Re: Linux Will Get Buried (Off)

2006-09-20 Thread Scarletdown
On Wed, 2006-09-13 at 19:23 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > handful of uses! And make it an absolute nightmare to buy foreign movies > while travelling internationally that will play when I get home! If you're talking about region codes, that's a trivial matter to bypass. 1: Use something like vob

Re: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Welly Hartanto
David Christensen wrote: Welly Hartanto wrote: Below is the perl script ... I see a few mistakes right off the bat, but this is not the proper forum. Take a look here: http://www.elanus.net/book/debugging.html and/or Google for more Perl stuff. If you're still s

Re: kernel panic

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
Roman Laubinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Fred J. wrote:> VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0)> please append a correct "root=" boot optionHm. I had this with a kernel > 2.6.16 under gentoo (before Iswitched over). The solut

Re: [solved ]Re: Debain with Sata & SCSI = boot problem

2006-09-20 Thread Joost Kraaijeveld
Hi George, I am having the same problems. On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 04:31 +0300, George A. Michalopoulos [AKA Lewis] wrote: > hello all, > > i finally solved my problem by labeling all disks, and started > mounting them with their labels.. Could you tell me how to label the disks so the problem is

Is there any software dedicated to small to medium non-profit making organizations?

2006-09-20 Thread Hoi Tak Yau
Hello everybody, I am a final year computer student, and my final year project is to build a management application for small and medium-sized non-profit making organization. I have been searching on the web some weeks, but I cannot find a software suite that do the job. I've found many open sour

RE: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread David Christensen
Welly Hartanto wrote: > Below is the perl script ... I see a few mistakes right off the bat, but this is not the proper forum. Take a look here: http://www.elanus.net/book/debugging.html and/or Google for more Perl stuff. If you're still stumped, try this newsgroup: comp.lang.perl.mis

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Fred J. wrote: > > > */Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>/* wrote: > > Fred J. wrote: > ... > Install k9copy from christian marillat source. k9copy is the linux > dvdshrink option. > > > I can't, first I use etch and k9copy is for sarge. second, it depends > on kde and I use icewm. > >

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Welly Hartanto
Dave Carrigan wrote: On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:29, Welly Hartanto wrote: for ($i=0; $i < (length($gotit)); $i++) { my $c = substr($gotit, $i, 1); $c1 = $c & 0xF0; #get the high nibble $c1 = $c1 >> 4; # $c1 =

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fred J. wrote:...Install k9copy from christian marillat source. k9copy is the linuxdvdshrink option.I can't, first I use etch and k9copy is for sarge. second, it depends on kde and I use icewm. Talk is cheap. Use Yahoo! Messenger to make PC-to-Phone calls.

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You can try ddsomething likedd if=dev/hdb of=dvd.isosomething like thatso I can make an iso image from the dvd into my home dir.~$dd if=/dev/hdd of=my.isothen burn this image onto my dvd-R~$ growisofs -Z /dev/cdrom1 -R -J my.isois that it? How low will we go? Che

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/20/2006 04:48 PM, anthony wrote: On 9/19/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/18/2006 06:46 PM, anthony wrote: > hi Liam, > > yeah, loads - here's the entries from /var/log/Xorg.0.log : > > (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc". >Ent

eth0/eth1 suddenly renamed because of eth1394 ? eth1_rename?

2006-09-20 Thread Mitchell Laks
Another user of a Realtec 8139 ethenet card noticed that his card was "not working". Others reported it was related to a eth1394 device conflict. I report a similar occurence. i have a ibook g4 running sid with kernel linux-image 2.6.17-2 uname -a Linux debian 2.6.17-2-powerpc #1 Thu Aug 31 1

Re: gnome+main menu+shutdown

2006-09-20 Thread José Alburquerque
debianista.deb wrote: yeah thanks for reply ;) yes it is, gnome uses gdm to logoff and shutdown, but I would like to know how can I open that dialogs from the console ? please thanks debianista.deb I don't understand exactly what you are asking so I'll answer in the following way: If you

Mail/collaboration server

2006-09-20 Thread Bradley Alexander
I've been using Kolab for my mail/collaboration software for home about 4 years. Right now, the hard drive on the machine I'm running on is failing. I have other hardware on which to run the new mail server, however, I am trying to decide the best suite to use. I can stick with Kolab, as there is a

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:06:58AM -0400, Robert Wolfe wrote: | | To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org | From: Robert Wolfe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Thu, 21 Sep

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Fred J. wrote: > Hi > I have a dvd, one that I placed in my tv-dvd unit and it played, with > video and sound. > I want to copy it, I have a dvd burner in my debian/testing. I mounted > the dvd and was able to find out it had > 1$ ls /mnt/ > audio_ts video_ts > 1$ ls /mnt/video_ts/ > video_ts.bup

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Robert Wolfe
No see, I never was able to get DVD Shrink to work under Wine or CrossOver Office. - Original Message - From: "Chris Humphries" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Derek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2006 12:00 AM Subject: Re: copy a dvd +

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 at 12:00:55AM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote: | | To: Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org | From: Chris Humphries <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 00:00:55

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On Thursday, Sep 21, 2006 at 03:51:36AM +, s. keeling wrote: | | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | From: "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 03:51:36 GMT | Subject: Re: (no subject) | | op

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:55:24PM -0700, Derek wrote: | | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | From: Derek <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Wed, 20 Sep 2006 20:55:24 -0700 | Subject: Re: copy a dvd | | You can try d

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread s. keeling
operator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? Consider learning how to create archives. It's an opportunity to learn! :-) "tar" or "cpio" or "afio" (my favourite), then point mkisofs at the result, then point cdrecord at the result of that. This has worked we

Re: Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-20 Thread Chris Humphries
+-- | On Wednesday, Sep 20, 2006 at 07:10:54AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: | | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org | Cc: "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | From: "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Date: Wed,

Re: copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Derek
You can try ddsomething likedd if=dev/hdb of=dvd.isosomething like thatOn 9/20/06, Fred J. <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote:HiI have a dvd, one that I placed in my tv-dvd unit and it played, with video and sound. I want to copy it, I have a dvd burner in my debian/testing. I mounted the dvd and was able

copy a dvd

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
HiI have a dvd, one that I placed in my tv-dvd unit and it played, with video and sound. I want to copy it, I have a dvd burner in my debian/testing. I mounted the dvd and was able to find out it had 1$ ls /mnt/audio_ts  video_ts1$ ls /mnt/video_ts/video_ts.bup  vts_01_0.bup  vts_01_1.vob  vts_01_4

problem with geda debian packages

2006-09-20 Thread H.S.
I installed geda and related packages just now on my Debian Etch machine: $> sudo apt-get install geda geda-utils geda-gsymcheck geda-examples geda-gattrib gerbv But when I try to start gschem, I get: -- $> gschem gEDA/gschem ve

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:16:11 +1000 M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Isn't cdrecord the reason that k3b doesn't work? I have found it so, because > cdrecord finds my external USB DVD dual layer burner and then vanishes it. > That was in Sarge, haven't tried it in Etch yet. In my experience, I d

Re: CD drive on a parallel port

2006-09-20 Thread Arthur Marsh
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, On 2006-09-20 06:05: Hi, I have a laptop without a CD ROM, that cannot take a CD rom, and that cannot take USB either [PCMCIA I/II only, which rules out USB port cards it seems]. You could find a PCMCIA Ethernet card that is supported by the Debian boot floppies (ass

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread Sebastian Ferrara
El Thu, 21 Sep 2006 12:16:11 +1000 M-L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió: > On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:52, David E. Fox shared this with us all: > >--> cdrecord? :) > >--> > >--> Well, command line does work, but maybe it's not the best way to do it, > >--> it depends on your experience level. >

Re: Using a debian desktop as a remote boot server?

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:29:42PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > > > Thanks for the good news, Roberto! Just one more thing: do the terminals > need the eth remote boot function? I don't think my dinosaurs have this... > In general, yes. However, LTSP has links to places where you can download boot

Re: Using a debian desktop as a remote boot server?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:48:07PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > > >>Is it possible to use a debian sarge dektop as a remote boot server? >>Please notice the desktop was installed without this use in mind, its a >>rather conventional desktop, with lots of multimedia a

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread M-L
On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:52, David E. Fox shared this with us all: >--> cdrecord? :) >--> >--> Well, command line does work, but maybe it's not the best way to do it, >--> it depends on your experience level. Isn't cdrecord the reason that k3b doesn't work? I have found it so, because cdr

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 13:18:43 + operator <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? cdrecord? :) Well, command line does work, but maybe it's not the best way to do it, it depends on your experience level. >From experience, k3b is mostly working 100% of the ti

Re: Spanish Lesson Program?

2006-09-20 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 09:07:05PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:48:24PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > Are there any good Spanish Lesson Programs that run on linux? I can > > shutdown and reboot to Windows but I hate to do it. > > > > Not sure what your requ

[solved ]Re: Debain with Sata & SCSI = boot problem

2006-09-20 Thread George A. Michalopoulos [AKA Lewis]
hello all, i finally solved my problem by labeling all disks, and started mounting them with their labels.. Greg Madden wrote: On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 03:28:52 +0300 "George A. Michalopoulos [AKA Lewis]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hello all, i had a debian (etch) box, which was

Re: Using a debian desktop as a remote boot server?

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 08:48:07PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: > Is it possible to use a debian sarge dektop as a remote boot server? > Please notice the desktop was installed without this use in mind, its a > rather conventional desktop, with lots of multimedia apps, office > software and persona

Re: local users not working, but ldap ones are fine

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:50:12PM +0100, Pete Clarke wrote: > Hi there, > > I have a working LDAP environment, running Open Ldap on a Debian Sarge > installation. This is all good - users can log in, change passwords etc. > without a problem. > What doesn't work are users contained in the /etc/

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Mumia W.
On 09/20/2006 01:29 AM, Welly Hartanto wrote: I've managed to create an application for reading some bytes of data from an id card reader connected into a serial port. But it's under Win$ ... So, now I've been trying for at least capturing the data then convert it the way I want. The convertion i

Re: dictionary packages for Gnome desktop

2006-09-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/20/2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > $ look barnac > $ look twid Mike: How about that! Well, I'm running sarge. ~$ look barnac barnacle barnacle's barnacles ~$ look twid twiddle twiddled twiddles twiddling Looking to why I get different results, perhaps this can help you debug: ~$ ls -l /usr

issues with ipw2100 on a thinkpad

2006-09-20 Thread Robert D. Crawford
Hello, I have just recently started having an issue with my wireless connection on my Thinkpad. I am afraid that this might be a hardware problem, but I thought someone else might have seen this as well. The wireless nic is an ipw2100. Sometimes I lose the ability to connect to my smtp and nntp

Re: '/dev' nodes not getting populated

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:59:24PM +0530, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I'm using Debian unstable > > kernel: 2.6.17-2-686 SMP > udev: 0.100-1 > hal: 0.5.7.1-2 > > I updated my system last night (remotely so did'nt monitor what all changed). > > after reboot, X does not start. > says: >

Re: install on compact flash

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 12:49:20AM -0400, David Zelinsky wrote: > I bought a single-board computer from Soekris Engineering that uses a > compact flash card instead of a hard drive. I would like to install > Debian on the CF card while it's in the USB card reader attached to my > laptop, so that I

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 08:41:29PM -0400, Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: > I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has > one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots > up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the > initramfs sta

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread John Kelly
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 18:01:38 -0500, "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> require matching DNS, forward and reverse > it is not strictly RFC-compliant Though not saying MUST, there is an RFC that recommends it. Which one, is a good exercise for the reader. > some large servers won't us

Re: arts / CPU overload, Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.4

2006-09-20 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 19:12 Mon 18 Sep , Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Bernd Kloss wrote: > > Hello, > > > > what is the reason for the warning 'CPU overload' by artsd-Server? No sound > > running, no multimedia. > > > > What can be done? > > > > Thank You > > > > > > ___

Using a debian desktop as a remote boot server?

2006-09-20 Thread Bruno Buys
Is it possible to use a debian sarge dektop as a remote boot server? Please notice the desktop was installed without this use in mind, its a rather conventional desktop, with lots of multimedia apps, office software and personal files. And I'd like to keep using it this way after installing the

RE: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 3:19 PM -0500, John Kelly wrote: > On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:33:05 -0500, "Seth Goodman" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Did anyone investigate the problem and make this request? > > If they're not self motivated, I have no incentive to use them. I don't particula

local users not working, but ldap ones are fine

2006-09-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi there, I have a working LDAP environment, running Open Ldap on a Debian Sarge installation. This is all good - users can log in, change passwords etc. without a problem. What doesn't work are users contained in the /etc/passwd file - i.e. I can log into a system using an LDAP users, but not

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-20 Thread anthony
yep its installedOn 9/19/06, Mumia W. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 09/18/2006 06:46 PM, anthony wrote:> hi Liam,>> yeah, loads - here's the entries from /var/log/Xorg.0.log   : >> (WW) `fonts.dir' not found (or not valid) in "/usr/lib/X11/fonts/misc".>Entry deleted from font path.>

Re: text/Fonts missing in certain apps ???

2006-09-20 Thread anthony
Hello I added these paths to my /etc/X11/xorg.coSection "Files"so it now looks like this: #   FontPath    "unix/:7100"    # local font server    # if the local font server has problems, we can fall back on these     FontPath    "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc"#  

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread John Kelly
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:33:05 -0500, "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Did anyone investigate the problem and make this request? If they're not self motivated, I have no incentive to use them. >Any DNSBL is subject to gaming by spammers who would like to curtail >the use of DNSBL's in g

Re: dictionary packages for Gnome desktop

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/20/2006, Mike McCarty wrote: Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/20/2006, Timothy Musson wrote: The GNOME dictionary's really nice, but it's sometimes handy to have a quick dictionary on the command line, too. If you're only checking spelling, the "look" command is fast:

Re: must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

2006-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
"Vegard L. Rekaa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi list. > > At my Etch-system, some of my programs need for alsaconf to be run before I > start the program, in order to get the sound to work. This does not apply to > all progs (native KDE/Gnome progs do not need this, example. k3b, noautun, > gai

not able to purge a kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
I am getting this output, please take a look at the last few lines, there is the problem.thanks*debian:/boot# apt-get --purge remove linux-image-2.6.16.1Reading package lists... DoneBuilding dependency tree... DoneThe following package

how to control/override dev assigment 3ware and USB

2006-09-20 Thread RParr
I am trying to install using Debian etch b3 daily snapshot for 2006.09.19. The system is a Chaintech MB with Intel 875 chipset. There is a 3ware 8006 (SATA, 2port) and a USB card reader installed. The CD is attached to secondary IDE on-board controller. I have now disabled the primary IDE on-bo

Re: kernel panic

2006-09-20 Thread Jason Stelzer
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sep 20, 2006, at 5:30 PM, Roman Laubinger wrote: On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Fred J. wrote: VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0) please append a correct "root=" boot option Hm. I had this with a k

RE: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 1:55 PM -0500, John Kelly wrote: > When spamcop admins don't have enough sense to whitelist servers > like murphy.debian.org, it's time to abandon them Did anyone investigate the problem and make this request? Any DNSBL is subject to gaming by spammers who would

must run alsaconf alll the time for sound to work

2006-09-20 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
Hi list. At my Etch-system, some of my programs need for alsaconf to be run before I start the program, in order to get the sound to work. This does not apply to all progs (native KDE/Gnome progs do not need this, example. k3b, noautun, gaim). Of the programs I use daily, it is Skype, Wine and some

Re: kernel panic

2006-09-20 Thread Roman Laubinger
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 11:25:22AM -0700, Fred J. wrote: > VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0) > please append a correct "root=" boot option Hm. I had this with a kernel > 2.6.16 under gentoo (before I switched over). The solution was to compile GENERIC_IDE_SUPPORT

'/dev' nodes not getting populated

2006-09-20 Thread vibhav
Hi, I'm using Debian unstable kernel: 2.6.17-2-686 SMP udev: 0.100-1 hal: 0.5.7.1-2 I updated my system last night (remotely so did'nt monitor what all changed). after reboot, X does not start. says: /dev/agpgart /dev/input/mice not found my /etc/modules has 'intel-agp' and 'psmouse'

Fwd: Bash script to run OpenJUMP on Linux...

2006-09-20 Thread Redefined Horizons
I've recently installed the Java 1.5 packages for Debian. I'm trying to create a simple bash script that will launch a java program. (There isn't a Debian package for this program, but I hope to create one if I can get it runnging.) I'm trying to launch the program, but I'm running into some trou

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread John Kelly
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 13:08:20 -0500, "Seth Goodman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:22 AM -0500, John Kelly wrote: >> For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed >> murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! >If that machine has become a

Re: dictionary packages for Gnome desktop

2006-09-20 Thread Ralph Katz
On 09/20/2006, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ralph Katz wrote: >> On 09/20/2006, Timothy Musson wrote: >> >> >>> The GNOME dictionary's really nice, but it's sometimes handy to >>> have a quick dictionary on the command line, too. >> >> >> If you're only checking spelling, the "look" command is fast: >> >

Re: kernel panic

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
"Fred J." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hion boot, I am getting the error message below after doing the stepsunderneath it.VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0)please append a correct "root=" boot optionkernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mou

kernel panic

2006-09-20 Thread Fred J.
Hion boot, I am getting the error message below after doing the stepsunderneath it.VFS: Cannot open root device "hdb1" on unknown-block (0,0)please append a correct "root=" boot optionkernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs onunknown-block (0,0)*

Re: gnome+main menu+shutdown

2006-09-20 Thread José Alburquerque
debianista.deb wrote: hey I would like to know what are the commands behind shutdown and logout at the main menu applet (GNOME) or where can I see that? please thanks regards debianista.deb The dialogs that come up are part of the GNOME desktop functionality. When you logout of GNOME

RE: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Seth Goodman
On Wednesday, September 20, 2006 7:22 AM -0500, John Kelly wrote: > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! The listing is at http://www.spamcop.net/w3m?action=checkblock&ip=70.103.162.31 (expires in nine hours). It ap

Re: Cyber Cafe Manager

2006-09-20 Thread Antonio Felipe
I've forgot to tell this on my first e-mail that I've tested zeiberbude. It's awful and discontinued! Looking in the others that I've found, with your help, Openkiosk looks the best choice. Good luck for us all! Sergio Cuéllar Valdés escreveu: On 9/20/06, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~

Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer

2006-09-20 Thread Jason Stelzer
On Sep 20, 2006, at 1:36 PM, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:10:46PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with the same package list currently installed. Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is

Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer

2006-09-20 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 10:10:46PM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with > the > same package list currently installed. > > Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some > extent with dpkg but that loose

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > operator wrote: > > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? > > Thank You > > I've noticed a distressing increase in the number of e-mails here > which request return receipts. > > Mike Maybe we should all send a return receipt, to original sender

Re: install on compact flash

2006-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
since the Soekris has no monitor or keyboard. You can use the serial console. Is there a way to install without using the Debian installer? Or is there some way to run the installer on my laptop and have it install everything on the compact flash card (and not mess with my laptop's OS of cour

Re: Disabling some services indivually and easily (nut)

2006-09-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Marc SCHAEFER) wrote: >(my practical question was about nut doing an immediate shutdown of > the machine when the UPS cable was not connected; which would mean > that in case of failure of the UPS, starting the system would be > impossible without an in-field man

Re: Disneys

2006-09-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.09.06 16:16, John Hasler wrote: > John Kelly writes: > > Content filtering is a treadmill. > > Works fairly well for me. > > > Origin filtering is better. > > And unavailable to those of us who cannot run our own servers. as is content filtering... if you don't have server, you can only s

Re: Disneys

2006-09-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2006 19:12:59 -0400, "Roberto C. Sanchez" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I use a customized version version of this configuration: > >http://jimsun.linxnet.com/misc/postfix-anti-UCE.txt On 20.09.06 02:02, John Kelly wrote: > Prohibit piplining? Could be a drag on performance.

install on compact flash

2006-09-20 Thread David Zelinsky
I bought a single-board computer from Soekris Engineering that uses a compact flash card instead of a hard drive. I would like to install Debian on the CF card while it's in the USB card reader attached to my laptop, so that I when I put the card in the single-board computer, it will be all ready

Re: Disabling some services indivually and easily (nut)

2006-09-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 19.09.06 01:00, Marc SCHAEFER wrote: >I wanted an administratively easy way to disable a service from >running, something that could be specified at the LILO or GRUB boot >prompt. > >I proposed to disable this service in run level 3, while still >leaving it running at level

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Mumia W..
On 09/20/2006 01:29 AM, Welly Hartanto wrote: I've managed to create an application for reading some bytes of data from an id card reader connected into a serial port. But it's under Win$ ... So, now I've been trying for at least capturing the data then convert it the way I want. The convertion i

Re: Recent upgrade causes drive lettering scheme to alternate from hda to hde

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Adam Rosi-Kessel wrote: I recently upgrade a perfectly functional sarge laptop to etch. It has one standard internal IDE hard drive. Now, about half the time it boots up as hda, and the other half the time it boots up as hde. After the initramfs stage, if the drive is identified as hde, it fails

Re: dictionary packages for Gnome desktop

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Ralph Katz wrote: On 09/20/2006, Timothy Musson wrote: The GNOME dictionary's really nice, but it's sometimes handy to have a quick dictionary on the command line, too. If you're only checking spelling, the "look" command is fast: $ look string Just off the top of my head... $ look teas

Re: DNS queries with UDP and TCP

2006-09-20 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 18.09.06 15:31, Alejandro wrote: > Hi people, I have some low rate problems in my network and I think it > could be the DNS servers from my ISP I use in my proxy (squid) installed > in a Debian Sarge machine, they are open DNS's and they could have a big > traffic load. > > But also I have read

Log of shutdown procedure

2006-09-20 Thread Larry Irwin
We are having an odd issue with shutdown on Etch - 2.6.12 #1 SMP Tue Jan 3 17:35:30 EST 2006 i686 GNU/Linux. The symptom only occurs if we let a system sit idle for a day or 2 with at least one person logged in as root at the command prompt, but not running anything. The next day, if you type:

Re: (no subject)

2006-09-20 Thread Mike McCarty
operator wrote: Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? Thank You I've noticed a distressing increase in the number of e-mails here which request return receipts. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} This message made from 100% recycled bits. You hav

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 18:41, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed September 20 2006 05:21, John Kelly wrote: > > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! > > This outfit is more like spam nazi's. What they are trying to

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Miles Fidelman
George Borisov wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: This outfit is more like spam nazi's. What they are trying to do is commendable, the way they do it is not. Is it to early in the thread to bring up Godwin's Law? :-p Apparantly not :-) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: k3b substitute

2006-09-20 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 9/20/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:18 +, operator wrote: > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? xcdroast gnomebaker bonfire gcombust I've used gnomebaker and I like it. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread George Borisov
Alan Ianson wrote: > > This outfit is more like spam nazi's. What they are trying to do is > commendable, the way they do it is not. Is it to early in the thread to bring up Godwin's Law? :-p -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Transfering installed package list to another computer

2006-09-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 22:10 +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: > I want to setup another computer (and later reinstall the current one) with > the > same package list currently installed. > > Is this possible to do with aptitude (I know that it is possible to some > extent with dpkg but that looses the a

Re: k3b substitute

2006-09-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2006-09-19 at 13:18 +, operator wrote: > Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? xcdroast gnomebaker bonfire gcombust -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: who closed my networking ports?

2006-09-20 Thread Roger Haxton
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 05:53, Dr Bean wrote: > I have exim but port 23 is closed. FWIW, exim is an SMTP server which would listen on port 25, not port 23. -- ~R~ -- This fortune intentionally left blank. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: spamcop

2006-09-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed September 20 2006 05:21, John Kelly wrote: > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! This outfit is more like spam nazi's. What they are trying to do is commendable, the way they do it is not. -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Sep 20, 2006 at 01:29:44PM +0700, Welly Hartanto wrote: > #Loop through the whole data > for ($i=0; $i < (length($gotit)); $i++) { > my $c = substr($gotit, $i, 1); > $c1 = $c & 0xF0; #get the high nibble > $c1 = $c1 >> 4; # >

Re: adding fonts to system

2006-09-20 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi. i have a slew of fonts from my office machines (macs) & would >> like to know if it's possible to add these to my debian system (etch). MB> Yes, it is. I don?t know the ?official? way, but here is how I do that always: MB> 1. Place the font

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2006-09-20 Thread operator
Could someone recommend a substitute for k3b? Thank You

Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

2006-09-20 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 20 Sep 2006 15:09:05 +0200 Kaspar Fischer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I have a very basic problem and would be glad to be pointed into > the right direction: Some time ago, I installed debian-sarge and > was forced to install a version of samba that was only available >

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Albert Dengg
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Sep 19, 2006 at 11:22:04PM +0100, David Mulcahy wrote: > Hello All > > Just did a sarge -> etch upgrade. > > Aptitude update , upgrade complained about libfam0 problems and stopped. > > apt-get worked. Although I have in the passed disable

Re: sarge upgrade and preempt kernel

2006-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
David Mulcahy escribe: > On my hardware a fully functional desktop is still a problem (eg music and > video) without a preemptive kernel so if debian is aiming at this sector then > a preempt kernel would be most welcome. Desktop optimized (preemptive) kernels are still not a trend in mainstream

Re: Problem with apt-get after enabling unstable tree

2006-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Kaspar Fischer escribe: > How can I do this, i.e., tell apt-get to uninstall everything > from unstable and install "the same" packages from the stable > tree? I currently end up having tons of dependency/etc. problems. Google for apt pinning. In an ideal world, you can roll back your system to st

Re: kernel --append-to-version

2006-09-20 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
KS escribe: > ~/$ make-kpkg -rev Custom.060919 kernel_image I use: make-kpkg --revision `hostname`.`date +%Y%m%d` Or I change `hostname` by a different hostname if I am targetting different configuration options. Thus looking at package name it reminds my why and when I compiled that kernel. Co

Re: Cyber Cafe Manager

2006-09-20 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
On 9/20/06, Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~$ apt-cache search cafe tuxpuck - "Shufflepuck Cafe" Clone zbdesk - program for administering internet cafes. (client) zeiberbude - program for administering internet cafes. (server) ~$ apt-cache show zeiberbude Package: zeiberbude Description

Re: OT: Some advice on perl: read byte to hex string

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Tuesday 19 September 2006 23:29, Welly Hartanto wrote: > for ($i=0; $i < (length($gotit)); $i++) { > my $c = substr($gotit, $i, 1); > $c1 = $c & 0xF0; #get the high nibble > $c1 = $c1 >> 4; # > $c1 = $c1 & 0x0F;

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