Re: homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread Tim Post
On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 00:24 -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead > of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps > popping up? Settings >> Configure Konqueror Change it and hit apply > I changed the hom

Re: homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread M-L
On Friday 01 December 2006 16:49, M-L sent this for all our perusal: >---> On Friday 01 December 2006 16:24, Mark Grieveson sent this for all our >---> perusal: >---> >---> Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, > instead ---> >---> of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer y

homepage in konqueror [solved]

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Okay, I did figure this out. Setting the homepage in konqueror apparently involves the extra step of "set view-profile" under settings. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: make thinkpad Fn-F12 work in sid

2006-11-30 Thread Paolo Alexis Falcone
On 11/30/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:33 +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: nothin

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-30 Thread cga2000
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:37:34PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56P

Re: homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread Stephen Cormier
On Friday 01 December 2006 01:24, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead > of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps > popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I start it, I > still get the irritating

Re: homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread M-L
On Friday 01 December 2006 16:24, Mark Grieveson sent this for all our perusal: >---> Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead >---> of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps >---> popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I s

homepage in konqueror

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Anyone know how I can get konqueror to start up with google.ca, instead of this irritating "Konqueror: Conquer your desktop!" page that keeps popping up? I changed the homepage setting, but when I start it, I still get the irritating, practically an advertisement, cover page. Mark -- To UN

Re: How to make a prog more efieiant (in C)

2006-11-30 Thread Kevin Ross
Is this from a recent job interview, with whiteboard programming questions? Anyway, get_max_digit() and get_sum_digits() seem perfectly reasonable. For reverse_num() and is_symmetric(), about the only other approach I can think of is converting the numbers to strings first, do your manipulation

Re: kweather

2006-11-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I changed the location line: "report_location=CYYZ" (I also tried lower > case). This too failed. That's what I do to get my location. On first run I add the applet to the panel to create that config file then remove it from the panel, change the report location manually and add the apple

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-30 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:37:52PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, D

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hoffmann wrote: >> This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a >> DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem. > > > Thought it's supposed to rotate IP addresses from within the specified > range? No. If

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:30:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Unfortunately, "finally using a vcs in the 21st century" is *not* a > notable contribution to the world of software engineering. > True. However, I think the main value of his contribution in this respect has to do with the modular

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 16:29, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, R

Adding additional postfix server to init daemon

2006-11-30 Thread Adam D
I just have created additional postfix servers on the mail server and would like to add the additional configs into the init daemon but looking at the scrip from LaMont Jones I am not able to decipher where to put the additional servers. I have an old script which is shorter and does not have a

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-30 Thread Greg Norris
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. I've been seeing the same behaviour over the past week or so, with /etc/apt/sources.list configured with: deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian

dspam installation and configuration

2006-11-30 Thread Tom Allison
I think this is a debian package thing, not dspam. But I have user .pref files and the option to put them into the database. And they are both there and they both conflict... How do you I resolve this? I would prefer to use the database if I could. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 08:21:25PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > [..] > > I did the etch upgrade following t

Re: Etch status..?

2006-11-30 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 08:50:24PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 05:13:56PM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Nov 26, 2006 at 05:36:39PM EST, Douglas Tutty wrote: [..] > > I normally use apt-get or command-line aptitude. > > Part of your difficulty could be using two differ

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 For me, it was the Xwindow system itself. In 1995 when I first installed Debian, I had been working on SunOS for 3 years. I wanted the same functionality at home that I had at work, and I had tried Coherent and Solaris x86. Neither of them worked f

Re: no medium found. cdrom broken?

2006-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
H.S.([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I haven't been able to read any CD from my cdrom drive in my computer > running Debian Etch for quite a few weeks. Not sure exactly when this > problem started. Whenever I insert a disc, it doesn't get detected and > if I try to manually mount

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Francis Healy
The classic definition of the killer app is the one program that justifies the entire cost of the computer. Nyizsnyik Ferenc <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:22 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > [...] a "killer" app is a useful app. Some

Re: What is the Best Way to Create Attachments using mhonarch?

2006-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Thanks very much, but this is actually the start of a robot which will receive mail containing the data to be processed, crunch it, and "reply" to the sender with the processed data. Kevin Mark writes: >but I think > there is a simpler solution if you have the resources: This will be a ve

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread B. Hoffmann
This is normal. I have 3 dlinks, 2 linksys and a debian box set up as a DHCP server. They all work this way. So what's the problem. Thought it's supposed to rotate IP addresses from within the specified range? -- Kind Regards, B. Hoffmann -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wit

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-30 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 22:12 +, Adam Hardy wrote:> > > It worked! I had previously installed the nVidia driver using nVidia's > > installer. I used the same installer to uninstall (using the > > --uninstall argument) the module. Then I used the instructions [1] > > linked from the above page

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain > system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff > utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to > GNU/Linux for its

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I wish mine worked like that. I got it from a box store. Here in Italy. > It'll be very difficult to persuade MediaWorld that it is faulty. I have not looked into how the lease time works, but curious if your problem might b

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:07:36 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. >

Re: CUPS client problem

2006-11-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 18:10:25 +0100, Nicolas de Sereville wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new laptop (Dell D620, with etch freshly installed) from my new > job and I am trying to print using CUPS. The situation is the following, > at work there are two different networks: xxx.xxx.10.xxx (let's c

Re: fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 09:47:33PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Dear Debian folks, > > I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz > ancient PC. I did that in a 486DX4-100 > > I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it. > I could never get the sarge installer to work on my 486 wit

Re: What is the Best Way to Create Attachments using mhonarch?

2006-11-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:56:57AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I use nmh as the user agent for mail and have recently > been asked to send various files to coworkers that contain > attached files full of processed information. Hi Martin, I know nothing about nmh as I use mutt and with i

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread richard
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 12:14:56PM -0600, W Paul Mills wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > B. Hoffmann wrote: >> Hi Richard, >> >> can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 >> wired >> 4 port router. >> Only it never releases and I've been running

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Casey T. Deccio on 30/11/06 18:33, wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:35 +, matthew yee-king wrote: 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 an

Re: fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian folks, I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz ancient PC. I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it. This was a slow process and involved a certain amount of farting around in the installation but in the end it

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 15:41, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. >> > I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 10:53:26PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > I did not want to mention this, because: > > - software RAID-1 has bus overhead (the same data have to be transferred > multiple times to multiple drives, so writing may be twice as slow) > This is only true if you use I

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
Having all that whitespace in the 'wrong' spot breaks the idea of splitting words based on their being surrounded by whitespace. So get rid of __all__ whitespace. Then use other logic find what you want. E.g. if you want the 'word' following the 'word' processor, find the first occurance of 'proc

Re: fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
Libranet used to use IceWM as default. If their archives are still around, that would agood place to find out a lot about IceWM. As I remember it, you have to edit a text file. Sorry I can't be more helpful Cheers, Brian On 11/30/06, Michael Fothergill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear Debian fo

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Dave Ewart wrote: > > Although it's worth pointing out that software RAID-*1* (one of the > > options under consideration) has almost no CPU overhead, and is often a > > good low-cost option. > > > > Part of your decision must rest on what exactly the machine will be > > doing. Different RAID s

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > On 30.11.06 15:44, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > > What is debian's opinion about hardware/software raid? > On Thursday, 30.11.2006 at 16:56 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > it highly depends on the hardware raid. The true hardware RAID with > > hotspare, hotswap etc. support and with

fairly dumb question about icewm floppy icon and desktop software....

2006-11-30 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian folks, I recently stuck a 13 GB drive in a Gateway 2000 Pentium 133 Mhz ancient PC. I loaded Sarge 3.1 r3 on it. This was a slow process and involved a certain amount of farting around in the installation but in the end it worked. On a machine like this gnome is a non-starter. I

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Carl Fink
On my box, for some reason, only in the last two days, totem-xine freezes without ever displaying a window. Etch, xorg+icewm, totem from the Marillat archive. Any suggestions? -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 02:30:54PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly. > I took a software engineering class where the professor maintained that the only notable contribution that Linus Torvalds has made to the programming/compsci/com

no medium found. cdrom broken?

2006-11-30 Thread H.S.
I haven't been able to read any CD from my cdrom drive in my computer running Debian Etch for quite a few weeks. Not sure exactly when this problem started. Whenever I insert a disc, it doesn't get detected and if I try to manually mount it, I get the message "no medium found" or some such thing.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 21:58 +0100, Björn Gustafsson wrote: > On the contrary, the amarok team has stated that a windows port can/will > happen with the 2.0 codebase ( > http://amarok.kde.org/blog/archives/225-Porting-to-Windows-part-2.html > for example ). The post referred to in the first se

Re: quick scripting question - finding occurrence in many lines

2006-11-30 Thread michael
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 09:36 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > 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 whi

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thank you Brian -- Initial Header --- From : "Brian Durant" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To : "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc : debian-user@lists.debian.org Date : Wed, 29 Nov 2006 18:03:30 +0100

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 17:20 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > My concern is that we are going to have only one server. So if there was > a hardware problem, with software raid I could just temporarily move the > disks to an ordinary workstation and serve the data from there. With > hardware raid,

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Björn Gustafsson
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? 1. Postfix. 2. Amarok. Yes, both run on other *nix, so it's not strictly Linux, but in both cases the authors were very clear that they have no pla

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread igor Guerrero
Amarok off course... and I'm a Gnome fan!!! On 11/30/06, Hans du Plooy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a > large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by >

Java EE installation - cannot find j2se 5

2006-11-30 Thread Marko Randjelovic
I installed sun-java with apt-get: sun-java5-bin - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-demo - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-doc - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-fonts - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jdk - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-jre - 1.5.0-08-1 sun-java5-source - 1.5.0-08-1 Then I dowloaded java_app_platform_sdk-5_01-linux-nojdk.bin and ra

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 10:08 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Well, sure. If FreeBSD had been easy to install in year 2000, had a > large community, and apps like Netscape (or was Mozilla released by > then?) then I maybe would have tried FreeBSD. They had, actually. I remember going to an internet ca

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 13:14 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? 1. Postfix. 2. Amarok. Yes, both run on other *nix, so it's not strictly Linux, but in both cases the authors were very clear that they have no plans to make it run on Windows.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 11:27, Nate Duehr wrote: > Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: [snip] > > The kernel. > > Without it, I wouldn't be here. FreeBSD and OpenBSD would do most tasks just as well. The *real* killer "app" was Linus' decision to develop Linux openly.

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 13:08, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Brendan wrote: >> On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:[ [snip] > As I said before the killer application of Debian Gnu/Linux is aptitude. > I can install thousands of applications,

Re: Using defoma to install heritage truetype fonts

2006-11-30 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Mon, 27 Nov 2006 22:33:54 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>): > On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:52:03 +1100, Felix Karpfen wrote: SNIP >> >> I was hoping that an alternative route exists, that will enable me to >> point the TrueType install routine to the directory that contains the

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade) (SOLVED)

2006-11-30 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dimarts 31 Octubre 2006 22:23, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > Finally, it might help to reboot after installing the new packages if > the problem is due to conflicts in the assignment of interrupts. Today I've tried with the new 1.0.8776-1 nVidia kernel and worked, but after one rmmod nvidia.

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

2006-11-30 Thread C Sights
Hi all, I fixed the problem I was having with dhcp3-client by deleting everything in /var/lib/dhcp3. Apparently one of these files had malformed contents and was goofing up dhcp3-client. (Unfortunately I can't file a useful bug report because I deleted the files instead of moving them

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Jeff
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. ... Have to disagree with your definition - for me, a killer app is one that makes it dramatically easier to accomplish some end, but that, in the best spirit of GNU and Linux, promotes

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Brendan wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Blah, install pdf writer under Windows. As easy as kprinter. Do you mean like 'aptitude install kprinter'? > There is no "killer app for linux"...if you mean a killer free software app, > then firefox or openoffic

How to make a prog more efieiant (in C)

2006-11-30 Thread Jabka Atu
me and friend wrote this small prog but it is still not good enugh (it is really long) could you plz take a look and give me some editions ? The prog need to take a number then test : find the largest digit. is the number simatric show the reverse number it is released under FAL licence ([EMAI

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 18:16:29 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: [...] > >> Where do I import the public key from??? I have b

Re: upgrading trashed my font display

2006-11-30 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 20:35 +, matthew yee-king wrote: > 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 wron

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Nov 30 05:17 -0600]: > So I give up and ask you, what's your killer app(s)? The Linux kernel is the killer app because of the wide range of hardware it runs on which brings a fairly consistent operating environment to whatever hardware it is runnin

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread W Paul Mills
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 B. Hoffmann wrote: > Hi Richard, > > can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired > 4 port router. > Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the > corresponding machines for more than a year a

Re: Help: NO longer boots ;

2006-11-30 Thread Winston Smith
These are long shots, but since nobody else answered: If the reboot after the power failure was the first reboot since upgrading a package like udev or installing a new kernel, it could be that your grub or lilo stanza is wrong, especially if you have more than one hard drive. It could also be an

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread H.S.
Brendan wrote: On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On second thoughts, ghostscript and friends. My wife called me this morning from London to ask how to make a pdf from her m$word at work. Easy: take the file home and read it into any Linux app. Definitely the fact th

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 18:16:29 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: [...] > >> Where do I import the public key from??? I have been digging around > >> Sunet.se but can't seem to find i

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:57 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > >

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Brendan
On Thursday 30 November 2006 10:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On second thoughts, ghostscript and friends. My wife called me this > morning from London to ask how to make a pdf from her m$word at work. > Easy: take the file home and read it into any Linux app. Definitely the > fact that _any_ ap

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:49 am, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > > > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > >

Re: Ripping CDs to MP3

2006-11-30 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 28 November 2006 22:10, Francis Healy wrote: Just to add to your joy, in Konqueror, you can browse to audiocd:/ and then copy and paste those "virtual files" anywhere you wantelegant, but nothing beats grip for ripping 50 CDs in a row. > That worked like magic. I'm now happily ri

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > >

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 30 2006 09:16 am, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > > > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > [...] > > > > > >Is your sources.list entry like this?: > > > >

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Matthew Krauss
Nate Duehr wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, ins

Nikon's usb mass storage fixed in etch, very nice!

2006-11-30 Thread Bruno Buys
I don't know if this is relevant to anybody else besides me, but nikons d70s works as a usb mass storage device under etch! Mass storage was broken on sarge, needed ptp stuff. It makes me rememeber that other thread, 'debian love'... I'm very glad! cheers all! Bruno -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: apt-get reports no new packages

2006-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Nate Duehr([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > William Jensen wrote: > >I'm following Etch and apt is reporting no new packages for a touch over a > >week. > > Make sure your /etc/apt/sources.list is pointed at an official Debian > mirror and if you can get a specific example from you

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Nate Duehr
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to GNU/Linux for its said overall magnificence, instead of a particula

CUPS client problem

2006-11-30 Thread Nicolas de Sereville
Hello, I have a new laptop (Dell D620, with etch freshly installed) from my new job and I am trying to print using CUPS. The situation is the following, at work there are two different networks: xxx.xxx.10.xxx (let's call it 'internal') and xxx.xxx.20.xxx (let's call it 'external'). The cups

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Is your sources.list entry like this?: > > > >deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/ > >etch

Re: Evolution multilingual spellchecking in Debian Etch (Newbie).

2006-11-30 Thread Brian Durant
On 11/30/06, Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:11 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > 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 che

Re: My first apt-get upgrade casualty - phpmyadmin

2006-11-30 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 15:52 -0600, Geoffrey R Thompson wrote: > 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

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Thu, 2006-11-30 at 12:22 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] a "killer" app is a useful app. Something that you > would have a hard time living without. > [...] > Cheers, > > Brian > > Octave for me, no doubt! -- Szia:

What is the Best Way to Create Attachments using mhonarch?

2006-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
I use nmh as the user agent for mail and have recently been asked to send various files to coworkers that contain attached files full of processed information. I know it can be done, but I haven't found a linear description of the process. I recently installed the mhonarch suite to handle

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-11-30 Thread Ralph Katz
On 11/29/2006 08:50 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: [BTW, this should be an FAQ: Package managers - what's the difference between apt, aptitude, dpkg, dselect, synaptic... ?] > Yes :-) Try them all by yourself and decide for yourself. Each tool > has merits. Question is not "which is better" but "which

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 04:00 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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 se

Re: kweather

2006-11-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed November 29 2006 09:17 pm, Mark Grieveson wrote: > > 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 work

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread richard
> Hi Richard, > > can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired > 4 port router. > Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the > corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew > once a week and later on after three

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Martin McCormick
Linux is the killer application. That being said, there are lots of things I like. Cron and the ability to do timed automation jobs is wonderful. I use cron, mplayer and a shell script or two to capture on-line "radio" programs like an audio Tivo. For anyone interested, the concept is t

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread michael
On Thu, 30 Nov 2006 15:44:38 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote > Preparing to buy a new server... > > What is debian's opinion about hardware/software raid? > > I have the feeling that software raid 1 is more reliable since if > anything goes wrong with the hardware, I could just take one or two >

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

2006-11-30 Thread C Sights
Hi all, 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: # /etc/init.d/networking start Configuring networ

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

2006-11-30 Thread richard
> On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 08:13:54PM -0800, 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 De

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dave Ewart wrote: > Although it's worth pointing out that software RAID-*1* (one of the > options under consideration) has almost no CPU overhead, and is often a > good low-cost option. > > Part of your decision must rest on what exactly the machine will be > doing. Different RAID setups are best

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 11/30/06 08:19, John L Fjellstad wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> No killer *app*. Security is killer, but that's hard to see. >> >> For me, the CLI is killer. > > I'm not sure CLI could be considered a killer for GNU/Linux s

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 30.11.2006 at 16:56 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > On 30.11.06 15:44, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > Preparing to buy a new server... > > > > What is debian's opinion about hardware/software raid? > > > > I have the feeling that software raid 1 is more reliable since if > >

Re: very short leases from D-Link DI524

2006-11-30 Thread B. Hoffmann
Hi Richard, can't exactly help you but I've got a similar problem with a DI-604 wired 4 port router. Only it never releases and I've been running the same IP addresses on the corresponding machines for more than a year although it was set to renew once a week and later on after three days - to no

Re: hardware raid vs. software raid

2006-11-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 30.11.06 15:44, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Preparing to buy a new server... > > What is debian's opinion about hardware/software raid? > > I have the feeling that software raid 1 is more reliable since if > anything goes wrong with the hardware, I could just take one or two > disks out of th

Re: Media player

2006-11-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 16:00:05 +0100, Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/30/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > >Is your sources.list entry like this?: > > > >deb http://ftp.sunet.se/pub/os/Linux/distributions/debian-multimedia/ > >etch main > > It is now ;-) and it seems to work, except for

Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems?

2006-11-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A killer app is an application that compels one to use a certain > system. On Debian lists, someone mentioned that meld, a GUI diff > utility, was killer. I can't think of any I have because I moved to > GNU/Linux for its

Re: Apt-get "Segmentation faultsts ... 0%" SOLVED

2006-11-30 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 30 November 2006 17:09, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 30 November 2006 16:38, David Baron wrote: > > >It worked yesterday. Could be failed update killed it? > > > > > >Kpackage will display installed packages, not new or updated. > > > > I went to reportbug to do this. There were a b

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