Re: Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 09:47:32AM +0200, Justin Hartman wrote: > Hi all > > On unstable I got a notification to upgrade my Iceweasle which I duly > did. In doing so however all my bookmarks, prefs and other browser > data was removed as if I had just installed Iceweasle for the first > time. > >

Upgrade of Iceweasle removed all my prefs

2007-02-19 Thread Justin Hartman
Hi all On unstable I got a notification to upgrade my Iceweasle which I duly did. In doing so however all my bookmarks, prefs and other browser data was removed as if I had just installed Iceweasle for the first time. I just don't think this is normal as my experience with apt is that it respect

Re: Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Long time ago Firefox used to behave like a normal Linux application > with regards to keyboard shortcuts to close/quit the application. > However, somewhere during the 1.5.x release or with 2.0, the Ctrl+Q does > not do anything. Ctrl+W cl

Firefox/Iceweasel's weird close/quit behaviour

2007-02-19 Thread KS
Hi, Long time ago Firefox used to behave like a normal Linux application with regards to keyboard shortcuts to close/quit the application. However, somewhere during the 1.5.x release or with 2.0, the Ctrl+Q does not do anything. Ctrl+W closes one tab at a time only and Ctrl+Shift+W quits the appli

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:54:34AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > IIUC, you mean you want to know the benefits of doing diff files, as > compared to doing binary ones? If you got massive bandwidth, binary's > cool, but if you want all 3 DVD'

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 07:54:34AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> >So I'd expect an upstream diff to be availi

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Florian Kulzer wrote: Being broken (i.e. having an unfulfilled dependency, pre-dependency, or conflict) is a property of the package itself and should not depend on the package manager. The package manager, on the other hand, can help you to resolve breakages that occur, for example, during an

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Marcus Blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:19:50PM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update > everything and when I do like > > apt-get upgrade calmd > > I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't > want that. > [...] Hi

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/20/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So I'd expect an upstream diff to be availible from the upstream > >website, if it exists. > > I want to avoid this step a

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 23:42, Greg Madden wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:26:02 -0500 > cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:52:43AM EST, Stephen Chadfield wrote: >>> Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In article

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Madden
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 05:26:02 -0500 cga2000 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 06:52:43AM EST, Stephen Chadfield wrote: > > Miquel van Smoorenburg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, > > > Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Is there anyone on

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Geoff Reidy
Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update > everything and when I do like > > apt-get upgrade calmd > > I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't > want that. > apt-get upgrade will upgrade all packages, try apt-

Re: apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:19:50PM -0500, Chuck Payne wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update > everything and when I do like > > apt-get upgrade calmd > > I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't > want that. > > I was

Re: [Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:08:45PM -0700, Admin wrote: > If I had more experience in debian packaging and package commands as well > as the CVS system(s) in use then I would be willing to participate in the > development of definition of Xen packages for Debian as it appears they are > looking f

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 22:01, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:35:37PM -0600, Kelly wrote: >> I am working with a test box trying to get a test environment running to >> switch from Solaris to Debian. >> >> I am having a problem with my em

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 22:12, Ken Heard wrote: > John Hasler wrote: >> Ken Heard writes: >>> Nothing, because these [dosemu] packages are not in the Debian >>> Etch/testing package repository >> >> Look in contrib. > > I suppose to do that I would have to add co

apt-get vs. deselect

2007-02-19 Thread Chuck Payne
Hi, I am trying to update a couple packages, I don't want to update everything and when I do like apt-get upgrade calmd I get a list of some 400 other pacakges that will be ugprade and I don't want that. I was told I could do it with deselect, but I don't see how. Please, some help. Than

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
John Hasler wrote: Ken Heard writes: Nothing, because these [dosemu] packages are not in the Debian Etch/testing package repository Look in contrib. I suppose to do that I would have to add contrib to my /etc/apt/sources.list. All it has now are etch main. Those packages are not in the m

[Debian-User] Nice Job Andrew

2007-02-19 Thread Admin
Thanks to: Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] You said: I'm not sure what you're getting at here, but here is my network setup using my previously posted xen configuration of Dom0 lan server, DomU firewall and DomU mail server. Andrew, this was a very competent and well presented descripti

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-02-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:35:37PM -0600, Kelly wrote: > I am working with a test box trying to get a test environment running to > switch from Solaris to Debian. > > I am having a problem with my email. I am running 'Postfix' SMTP > server. I am running the 'Courier IMAP' server. I can send

Email receiving problems

2007-02-19 Thread Kelly
I am working with a test box trying to get a test environment running to switch from Solaris to Debian. I am having a problem with my email. I am running 'Postfix' SMTP server. I am running the 'Courier IMAP' server. I can send email just fine. When I am receiving email there is a problem.

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:25:16PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Nope. You seem to mention the Debian-specific diffs. I'm looking for > >> upstream diffs: diff betw

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 21:12 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:16:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:48:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 21:08, Mike McCarty wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/19/07 18:48, Mike McCarty wrote: >> >>> >>> You didn't respond to what I wrote. I didn't allude to a >>> BIOS limit. I alluded t

Sarge: can't change modules.conf, and can't change it the other way either

2007-02-19 Thread Carl Fink
So, after not looking at it for literally years, I want to have apache load some more modules. I go to edit modules.conf and the top says: # Autogenerated file - do not edit! # This file is maintained by the apache package. # To update it, run the command: #/usr/sbin/modules-config apache O

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 18:48, Mike McCarty wrote: You didn't respond to what I wrote. I didn't allude to a BIOS limit. I alluded to what is available today. One cannot get a small disc anymore. Ebay to the rescue. (1) I wouldn't trust

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 18:48, Mike McCarty wrote: > Arnt Karlsen wrote: >> On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >>> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] >> ..you wanna google "2G

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:16:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:48:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > Do I understand thi

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Ken Heard writes: > Nothing, because these [dosemu] packages are not in the Debian > Etch/testing package repository Look in contrib. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-19, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All I can > suggest is that you eliminate *every* process that you don't need in > order to do your thing. If you're running emacs -nw, then you must be > running X in some form, do you need it? If not, get rid of it -- X > will on

Re: wide screen problem

2007-02-19 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Chen ZongZong(George) wrote: > Lots and Lots of Linux users has adopted wide screen monitor(e.g. 1440*900 > resolution for 19') > But debian 4.0 test edition hasn't resolved the display problem. Wish the > standard distribution > can correctly detected the adapter type(like Intel G946, 810 set) a

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-20, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith wrote: >> On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >> Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part >> from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% >> by system,

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:14:00PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > >>3. On a machine, I exported a portion of the captured audio to a wav > >>file (basically, saved a portion of the input). I then transfered it > >>to my home computer running Debian. While that sound wave file

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Ron Johnson wrote: What happens when you install the Debian packages dosemu, dosemu-freedos & xfonts-dosemu? Nothing, because these three packages are not in the Debian Etch/testing package repository, but are in Sarge/stable. Even so, in my Sarge box I did not use them because I found t

Ragged font rendition with xserver-xorg 1:7.1.0-11

2007-02-19 Thread William Walter
Having problem with Etch. I'm a complete newbie to linux. Font rendition on Gnome is messed up. Some part are lighter than the rest. I've turned on subpixel smoothing and hinting. Neither of them have worked. What am i missing in this case?

wide screen problem

2007-02-19 Thread Chen ZongZong(George)
Lots and Lots of Linux users has adopted wide screen monitor(e.g. 1440*900 resolution for 19') But debian 4.0 test edition hasn't resolved the display problem. Wish the standard distribution can correctly detected the adapter type(like Intel G946, 810 set) and wide screen monitor type. Thank yo

Re: Woody on 486 problem

2007-02-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Arnt Karlsen wrote: On Fri, 16 Feb 2007 16:52:29 -0600, Mike wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/16/07 16:22, Mike McCarty wrote: especially since it can't be done. The smallest disc these days is around 100 Gig. I

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Tyler Smith wrote: On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Sorry for reposting, but I should add that my concern stems in part from top reporting that 27% of the CPU is being used by users, and 73% by system, which conflicts with the line item for paup, a user process, which shows

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Fri, 2007-02-16 at 14:55 -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: Ask me about the machine and the ping pong balls some time. Tell us? I have three boxes, two of them empty, the other has a countably infinite number of ping pong balls. The box with the balls on it is labelled "A"

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am not sure about audacity as I am not familiar with it, but according to the basics of signal processing going beyond the input gain is never a good idea since this produces additional harmonics resulting in harmonic distortion. So depending on the amount of over gain

..Sylpheed address line bug: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 17:20:47 GMT, s. wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:07 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > > > > My .sig explicitly says not to Cc: me, and that's ignored too. > > > Why am > > > > H

Re: NFS mounts in Etch

2007-02-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Rob Heilman wrote: > Is this observed behavior the intended behavior? Why the change in > procedure? I don't really know. > Where should I submit a request to revert to the previous > behavior observed in Sarge? If you suspect that's a bug (and it seems, because it makes wrong assumptions abou

mixmaster mails sent, but not received by recipient

2007-02-19 Thread Niels Larsen
I am using debian etch (testing) and mixmaster 3.0b2-3 When sending mails with mixmaster, the mails never reach their destination mail address. I first run mixmaster-update --verbose, and then mixmaster. Everything looks perfect, and the mails seem to be sent. I have even tried sending from de

X.org: manual fonts installation

2007-02-19 Thread Lucio Crusca
Hello everybody, I have to install some commercial fonts in current sid/i386 to make them available to GTK applications (flashplayer in particular). I know, that's not free software nor free fonts, but that's what will eventually buy me the food for a few days... Three questions: 1. I have to adv

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 16:38, Ken Heard wrote: > Hugh Lawson wrote: >> On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on >>> the list who still uses dosemu. >> >> Hello Ken, >> >> I do

Re: Saving threads (was Re: help with debian)

2007-02-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 16:39:12 +0100, Niels wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Keep pressing the Spacebar makes you read all the post in all the > folders rather quickly :) ..define "quickly." ;o) ..yes, I _have_ spent 8hour days here, which would have worked for me had I not tried to also

Re: sizeof(long) (was: Re: looking for fix to AMD64 python dl problem....)

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 04:13:39AM -0800, John Pye wrote: > On Feb 18, 5:20 pm, Andrew Sackville-West > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > you've got debian running on a wood stove?! dude that's awesome! I > > Why, what do you guys run yours on? An old dodge slant-6 225. duh! ;) A signature.a

Re: any recomendedations of documentation for half a dozen services.

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:05:40AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > No doubt this is due to my [...] but I still have to find how you use > exim4 for routing system messages *and* for sending mail to an internet > address. And I found the documentation that comes with it inadequate > [for me].

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:48:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Do I understand this correctly? > > > > > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > > >

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:56:26PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, Hi, > > I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working > with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies > from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of > analysi

Re: OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-02-19, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working > with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies > from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of > analysis routinely tak

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and a local mirror or a R/W DVD [LONG REPLY]

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk > ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the > first DVD contains the installer. I think you're slightly confused here. The current stable

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Feb 20, 2007 at 12:19:56AM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > As I said before, the Reply button acts as Reply-to-list in case of a > mailing list. No problem here. The thing I'm not sure of is what is > the correct thing to do if the poster has set a Reply-To: header. > I believe that on a

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Hugh Lawson wrote: On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the list who still uses dosemu. Hello Ken, I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running und

[Debian-User] Xen Debian Package Management

2007-02-19 Thread Admin
Re: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/ is the Xen Wiki front page. The following information may be a partial answer to some of the questions on the Debian-User list regarding obtaining a Debian friendly package as well as the difficulties encountered. Ian (one of the leading developers of Xe

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:55:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/19/07 13:48, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (It's been a while since I used Sy

OT processes and cpu use

2007-02-19 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I have a general question about processes in GNU/Linux. I'm working with PAUP, which is a command-line tool for calculating phylogenies from various data types (gene sequencies, proteins etc.). This sort of analysis routinely takes hours to days of processing. I find it is convenient to run pa

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/02/07 22:08), Florian Kulzer wrote: > Being broken (i.e. having an unfulfilled dependency, pre-dependency, or > conflict) is a property of the package itself and should not depend on > the package manager. The package manager, on the other hand, can help > you to resolve breakages that occur

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 13:55, Ken Heard wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/18/07 21:43, Ken Heard wrote: >>> Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge >>> ever since Sarge cam

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 03:31:07PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > [...] > Audacity: > 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what > does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being > saturated and that the output from mixer should be reduced. > 2. If the input wav

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Hugh Lawson
On 2007-02-19, Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My original question was to find out whether there is anybody on the > list who still uses dosemu. Hello Ken, I don't use dosemu very much, but I have played with it, to the extent of getting WordPerfect 5.1, running under dosemu, to

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 13:48, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (It's been a while since I used Sylpheed, but I think it has a Reply To List option. >>> It has three buttons: >>> >>> o

NFS mounts in Etch

2007-02-19 Thread Rob Heilman
It appears that Etch wants to mount all NFS filesystems listed in the fstab during boot as soon as the first network interface is brought up. This of course causes issues when your NFS server is accessed via a separate interface that is brought up as the second interface. Work arounds obv

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Mirko Scurk wrote: >>> Hans du Plooy wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: No m

Hangup in atan2() / __signbitl()

2007-02-19 Thread Eric Meijer
Hello, I am running debian sarge, x86_amd64, on a brand new Core 2 system, kernel 2.6.18-2-amd64 from http://kmuto.jp/debian/d-i/. I have this machine to run my C++ fractal program, that I have been making multi-threaded. Recently I got some hangups that I initially attributed to my multi-t

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the > situation is as follows: Very good, however: > Sure enough, I found a directory called /dev/hde1. By creating > directory /media/pccfcard and running "mount -t vfat /dev/hde1 > /media/

[SOLVED] Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 vees wrote: > > correct. as long as any software is free, it is compatible with the > DFSG, even if it is intended to work with non-free file formats such as > mp3. this is also why MS Word *.doc can be read with plenty of free > word processors (kwo

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:30:52 -0500, Carl wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 07:12:53AM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Mon February 19 2007 01:51, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > > I'll still be putting the Christian's repo in my sources list, but > > > I thought that MP3 w

Re: Returning from screensaver doesnt work

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 13:29 +0200, Otto Peura wrote: > I have 2 screen system with nvidia-glx-drivers and tv-out. If my > computer is idle, it of course goes to screensaver mode and it locks > with a password (like it should do) > But unlocking my computer doesnt work. I can't see the password dial

Re: about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 15:31 -0500, H.S. wrote: > 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what > does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being > saturated and that the output from mixer should be reduced. I think that's correct. "Any waveform that goes

Re: Some Debian docs... error perhaps?

2007-02-19 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > I was just reading through a few Debian docs today and came across > something that makes it appears that Etch *HAS* been released. > > http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-faq/ch-ftparchives.en.html#s-codenames > > And to q

Re: aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 15:40:10 -0500, H.S. wrote: > > Hello, > > I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it > was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of > them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to > 'forg

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I haven't digured out how th install grub in a floppy disk yet, by the > way. grub-floppy -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292 - -http://ww

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> (It's been a while since I used Sylpheed, but I think it has a > > >> Reply To List option. > > > > > > It has three buttons: > > > > > > o Reply: Reply-to-list for lists

aptitude: recall broken packages

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I started using aptitude a few days ago. I remember that at that time it was showing many packages were broken and wanted to remove a bunch of them. I then did some operation that I now forget which made aptitude to 'forget' about those packages and to clear the cache or some such thin

about audacity and sound recording on Linux

2007-02-19 Thread H.S.
Hello, I just started to use audacity with some live recorded music. I have a few starting questions: Audacity: 1. If the input waveform seems to go beyond the +1 and -1 scale, what does that signify? I assume that shows recording circuit is being saturated and that the output from mixer sho

HP nx6125

2007-02-19 Thread Hans du Plooy
Hi guys, I've had this notebook for more than a year now, and I'm still battling with it's ACPI. The biggest problem is that the fan control is irregular. Trip points are reached or exceeded, and acpi -t shows the correct temperature and that the fan is on, but the fan isn't. There is an entry

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Since several people for various reasons mentioned Dosbox instead Dosemu, I will try the former first before trying to get the latter to work in an Etch box. When looking for a DOS "emulator" way back when I found that Dosemu met my needs; whereas Dosbox did not then. Perhaps Dosbox will do s

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:29:35PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > [...] > On Mon Feb 19 12:43:18 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > As you seem to be running sid or at least parts of it, I'd suggest > > using checkinstall from the package with the same name. ... > > Also the package module-assista

Re: Configure error: C compiler cannot create executables

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
I found the answer to my own problem. I only had gcc installed; whereas it seems that g++ was also needed for the configuration. It seems that g++ and gcc are dependent on each other. Regards, Ken Heard -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread John Hasler
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe writes: > Me not sure I understand: I know Debian's got diffs, but those diffs are > only Debian-specific. So for each source package you got orig, diff, and > dsc, and nothing else. Right. > What I'm looking for is the 4th file which also got the diff between orig > files (u

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/18/07 21:43, Ken Heard wrote: Is there anyone on this list who uses dosemu? I had it working on Sarge ever since Sarge came out, but I am having trouble getting it to work on Etch. This is an example of a Bad Question. A

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 12:44:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> (It's been a while since I used Sylpheed, but I think it has a > >> Reply To List option. > > > > It has three buttons: > > > > o Reply: Reply-to-list for lists or simple reply for normal mail. > > If a Reply-To: is

Re: PCMCIA cards in laptops: do they need to be mounted/unmounted when installed/removed?

2007-02-19 Thread Ken Heard
Thanks everyone for the replies. If I understand them correctly, the situation is as follows: PCMCIA cards can be hot plugged and hot unplugged just like for instance USB devices. However, also like USB devices, if the PCMCIA card is or contains a mobile storage device, to gain access to the st

Re: Old Computer Parts

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 11:23:17AM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Mirko Scurk wrote: > > Hans du Plooy wrote: > >> On Sun, 2007-02-18 at 22:02 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > > >> No matter how easy or difficult the question you ask, there will always > >>

[OT] Re: preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread Jhair Tocancipa Triana
ccostin writes: > What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? > $ cat file1.cc > #include "file.hh" int a, b, c; > void f1(int x,int y, int z) > { >a=x; >b=y; >c=z; > } > $ cat file2.cc > #include "file.hh" > void f2(int x,int y, int z) > { >a=x; >b=y; >

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and IP CHAINS and IP FORWARDING

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 02:44:50PM -0700, Archive wrote: > As mentioned in an earlier email the DOMU or secondary Xen system(s) can > not only talk to the DOM0 or Xen primary system but also to other other > DOMU or secondary Xen system(s) and that most likely involves not only > LAN interaction

Re: are diffs available for .orig.tar.gz files

2007-02-19 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 2/19/07, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 05:54:45PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Nope. You seem to mention the Debian-specific diffs. I'm looking for > upstream diffs: diff between OOo 2.0.1 and 2.0.2 (orig.diff perhaps), > not between Debian 2.0.1-3 and 2

Re: [Debian-User] Xen and a local mirror or a R/W DVD

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 03:14:39PM -0700, Archive wrote: > I really like the idea passed on to me of getting the entire 14 disk > ETCH (older and therefore stable) distribution on a R/W DVD where the > first DVD contains the installer. Apparently, this approach using the > appropriate package m

Re: Best File System for partitions over 600GB

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 07:27:22PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > [...] > >maybe you should read about LVM [1]. It is not about file systems, but > >it can help you :) > > I'd rather deal with a case of the Clap. > > LVM is worse than useless for most installations. It makes > the entire file syste

Re: how to use start-stop-daemon (installing daemon)

2007-02-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 09:07:36AM -0800, Brad Brock wrote: > I want to set my program as daemon that started when > system start. I have read the manual of > start-stop-daemon but I think an example would be > great for me. Does anyone has the example? Thank you. /etc/init.d/ is full of examples

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Feb 19, 2007 at 01:15:58PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Do I understand this correctly? > > > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > > > title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 > > root

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread Steve Kleene
On Jan 15 13:40:01 EST 2007, I wrote > I also have no sound with a recent etch install and an onboard Intel sound > card. ... > > On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote > > > ... get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the > > alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2). > > I'd rather not do

ftp server

2007-02-19 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hi, My question concerns ftpd and wu-ftpd installation under debian etch. It seems that creating /bin/ls (and librairies) for example is needed as the code corresponding to it is not embedded in those ftp servers. Thus every users is chroot ed even if not present in ftpchroot file (don t know why

Re: [OT] Re: help with debian

2007-02-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/19/07 11:52, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 11:22:53 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 02/19/07 10:44, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 15:31:0

Re: MP3 Support

2007-02-19 Thread vees
correct. as long as any software is free, it is compatible with the DFSG, even if it is intended to work with non-free file formats such as mp3. this is also why MS Word *.doc can be read with plenty of free word processors (kword, OpenOffice among others). Motto: chown -R linux:GNU world D

Re: preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
Completely wrong list to ask. This appears to be a lesson from an instructor. BTW, you are missing something glaringly wrong. On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 20:27 +0200, ccostin wrote: > What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? > > $ cat file1.cc > #include "file.hh" > void f1(int x,int y, int z) > { >

preprocessor/linker c++ error

2007-02-19 Thread ccostin
What's wrong with the followind C++ code ? $ cat file1.cc #include "file.hh" void f1(int x,int y, int z) { a=x; b=y; c=z; } $ cat file2.cc #include "file.hh" void f2(int x,int y, int z) { a=x; b=y; c=z; } $ cat file.hh #ifndef _FIS_H_ #define _FIS_H_ in

Re: sound problems on debian

2007-02-19 Thread marcus . blumhagen
On Sun, Feb 18, 2007 at 01:29:20PM -0500, Steve Kleene wrote: > On Mon Feb 12 06:48:27 2007, steef wrote > > > ... get the newest alsa-drivers (1.0.14) from their site and the > > alsa-libs and alsa-utils (2). > > > > compile the drivers as root into a (new) directory /usr/src/alsa (3) and > > ins

Re: What are the two roots in grub?

2007-02-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-19 at 12:46 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Do I understand this correctly? > > In my /boot/grub/menu.lst there is a stanza > > title other: Debian GNU/Linux, kernel 2.6.18-3-486 > root (hd0,7) This particular "root" is the "grub installation root" IOW it

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