Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:37, John Hasler wrote: Hal Vaughan writes: Does kill look for lock files and release devices? No. Kill just sends a signal (default SIGTERM). Minicom catches the signal, cleans up by closing files and restoring the terminal settings and th

Re: Where Is the ChangeLog for Packages?

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Wednesday, 22 February 2006 10:43, Hal Vaughan wrote: > I'm trying to find the changelog for the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 > package. Since packages.debian.org is down, the temporary site > doesn't seem to have this info. I need to see if any changes were > made that effect serial port drivers. As

sound issue

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hello. On a Sarge machine with 2.4.27-2-686 kernel on a Pentium II machine, I'm having problems with sound. I'm using alsa, with the modules installed. I've run alsaconf, and have enabled sound for gnome applications (gnometris, music player, etc). This works fine, until I try to run a kde

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything.  I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work.  My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print

Re: xscreensaver's questions ?

2006-02-21 Thread Dave Thayer
On Thu, Feb 16, 2006 at 11:02:36AM +0100, Cedric BRINER wrote: > > the reason to this, is that sysadmin can unlock screensavers of users. > An ugly, brute-force method to do this would be to log into a VC or ssh in and (as root) kill the xscreensaver process. dt -- Dave Thayer | Whe

how to change bluetooth "mac" addresses?

2006-02-21 Thread Nelson Castillo
Hi. I've been searching the web and I think you cannot change the address of a bluetooth device. Can I? I have 2 of them in one computer and the addresses are the same. gaira:~# hciconfig hci0: Type: USB BD Address: 11:11:11:11:11:11 ACL MTU: 678:8 SCO MTU: 48:10 UP RUNNING PSC

help: logcheck reboots my ubuntu gracefully but randomly

2006-02-21 Thread MC Moisei
Hi all, Since I think is not necessarily a ubuntu issue I trying to find you opinion on this matter. Briefly - once in a while, totally random my server gracefully restarts. Finally I was "lucky" and I had a sequence of two such reboots 4 minutes apart. I capture that sequence and paste it here be

Re: Virtual Folders

2006-02-21 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:36:51PM -0600, Grant Thomas wrote: > Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or > like Spotlight in OS X? > Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder: > A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of saved searches.

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:37, John Hasler wrote: > Hal Vaughan writes: > > Does kill look for lock files and release devices? > > No. Kill just sends a signal (default SIGTERM). Minicom catches the > signal, cleans up by closing files and restoring the terminal settings and > then exits. So

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Hal Vaughan writes: > Does kill look for lock files and release devices? No. Kill just sends a signal (default SIGTERM). Minicom catches the signal, cleans up by closing files and restoring the terminal settings and then exits. Sounds like it restores the serial port settings as well. Try 'kil

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:41:15 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If my DSL modem is using NAT, so that my box shows a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address but the outside world is seeing 71.xxx.xxx.xxx can I still use a service like dyndns? Will that get past

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > Now whenever a program ends, or if I kill a program (so it doesn't have > > time to exit), I can tell by watching the modem that it hangs up > > immediately (the carrier detect led goes off instantly, along

Re: Continuing chant "hde:hde1"

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
On 2/19/06, John <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My problem continues: an endlessly repeated chant of "hde:hde1" > interspersed with an occasional "hdb:hdb4." I can't figure out the > cause, and would be grateful for insight or a lead. > [snip] > generous fragment of dmesg during which the problem sta

Where Is the ChangeLog for Packages?

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
I'm trying to find the changelog for the kernel-image-2.6.8-2-686 package. Since packages.debian.org is down, the temporary site doesn't seem to have this info. I need to see if any changes were made that effect serial port drivers. Where can I find this if the source site is down and the mir

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
What type of driver are you using for the printer?Usually I am able to get generic printing functionality fro CUPS by choosing the Raw printer option.It should be the one that states no driver is needed.Also, I usually add my user account into the lpadmin group. How are you connecting to your print

Virtual Folders

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
Is there anything around like the virtual folders in the MS Vista beta, or like Spotlight in OS X?Incase anyone is not familar with the term virtual folder:A virtual folder is basically a realtime folder view of saved searches. The folder looks through the entire index, and logically groups files t

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread charles norwood
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 11:24 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:08:22 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > some folks see the idea of suing bar owner or gun owners and wining > > damages as liberal justice. > > Well, I'm a bar owner, so I have to

Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It prints just fine under Kno

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-21 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 05:00:21PM +, David Jarvie wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:17, David Jarvie wrote: > >Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file > >attributes (as > >displayed by lsattr) have been getting set in my reiserfs partitions. > >According to

Can't access archive

2006-02-21 Thread Bernard Fay
Hello group, Does someone know why I can't access snapshot.debian.net today? I receive the following error while trying to access it: Forbidden You don't have permission to access /archive/2005/11/30/debian/pool/main/x/xorg-x11/ on this server. Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountere

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread jlmb
ochnap2 wrote: > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:37, you wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>ochnap2 wrote: >> >>>Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems >>>that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. >>> >>>I googled a solution for the problem but I found only soluti

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread Luis Finotti
Hi, ochnap2 wrote: I think you have to add your user to the "camera" group. I added my user to the camera group, but I'm still unable to access de camera... :( Did you logout and login again? I think you have to for the change to take effect... HTH, Luis P.S.: I'm sorry for sending m

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-21 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-21, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > >> I had assumed that pmount's dependencies would be sufficient for it to >> work, so I'm curious: why aren't they? > > Well, it is possible to use pmount without HAL if you pass all the > parameters to it yourself. Many

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Tim Connors
kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said on Tue, 21 Feb 2006 15:48:04 -0500: > Now for some reason, firefox remembers only one application per file > extension. For example, let's say, it knows to open pdf files in xpdf. > Now if I want to change it to acroread, I have to go through the > fi

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:41:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 16:28:20 -0500 > Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Now the server I work on is in the IP range 64.34.x.x, and has > > nothing to do with 1-shops.com.

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread ochnap2
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:20, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:17 -0300, ochnap2 wrote: > > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems > > that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > how is root accessing it? > If I run digikam a

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread ochnap2
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:37, you wrote: > Hi, > > ochnap2 wrote: > > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems > > that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > > > I googled a solution for the problem but I found only solutions for old > > versi

Re: Celebrity, we need your help for a new book

2006-02-21 Thread ChinaBlackk
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Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread p
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 10:17:26AM -0300, ochnap2 wrote: > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that > only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > I googled a solution for the problem but I found only solutions for old > versions of hotplug, etc.

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 17:41, Mike McCarty wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [snip] > > > Now whenever a program ends, or if I kill a program (so it doesn't have > > time to exit), I can tell by watching the modem that it hangs up > > immediately (the carrier detect led goes off instantly, along

using lpr to print to a cups printer

2006-02-21 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Sorry, list - I wasn't paying attention to Gmail's reply field, and meant to send this to the list.-- Forwarded message --From: Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Feb 21, 2006 5:54 PMSubject: Re: using lpr to print to a cups printerTo: "[EMAIL PROTECTED] " <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Now whenever a program ends, or if I kill a program (so it doesn't have time to exit), I can tell by watching the modem that it hangs up immediately (the carrier detect led goes off instantly, along with the clear-to-send light). I'd think this was a Perl problem,

glibc-kernheaders rpm and linux-kernel-headers deb packages

2006-02-21 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi all, Does anyone know if the glibc-kernheaders of rpm package is the same as linux-kernel-headers for Debian? Are they similar? BR, Mauricio Lin.

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-21 Thread David Berg
On 2/21/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:06:35PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > > Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work > > together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very > > coarse look at the programs so I can bet

Modem changes behavior after Sarge Update

2006-02-21 Thread Hal Vaughan
I set up my system to use Sarge because of the reputation for Debian stability. Now, ever since I updated my system with "aptitude upgrade" it won't work and this is causing a SERIOUS problem. I've never liked posts that say, "NEED HELP", or "URGENT" in the subject, but I do need help figurin

Re: mplayer, mencoder and reflection

2006-02-21 Thread Wackojacko
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I wan record a video signal from the network. In order to watch it I run mplayer, see below: > mplayer mms://a420.l2147244871.c21472.e.lm.akamaistream.net/ /v0001/reflector:44871?videoid=18533 but when I try the same address with the mencoder in the next

mplayer, mencoder and reflection

2006-02-21 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I wan record a video signal from the network. In order to watch it I run mplayer, see below: > mplayer mms://a420.l2147244871.c21472.e.lm.akamaistream.net/ /v0001/reflector:44871?videoid=18533 but when I try the same address with the mencoder in the next manner: > mencoder mms://

Re: script execution on the machine when its boots

2006-02-21 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 04:41:17PM +0200, Brent Clark wrote: > Hi all > > I have a firewall / gateway ruleset that I want excuted when the machine > needs to reboot. > > I placed the script in /etc/network/if-up.d, but I found that on doing so, > the script did not execute. > > Would anyone kn

Re: sources and deb

2006-02-21 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Feb 18, 2006 at 01:29:53PM +0100, Baron Christophe wrote: > Howto from sources to deb packages? > > AAA > 1) What are the informations added to the sources > 2) Is there a database in my computer concerning what is installed on > it? > 3) The outputs of the installing commands "apt-get",

Re: description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 03:06:35PM -0600, David Berg wrote: > Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work > together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very > coarse look at the programs so I can better underst

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread H.S.
ochnap2 wrote: > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that > only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > I googled a solution for the problem but I found only solutions for old > versions of hotplug, etc. > > Any hint? > > Thanks in advance, >

description of udev, sysfs, hotplug, hal, etc.

2006-02-21 Thread David Berg
Does anyone know of a good overview of how all these programs work together and what function they serve? I'm just looking for a very coarse look at the programs so I can better understand the docs that come with the specific programs. Thanks --Dave

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I'm confused. What has a web browser got to do with a file picker? By filepicker, I meant the dialog that pops up when you want to choose an application or when you want to save a file to the hard drive. Ok. That clarifies things a lot. I wo

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread Linas Zvirblis
ochnap2 wrote: Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. If I remember correctly, you need to put users in camera group to grant access. But do not quote me on that, I do not own a camera. -- To UNSUB

Re: KDE Debian Installation

2006-02-21 Thread Chris Lale
Evan Carmi wrote: Hi, I am wondering about the best (easy and/or stable) way to install the K Desktop Environment on Debian. Does anyone know of a website that has information on this? Or maybe another resource? Which packages to I need to get and do I have to install Qt or any other packages?

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-21 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Adam Funk wrote: I had assumed that pmount's dependencies would be sufficient for it to work, so I'm curious: why aren't they? Well, it is possible to use pmount without HAL if you pass all the parameters to it yourself. Many people do just that, and there is no reason to force HAL on them.

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Mike McCarty wrote: Toshiro wrote: FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove away due to this inefficient filepicker. I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved aw

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:20 -0600, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: > On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:17 -0300, ochnap2 wrote: > > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that > > only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. > > how is root accessing it? > > mounting it

using lpr to print to a cups printer

2006-02-21 Thread j-debian_lists
I used cups to set up a printer via ipp and it works for kde programs and gtk programs, but anything that uses lpr (including firefox) does not work. How can I get lpr to use the cups printer? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 10:17 -0300, ochnap2 wrote: > Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that > only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. how is root accessing it? mounting it directly? using an application? -matt zagrabelny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

only root can access the camera

2006-02-21 Thread ochnap2
Hi, I have a Kodak C330 that I want to use with digikam, but it seems that only root can access it. I'm using a fully updated sid. I googled a solution for the problem but I found only solutions for old versions of hotplug, etc. Any hint? Thanks in advance, Och

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:24:48AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:08:22 -0500 > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > some folks see the idea of suing bar owner or gun owners and wining > > damages as liberal justice. > > Well, I'm a bar owner, so I

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread David Kirchner
On 2/20/06, Kevin Coyner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET > http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1" 404 > 288 "http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; > MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Crazy Browser 1.0.5)" >

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 14:08:22 -0500 Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > some folks see the idea of suing bar owner or gun owners and wining > damages as liberal justice. Well, I'm a bar owner, so I have to chime in ;) The concept of making the bar owner responsible for the actions of p

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > I wonder, has anyone tried to implement a DNS/bind system for dial-up > networking?-) We didn't need it. We had Pathalias and the map project. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECT

Building Linux Audit Tool (Syscall auditing)

2006-02-21 Thread Mauricio Lin
Hi all, I got the Linux Audit tool in tarball formar from http://people.redhat.com/sgrubb/audit/ and I am trying to build it on my debian system, but I was not able to build it with success. The following erros are displayed during the make step: In file included from /usr/include/linux/sched.h:1

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, 21 Feb 2006 12:03:39 -0600 Michael Schurter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kevin Coyner wrote: > > > > On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:41:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote.. > > > >>> 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET > >>> http://1

Installing lmule

2006-02-21 Thread Henrique Rennó
Hello Everybody!!! I'm repeating a problem I'm having on installing lmule. I'm following the steps from the INSTALL file of lmule, the same steps given in this site: http://www.todo-linux.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1694. The only difference is that the site tells you to use --enab

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty writes: > But you completely ignored my statement that networked computers have > existed since the early 1960s at least. The OP was claiming that Usenet > had some sort of priority. Only as a peer to peer network. Early networks were distinctly hierarchical. Usenet is completely de

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 12:53:01PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >>>I dont understand the supreme court, they are powned! > > Anyway, I read what the EFF has to say, and it's odd what the > Supreme Court ruled. Alot of FLOSS folks agree, it odd! > > I see the same argument used repeatedly now,

Re: debian kernel & modules

2006-02-21 Thread jlmb
> So how do I find where and what files are installed/changed using > dpkg/apt-get/aptitude for some package (in this case - the kernel package)? > > Cheers, > Ivan > > P.S.: Pointing me to the proper man/web page would be great.. > > Hi, Check query-actions under the dpkg man page

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Kevin Mark wrote: hi John, several people in a discussion amongst some Free software folks had the same idea when the recent supreme court ruling was announced. We said Which decision is this? What country? If USA, which State or was it the USA Supreme Court? The US Supreme Court. google for

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 08:21:06AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > > > >>Baron Christophe wrote: > >> > >>>What is usenet? > >> > >>Mike McCarty writes: > >> > >>>A collection of open post groups. > >> > >>Actually, it

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-21 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-21, Linas Zvirblis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Adam Funk wrote: > >> $ pmount-hal /dev/sdb1 >> Error: could not connect to dbus: org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.NoReply: No >> reply within specified time > > Are DBus (package dbus) and HAL (package hal) installed and running? They are now.

Re: Upgraded 2.4 to 2.6 kernel: how to get pmount to work?

2006-02-21 Thread Adam Funk
On 2006-02-21, Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>Are DBus (package dbus) and HAL (package hal) installed and running? They are now... > Is your user in the plugdev group? and these are now... Everything's working fine now. Thanks to both of you. The reason I asked what might seem

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 11:36:54AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > Mike McCarty writes: > > OTOH, as is also clear from what is there, [Usenet] was based on uucp, > > which presumes that some sort of network already exists... > > It presumed only a modem attached to each host. And a telephone dial-up

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-21 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, 19 Feb 2006 18:37:27 -0600 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei writes: > > That is not always true. My ISP requires/recommends to set-up with DHCP, > > but I always get the same IP, so it works just fine with static as well, > > especially if the 'net is down when I start-up my

need an example of using the keyword command to the PTS

2006-02-21 Thread Amadan Korvin
Hi. OK i've been trying to get my subscriptions all configured properly to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I've read and re-read and re-re-read the help-file, and no matter what I do I can't get anything but the default configuration to work. Can someone please type me up an exact (word for word) example of h

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: Mike McCarty writes: OTOH, as is also clear from what is there, [Usenet] was based on uucp, which presumes that some sort of network already exists... It presumed only a modem attached to each host. Yes. But you completely ignored my statement that networked computers ha

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
On Tuesday, 21 February 2006 at 11:11:36 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Toshiro wrote: > >>FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > >>being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > >>away due to this inefficient filepicker. > > > > > >I thought I

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread Michael Schurter
Kevin Coyner wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:41:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote.. 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1" 404 288 "http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/"; "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread John Hasler
Mike McCarty writes: > OTOH, as is also clear from what is there, [Usenet] was based on uucp, > which presumes that some sort of network already exists... It presumed only a modem attached to each host. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

/usr/lib/modules/...../volatile on tmpfs

2006-02-21 Thread Sergio Callegari
Dear All, I have this directory on an Ubuntu system and this seems to be present on recent Debian systems too... It is on tmpfs. Can anybody tell me what is its purpose (as many other distros don't have it) and when it gets mounted? Thanks! Sergio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Toshiro wrote: FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove away due to this inefficient filepicker. I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved away to konqueror for the

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: I wrote: Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. Mike McCarty writes: Hardly "the original". Just like the rest of the internet, it grew out of the DARPA net. Usenet developed entirely independently of ARPANet and is truly decentralized. Hmm, from http://

Re: apache config question - China IP's

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Coyner
On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 09:41:42PM -0600, Jacob S wrote.. > > 221.226.124.109 - - [20/Feb/2006:16:17:10 -0500] "GET > > http://1-shops.com/prx.php?p=q1w2e3r4t5y6u7i8o9p0*a-b HTTP/1.1" > > 404 288 "http://www.google.com/intl/en-us/"; "Mozilla/4.0 > > (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.0; Cra

avahi-daemon

2006-02-21 Thread Johannes Wagener
Hi, as the package maintainer seems to ignore my complaint I forward the discussion to debian-user mailing list. On debian testing the rhythmbox suggested to install the avahi-daemon that listens on all interfaces by default. I think this kind of install behaviour is insecure even if the packa

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. Mike McCarty writes: > Hardly "the original". Just like the rest of the internet, it grew out of > the DARPA net. Usenet developed entirely independently of ARPANet and is truly decentralized. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 11:17, David Jarvie wrote: >Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file attributes >(as >displayed by lsattr) have been getting set in my reiserfs partitions. >According to >the documentation, file attributes apply only to ext2 file systems. Th

Re: OT: xfig and maps

2006-02-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
debian wrote: Please, I need to draw some simple maps. My initial idea is to use xfig. Canals/rivers are no problem, I can use thick lines. 1. how can I indicate roads using parallel curved lines ? I believe you can draw one curved line, copy and paste this line by moving along horizont

avahi-daemon

2006-02-21 Thread aliban
Hi, as the package maintainer seems to ignore my complaint I forward the discussion to debian-user mailing list. On debian testing the rhythmbox suggested to install the avahi-daemon that listens on all interfaces by default. I think this kind of install behaviour is insecure even if the packa

Re: gtk file picker and firefox

2006-02-21 Thread Toshiro
> FWIW, I already moved away from firefox to konqueror, the sole reason > being the new file picker. God knows how many Linux users they drove > away due to this inefficient filepicker. I thought I was the only one but I see I'm not alone :) I've also moved away to konqueror for the same reason,

Re: Upgrade to 2.6.15

2006-02-21 Thread Gene Heskett
On Tuesday 21 February 2006 02:41, Hal Vaughan wrote: >On Tuesday 21 February 2006 02:07, John Talbut wrote: >> I am using etch and it is up to date apart from the kernel. When I >> wanted to recompile the kernel I found information that suggested >> that I would need to upgrade to the 2.6.12 kern

midi support in debian

2006-02-21 Thread Roman Makurin
Hi All! I`ve setup Creative SBLive5.1 with alsa and now I want to play midi files on it :) When I`m trying to get midi working I walk throught these steps: 1) $ sudo aptitude install awesfx 2) Copy from Driver`s CD sound fonts to /usr/share/sounds/sf2 2GMGSMT.SF2 4GMGSMT.SF2 3) $ sud

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-21 Thread John Halton
On 2/20/06, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > so: i decided to keep mplayer. is at least as good as the rest and > without humbug or fancy gui's. i like to *do* classic linux from the > command-line. Should you develop a yearning for a "fancy gui" for mplayer, you can always run gmplayer, which i

Policy Violation

2006-02-21 Thread Symantec Alerts
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Re: Problem when upgrading to X.org

2006-02-21 Thread Asa
Yay! That worked, and to boot an annoying graphical glich my graphics card had for ages is now solved with Xorg! Thanks a lot for all the replies. Asa On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 14:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Asa wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Yesterday I ran the first apt-get upgrade on my unstabl

Re: xmms in sid

2006-02-21 Thread steef
Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: steef escribe: so: i decided to keep mplayer. is at least as good as the rest and without humbug or fancy gui's. i like to *do* classic linux from the command-line. Then you could also try the combo mpg321, flac123 and vorbis-tools, they fulfil my comma

Re: list and usenet

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Kevin Mark wrote: On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:52:15PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: Baron Christophe wrote: What is usenet? Mike McCarty writes: A collection of open post groups. Actually, it's the original peer to peer network. Hardly "the original". Just like the rest of the internet, it

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-21 Thread John Halton
On 2/21/06, Shawn Lamson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:43:06 + > have you tried the dhcpcd package? I've had an off-list email suggesting that the problem is due to a bug in zeroconf, and that purging zeroconf will solve it. (See http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.c

Re: GRUB ... extended partition ... Windows XP

2006-02-21 Thread Mike McCarty
Glenn Becker wrote: Hi All - I will try to make this short, but it feels like an epic at this point. :) I'm trying to create a 6-OS laptop (80gig hard drive on a Dell Inspiron 4100): WinXP, Debian and Slackware Linux, NetBSD, FreeBSD and Solaris 10 x86. My first try was with a primary part

Re: DHCP problem following Etch upgrade

2006-02-21 Thread Shawn Lamson
On Sat, 18 Feb 2006 23:43:06 + John Halton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John Halton wrote: > > This is the same problem as in my previous thread ("Hanging during > > boot-up following dbus upgrade") but a response on that thread has > > enabled me to narrow it down a bit. > > > > dhcp-clien

Re: Problem when upgrading to X.org

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
On Tue Feb 21 12:42, Asa wrote: >During unpacking, x11-common gave the error: > >trying to overwrite '/etc/X11/Xsession.options' which is also >in package xfree86-common > >apt then stoped. it also will not allow me to install anything else >until x11-common is installed. On reset, X will not star

Re: Problem when upgrading to X.org

2006-02-21 Thread Florian Kulzer
Asa wrote: Hi, Yesterday I ran the first apt-get upgrade on my unstable machine in a few months. Predictatbly there were lots of packages to upgrade. There were also many that were held back. So I ran apt-get install for many of these held back packages, not paying that much attention to what t

Problem when upgrading to X.org

2006-02-21 Thread Asa
Hi, Yesterday I ran the first apt-get upgrade on my unstable machine in a few months. Predictatbly there were lots of packages to upgrade. There were also many that were held back. So I ran apt-get install for many of these held back packages, not paying that much attention to what they were - on

Re: sarge iso cd

2006-02-21 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Linas Zvirblis wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: I saw some posts talking abour debian 3.1r1. what is this r1? This _is_ Sarge + security updates. Just go to [1] and look for up-to-date mirror that contains this release. Look at [2] to find out what was updated. [1] http://www.debian.org/CD/ [2]

character encoding in email

2006-02-21 Thread Richard Lyons
OT again, I fear. But can someone enlighten me as to why a steadily growing proportion of email is full of wierd codes. I can only suppose they are characters encoded in a way either exim or mutt is failing to interpret. A typical example at random of the kind of thing I mean: Annan\222s vi

Re: DHCP address problem after etch upgrade

2006-02-21 Thread Alex Nordstrom
Tuesday, 21 February 2006 05:18, David Jarvie wrote: > After my latest upgrade this week (I'm running etch), the DHCP > address allocated to my machine has changed from being one allocated > by my DHCP router to being some external address. This results in the > machine on my network not being able

File attributes being set in reiserfs partitions

2006-02-21 Thread David Jarvie
Since the latest upgrades to etch a week ago, I've found that file attributes (as displayed by lsattr) have been getting set in my reiserfs partitions. According to the documentation, file attributes apply only to ext2 file systems. The attributes get set randomly on quite a few files, with t

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