Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-01 Thread Zoran Kolic
> I am currently running a Linksys WRT54G server with the factory > firmware. I have set it up to use wireless. I have purposefully not > encrypted or protected the WAP because i want others to be able to use > it if they want to (doing my part for society and all that). I do, > however, look at th

Re: Preventing Reboot.

2006-11-01 Thread Zoran Kolic
> As I've mentioned elsewhere I have a bouncing box and it's annoying. If > it halted instead of rebooting that might help me see something useful > on the screen. Is there a way of forcing the box to *not* reboot? Is > there a way of modifying the system so it halts on a crash rather than > re

Problems with Wine on Debian AMD 64

2006-11-01 Thread Glen M
Hi , I'm a total noob to linux so bare with me, I've had a friend help me through alot of this so far. I am trying to get 'wine' installed with 32bit libraries in order to run some 32 bit applications. Initially I started with installing ia32-libs and ia32-libs-dev packages as per http://wiki.wi

Re: spamassassin puzzles?

2006-11-01 Thread Raquel
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 10:31:13 +0800 "Gilbert Wong" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thx for your reply. > > Removing files from "TRUSTED_RULESETS" in /etc/rulesdujour/config > > doesn't remove them from /etc/mail/spamassassin. Once you've > > removed a ruleset from the config file, then manually delet

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-01 Thread Julian De Marchi
Take advantage of the DMZ option the router offers you. using this it should redirect all traffic to the DMZ. Another option would be to put linux on the router. OpenWrt is a good choice, or DD-WRT i think is another alternative. I have succesful placed open-wrt on my asus router and it works like

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: > "Infinitely opening windows" != "the NY Times popping open a > 'sidebar' window". And there are lots of sites that do that. Too > many to whitelist. Not in my experience. I haven't noticed any reduced functionality from not having popups. In fact it's kept me out of so

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/2/06, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * cd-ripper [ lame ] I was not aware that lame can rip CD's. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: I'm looking for an alternative to Evolution, and wonder if Sylpheed can access MS-Exchange accounts. Anything else that does? The last time I looked into GUI mail clients, the popular ones with active support were Thunderbird, Evolution, Sylpheed, and Balsa. But I'v

fstab entries for external USB hard drives led to fsck.ext3 failure on boot, bug?

2006-11-01 Thread Michael Bonert
I am writing in follow-up to an earlier message called '[EMAIL PROTECTED] fsck! On boot it dies... yet drive okay?!?' which can be found here: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg03405.html and the follow-up: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg03563.html (thanks Dav

Re: Returned mail: Data format error

2006-11-01 Thread ccrc
I am changing my e-mail address' away from email.com. Please update your email program to my new address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thanks -Chris. (You will recieve this email everytime you send to this account from this day forward)

Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, I'm looking for an alternative to Evolution, and wonder if Sylpheed can access MS-Exchange accounts. Anything else that does? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/2/06, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the sum of all >> programs' RSS exceeds your RAM size, your system will thrash, and >> thrashing is not good. > What does thrashing mean? An example of thrash

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: What does thrashing mean? Literally, "thrashing" means beating repetedly. In this context it is being used figuratively. There are two possible meanings in this regard. One of them is when disc is being cached in faster memory (these days, RAM), but the algorithm fo

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Brad Sims
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 10:53 am, Andrei Popescu wrote: > For someone like me who grew-up with Windows, icewm was a good choice. > I didn't want all the bloat in KDE or Gnome and, after some tweaking, > icewm has gotten pretty close to my (good or bad) habits from Windows. I use KDE or wmake

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 02 November 2006 02:08, gniuxiao wrote: > Yes, I know their usage, I just want to know what their "full names" are > :-) > > e.g. "Editor MACroS" is the full name for "emacs". I believe apt is for Advanced Package Tool. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the sum of all programs' RSS exceeds your RAM size, your system will thrash, and thrashing is not good. What does thrashing mean? An example of thrashing: You're hauling a ton of live chickens in a van rated for a h

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/1/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm not discounting the RES/SHR columns because they are indeed > interesting, but not entirely useful and as someone pointed out .. a bit > cryptic. RES (aka RSS) is actually extremely important: if the s

Re: erading MS word files

2006-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/31/06, Zoran Kolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can always send them PDFs as a revenge... Don't be so althruistic! Send them postscript file. Zoran Or perhaps a .dvi file? :-) Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: mrxvt and unicode locale

2006-11-01 Thread cothrige
* Micha Feigin ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I tried setting my locale to unicode as is the default with a new debian > install and set a unicode font with mrxvt > > Man pages show a bunch empty rectangles for some characters which are not > drawn > correctly and it won't show hebrew text (which s

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:05:17AM +, Tyler wrote: > Hi, > > I just realised that I don't have the emacs manual installed on my > laptop. I've got a desktop and an older laptop, and all three machines > run etch with emacs installed. The other two have lots of info entries > for emacs, incl

Re: PUBLIC GPG KEY REVOCATION FOR DAVID DOWNEY

2006-11-01 Thread john hacker
If this is David Downey or you know David Downey, please call John Hacker at (904) 759-2765 or (800) 499-2502 ASAP. Thanks so much for your time. We miss you, and just want to see what's up and how you're doing. Might have something right up your alley, but none the less would love to sa

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: IMO, putting a different release on this machine is NOT recommended, and should be deferred until it is running stably again. I prefer trying to fix one problem at a time. If you install new software and it acts up, then is it the new software? Is it the

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-01 Thread Russell L. Harris
Tyler wrote: I just realised that I don't have the emacs manual installed on my laptop. I've got a desktop and an older laptop, and all three machines run etch with emacs installed. The other two have lots of info entries for emacs, including the main emacs manual. The new laptop, which was in

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread John Hasler
apt -> A Package Tool dpkg -> Debian PacKaGe -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-01 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello all, I am currently running a Linksys WRT54G server with the factory firmware. I have set it up to use wireless. I have purposefully not encrypted or protected the WAP because i want others to be able to use it if they want to (doing my part for society and all that). I do, however, look at

Re: the look of the bash

2006-11-01 Thread mike
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 11:40:28 +0100 Kay Smarczewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:26:56PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On 10/28/06 17:46, Kay Smarczewski wrote: > > > Hey, > > > > > > I have just a little questio

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread gniuxiao
Thanks, maybe I should google it first ;-) On 11/2/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:08:35AM +0800, gniuxiao wrote: > Yes, I know their usage, I just want to know what their "full names" are :-) > > e.g. "Editor MACroS" is the full name for "emacs". Found by g

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread gniuxiao
Thanks~ On 11/2/06, Kelly Clowers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/1/06, gniuxiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg > mean? Thanks. AFAIK dpkg means Debian Package and apt means Advanced Package Tool. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSU

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Hugh Lawson
Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This thread got me to wondering about my own floppies, which I have > not checked in some time. I tried to access several floppies, all > unsuccessfully. I OTOH just mounted successfully some floppies that were made about fifteen years ago. -- Hugh La

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:08:35AM +0800, gniuxiao wrote: > Yes, I know their usage, I just want to know what their "full names" are :-) > > e.g. "Editor MACroS" is the full name for "emacs". Found by googling for "wikipedia apt", first link, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Packaging_Too

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/1/06, gniuxiao <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg mean? Thanks. AFAIK dpkg means Debian Package and apt means Advanced Package Tool. Cheers, Kelly -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: spamassassin puzzles?

2006-11-01 Thread Gilbert Wong
Thx for your reply.Removing files from "TRUSTED_RULESETS" in /etc/rulesdujour/config doesn't remove them from /etc/mail/spamassassin.  Once you'veremoved a ruleset from the config file, then manually delete it fromthe spamassassin directory.That means, after I remove a rule in TRUSTED_RULESETS, i h

emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-01 Thread Tyler
Hi, I just realised that I don't have the emacs manual installed on my laptop. I've got a desktop and an older laptop, and all three machines run etch with emacs installed. The other two have lots of info entries for emacs, including the main emacs manual. The new laptop, which was installed

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread gniuxiao
Thanks for your more clear explanation~ ;-) On 11/2/06, Joshua J. Kugler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:46, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote: > > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg > > mean? Than

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread gniuxiao
Yes, I know their usage, I just want to know what their "full names" are :-) e.g. "Editor MACroS" is the full name for "emacs". Thanks. On 11/2/06, Pollywog <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote: > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what doe

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:46, Pollywog wrote: > On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote: > > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg > > mean? Thanks. > > apt and dpkg are commands used to install or remove Debian packages. If > you have used RedHat

Re: What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday 02 November 2006 01:41, gniuxiao wrote: > I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg > mean? Thanks. apt and dpkg are commands used to install or remove Debian packages. If you have used RedHat derivatives, dpkg is similar in function to rpm. See the Debi

What does apt and dpkg mean?

2006-11-01 Thread gniuxiao
I know that rm means remove, ls means list, but what does apt and dpkg mean? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filesystem size

2006-11-01 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 02:25:07PM -0500, Ed Curtis wrote: > I seem to have a problem with one of my systems. At least filesystem > reporting makes it appear that way. My / filesystem on a system is 1.9G in > size and is reporting via 'df -h' 100% use. If I check it against 'du > -hcxL' it says on

Re: mrxvt and unicode locale

2006-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/1/06, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I tried setting my locale to unicode as is the default with a new debian install and set a unicode font with mrxvt Man pages show a bunch empty rectangles for some characters which are not drawn correctly and it won't show hebrew text (which sh

mrxvt and unicode locale

2006-11-01 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried setting my locale to unicode as is the default with a new debian install and set a unicode font with mrxvt Man pages show a bunch empty rectangles for some characters which are not drawn correctly and it won't show hebrew text (which shows up as junk as it seems that it's attempted to be d

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Mike McCarty wrote: IMO, putting a different release on this machine is NOT recommended, and should be deferred until it is running stably again. I prefer trying to fix one problem at a time. If you install new software and it acts up, then is it the new software? Is it the old hardware getting

Preventing Reboot.

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
As I've mentioned elsewhere I have a bouncing box and it's annoying. If it halted instead of rebooting that might help me see something useful on the screen. Is there a way of forcing the box to *not* reboot? Is there a way of modifying the system so it halts on a crash rather than reboots? T

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 21:07:52 +, michael wrote: [ snip: some initial misunderstandings ] > I want to be able to use .eps files. But when I run "latex" (which is a > symlink for pdflatex) it kaputs since it wants a .pdf/.png file. > > Thus my question is "is there a way I can have the 'ol

bug with man ?

2006-11-01 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I just updated and upgraded (unstable) and when I do "man apt-get" I get: Remise en forme de apt-get(8), attendez SVP... /tmp/zmanP8sFGn:35: warning: can't find numbered character 160 /tmp/zmanP8sFGn:35: warning: can't find numbered character 160 /tmp/zmanP8sFGn:40: warning:

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-01 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Here goes my new list (If you don't use certain things, please leave >> the brackets blank like I did for audio editor, instead of leaving >> them occupied with previous entries; this is to make the counting more >> accurate): >> * audio editor [ ] * au

Re: Unofficial Firefox packages?

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Zbigniew Wiech wrote: > > > If you mean FF 2.0, it is in experimental. > > That's 2.0-beta2, which the add-on I'm trying refuses to install on. > I'm also intrested in FF2 since it is officially released now. > Is there an ETA into Debian? > It would be too bad if political/license stuff preve

Re: document processing

2006-11-01 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Douglas Tutty writes: > I'm revisiting how I make documents. I have been using lout since I > started with linux in 2000 but it has the following shortcomimgs: I would recommend DocBook. > Difficult to change things like margins With DocBook this isn't as straightforward as with WYSIWYG

RE: Re: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
Well...I did this... apt-get remove --purge enlightenment Guess what...it errored when the machine first came up but once I accepted the default session everything was fine... Think I will leave Enlightenment alone for a while. Thanks all, Stephen From: n

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 15:48, Mark Grieveson wrote: [snip] > That can work effectively. I set up something like this for clients in > a homeless shelter a while ago. To prevent people changing the > preferences in Mozilla (or Firefox), from the local host proxy

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-01 Thread Mark Grieveson
You should not need a separate machine to run DansGuardian (and e.g. > tinyproxy). They'll run on the "main" machine and you would simply need > to point your browser to the "localhost" proxy. > > Of course there is nothing to stop your daughter reconfiguring the > browser to bypass DansGuard

Re: micro debian

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 11:16:39PM +0800, Tim Post wrote: I've been working on some very task specific Xen images based on Sarge, and been playing with Oracle's 'Rasta' system to help make network pxe pushes a little easier to tailor from a single root. Unfortunately wh

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 18:15:59 +, michael wrote: > > [...] > > > It was more that even running 'latex' the graphicsx won't accept eps > > files (whereas the older 'latex' (linked to etex on that box) does). > > Ta,M > > Do you spec

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 11/1/06, Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Precisely! The last two that I actually used were kcalc and kate. They have been replaced by galculator and SciTE and I am quite happy about it. Nothing left to start up artsd and interfere with my sound, or to startup a million kdeinit proc

Re: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT

2006-11-01 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006 11:06:27 -0500 "Stephen Yorke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All, > > I just installed Enlightenment on my system...now my Fluxbox will not > launch. > Has anyone seen this before? > > My setup is: > Debian Etch > GDM > Fluxbox > Enlightenment > > When I install 'E' I was

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Zbigniew Wiech wrote: " * * * but instead are given the following lecture: "mount: i could not determine the filesystem type, and none was specified". The answer, of course, is, "it's a floppy, you stupid machine. "Floppy" is not the name of a file system, and more than one file system ha

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: A server which has been running steadily for years is beginning to reboot. To the best of my knowledge, nothing has changed. It is a dual-processor PIII. It runs stable. [snip] Sounds like a hardware problem. I suggest shutting down, powering down, then unplugging. Open

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 09:43 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > [...] > > > I had no trouble playing it on my Sarge box with flashplayer-mozilla > 7.0.68.0-0.0. > > -- > Marc Shapiro > [...] Neither had I. Check if you ha

Re: How install debian if my machine has SATA?

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Wednesday 01 November 2006 16:05, Gabo wrote: > Hello listers i have a machine with SATA hard drive but i can´t > install debian because de debian cd installer don`t detect the SATA. > > What version i can install? > > I have a intel pentium d processor > Board intel D945GNT > SATA hard drive >

Re: reading MS word files

2006-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:31:56PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 01 10:59 -0600]: > > Notes' behavior can also be changed, but as you say, almost no one does. > > By the user or does an administrator have to do it globally? I don't > find its interface v

Re: How install debian if my machine has SATA?

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 14:05, Gabo wrote: > Hello listers i have a machine with SATA hard drive but i can´t > install debian because de debian cd installer don`t detect the SATA. Which Debian CD do you have? > What version i can install? The Etch/testing CD.

Re: Filesystem size

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 13:25, Ed Curtis wrote: > I seem to have a problem with one of my systems. At least filesystem > reporting makes it appear that way. My / filesystem on a system is 1.9G in > size and is reporting via 'df -h' 100% use. If I check it against

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-01 Thread M.Baldinelli
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are get bored by this to please pardon me. * audio player [ *

How install debian if my machine has SATA?

2006-11-01 Thread Gabo
Hello listers i have a machine with SATA hard drive but i can´t install debian because de debian cd installer don`t detect the SATA. What version i can install? I have a intel pentium d processor Board intel D945GNT SATA hard drive Note: i probe debian for amd64.

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-11-01 Thread Al Eridani
On 11/1/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And just who is "She" Al ? I don't know and I don't care. Do you? If so, you seem to be the only one. I don't know and I don't care who you are, either. To paraphrase you again: "So, what's the problem Stephen?" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: orthography corrector in gaim

2006-11-01 Thread Eeltje
João Schmutz schreef: > how to install orthography corrector in gaim ? > > -- > Att > > Debian User > João Schmutz > Geek by nature, linux by choice > I think spell check functions automatically if you have installed Aspell, of course with the languages that you use. -- Eeltje

What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-01 Thread David Goodenough
I have a system which is connected to a CISCO switch which is set not to auto-negotiate, and at the server end I have an ethernet port which needs the tg3 driver. I need to set the media to 100baseTx-FD but it seems to default to 100baseTx-HD. The CISCO switch is set to FD. As far as I can tell

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multip

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
George Borisov wrote: Dougie Nisbet wrote: I'm not sure how to go about tracking this down. My searching of the archives shows that these symptoms could describe a faulty physical component, such as memory or PSU. That would be my suggestion as well. You should check that all of the fans in t

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-01 Thread Dougie Nisbet
David Jardine wrote: "Tucked away in the loft", you say. Is dust building up somewhere along your power supply line? In a multiple-socket extension, perhaps. A long shot, but I once had this problem. I think the dust caused momentary short circuits, not long enough to blow a fuse but lon

Filesystem size

2006-11-01 Thread Ed Curtis
I seem to have a problem with one of my systems. At least filesystem reporting makes it appear that way. My / filesystem on a system is 1.9G in size and is reporting via 'df -h' 100% use. If I check it against 'du -hcxL' it says only 113M is in use. What else can I use to check it? The drives are

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Bill Marcum
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +, michael wrote: > Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find > and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single > run? > > eg if I run > find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd > and find gives more than

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 18:15:59 +, michael wrote: [...] > It was more that even running 'latex' the graphicsx won't accept eps > files (whereas the older 'latex' (linked to etex on that box) does). > Ta,M Do you specify the name of the eps file with or without the extension ".eps"? Newer ve

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:24:54AM -0800 or thereabouts, Al Eridani wrote: > On 10/31/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Is Netscape not included in "all web browsers" ? I realize that English > >isn't your first language, but aren't you being rather anal ? > > > >Anyway, I gave a resourc

Re: WiFi: DWL-650 (original prism card) won't work with etch beta3

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:57:14 -0800, Sue Kim wrote: > I plug my DWL-650 (original prism card) into my laptop and it just > blinks and blinks and blinks, it doesn't pick up any APs. If I load my > old HDD with debian on it it works (gets the APs etc). > > This is with etch beta3 on the new HDD.

Re: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT

2006-11-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/11/06 13:10), Stephen Yorke wrote: > I do not have either of these files in my home folder...hmm... Caveat - I don't use a display manager (gdm) but I have an .Xsession file: gkrellm & /usr/local/bin/firefox & x-terminal-emulator -T "Mutt" -e /usr/bin/mutt & /usr/bin/icedove & exec ope

Re: reading MS word files

2006-11-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 01 10:59 -0600]: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:07:50PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > Off topic: How does Lotus Notes fiercely force its users to top post? > > > > I don't know Lotus Notes, so tha

Re: WHERE NETSCAPE4

2006-11-01 Thread Al Eridani
On 10/31/06, Stephen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Is Netscape not included in "all web browsers" ? I realize that English isn't your first language, but aren't you being rather anal ? Anyway, I gave a resource I knew to be good. I didn't happen to have the Netscape URL handy. So, what's the probl

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 19:03 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > > and the other pdftex. And how be

RE: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT

2006-11-01 Thread Stephen Yorke
I do not have either of these files in my home folder...hmm... From: Clive Menzies [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wed 11/1/2006 11:59 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT On (01/11/06 11:06), Stephen Yorke wrote: > A

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
The care you took to compile this one is well-appreciated. On 10/31/06, Jeronimo Pellegrini <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > e-mail client [ mutt + offlineimap + fetchmail + mairix ] > file manager [ bash + find + grep + sed ] Superb way of showing user-habit scenario... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 12:44:02 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been > > a question during inst

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-11-01 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >>> Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > >>> 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > >>> centred b

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:42:26PM +, michael wrote: > On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > > > All use

Re: xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:39:06PM +, michael wrote: > Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find > and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single > run? > > eg if I run > find . -name 'me*' -pr

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 10:19, Rodney D. Myers wrote: My friends 6 year old daughter like this clip; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5NletBOvg And he was wondering how to go about getting the swf file to something linux can edit/read?

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 12:44 -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'

xargs and max chars

2006-11-01 Thread michael
Anybody got a quick solution to how to use xargs in corp with, say, find and ls when there's more chars than xarg (see -s) likes for a single run? eg if I run find . -name 'me*' -print | xargs ls -altd and find gives more than circa 20k chars then it appears that ls is run multiple times with the

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:51:17AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Hi Rodney > > There is (not in Debian) software to download youtube videos. This will > > save them in the flv format. IIRC you can use mencode with w32codes to > > transcode the format.

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 05:15:48PM +, michael wrote: > > All useful info but my main Q was how come one installation uses etex > and the other pdftex. And how best to 'standardize'? There may have been > a question during installation about pdflat

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Micha Feigin wrote: On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:55:40 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Douglas Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 31, 2006 at 03:40:48PM +, Clive Menzies wrote: On (31/10/06 14:51), B. Hoffmann wrote: I' ve been installing purely a base sytem

Re: flavours of LaTeX

2006-11-01 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:12 +0100, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > Stefan Schwarzer wrote: > >> I've two Debian boxes. One one (sarge) it appears that `latex` is really > >> `e-TeX` whereas on the other (unstable) it appears that `latex` is > >> really `pdfeTex`. It must have been like this for a while an

Re: Epiphany a memory hog

2006-11-01 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi. Tshepang Lekhonkhobe, 01.11.2006 17:54: > On 11/1/06, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Turn off caching. > > I can't find any option to do that. Enter „about:config“ into your address bar and filter with „cache“; „browser.cache.disk.enable“ seems to be what you’re searching for. R

Re: ENLIGHTENMENT...DANG NABBIT

2006-11-01 Thread Clive Menzies
On (01/11/06 11:06), Stephen Yorke wrote: > All, > > I just installed Enlightenment on my system...now my Fluxbox will not launch. > > Has anyone seen this before? > > My setup is: > Debian Etch > GDM > Fluxbox > Enlightenment > > When I install 'E' I was running in my Fluxbox environment..

Re: Epiphany a memory hog

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/1/06, John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Turn off caching. I can't find any option to do that. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Epiphany a memory hog

2006-11-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/1/06, Gnu_Raiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I've been running Epiphany-browser on Fluxbox on my minimal 128MB PIII >system for 6 days non-stop. Virtual memory usage now stands at 220MB >according to top. It seems that most Mozilla based bro

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:19:51AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: > And he was wondering how to go about getting the swf file to something > linux can edit/read? Linux can read and edit swfs, if you mean "software running on Linux". Otherwise, how about a screen capture program? -- Carl Fink

Re: reading MS word files

2006-11-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 06:07:50PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Off topic: How does Lotus Notes fiercely force its users to top post? > > > I don't know Lotus Notes, so that's a not a rhetorical question. [snip] > MS Outlook's default behavi

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 31 Oct 2006, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > I use icewm. It does everything I want without the struggle of adding > > features to a less featurful wm and is low on resource usage. It must > > be fast because it doesn't get in the way on the 486. >

Re: swf to avi or other format

2006-11-01 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 10:49, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 08:19:51AM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: >> My friends 6 year old daughter like this clip; >> >> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cF5NletBOvg >> >> And he was wondering how to go about gettin

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