Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-15 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
H.S. wrote: > I am trying to print a text file containing different languages > characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird > characters in the non-english character's place. Then I > discovered u2ps, but it gives boxes instead with some messages > given by the u2ps command: T

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 3/16/07, Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, to sum it up, the reason that some upstream developers provide > Ubuntu but not Debian packages is because they either don't know about > tools like pbuilder or are just lazy. I fully agree. Now we just need to convince Mr. Richie of that

Info pages problem (was "Re: Etch is REALLY fast! :-)")

2007-03-15 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 1/31/07, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/31/07, Wim De Smet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/31/07, Gustavo Franco <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >[...] > > I've a question on behalf of the Debian Ombudsman Team: > > - Is there any current issue you would like to see solved into

Re: man vs info

2007-03-15 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > On 14.03.07 08:35, Mike McClain wrote: > > > In man pages written by the FSF I see this advisory: > > > > > > SEE ALSO > > >The full documentation for sync is maintained as a Texinfo manual. > > > If > > >the info and sync p

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread jeffd
Bob McGowan wrote: Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (th

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:58:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: >> According to Wine HQ, there are no packages for Debian, only Ubuntu >> because the maintainer only runs Ubuntu. The packages are not >> compatible with Debian bec

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread FuziOK
On 3/16/07, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegrendel/abs-guide-4.2.tar.bz2 http://personal.riverusers.com/~thegre

Re: My sound card!!!

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The Navigator Gold wrote: > Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama. > Since I heard about Linux I was excited about this > idea (free OS) and I decided to install Linux Debian > in my computer. > But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor,

Re: Checkpoint firewall/VPN with debian

2007-03-15 Thread Philippe Marzouk
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:14:29PM +0100, Arnau wrote: > Hi all! > > In my company they have a checkpoint firewall, there is a software > for windows, securemote, to connect to it and stablish a VPN. I'd like > to do the same from my debian box. I have checked on checkpoint's site > and the o

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

2007-03-15 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote in Article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: > It's delusional to think that Windows won't have a post-Vista > version. You do know that Microsoft has cut the Windows team to a skeleton crew and has announced that they have no plans for a successive version,

Re: Re: Sound stopped working after upgrade.

2007-03-15 Thread Chris Dams
Dear Ye Fei and others, I just ran 'alsaconf' but this does not help. Still no sound. :-( Best wishes, Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Ubuntu: Installing php server: exact sources.list for philippines

2007-03-15 Thread cec canonigo
i got some error that says: Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (22 Invalid argument) Reading package lists... Done E: Some index files failed to download, they

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 12:24:21PM +0800, li sh wrote: > 2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > >> > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . >

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread li sh
sorry,28,29,30,31 :( 2007/3/16, li sh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . ---

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread li sh
2007/3/16, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month Little tips, every month's 28 is enough. isnt it . --- lish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

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2007-03-15 Thread jt1ja
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Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
li sh wrote: 2007/3/16, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I am trying to print a text file containing different languages characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters in the non-english character's place. I encountered a2ps's embarrassment,too. So, does anyone know

Re: how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-15 Thread li sh
2007/3/16, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hello, I am trying to print a text file containing different languages characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters in the non-english character's place. I encountered a2ps's embarrassment,too. So, does anyone know what is the s

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Kent West
Ken Heard wrote: > I then exited my user and entered it again. As instructed I ran > "aplay /usr/share/sound/alsa/*.wav" which returned the following: > > aplay: main:550: audio open error: Device or resource busy If you did this from within X (or with X running), shut down X completely and try ag

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread s. keeling
Daniel Graham Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Thursday 15 March 2007 14:28, you wrote: > > If a server is a machine, then you can do so, but you probably don't want > > to since it consumes system resources for tasks that are not core to the > > server. > > How so? If it's not being put to usef

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
I assume that in alsamixer, at the bottom of each slide there should a "00" indication, not "MM", to indicate "open". The "master" and "PCM" (What is PCM?) were "00" and full on, but not the others. For good measure I changed them all to "00" and full on. I still could not open an audio CD o

Re: OT

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 03:08:55AM +0100, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:51:43 -0600, Kent wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > > >> > > >http://www.google.com/search?q=

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 08:29:07AM +0700, Ken Heard wrote: > Kevin Mark wrote: > > >the alsa packages are needed. > >IIRC alsa-base,alsa-tools,alsa-utils. > >the run as root: > >alsaconf > >and it should do the rest. > > I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so >

Re: OT

2007-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 22:51:43 -0600, Kent wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > >> > >http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.org+roberto%40con > >nexer.com > > >> This is just a big t

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:49:28PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/15/07 19:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > > > ..thru Cheney, Halliburton, KBR, etc. > > Do you *really* believe that? > Of course he does. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq are just profit-making ventures for Cheney. Nothing more.

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 19:18, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:46:00 -0500, Ron wrote in message > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> >> On 03/13/07 21:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: >>> On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:49:14 -0500, Roberto wrote in message >>> <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
Ken Heard wrote: I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one lib file. I then ran as root alsaconf which did its thing, including detecting the builtin sound card, and told me to enjoy. Unfortu

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Kevin Mark wrote: the alsa packages are needed. IIRC alsa-base,alsa-tools,alsa-utils. the run as root: alsaconf and it should do the rest. I already had installed alsa-base and alsa-utils, but not alsa-tools; so I installed alsa-tools and alsa-tool-gui; aptitude also installed one lib file.

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Ken Heard
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: you should also add the user to the group audio (and video ?). as root: # adduser your-user-name audio # adduser your-user-name video Both the users had already been added to those two groups, but not by me. Regards, Ken Heard --

Re: authentication failure

2007-03-15 Thread semgogo sem
I am sorry for repling so late.Thanks all. Maintainer give me a lot help. http://www.linode.com/forums/archive/o_t/t_944/cannot_ssh_into_root_account.html From: Jim Hyslop <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: authentication failure Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:46:54

Re: libc6 (?) related conflicts involving emacs21 and other packages

2007-03-15 Thread Charles Blair
Thanks for your continuing help. In response to "aptitude keep-all" and to "aptitude install -fsD" I got a long list of packages that "have been kept back". No single item in the list seemed enlightening. The second command also gave as response: * 0 upgraded

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 05:14:48PM -0700, Bob McGowan wrote: > > Nigel, > > I cannot find a package 'abs-guide' for etch. I've tried several > different permutations (-guide, guide[too much!], abs-), nothing is found. > > Is there is typo here or is there some other repository to add to > sou

Re: scripting

2007-03-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Nigel Henry wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:36, john gennard wrote: I'm trying to understand Debian's startup procedure and follow the relevant scripts. Where can I find a tutorial on scripting? For example, /etc/init.d/rc - I can roughly understand what is happening (the comments often ind

Re: OT: sponge burning!

2007-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 21:46:00 -0500, Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/13/07 21:04, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007 16:49:14 -0500, Roberto wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 0

how to print unicode encoded file to ps

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
Hello, I am trying to print a text file containing different languages characters, in utf8 encoding, to a ps file. a2ps gives weird characters in the non-english character's place. Then I discovered u2ps, but it gives boxes instead with some messages given by the u2ps command: $> u2ps 20070

Re: d-u backlog (was Re: ..help my doorbell...)

2007-03-15 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 07:53:34 -0600, Ron wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/13/07 04:53, Arnt Karlsen wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Feb 2007 22:31:42 -0600, Ron wrote in message > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > >> On 02/12/07 21:38, Arnt Karl

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 18:52:03 -0400 Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On March 15 2007 14:51, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:26:36 -0400 > > > > Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the > > > 2.6.20 kernel, self-

Re: Possible bug in 'sort -m'

2007-03-15 Thread Bob McGowan
Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob McGowan wrote: Here, I numerically sort and merge the two source files into a destination and count lines in all three. Then I get unique lines from the merged sort and count the result. $ sort -n -m from_number to_number > xxx A merge sort (sort -m) needs the

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
On 3/15/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something > >like this: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Atis
[snip] > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month [snip] when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it executes them sequentially as long as none of them fail, IOW so long as they return 0. the [ ... ]

Re: My sound card!!!

2007-03-15 Thread Colin
The Navigator Gold wrote: > Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama. > Since I heard about Linux I was excited about this > idea (free OS) and I decided to install Linux Debian > in my computer. > But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor, and I > need my sound card works very well and

Re: My sound card!!!

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
The Navigator Gold wrote: Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama. Hello, But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor, and I need my sound card works very well and Debian can´t recognize it!!. I need an explication of how can I install my sound card. It's a Sound Blaster Audigy 2.

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
On March 15 2007 14:51, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:26:36 -0400 > > Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the > > 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 & 2.6.18, of > > various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I o

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 06:26:25PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > > > >Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something > >like this: > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > >

My sound card!!!

2007-03-15 Thread The Navigator Gold
Hi everyone my name is Jeser and I'm from Panama. Since I heard about Linux I was excited about this idea (free OS) and I decided to install Linux Debian in my computer. But I have a big problem, I am a sound editor, and I need my sound card works very well and Debian can´t recognize it!!. I need a

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:58:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > According to Wine HQ, there are no packages for Debian, only Ubuntu > because the maintainer only runs Ubuntu. The packages are not > compatible with Debian because "Debian changed the package format", > which means you either need to

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/15/07 15:41, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Hello Ron. > >> Ron Johnson, 15.03.2007 21:36: >>> On 03/15/07 15:13, José Sánchez wrote: hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) the question is, which of

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 10:27:46PM +0100, Marcin Giedz wrote: > Hello, > > Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have > no chance :( > I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using > QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH fro

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 15 March 2007 21:39, charlie derr wrote: > > > >> I'm thinking now that > >> the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does > >> that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop) > >> > >> ~c > > > > It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even h

Re: Re: Question

2007-03-15 Thread info
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Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

2007-03-15 Thread Marcin Giedz
Hello, Perhaps what I'm planing to do is not very "legal" but it seems I have no chance :( I've got EMC disk array which recently I was able to connect using QLogic FC card to my server. However I can only use one PATH from my server to EMC so natural failover which comes with EMC can't be ac

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Perhaps I should have just owned up to my mistake of calling a boy a >> girl and leave it at that. I already apologized. > > What mistake do you mean? Michelle *is* a women. > > Regar

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

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 16:25, Mark Kent wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:21:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: >> Mark Kent wrote: >>> Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is >>> that which can breed. Those which die off can *no lon

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto
Ok so the min hour thing is wrong on the crontab. It should be something like this: 00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month I didn't know it was possible to put this kind of thing (the output of a command) in crontab. I search

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

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Kent
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 09:21:23AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Mark Kent wrote: > >Which is the whole point, isn't it. The only important grouping here is > >that which can breed. Those which die off can *no longer* breed, so the > >improvement is in the *next generation* which have fewer of the >

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

2007-03-15 Thread Mark Kent
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 08:46:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/15/07 06:40, Mark Kent wrote: > > On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 10:33:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 03/14/07 22:0

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread charlie derr
jef e wrote: charlie derr wrote: Any clues on how I would get totem to play this apparent .asx file? Is there a different application that would work better? I assume there's lots of ugliness involving non-free codecs or some such, but I just wondered if anyone else had this working and could

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread Dusty Wilson
The solution I ended up with is at http://forums.megagram.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=6&page=1#Item_7 Basically, you can install the "mozilla-plugin-vlc" package and it'll take care of your streams from Firefox/Mozilla/Iceweasel and pipe it through VLC. By the way, try out the SIRIUS Player Ad

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Cassiano Leal
Ed Jabbour wrote: In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 & 2.6.18, of various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I overlooking something obvious? Thanks a lot. Did you install the any-any patch? Try googling for it, I c

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread jef e
charlie derr wrote: > Any clues on how I would get totem to play this apparent .asx file? Is > there a different application that would work better? I assume there's > lots of ugliness involving non-free codecs or some such, but I just > wondered if anyone else had this working and could give so

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 15:41, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Ron. > > Ron Johnson, 15.03.2007 21:36: >> On 03/15/07 15:13, José Sánchez wrote: >>> hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) >>> the question is, which of those packages is better,

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 15:39, charlie derr wrote: > > >>> I'm thinking now that >>> the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does >>> that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop) >>> >>> ~c >>> >>> >> >> It seems strange to

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Re: [Partial Solution] Re: Can't run shorewall with kernel 2.6.20.2

2007-03-15 Thread Micha Feigin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:51:07 -0400 "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 10:28:04AM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > On Mon, 12 Mar 2007 18:59:29 -0400 > > "Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 12, 2007 at 09:00:06AM +0200, Micha F

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Ron. Ron Johnson, 15.03.2007 21:36: > On 03/15/07 15:13, José Sánchez wrote: >> hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) >> the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im interested >> basicly in some windows games) > > cxOffice's goal is, not surprisingl

Re: [lm-sensors] Intel Core Duo/Solo Temperature Monitoring Working On Intel DG965 Motherboard

2007-03-15 Thread Jean Delvare
Hi Nicolas, On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 19:27:21 +0800, Nicolas Boichat wrote: > I ported this patch to the latest git, I hope this can help to get it > merged. > > I'm just wondering if it is right to export the functions msr_read and > msr_write from arch/i386/kernel/msr.c, or if it would be better to

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread charlie derr
I'm thinking now that the file associations are maintained in the KDE control center. Does that sound right? (obviously I use KDE on my desktop) ~c It seems strange to me that if you use KDE you'd even have totem. I don't "only" use KDE, I have a lot of other stuff installed (I al

Re: Wine

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 15:13, José Sánchez wrote: > hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) > the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im interested > basicly in some windows games) cxOffice's goal is, not surprisingly, to

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 15:12, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 03/15/07 12:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: >>> Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Perhaps I should have just owned up to my mistake of calling a boy a

Re: console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

2007-03-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
"Roberto C. Sanchez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:24:11PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > > >That is where you are wrong: > > > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg2.html > > > > > "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and J=F6rg Sc

Wine

2007-03-15 Thread José Sánchez
hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im interested basicly in some windows games) also, id like to know the difference between wine from debian and wine from wineHQ

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/15/07 12:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Perhaps I should have just owned up to my mistake of calling a boy > >> a girl and leave it at that. I already a

Re: export an image of unicode keyboard layout

2007-03-15 Thread H.S.
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: HS wrote: Is there is some way I can export the current layout of the keyboard to an image (eps would be ideal)? [..] xkbprint -eps :0 kb.eps (see also man xkbprint) Regards, Jan Thanks for the pointer. I tried it, but I keep getting an eps with keys labeled w

Re: Sirius radio streaming?

2007-03-15 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 charlie derr wrote: > charlie derr wrote: >> At the very end of the process (after signing in with my >> username/password to the applet in either iceweasel or epiphany), I >> get the following error from totem: >> >> Totem could not play >> 'mmsh://a1

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:31:15 +0100 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > The default groups to which new users are added (when created with > > 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by > > the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS'; the default does

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Andrei Popescu wrote: Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are actually quite a few farmers against farm subsidies because they allow the big corporate farms to get bigger as the corporate farms use the subsidies to buy up more land, and thus place more pressure on the small/f

Re: Sound on Linux?

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 10:22:32 -0500 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar wrote: > > The default groups to which new users are added (when created with > > 'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by > > the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS' > > > > Cool! I di

Re: ipw2200 module

2007-03-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Celejar wrote: On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:29:57 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, I'm working on a Toshiba Tecra A4 with the Intel 2200BG wireless chip in it, and having problems getting the wireless going. I'm getting the following error strings in dmesg: ipw2200-

Re: daylight savings time

2007-03-15 Thread Marty Landman
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You have to run "apt-get upgrade" to actually get the package(s) with the corrected timezone data. ("update" only updates the list of available packages but it does not upgrade anything on your system.) After you do this, run zdump -v /etc/localtime |

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 10:19 -0500, Kent West wrote: > (I really wish the Debian search engine was "better" - I only find what > I'm looking for about 60% of the time; maybe I'm just > search-engine-challenged.) You need to invest time into training your "Google-Fu" use "site:lists.debian.org" p

Checkpoint firewall/VPN with debian

2007-03-15 Thread Arnau
Hi all! In my company they have a checkpoint firewall, there is a software for windows, securemote, to connect to it and stablish a VPN. I'd like to do the same from my debian box. I have checked on checkpoint's site and the only thing related to linux is a quite old version for Red Hat I'm

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-03-15 at 09:32 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] > The biggest group pushing ethanol usage in the US is midwestern > farmers. I didn't know that they were so enamored of socialism. :-) No, farmers are not pushing it. Archer Daniels Midland(ADM) is pushing it, just like the

Re: console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

2007-03-15 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 07:24:11PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote: > >That is where you are wrong: > > >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg2.html > > > "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and J=F6rg Schilling > > released parts of recent versions of cdrtools un

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 15, 2007, at 1:12 PM, Frans Pop wrote: On Thursday 15 March 2007 17:44, Colin Watson wrote: Personally I also feel that all possible solutions effectively make /etc/fstab unreadable and unmaintainable. The approach we took in Ubuntu was to put comments above each UUID entry in /etc/fs

Re: OT: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/15/07 12:51, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Joe Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Perhaps I should have just owned up to my mistake of calling a boy a >> girl and leave it at that. I already apologized. > > What mistake do you mean? Michelle *is*

Re: PATH question

2007-03-15 Thread FuziOK
On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 11:51:40PM -0700, jeffd wrote: > You can use 'which' to find out which ls is being called, but it goes by > first come first serve: Another choice is 'type', a bash build-in command: type -p= which type -p -a = which -a -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 14:26:36 -0400 Ed Jabbour <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the > 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 & 2.6.18, of > various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I overlooking something obvious? > Thanks a lot.

Re: ipw2200 module

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 11:29:57 -0700 Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm working on a Toshiba Tecra A4 with the Intel 2200BG wireless chip in > it, and having problems getting the wireless going. I'm getting the > following error strings in dmesg: > > ipw2200-bss.fw r

Re: wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
Should be in /usr/src/linux-2.6.20 or wherever you put the source. The headers are just a subset of the kernel source. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Assistant Professor of Sociolo

Re: console based cd burning (wodim and burn)

2007-03-15 Thread Joerg Schilling
>That is where you are wrong: >http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/09/msg2.html > "Unfortunately Sun then developed the CDDL[1] and J=F6rg Schilling > released parts of recent versions of cdrtools under this license. > The CDDL is incompatible with the GPL. The FSF itself s

Re: PATH question

2007-03-15 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 16:06:40 +0100 Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Why are you asking us about the Port Authority Trans-Hudson > > > railroad? ;) > > On 15.03.07 11:02, Celejar wrote: > > Perhaps because: > > > > ~$ echo $path > > $path is (t)csh internal variable > >

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
> > > > On of my favorite: > > Q: How does the correct crontab entry looks like to run a script only on > > the last day of every month? > > Very very interesting! > > * * * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > It is basically a command that runs everyday checking if tomor

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Tarek Soliman
On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 12:36:12PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: > > Can some of you post some Linux questions in general and also about > > Debian? May be with short answers but that's not necessary. If I can > > get a big list of questions, I'll try to get answers and the more > > confident I will b

Re: Lilypond

2007-03-15 Thread Kent West
dfeuer wrote: This comment is very late, but I thought I'd mention that LilyPond is another program for engraving music. I don't know how it compares to MusiXTeX (although it apparently grew out of a MusiXTeX addon, eventually leaving TeX), but it does produce good scores and is well supporte

ipw2200 module

2007-03-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Hi all, I'm working on a Toshiba Tecra A4 with the Intel 2200BG wireless chip in it, and having problems getting the wireless going. I'm getting the following error strings in dmesg: ipw2200-bss.fw request_firmware failed: Reason -2 Unable to load firmware: -2 failed to register network devi

wrong linux-headers for vmware

2007-03-15 Thread Ed Jabbour
In order to install vmware, I need linux-headers. I'm running the 2.6.20 kernel, self-compiled. Etch offers only 2.6 & 2.6.18, of various sorts. Am I stuck, or am I overlooking something obvious? Thanks a lot. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: Checking GPG Signatures - Debian Keyring is Huge !

2007-03-15 Thread Joey Hess
Nick Boyce wrote: > It certainly is dated 2005 - perhaps it's ancient history, but it's the > only key-related file at http://ftp.debian.org/debian/doc/ ... looks > like maybe we need a tidy-up of that part of the website. Well, 2005 is when the debian-keyring package was last updated, although of

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

2007-03-15 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007, Daniel Graham Palmer wrote: [snip]. I don't believe in "rules" but instead "sensible explanations". People have this Slashdot mentality where their solution is *the right way(TM)* whereby they instantly chastise anyone that thinks differently. Frankly, if you're going to emp

PATH question

2007-03-15 Thread Mike McClain
On Thu, 15 Mar 2007 Tony Heal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asked: > > I thought I could simply drop the new ls in /usr/local/bin > and the system would see it first when called and use it. WRONG. > > So my questions are: > > 1.why not? > I've been bitten by this myself and somebody on the fido linux li

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