Re: Unkown Synaptic Message

2006-11-29 Thread Amit Joshi
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 18:08, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 15:32:20 +0530, Amit Joshi wrote: > > On Monday 27 November 2006 23:42, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Peter Hillier-Brook([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > I would be grateful if someone would explain th

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-29 Thread Nate Duehr
William Jensen wrote: I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week. From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runs nearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas what I could check/do? Make sur

Re: My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-29 Thread Nate Duehr
Kevin Mark wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Geoffrey R Thompson wrote: After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict between my config file and the new one being offered. I selected the `keep my config file' option - hoping t

Tool for Automated Packet Validation available?

2006-11-29 Thread Lukas Ruf
Dear all, is there any tool that allows me to compare the components of the installed packages against a repository? Something like checksum-comparison of all installed binaries Thanks for any help! wbr, Lukas -- Lukas Ruf | Ad Personam rbacs

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-11-29 Thread Martin Zobel-Helas
On Wed Nov 29, 2006 at 15:33:15 +0800, Paolo Alexis Falcone wrote: > I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, > i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu > goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed > to hibernate u

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
I got the following error message: "W: Couldn't stat source package list http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch/main Packages (/var/lib/apt/lists/www.debian-multimedia.org_dists_etch_main_binary-i386_Packages) - stat (2 No such file or directory)" Cheers, Brian If you just added this repos

Re: kweather

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should > do? It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edi

Re: Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 08:13 pm, aquamarine wrote: > Hi all, > > I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world! > I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website, > booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfull

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-29 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:38:00PM -0600, William Jensen wrote: > I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch > over a week. From past experience I know that this is highly > unlikely. Also, a friend runs nearly the same setup as I have and he > is still getting daily updat

Newbie need help on upgrading/installing "current weekly snapshot CDs"

2006-11-29 Thread aquamarine
Hi all, I am a pure newbie on Linux/Debian coming from Windows world! I downloaded just 3 of the 21 CDs from http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-cd/ website, booted the 1st CD and install testing Debian successfully. The main point is that I found no way to install my other 2

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > >> With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is po

apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-29 Thread William Jensen
I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a week. >From past experience I know that this is highly unlikely. Also, a friend runs nearly the same setup as I have and he is still getting daily updates. Any ideas what I could check/do? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Mark Grieveson
and/or a Debian version of EasyUbuntu: For Sarge, there was GenieOS, but I don't think a version of that has been released for Etch. The other option is Knoppix, which is as close to "EasyDebian" as you're going to find. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject o

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-11-29 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 11/29/06, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Paolo! > I went back to debian sid after using ubuntu for a few months. So far, > i've been able to configure my thinkpad t42p to resemble some ubuntu > goodies except for fn-f12: nothing happens when i hit it, as supposed > to hibernate

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/29/06 11:28, Nelson Castillo wrote: >> Anyhow, he said that most amusing thing about Microsoft was that they >> are just getting around now to solving the problems that UNIX solved 20 >> years ago or more and still managing to make new mistakes i

Re: A package management question

2006-11-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 05:31:37PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > dpkg --get-selections provides a list of all packages that are > currently on a Debian computer, and dpkg --set-selections allows one > to clone that set onto another computer, or restore it onto the > computer on which it was generat

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 08:55:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/28/06 19:26, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 04:13:27PM -0800, Arlie Stephens wrote: > > If a package is in the Debian repository, and if it can't be installed > > by using any one of the user-interface programs

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 01:15 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > >

Re: My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 06:22:22PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Geoffrey R Thompson wrote: > >After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict > >between my config file and the new one being offered. I selected the > >`keep my config file' option - hoping this woul

A package management question

2006-11-29 Thread Paul E Condon
dpkg --get-selections provides a list of all packages that are currently on a Debian computer, and dpkg --set-selections allows one to clone that set onto another computer, or restore it onto the computer on which it was generated in case of a crash or operator error. But this list does not con

very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-29 Thread richard
This may be a faulty bit of equipment, but equally I could be missing something obvious again. I have three boxes attached to a DLink DI524 wireless router, two cabled and one wireless. All three get leases of between 32 and 40 seconds. The DLink controll web inrterface is set to give a day. I'

Re: Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:55:07AM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: > Doug, > > Thanks VERY much for your help. I'll try to get a copy of Etch for AMD64 on > DVDs (I have limited data usage on my satellite internet connection). > Thanks again. Glad to help Sharrea. The one quick advantage that the net

Re: My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-29 Thread Joey Hess
Geoffrey R Thompson wrote: >After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict >between my config file and the new one being offered. I selected the >`keep my config file' option - hoping this would get me through. In >hindsight, I probably should have looked

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Wulfy
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> >> >> >> >

Re: scponly connection problem

2006-11-29 Thread Edwin Siegenthaler
Hi Alejandro, I run into the same problem and it took me quite a while till found a solution that worked for me. It was provided by a guy called Steffen Zieger (http://steffenzieger.de/index.php/2006/07/02/chroot-sftp-users-mit-scponly/) So, all credits to him! You create a chrooted environme

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Brian Durant wrote: OK, maybe I am posting the wrong error message? Here is what I get after I update in Synaptic: http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: 404 Not Found It looks to me like the path is correct, however I

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 10:54:50PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/dists/dists/etch/main/binary-i386/Packages.gz: ^^ Should "dists" be repeated like that? --

Re: My First apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin 'broke'

2006-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Geoffrey R Thompson writes: > After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict > between my config file and the new one being offered. I selected the > ?keep my config file? option ? hoping this would get me through. In > hindsight, I probably should have looked at the dif

My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-29 Thread Geoffrey R Thompson
Hi, I have been using Debian for about six months, and have yet to have any issues when upgrading system components with apt-get update / upgrade - until today. After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict between my config file and the new one being offered. I

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 23:02 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I have a distant memory of editting Fortran codes and being able to > > jump from an IF to the next corresponding ELSE or END IF. (I thought > > f90-next-block would do this but it seems not). Do

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 04:34:50PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > charles norwood wrote: > >On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > >>On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > >> > >>>Hi list. > >>>What applications use famd? > >>>man -k fam

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread Romain Francoise
michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have a distant memory of editting Fortran codes and being able to > jump from an IF to the next corresponding ELSE or END IF. (I thought > f90-next-block would do this but it seems not). Do you know of the > correct lisp package/command that does this? C-M-

Re: SQL question about performance...

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
Dirk wrote: Hi! (I've asked this before but my account seemed to be deleted for some reason...) I have the choice between VARCHAR(8) and INT(10) to store unsigned crc32 values in hex or as decimal integer. Which one would result in more speed after putting an INDEX on it? VARCHAR(8) or INT(10)?

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> >> >> >> > Sorry, I am a newbie.

Why is Caudium running?

2006-11-29 Thread Bill Moseley
Over time my desktop machines tend to collect a lot of packages I no longer use. For example, I see Caudium is running: $ ps aux | grep caudium root 16162 0.1 0.3 11436 2888 ?SNov28 2:22 /usr/bin/pike7.6 -M/usr/lib/caudium/etc/modules /usr/lib/caudium/start-caudium --pid-f

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
charles norwood wrote: On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: Hi list. What applications use famd? man -k famd famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon Thanks, Chuck $ a

My First apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin 'broke'

2006-11-29 Thread Geoffrey R Thompson
Hi, I have been using Debian for about six months, and have yet to have any issues when upgrading system components with apt-get update / upgrade - until today. After updating phpmyadmin, I got a dialog box saying there is a conflict between my config file and the new one being offered. I

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Wulfy
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:57 pm, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> deb http://www.debian-multimedi

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:41 pm, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main > > > > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would E

Re: Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Sharrea Day
Doug, Thanks VERY much for your help. I'll try to get a copy of Etch for AMD64 on DVDs (I have limited data usage on my satellite internet connection). Thanks again. Regards Sharrea -- Help Microsoft stamp out piracy, give Linux to a friend today Douglas Tutty wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at

kmail segfaults badly

2006-11-29 Thread Bruno Buys
Kmail segfaults badly, here. Last lines from strace are below. Is there something I can do, besides removing/renaming any reference to kmail inside ~/.kde or ~/kmail, which I already did? The only uncommon thing around kde here is that I ugraded to the backported version, which rendered my control

samba timeouts

2006-11-29 Thread Anton Piatek
Hi, I am having fun running samba across a wireless network. When mounting a samba mount (debian to debian) I often get the following errors smb_add_request: request [81001dbd7080, mid=15039] timed out! Which seem to precede the network dropping badly. I am not sure if it is a problem wit

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) >

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 11:42:51AM -0800, Erik Steffl wrote: > any pointers to solutions? Programs to use? Settings? Howtos? Well, mplayer's mencoder works on VOBs if you're willing to dig through the options. Something like: mencoder -ovc lavc -lavcopts vcodec=msmpeg4 -lavcopts vbitr

trouble with dhcp3-client "Can't allocate interface etlease {"

2006-11-29 Thread C Sights
Hi all, Please CC me in response: I am not subscribed to list I am having trouble with dhcp3-client. First the trouble, then why I think it is dhcp3-client. I: When I try to start the network I get this error: ---

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Adam Hardy wrote: I upgraded a whole set of packages in etch using synaptic. I answered several of the questions posed by the installation processses of some of the packages but I must have answered one of them very wrongly. Now my system-, firefox- and thunderbird text refuses to appear unti

Re: how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Erik Steffl wrote: I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). Hello Try acidrip - It's a graphical front end on the excellen

Re: Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC problem

2006-11-29 Thread srg krn
What is the output of "ifconfig -a" in your machine? Regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 19:36 +0100, Romain Francoise wrote: > Emacs 21 was released in October 2001, the various 21.x releases since > then were maintenance releases so the various modes haven't been > updated. > > If you want a recent Emacs, use the `emacs-snapshot' package, sarge > packages are a

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > >> With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > >> use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probab

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread matthew yee-king
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) I have deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main mplayer

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well > hidden, badly named registry key that mag

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well hidden, badly named registry key that magically makes Windows read UTC time from the BIOS. If someone know

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/28/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > >> I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things > >> straight, so here is what I found out. You c

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 11:49 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > > > On

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 13:39]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > >Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: > > > >Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) > >window to display the definition of a word. But the window is

how to convert DVD to something uploadable to youtube?

2006-11-29 Thread Erik Steffl
I have a DVD (PAL system, not sure if it matters, no copy protection) and I'd like to convert it to something that I can upload to youtube (or just send to friends). I am using debian linux system (unstable). I tried dvdrip and cinelerra (from http://www.kiberpipa.org/~minmax/cinelerra/build

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/28/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things > straight, so here is what I found out. You can either set your > Windows time to local wall-clock time or UTC. You

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > В Срд, 29/

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:53 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > > > S

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
Arlie Stephens wrote: Hi Folks, It appears that there are a lot of tools for managing packages and dependencies on debian - dpkg, apt-get, aptitude, synaptic, . To what extent do these tools understand the same data, i.e. to what extent can one mix and match between them? I notice some

Re: what applications use famd?

2006-11-29 Thread charles norwood
On Tue, 2006-11-28 at 21:18 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 05:18:02PM -0800, charles norwood wrote: > > Hi list. > > What applications use famd? > > man -k famd > > famd (8) - The File Alteration Monitor (FAM) daemon > > Thanks, > > Chuck > > $ apt-cache rde

Re: enlarge gnome desktop dictionary window

2006-11-29 Thread José Alburquerque
Russell L. Harris wrote: Regarding Dictionary 2.14.0, the Gnome desktop dictionary applet for Etch: Clicking on the applet opens an overlapping (i.e., always-on-top) window to display the definition of a word. But the window is entirely too small, and invariably requires tedious scrolling. The

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread Matthew Krauss
John Hasler wrote: s. keeling writes: And the downside is, you might say: apt-get remove $SOME_GNOME_PROGRAM and it will also remove Gnome (if you let it); Ditto KDE. Gnome and KDE are metapackage which have no contents. They exist only to pull in all the real packages th

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net

Apt Proxy Issue

2006-11-29 Thread Ali Jawad
Hi Ive been trying to setup apt-get to work with my proxy "it wont work without it" and I have not had any luck till now ..below is my apt.conf file..apt-get update executes successfully but apt-get install resolves the hostnames and just waits for headers untill it times out.. Acquire::http::Pro

Re: emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread Romain Francoise
Emacs 21 was released in October 2001, the various 21.x releases since then were maintenance releases so the various modes haven't been updated. If you want a recent Emacs, use the `emacs-snapshot' package, sarge packages are available from my repo, see: http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/wiki/Em

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:32:37PM +, michael wrote: > I guess a complete rephrase is best. > > What I want is "how many processors does each WAITING job in lsf queues > require?". From 'bhist' I get outputs such as below (see whitespace > anywhere in "num Processors") and cannot determine a

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 10:01 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > > > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > > > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > > > > > Cheer

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 18:37 +0100, Brian Durant пишет: > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ etch testing (???) > > Cheers, > > Brian > no deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org etch main I got t

Re: icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
For some reason my default had changed. Thanks a bunch ! -M On 11/29/06, Rob Bochan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:43, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello there, > > I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since > this upgrade I cannot any longer

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Carl Fink
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:14:35AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Wed November 29 2006 07:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > > sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my > > de

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 16:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, sorry. > Now, I would like to have a media pla

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Nelson Castillo
Anyhow, he said that most amusing thing about Microsoft was that they are just getting around now to solving the problems that UNIX solved 20 years ago or more and still managing to make new mistakes in the process. This is rather fun. I remember that in 1995 I didn't now UNIX (I used to live in

Re: icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Rob Bochan
On Wednesday 29 November 2006 11:43, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Hello there, > > I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since > this upgrade I cannot any longer click on an URL from my mail client > (icedove) so that it open the link in a new tab in firefox. I did > check in

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Виталий Ищенко
deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main В Срд, 29/11/2006 в 16:44 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] пишет: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > sorry. > Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my debian pc, > how can i d

Re: kweather

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 12:04 am, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I decided to give KDE a try. I cannot get the kweather panel > applet to work, however. Does anyone have any clues as to what I should > do? It works for me here although with the testing/unstable version I need to edit the confi

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:40:16AM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Wouldn't the new way be the old way. I often say that the problems that > Microsoft is "solving" with Windows now were solved 20+ years ago under the > Unix(-like) tools. Prime example would be remote desktops. Windows only > r

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-29 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Ismael Valladolid Torres <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061129 09:26]: > Surachai Locharoen escribe: > > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? The Debian "quelcom" package package provides a nice set of utilities. See also: http://linux-sound.org/snded.html RLH -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 07:44 am, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Dear all, > I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, > sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my > debian pc, how can i do? I have found this http://www.bxlug.be/articles/12

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
I have been experiencing similar problems with Debian Etch (rc1) repositories mentioned at Debian Help: http://www.debianhelp.co.uk/ It sure would be nice if there was a Debian version of this "source-o-matic" sources.list generator: http://www.ubuntulinux.nl/source-o-matic and/or a Debian vers

Re: Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:51:55AM -0500, David Bruce wrote: > I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power > outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and > says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also

icedove upgrade and opening url in firefox broken

2006-11-29 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Hello there, I have updated my debian testing and I am not using icedove. Since this upgrade I cannot any longer click on an URL from my mail client (icedove) so that it open the link in a new tab in firefox. I did check in Desktop/Preferences/Preferred Applications/ and everything seems ok. A

Re: [OT] M$ collaborates with Suse

2006-11-29 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Having worked at places which are majority windows and minority *nix, I > can honestly say that the windows approach tends to encourage "tasking" > of "junior" level admins to repetitive tasks by hand, because the > "senior" admins don't want to do it themselves (i.e., t

emacs lisp files: why not most current eg f90.el

2006-11-29 Thread michael
I'm running a stable/sarge system: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux ratty 2.6.8-3-686-smp #1 SMP Sat Jul 15 08:52:57 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux and have the latest 'emacs21' loaded: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l emacs21* Desired=Unknown/Install/Remove/Purge

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 00:38:03 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Florian Kulzer on 28/11/06 16:37, wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 01:04:13 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > >>Florian Kulzer on 27/11/06 16:50, wrote: > >>>On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 01:46:25 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > This is the same in KDE

supported hardware ?

2006-11-29 Thread Moses M. Gallegos
Hello, Does anyone know if Debian is supported on the new Dell Optiplex 740 Dekstop with the AMD Athlon 64X2 dual-core processor? Thanks for the help! 01001101 0110 01110011 01100101 01110011 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contac

Re: Xaralx on testing

2006-11-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 07:42:22 +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 07:50:52PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: >> >> Do you really need to have rev. 1764? The xaralx package 0.7r1692-2 from >> the testing/non-free repository works fine for me. >> > That works here.

Media player

2006-11-29 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Dear all, I've solved my problem on apt-get...simply reading how to on Debian site, sorry. Now, I would like to have a media player for video streaming on my debian pc, how can i do? I have found this http://www.bxlug.be/articles/129 Trying add this deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sarge m

Re: Debian support for nForce 590SLI chipset

2006-11-29 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 09:49:38PM +1300, Sharrea Day wrote: > Hi all > I want to try Debian (been using Mandrake/Mandriva for the last 4-5 years) > but cannot find any information on Debian support for the nVidia nForce > 590SLI chipset. Support is built into the kernel in Mdv 2007 but I > unders

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-29 Thread John Hasler
Micha Feigin writes: > In terms of history first came dpkg, next dselect, then apt-get and then > aptitude. Both apt-get and aptitude work with dpkg behind the scenes. > synaptic (I think that there is also a kde version) is just a glorified > GUI based aptitude AFAIK. Aptitude, Apt-get, and Synap

Re: Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg?

2006-11-29 Thread Ismael Valladolid Torres
Surachai Locharoen escribe: > Anybody know the program to splitt big mpeg to smaller mpeg? > > mpgtx does it I think... Cordially, Ismael -- Ismael Valladolid Torres http://lamediahostia.blogspot.com/ m. +34679156321 http://www.flickr.com/photos/ivalladt j. [EMAIL PROTECTED] pgpk760ILU

Re: Font changes after dist-upgrade to Firefox2/IceWeasel

2006-11-29 Thread Ken Wahl
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 02:55:41PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > > > > There is a new about:config item, "layout.css.dpi", which according to > > the mozilla website should take over this functionality, but this is > > broken for me. I get serious rendering bugs if I change the default > > setting

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-29 Thread michael
I guess a complete rephrase is best. What I want is "how many processors does each WAITING job in lsf queues require?". From 'bhist' I get outputs such as below (see whitespace anywhere in "num Processors") and cannot determine a sure way of always parsing it... Thanks, Michael EXAMPLES: ~/b

debian kernel git tree?

2006-11-29 Thread Matt Price
Hi, I'm wondering whether there's a git tree somewhere for the debian kernel? thanks, matt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-11-29 Thread Brian Durant
Hi, I just installed Debian Etch (rc1) on an IBM A50p and am trying to wrap my head around multilingual spellchecking in Evolution (2.6.3). I managed to get English and Danish spell checking to work by installing aspell, ispell, myspell, and ienglish, idanish and gnome-spell. My problem is that

Reiserfs corruption and KDM login problems

2006-11-29 Thread David Bruce
I have a problem with my Sid system after an unplanned reboot due to a power outage. The reiserfsck fails to fix my /home (I have an LVM/raid1 setup) and says I need to do it manually using reiserfsck --rebuild-tree, which also fails, saying I need to use reiserfs --rebuild-sb, which also fails

Apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... 0%"

2006-11-29 Thread David Baron
It worked yesterday. Could be failed update killed it? Kpackage will display installed packages, not new or updated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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