Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:38, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > With a u, you mean, of course... > > > > No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... > > No wonder your empire fell apart. > That is very rude to say on a

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-11 Thread David R. Litwin
On 12/04/06, tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???No, there isn't. If you'd like, you could volunteer.Of course, that could have beenNO, THERE ISN'T. IF YOU'D LIKE, YOU COULD VOLUNTEER. But, since I'm not one to flamify, I won't do that.Cheers. On Tuesday 11 Ap

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-11 Thread Hex Star
hmm...well, there have been mentions of some supposedly existent mods on this list...but haven't seen any mods do much with any of the OT threads on this list...who knows, maybe some mods have just gone along with the OT threads instead of trying to stop 'em..nothing like a little variety afterall

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:37, tom arnall wrote: > IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST??? First, don't top post. That is in the list rules. Second, this is Debian User, and the list summary says it's a list for debian-users, without really getting too terribly specific. The topic expectatio

Re: "zope3" dependency problem

2006-04-11 Thread Piotr Chamera
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I am beginner user of etch (testing) distribution. Installation of "zope3" package causes installation of python2.4 and python2.3. Can I rid off python2.3 somehow? I don't need it. Dependencies are as follow: zope3 -> python2.4 -> python2.4-docutils -> python-do

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > Kent West wrote: > >>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > > > > It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to claim it as belonging > > to the UK. They were go

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:48, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:12 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > > > > Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 20:35 -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > --- Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wrote: > > > It doesn't have to be as long as packages and > > > package descriptions > > > spell color the right way ;-P > > > > With a

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: > > With a u, you mean, of course... > > No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... > No wonder your empire fell apart. Hi Ron Johnson That is very rude to say on a public mailing list. I agree that everyone is entitled

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-11 Thread tom arnall
IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST??? On Tuesday 11 April 2006 07:12 pm, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > > Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't > switch spell

Sid: Nvidia kernel 1.0.8756-2

2006-04-11 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid, today's upgrade to nvidia-kernel 1.0.8756-2 has not gone well. Glad that I can fall back on the "nv" driver and at least have a working system, if not hardware accelerated. The error in /var/log/Xorg.0.log is "no compatible disp

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-11 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 11:25:32AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: > > >On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 09:28:59AM +0100, Doofus wrote: > > > > > >>I'll never accept this reasoning. To my mind it takes openness to a > >>level that just causes unnecessary grief for many legitimate users.

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-11 Thread Pascal Hakim
On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 11:36:05AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Quoting Pascal Hakim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Even if we assume that I fell asleep on the page down key while counting > >4., and guess that I missed half, we're still talking about blocking > >over 800 valid messages. > > > >2

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Kent West wrote: >>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to claim it as belonging > to the UK. They

Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500 [RESOLVED]

2006-04-11 Thread jf
Thank to you and all others who have provided advises. I have reinstalled dicover and now DRI is working right fine : ppracer is playable again. I think I had a problem with the agpgart module even if it looks like it was loaded just fine. Again thank to you !!! Regards, JF PS : there is stil

Re: x11-common upgarde error

2006-04-11 Thread Mike Applebaum
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade...Done The following packages will be upgraded: x11-c

Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500

2006-04-11 Thread jf
Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 23:42 +0200, jf wrote: Hi, I use the default driver provided by xorg so I think it won't work for me but thank you You use the default driver for Radeon from X.org? yes I do ! ;-) DRI won't ever be enabled nor will GLX e

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Kent West
>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>> Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? >>> It's kind of like putting a flag in a new land, to claim it as belonging to the UK. They were going to put the K in there also, but "coloukr" just didn't quite work

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- David Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - Original Message -From: tom arnall Date: > Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pmSubject: trouble > getting my wireless stuff to workTo: > debian-user@lists.debian.org> i am a linux newbie > having trouble getting my wireless stuff to > work. > i

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:12 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > > Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't > switch > spellings mid-text. Paul, you need a hu

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 20:35 -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: > > --- Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > It doesn't have to be as long as packages and > > package descriptions > > spell color the right way ;-P > > With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 19:19 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:50, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > > Well said. > > > > And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. I'm not the > > type to keep score, but I believe its 2-1 now? > > Not always. Canada goes both

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It doesn't have to be as long as packages and > package descriptions > spell color the right way ;-P With a u, you mean, of course... > > On 4/11/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > chris roddy wrote: > > > > > > > >Installing both text/

Re: updating drivers for an ATI card

2006-04-11 Thread Ivan Teliatnikov
On Sun, 2006-03-26 at 00:20 -0600, Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Sumo. I am using ati-driver-installer-8.23.7-i386.run on Latitude D810 running Ubuntu (debian clone), 3d works fine but it staffs up hybernation process. Download it from ATI site and run it as root, it should work.

Re: Upgrading to Apache 1.3.34

2006-04-11 Thread Steven Ma
Hi : Do you have the solution? I need to upgrade apache1.3.24 to apache 1.3.34 on linux server. Regards, Steven Ma IT Services Americas - Canada IBM Canada Ltd. 3600 Steeles, E4/UCQ/3600/MKM Markham, Ontario, Canada, L3R 9Z7 Tel: (905)316-0718 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This transmission may co

ISC Executable Statements Reference?

2006-04-11 Thread Jamie Thompson
Hi. I'm looking at using dhcpd's events to update my ldap-based DNS, however I can find no documentation on the syntax of this scripting language other than the actual code itself (which as ever, is woefully lacking comments). It doesn't look too complicated if I have a few hours spare to work tho

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 15:08, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:55 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > .us = 300,000,000 > > > > > > .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 + > > > 4,100,000 = 117,900

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:50, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Well said. > > And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. I'm not the > type to keep score, but I believe its 2-1 now? Not always. Canada goes both ways on the "er/re" and "our/or" conventions, and seems to be determ

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Casey T. Deccio wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to 'real-' It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and also get local crontab stuff. What happens when you run: exim4 -bt root /home/hu

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Different dialect. Canadian English accepts both as valid if you don't switch spellings mid-text. -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk): [EMAIL PROTECTED] Jabber: Because i

xpdf -fullscreen doesn't fill entire screen in Gnome

2006-04-11 Thread John Fry
Hi, After a recent upgrade of Sid I notice that xpdf -fullscreen no longer fills the entire screen like it used to. Instead, it fills my desktop, but my top and bottom Gnome panels stay visible. Acroread and gpdf behave the same way. Any suggestions for how to make my pdf documents fill the ent

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
T wrote: > Hi > > In the Solaris environment in the big firm that I worked with previously, > they have multi-version of anything, from Perl to Tcl/Tk, and even X. > > We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of > the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to

LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-11 Thread T
Hi In the Solaris environment in the big firm that I worked with previously, they have multi-version of anything, from Perl to Tcl/Tk, and even X. We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to Linux? I tried to do

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-11 Thread Kim Christensen
On 4/11/06, Rick Reynolds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A few topics similar to this have been recently discussed, and I was > waiting for this particular question to be hit, but it never did (at > least that I saw). > > My sound works great. My only problem is that the settings I apply to > the Gn

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Manaen Schlabach
It doesn't have to be as long as packages and package descriptions spell color the right way ;-P On 4/11/06, Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > chris roddy wrote: > > > > >Installing both text/wamerican-huge and text/wbritish-huge should shield > >the casual user against the effects of this issue

Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500

2006-04-11 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
jf wrote: > *(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > (EE) RADEON(0): Failed to register i2c bus* > (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Do you use udev? Maybe this happens because the device /dev/dri/card0 is created by udev? I've read about problems with kernel 2.6.16 a

Re: What are the best aptitude dist-upgrade options to use with Debian Sid

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 12:42:10AM +0200, Alex wrote: > I was doing a aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade and got this: > Exim4 and mutt have never been broken before and I've got the latest > gnulibtls12 installed > but aptitude says that it is not installable? and that it will remove > l

Re:Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread sanchez
>[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? >> > >Because that is how the word should be spelled. A more appropriate >question would have been "Why do people in the US omit the all >important "u" from the word colour?" > >It *is* our language, old chap. Engli

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Doofus
chris roddy wrote: Installing both text/wamerican-huge and text/wbritish-huge should shield the casual user against the effects of this issue. hmm... so it *was* a linux related question? ;O) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:19 +0100, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > convert ? The PDF is one big image file, and is fuzzy. > Mirco Piccin wrote: > > Hi all. > > I need to convert many type of files (.gif, .jpeg, html pages...) in > > .pdf format. > > And i need to do this in a shell-way. > > The goal is t

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Doofus
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Because that is how the word should be spelled. A more appropriate question would have been "Why do people in the US omit the all important "u" from the word colour?" It *is* our language, old chap. English I mea

What are the best aptitude dist-upgrade options to use with Debian Sid

2006-04-11 Thread Alex
I was doing a aptitude update && aptitude dist-upgrade and got this:--Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneReading extended state informationInitializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... DoneBuilding tag database... DoneThe following packages are BROKEN: 

Re: Where did my Debian menu go? [SOLVED]

2006-04-11 Thread Tim Beauregard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Beauregard wrote: > Hello, > > Once upon a time I had a "Debian" menu in the Gnome applications Thanks for help everyone, working beautifully again thanks to menu-xdg and update-menus command. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.3 (

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: >From your own previous email, the criteria was: multi-account > support IMAP. Evo has good (enough for me) multi-account and IMAP > support. Please don't play semantics. IMAPS is IMAP. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your

Re: oracle non-free

2006-04-11 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Eugen Paiuc wrote: > Hi, > > I'm useing debian from last 5 years , and I like to know if installing > new non-free oracle.deb is a security risk for my systems. > > Thanks, > > Eugen Paiuc > > Ask Oracle to let you have the source code. Then you can perform a proper security audit and report

Re: gpodder 0.7

2006-04-11 Thread j j
thanks.On 4/11/06, chris roddy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: j j wrote:> I am getting this error durring installation/upgrade:>> dpkg: error processing gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb (--install):>  trying to overwrite> `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gpodder/SimpleGladeApp.py ', which is also > in package py

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread David Parker
- Original Message -From: tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:02 pmSubject: trouble getting my wireless stuff to workTo: debian-user@lists.debian.org> i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to > work. i am > running debian on a toshiba satelli

Re: gpodder 0.7

2006-04-11 Thread chris roddy
j j wrote: > I am getting this error durring installation/upgrade: > > dpkg: error processing gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb (--install): > trying to overwrite > `/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/gpodder/SimpleGladeApp.py ', which is also > in package python2.3-gpodder gpodder does not appear to be a part

Re: Poor glxgears perfomance with unstable and radeon 7500

2006-04-11 Thread Joerg-Volker Peetz
jf wrote: > *(EE) RADEON(0): [dri] DRIScreenInit failed. Disabling DRI. > (EE) RADEON(0): Failed to register i2c bus* > (WW) RADEON(0): Direct rendering disabled Do you use udev? Maybe this happens because the device /dev/dri/card0 is not created? I've read about problems with kernel 2.6.16 and o

Re: oracle non-free

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:32 +0200, Eugen Paiuc wrote: > Hi, > > I'm useing debian from last 5 years , and I like to know if installing > new non-free oracle.deb is a security risk for my systems. How exposed is your system to the outside world? -- ---

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 17:55 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > > .us = 300,000,000 > > > > .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 + > > 4,100,000 = 117,900,000 > > > > We win... > > > > India uses colour (follows Brit

Re: gnome - window manager

2006-04-11 Thread Leonid Grinberg
This sounds stupid, but still... make sure that Metacity is actually installed and in the correct place relative the entry in gconf-editor (probably /usr/bin/metacity).

trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-11 Thread tom arnall
i am a linux newbie having trouble getting my wireless stuff to work. i am running debian on a toshiba satellite laptop. the wireless card is a d-link dwl-g650. i am looking for info on the latest debian methods for dealing with this technology. thanks, tom arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUB

oracle non-free

2006-04-11 Thread Eugen Paiuc
Hi, I'm useing debian from last 5 years , and I like to know if installing new non-free oracle.deb is a security risk for my systems. Thanks, Eugen Paiuc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

gpodder 0.7

2006-04-11 Thread j j
I am getting this error durring installation/upgrade:demudi:/home/guerrier/packages# dpkg -i gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb(Reading database ...244251 files and directories currently installed.)Unpacking gpodder (from gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb) ... dpkg: error processing gpodder_0.7-2_all.deb (--install): tryin

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > .us = 300,000,000 > > .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 + > 4,100,000 = 117,900,000 > > We win... > India uses colour (follows British way when it comes to spelling). Population of India is around 1,000,000,000.

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 11:41 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > There's always Evolution... > > When it can do IMAPS, sure. So far it hasn't been able to > do IMAPS with dovecot or uw-imap. >From your own previous email, the criteria was: multi-account support IMAP. Evo has g

RE: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
.us = 300,000,000 .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 + 4,100,000 = 117,900,000 We win... On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 14:50 -0400, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Well said. > > And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. > I'm not the type to keep score,

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Kent West
Rocky Ou wrote: I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would really appreciate it? 1. Which package should I do

RE: / full?

2006-04-11 Thread Chris
> -Original Message- > From: Joris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 11, 2006 6:59 AM > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: Re: / full? > > On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:16 -0400, Chris Parker wrote: > > I have filled up the / partition. a copy of fstab is below: > >

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-11 Thread Rick Reynolds
>>>wouldn't just running alsamixer and setting the desired levels solve >>>this problem? >> >>I tried exactly this in the past. Still didn't keep my settings. >>Although I noticed that the Gnome volume control accurately reflected >>the changes I made via alsamixer (before reboot, that is). > >o

Re: "zope3" dependency problem

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:09:04PM +0200, Piotr Chamera wrote: > Hello > > I am beginner user of etch (testing) distribution. > Installation of "zope3" package causes installation > of python2.4 and python2.3. Can I rid off python2.3 > somehow? I don't need it. Dependencies are as follow: > > zop

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Isn't that what the "reply to newsgroup" is? Only if you're reading this group through gmane. This is a mailing list, not a newsgroup. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread chris roddy
Hodgins Family wrote: > Note - Originally the spelling of 'colour' without a U was a > sanctioned change of the Spelling Reformist Movement, which was not > exculsively accepted by Americans, but was much more popular in the US > than it was in England. Henceforth, when the movement died out, its >

Re: / full?

2006-04-11 Thread Joris
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 14:16 -0400, Chris Parker wrote: > I have filled up the / partition. a copy of fstab is below: > > $/ df -h > FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 250M 249M 0 100% / as some others pointed out, it's rather strange to fill that

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:05 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I am considering shifting from thunderbird to kmail . I have tried kmail but could not figure out couple of things. I am wondering if kmail has support for the following things? 1)

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) napsal(a): > Rick Reynolds wrote: >> [...] >> I see that in my boot log [...] > > What is the boot log? I'm using Sarge, and I don't see a > /var/log/boot.log or anything similar. that's output of the boot pro

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:22:34AM -0700, Rocky Ou > wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 > successfully. I only installed > > base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to > connect to remote server. > > If you could

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-11 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 >> wouldn't just running alsamixer and setting the desired levels solve >> this problem? > I tried exactly this in the past. Still didn't keep my settings. > Although I noticed that the Gnome volume control accurately reflected > the changes I

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Rocky Ou wrote: [...] 1. Which package should I download so that I can browse webpages as how I'm doing under Windows? This is very important as lots of webpages will give me how-to instructions. Do I use apt-get x? Or something else? [...] I would start out with lynx--a text

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
jlmb wrote: [...] 1. replace "stable" for "testing" on /etc/apt/sources.list (*optional, many people would recommend against this for a newbie). [...] I'm one of those people. Stick with "stable" if you're a newbie. You have to know more of what you're doing to deal with "testing" or "unstable

Re: sound volume not persistent between reboots

2006-04-11 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Rick Reynolds wrote: [...] I see that in my boot log [...] What is the boot log? I'm using Sarge, and I don't see a /var/log/boot.log or anything similar. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:31, Toby Satchell wrote: > Hi, > > I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with it > as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to go for, > Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with for a > server, but wondering

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Bruno wrote: Hello to All, still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' when calling startx. Are there any interesting messages in ~/.xsession-errors after such a failed start? I tried : apt-get remove kde* apt-install kdebase but unfortunately it's not working. I

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-04-11 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- anoop aryal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 07 April 2006 02:39 pm, Yu,Glen [Ontario] > wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > > I was wondering if it's possible to copy the > vmlinuz-x.y.z from one machine > > to another and have the other machine run properly > with it. Here's the > > sc

"zope3" dependency problem

2006-04-11 Thread Piotr Chamera
Hello I am beginner user of etch (testing) distribution. Installation of "zope3" package causes installation of python2.4 and python2.3. Can I rid off python2.3 somehow? I don't need it. Dependencies are as follow: zope3 -> python2.4 -> python2.4-docutils -> python-docutils -> python -> py

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Okay that was fun. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Here is an explanation from http://open-dictionary.com/Color (Can't vouch for how truthful this is...wasn't there at the time) [Co-lor] /_/ 1)... Alternative Spelling of * colour (UK Engl

RE: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Yu,Glen [Ontario]
Well said. And it's not just the UK. That's how it is in Canada as well. I'm not the type to keep score, but I believe its 2-1 now? Cheers, -Glen -- Glen Yu | 416-739-4861 | [EMAIL PROTECTED] -

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Hodgins Family
Howdy and glad you asked! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? The answer is "Why don't you put a u in the word colour?" ;) Rob -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread sanchez
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Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > There's always Evolution... When it can do IMAPS, sure. So far it hasn't been able to do IMAPS with dovecot or uw-imap. -- Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, I'm your PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard of

Re: ntpdate foibles?

2006-04-11 Thread David Baron
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:02, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 05.04.06 18:46, David Baron wrote: > > There was a kernel bug to this effect but apparently not relevant to my > > configuration. When ntpdate cannot access a ntp server, the time gets > > placed two (three with daylight time) hours

Re: Debian, X and ATI Radeon X1300

2006-04-11 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
The better choice for linux systems will be Nvidia (latest drivers [closed-source] support 7400,7800 & 7900 P.S. That's my opinion :) В Втр, 11/04/2006 в 09:49 +0100, Peter Karlsson пишет: > Kelly Clowers: > > Your mail came out almost unreadable: > > > On 4/10/06, Peter Karlsson <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-11 Thread Jerome BENOIT
convert ? hth, Jerome Mirco Piccin wrote: Hi all. I need to convert many type of files (.gif, .jpeg, html pages...) in .pdf format. And i need to do this in a shell-way. The goal is to have a script (partially done, except for the conversion!) that download every day some front-page daily pa

Re: x11-common upgarde error

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 08:24:00PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > > > >>I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. > >>Reading package lists... Done > >>Building dependency tree..

Re: x11-common upgarde error

2006-04-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done Calculating upgrade...Done The following packages will be upgraded: x11-c

ssh/xterm/bash weirdness ... seeking for explanation

2006-04-11 Thread Stefan Bellon
Hi! I'm using and administrating several Debian GNU/Linux boxes all running unstable. Yesterday I've noticed some weirdness I don't know the reason of. When I open an xterm with a bash inside locally and then resize the xterm, the variables $COLUMNS and $LINES are automatically updated. When I l

Re: New windows without focus and in all workspaces

2006-04-11 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
The same problem, very annoying :) В Втр, 11/04/2006 в 13:14 -0400, Victor Munoz пишет: > Hello. > > I'm having an annoying problem with Gnome after a recent upgrade in sid > (last week). If I launch an application from gnome-terminal, the window > appears hidden by gnome-terminal, and does not g

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 09:22:34AM -0700, Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey, > > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed > base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. > If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would >

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Vitaliy Ischenko
В Втр, 11/04/2006 в 12:06 -0500, jlmb пишет: > Rocky Ou wrote: > > Hey, > > > > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only > > installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to > > remote server. If you could give me some hints regarding to the > > followi

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 09:00 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Gregory Seidman wrote: [snip] > Not to mention KMail, the last time I looked, had sub-par IMAP and > multi-account support. Given my battles I'd rather have working IMAP and > multiple accounts and have to remember to trim CCs than vice ve

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-04-11 Thread anoop aryal
On Friday 07 April 2006 02:39 pm, Yu,Glen [Ontario] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I was wondering if it's possible to copy the vmlinuz-x.y.z from one machine > to another and have the other machine run properly with it. Here's the > scenario: > > I have 2 systems, both running Debian 3.1 (Sarge), a

Re: Debian-specific behavior: 'useradd -m' ?

2006-04-11 Thread Wim De Smet
On 4/10/06, Matt England <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > $ useradd myname > > ...creates an a login named "myname" with a home directory of /home/myname > (or whatever pathname format the system conf/template files specify). > > On at least some flavor of Debian systems (I tested with Debian3.1-bas

Re: x11-common upgarde error

2006-04-11 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 08:47:52AM -0800, L.V.Gandhi wrote: > I am running sid. While doing apt-get upgrade I get following error. > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > Calculating upgrade...Done > The following packages will be upgraded: > x11-common > 1 upgraded,

Re: udev vs. usbmgr

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 04:20:09PM +0200, steef wrote: > hi list, > > read some disturbing and some re-assuring messages about udev which > standard is installed as part of my sarge distro, standard kernel > 2.6.8-2-386. > > who can/will give me a weighted judgement about udev version 0.05x in

New windows without focus and in all workspaces

2006-04-11 Thread Victor Munoz
Hello. I'm having an annoying problem with Gnome after a recent upgrade in sid (last week). If I launch an application from gnome-terminal, the window appears hidden by gnome-terminal, and does not get focus, unless I click on it. This is not the case if I launch it from the panel. Also, the new

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread jlmb
Rocky Ou wrote: > Hey, > > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only > installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to > remote server. If you could give me some hints regarding to the > following items, I would really appreciate it? > >1. Which pa

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Clive Menzies
On (11/04/06 09:22), Rocky Ou wrote: > I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed > base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. > If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would > really appreciate it? > > >

Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-11 Thread Bruno
Hello to All, still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' when calling startx. I tried : apt-get remove kde* apt-install kdebase but unfortunately it's not working. I use etch and kde is 3.5.1. Thanks for any clue or path to the solution. Bye, Bruno -

Re: What's the next step?

2006-04-11 Thread Joris Huizer
Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, I use netinst CD installed Debian Sarge 3.1 successfully. I only installed base system no any other stuff. I can use SSH to connect to remote server. If you could give me some hints regarding to the following items, I would really appreciate it? in general `apt-cache

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