Disappearing text in Mozilla

2005-07-17 Thread Mitja Podreka
hello I have problems viewing some pages with Mozilla. For example this one: http://www.sajeta.org/index.php?neki=x&x=delavnice Parts of text just disappear if I scroll down the page with mouse wheel or use scroll-bar too quickly. If I use PageUp/Down keys or use scroll-bar slowly it is OK.

comments about hardware

2005-07-17 Thread Faheem Mitha
Dear People, My bioinformatics research group at Duke is buying a server, which will mostly be used as a server, particularly for web based services. The idea here is that a user will submit a request for some bioinformatics calculation via a web interface (often using Python or R or similar)

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Mitja Podreka
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday July 17 2005 5:53 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Please *READ* what you're being told. It says cdrecord won't run as root, and running k3bsetup will solve the problem. Why is

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Douglas Ward
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:24, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. > After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to > user. Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from the author > ur

Re: The art of turboing (was: Re: OT: Windoze spyware?)

2005-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 18:31 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self > (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self w

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Brendon Lloyd Higgins
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote (Monday 18 July 2005 12:27 am): > Roby wrote: > >Hamster wrote: > >deb http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/kde-3.4.1 ./ > > Whenever someone suggests a third party repository, please add a note > saying that it is not official Debian and there might be problems > installing/u

Re: Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma

2005-07-17 Thread Douglas Ward
On Saturday 16 July 2005 10:11, Bernie Betlach wrote: > I'm new to Linux but have a little programming experience. Which should I > install Ubuntu or Debian??? > > Thanks I appreciate your opinions and advice. > > Bernie Advice: Create a separate partition for /home ; If you ever need to re

Re: How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

2005-07-17 Thread Michael Ott
Hello > I have a perl script that needs to be runned each 30 > minutes, how can I do this? Can I use cron? If so what > would the configuration line would be? The path to the > script is /home/user/doc/id.pl You can use cron crontab -e as normal user and 0,30 * * * * /home/user/doc/id.pl or you c

Re: sid, synaptic and pinned package

2005-07-17 Thread Michael Ott
Hello Paul! > > How can i unlock this package? > > Good luck! Thanks > This is why you should never use apt-pinning unless you > know for sure what you're doing (ie, active developer). I used pinning using the /etc/apt/preferences file but using it with synaptic was a mistake. But in the above

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 12:40:15AM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > On 7/17/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:49:57PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > > I'm trying to install a program us

Re: failing to upgrade udev

2005-07-17 Thread Ms Linuz
Thomas Hood wrote: >On Fri, 15 Jul 2005 23:50:03 -0500, Brad Sims wrote: > > >>That kind of BS is why I stopped using $commercial_linux_distro. It's >>unstable >>I can accept broken packages due to ABI transitions but making a critical part >>depend on sudo-vaporware smacks of the Beast of Red

size of wiki.debian.net

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I see a large potential for wiki.debian.net in the future as the Debian base grows continuously. But having a cursory look through the wiki, I could not figure out how much stuff it currently holds. I think it would be a good idea to display atleast the following statistics. How many pages are

Problems with a Java Application

2005-07-17 Thread pvbedu-debian
I've just unpacked Azureus, a torrent client, in my home directory, when I try run it I get this: Starting Azureus... Java exec found in PATH. Verifying... OOPS, you don't seem to have a valid JRE [java = Kaffe] You need to upgrade to JRE 1.4.x or newer from http://java.sun.com ls: /usr/java: No s

Re: How to check ARP cheat in Lan.

2005-07-17 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Sunday 17 July 2005 16:32, 不坏阿峰 wrote: > Maybe arp cheat i called is correct, i think you can understand. thx > > i found some software that used in the company for Lan monitor,first it > can sniffer,and second it can control to stop some computer outing to > internet . i find some details

dhcp problem

2005-07-17 Thread ankur . kumar
I got my broadband setup and my provider uses DHCP and I have a intelligent router (modem). I installed dhcpcd as dhcp client and it works fine except that it couldnt get right nameservers and hence resolving host name takes lot of time. If I put nameservers (I got it from my provider) in /etc/r

Re: KDE 3.4 in unstable

2005-07-17 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 10:27:02AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > I have seen too many cases, where people start using 3rd party > repositories and complain about Debian's instability. The clueless should never be using unstable in the first place. Or unofficial archives if they're using st

printing in Debian/need unstable users opinion

2005-07-17 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi users of 'unstable' Debian: The included messages was posted to the debian-devel mailing list. It outlines some of the issues with the upcomming transition from gimpprint to gutenprint. I want to know if this kind of messages would be useful to other users of 'unstable' for this and other transi

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Brian Pack
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:54 pm, Mike wrote: > roach wrote: > >SUPRISE! > > > >See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself off the floor and lets > > continue... > > > >I doubt very much that this is a problem with linux and relates more to > > your SATA controller chipset. Most chipsets assume that

Thanks for help with k3b

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: My thanks to all of you who were kind enough to share your expertise in helping a Debian newbie resolve the k3b user vs. root issue. I'm sure I'll have a change somewhere along the line to help someone else with the same problem. Learning something new every day. Thanks again.

Re: How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

2005-07-17 Thread Anders Breindahl
On Monday 18 July 2005 04:55, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > Caveat: if this job needs to run with root privileges, then > you'll need to edit the global crontab in /etc/crontab. Unless I'm mistaken, root should rather add her custom cronjobs to her own crontab by running `crontab -e` herself. Works

How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

2005-07-17 Thread Eduardo B. V. Pereira
I have a perl script that needs to be runned each 30 minutes, how can I do this? Can I use cron? If so what would the configuration line would be? The path to the script is /home/user/doc/id.pl I'm running a stable sarge. Thanks, e.pereira __ Conver

Re: Pinnacle pctv stereo no sound

2005-07-17 Thread Wang Xu
> Hi, > > I'm using debian sarge with kernel 2.6.8. I have problem getting sound > to work for my tv tuner which is Pinnacle Pctv stereo with saa7134 > chipset. I have the internal audio connector connected to Aux in on my > sound card. I can get the picture but there is no sound, just a > backgro

Re: How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:48:49PM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a perl script that needs to be runned each 30 > minutes, how can I do this? Can I use cron? If so what > would the configuration line would be? The path to the > script is /home/user/doc/id.pl > I'm running a stable sarge.

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday July 17 2005 5:53 pm, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Please *READ* what you're being told. It says cdrecord won't run > > as root, and running k3bsetup will solve the problem. Why is > > that hard to understand? > > I realize

How Can I Schedule A Perl Script?

2005-07-17 Thread pvbedu-debian
I have a perl script that needs to be runned each 30 minutes, how can I do this? Can I use cron? If so what would the configuration line would be? The path to the script is /home/user/doc/id.pl I'm running a stable sarge. Thanks, e.pereira _

Re: PostgreSQL 8.0 bug or my own stupidity?

2005-07-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 11, 2005 at 03:41:24PM +0100, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (11/07/05 15:52), Tom wrote: > > Hey ho, > > > > A couple of days ago, I wanted to start using PostgreSQL instead of > > MySQL. Figuring Debian packages mostly function properly out of the > > box, a source installation seemed not

SD card only mounts after fdisk?

2005-07-17 Thread Carl Fink
I have a card reader built into my new PC that detects SD cards as /dev/sda. Normally my fstab entry lets me mount them as a normal user. That's: /dev/sda1 /media/sd vfatrw,user 0 0 Sometimes (like just now), though, instead mount reports: mount: special device

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Mike
roach wrote: SUPRISE! See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself off the floor and lets continue... I doubt very much that this is a problem with linux and relates more to your SATA controller chipset. Most chipsets assume that you'd only connect a harddrive and therefore only support harddr

Unidentified subject!

2005-07-17 Thread Nurhidayati endah
I convert cd audio to cd wave. Would u like tell me some information about difference between cd audio and cd wave?      Endah Do you Yahoo!? Exclusive 'King Kong' Trailer from the maker of 'The Lord of the Rings'

Re: The art of turboing (was: Re: OT: Windoze spyware?)

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 06:19:41PM -0700, Karsten M. Self (kmself@ix.netcom.com) wrote: > on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL

Problems with netselect-apt

2005-07-17 Thread pvbedu-debian
When I run netselect-apt I get this error: >netselect was unable to find a mirror, this probably >means that you are behind a firewall and it is blocking >traceroute. But I'm not using any firewall, at least I didn't install any, does Debian installs it by default? I'm running a Sarge stable rele

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:22:19AM -0500, John Foster ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't use) hanging in > > CUPs. My load average is currently 13+, and there's nothing I can kill > > to

The art of turboing (was: Re: OT: Windoze spyware?)

2005-07-17 Thread Karsten M. Self
on Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:47:17AM -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > Carl Fink wrote: > > > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty w

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:28:55PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Please *READ* what you're being told. It says cdrecord won't run as > root, and running k3bsetup will solve the problem. Why is that hard > to understand? Hey Paul, I realize you're trying to avoid getting the list overwhelmed wi

Re: Can you launch URL from email application

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: May I ask if anyone else has a problem launching a URL from Kmail using Konqueror? Or a problem launching any URL from within Konqueror itself? I may be wrong but I don't think I ever got feedback on that question. Is this just my problem or are others experiencing the s

Re: Can you launch URL from email application -- ipv6log data

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: Here is the data for ipv6log data that you asked me to create: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde$ ls Autostart cache-localhost env share socket-localhost tmp-localhost [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde$ cd env [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/env$ ls ipv6.sh ipv6.sh~ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/.kde/

Re: Can you launch URL from email application -- Problem Isolated and "solved"

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 05:57, you wrote: > > export KDE_NO_IPV6=1 > > in startkde or e.g. ~/.kde/env/ipv6.sh ? Start konqueror, type $HOME/.kde in the location bar, then Return. Check if there's a directory called env (I guess not), or create it. Enter that directory, right-click, new text file,

Re: dselect install of deb package -- Where is it?

2005-07-17 Thread Bill Marcum
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:39:03AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > [Using Debian 3.1 Etch] > > I am bit confused. I read up on dselect and dpkg online and decided to > install a program called kradio with dselect. I downloaded the .deb > available on the author's site. In fact, I

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/07/05 19:33), Steve Å wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:59:05PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > Yes, I had all that enabled. I was thinking about this last evening, > and decided > what I was trying to do (reject spam at SMTP time), was quite brain dead. No. It's not ;) I

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On 17 Jul 2005 at 12:29, Colin wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > > > There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many > > derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. > > Please, please, please don't speak on things you know nothing about. > There are wa

Re: How to disable enter/exit KDE sounds

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
J. Grant wrote: > [Please include my email address in any replies] > > Could someone tell me how to disable enter/exit KDE sounds please? KDE Control Center / Sound and Multimedia / System Notifications Set "Event Source" to "KDE System Notifications" Click on "KDE is exiting" and/or "KDE is sta

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-17 Thread Steve Å
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 11:59:05PM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > On (17/07/05 00:11), Steve Å wrote: > > Hm throws an error when I change that; > > > > 'X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org); Unknown failure' > > > > Strange, 'cause I tested SA before setting

debian backup/restore

2005-07-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi all, I'm wanting to make my linux partition slightly smaller to make room for that other OS. I've got / on a reiserfs partition, which i believe cannot beresized at the start, so I'll have to backup the whole system, repartition, and restore. No sweat, I've done this before. However, I've j

dhcp problem

2005-07-17 Thread ankur . kumar
I got my broadband setup and my provider uses DHCP and I have a intelligent router (modem). I installed dhcpcd as dhcp client and it works fine except that it couldnt get right nameservers and hence resolving host name takes lot of time. If I put nameservers (I got it from my provider) in /etc/r

Re: sound problems

2005-07-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:32:37PM -0700, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:20:35 -0400 > Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Somehow I've lost my sound. It used to be there, but not any more. > > > > Where is the config file that needs to be changed? > > try running alsa

How to disable enter/exit KDE sounds

2005-07-17 Thread J. Grant
[Please include my email address in any replies] Hello, Could someone tell me how to disable enter/exit KDE sounds please? Kind regards JG -- Homepage: http://jguk.org/ Blog: http://jguk.org/blog.rss Radio: http://jguk.org/#radio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

disregard mail coming

2005-07-17 Thread ankur . kumar
Hi All, Some inappropriate mails have been sent using my mail id, but it's spam and its not coming from myside. Is it possible for list manager to block such mails in case of anonymous SMTP server? Regards, Ankur Kumar Alliance Bernstein: Winner of Money Management "FUND MANAGER OF THE YEAR 

Re: exim4, sa-exim, clamav

2005-07-17 Thread Clive Menzies
On (17/07/05 00:11), Steve Å wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 01:26:20AM +0100 or thereabouts, Clive Menzies wrote: > > On (16/07/05 19:40), Steve Å wrote: > > > > 'X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on barnyard.sweetpig.dyndns.org); SAEximRunCond > > > expanded > > > to false' > > > > > > Shouldn't that b

Re: sid, synaptic and pinned package

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday July 15 2005 8:21 am, Michael Ott wrote: > How can i unlock this package? Good luck! This is why you should never use apt-pinning unless you know for sure what you're doing (ie, active developer). -- Paul Johnson Email and Instant Messenger (Jabber): [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://ursine.

Re: Is Debian Print Cartridge Refilling friendly?

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday July 15 2005 1:30 pm, nuno romano wrote: > I´m not exactly willing to pay 50 times to > Hewlett Packard my inkjet printer,with this > "pick pocket" business model of selling > printers with a low price and print cartridges > with a very high price,so I decided to refill > my cartridges.

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday July 17 2005 6:24 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > Dear friends: > > The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as > root. No. If you have to ask whether you need to run something as root, the answer is no. > After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my > s

Re: completely inane AOL questions

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday July 16 2005 12:37 pm, roach wrote: > On Saturday 16 July 2005 14:50, Nicos Gollan wrote: > <...> > > > Anyone else for blocking all mails to the list that have a "From" > > header ending in "@aol.com"? > > AOL has become quiet good at fighting spam coming from their > network, no need

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/17/05, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:49:57PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > > > errormessage wich I do not unders

Re: How do I get the '/usr/X11R6/include' folder?

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/16/05, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2005-07-15 23:25:24, schrieb Vegard|drageV: > > When running ./configure before installing ksubeditor, I get this > > errormessage: > > > > checking for X... configure: error: Can't find X includes. Please > > check your installation and

Re: for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread roach
On Sunday 17 July 2005 23:40, Mike wrote: > Does anybody know why debian doesn't detect SATA optical drives? <...> > (I didn't post my system logs, lspci etc because it doesn't matter > i'd be suprised if anybody responds to this one either) SUPRISE! See somebody did answer. Now peel yourself

Re: sound problems

2005-07-17 Thread Rodney D. Myers
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 18:20:35 -0400 Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Somehow I've lost my sound. It used to be there, but not any more. > > dmesg shows: > > > via82cxxx: Six channel audio available > PCI: Setting latency timer

Re: how do I get fullscreen mplayer - fun

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
On 7/16/05, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 16 Jul 2005 15:24:35 +0200 > Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Vegard|drageV wrote: > > > Where do I go from here to make th option '-vo xv' default? > > > > You need to edit MPlayers config file to make it default. > > Ad

sound problems

2005-07-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
Somehow I've lost my sound. It used to be there, but not any more. dmesg shows: via82cxxx: Six channel audio available PCI: Setting latency timer of device :00:11.5 to 64 ac97_codec: AC97 Audio codec, id: VIA112 (Unknown) via82cxxx:

for the love of GOD! SATA DVD Burner

2005-07-17 Thread Mike
Does anybody know why debian doesn't detect SATA optical drives? I'm using sid, it detects my SATA controller and loads everything up. But completely ingores my plextor 716SA DVD Burner. I havn't gotten a single response to this question the last 8 times i've asked it. -Mike (I didn't post m

RE: Re: Re: SATA problems

2005-07-17 Thread Jim Blake
I've certainly got further but not in the way you might expect. I contacted the Shuttle supplier (again) and this time they told me there was a problem with interaction between the Samsung CDRW/DVDROM and the SATA Maxtor drives, which meant that the boot sector was getting stomped on. About thi

Using a prism2 usb card on Sarge

2005-07-17 Thread Dave Johnston
hi, I've just done a fresh install of Sarge using kernel 2.6.8-2-386, and now I'm trying to get a Prism2-based USB wifi adaptor working so I can connect the machine to the network as a normal client. My initial thought was to to 'apt-get install linux-wlan-ng' which went fine, up to the poin

Re: gnome config [was: metacity?]

2005-07-17 Thread Adam Hardy
And, also snap a list of everything to be removed. When you do an "apt-get remove --purge xserver-common" is a BIG depends for many things. It causes tons o stuff to be removed. Also those things secondarily force other things to be removed. Overall, I feel I am far better off doing the removal a

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 03:34:26PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:48 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: } > [...] } > } But then you'll be replying f

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 04:30:07PM -0400, hell0 un1verse wrote: > Client desktop: Ubuntu, server side: Debian stable. > > Choice makes sense?:) Seems sensible to me. I don't have much experience with large deployments, so there may very well be good reasons to use Debian unstable in server instal

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 08:48 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [...] > } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the > } email was sent to. > } > } Most I

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread hell0 un1verse
On 7/17/05, Stephen R Laniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:26:07PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > > Also, lets not forget the french... Mandrake is a fine linux. > > It's also a Red Hat derivative, so it fits into the (false) > statement that the original poster made to the eff

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Paul Scott
Mr Mike wrote: On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:48:59 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: [...] } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the } email was sent to. }

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 02:49:57PM -0400, Stephen R Laniel wrote: > On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > > errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language > > is set to norwegian

Re: restore default permissions to /usr/bin /usr/sbin

2005-07-17 Thread Xeno Campanoli
Xeno Campanoli wrote: phyrster wrote: Hi Debianers, Hmm. Does that make us all Debianaire? After an installation of Realplayer in /usr, I noticed that file permissions under this dir is changed. Particulary, users can't read into /usr/bin and I suspect that /usr/sbin is affected as well

Re: Recommended Debian book?

2005-07-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Glenn English <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005.07.17.1529 +0300]: > The new book by Martin Krafft -- "The Debian System" is exactly > the one I'd been looking for. It's an excellent discussion of > sarge (3.1), and it's full of useful information: theory, > philosophy, HOWTO, and why. May I

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Kent West
Benjamin Sher wrote: >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc >brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd >brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdd > > Yikes! "others" should not have write access to either of these drives. (At lea

restore default permissions to /usr/bin /usr/sbin

2005-07-17 Thread phyrster
Hi Debianers, After an installation of Realplayer in /usr, I noticed that file permissions under this dir is changed. Particulary, users can't read into /usr/bin and I suspect that /usr/sbin is affected as well. Could anyone tell me what is the default permissions of these three directories in

xorg and nvidia drivers and removal of gdm etc.

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.
I am trying to fully convert to Xorg in a Sid machine in my home network. The problem is something to do with nvidia-glx, which upon trying to be installed complains: ~# apt-get -s install nvidia-glx Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Some packages could not be installe

Re: 2.6.11 and udev

2005-07-17 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Jules Dubois_, on 15/07/05 14:37,typed: > > You can downgrade to udev 0.056-3, and put udev 0.062-4 on hold for the > present. > > That is exactly what I did. thanks, ->HS -- Please remove the underscores ( the '_' symbols) from my email address to obtain the correct one. Apol

Re: set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 08:29:46PM +0200, Vegard|drageV wrote: > I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an > errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language > is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to > english so I can post

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 12:26:07PM -0500, Mr Mike wrote: > Also, lets not forget the french... Mandrake is a fine linux. It's also a Red Hat derivative, so it fits into the (false) statement that the original poster made to the effect that every Linux distribution is either a Red Hat or a Debian

set language in bash

2005-07-17 Thread Vegard|drageV
I'm trying to install a program using apt-get, and I'm getting an errormessage wich I do not understand. At the moment the bash language is set to norwegian, and I wish to temporarily to set the language to english so I can post the errormessage here on the list. How do I do this? Using bash shell

default info browser

2005-07-17 Thread Alex Malinovich
So after 4 years of stubbornly refusing to accept info pages and sticking to plain old 'man' I've decided that it's time to embrace info and give it a shot for a while. However, I don't much care for the text-mode info browser that's used by default. What I'd like to do is force emacs to be my info

Re: to not read spam emails on debian MLs

2005-07-17 Thread Mr Mike
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 08:48:59 -0400, Gregory Seidman wrote: > On Sat, Jul 16, 2005 at 08:41:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > } On Sat, 2005-07-16 at 20:15 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > [...] > } But then you'll be replying from a different address than the > } email was sent to. > } > } Most

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Just want to make two observations: On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 09:57 -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. > Each have many derivates. While it is true that Red Hat and debian both have many derivatives, it goes deeper on the Red Hat side, where some distr

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Mr Mike
On Sun, 17 Jul 2005 10:41:19 -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:02 -0500]: > >> There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many >> derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. > > That statement might get

cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize!

2005-07-17 Thread J. Grant
[please include my email address in any replies] Hello, I wonder if anyone knows why I have this displayed when booting up debian sarge? cdrom: This disc doesn't have any tracks I recognize! I have this in my /etc/fstab: /dev/sr0/media/cdrom0 iso9660 ro,user,noauto 0 0 There

Re: type= parameter missing from linux-2.6.12 tuner module

2005-07-17 Thread csj
On 17. July 2005 at 5:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > There appears to be significant differences between the > "tuner" module in linux 2.6.12 and the same module > under linux 2.6.11. In particular the "type" paramater is > missing from linux 2.6.12.3, as shown by a comparison > of the tru

Updates: useful link

2005-07-17 Thread Hans du Plooy
Someone posted this on /. - very useful! http://ftp-master.debian.org/testing/update_excuses.html.gz -- Kind regards Hans du Plooy SagacIT (Pty) Ltd hansdp at sagacit dot com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Colin
Benjamin Sher wrote: There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. Please, please, please don't speak on things you know nothing about. There are way more than just two main Linux distributions. Also,

Re: OT: Windoze spyware?

2005-07-17 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sun, 2005-07-17 at 02:32 -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote: > on Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 11:34:53PM -0400, Marty ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Carl Fink wrote: > > >On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 08:52:55PM -0400, Marty wrote: [snip] > Well, for a few months there (roughly March - May) it was inordinately > p

Re: Cups: canon backend hanging

2005-07-17 Thread John Foster
On Sunday 17 July 2005 04:41 am, Karsten M. Self wrote: > I've got a problem with the canon backend (which I don't use) hanging in > CUPs. My load average is currently 13+, and there's nothing I can kill > to bring down the processes. > > $ ps aux | grep ' [D] ' > root 19562 0.0 0.0

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Mitja Podreka
Benjamin Sher wrote: The question has come up whether K3b should be run as user or as root. After being admonished not to run it as root, I changed my setting back to user. Now, when I tried to run it, I got an error message from the author urging me to run it as root only. Here is the screens

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:37 -0500]: > So, is /media some new LFS directory? I used the Sarge installer > recently to create a new Sid partition and my fstab had the cdrom mount > point as /media/cdrom yet no /media directory was created, or > apparently visible to me, bu

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Benjamin Sher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2005 Jul 17 10:02 -0500]: > There are two main Linux distros: Red Hat and Debian. Each have many > derivates. Xandros is one of at least 25 distros based on Debian. That statement might get our Slackware friends in an uproar. ;-) Not so long ago Slackwar

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
So, is /media some new LFS directory? I used the Sarge installer recently to create a new Sid partition and my fstab had the cdrom mount point as /media/cdrom yet no /media directory was created, or apparently visible to me, but /cdrom was. I edited my fstab to go with the older /cdrom, but now I

Re: Can't install KDE in Sid

2005-07-17 Thread Nate Bargmann
Thanks, Joe. My primary reason for building a Sid partition is to try the Xorg stuff. I'm quite impressed so far. The debconf dialogs and Xorg auto-probe made this the most painless X install this side of KNOPPIX. Except for the fact that it died the first time since I hadn't installed any fon

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 10:10 am, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Benjamin Sher wrote: > >Dear friends: > > > >To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: > > Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the > same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go int

Can't launch URL from email -- Question

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear David and friends: If I were to RE-install Konqueror in apt-get, would that solve the URL launch issue? If so, would reinstalling Konqueror also mean that it would reinstall all of KDE? By the way, please remember that I am running Etch. Thank you. Benjamin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Benjamin Sher wrote: Dear friends: To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: Please use the same thread. Please do not open different threads for the same topic that is still active. Your reply could as well go into the thread titled "Debian or Ubuntu Dilemma". raju -- Kamaraju

Ubunto vs. Debian

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
Dear friends: To the person who asked about Ubunto vs. Debian: My answer, as a former user of Xandros, a derivative of Debian, is simple: it's always best to get the original, if the original is as good or better than the copy. In this case, I bought Xandros 2.0 about two years ago and used it

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT! Solved!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:10 am, Rob Bochan wrote: > On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:53 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear Carl: > > > > I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get. > > When I tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I > > should run K3b as use

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Stephen R Laniel
On Sun, Jul 17, 2005 at 09:36:12AM -0500, Benjamin Sher wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc > brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd > brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdd > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups > sher dia

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Rob Bochan
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:53 am, Benjamin Sher wrote: > > Dear Carl: > > I am only reporting what the author says. I installed K3b from apt-get. > When I tried to use it, I got this message. After being told that I should > run K3b as user, I switched to user, but as soon as I tried to run it as >

Re: K3b should be run as ROOT!

2005-07-17 Thread Benjamin Sher
On Sunday 17 July 2005 09:28 am, you wrote: > ls -la /dev/hdc > ls -la /dev/hdd > groups Dear Stephen: Here is the output: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdc brw-rw-rw- 1 root cdrom 22, 0 2005-02-26 00:38 /dev/hdc [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -la /dev/hdd brw-rw-rw- 1 root disk 22, 64 2005-02-26

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