Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Luther
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > > Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you > > can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth > > sharing. >

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

2006-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:52:23AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Also, my brother loves Debian (except that he wouldn't if I > wasn't around), but has to dual-boot since he needs a Cubase or Reason > (music production) which don't really have F

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

2006-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:52:23AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 12/1/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 01:14:34PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> A killer app is an application that compels

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

2006-12-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 12/1/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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

Re: SATA PCI

2006-12-03 Thread Bob
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sat, 2006-11-25 at 09:11 +0800, Bob wrote: Get one based on the Sil 3124-2 for Sata II, it's not supported by older kernels and the driver hasn't been backported to 2.4 yet but it's an open documented design an it's good to buy from manufacturers that help OS. You may

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

2006-12-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
This fabulous has been mailed to me in private, and I'd like to share it with all ya... -- Forwarded message -- From: Arlie Stephens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Nov 30, 2006 8:19 PM Subject: Re: what's the killer app for GNU/Linux systems? To: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2006-12-03 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 11/30/06, Martin McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 l

Re: device /dev/sda16 not exist?

2006-12-03 Thread Carl Johnson
T <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. > > But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: > > % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ > mount: special device /dev/sda16 does not exist > > why the device not exist? It's there: > > $ fdisk -

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-03 Thread Carl Fink
> Matt Price wrote: >> I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't >> want the machine to feel sluggish > > Installed bu unused packages won't slow your computer down. They will > just > take up disk space. ... unless they run a daemon. -- Carl Fink

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

2006-12-03 Thread Erik Steffl
thanks to all who responded, in the end here's what I used: dvdrip to rip dvd (got *vob files) mencoder (see the command line quoted below, I just changed the scale=352:288 to be as close as possible to 320x240 which youtube.com wants, keeping the same x to y ratio as original vob file)

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread igor Guerrero
A solution that works for me is download the bugy tarbal from mozilla.orginstall what you want and the run Iceweasel and you may have all the extentions that you install in firefox. I knew it, this "change" must have a lot problems but what we can do? On 12/3/06, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On 12/3/06, Jianwei Xie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot see the "Agree and Install" Button. Actually, it appeared for only less than one second (I saw it several times) and then became the following text: ### Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Matt Price wrote: > I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't > want the machine to feel sluggish Installed bu unused packages won't slow your computer down. They will just take up disk space. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a sub

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-03 Thread igor Guerrero
You just need kdelibs4c2a(in unstable). An alternative to Amarok can be Listen that uses pygtk(gtk in python) On 12/3/06, Rogério Brito <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Dec 01 2006, Matt Price wrote: > I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't > want the machine to feel

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 19:07, John Hasler wrote: > Miles writes: >> As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people >> figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > It's appalling that anyone responsible for suc

Off-Topic: Re: how to find GCD and LCM in C ?

2006-12-03 Thread Rogério Brito
Hi, Jabka. On Dec 02 2006, Jabka Atu wrote: > im studieng math now and many time i need to find GCD (Great Common > Divider) and LCM (Least Common Member). I supose that you're talking about integers here, since you didn't say anything about polynomials, Euclidean Domains and such (and, come to t

Re: minimal kde system for amarok?

2006-12-03 Thread Rogério Brito
On Dec 01 2006, Matt Price wrote: > I want to install a fairly minimal set of packages as I really don't > want the machine to feel sluggish -- it should act like a smart stereo > component, not a slow-bu-versatile computer. You can install amarok only (see with aptitude what it would install) and

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread Jianwei Xie
I cannot see the "Agree and Install" Button. Actually, it appeared for only less than one second (I saw it several times) and then became the following text: ### Google Notebook is only available for Firefox and Internet Explorer at this time. You can download Firefox here ### I g

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Greg Madden
On Sun, 03 Dec 2006 21:08:18 + Steve McIntyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Mike, > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: > >Dear Debian people, > > > >This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. > >I bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box.

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2006-12-03 Thread Baz
Installed etch on Thinkpad Z60t: DVD not working, entire system freezes when I attempt to play audio CD - please help -- "...heart and soulone will burn." - Joy Division

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Steve Lamb
Tom Allison wrote: > Can anyone direct me towards debian based dedicated server hosting > companies? Dunno what kind of hosting you need but on the cheap(er) side would be Xen virtual servers w/Debian installed. Here's a quickie link: http://hostingfu.com/vps/xen-hosting Personally I've

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 07:01:07PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > - Do you alternate between running as root and running with "sudo > aptitude"? That causes confusion with the configuration file. You keep saying this. No one has disagreed with you yet, so I'll assume you're correct. Whyinhell

java problem from attempt to use j interpreter

2006-12-03 Thread Easthope
Debian users, I've installed a J interpreter which works OK from the command line. The Java based GUI yields this report. Any ideas? Thanks, ... Peter Easthope [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/j601$ ./jw java.lang.ClassCastException: java.awt.DefaultFocusTraversalPolicy cannot be cast to javax.swi

java problem from attempt to use j interpreter

2006-12-03 Thread Easthope
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/j601$ ./jw java.lang.ClassCastException: java.awt.DefaultFocusTraversalPolicy cannot be cast to javax.swing. CompatibilityFocusTraversalPolicy at javax.swing.JComponent.setNextFocusableComponent(libgcj.so.70) at jx.utils.wcc.wccx(Unknown Source) at jx.utils.wd0.wdexec(U

opening URLs in Firefox from Thunderbird using upstream programs

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
I am running Etch and want to continue to use the branded Firefox (2.0) and Thunderbird. I do not want to switch to Icedove and IceWeasel. I have been running the upstream Firefox 2.0 for a while, now, with no problems. When I switched from debian-thunderbird to the upstream version (1.5.0.8

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Miles writes: > As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people > figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-rays. It's appalling that anyone responsible for such things would ever think you should. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 06:03:44PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: } On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: } > Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you } > can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth } > sharing. }

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Miles Fidelman
John Hasler wrote: David Baron writes: just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. As I recall, there were some juicy lawsuits a while back - before people figured out they shouldn't use lossy compression on medical x-ray

Re: evolution vs firebird (or mozilla calendar)

2006-12-03 Thread H.S.
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Fri, 2006-12-01 at 13:06 -0500, H.S. wrote: I have been trying out evolution for a few months now, mainly as task manager or calendar application (appointments, schedules, etc.). However, it appears that it is not possible to keep two location in sync as far as the Ev

Re: where do mount take it filesystem type if none is writren

2006-12-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 02:21:46PM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: > Hello.. > I found some strange behavior (for what i know) > in my mount /dev/hda has ntfs-3g parttion type . > but when i do mount /dev/hda /mnt/location //without using -t ntfs-3g > it mounts it as _NTFS_ and not as _NTFS-3G_. > the ques

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 03:30:24PM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > sol-100 writes: > > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your > > help, please? > > You certainly may, but you must give us more in

Re: Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:27:27AM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you > can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth > sharing. > In summary, I've been having success managing my home digital sto

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 16:05:04 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > > David Baron writes: > >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. > > But those little bits of noise make life so interest

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 10:31:16AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Is there a way to get the interactive mode to act as an 'upgrade' and > not a 'dist-upgrade'? Here's how I use aptitude for upgrades; perhaps this is why I haven't run into the problems others have. Having already gone through the

device /dev/sda16 not exist?

2006-12-03 Thread T
Hi, I just created a FAT32 partition using Win2k at /dev/sda16. But when I tried to mount it under Linux, I get: % mount /dev/sda16 /mnt/tmp1/ mount: special device /dev/sda16 does not exist why the device not exist? It's there: $ fdisk -l | grep sda16 /dev/sda16 23510 24792

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
sol-100 writes: > I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've > downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your > help, please? You certainly may, but you must give us more information. _Exactly_ what did you do and _exactly_ what happened? Be ve

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 13:00, John Hasler wrote: > David Baron writes: >> just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... > > No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. But those little bits of noise make life so interesting!!! - -- Ron Johnson,

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Steve McIntyre
Hi Mike, In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: >Dear Debian people, > >This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I >bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one can >handle dual layered DVDs as well as the single ones. > >I then realised a

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 03 December 2006 13:11, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered > > to be parked in the repositories? > > Seems like there have been talk about this, but it haven't h

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread j Mak
- Original Message From: Nicolas Pillot <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2006 1:08:16 PM Subject: Re: Debian Logo 2006/12/3, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > (Create new file with transparent backgrou

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Albert Dengg
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:57:12PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > > It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > > > several > > > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > > > if they actua

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:51 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > Once it gets to that size would dual layered DVD iso images be considered to > be parked in the repositories? Seems like there have been talk about this, but it haven't happened so far. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-cd/2005/07/ms

Re: dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread M-L
On Monday 04 December 2006 07:51, Michael Fothergill sent this for all our perusal: >---> Dear Debian people, >---> >---> This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I >---> bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one > can ---> handle dual layer

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 21:57 +0200, David Baron wrote: > So I tried off Sid medcon (command line converter) and xmedcon (with GUI and > viewer). Segmentation faults, probably in common library used by the two > programs. Will try some of the stuff on google. Report it as bugs, you can use the "re

dual layered DVD's vs single layer etc....

2006-12-03 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debian people, This is a pretty dumb question. But I think it has a little merit. I bought myself a new Benq DVD rewriter and stuffed in my box. This one can handle dual layered DVDs as well as the single ones. I then realised after nosing around in the computer shop that dual layered

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
David Baron writes: > just maybe I could get jpegs out of this thing ... No one would use lossy compression on medical x-rays. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

corrupt postmaster

2006-12-03 Thread Jonathan Pearce
update-alternatives: internal error: /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/postmaster.1.gz corrupt: manflag dpkg: error processing postgresql-7.4 (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 2 I have been bad; I edited dkpg files by hand. My /var/lib/dpkg/alternatives/postm

Re: installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread igor Guerrero
Hi, you need to restart your PC and go to the BIOS menu(F2 or delete on startup) and change the divice priority so you can boot(start) from your CD drive before booting Windows XP. On 12/3/06, sol-100 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi there! I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windo

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 03 December 2006 21:13, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > > It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > > several > > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > > if they actually are free software or simply gratis. > > Of course, I forgot the mos

installing Linux

2006-12-03 Thread sol-100
Hi there! I'm trying to get Linux with no success. I'm using Windows XP SP2. I've downloaded your CD image but It cannot be installed. May I have your help, please?

how to find GCD and LCM in C ?

2006-12-03 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello. im studieng math now and many time i need to find GCD (Great Common Divider) and LCM (Least Common Member). I can create a loop to find it by dividing by list of prime numbers then finding thier ^ (i dont how it is call in english but for example 2^2 =4 ) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
> It seems this format is called DICOM, and a google search finds > several > applications claiming to be "free". I haven't looked any closer to see > if they actually are free software or simply gratis. Of course, I forgot the most obvious... a simple "apt-cache search dicom" shows several packag

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 20:45 +0200, David Baron wrote: > The commercial packages is called "Diadisk". The array is placed under or > patient and it records the image. It is later connected to the computer to > retrieve the X-ray. Like all good commercial packages, the storage formats > are nicely

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Today at 19:08 Nicolas Pillot wrote: > 2006/12/3, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > (Create new file with transparent background, copy the red curl into > > here using the 'Select contiguous regions' tool, Image > Mode > > > Indexed and save as .gif) > > You'd better to go into the "Layer"

Re: GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 08:45:27PM +0200, David Baron wrote: > Film is being made obselete not only in the realm of light photography but > X-rays as well. Remember that little wrapped up card one held behind your > teeth and then returned to the goo

Problem with gnome-sudoku, python, cairo?????

2006-12-03 Thread Don Hayward
When I try to run gnome-sudoku I get the following messages: --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ gnome-sudoku Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/games/gnome-sudoku", line 10, in ? from gnome_sudoku.gnome_sudoku import start_game File "/var/lib/python-support/python2.4/gnome_sudoku/gnome_s

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2006-12-02 at 18:56 -0800, j Mak wrote: > Hi, > > I am not able to find a debian logo with a transparent background. Could > anyone point me to a link where I can download one? There are SVG versions of the logo available. http://gnuart.onshore.com/debian_logos_svg.html Possibly easier

GPL X-rays

2006-12-03 Thread David Baron
Film is being made obselete not only in the realm of light photography but X-rays as well. Remember that little wrapped up card one held behind your teeth and then returned to the good dentist. This now has an array and cable direct tot he computer. Sold by Kodak and others who need some other b

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:24:58 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] In a previous post on this thread (or one of the many similar threads now going strong) I said that aptitude was working fine for me in my brand new Etch install. This is MOSTLY true. It works fine f

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Nicolas Pillot
2006/12/3, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: (Create new file with transparent background, copy the red curl into here using the 'Select contiguous regions' tool, Image > Mode > Indexed and save as .gif) You'd better to go into the "Layer" / "Transparency" menu and choose the "color to alpha

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 09:24:58 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: [...] > In a previous post on this thread (or one of the many similar threads > now going strong) I said that aptitude was working fine for me in my > brand new Etch install. This is MOSTLY true. It works fine from the > command lin

Re: How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Jianwei Xie wrote: Hi. Recently, Firefox has been renamed as Iceweasel @ Debian. After that, when I open any website of google tools, such as google toolbar (http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/install.html) or google notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook/download), Google doesn't recogni

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
Yuriy Padlyak wrote: Raquel wrote: In the interactive mode, you press "g" to see the packages which are being removed and/or installed. There you can press "+" to deselect those packages which are being removed, or you can press "_" to deselect those packages which are being installed. When

dist-upgrades sometimes find bugs

2006-12-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I never thought I'd see this, but my recent Sid dist-upgrade found a bug in my code. It draws CPU temp graphs: http://www.geocities.com/hugovanwoerkom/modtempdisp.12032006.jpeg The generation of the X-axis tickmark labels is in a while loop that is never satisfied. Why did it ever run?

Re: aterm segmentation fault

2006-12-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 18:50:35 -0600, Autumn Lansing wrote: > Aterm has suddenly decided to stop working. When I call it from the menu > it fails to start. When trying to run a command that uses aterm through > nedit I receive a segmentation fault error. Running an strace verifies > the

Re: Checking integrity of cached debs

2006-12-03 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
Winston Smith writes: > Is there an easy way to check the integrity of cached debs and remove > corrupt ones? You can install debsums for that, Description: Verify installed package files against MD5 checksums. debsums can verify the integrity of installed package files against MD5 c

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread j Mak
Thanks for the info. Regards, Jmak - Original Message From: Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Sunday, December 3, 2006 7:24:03 AM Subject: Re: Debian Logo On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:56:53 -0800 (PST) j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not able

Re: Mozilla resolving host problem

2006-12-03 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Do you have the machine's LAN card in DHCP configuration or does it have a static address? Is the machine connected to a router or to a modem? I had noticed a similar problem at my parents home, running Ubuntu and Firefox, and IIRC giving the Ubuntu machine a fixed address seem

Re: Mozilla resolving host problem

2006-12-03 Thread H.S.
David Shultz wrote: On 12/2/06, Ralph Katz wrote: Yes, I have the same symptoms on sarge with firefox 1.5.0.8 (from mozilla tarball) and network.dns.disableIPv6 true. While firefox is resolving the address, I can bring up a terminal, $ host 'url' and get an ip address long before firefox gets

How to install Google Notebook on Iceweasel?

2006-12-03 Thread Jianwei Xie
Hi. Recently, Firefox has been renamed as Iceweasel @ Debian. After that, when I open any website of google tools, such as google toolbar (http://tools.google.com/firefox/toolbar/install.html) or google notebook (http://www.google.com/notebook/download), Google doesn't recognize my iceweasel (ver

Can't get etch rc1 kppp or ndiswrapper wireless to connect to the net.

2006-12-03 Thread Mike Carter
Hi, kppp won't load as user but will as root, even so won't connect. Ndiswrapper is loaded, states it is connected to lan but will not connect to net. Anyone have any ideas? It is driving me crazy. A few weeks ago etch was working on the net. Ndiswrapper fine, kppp worked in root ethernet conn

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

2006-12-03 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 09:52:16PM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>My assertion: The kernel is more important than the license. Code > >>trumps license. No code, no need to even use or have a license... > >>whatever it is. > > > >Code without licence tends not to prop

Happy success with LVM and RAID

2006-12-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
Buried in this is a little bit of grumpiness, but only a little. See if you can find it. Mainly, this is about a success that I thought was worth sharing. Starting in 1999 or so I had Debian running on a PowerCenter Pro 180 (PPC 604 180MHz, 1997 vintage Mac clone) maxed out to 512MB of memory. I r

OO.org dictionary tool upgrade install. Where?

2006-12-03 Thread Brian Durant
When I open OO.org and try to install extra dictionaries, I get prompted for installing a newer version of the OO.org dictionary tool and a file path prompt opens up, but I haven't got a clue where the app is supposed to be installed. Nothing in the dialog box that gives a clue. Any ideas from any

Can't get etch rc1 kppp or ndiswrapper wireless to connect to the net.

2006-12-03 Thread Mike Carter
Hi, kppp won't load as user but will as root, even so won't connect. Ndiswrapper is loaded, states it is connected to lan but will not connect to net. Anyone have any ideas? It is driving me crazy. A few weeks ago etch was working on the net. Ndiswrapper fine, kppp worked in root ethernet conn

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 15:36:30 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: > On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 01:05:29AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > It is perfectly safe to mix aptitude and apt-get. I will now perform a > > daring experiment to demonstrate this: I have here an up-to-date Debian Sid > > box, whi

newly dist-upgrade messed my fontconfig?

2006-12-03 Thread Deephay
Greetings all, I did a "aptitude -f dist-upgrade" an hour ago and found the fontconfig package is upgraded and now the text on many websites looks dim (seems that the Nimbus font is now take in charge), I checked my fontconfig configuration files in my /etc/fonts/ directory and tried to comment o

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-03 Thread John Hasler
Douglas Tutty wrote: > When _does_ the licence on things like an old dos floppy expire In the US, 95 years from date of first publication or 120 years from date of creation: whichever comes first. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

Re: Installation process Debian Etch

2006-12-03 Thread Magnus Pedersen
aa dd wrote: I want to install debian etch. Now installation process is asking for domain name, what should I give? I don't have a domain setup. I've 4 winxp computers under a workgorup named Workgroup. So do I keep the field for domain name empty in the installation process? If i use a madeup do

Re: BIOS upgrade

2006-12-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 11:35:07AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I need to upgrade my BIOS. Generally it seems to involve getting freedos and putting it on a floppy with the updates. Googling isn't clear on recent reports. Has anyone done this lately and specifical

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

2006-12-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/03/06 02:02, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a >>> Windows developer) years. Windows XP will ru

Re: Harddisk Errors in Etch using Kernel 2.6.17 but not Kernel 2.6.8

2006-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:38:51PM +0300, Salman Al-Rahma wrote: [..] > Stable-, so as this is just a desktop computer.. I decided an upgrade is > due.. so changed the sources in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to > testing and did a dist-upgrade. Same here, although on a laptop. > so I did a

Re: Mozilla resolving host problem

2006-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:35:34PM -0500, David Shultz wrote: >Whenever I browse any website, mozilla says >"Resolving www.google.com" and waits for about >15 seconds to resolve the host. I've disabled >ipv6 but the problem is still there. Also I've >checked the isp nameserver

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun, Dec 03, 2006 at 11:43:36AM +, Dave Ewart wrote: > http://www.bytemark.co.uk/ - UK-based: they do both virtual machines and > also proper dedicated servers. By default, you'll get Debian. > > Disclaimer: I am a (very happy) Bytemark customer, so this may be > considered as pimpage :-)

max loop devices problem

2006-12-03 Thread sardu mohamadu
Hello, Before all, I'm new, so excuse my possible mailinglisting errors. I'm trying to mount more than 8 loop file systems, and I can't. I have followed a thread in this mailinglist telling how to do that, but It has not work to me. First, information of my system: -

Re: Debian Logo

2006-12-03 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
On Sat, 2 Dec 2006 18:56:53 -0800 (PST) j Mak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am not able to find a debian logo with a transparent background. > Could anyone point me to a link where I can download one? Well, one could take one of the logos from www.debian.org/logos/ and use Gimp to make the backg

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Clive Menzies
On (02/12/06 09:50), Tom Allison wrote: > Can anyone direct me towards debian based dedicated server hosting > companies? > > I might be interested in other levels of hosting, but I might need more > root-level access than some configurations would permit. Checkout: http://www.blackcatnetworks

where do mount take it filesystem type if none is writren

2006-12-03 Thread Jabka Atu
Hello.. I found some strange behavior (for what i know) in my mount /dev/hda has ntfs-3g parttion type . but when i do mount /dev/hda /mnt/location //without using -t ntfs-3g it mounts it as _NTFS_ and not as _NTFS-3G_. the question is why ? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: dedicated debian hosting

2006-12-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Saturday, 02.12.2006 at 09:50 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Can anyone direct me towards debian based dedicated server hosting > companies? > > I might be interested in other levels of hosting, but I might need > more root-level access than some configurations would permit. http://www.bytemark.

Re: Kernel 2.6 SMP very slow with ServerWorks LE Chipset

2006-12-03 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Oleg Verych wrote: 8< 8< snip Sorry for the delay, RL has been rather demanding of late. I've installed 2.6.18 from sid but it's displaying the same problems. As a test of CPU power I've been decompressing the kernel tree, with a UP 2.6 kernel this takes about 1m 15s, I don't know

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Yuriy Padlyak wrote: Raquel wrote: On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:54:36 +0200 Yuriy Padlyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: Is the problem, perhaps, because of the differences between apt and aptitude? I ran into the same problem when I first started using aptitude. What I did was to

Re: Maze of Twisty Turny Little Package Managers

2006-12-03 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 02 Dec 2006, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Aptitude is very aggressive and usually wrong about removing other > "unneeded" apps when you remove one app. Maybe this only happens > when you start out using apt-get, but is nonetheless very > aggravating and disconcerting. Thus, I stick with apt-get. >

Re: aptitude --mind-your-own-business option?

2006-12-03 Thread Yuriy Padlyak
Raquel wrote: On Sat, 02 Dec 2006 18:54:36 +0200 Yuriy Padlyak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Raquel wrote: Is the problem, perhaps, because of the differences between apt and aptitude? I ran into the same problem when I first started using aptitude. What I did was to go into the interac

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-03 Thread Rick Thomas
Well... It certainly looks like I've got it installed... However, the version that's available from the "etch" mirrors (and installed on my machine) doesn't seem to be the same as that on the website that Mathieu mentions. Is it just that it hasn't migrated to "testing" from "unstable" ye

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

2006-12-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a > > Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98 > > apps with no problem. > > Sadly this does not include any