Just how do I fix this??

2006-04-27 Thread Rob Blomquist
I am trying to fix an unmet dependancy from my Backports installation of KDE 3.5. I am guessing that something is not allowing the overwriting of /usr/share/doc/kde/HTML/en/kioslave/audiocd.docbook. How can I force this to happen? apt-get -f install Reading package lists... Done Building depend

Re: sata sii3114 support

2006-04-27 Thread Lubos Vrbka
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 hi, > quick google search (query: "kernel sil image support" without the ") > gives the silicon image site with linux drivers as first hit. You might > want to check it out. yes, i found that as well. the problem is that they provide binary drive

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Friday 28 April 2006 02:01, Paul Johnson wrote: I had it figured the other way around: he knows nothing about Republicans. Either way, comes out the same: He's saying their similar and in his own statement, he's showing us he doesn't understand. I am not. If you ar

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Friday 28 April 2006 02:01, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 22:14, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Well, that's really the context in which I replied. The Right Wing > > today in the USA are Socialists. > > You know nothing of my party or it's politics. Socialists are > progressive, not

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: So you are most definately Right Wing, as the DFSG, which support personal rights; changing the way 'traditional software' is developed; and is not business-associated; scares and irks you so greatly. DFSG is no more supportive of personal rig

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 27 April 2006 22:14, Mike McCarty wrote: > Well, that's really the context in which I replied. The Right Wing > today in the USA are Socialists. You know nothing of my party or it's politics. Socialists are progressive, not conservative. > I am not. If you are aware of > US politic

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread Nate Duehr
Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? A switch uses MAC addresses for ascertaining where to forward a message. It is unaware of IP addresses, so it cannot connect different nets. Yup. That's bridging

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mumia W wrote: Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: >> [...] [...] Get out of here. > [...] I apologize for this. I shouldn't have told you go get out of here. You are contributing to the list, and although you are diametrically opposed to the fundamental reasons for the existence of

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Mumia W wrote: > You know we're talking about contemporary American politics. Because, as we all know, this is an American list and only American politics matter in the world. -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | And dream I

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread Nate Duehr
John Stumbles wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? A switch uses MAC addresses for ascertaining where to forward a message. It is unaware of IP addresses, so it cannot connect different nets. Yup. That's bridging, defined in 802.1d http:

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Christopher Nelson wrote: > So you are most definately Right Wing, as the DFSG, > which support personal rights; changing the way 'traditional software' > is developed; and is not business-associated; scares and irks you so > greatly. DFSG is no more supportive of personal rights than proprie

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:28:09PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Christopher Nelson wrote: > >On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:47:38PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > >>Mumia W wrote: > > > > > > > >>>That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the > >>>Right Wing. You associat

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread Michael M.
Mike McCarty wrote: To put it another way, I was trying to help a newbie understand the tradeoffs which would enter into a decision of whether to use a crossover cable, a hub, a switch, or a router. I find that many don't really know the differences or even appreciate that there are differences

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: >> [...] [...] Get out of here. > [...] I apologize for this. I shouldn't have told you go get out of here. You are contributing to the list, and although you are diametrically opposed to the fundamental reasons for the existence of Debian GNU/Linux, your

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Marc Shapiro wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [If you] HATE the GPL so much, why are you using SO MUCH GPL'd software? Or licenses similar to the GPL, such as the Mozilla License that Thunderbird is released under. I use it because I got a contract, and was requested to u

Re: Pinnacle PCTV Pro card

2006-04-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
A Divendres 28 Abril 2006 07:09, Benjamí Villoslada va escriure: > $ modprobe bttv radio=1 tuner=3 card=3 $ modprobe bttv radio=1 tuner=33 card=39 *card 39* (copy & paste error, I'm sorry %-) -- Benjamí http://blog.bitassa.cat .

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of I am not a Right Winger. I am not any so

Pinnacle PCTV Pro card

2006-04-27 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
I've moved the TV and radio "Pinnacle PCTV Pro card" from the SUSE computer to the new box with Debian Sid, but doesn't works: I get no sound. With KRadio one "click, click, click" is audible when I move the radio dial, but it's all. Any orientation? Thanks :) --- $ lspci [...] 0

Re: Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 21:15, Mike McCarty wrote: > I received this message today, apparently from > ylpvm44-ext.prodigy.net (207.115.57.75) > although it has forged headers. Mr McCarty: You have just reported your own ISPs mail server to itself for spamming. Apparently you can't parse mail heade

Re: Module loading at boot (was re: setting up an encrypted filesystem..)

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:24:52PM -0500, Mumia W wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > >[...] > >Does anyone know if there is a way to capture all of the console > >messages that are displayed during boot? > >[...] > > Enable boot logging in /etc/default/bootlogd That seems to do the trick - thanks. R

Re: remote cups printer: trying to print from emacs: not working; .emacs syntax question

2006-04-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:54, Mitchell Laks wrote: Ok I searched the debian-user list and solved the original problem. I found that I hadn't installed cupsys-bsd. Now I did and Now all works fine. But I am still curious. what is the correct syntax for emacs-lisp so that i can get a comman

Offensive e-mail received

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Hello, I received this message today, apparently from ylpvm44-ext.prodigy.net (207.115.57.75) although it has forged headers. I suspect that this message violates your TOS with this person. Please investigate and handle as appropriate. If you need more information, you may contact me at [EMAIL

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Mike McCarty wrote: Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of I am not a Right Winger. I am not any sort of Socialist. Th

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [If you] HATE the GPL so much, why are you using SO MUCH GPL'd software? Or licenses similar to the GPL, such as the Mozilla License that Thunderbird is released under. I use it because I got a contract, and was requested to use Linux. That's why it

Re: ATTENTION, IMPORTANT!

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don\'t like how when linux messes up during boot Well, with that sterling e-mail, you have just become the first e-mailer I've ever seen who deserved to be *PLONK*ed on his first ever e-mail. I wonder whether this message was a violation of your ISP TOS. Mike -- p="

ATTENTION, IMPORTANT!

2006-04-27 Thread sanchez
I don\'t like how when linux messes up during boot badly it sometimes says \"I\'m hanging here...\" ...can we change it to say \"I\'m jacking off here\"??? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

remote cups printer: trying to print from emacs: not working; .emacs syntax question

2006-04-27 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi I am running sid. I have a system which prints using cups to a remote cups printer. I am trying to get printing from emacs working. In the past it "just worked". Now it seems not to. Emacs tries to print using "lpr", which doesnt seem to work. I changed the variable in my .emacs *

how limit the maximum memory allocated to a task?

2006-04-27 Thread tom arnall
How do I limit the maximum memory allocated to a task. I have tried 'ulimit -m 10' on my 512MB system, but the task i'm dealing with is, according to 'top', still allocated about 98% of memory, bringing the system to its knees. Thanks, Tom Arnall north spit, ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Stoping dpms power down mode

2006-04-27 Thread Simon
Hi There, I have several headless debian servers that run sarge and do NOT have X installed and just run the plain text console. How do i stop the OS from powering down the monitor automatically after a few mins? The reason i ask is that we have a remove KVM over IP that doesnt like the video ca

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: [snip] Thats because they cannot seperate the madness from the tool the madman might use.

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Gil Citro wrote: [...] Also, it doesn't explain how to check a mirror before installing the local copy of the package. I guess I could install the local copy and the do an update from a mirror, but I'm guessing that's also not the best way. [...] Aptitude will do this automatically for you. If

Re: Installing 2.6.16 kernel on stable

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Carl D. Blake wrote: We're currently running stable on a system, but we discovered that some devices (e.g. sound) aren't recognized with the 2.6.8 kernel. I think these problems would be solved if we could install the 2.6.16 kernel in unstable. Is there a simple way to install 2.6.16 without up

Re: Module loading at boot (was re: setting up an encrypted filesystem..)

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Digby Tarvin wrote: [...] Does anyone know if there is a way to capture all of the console messages that are displayed during boot? [...] Enable boot logging in /etc/default/bootlogd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROT

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:47:38PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Mumia W wrote: That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of I am not a Right Winger. I am not any

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:47:38PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mumia W wrote: > >That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the > >Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of > > I am not a Right Winger. I am not any sort of Socialist. The

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 April 2006 22:11, Mike McCarty wrote: >Gene Heskett wrote: >> On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:22, Mike McCarty wrote: >>>Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: >>How do you grow brocolli? > >Read My Lips: Ask Dan Quayle! That's a

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 18:48 -0400, Gene Heskett wrote: > On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:22, Mike McCarty wrote: > >Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: [snip] > Thats because they cannot seperate the madness from the tool the madman > might use. Like the PETA

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Mumia W wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the Right Wing. You associate all attempts of people to resist the power of I am not a Right Winger. I am not any sort of Socialist. The terms "Left Wing" a

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:38:44PM -0400, Gil Citro wrote: > On 4/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The poster said in the original post that by "full" install he doesn't > > mean every possible Debian package, just "as if I'd installed everything > > from > > the DVD". > >

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:43:01PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > Do you have hda3 in your fstab? (You should not.) Ah, that's it. My fstab read as follows: # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # # proc/proc procdefaults0 0 /dev/hda2

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: [somebody else wrote, but the attribution is gone] Wow, you do have a real clear grasp on Life. I have a clear grasp of what is licensed and what is not. If a company pays for a license to use software f

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Gene Heskett wrote: On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: How do you grow brocolli? Read My Lips: Ask Dan Quayle! That's a mixed metaphor, if I ever saw one. But at least you kept it in the right time

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Farrell wrote: At some point a little while ago I started getting the following message at boot time: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda3 Could this be a zero-len

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Mike McCarty wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: I've encountered this attitude before, and rather than try to reply to everything, I'll answer your questions. [snip] No, not really social order... social GREED... and social POWER. So when did you start channeling Bill Gates? Or Darl McBride? Rea

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 03:53:25PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > >Actually, Microsoft does the Licensing via per machine nowaday. So in > >essence you are saying that employers should have ALL computers and > >tools (out in the shop) and trucks and other such things 100% locked up > >all the time

Re: mutt MUA / exim4 MTA question

2006-04-27 Thread federico banduhn
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where is the string used for From in email composed in Mutt > specified? I want to set up a different name for my email > than I use for my userID on my host. > > TIA hello TIA, look at /etc/email-addresses # This is /etc/email-a

Re: mutt MUA / exim4 MTA question

2006-04-27 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:02:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where is the string used for From in email composed in Mutt > specified? In my muttrc file, I have: set realname="Matthew R. Dempsky" set from="[EMAIL PROTECTED]" The muttrc man page also says you can use my_hdr to customi

Re: mutt MUA / exim4 MTA question

2006-04-27 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where is the string used for From in email composed in Mutt > specified? I want to set up a different name for my email > than I use for my userID on my host. Put this in your .muttrc: folder-hook . my_hdr From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:33:03PM -0500, Mumia W wrote: > Before the GPL, people who wanted to release software freely would put > it into the public domain, where it would be free for only a brief > period before someone took it, changed it, and released it as > proprietary software. Yep, becaus

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 April 2006 20:08, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > > I think I would prefer the decision to be based on time elapsed > > since the last check - perhaps with a nag message so that I have > > the

Re: mutt MUA / exim4 MTA question clarification(I hope):

2006-04-27 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Where is the string used for From in email composed in Mutt > specified? I want to set up a different name for my email > than I use for my userID on my host. > > TIA > -- > Paul E Condon > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I don'

mutt MUA / exim4 MTA question

2006-04-27 Thread Paul E Condon
Where is the string used for From in email composed in Mutt specified? I want to set up a different name for my email than I use for my userID on my host. TIA -- Paul E Condon [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Arafangion
Hard drives can only contain 4 partitions. Many people have wanted more than four partitions, so an "extended" partition is made out of one of these four partitions, which can then contain how many partitions you like. Partitions with a number greater than 5 live in this "extended" partition. fd

Re: Updating Network Install to Full Install

2006-04-27 Thread Gil Citro
On 4/25/06, Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The poster said in the original post that by "full" install he doesn't > mean every possible Debian package, just "as if I'd installed everything from > the DVD". > > And the reason given was, if I understood correctly, was to help avoid > de

swap and /tmp

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
I am thinking of using a tmpfs for /tmp, and would be interested to hear any thoughts that others have on this issue. Obviously it would mean that /tmp would be volatile, which sames having to clean it up, but is sometimes annoying if you have grown used to being able to leave things there... I d

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mumia W
Mike McCarty wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [...] [...] The Debian social contract falls under the first rubrik "change the social order", since it subscribes to the FOSS, which goals I do not support. I'll quote a short piece from the page you put below, which goals I do not support... [Q

Installing 2.6.16 kernel on stable

2006-04-27 Thread Carl D. Blake
We're currently running stable on a system, but we discovered that some devices (e.g. sound) aren't recognized with the 2.6.8 kernel. I think these problems would be solved if we could install the 2.6.16 kernel in unstable. Is there a simple way to install 2.6.16 without upgrading a whole bunch o

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:58:52PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: [snip] > >I do try to keep as many of my filesystems as possible mounted read-only > >(ideally everything but /var and /home) so I suppose I could have cron > >run a regular fsck. > > This also makes some sense

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Cage
Gabriel Farrell wrote: At some point a little while ago I started getting the following message at boot time: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda3 Could this be a zero-len

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 07:15:32PM -0400, Gabriel Farrell wrote: > At some point a little while ago I started getting the following > message at boot time: > > [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 > fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short > read whi

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:31, Gabriel Farrell wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > > hda3 CONTAINS hda5 and hda6. fdisk is showing the detailed > > breakdown. cfdisk hides the breakdown and hides hda3 along > > with it. cfdisk allows you to create partitions witho

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:22:29PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > hda3 CONTAINS hda5 and hda6. fdisk is showing the detailed > breakdown. cfdisk hides the breakdown and hides hda3 along > with it. cfdisk allows you to create partitions without > worrying about the limit of four partitions. cfdisk ha

Module loading at boot (was re: setting up an encrypted filesystem..)

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 08:02:48AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Digby Tarvin wrote: > ... > > > >But I have no idea why the '.load' suffixes - and it would appear > >that the system doesn't know either, because all it does is produce > >a series of 'FATAL' messages on the console during boot.

Re: Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 16:15, Gabriel Farrell wrote: > At some point a little while ago I started getting the following > message at boot time: > > [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 > fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short > read while trying to

Phantom partition, anyone?

2006-04-27 Thread Gabriel Farrell
At some point a little while ago I started getting the following message at boot time: [/sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /shome] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda3 fsck.ext3: Attempt to read block from filesystem resulted in short read while trying to open /dev/hda3 Could this be a zero-length partition? fsck died

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Digby Tarvin wrote: [snip] I think I would prefer the decision to be based on time elapsed since the last check - perhaps with a nag message so that I have the option to defer till next time if I am short of time or battery power. Of course that still only helps if you do reboot occasionally.

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Mike McCarty wrote: > Umm, on my system, I do the same thing, using GNOME. > Is K3b part of KDE? I wasn't aware of that. If so, then how come I > can use it with GNOME? I thought KDE and GNOME were simple managers > which can invoke any number of applications. > > I've never used the GNOME CDCREATO

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
John Stumbles wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? A switch uses MAC addresses for ascertaining where to forward a message. It is unaware of IP addresses, so it cannot connect different nets. Yup. That's bridging, defined in 802.1d h

Re: How do you grow brocolli?

2006-04-27 Thread Gene Heskett
On Thursday 27 April 2006 13:22, Mike McCarty wrote: >Ron Johnson wrote: >> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 17:09 +0700, Ali Milis wrote: How do you grow brocolli? >>> >>>Read My Lips: Ask Dan Quayle! >> >> That's a mixed metaphor, if I ever saw one. >> >> But at least you kept it in the right time frame

Re: looking for open source font developing tools

2006-04-27 Thread Juraj Fedel
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:36:31PM +0800, Deephay wrote: > I know this is somewhat off topic, but I really do not know where to post.. > I am looking for some open source font developing tools (can turn > monochroic images to truetype / opentype font). Are there any tools > like this? TIA! apt

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 23:44, Matthias Julius wrote: > Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > TZ=CEST didn't have any effect, and /etc/timezone contains a > > line "Europe/Oslo" which is correct. > > Did you export it? Yep, but it didn't affect the time or the timezone repor

Re: [OT] c programming mailing list

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Michael M. wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: Juraj Fedel wrote: I do not like to use newgroups Why? One reason I don't use them is that they cost additional money, whereas e-mail comes with the ISP package. Mike You know there are any number of public usenet servers av

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 02:48:58PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Curt Howland wrote: > > My personal experience with ext2 was that the occasional power failure > > or accidental hitting of the switch caused just too many problems. I > > still let the fsck happen every 30 mounts or so, I don't turn t

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? A switch uses MAC addresses for ascertaining where to forward a message. It is unaware of IP addresses, so it cannot connect different nets. Yup. That's bridging, defined in 802.1d http://www.ieee802.org/1/pa

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Mike McCarty wrote: John Stumbles wrote: I did try to use and understand GNOME (honest!) but it's too warped for my brain (or vice versa :-). To give an example: burning a CD etc under KDE I invoke k3b, select type of disc to burn, pick files to put on it, set a few options (e.g. joliet if I wa

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 27 April 2006 17:17, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > In any case, I do regular backups. That is the only thing that can really be relied upon. I'm all for learning more about file systems. Your experiences with ext3

Re: dpkg-reconfigure list

2006-04-27 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Bruce Byfield wrote: > As many users probably know, dpkg-reconfigure can be used to reconfigure > installed packages. In some cases, such as locales and alsa-base, it > also opens a series of text-based dialogs to guide you through possible > choices. > > Does anyone know if there is a definititve

Re: [OT] c programming mailing list

2006-04-27 Thread Michael M.
Mike McCarty wrote: John Hasler wrote: Juraj Fedel wrote: I do not like to use newgroups Why? One reason I don't use them is that they cost additional money, whereas e-mail comes with the ISP package. Mike You know there are any number of public usenet servers available? Some, I'm sure

Re: GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
John Stumbles wrote: I did try to use and understand GNOME (honest!) but it's too warped for my brain (or vice versa :-). To give an example: burning a CD etc under KDE I invoke k3b, select type of disc to burn, pick files to put on it, set a few options (e.g. joliet if I want to play my mp3s on

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Curt Howland wrote: > My personal experience with ext2 was that the occasional power failure > or accidental hitting of the switch caused just too many problems. I > still let the fsck happen every 30 mounts or so, I don't turn that > off. With my uptimes that's about once every 10 years.

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > TZ=CEST didn't have any effect, and /etc/timezone contains a > line "Europe/Oslo" which is correct. Did you export it? > > I have found the problem now by comparing the strace output from the date > command running as root and as tmac. T

GNOME V. KDE (was Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread John Stumbles
Magnus Therning wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:57:41AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: apt-get install x-window-system kde kdm I simply have to answer this. The command line above is clearly not right, it should of course say: apt-get install x-window-system gnome gdm Given that the OP s

rootstrap failures (fwd)

2006-04-27 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm trying to use rootstrap 0.3.21-1 on Debian testing to create a UML instance. However, I consistently get the following errors: Using rootstrap module network from: /usr/lib/rootstrap/modules/network modprobe: FATAL: Could not load /lib/modules/2.6.16/modules.dep: No such f

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Josh Battles
On Thu, April 27, 2006 1:15 pm, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:47:07 +0100 > Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:57:41AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: >> >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:46:52PM -0400, Terry wrote: >> >> I just loaded my first Linux

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Chris Lale wrote: Terry wrote: I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log on with no problem. My question is how do I get the GUI up after I log on? All I get is the prompt. Terry Section 5 of the NewbieDOC article at http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/I

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

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Tony Godshall wrote: According to Mike McCarty, Michelle Konzack wrote: You forget, that the american brain is limited to 128 characters called US-ASCII. You forget what the "A" in "ASCII" means. If you Europeans want to take over something we made for ourselves, then you should at least ha

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 27 April 2006 17:09, chris roddy wrote: > > I'm really glad we are having this astoundingly mind-numbing, useless > argument about who can use what software for what purpose on what > machine. > > This waste of electrons is one of the things I find refreshing about > the Debian Social

Re: how to test Ethernet connection

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
John Stumbles wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Switch Disadvantages:Not secure. Cannot act as a bridge. What do you mean "Cannot act as a bridge"? When I was a network admin a switch _was_ a bridge (a multi-port one). Is the word used differently now? A switch use

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread chris roddy
Mike McCarty wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: >> On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> Steve Lamb wrote: >>> Mike McCarty wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > >> I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, >> because I

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Greg Folkert wrote: I've encountered this attitude before, and rather than try to reply to everything, I'll answer your questions. [snip] No, not really social order... social GREED... and social POWER. So when did you start channeling Bill Gates? Or Darl McBride? Really. This is just too

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread Torquil Macdonald Sørensen
On Thursday 27 April 2006 20:15, Matthias Julius wrote: > Since when is it doing so? You could try to set TZ=CEST. What is the > content of /etc/timezone? TZ=CEST didn't have any effect, and /etc/timezone contains a line "Europe/Oslo" which is correct. I have found the problem now by comparing

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > Well, since I got *PLONK*ed, there's no point in > replying, is there? "I don't like what I'm hearing, > so I guess I'll put my fingers in my ears." Generally that's what one does when a child is wailing it's head off and the parents are nowhere in sight. Random noise is

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-27 at 14:55 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, because I suddenly didn't have a licence for a certain program any more and all

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > I understand the situation completely. You apparently do not. Sorry, no, you so are off your rocker it's not funny. See this, this is me not laughing. > If he created (as he said) his *own* files using those tools, > and not those of his employer, then he used a pirate

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Greg Folkert wrote: Get off your far flung, high horse, *PLONK* Well, since I got *PLONK*ed, there's no point in replying, is there? "I don't like what I'm hearing, so I guess I'll put my fingers in my ears." Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This mess

Re: Date problem

2006-04-27 Thread John Hasler
TMS writes: > It reports UTC when run as 'tmac', and CEST when run as 'root': What does 'echo $TZ' report when run as 'tmac' and when run as 'root'? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: New user need some help

2006-04-27 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 27 Apr 2006 08:47:07 +0100 Magnus Therning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 05:57:41AM +, Andrew M.A. Cater wrote: > >On Wed, Apr 26, 2006 at 10:46:52PM -0400, Terry wrote: > >> I just loaded my first Linux machine. It laoded well and I am able to log > >> on with

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-27 Thread Mike McCarty
Curt Howland wrote: [snip] My personal experience with ext2 was that the occasional power failure or accidental hitting of the switch caused just too many problems. I still let the fsck happen every 30 mounts or so, I don't turn that off. The incidence of accidental shutdown hasn't changed,

Re: OT: From Linux switch Windows 98 partition by OpenBSD

2006-04-27 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 04:13:45PM -0300, Fernando Augusto Bender wrote: > Fellow, > > Thank you for your advices. > > Besides that, I also need to format the current windows partition in a > openbsd one. > > Then to download the bsd.rd and and follow the procedures. > > I don't know if using j

Re: daylight savings error on reboot

2006-04-27 Thread Matthias Julius
Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm having a wierd phebomenon. Every time I reboot, the clock gets > set back an additional hour, as though my ocmputer were adjusting for > daylight savings time again. I've noticed this ever the latest time > change, though I had thought it was an error

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