using apt (and maybe occasionally using Synaptic) > rather then Aptitude. ITYM: "apt-get". apt-get (and its cohorts), Synaptic, and aptitude are all based on the Advanced Package T

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-06 Thread Lorenzo Taylor
I'm not sure about the recovery data, but p7zip will handle multivolume archives and has a superior compression ratio to rar. Plus it is GPL. Lorenzo -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d- s:+ a- C+++ UL P+ L+++ E- W++ N o K- w--- O M V- PS+++ PE Y+ PGP++ t++ 5+ X+ R tv-- b+

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 21 Jun 2005 04:17:14 -0300 Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > All this backup talk got me thinking: what do you guys recommend for > backing up workstations with CDs/DVDs for a luser, especially when backing > up large amounts of data (say, movie and music files) that may not fi

Re: scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:31:37PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:13PM -0400, linux starved wrote: > > information. The following is basically what I want the script to do, > > but I heard scp will not work with authentication. I also read about > > rsync and tried

Re: Good backup software for Linux

2005-07-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 20 Jun 2005 09:20:38 -0700 Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The VMS backup facility did this correctly -- you took a full backup > once a month and incrementals every day (this was back in the days where > 9 track tape was most common). If you had a disk crash, you did a Back

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread Leonardo Sá
I use gnome most of the time but maybe you could check the hidden files and folders on the home folder of the user.  They usually store system preferences like that. When I'm really angry with the settings and don't want to spend time figuring it out, i just delete everything under the folder of th

How to show a number of available packages?

2005-07-06 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hello, Could someone tell me of commands that will help me see a number of available packages. Currently I could only do that with 'synaptic' which is all I use it for. malebo

device problem

2005-07-06 Thread ken keanon
I am having a problem with changing device-event number. I have a usb mouse and a usb tablet. On boot-up, the mouse is mouse0, event1 and the tablet is mouse1, event2. Once I go online with my usb ADSL router, the mouse becomes mouse1, event2 and the tablet is mouse2, event3. And this causes both d

Re: Installation Questions

2005-07-06 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 09:47:30PM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Rapp, Chad M wrote: > > >I have to quick questions, I have limited experience on UNIX machines and I > >am looking to setup a dual-boot system on my home PC with Debian > >Linux/Windows XP. > > > >1- Do you know of any freeware/sharewa

Newbie selecting package manager

2005-07-06 Thread Elmer E. Dow
After having used Red Hat 9 and Knoppix (hard disk install), I installed Sarge a while ago and plan to stick with it. Now I need to select a package manager to use that fits my needs. My laptop is used for office applications (creating documents, some graphics, presentation, browsing, e-mail, e

Re: rosegarden, no sound

2005-07-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 16:04:56 +0100 Geoff Thurman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no expert, by any means, but I seem to remember having more joy with > alsamixer than kmix, for some reason. Sorry if this isn't much help. > It's worth persevering with Rosegarden, anyway; it is very impressive. I'

Re: rosegarden, no sound

2005-07-06 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005 12:56:02 +0200 Nicos Gollan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You might also want to have a look at Timidity which can be used as a normal > sequencer device, but it also burns CPU cycles like mad. I've been able to get Rosegarden to work with timidity, but everything sounds like

Re: logging in

2005-07-06 Thread Kent West
Lawrence Myers wrote: > I just installed debian and I can’t log in I have given user name and > password after that it comes up with my name @debian.net then ? when I > type in a user name and password it say no command and on another line > –bash > I'm not quite sure what you're saying. If it l

Re: Installation Questions

2005-07-06 Thread Kent West
Rapp, Chad M wrote: >I have to quick questions, I have limited experience on UNIX machines and I am >looking to setup a dual-boot system on my home PC with Debian Linux/Windows XP. > >1- Do you know of any freeware/shareware utilities that I can partition my >disk with. fdisk and fips are both

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Roed
> If he hasn't restarted X, it could be as simple as him having pressed > Ctrl-Alt-PlusSignOnNumberPad or Ctrl-Alt-MinusSignOnNumPad. i checked into that, it wasn't the problem. Which is too bad cause that would be an easy fix. Thanks though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread Jon Roed
On July 6, 2005 12:26 pm, roach wrote: > That sounds like an accessability setting. The setting for people with > sight problems. > > Is everything just large or are the colours effected too? Everything was just way to big, the colors were okay. I figured out how to return most of it to normal,

Re: When minimized, window dissappears...

2005-07-06 Thread Kent West
Redefined Horizons wrote: >I'm running Gnome on Debian Sarge. When I minimize an application >window in Gnome, the window "dissappears" and I can't get it back. I'm >used to seeing the window on the taskbar in Windows, but I can't see >it on either the top or bottom panel I have in Gnome. > >Where

Re: Debian Install Problem...

2005-07-06 Thread Kent West
Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >> Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: >> >>> when I type "startx" I get an >>> error message that says "no screens found." >> >> Try running "dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86" and selecting >> different settings, such as SVGA or a lower resolution or a lower >> co

logging in

2005-07-06 Thread Lawrence Myers
I just installed debian and I can’t log in I have given user name and password after that it comes up with my name @debian.net then ? when I type in a user name and password it say no command  and on another line –bash Help  Lawrence Myers [EMAIL PROTECTED]  

pam userdb auth issue (pam_userdb can't open database) Sarge

2005-07-06 Thread Grant Chesy
I am trying to use vsftpd with virtual users authenticated through pam. I get the following error: pam_userdb[906]: user_lookup: could not open database `/etc/vsftpd/virtual_users.db' I ran ldd against pam_userdb.so, and it is linked against: libdb3.so.3 => /usr/lib/libdb3.so.3 (0x40006000) So, I

Re: Cellular Data Service

2005-07-06 Thread jeffd
Nate Duehr wrote: Rhomboid wrote: Anyone have a working laptop/cellular phone (or cellular wifi card) combination running on Linux on a US provider (Cingular/Verizon EDGE network or similar)? Someone asked me recently if I'd done any work to figure out how to get special information out of

Installation Questions

2005-07-06 Thread Rapp, Chad M
I have to quick questions, I have limited experience on UNIX machines and I am looking to setup a dual-boot system on my home PC with Debian Linux/Windows XP. 1- Do you know of any freeware/shareware utilities that I can partition my disk with. fdisk and fips are both shutout by XP. 2- I am lo

Re: Test

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Sergio! > My name is Sergio Lima Costa, from Brazil. > I have some problems with my personal machine. > Is corect use this list to get a Help ? I think so. CU Michael -- Michael Ott, e-mail: [

automate printing html copy of documentation???

2005-07-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am trying to print an html copy of some documentation. I want to avoid having to load all the pages individually into a browser (konqueror or mozilla) and print them. I would like to automate the printing. Method 1 idea: i) Convert html -> ps pages via html.ps ii) assemble multiple ps

Re: aptitude synaptic gnome to be removed?

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Wohler
Jules Dubois <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > (2) If you're an aptitude user: > > Make sure your system up-to-date with 'aptitude update && aptitude upgrade'. > > Then, as an unprivileged user, run 'aptitude' and press the 'g' key and see > if it wants to do install and/or remove anything. Don't con

Test

2005-07-06 Thread Sergio Lima
Hello .   My name is Sergio Lima Costa, from Brazil. I have some problems with my personal machine. Is corect use this list to get a Help ?   Thanks__Converse com seus amigos em tempo real com o Yahoo! Messenger http://br.download.yahoo.com/messenger/

nvidiafb

2005-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, The latest kernels sport an fb driver for the "newer" nvidia cards. The driver is called nvidiafb. I have a TNT2 AGP and an MX440 PCI but video=nvidiafb does nothing but leave a blank screen. I find no docs. Anybody has this working? Thanks. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 14:28:04 -0500 (CDT) "Michael Martinell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am running Debian 3.1r0a > > I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad > 770z. X runs, however it leaves a large matte area of "dead > screen". The monitor is fine, since that o

Using a 2.6 stock kernel with Virtual PC 7.0.2

2005-07-06 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone managed to get a Virtual PC instance on Mac OS X to boot one of the stock 2.6 kernels? My instance boots up without issue on a 2.4 kernel, but there's an immediate oops when trying to use either the current 2.6.8 or 2.6.11 kernel

Re: Configure X on virtual pc 2004

2005-07-06 Thread Barry Hawkins
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On May 9, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Michael Martinell wrote: I just downloaded 3.01 r5 and wanted to try it out. I set up an virtual pc 2004 session in and installed it. I can only get X to start in 256 color 640x480 mode. Not a very useful mode. I

Re: scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:57:31PM -0400, David Clymer wrote: > I think using: > > $ ssh-copy-id -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > is the "proper" way of doing this. It ensures that the file ends up on > the remote machine with proper permissions set, and adds the appropriate > entry in

Re: Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:48:36PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > I'd like to make a task launcher that opens an application I have > installed on my Debian system with Synaptic. I don't think you mean Synaptic. Or maybe I just got my binding wrong. You're saying that 1) You installed an app

Re: scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread David Clymer
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 17:31 -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:13PM -0400, linux starved wrote: > > information. The following is basically what I want the script to do, > > but I heard scp will not work with authentication. I also read about > > rsync and tried to get

Re: irq 11: nobody cared!

2005-07-06 Thread Antonio Paiva
Joan, I would suggest you to try a different kernel. I also experienced problems in the past related with the usb driver, and the same or similar problem to the one you report. At the time I was trying to use a 2.4 kernel and a 2.6 kernel solved the problem, but since you are using a 2.6 kern

Forgot to ask this about launchers....

2005-07-06 Thread Redefined Horizons
Sorry, I forgot to ask this on my last post about the task launchers in Gnome. Can a task launcher be set up to execute a bash shell script? Thanks, Scott Huey

Re: thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Martinell
On Wed, July 6, 2005 2:45 pm, martin f krafft said: > also sprach Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.06.2128 > +0200]: >> I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad 770z. >> X >> runs, however it leaves a large matte area of "dead screen". The >> monitor >> is f

When minimized, window dissappears...

2005-07-06 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm running Gnome on Debian Sarge. When I minimize an application window in Gnome, the window "dissappears" and I can't get it back. I'm used to seeing the window on the taskbar in Windows, but I can't see it on either the top or bottom panel I have in Gnome. Where are the windows going? How do I

Creating a task launcher.....

2005-07-06 Thread Redefined Horizons
I'm rather new to Debian and approaching this from a Windows perspective.. :] I'd like to make a task launcher that opens an application I have installed on my Debian system with Synaptic. Where do I find the file to link to? Am I looking for an ".exe" extension, or something else? On Window

Re: dvd-iso images

2005-07-06 Thread peter colton
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 21:32, Gints Polis wrote: Hello Gints, One of the best way to download a debian sarge dvd .iso image is to use a bittorent client. Here is the link for the bittorent files that start a download, save these files to the local machi

Re: scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:13PM -0400, linux starved wrote: > information. The following is basically what I want the script to do, > but I heard scp will not work with authentication. I also read about > rsync and tried to get the following one liner to work on the source > server To get scp

Re: isp service

2005-07-06 Thread Andy Smith
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 01:41:31AM +0200, roach wrote: > On Monday 04 July 2005 10:17, Joseph Haig wrote: > > And that would be? ?;-) > > http://www.uklinux.net/ Also http://www.ukfsn.org/ is non-profit And http://www.bytemark.co.uk/connectivity/adsl.html profit-making (we assume) but linux-frie

Re: scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 03:44:13PM -0400, linux starved wrote: > I am trying to use scp to copy a host file from one firewall to the > other using an ftp server. Problem is, it requires a username and > password for authentication purposes. It would be nice if I could get > it to run once a day.

dvd-iso images

2005-07-06 Thread Gints Polis
Hey, Pls let me know what I am doing wrong... From official debian site I get info that there is latest release iso-dvd images with about of 4 GB of size. When I download them I get only some 400 MB iso file downloaded. Please advise me ... How to get correct latest dvd.iso image from debian...

Fw: Debian Install Problem...

2005-07-06 Thread Wackojacko
I have two monitors, both 17" LCD 1280 * 1024 plugged into a NVidia 6200 The important part of the log is (EE) No devices detected. The nv driver does not support this card. You could try using the vesa driver, 2D only, or download the latest linux driver from the Nvidia website. It work

Re: thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Michael Martinell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.06.2128 +0200]: > I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad 770z. X > runs, however it leaves a large matte area of "dead screen". The monitor > is fine, since that other OS uses it all. Try to hit Fn-F8 or Fn-F6

scp and scripts?

2005-07-06 Thread linux starved
I am trying to use scp to copy a host file from one firewall to the other using an ftp server. Problem is, it requires a username and password for authentication purposes. It would be nice if I could get it to run once a day. I searched google and came up empty. I have done almost no scripting

thinkpad 770 X full screen

2005-07-06 Thread Michael Martinell
I am running Debian 3.1r0a I have been trying to get X to run full screen on an IBM thinkpad 770z. X runs, however it leaves a large matte area of "dead screen". The monitor is fine, since that other OS uses it all. I've tried to change various options in x86Config however I have yet to hit up

tv cards with cx88 chipset

2005-07-06 Thread duboys
hello every body, i have a difficulty with ma tv cards (it's first debian distribution and my fisrt linux distribution) i have a tv cards winfast tv 2000 xp expert , it's have a cx88 chipset ( video and sound ) and i have a very good video but no sound ?? with tvtime , xaw tv but in windows xp

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 13:11 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:16 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > > > > My key expired at the end of last month, so I extended it using > > > the GNU Privacy Assistant. So, my local copy is active. > > > > > >

Re: KDE display seems WAY too big

2005-07-06 Thread roach
That sounds like an accessability setting. The setting for people with sight problems. Is everything just large or are the colours effected too? -- Robert "roach" Spencer Pietermaritzburg South Africa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 16:16 +0100, Adam Funk wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > My key expired at the end of last month, so I extended it using > > the GNU Privacy Assistant. So, my local copy is active. > > > > How, though, do I force it up to the keyserver? > > http://keyserver.min

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:41 -0500, Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how did you "extend it"[sic] ? In the gpa Keyring Editor, select your record, then click on Edit. One of the options is Change Expiration. > -M > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Adam Funk wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: >

Re: gnome panel gone haywire :(

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Hardy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/07/05 13:35, wrote: I was just moving my menu panel to the right-hand side and I was trying to adjust its width (or height as it would have been while on the bottom side). There is a dialog box with a increment control to set the value, and while I was scrolling this up,

Re: Debian Install Problem...

2005-07-06 Thread Peter Kupfer OOo
Kent West wrote: Peter Kupfer OOo wrote: I attempted to install Debian stable release today on a computer that has Windows on it already. The install seems to have worked and I got through the entire base configuration, but when I type "startx" I get an error message that says "no screens found

Re: boot in xp

2005-07-06 Thread Bogdan Sicleru
boot from the first disk of the debian distribution. when at prompt write: rescue root=/dev/hdaXY where hdXY is the partition where you have the linux installation reinstall the bootloader and that's it. On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:30 -0300, Thomas Beresford wrote: > On 7/6/05, steef <[EMAIL P

Re: boot in xp

2005-07-06 Thread Thomas Beresford
On 7/6/05, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chidrup Tripathi wrote: > > >After installing Debian on my laptop successfully, I installed Windows > >XP. Now when I boot, it goes straight into WIndows XP. What do I have > >to confgure to make it multi boot. I once did this wiht another Linux > >OS,

Re: problems unpacking kernel source

2005-07-06 Thread Simon Rees
On Tuesday 28 June 2005 16:32, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Jun 28, 2005 at 11:57:05AM +0100, Simon Rees wrote: > > Could you let me know the md5sum of the bzip file > > (kernel-source-2.6.8.tar.bz2) on your system, I get: > > 242b931b892e40125592886c374a35ad > > 0083745bf9a6452588d2250b71ce

tv cards with cx88 chipset

2005-07-06 Thread duboys
hello every body, i have a difficulty with ma tv cards (it's first debian distribution and my fisrt linux distribution) i have a tv cards winfast tv 2000 xp expert , it's have a cx88 chipset ( video and sound ) and i have a very good video but no sound ?? but in windows xp i have sound . have

Re: boot in xp

2005-07-06 Thread steef
Chidrup Tripathi wrote: After installing Debian on my laptop successfully, I installed Windows XP. Now when I boot, it goes straight into WIndows XP. What do I have to confgure to make it multi boot. I once did this wiht another Linux OS, but it was incompenent. IF you could help me I will be pl

2 sounds cards in GNOME

2005-07-06 Thread Luis Fernando Llana Díaz
Hi all, I have succesfully installed 2 sound cards on my PC. The problem is that I do not know how to tell gnome to use the one I want. In fact the desktop sounds effects are played in one sound card but the sounds from gnome applications sound are played in the other one. How can I configure

Cannot mount usb-storage device (camera)

2005-07-06 Thread Erhard Schultchen
Hi everybody, I have been using my digital camera for quite some time now. However, today it stopped working with my debian and won't come up again. Hardware is OK, as Windows works *sigh* So this is my setup: Debian/Sid, up-to-date, udev, hotplug and vanilla kernels 2.6.1[12]. This is what I ge

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
Matthew J. Harmon wrote: > Just out of curiosity, how did you "extend it"[sic] ? $ gpg --edit-key 0x01234567 > expire ... > save It's a little more complicated if you have more than one subkey -- in that case you have to select the subkey(s) individually and use the expire option on them too.

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-06 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 10:58:32AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > Thanks for the suggestion. I would like to try texlive. However I don't > like to compile stuff on my own and will leave that to Debian maintainers. > I did not suggest for compiling TeX. As you note, it is best

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Matthew J. Harmon
Just out of curiosity, how did you "extend it"[sic] ? -M On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Adam Funk wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > My key expired at the end of last month, so I extended it using > the GNU Privacy Assistant. So, my local copy is active. > > How, though, do I force it up to the keyser

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Lamb
roberto wrote: > the problem are not braces, sorry, but just pattern because i'm currently > editing matlab files, so without braces... Heh, without knowledge of what matlab source looks like I was presuming there'd be braces in there somewhere. :D Ok, what I've come up with. A quick ch

Re: bash - executing function in "find" command

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Smith
%% "Chris F.A. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: cfaj> On 2005-07-06, Paul Smith wrote: >> The disadvantage of the pipe-to-while method is that each element >> in the pipeline is run in a subshell, so variables set inside the >> while loop (for example) won't be set after the loop is

Re: [OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
Ron Johnson wrote: > Hi, > > My key expired at the end of last month, so I extended it using > the GNU Privacy Assistant. So, my local copy is active. > > How, though, do I force it up to the keyserver? > http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1794A5E18834C06B Try this: gpg --k

Re: (Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Nicos Gollan writes: > Yes, but now the parliament has at least shown its ability to act which I > hope will make the corrup^Wcommission a bit wary of just trying to > override its decisions. IMHO this vote was more about power politics between the Commission and the Parliament than about software

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Dexter
On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 14:18 +0200, Piero Piutti wrote: > This is a great day for democracy in Europe: the European Parliament > has rejected the Software Patents directive by 648/680 votes. We're > free, we're save, we're happy! > > ;-)) > > http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2

[OT] forcing updated key info into hkp://subkeys.pgp.net

2005-07-06 Thread Ron Johnson
Hi, My key expired at the end of last month, so I extended it using the GNU Privacy Assistant. So, my local copy is active. How, though, do I force it up to the keyserver? http://keyserver.mine.nu/pks/lookup?op=vindex&search=0x1794A5E18834C06B $ gpg --edit-key 8834C06B gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.1; Copyr

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Sridhar M.A. wrote: On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:00:02AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I tried this but was not getting any clickable links. I am using xdvi as > my dvi viewer. > > $xdvi --version > xdvik version 22.40v > > This is the latest version available on Debia

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dave Ewart wrote: On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: Piero Piutti writes: We're free, we're save, we're happy! You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again later. s/is

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
roberto wrote: hello, i have the following question: in my MATLAB code i have a lot of "for...end" or "ifend" and most of them are nested one inside the other, do you know how to recognise whose "for" or "if" an "end" belongs to? i know some editors are able to do this (vim, kwite...).

Re: bash - executing function in "find" command

2005-07-06 Thread Chris F.A. Johnson
On 2005-07-06, Paul Smith wrote: > > The disadvantage of the pipe-to-while method is that each element in the > pipeline is run in a subshell, so variables set inside the while loop > (for example) won't be set after the loop is complete[*]. find . | { while read line do : whatever w

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Douglas Ward
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 05:35, roberto wrote: > --- Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > You can enable syntax highlighting for vim by editing /etc/vim/vimrc > > look for the line: > > > > " syntax on > > > > and uncomment it.Then look in the > > file /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/sync

(Waaaay OT) Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Nicos Gollan
On Wednesday July 6 2005 15:43, Dave Ewart wrote: > On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own > > software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again > > later. > > s/is free to/will almost

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Dave Ewart
On Wednesday, 06.07.2005 at 07:56 -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Piero Piutti writes: > > We're free, we're save, we're happy! > > You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own > software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again > later. s/is free to/will

Re: Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move

2005-07-06 Thread Arias Hung
You never mentioned anything about a kernel upgrade. In your prior message you mentioned changing distros from unstable to stable. It helps if you can be very precise if anyone is to know what your problem is. On Wed, 06 Jul 2005, Björn Johansson delivered in simple text monotone: > > Now it

Conferences on rheology & soft matter materials

2005-07-06 Thread myservices
Dear Colleague, We would like to inform you that our frequently visited 'conferences on rheology and soft matter materials' calendar has been moved to a new server. The new address is: http://www.ar.ethz.ch/conf.html hosted and upgraded to new functionality by Applied Rheology - international

Re: EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread John Hasler
Piero Piutti writes: > We're free, we're save, we're happy! You aren't safe. The national governments are free to adopt their own software patent legislation, and the Commission is free to try again later. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: [OT] linking table of contents in a dvi file

2005-07-06 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 02:00:02AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > > I tried this but was not getting any clickable links. I am using xdvi as > my dvi viewer. > > $xdvi --version > xdvik version 22.40v > > This is the latest version available on Debian unstable. Whic

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Jeffrey L. Taylor
Quoting Bjorn Johansson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] > I can use an old kernel which was installed. > So everything is pretty good now! :-) > > I can't use the newest kernel and I probably should reinstall the whole system > anyway to get rid of some bugs, but now it works again, so I have the opti

gnome panel gone haywire :(

2005-07-06 Thread adam . ant
I was just moving my menu panel to the right-hand side and I was trying to adjust its width (or height as it would have been while on the bottom side). There is a dialog box with a increment control to set the value, and while I was scrolling this up, the menu panel went crazy, started flashing

Python IDLE freezes

2005-07-06 Thread Jose Luis Soler
Hello, I'm using IDLE 2.4, and it freezes randomly, even with "-n" option. May be a Tk8.4 bug in debian sarge/unstable?? I'm usign 2.6.11-1-386 kernel, unstable branch, and IDLE depends on Tk8.4, it doesn't matter what version. Do you know how to solve this? I have been looking for it in go

EU Software Patents directive rejected!

2005-07-06 Thread Piero Piutti
This is a great day for democracy in Europe: the European Parliament has rejected the Software Patents directive by 648/680 votes. We're free, we're save, we're happy! ;-)) http://mail.fsfeurope.org/pipermail/press-release/2005q3/000109.html -- Piero Piutti - Debian Linux - K

Re: irq 11: nobody cared!

2005-07-06 Thread David Clymer
On Mon, 2005-07-04 at 22:55 +0200, Joan Tur wrote: > Hallo! > > The above line appears in dmesg (followed by "[] > __report_bad_irq+0x2a/0xa0" & similar lines), and everything connected to the > 2 affected usb ports doesn't work fine (*). > > For instance an usb mouse hasn't got an smooth movem

install sarge on notebook but freeze at pci

2005-07-06 Thread lucky . random
I bought a hp m2051,wich use chipest intel 855gm.I install sarge with netinstall.When I boot from harddisk,sarge freeze at ehci-hcd,so I boot with ehci-hcd=off.Then,sarge freeze at hotplug subsystem,pci.I boot with pci=off,it worked,but sarge tell me I don't have network connected.How should I do?

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Bjorn Johansson
On Wednesday 06 July 2005 13.02, Arias Hung wrote: > Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older > packages than unstable. > > Use a rescue cd ... take your pick ... knoppix, kanotix, sysresccd, any of > the gentoo live cd's. Boot that cd, then mount the partition w

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move

2005-07-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/07/05 12:47), Björn Johansson wrote: > Now it works again! I don't know how good the system is right now, > but I'm investigating... It seems okay. > > To boot the system again I simply boot with the kernel: old. > Jihoo! :-D > > But it would be nice if the new kernel would work good also.

Re: Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move

2005-07-06 Thread Björn Johansson
Now it works again! I don't know how good the system is right now, but I'm investigating... It seems okay. To boot the system again I simply boot with the kernel: old. Jihoo! :-D But it would be nice if the new kernel would work good also.. Kind regards Björn, Sweden

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Arias Hung
Bad move. You mean you 'downgraded' to stable since stable uses much older packages than unstable. Use a rescue cd ... take your pick ... knoppix, kanotix, sysresccd, any of the gentoo live cd's. Boot that cd, then mount the partition with the files you want to save. Grab those. Then, if yo

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread roberto
--- Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > roberto wrote: > > how to achieve this in vim? > > vim can find matching braces, be they curley, square or parens. If I > recall correctly it is %. Python's declined my need for such matching. :) the problem are not braces, sorry, but just

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Frank Gevaerts
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 11:00:40AM +0200, Björn Johansson wrote: > > Hello. > > I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to > 3.1 stable > and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of > course). > > This is is the text I get: > > ...

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread Steve Lamb
roberto wrote: > how to achieve this in vim? vim can find matching braces, be they curley, square or parens. If I recall correctly it is %. Python's declined my need for such matching. :) -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99

Re: Why has "find ... -exec rm -i '{}' ';'" stopped working?

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
Almut Behrens wrote: > (It's called from within launch(), which is handling the option -exec) > > This function is simply not present in the old sources (4.1.20). > > Well, I guess it's worth filing a bug report, to let the original > authors figure out what it was that made them add this code -

Re: Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Clive Menzies
On (06/07/05 11:00), Björn Johansson wrote: > Hello. > > I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to > 3.1 stable > and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of > course). > If you went from unstable(sid) to stable (sarge), you 'downg

Re: syntax highlighting

2005-07-06 Thread roberto
--- Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > You can enable syntax highlighting for vim by editing /etc/vim/vimrc > look for the line: > > " syntax on > > and uncomment it.Then look in the > file /usr/share/vim/vim63/syntax/syncolor.vim and other files in that > directory to configure th

Re: Why has "find ... -exec rm -i '{}' ';'" stopped working?

2005-07-06 Thread Adam Funk
Andrew Schulman wrote: > >> On Tue, Jul 05, 2005 at 05:51:07AM -0400, Andrew Schulman wrote: >> >>> find ... -print0 | xargs -0r rm -i >> >> This won't work because rm -i reads for confirmation from stdin and rm >> has no stdin when it's run via xargs. > > Hm, you're right. Well one alternati

Need help! I upgraded to stable - bad move? :-(

2005-07-06 Thread Björn Johansson
Hello. I had a unstable Debian 3.1 on my Powerbook "Lombard G3" then I upgraded to 3.1 stable and now I only get a white screen at startup (after the boot questions of course). This is is the text I get: ... ok opening display /[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,[EMAIL PROTECTED]/ATY,264LTProB_ What sh

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