Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> Jochen Schulz wrote: >>> Correct. And on the EU level they are even discussing to make >>> a similar law obligatory for all member states. >> The EU is not a body (yet) that can enforce laws. Therefore, >> the

Re: Problem with Samba

2007-03-06 Thread pinniped
Do the changes you make via OOo get saved to the remote file or is your problem only with the disconnect? I would suggest setting up the ssh server on your etch machine and using 'putty' from Windows. Make sure you can log on (generally as a normal user, then use 'su' to become root), and th

A question about Apache & Debian

2007-03-06 Thread Justin Hartman
I have a question about the ServerLimit directive in Apache2. I have my ServerLimit and MaxClients in my httpd.conf file set in excess of 256 for each value however I keep getting the following error each time restarting Apache. WARNING: MaxClients of 500 exceeds ServerLimit value of 256 se

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 08:12:19AM +0100, Michael Dominok wrote: > Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 07:06 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > > It's thanks to the old Soviet Union that we in > > Western Europe are not speaking only German. It's thanks to the US that > > we're not speaking only Russian. > >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 07:06:36AM +, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500 > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > > [...] > > > > Oh this is just too funny! The US protecting the rest of the wor

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Dominok
Am Mittwoch, den 07.03.2007, 07:06 + schrieb Liam O'Toole: > It's thanks to the old Soviet Union that we in > Western Europe are not speaking only German. It's thanks to the US that > we're not speaking only Russian. > > :-) > And thanks to whom and when will we be able to stop speaking onl

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 6 Mar 2007 22:20:21 -0500 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: [...] > > Oh this is just too funny! The US protecting the rest of the world? > > When? Where? Hawaii? Cuba? The Philippines? Guatemala? > > > You mean

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 08:21:32PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/6/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >Just because the document lists them as the largest, does not mean that > >they are also not the best. > > So you cite a document that labels something the *largest* in supp

How to make mailing list,,,

2007-03-06 Thread Andi Mappesona
dear all I have a task to make a framework/engine mailing list,,,like yahoogroups etc,,, but i don't know to start from where i have search tutorials at google but i didn't find anything,,, maybe someone can help me,,,? give me a clue,,etc thanks b4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Problem with Samba

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Wescott
pinniped wrote: You don't need a full SAMBA install if you only want to browse shares on Windows. Is your Linux box sharing directories as well? It thinks it is, but I have permission issues -- that's a problem for another day. How are you accessing this file that you are editing - do

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/6/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nice answer Roberto. All I ever intended to do was laugh and tell him he was wrong. But, apparently, you can't reply, so you get a surrogate to do it for you, badly. Methinks you are in a highly agitated state of mind. You are readin

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/6/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Just because the document lists them as the largest, does not mean that they are also not the best. So you cite a document that labels something the *largest* in support of your assertion that it is the *best* and you expect the rest of

Re: Etch

2007-03-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
s. keeling wrote: Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:10:32PM +0100, pinniped wrote: Well, your MUA is your responsibility - don't complain when it doesn't behave the way you want. The 'subject' is mutable so you should exp

Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'.

2007-03-06 Thread pinniped
Use 'apt-get dist-upgrade'. Even this will not necessarily be successful on the first pass and you may have to run it up to 3 times. 'ntp' is a special case; ntp has been extensively revised fairly recently and you'll have to spend (a lot of) time reading through the documentation to see wha

icedove confused with new DST? Shifts events by 1 hour

2007-03-06 Thread H.S.
Hello, I notice that if I create an appointment in Icedove (on Etch) during the next week, the event is shown one hour ahead of the time I specify. For example, if I specify an event for next week's Tue, 10h00~11h00, it is shown at 09h00~10h00. I have to drag that even one hour to correct tha

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:43:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What does your personal internal paradigm have to do with how we Americans think our government should act, and what we perceive to be the best

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> This is a ridiculous statement. I've met a few who did. All >> Canadians, regardless of their position in the scheme of things have >> two choices: accept what you're offered by those in control, or cross >> the border and pay for it and get it, for a pr

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Paul Johnson wrote: Curt Howland wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome it's return? During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine dropped some 90%. They're still in operation, though IIRC the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Al Eridani wrote: > You must have been in a deserted island 14 months ago when > the earthquake and the tsunami in Indonesia happened. The US > government was publicly shamed when it announced the niggardly > sum it had decided to donate and it had to quickly make it much > larger to deflect ridicu

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:34:48PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > > You wrote *best* and posted a link to a 3-page document that has two > tables headed with the title > > Largest Transit Agencies > Just because the document lists them as the largest, does not mean that they are also not the best.

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > Please explain how in the world you have a true market economy when the > private interests don't even control the means of production? Uh... magic faerie dust? -- Steve C. Lamb | But who decides what they dream? PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 |

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:18:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/6/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >Hash: SHA1 > > > >On 03/06/07 16:46, Al Eridani wrote: > > >> It's no myth. Educated people in general don't want to be in the > >military, > >>

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/6/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:33:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >if you compare motor vehicle traffic in those cities, you see that even > >the two *best* public transport cities in

Problem with Samba

2007-03-06 Thread Tim Wescott
On etch, I'm editing OpenOffice.org files that reside on my XP machine. It seems that whenever I do this my etch box locks up, either on exiting KDE or on trying to shut down samba. I'm pretty wet behind the ears, so I'm not sure what I should be doing next (other than doing some extensive ed

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/6/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 16:46, Al Eridani wrote: > It's no myth. Educated people in general don't want to be in the military, > they'd rather attend classes at the university. It's the same in the US > and in

Re: apt-get upgrade

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 11:00:33PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:12AM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've recently upgraded my Woody machine to Sarge, and most every is > > fine, except some packages did not seem to be upgraded and now when I > > ru

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 06:57:39PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:14:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > I would be a little bit less torqued about foreign aid and a lot more > > sympathetic to the cause if the aid we were exporting wasn't a better deal > > than

Re: apt-get upgrade

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 04:57:12AM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi, > > I've recently upgraded my Woody machine to Sarge, and most every is > fine, except some packages did not seem to be upgraded and now when I > run 'apt-get upgrade' I get - "The following packages have been kept > back: ".

apt-get upgrade

2007-03-06 Thread Robert Cates
Hi, I've recently upgraded my Woody machine to Sarge, and most every is fine, except some packages did not seem to be upgraded and now when I run 'apt-get upgrade' I get - "The following packages have been kept back: ". I knew of a way to be able to upgrade those packages anyway, but I can't

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 05:33:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >if you compare motor vehicle traffic in those cities, you see that even > >the two *best* public transport cities in the US can't even make public > >transport work for a *ma

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:23:13PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: > >can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name? > >Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way > >to install? > > I've actually managed to tra

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/2/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: if you compare motor vehicle traffic in those cities, you see that even the two *best* public transport cities in the US can't even make public transport work for a *majority* of their residents. First, can't you read? New York and Chica

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 20:43, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [snip] > Not at all. What the rest of the world wants is less interference from > the US. As far I can see, Sweden does not interfere with what happens >

Re: Etch

2007-03-06 Thread s. keeling
Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:10:32PM +0100, pinniped wrote: > > > >> Well, your MUA is your responsibility - don't complain when it doesn't > >> behave the way you want. The 'subject' is mutable so you should expect it > >> to c

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 20:31, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/4/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for >> interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by (or >> providing onl

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
At 08:33 PM 3/6/2007, Kevin Mark wrote: can you ping a ip address and can not ping a domain name? Have you considered booting a livecd and then using debootstrap as a way to install? I've actually managed to track down this problem. Somehow, for some reason, the DHCP client Debian uses right n

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:31:45PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/4/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for > >interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by (or > >providing only token participation) w

Re: DST switch in US now early

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 03/06/07 15:09, Michael Marsh wrote: > Interestingly, some versions of date (it might depend on the specific > changes to the tzdata file) will give you an "invalid date" error for > 2am on the 11th. That's what I see on Sid, but RHEL3 will ha

Re: usb audio device & sound card

2007-03-06 Thread Scott Reese
Mark Grieveson wrote: >> Greetings Mark: > >> As others have said, it sounds like the cards are not always getting >> recognized in the same order, so sometimes your sound card is card 0 and >> sometimes it is card 1. That used to happen to me once in a while, but >> it hasn't lately. > >> In an

make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

2007-03-06 Thread Matt Price
i, i'm having a problem using make-kpkg to build kernel packages on my laptop, which runs ubuntu feisty and currently has make-kpkg version 10.065ubuntu4. this happens with upstream, debian, and ubuntu sources, as far as I can tell, but most of my experimentation has been with ubuntu's linux-sour

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 04:43:06PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >What does your personal internal paradigm have to do with how we > >Americans think our government should act, and what we perceive to be > >the best form of government for ou

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/4/07, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What does your personal internal paradigm have to do with how we Americans think our government should act, and what we perceive to be the best form of government for ourselves? So you are saying that only you, gold citizens of the almigh

Emacs key binding problem on debian testing.

2007-03-06 Thread r. clayton
I'm runining emacs GNU Emacs 21.4.1 (i486-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit, Xaw3d scroll bars) of 2007-01-04 on saens, modified by Debian on a debian testing sytem $ uname -a Linux UlanBator 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux $ updated weekly. These commands

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/4/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by (or providing only token participation) while the US protects them Oh this is just too funny! The US protectin

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 19:23, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:33:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Andrei Popescu wrote: >> You seem to miss that Sweden and a large portion of the Commonwealth of Nations operate under some form o

Re: DST switch in US now early

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 15:09, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 3/6/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the >> latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will >> be automa

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 18:22, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:02PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: >> On 2/27/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:55:28AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: [snip] >> > What does it

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:41:50PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> > You mean the wars of which Hillary Clinton > >> > said the following [0]: > >> > >> She lost my vote over that speech when I heard that on CSPAN live. > >> > > Did she get it back when she flipped

Re: ANSI art with xterm

2007-03-06 Thread cga2000
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:19:57PM EST, Jeremy Cyrus wrote: >Hello, I have tried resolving this problem until I am blue in the face, I >have searched docs on the web, and tried to dig up clues as to why this >happens. I have tried using different locales, different fonts etc. cant >

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Lueck
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Well, the article is incorrect. glibc (2.3.2.ds1-22sarge5) stable; urgency=low And it seems I have it... # dpkg -l|grep libc ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22sa GNU C Library: Shared libraries and Timezone Thanks for the detail that things have changed between Sarge a

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 16:46, Al Eridani wrote: > On 2/27/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:55:28AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: >> > >> > I think in any society, no matter in what system, it's always the >> stupid >> > and p

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:46:02PM -0500, John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: > At 11:09 AM 3/6/2007, Chris Lale wrote: > > >Are you using the expert install ("expert" at the installer boot screen)? > > > >AFAIR, there is then an option to supply nameservers manually. I had > >to do this when I was usi

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> > You mean the wars of which Hillary Clinton >> > said the following [0]: >> >> She lost my vote over that speech when I heard that on CSPAN live. >> > Did she get it back when she flipped to being anti-war and effectively > denying that she ever supported the war?

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 01:47:05 -0800 > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > the efforts in the Balkans have been "utter failures" ? >> >> I'd hardly call any of the former Soviet-bloc stable. > > Please elaborate on this one! Considering the Balkans haven't ever

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:33:30PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > >> You seem to miss that Sweden and a large portion of the Commonwealth > >> of Nations operate under some form of democratic socialism. > > > > You mean democracies with proper market economy and just some

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/06/07 04:14, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:31:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> Ummm, many of the overseas military bases are in place at the *invitatio

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrei Popescu wrote: >> You seem to miss that Sweden and a large portion of the Commonwealth >> of Nations operate under some form of democratic socialism. > > You mean democracies with proper market economy and just some > socialist tendencies. That's modern socialism, my friend. -- To UNS

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-06 Thread Glen Pfeiffer
Joe Hart wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: >> Correct. And on the EU level they are even discussing to make >> a similar law obligatory for all member states. > > The EU is not a body (yet) that can enforce laws. Therefore, > they cannot mandate laws. Correct me if I am wrong, please, but I believe J

Re: Still Can't Install Sarge/Etch (no route)

2007-03-06 Thread John Anthony Kazos Jr.
At 11:09 AM 3/6/2007, Chris Lale wrote: Are you using the expert install ("expert" at the installer boot screen)? AFAIR, there is then an option to supply nameservers manually. I had to do this when I was using a particular ADSL modem/router-in-a-box to connect to my ISP. The modem/router did

Re: usb audio device & sound card

2007-03-06 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Greetings Mark: > As others have said, it sounds like the cards are not always getting > recognized in the same order, so sometimes your sound card is card 0 and > sometimes it is card 1. That used to happen to me once in a while, but > it hasn't lately. > In any event, you can verify that thi

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 07:36:14PM -0500, Michael Lueck wrote: > I saw this article online: > http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html > that leads me to believe the patch is available for Testing and Unstable, > but not Stable/Sarge. > > I have not seen this weekend's time change mentio

tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Lueck
I saw this article online: http://www.linux-watch.com/news/NS6300294422.html that leads me to believe the patch is available for Testing and Unstable, but not Stable/Sarge. I have not seen this weekend's time change mentioned in the Debian weekly news either. Suggestions? (Besides Ostrichism)

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:49:39PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > you did not follow that thread through properly as the reality is that > the US military *requires* highschool diploma or better for all > recruits except for a very small percentage who are allowed through > because of oth

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:02PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 2/27/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:55:28AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > >> > >> I think in any society, no matter in what system, it's always the stupid > >> and poor that end up in the mili

Re: ANSI art with xterm

2007-03-06 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
Hello, I have tried resolving this problem until I am blue in the face, I have searched docs on the web, and tried to dig up clues as to why this happens. I have tried using different locales, different fonts etc. cant anyone offer some clues as to why I cant use xterm to run an irc client that dr

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:34:44AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'm willing to argue that Vietnam was worse for us than 1812 was for Canada. > They at least made it all the way to the capitol and successfully captured > it before resistance and (primarily) the weather squashed the invasion. I

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:27:09AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. > Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid > inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic > groc

Re: Sarge on Compaq Proliant 1850R with PCI video card

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:59:02PM -0500, Trey Perrin wrote: > I tried several S3 video cards as well, all with exactly the same result. > > I am trying to contact HP. However, I fear their response will be > something along the lines of: "We don't support Debian on hardware that > old!" > > I

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:01:34PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/06/07 10:08, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > They sit on a high-demand commoditity, which is in declining supply. > > Maybe not. > > http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/05/business/05oil1.html > > In a wide-ranging study publ

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:48:06PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:46:03AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > > > Yup. You can blame that on your precious UN. Bush's hands were > > basically tied by a resolution that was written with language only > > authorizing

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:17:03AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > undetected. Besides, if it was an ICBM attack, having fighters in > > Portland wouldn't help. > > ICBMs are closer to an aircraft size object, and so far when it comes to > moving aircraft sized objec

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:14:22AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I would be a little bit less torqued about foreign aid and a lot more > sympathetic to the cause if the aid we were exporting wasn't a better deal > than what we keep. Did you know Iraq has national healthcare, and it's > currently

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-06 Thread Håkon Alstadheim
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:56:48AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > >> yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? >> >> restoring from backup then :-( >> >> > Yep. A recent backup is your only hope, unless you want to spend > thousands of dollars o

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:24:00PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 5, 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > > I did not, but my main question is, why is it trying to delete my > > > > >

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:46:02PM -1000, Al Eridani wrote: > On 2/27/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:55:28AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > >> > >> I think in any society, no matter in what system, it's always the stupid > >> and poor that end up in the mili

Re: Looking for DVD Writer that Debian 3.1 supports

2007-03-06 Thread Stephen Cormier
On March 6, 2007 01:43:35 pm Michael Kerwin wrote: > I am trying to load Debian 3.1 on a Pentium Duo Core Desktop using an > internal DVD Writer on a 750GB Parallel IDE drive. Debian loads the > netintal 3.1r5 netinstall cd but after asking the the keyboard and stuff > tries to mount the cd to load

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 2/27/07, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Feb 28, 2007 at 08:55:28AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: > > I think in any society, no matter in what system, it's always the stupid > and poor that end up in the military, at least in those ranks that > actually have to do the dirty work

Re: Where is debian-non-US

2007-03-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: > Dave Ewart: >> On Tuesday, 06.03.2007 at 10:48 -0600, John Hasler wrote: >> >>> It it my understanding (which may be obsolete or even simply >>> erroneous) that in Germany computer games are not to be made available >>> to childr

Re: OT: Here we go again.

2007-03-06 Thread Al Eridani
On 3/4/07, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > Retaliation is not initiation. You are entirely within your rights to > > defend yourself. You'd be a fool not to. > > In fact one could argue it is morally reprehensible not to. I ag

Cannot start tightvncserver

2007-03-06 Thread Andras Lorincz
Hi, I'm using testing and I have trouble starting tightvncserver. I couldn't find a solution on google :( . When I launch tightvncserver :1 then I get this output: Couldn't start Xtightvnc; trying default font path. Please set correct fontPath in the tightvncserver script. Couldn't start Xtigh

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-03-06 Thread hendrik
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:39:37PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 6 Mar, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 12:51:36PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> > >> I also question your statement that everything after Chicago is > >> no good. For example Boston has abou

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread judd
On 6 Mar, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 01:09:37AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >> >> Yes, I can tell the difference. I think your assumption is based on >> the idea OPEC isn't profitting massively. >> > Wow. You really don't get it. > > They sit on a

Re: profiler

2007-03-06 Thread Soyez Grégory
Hi ! > I am looking for a profiler to easily profile a C program of mine > on my Etch box (amd64): any suggestions are welcome. I've recently been using the Google Profiler without problem. It is available as a Debian package (libgoogle-perftools-dev and libgoogle-perftools0) and just works by li

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-06 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 5, 7:50 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > On Ma

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Joe
Paul Johnson wrote: Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII out-of-control rapid inflation where soon it takes millions of dollars just to make a basic grocery run. So... in how many countries does the

Re: OT: Politics and other actually Debian related ramblings

2007-03-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:30, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I wouldn't be so quick to assume Debian's working on communist > theory successfully.  I think the DPL would have something to say > about nobody playing leader. Mr.

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is what I get when I try to install libncurses-dev kold:~# aptitude install libncurses-dev Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descr

Re: OT: Economics

2007-03-06 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 March 2007 15:30, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Laissez-faire economics is an impossible pipe dream and Germany > proved it. Taken to it's natural end, you get Germany's pre-WWII > out-of-control rapid inflation wh

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-06 Thread Land Haj
Ok, I did as you instructed using emacs, but the log messages near the shutdown messages still seem totally unrelated, as far as I can tell. There are a few that are preceded by gconf thingies, which I gather are from times when I've shutdown from inside GNOME, and one or two that have no commen

Re: Cannot ping localhost

2007-03-06 Thread Bruno Delalleau
On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 01:59:15PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote : > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Bruno Delalleau wrote: > > Hello debianers! > > > > For some reason I can no longer ping localhost: > > > > ping -c 3 localhost > > PING localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) 56(84) bytes

Re: DST switch in US now early

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Marsh
On 3/6/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will be automatic? Yup: $ date -d"3:00am March 11, 2007" Sun Mar 11 03:00:00 EDT 2007 Interestingly, some

DST switch in US now early

2007-03-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Given the early switch to DST in the US on March 11, if I have the latest libc6 and libc6-dev in Sid (2.3.6.ds1-13), the time change will be automatic? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Land Haj wrote: I did this: cat messages | grep shutdown but it reveals nothing useful in regards to the problem, nor does the rest of the file. The only messages listed at shutdown time are: Mar 6 20:15:13 greengoblin shutdown[3244]: shutting down for system reboot Mar 6 20:15:21 greengob

Call for help on making a LILO bootscreen for Etch

2007-03-06 Thread Andrés Roldán
Hi all, the LILO package for Debian has been using bootscreens for each distribution. Currently there is a bootscreen for woody, sarge and sid but there is not one for etch. I'd thank any Debian user that will be willing to create a DFSG-compliant image to merge it with the LILO package for Etc

Re: thunderbird: how to backup mailbox and restore quickly

2007-03-06 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:31:34PM -0800, Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: >> > A very large file in >> > /var/mail was created instead. Any idea? >> >> That would be the default delivery. >

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-06 Thread Land Haj
I did this: cat messages | grep shutdown but it reveals nothing useful in regards to the problem, nor does the rest of the file. The only messages listed at shutdown time are: Mar 6 20:15:13 greengoblin shutdown[3244]: shutting down for system reboot Mar 6 20:15:21 greengoblin kernel: Kernel

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-06 Thread Bob McGowan
Land Haj wrote: Thank you for your reply! Today, I've dpkg-reconfigured mdadm. It had all md-devices listed as necessary for root, and so I changed it so that only md0 (where root is) is listed as necessary. This for some reason got rid of the message saying that swap (md1) was busy. But md0

Re: Thoughts on zsh? (was Re: vim like completion in bash?)

2007-03-06 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 10:47:40AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > I was also surprised that bash can do this. I played around with it a > > bit and found that my bash can do the "*xx*" completion only if I > > do not source /etc/bash_completion. I have to choose between having the > > "*xx*" completion

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-06 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:31:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> >> > Ummm, many of the overseas military bases are in place at the >> > *invitation* of the host governments. >> >> OK, then the host country should be providing revenue equa

module assistant only building for first kernel

2007-03-06 Thread José Pablo Fernández
Hello, Any ideas why module assistant is building the modules only for the first kernel, 2.6.8-3-386, when I issue: m-a --text-mode --verbose --userdir=. --kvers-list=2.6.8-3-386,2.6.8-3-686,2.6.8-3-686-smp,2.6.8-3-k7,2.6.8-3-k7-smp build zaptel Thanks. -- José Pablo Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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