>John Kerr Anderson wrote:
>Hello everyone,
>
>I have a very annoying problem. I am trying to download some new
>programs via aptitude and notice that my modem connection keeps >dropping
>out after 5 - 10 minutes. The connection keeps dropping esp. if I try
>to check a web-page out while it is dow
On Jan 27, 2007, at 2:19 PM, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my
new box: it couldn't access the hwclock. If I told it not to, (so
that
the hwclock shutdown script could work), it really messed up my time.
So I switched to ntp. I
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 12:15:19AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:12:44PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > use aptitude interactively and ':' will hold a package at its current
> > level. also, '?' within apt-listbugs allows you to pin the packages,
> > but I've n
Zach writes:
> Exactly how can I enable [dial on demand]?
Change->provider name->Advanced->Demand
> How can I enable [persist] also?
Change->provider name->Advanced->Persist
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:49:39PM +, John Talbut wrote:
> As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes
> back settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked
> through the various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I
> cannot work
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:49:06PM -0500, Zach wrote:
> On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> >I don't suppose you told pppconfig to make it an on-demand connection?
>
> Hi Douglas,
>
> Exactly how can I enable this?
>
> >Personally, I also use the persist option so th
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 23:51:
>>> There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
>>> executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
>>> because it is trivial to work around.
>
> At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:42:42PM -0800, Mitchell Verter wrote:
> I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
> for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
>
> Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
> running; my case is
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 02:26:01AM -0800, Land Haj wrote:
> > Hi!
> >
> > I decided to try etch out and use raid-1. All went fine until I mounted one
> > of the raid disks from another debian installation on the same computer,
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 10:01:43PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
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> On 01/26/07 19:03, Hodgins Family wrote:
> > Many people are installing Debian "from the internet". Yet, the Securing
> > Debian Manual suggests no contact with the internet until the
On 1/27/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I don't suppose you told pppconfig to make it an on-demand connection?
Hi Douglas,
Exactly how can I enable this?
Personally, I also use the persist option so that it redials if the
connection dies.
Cool. How can I enable this als
I used to work with this wifi comfortably in sarge with ndiswrapper. In etch
i have problems.
first bcm43xx driver didn't work with the firmware extracted automatically
while installation and also from the working driver in windows. I copied the
files as read in /lib/hotplug/firmware. I have read
I have just done an install on a Sony r505 laptop and have some issues
that I have never seen concerning the touchpad.
Pointer motion is painfully slow. I have tried reconfiguring the
xserver, changing the corepointer from the configured mouse to the
synaptics, changing the acceleration in gnom
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:09, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
>
> - resize linux partitions (cfdisk, parted, ...)
For non destructively resizing partitions, I have previously used qtparted and
I found that the GUI is pretty neat and intuitive. I have no qualms in
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On 01/27/07 19:00, Mitchell Verter wrote:
[snip]
> I bought the laptop with Debian installed, so I know little about
> it. I don't think there is much data on it and I probably don't
> care about keeping old data, just preserving important system
> fi
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On 01/27/07 18:00, s. keeling wrote:
> Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:28 +, s. keeling wrote:
[snip]
> Not necessary with any sort of net connection. It doesn't take
> long to apt-get/aptitude/synaptic install a wm
Greetings,
After attempting to do changeover from Ubtunu 6.06 to Debian "Etch" by
changing sources.list and doing a #apt-get dist-upgrade, I ended up
having to grab the "net-install" image and do the installation that way.
I ran into several problems that become hard to overcome. Some crut
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On 01/27/07 17:52, s. keeling wrote:
> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> On 01/26/07 19:28, s. keeling wrote:
>>> Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
>> Yes they are.
>>
>> Unless you want to be investigated by Them. The NSA
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:34, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:49:52PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> > I was hoping that there are programs/webinterfaces out there that
> > can take this load off of our shoulders and download things during
> > the night?
> If user's can appen
Thanks for all the dual boot advice.
Now I need to partition the disk and move the Linux partition to the second
partition
I am looking at the Linux Partition HOWTO (http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Partition/)
and the parted manual (
http://www.gnu.org/software/parted/manual/parted.html#Introduction) I
s
PLEASE! Do NOT send HTML messages on this group. I'm not the only one
who has issues with them! Some mail readers can't deal with them.
On Saturday 27 January 2007 18:37, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> >> Hal Vaughan wrote
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:30:48AM +, Tyler wrote:
> In the meantime, how does one check for bad blocks and bad ram? I have
> the pre-installed fsck running every 30th boot, and so far no errors
> have ever been reported.
>
Check the man page for the filesystem-specific fscker (honest, I'
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 02:49:52PM +0100, Mark wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I was hoping you may have an idea what to use for the following
> problem:
>
> At work we have a 1Mbit line download and upload. But still
> sometimes people here try to download 350Mb or more over that little
> tiny wire.
>
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:54:34PM +, Hans du Plooy wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> I'm having no luck following this howto:
> http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch04s04.html.en
>
> I just get the following:
>
> "Non-System disk or disk error
> replace and strike any key when ready"
>
> I tr
> to create a default set of rules that would work for many people.
The default set of rules only needs to get people through the
installation safely. After that, they can alter them with their
favourite program, as needed.
The rules here:
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/a
Rob Sims <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 01:08:20AM +, s. keeling wrote:
> >
> > He's suggesting a nickel would get him a better computer than what he's
> > using. That's a pretty damning indictment. A nickel can't buy a
> > computer in any way, shape or form.
>
> Are you k
Sven Arvidsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 01:28 +, s. keeling wrote:
> > And I would imagine any of them could be used if you chose to avoid
> > those three. Try out some of the other wm's. You might like them.
> > Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 16:47 -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Are there plans to eventually replace some features in
> Iceweasel with open source versions that could eventually find their
> way into the Firefox source tree -- eventually replacing all the
> non-free features? And is any functionality
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 01/26/07 19:28, s. keeling wrote:
> > Gnome, KDE, and XFCE are not the only choices available.
>
> Yes they are.
>
> Unless you want to be investigated by Them. The NSA & the RCMP are
> suspicious of anyone running desktop Linux (too many freethinkers),
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi all,
I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without
problem by running:
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
which
Mitchell Verter wrote:
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my case is the reverse.
The computer already has Debian and
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 05:30:08PM -0500, Roby wrote:
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 10:26:31PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 01:37:11PM -0500, Roby wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Only a guess, but is the USB_STORAGE module loaded?
> >>
> >> No. it
Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I used to run chrony (with difficulty) but ran into a problem with my
> new box: it couldn't access the hwclock. If I told it not to, (so that
> the hwclock shutdown script could work), it really messed up my time.
> So I switched to ntp. I acces
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
"Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on
> the web for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
>
> Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have
> Windows run
Mitchell Verter wrote:
> The computer already has Debian and LILO running.
>
> If I want to put NT on the computer too, would I just partition the
> disk (how do you partition in linux?) and then install NT on the new
> partition and expect LILO to notice?
I like to use cfdisk for partitioning.
B
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 17:21:36 -0500
Angelo Bertolli <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> For console, you can use lokkit:
>
> lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console
> interface)
>
> But I don't think it gives you as much control as iptables.
My point was that it would be very di
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 14:42:42 -0800
"Mitchell Verter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
> for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
>
> Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
> run
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 21:14 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> > There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
> > executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
> > because it is trivial to work around.
At least the /lib/ld-linux.so.2 work around shouldn't work anymore
I am hoping that someone can direct me to the best instructions on the web
for setting up a dual-boot system running Debian and NT.
Most of the HOW-TOs I've looked at assume that you already have Windows
running; my case is the reverse.
The computer already has Debian and LILO running.
If I wan
For console, you can use lokkit:
lokkit - basic interactive firewall configuration tool (console interface)
But I don't think it gives you as much control as iptables.
Angelo
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Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though.
Because no DD felt like doing it.
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On Thu, Jan 25, 2007 at 05:20:04PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote:
> On 1/23/07, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 40C is quite fine, my drives idle at nearly that (spinning but idle).
> Sometimes they get up to almost 70C when they are really busy. Maybe
> that's too hot? Comments...
>
My Seagat
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 12:03:27AM -0500, Zach wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am having a problem in Debian (testing) and wonder if you could help me.
> In
> Windoze I can stat a download program and left unattended it will run
> for 5 hours before the ISP automatically disconnects, however in Linux
> when I
On Saturday 27 January 2007 16:31, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:52:51PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> > I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though.
> > (I just figured it was for upgrades.)
>
> Probably because of portability. I don't think mozilla
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 02:41:40PM -0600, Mike Myers wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm still trying to adjust from Gentoo's way of doing things (do it
> manually) to debian's (apt-something) way. So far everything has been
> great, but i'm having trouble finding docs on a couple of issues I'm
> having. B
hi all,
what about VirtualBox ?
has anyone used this before ?
any idea whether it's as good as vmware or worse than qemu ?
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 03:52:51PM -0500, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
>
> I'm not clear on why Firefox couldn't be put in non-free though. (I
> just figured it was for upgrades.)
>
Probably because of portability. I don't think mozilla provides
official binaries for s390 and probably hppa and some o
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 04:52:53PM +0200, WireSpot wrote:
> Can anyone recommend a piece of software that will watch a file or a
> directory and tell me what processes mess with the files in there? In
> particular, I'd like it to react when a file is removed.
>
> I tried dnotify but it only tells
On Sun, Jan 21, 2007 at 10:03:30PM -0500, Jim Hyslop wrote:
> OK, this latest discussion about logging in as root got me thinking. I'm
> fairly new to Linux. Occasionally, when I need to set up something (as
> an example, my recent DNS questions) I will need to edit a config file,
> and restart th
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 09:33:37AM -0500, Juergen Fiedler wrote:
>
> This is not really a problem as such, merely a request for input and
> interesting anecdotes: I am currently running an x86 sid on a Sempron
> based machine. On one hand, I am happy with it because just about
> everything I could
On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 09:27:07PM -0500, Steve C. Lamb wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 24, 2007 at 08:57:07PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote:
> > Personally, I feel this hardcoding of colors in the application is a
> > downside of X.
>
> One of the few visual things I miss from OS/2. There I had my apps set to
On Fri, Jan 26, 2007 at 07:31:08PM +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
> On 23.01.07 01:49, Bruno Voigt wrote:
> > I'm running debian/unstable on my laptop and often the LAN/WLAN is not
> > connected (yet) when the system is starting up - including NTPD.
> >
> > NTPD then seems to discard all unr
On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 10:22:55AM -0600, Kevin Monceaux wrote:
> I'm teetering on the fence between Arch Linux and Debian Linux. So, I
> thought I'd post an intro in hopes that someone will give me a gentle nudge
> in the right direction. Forgive me if I ramble a bit.
>
> I've been a Linux us
On Mon, Jan 22, 2007 at 10:08:39AM -0500, celejar wrote:
> Hi list,
>
> I plan to do a netinstall on a new laptop (Acer AS3960). There's
> internal wifi, and I have an Atheros PC card, but I have to assume
> that neither will be supported during installation. Ethernet directly
> into my gateway /
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> I think that automatically upgrading people to Iceweasel is better than
> leaving the stagnant Firefox package since:
>
> - The security team can't support
> - Debian is not allowed to continue redistributing
> - People may not know to go looking for it
>
Not to menti
On Sam, 27 Jan 2007, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but different.
Can YOU please explain me what *important* differences there are?
If you miss the firefox logo, and the word "firefox" in the title bar,
then ok, well, run stable.
Otherwis
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:40:52PM +0100, Norbert Preining wrote:
>
> Otherwise I would like to see what kind of OPERATIONAL difference you
> have found:
> - you still can fall iceweasel as "firefox" on the command line
> - you can browse the web *IN THE EXACT SAME WAY*
>
You can even use the sam
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 09:14:09PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
>
> Yes that´s what the harden howto also say.
> I am just wondering if this still applies today because this howto seems
> to be from 2000/2001 that must have been pre woody and we are now on the
> way to etch.
>
> Are the implications t
Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 01/26/07 23:18, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Friday 26 January 2007 23:19, Angelo Bertolli wrote:
> >> Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> >>> Ex-Debian user...
> >>> ... back to the Gentoo
> >> If going to the Mozilla website to download and install Firefox is
> >> too much work for you
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote the following on 27.01.2007 21:02:
> There are a variety of programs that will fail if /tmp is not
> executable. In general, the noexec flag is really not very useful
> because it is trivial to work around.
Yes that´s what the harden howto also say.
I am just wondering
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 07:45:58PM +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am on the way to try/test debian etch.
> During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for
> partition
>
> My question:
> I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
> specifical
Sven Arvidsson wrote the following on 27.01.2007 20:13:
> See the excellent Securing Debian Manual, especially this section, and
> the one following.
> http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/securing-debian-howto/ch4.en.html#s4.10
Thank you.
bye Thilo
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On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 19:45 +0100, Thilo Six wrote:
> My question:
> I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
> specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions.
>
> Is it a good advice to use these two flags on these partitions?
> Are there any program
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On 01/27/07 12:24, Attila Horvath wrote:
> Hi
>
> I downloaded pgAmin III so I can view my postgress DB remotely.
>
> What is the default username/password where installed apt packages are
> managed?
Huh?
Do you mean the username and password of th
On Wed, 2007-01-24 at 16:20 -0500, Stephen wrote:
> OK it might not be that funny, but hey, at least it mentions Linux and the
> evil
> empire (as we know it);
For even more linux-in-mainstream-comics I found this archive,
http://folk.uio.no/hpv/linuxtoons/index.html
Supposedly it was on Digg n
I use it from the original tarball. Works great for me.
ap
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On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:46 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> > Just curious why. In my experience, qemu is slw.
> >
> With kqemu accelerator is actually quite responsive. It puts it on par
> with VMWare.
But sadly both kqemu and VMWare are proprietary. A better option is to
use kvm (i
Hello
I am on the way to try/test debian etch.
During instaltion in partition tool one could set special parameters for
partition
My question:
I use ext3 and have /var and /tmp on seperate partitions and would
specifically know about noexec and nosuid flags on these partitions.
Is it a good advi
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 13:49 +, John Talbut wrote:
> As I understand it, Gnome Volume Manager, invokes pmount-hal which passes
> back
> settings from hal and hal gets settings from udev. I have looked through the
> various udev rules files and anything to do with hal and I cannot work out
>
Hi
I downloaded pgAmin III so I can view my postgress DB remotely.
What is the default username/password where installed apt packages are managed?
Thx Attila
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On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:04:22PM -0600, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
>
> Is this a good plan or am I making fundamental mistake in combining non
> raid and raid partitions?
>
There is nothing inherently wrong with it, but you would be much better
served using LVM over one large RAID partition
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:04, Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote:
> While I believe it is technically possible to have couple of
> partitions in raid 1 and the rest as plain disk, I am looking
> for advise as to whether this is ok? recommened?
No problem at all. Our most extreme example is a serve
Hello
I have very happily read in recent dwn that online installation with
pppoe works out of box with debian-installer.
I got the netinstall image from 25th jan. 2007 and tried it today.
Basically it works - yay ;)
but i got the error message that "release file could not be retrieved"
(transla
Attila Horvath wrote:
> All
>
> Have read some very good things about VMware - particularly it's ability
> to support Linux distros. I notice Debian has VMware only as an
> experimental package.
>
> Has anyone any opinions/experiences you can share re: VMware?
>
> Thx
> Attila
I run WMware wor
Gnu_Raiz writes:
> I did think that was funny, but I wonder if the same effect would occur
> if one used a boiling pot of water and soaked the sponges for a certain
> time?
Boiling the sponges would have exactly the same effect.
> In fact I assume you might kill more bacteria with the water as th
Attila Horvath wrote:
> Have read some very good things about VMware - particularly it's ability
> to support Linux distros. I notice Debian has VMware only as an
> experimental package.
No, Debian isn't allowed to distribute vmware, and does not.
> Has anyone any opinions/experiences you can s
I am interested in pariring 2x250G into raid mirror for linux
installation. However I do not want to use entire 250G into mirror.
While I believe
it is technically possible to have couple of partitions in raid 1 and
the rest as plain disk, I am looking for advise as to whether this is
ok? recom
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> avahi-daemon recommends libnss-mdns
> libnss-mdns recommends zeroconf
>
> The link is pretty weak, but it still gets installed on a lot of
> systems, because aptitude installs recommends by default.
Although thankfully recommends are ignored on initial installs.
The recom
John Talbut writes:
> By the way, is Debian allowed to use the word Firefox in this instance?
Yes. A trademark is not a copyright. A trademark owner can only prevent
uses of his mark which might confuse the public into buying one product
when they though they were buying another (in the US).
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On 01/27/07 11:03, Greg Folkert wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> The upward pressure continues:
>>
>> Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my
>> MX440 + MX4000 cards
>>
>> Yo
>From: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Wrote:
>Hi,
>
>The upward pressure continues:
>
>Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my
>MX440 + MX4000 cards
>
>You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster
>videocards. I found the FX5200 is s
On Sat January 27 2007 08:02, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The upward pressure continues:
>
> Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my
> MX440 + MX4000 cards
>
> You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster
> videocards. I found the FX520
Gnu_Raiz wrote:
Anyway I do think it is kind of funny that posts such as these seem to
bring the list out. You can tell those who follow the list by the
responses. I am still upset that IceFerret didn't win, but what do I
know!
Ferrets ARE weasels! Ask my five year old daughter. She will t
On Saturday 27 January 2007 12:01, Marc Shapiro wrote:
> Hal Vaughan wrote:
> > On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without
> >> problem by running:
> >>
> >> apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
> >>
> >> w
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:52, Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> Iceweasel and Firefox are a different products, very similar, but
> different. So I think that debian should no longer use firefox as a
> name for iceweasel package!
>
> I will give you an example:
> You are typing:
> aptitude update && a
michael writes:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:08 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
>> Latest libc6 version in unstable is 2.3.6.ds1-10 though. What does
>>
>> apt-cache policy libc6
>>
>> say?
>>
> aha!
> ~$ apt-cache policy libc6
> libc6:
> Installed: 2.3.6-15
> Candidate: 2.3.6-15
> Pa
From: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Wrote:
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 10:02 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> Hi,
>
> The upward pressure continues:
>
> Nvidia's 9746 driver released December 21, 2006 no longer supports my
> MX440 + MX4000 cards
>
> You are being driven to get boards with PCI Express slots and buy faster
> videocards. I found
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On Saturday 27 January 2007 09:38, Chris Bannister
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:
> Check out userfriendly.org(?) for, IMO, LOL humour.
UserFriendly also has a handy search function with which you can look
for particular words in the text of
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:43:59AM -0500, Stephen R Laniel wrote:
>
> Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which
> surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way
> toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely
> the least interesting debate in the history
Hal Vaughan wrote:
On Saturday 27 January 2007 10:58, Danesh Daroui wrote:
Hi all,
I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without
problem by running:
apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
which is version 1.5.0_08
but when I try to install java runtime using
apt-get install sun-
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 11:03:59AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> Please quit top posting.
Here is a script that I banged out in a few minutes, which
surely needs much improvement but will hopefully go some way
toward making the top-posting "debate" -- which is surely
the least interesting deb
Andrei Popescu wrote:
> On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 00:46:50 -0500
> Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>Hi Andrei,
>>it seems enough people do an install and have this problem that the
>>answer has become know to the debian-user list. Now I know very little
>>about zeroconf but it seems to me that it
On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 08:45:39AM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote:
>
> I fully agree that a warning that this was a replacement would have been
> a "GOOD THING (TM)". I also agree that the OP went overboard in his
> vehemence. Can we now move on to other things, since we all agree on
> this one?
>
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> > Piotr Dziubinski wrote:
> > > Ex-Debian user...
> > > ... back to the Gentoo
The reasons for the change are open to all to see. Without any attempt
to obfuscate or avoid, a license was respected. Isn't that what F/OSS
is all about, presenting l
Wackojacko wrote:
Hal Vaughan wrote:
You would have been informed that Firefox would be removed, since apt
states when a package will be removed.
I have to disagree with this statement. The package firefox still
exists in the apt repositories and can be installed. It is actually a
tran
On Sat, 27 Jan 2007 16:58:08 +0100
Danesh Daroui <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I have tried to install JDK5 on debian and it installed without
> problem by running:
>
> apt-get install sun-java5-jdk
>
> which is version 1.5.0_08
>
> but when I try to install java runtime using
>
>
On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 15:08 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> michael writes:
>
> > On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:51 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
> >> michael writes:
> >> > ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
> >>
> >> This a *very* outdated version of lib
Michael Fothergill wrote:
> >On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 12:20:48AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
> > > Dear Debianists,
> > >
> > > I have now installed Etch AMD64 RC1 successfully on my new AMD64
box.
> > > The only problem I have is that the internet connection isn't
working.
> > >
> >
michael writes:
> On Sat, 2007-01-27 at 14:51 +0100, Jhair Tocancipa Triana wrote:
>> michael writes:
>> > ii libc6 2.3.6-15 GNU C Library: Shared libraries
>>
>> This a *very* outdated version of libc6 (released on Juny 2006). When
>> was your last upgrade?
> today!
> ~$ sudo
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