results: Debian-user's favourite FLOSS

2006-11-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi debian-user, Here is a summary of the mini-poll that I conducted recently on Debian-user: Firefox and GIMP reign as per my expecations, just like they did last year. I was however surprised that there weren't any Krita, Mono, Beagle, Tomboy, or Banshee fans, with users sticking to Vim, xpdf,

Not Sending Mail

2006-11-02 Thread Raquel
I have a server thats been serving me well for about 2-1/2 years. It's been running Debian Stable, Sendmail, Dovecot for pop3 & imap, SquirrelMail for webmail. Yesterday I really screwed it up. I've nearly gotten everything put back together but there's a problem that I can't understand, perhaps

Re: grub choices

2006-11-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
Mark Grieveson wrote: Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu > choice for it. How do I go abo

Re: New LCD Monitor

2006-11-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
Russell L. Harris wrote: -> the horizontal scan rate range, in Hz -> the vertical refresh rate range, in kHz Correction: -> the horizontal scan rate range, in kHz (typically, 30 to 100) -> the vertical refresh rate range, in Hz (typically 50 to 80) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: grub choices

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I installed ms-dos, and then shrank it, and subsequently > installed Debian in its own partition. Debian's grub, however, did not > see ms-dos as an operating system, and, therefore, did not set up a menu > choice for it. How do I go about setting up a menu choi

Re: New LCD Monitor

2006-11-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
Raquel wrote: I'm running Sarge. I've just gotten a new 19-inch LCD screen because my current monitor is going. I'm going to want to hook up and configure (X11) the new monitor. Do I need to know anything special when configuring for it? You'll need to tell the xorg configuration dialogue:

Re: X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 02 November 2006 22:32, Matt Miller wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:50:06 +0100, "Florian Kulzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:03 -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > > > Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. > > > > please post the

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/2/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If you've been using Evolution to access an Exchange server, then > > Outlook Web Access is enabled on the server, in which case you can > > use a web browser for the same purpose. > > How do access it with the web browser? > > Depends on h

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-02 Thread Pollywog
On Thursday November 2, 2006 8:32 pm, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > > Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that > > someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your > > mail and take your TV while you're at work? > > See, it does not really hurt me if they use

Re: X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-02 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thursday 02 November 2006 22:32, Matt Miller wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:50:06 +0100, "Florian Kulzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:03 -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > > > Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. > > > > please post the

Re: X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-02 Thread Matt Miller
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:50:06 +0100, "Florian Kulzer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:03 -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > > Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. > > please post the output of the following commands: > > lspci | egrep -i 'video|

Re: Log File Permissions Issue

2006-11-02 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 01:39:44PM +1100, Duncan McDonald wrote: > Hi All, > > I recently installed Awstats on my machine (running Sarge) and everything > seems to be working except that it seems to have trouble accessing the > Apache log files. > > As my log files belong to root and the group

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Thu, 02 Nov 2006 13:51:10 -0500 KS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which > came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The > 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with differen

Re: top(1) and the meaning of columns

2006-11-02 Thread Miles Bader
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> 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? In this case it means that the processes are trying t

Re: Display is jerky...........

2006-11-02 Thread M-L
On Friday 03 November 2006 13:42, John - shared this with us all: > On (03/11/06 12:49), M-L wrote: > > My screen jumps about and in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log I have this line:- > > > > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable > > > > I am wondering if someone might tell me what this means? > > ... > >

Log File Permissions Issue

2006-11-02 Thread Duncan McDonald
Hi All, I recently installed Awstats on my machine (running Sarge) and everything seems to be working except that it seems to have trouble accessing the Apache log files. As my log files belong to root and the group 'adm', when the Awstats generation script is run by 'www-data' it triggers a

Re: Window managers-which one?

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Tue, 31 Oct 2006 14:51:12 + "B. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My question is which wm to use, as Gnome install metacity by default and > I don't have experience with anything else. > > There's a lot of information on Google Groups and in the Debian > archives, however I have a mor

Re: udev

2006-11-02 Thread José Alburquerque
Seeker5528 wrote: On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:17:27 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious hassle with it when etch was testing. I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version a

Re: Display is jerky...........

2006-11-02 Thread John -
On (03/11/06 12:49), M-L wrote: > My screen jumps about and in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log I have this line:- > > (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable > > I am wondering if someone might tell me what this means? > ... > Any suggestions welcome. I had the same problem; one one machine, it was paral

Re: udev

2006-11-02 Thread Seeker5528
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:17:27 + Adam Hardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious > hassle with it when etch was testing. > > I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version > available. Mu

New LCD Monitor

2006-11-02 Thread Raquel
I'm running Sarge. I've just gotten a new 19-inch LCD screen because my current monitor is going. I'm going to want to hook up and configure (X11) the new monitor. Do I need to know anything special when configuring for it? -- Raquel

Display is jerky...........

2006-11-02 Thread M-L
My screen jumps about and in my /var/log/Xorg.0.log I have this line:- (EE) AIGLX: Screen 0 is not DRI capable I am wondering if someone might tell me what this means? This laptop has had no problems previously. There was a reference about this in Ubuntu and that this should be added to the /et

NETBOOT Debian

2006-11-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
All, I am trying to NETBOOT a Debian LiveCD and I have the PXE/TFTPBOOT Server setup fine...my DHCP Server is Microsoft...I get the boot and it starts the boot process fine. When I try to NETBOOT my image though it stops...I am sure I have a problem with 'default' file though. Question is:

Re: Xen 3.0.3 and VLAN

2006-11-02 Thread Tim Post
Bruno, Try using brctl to manually create the bridge, then pin the nic to the bridge manually (quick fix), if that works just toss something in init.d to do so. Better fix : I usually find its easier to rename network-script to network-dummy, and make the bridges in /etc/network/interfaces mysel

Strange problem when copying files

2006-11-02 Thread Christoph Anton Mitterer
Hi. I've just had the following strange problem. (using kernel 2.6.18.1) On a FAT32 partition I copied a directory with some big files (about 1,5GB at all) with cp -a . Afterwards i diffed the results (diff -q -r) and one file was different!!! I copied again,... this time another file was differ

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Andrew Ritchie
I had the need to set FD with mii-tool too. It had to do with the network card and the switch not playing nicely. The permanent fix was put the line eepro100 options=2100 in the /etc/modules file. Depending on your network card and how the driver is installed, that might be your best option.

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On 11/2/06, David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday 02 November 2006 18:52, Rodrigo Paes wrote: > Hi... > >Did u try using ethtool ? how about putting "spanning-tree > portfast" on the switch port ? I have not tried ethtool, why do you believe it might work differently? I do n

opennms and postgresql issues

2006-11-02 Thread Craig Russell
This is not strictly a debian question but since collectively the experience here is large I'm hoping someone here may be able to point me in the right direction. I have installed opennms 1.2.3-1 on Debian and it has been running extremely stable for about the last 20 months or so. Adding nod

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 November 2006 18:52, Rodrigo Paes wrote: > Hi... > >Did u try using ethtool ? how about putting "spanning-tree > portfast" on the switch port ? I have not tried ethtool, why do you believe it might work differently? I do not have control of the switch, so I can not change that.

Re: compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 04:27:01PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Thanks in advance for the help > > $ wajig show debian-builder > Package: debian-builder That will not help. (Speaking as upstream author of that tool). To rebuild a Debian package the correct way you need three things: 1

Re: OT? Linux disk file system design details

2006-11-02 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 02:33:33PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: From: Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: OT? Linux disk file system design details Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murp

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:51:10PM -0500, KS wrote: > Hello all, > > I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which > came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The > 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with different > partitions

Re: compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 15:05, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Dear list, > > I am running sarge, and I am going to compile a program which is not in > sarge but in testing. I have downloaded the source file together with > the *.diff file from the ftp.debian.org si

Re: OT? Linux disk file system design details

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 15:33, Paul E Condon wrote: > I'm trying to learn more about how data on disk is organized into > directories and files. I understand how it is that a directory is > really just another file, but marked in such a way that it is subject > t

Re: bug with man ?

2006-11-02 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:42:11PM -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: From: Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian users Subject: Re: bug with man ? X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on murphy.debian.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-3.6 required=4

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-11-02 Thread Gerard Robin
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 03:20:49PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: From: Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I was also confused by this sub-thread, so I tried to research the "girlfriend" issue: $ apt-cache search girlfriend psad - The Port Scan Attack Detector $ apt-cache show psad | grep -i g

compiling programs in debian way

2006-11-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Dear list, I am running sarge, and I am going to compile a program which is not in sarge but in testing. I have downloaded the source file together with the *.diff file from the ftp.debian.org site. I have installed all the required *-dev dependences (the sarge version of them) too. I would like t

OT? Linux disk file system design details

2006-11-02 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm trying to learn more about how data on disk is organized into directories and files. I understand how it is that a directory is really just another file, but marked in such a way that it is subject to special handling by the OS. But what about inodes and data blocks (i.e. sectors)? A file of a

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread Joey Hess
Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > > but there is a problem that affect all debian mirrors: > > old packages exists with a corresponding Packages/Sources file > > when new packages are moved in, old packages are removed > > the Packages/Sources file m

Re: X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:43:03 -0700, Matt Miller wrote: > Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. > It takes painful seconds for command prompt output to scroll by, and > scrolling in GUI windows is also quite slow and jumpy. Moving a window > around on the scree

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-02 Thread srg krn
The best way to acomplish this is using ettercap on your linux box. If the WRT is configured as a bridge (not a layer 3 router) between wireless and LAN you can do the following. With ettercap you can do that the wireless client thinks that the MAC addr of the router is the MAC addr of your linux

Re: cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-02 Thread Kent West
schmity wrote: Here is the info. Looks like the machine is named Sandstorm instead of Linuxbox. Sandstorm is what I had intended the workgroup name to be for my network. Can I change this so that the computername is Linuxbox? Yes. The two main files to change are /etc/hostname and /etc/host

Re: erading MS word files

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 07:08:54PM +0100, Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote: > On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:09:00 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > > On 10/31/06, Zoran Kolic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> You can always send them PDFs as a revenge

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 03:59:36PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: > but there is a problem that affect all debian mirrors: > old packages exists with a corresponding Packages/Sources file > when new packages are moved in, old packages are removed > the Packages/Sources file may not match while this tran

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread tom arnall
On Thursday 02 November 2006 12:59, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:24:34AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > > Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble > > you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc? > > Hi tom, > it depends upon which flavor of De

Re: cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-02 Thread schmity
Here is the info. Looks like the machine is named Sandstorm instead of Linuxbox. Sandstorm is what I had intended the workgroup name to be for my network. Can I change this so that the computername is Linuxbox? Linuxbox:/home/brent# cat /etc/hosts 127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localho

Re: delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 09:24:34AM -0800, tom arnall wrote: > Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble > you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc? > Hi tom, it depends upon which flavor of Debian you use: with stable, you should be able to upgrade to no

Xen 3.0.3 and VLAN

2006-11-02 Thread Bruno . Voigt
Hi, has anyone experience with a system configuration using xen 3.0.x and vlan ? The box is connected to a cisco switch via 802.11q and has access to two vlans. in /etc/network/interfaces instead of eth0 only eth0.2 is configured. auto eth0.2 iface eth0.2 inet static address 10.0.0.1 netmask 2

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-02 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Do you also leave your front door open (not just unlocked), so that someone can come take a piss in your bathroom and maybe read your mail and take your TV while you're at work? See, it does not really hurt me if they use my network, other than bandwidth. That is why I want to be able to monitor

laptop install and drivers

2006-11-02 Thread ChadDavis
Hey.  This may be a dumb question, but . . . I'm doing my first install on a laptop.  I have found that I need to track down drivers for both my ethernet and wireless cards.  I already found them, I think, but I am curious as to how I make them available to the install process.  The install talks a

timezone and clock error

2006-11-02 Thread Dean Allen Provins
Hello: It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last weekend. /etc/timezone contains: Canada/Mountain Anyone know how to fix them? Regards, Dean in Calgary -- Dean Provins, P. Ge

Re: Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
KS wrote: Hello all, I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with different partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /home, /tmp, /var and a couple

Re: Classic Gnubie accident SOLVED

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 11:57:00AM +, anthony wrote: > Thanks Jochen, > > I think your mail made several reasonable points and contrary to what > you say, I find it perfectly coherent. > > Its a tricky position to be in flailing around in a panic trying to > fix a system you need to be able t

Exim4 from rewrite or Bacula from rewrite

2006-11-02 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, I have a Debian box running a Bacula director (and fd and sd) and Exim4. Bacula sends some mails to inform of the status. Those mails appear from [EMAIL PROTECTED] while I'd like to appear from [EMAIL PROTECTED] where fq.dn is the FQDN of that computer. I see two possible solutions. Make

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 01:42:05PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:53:31 +0200 > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 11/2/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:59:37 +0200 > > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w

Re: bug with man ?

2006-11-02 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
On 11/1/06, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: after that the text appears in french but there are strange characters instead of the characters ê é è there is no problem for the english manpages. perhaps it's a bug ? Hi, maybe is a problem with your locales or something like that.

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 03:30 -0800, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept > > > > the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up > > > > or up I end up with HD. > >

Re: starting letter in latex

2006-11-02 Thread Steve Juranich
Russell L. Harris wrote: > roberto wrote: >> Hello everyone >> i am writing my thesis and i am trying to let the first letter of each >> Chapter to be larger than the others, more exactely to span over two >> lines. This is frequent in some book styled papers. >> >> Do you know how to achieve it?

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Rodrigo Paes
Hi... Did u try using ethtool ? how about putting "spanning-tree portfast" on the switch port ? []s rodrigo On 11/2/06, George Borisov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Goodenough wrote: > > Unfortunately post-up does not help, it is still marked as HD after an ifup. Hmm, that's pretty weird

Moving Unstable to new HDD

2006-11-02 Thread KS
Hello all, I have a 80GB+40GB pair of HDDs in my desktop. The 40GB is the one which came with the system and contains the original Windows installation. The 80GB hard disk contains the Debian unstable system with different partitions for /, /boot, /usr, /home, /tmp, /var and a couple of others fo

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread George Borisov
David Goodenough wrote: > > Unfortunately post-up does not help, it is still marked as HD after an ifup. Hmm, that's pretty weird. I only have one box where I have to force the media type option (to 10baseT-FD) and there I have it in a script that runs at S41 and it works just fine. :-/ -- Geo

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 November 2006 11:30, Tyler MacDonald wrote: > David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to > > > > accept the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in > > > > a pre-up or up I end up with HD. > >

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread Tyler MacDonald
David Goodenough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept > > > the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up > > > or up I end up with HD. > > > > I think maybe post-up would be more appropriate here. > Unfort

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-02 Thread Dougie Nisbet
Mike McCarty wrote: Dougie Nisbet wrote: [snip] But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20 seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box Of course, you can do anything you want with your own machine. It may cost you more than 20 seconds to g

Re: What is the Debian way to set ethernet media

2006-11-02 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 02 November 2006 10:25, George Borisov wrote: > David Goodenough wrote: > > If I issue a mii-tool -F 100baseTx-FD eth1 manually it seems to accept > > the FD, but if I put it in the /etc/network/interfaces file in a pre-up > > or up I end up with HD. > > I think maybe post-up would be m

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

2006-11-02 Thread Jim McCloskey
* Justin Piszcz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: |> did you add the new ones? |> |> Section "Files" |> # Per Xorg. |> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" |> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/" |> FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" |>

Re: erading MS word files

2006-11-02 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 11:40 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 20:09:00 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > 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. >

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-11-02 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and Thunder- > bird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those who are > get bored by this to please pardon me. * audio player

Re: mkinitrd question

2006-11-02 Thread Tim Post
On Thu, 2006-11-02 at 07:13 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > FATAL: Module suspend2ui_fbsplash not found. > FATAL: Module suspend2ui_text not found. > FATAL: Module suspend2ui_usplash not found. > > Question: > > These are "user built" modules and not kernel built modules, they don't >

Re: orthography corrector in gaim

2006-11-02 Thread charles norwood
On Wed, 2006-11-01 at 11:19 -0800, Eeltje wrote: > 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 > Asp

delaying upgrades dangerous?

2006-11-02 Thread tom arnall
Is it the case that the longer you wait between upgrades the more trouble you're likely to have with broken dependencies, etc? tom arnall north spit, ca usa -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diagnosing occassional random reboots

2006-11-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Dougie Nisbet wrote: [snip] But a hunch is a hunch, and I'm entitled to explore it. It costs me 20 seconds to rerun lilo and boot of a different kernel. With the box Of course, you can do anything you want with your own machine. It may cost you more than 20 seconds to give this a try. For

X Display Lagging in Etch

2006-11-02 Thread Matt Miller
Some weeks ago the X display on my Etch machine became terribly laggy. It takes painful seconds for command prompt output to scroll by, and scrolling in GUI windows is also quite slow and jumpy. Moving a window around on the screen is similarly suffering. I'm under Gnome. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Odd dhcpcd behaviour

2006-11-02 Thread cothrige
* Clive Menzies ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > dhcp3-client is the default client these days > > Might be worth a try > Many thanks Clive. I just installed this and rebooted with a successful internet connection. That is good news anyway, though it may be a one time only thing. Still, it is

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > *I* have absolutely *no* say as to whether my company uses Exchange > or not. I know the feeling. :-( -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Nov 01, 2006 at 10:35:48AM -0600, 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. NYT pops up a sidebar window? Huh, hadn't noticed... I have all my browsers config

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 10:13, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> But only for email. Not other useful things like calendar/meeting >> support. > > Indeed and if you don't like that, don't use such a proprietary > system. ;-) *I* have absolutely *no*

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > The FF plugin "NoScript", plus a hosts file with a long list of > advertiser sites pointed to 127.0.0.1 do the job of eliminating most > advertising. Host files? That's S old-school. :-p http://adblockplus.org http://www.littleyojik.co.uk/files/adblock_rules_20060627.t

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread George Borisov
Ron Johnson wrote: > > But only for email. Not other useful things like calendar/meeting > support. Indeed and if you don't like that, don't use such a proprietary system. ;-) -- George Borisov DXSolutions Ltd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Odd dhcpcd behaviour

2006-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/06 09:42), cothrige wrote: > Nope, I was wrong. I replaced dhcpcd with dhcp-client but nothing > actually changed. I still have about half of my boots coming up with > no internet connection. And with nothing at all coming up during boot > or in dmesg I cannot begin to guess what exact

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 04:18, George Borisov wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Hi, >> I'm looking for an alternative to Evolution, and wonder if Sylpheed >> can access MS-Exchange accounts. Anything else that does? > > If your Exchange server supports IMAP

Re: A Strange Networking Setup

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/01/06 21:26, Leonid Grinberg wrote: > 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

Re: GPL Parental Controls

2006-11-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/02/06 00:23, Steve Lamb wrote: > 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 have

Re: Odd dhcpcd behaviour

2006-11-02 Thread cothrige
* cothrige ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > This is very strange and confusing, but I think I may have it worked > out now. Nope, I was wrong. I replaced dhcpcd with dhcp-client but nothing actually changed. I still have about half of my boots coming up with no internet connection. And with noth

RE: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Stephen Yorke
Being more a M$ Engineer than *NIX Engineer... Outlook Web Access is installed by default on Exchange 2000 & 2003 so the links given before will should work unless your Exchange admin actually knows what he was doing and disabled the website. http://server.my.dom/exchange or https://server.my

Built openvz kernel (2.6.18-3). Now what?

2006-11-02 Thread David Baron
Bootup does NOT panic but produces a slew of undefined symbols. Cannot trap these but symbols of form UB_ seems most common (there are others). This kernel does not use an initrd so maybe I need to compile in some of the openvz stuff? Which ones? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Does anyone know?? RE: SQL-Ledger

2006-11-02 Thread John W. Foster
Is there supposed to be an example chart of accounts included in the .deb package of SQL-Ledger as distributed from Debian Stable? Is anyone having installation problems ? If so, have they any error messages displayed? Is anyone successful in setting it up from the .deb package? I am trying to

Re: cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-02 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/11/06 05:09), schmity wrote: > Newbie Here. The name of my linux machine is "linuxbox". I am unable > to ping this machine from that very machine. I tried the following: > > ping linuxbox > and > ping localhost > > neither of which worked. What is the output of $ cat /etc/hosts it sh

Re: Can Sylpheed access MS-Exchange

2006-11-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 12:53:31 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/2/06, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Nov 2006 06:59:37 +0200 > > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Hi, > > > I'm looking for an alternative to Evolution, and

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

2006-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I spent several hours this evening dealing with the consequences of an unintended Xorg upgrade, and I thought it might be worth reporting here in case others could learn from my experience. The upgrade was unintended only in the sense that all I really wanted to do wa

Re: Kernel error: DMA write timed out

2006-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrea Ganduglia wrote: From some days, my syslog overflows these messages: kernel: DMA write timed out kernel: parport0: BUSY timeout (1) in compat_write_block_pio prometeo:/var/log# uname -a Linux prometeo 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Thu Sep 7 04:39:15 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Can you help me t

cannot ping my own machine

2006-11-02 Thread schmity
Newbie Here. The name of my linux machine is "linuxbox". I am unable to ping this machine from that very machine. I tried the following: ping linuxbox and ping localhost neither of which worked. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-11-02 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi Doug. I just noticed your answer in the Debian forum archives to my question about floppies on the mailing list (I must have missed the response in email). Anyway, thanks, that's helpful. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

mkinitrd question

2006-11-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, This is a long shot, but bear with me please. I run a two-seater desktop with suspend2 in a 2.6.17.13-ck1 custom kernel. I use no initrd image. But with suspend2 you can have a user interface showing you what is happening in either text of fb. Text is good enough for me (TM) But on resu

Re: emacs manual and other missing info

2006-11-02 Thread Tyler
Russell L. Harris wrote: (1) Go to the Debian web site, find the package search page, search for "emacs21", "xemacs21-gnome-nomule", etc., I already tried this, and found nothing. I just tried again, and while there are no info files included with etch or sarge, there are a whole bunch in th

Re: reading MS word files

2006-11-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Nov 02, 2006 at 10:15:47AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I get angry every time, I have to explain to someone that it is not true > that the computer is at risk, because of the unavailability of virus > updates as long as the computer is not connected to any network (the > reason

Re: Classic Gnubie accident SOLVED

2006-11-02 Thread anthony
Thanks Jochen, I think your mail made several reasonable points and contrary to what you say, I find it perfectly coherent. Its a tricky position to be in flailing around in a panic trying to fix a system you need to be able to work and seeing the time, or possibility of things being put back to

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

2006-11-02 Thread Justin Piszcz
> ModulePath "/usr/X11R6/lib/modules" did you add the new ones? Section "Files" # Per Xorg. FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/misc/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/Type1/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/75dpi/" FontPath "/usr/share/fonts/X11/100dpi

Re: starting letter in latex

2006-11-02 Thread roberto
On 11/2/06, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: roberto wrote: > Hello everyone > i am writing my thesis and i am trying to let the first letter of each > Chapter to be larger than the others, more exactely to span over two > lines. This is frequent in some book styled papers. > > Do you know how to

Re: Problems with Wine on Debian AMD 64

2006-11-02 Thread Goswin von Brederlow
"Glen M" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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-li

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