Re: edit the subject line of a thread [RE-][EDITED]?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On Saturday 28 April 2007 12:46:48 am Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:52:26AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying > > >actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject"

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread KS
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > I like dillo. > Not bad. It took only a little less than 4MB to install and works pretty fine. >> Also, which packages can I safely purge from the base-install to >> regain some disk space? >> > > depending on what locales are installed, localepurge might save

Who will do `depmod -a' in Etch?

2007-04-27 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, I found there's no script generating modules.dep in /etc/init.d of Etch. # cd /etc/init.d # grep depmod * modutuils:[ -e /sbin/depmod ] || exit 0 No scripts execute /sbin/depmod. Any idea? Best regards, Yuwen

Re: Mailing List vs Newsgroup

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian-User is not in any way shape or form, moderated. Well, I take back my words. Apologies for the wrong information. But to be a little fair to myself, I was mislead by a KNode (KDE's news reader, integrated into Kontact) pop message when

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [EDITED]?

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 12:52:26AM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying > >actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject" for threading the > >conversations. Kmail uses something else (i guess

Re: edit the subject line of a thread [EDITED]?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/28/07, P Kapat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I googled around a little bit, and did some simple mailing-replying actions.. It seems like gmail uses "subject" for threading the conversations. Kmail uses something else (i guess, In-Reply-To). Not just that, when you change the subject line when

Re: edit the subject line of a thread?

2007-04-27 Thread P Kapat
On 4/27/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 21:04:36 -0400 "Michael Pobega" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:21:39PM -0400, P Kapat wrote: > > OK, this is just a small nitpicking, to which even I am guilty of in > > the past, but I wanted to know the

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:40:09AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Sadly it's not made with cane sugar anymore. :( > >Now /that's/ the worst programming news in years. Do they still use > the ``all the sugar'' ad line? I haven't seen a jolt ad in decades, but it was "all

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 07:10:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:39:29PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I know what gasoline tastes like, trying to siphon gas from a car into > > my moped... from younger years. > > > > I know what starting fluid taste like, trying

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:24:11AM +0800, Bob wrote: > > Interestingly I've been thinking about this recently as I migrate my > home servers, firewalls, etc.. to Etch. It occurred to me that since > one of the main reasons we partition harddrives on a server is so that a > problem causing one

Re: OT: DVD formats

2007-04-27 Thread Bruno Buys
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick question. I finally got a dual-layer DVD writer, and made up a huge collection of home movies to play on the DVD player. I burned a DVD-R DL disk as a video DVD, and it worked _perfectly_ in the commodity DVD playe

Re: DBUS / Terminal

2007-04-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/28/07, somethin2cool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: debian:/home/dave# thunar Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout ex

startx -- modprobe: Can't locate module mach64

2007-04-27 Thread Bruffey, Mark
Help. What do I need to do to get the mach64 module installed? Thanks, Mark L. Mark Bruffey Director Library Services Central Baptist Theological Seminary 900 Forestview Lane N Plymouth MN 55441 763 417 8264 (Tel) 763 417 8258 (Fax) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Central Seminary www.centralseminary.edu

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-27 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Friday 27 April 2007 16:43, Andy Smith wrote: > On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: > > sudo, but is there a downside to not having an actual root account. > > It is possible to break sudo and if that happens it is handy to be > able to log in without having to reboot.

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Carl Fink
I would just like to point out that to any non-geek, the subject line of this thread sounds like cannibalistic snacks. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! Stupid mistakes you can correct! -- To

Re: to lvm or not to lvm?

2007-04-27 Thread Bob
Default User wrote: On Fri, 2007-04-20 at 19:42 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 10:37:35AM -0500, Default User wrote: Hi! After installing fresh Etch with encrypted lvm (all except /boot), per non-expert install, I am reconsidering whether lvm is a good idea.

OT: DVD formats

2007-04-27 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Just a quick question. I finally got a dual-layer DVD writer, and made up a huge collection of home movies to play on the DVD player. I burned a DVD-R DL disk as a video DVD, and it worked _perfectly_ in the commodity DVD player that's connected to

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Max Hyre
Ron Johnson wrote: > Sadly it's not made with cane sugar anymore. :( Now /that's/ the worst programming news in years. Do they still use the ``all the sugar'' ad line? -- Best wishes, Max Hyre P.S.: And /this/ is what an OT thread should be. Best in months.

Re: where are the debian kernel patches?

2007-04-27 Thread Joey Hess
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Installing the source package for Sid linux-2.6 gets you > linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.dsc > linux-2.6_2.6.20.orig.tar.gz > linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.diff.gz > > Does that mean that the original is 2.6.20.3? No, the -3 is the number of uploads of the debian package of 2.6.20. 2.6.20-3 ac

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 20:30:03 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For what do you need the 32-bit chroot? Flash, Java, Mplayer w/ win32 codecs, audio drivers, etc. -- Bill Thompson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: PGP signature

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:01:31PM -0400, KS wrote: > installed XFCE4 on it and now I have about 150MB free space left. I > wanted to install a www-browser. Epiphany-browser and galeon need other > things from gnome and hence are not an option (with only 150MB > remaining). There is iceweasel that

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:31:03AM -0700, Bill Thompson wrote: > Hay all, > > So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The > processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit chroot > partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. > For what do you nee

[OT] Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:16:54PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > A cable does not always imply metal. In nautical usage it can refer to a > large rope. I'll split that hair further. A cable is a rope lay. It could be any size. Normal rope is right hand lay. A cable is made up of three right-h

DBUS / Terminal

2007-04-27 Thread somethin2cool
debian:/home/dave# thunar Thunar: Failed to connect to the D-BUS session bus: Did not receive a reply. Possible causes include: the remote application did not send a reply, the message bus security policy blocked the reply, the reply timeout expired, or the network connection was broken. exit

Re: GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-27 Thread Roby
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] > > I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard > drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch > by moving its hard drive to another machine > temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is > ju

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 19:10 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:39:29PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > I know what gasoline tastes like, trying to siphon gas from a car into > > my moped... from younger years. > > > > I know what starting fluid taste like, trying to clea

Re: Architecural modelling software

2007-04-27 Thread andy
ccostin wrote: For solid modelling maybe this link help you http://www.opencascade.org/occ/areas/ LGPL like licence , Debian suported. For math modelling http://www.opencfd.co.uk/openfoam/ http://en.opensuse.org/Wishlist_Science One & all Thank you for all of your suggestions. I have a

Re: Time Outs

2007-04-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 04:46:26PM +, J HU wrote: > I'll like some advices about how to create a time out in a debian. > So I'd like to erase each data after a X seconds and what I'm going to do > is store in a queue the time when I'd like to erase that data and a pointer > to the data. >

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 02:39:29PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > I know what gasoline tastes like, trying to siphon gas from a car into > my moped... from younger years. > > I know what starting fluid taste like, trying to clean out a carb with > starting fluid and it splashed back into my mouth.

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
KS writes: > Also, which packages can I safely purge from the base-install to regain > some disk space? Build a custom kernel and get rid of most of the modules and clean out /usr/share/doc. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

GRUB launch a CD?

2007-04-27 Thread cls
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] I've got an old Compaq laptop. It can boot from hard drive or floppy but not from CD. I installed Etch by moving its hard drive to another machine temporarily. The CD drive is fine. The BIOS is just too stupid to boot from it. I'd like

RE: To Where have smbpassd's contents moved?

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Thurston
I believe you are looking for /var/lib/samba/secrets.tdb ? Jeff Thurston Skyline Advanced Technology Services (408) 340-8041 - Office (650) 380-0746 - Cell _ From: Kent West [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, April 27, 2007 2:59 PM To: debian users Subject: To Where have smbp

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 16:46, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:46:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/27/07 11:20, Mathias Brodala wrote: >>> Hello Andrew. >>> >>> Andrew Sackville-West, 27.04.2007 17:19: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at

To Where have smbpassd's contents moved?

2007-04-27 Thread Kent West
I have a new Etch box, and have installed Samba. I'm wanting to move existing samba passwords from a Solaris box to it, but I can not find where the passwords should be stored. I thought it was /etc/smbpasswd in older versions, and /etc/samba/passwd in newer versions (which agrees with "man smbpa

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:01:31PM -0400, KS wrote: > Hi, > > I trying to install lenny on a 1GB USB stick and after a couple of tries > I got a base install finished and everything is working fine. The next > thing was to have X running and along with a desktop environment. I > installed XFCE4 on

Re: xkb options

2007-04-27 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070427 10:07]: > > Thanks for the suggestions. One reason I was looking for programs is to > get precise instructions for which fingers to use for the different > keys. [Even the programs are lacking; the flagship FLOSS program seems > to be gtypist, which has at lea

quick kexec question [was: Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser]

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:50:19PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > > Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D > > Please. > > You aren't even required to reboot when you upgrade your operating > system, why should this require so much as a flinch?

where are the debian kernel patches?

2007-04-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Installing the source package for Sid linux-2.6 gets you linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.dsc linux-2.6_2.6.20.orig.tar.gz linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.diff.gz Does that mean that the original is 2.6.20.3? And are the patches all in linux-2.6_2.6.20-3.diff.gz? Are those patches better described anywhere? So you w

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:46:09PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/27/07 11:20, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > Hello Andrew. > > > > Andrew Sackville-West, 27.04.2007 17:19: > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > >>> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: >

Re: Default Media Player

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:05:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone > >>tell me off the top of their head what media player woul

Re: z25_persistent-net.rules

2007-04-27 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:45:48PM +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > > > > My network card isn't listed, > > Where do you look for it? How? > > > concerning the files: > > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules > > /etc/network/interfaces > > > There is no reference to Realt

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 KS wrote: > Hi, > > I trying to install lenny on a 1GB USB stick and after a couple of tries > I got a base install finished and everything is working fine. The next > thing was to have X running and along with a desktop environment. I > installed XFC

Re: sysinfo -ram

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 15:37, somethin2cool wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses? >>> I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of: >>> >>> sys

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 13:39, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > I know what gasoline tastes like, trying to siphon gas from a car into > my moped... from younger years. Mope \Mope\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moped}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moping}.] [Cf. D. moppen to p

Re: Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread KS
KS wrote: > Hi, > > I trying to install lenny on a 1GB USB stick and after a couple of tries > I got a base install finished and everything is working fine. The next > thing was to have X running and along with a desktop environment. I > installed XFCE4 on it and now I have about 150MB free space

Lean lenny on USB stick

2007-04-27 Thread KS
Hi, I trying to install lenny on a 1GB USB stick and after a couple of tries I got a base install finished and everything is working fine. The next thing was to have X running and along with a desktop environment. I installed XFCE4 on it and now I have about 150MB free space left. I wanted to inst

Re: sysinfo -ram

2007-04-27 Thread Nigel Henry
On Friday 27 April 2007 22:37, somethin2cool wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses? > >> I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of: > >> > >> sysinfo -ram > > > > try 'dmideco

Re: Default Media Player

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 08:05:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >>Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone > >>tell me off the top of their head what media player woul

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-27 Thread Andy Smith
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 03:53:50PM -0500, Default User wrote: > Gee, I hate to ask another question, but - > > During an Etch install, it asks if I want to allow root logins. If not, > no root account is set up (I guess as a security measure), and all admin > access is done by sudo. Now I norma

SOLVED?: ssi on apache2 doesn't work

2007-04-27 Thread Kent West
On 4/26/07, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As I understand it, apache2 uses "/etc/apache2/apache2.conf" as its main config file rather than "httpd.conf". I further understand that this file looks to other files for "virtual web servers", so I also need to consider the file "/etc/apache2/s

Re: sysinfo -ram

2007-04-27 Thread somethin2cool
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses? I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of: sysinfo -ram try 'dmidecode' Johannes Thanks. Here is what I tried dmidecode bash: dmidecode: comm

RE: Joining an Etch AMD64 Samba server to an existing Windows2003Domain

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Thurston
I am assuming there is more to it than just configuring krb5.conf? When I run kinit -V username it tells me "Authenticated to Kerberos v5" Can you recommend where to start reading up on how to go about issuing a ticket on the AD server? You would think that all of the howto docs out there would me

Re: Can't mount pen drive (SOLVED -- Sort of)

2007-04-27 Thread Wayne Topa
Wayne Topa([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Marc Shapiro([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > >On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 20:46:38 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > > > <> > > > > > Does anyone have a clue why /dev/sda and /dev/sda1 are created

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 27 Apr 2007 21:13:23 +0200 Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Etch/i386 also comes with an AMD64 kernel package. It should run fine > with a 32 bit userspace environment. > > regards > Andreas Janssen I was confused about that. I tried the Etch i386 linux-image-2.6-amd6

Re: Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? > >> Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the >> location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your >

Re: Is Debian bug #400204 fixed?

2007-04-27 Thread siman hew
I found a problem in daemon script rgmanager, it can stop rgmanager now, if resource manager works properly. Thanks. Siman

Re: Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? > > Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the > location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your > Preferences (currently "/tmp/gi

Re: serial-usb adapter on Etch?

2007-04-27 Thread Wayne Topa
[EMAIL PROTECTED]([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > eva sjuve([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> Hi > >> > >> I'm looking for an serial-usb adapter (usb-db9) that has > >> drivers in Etch? > >> > > Here are the syslog entries when it is installed. > > <> > Than

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Joe Hart (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Bill Thompson wrote: >> So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The >> processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit >> chroot partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. >> >> The question I have is

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Thompson wrote: > Hay all, > > So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The > processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit chroot > partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. > > The question

Re: Default Media Player

2007-04-27 Thread somethin2cool
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 12:14:07PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just to save me doing a bunch of formats and re-installs, can someone tell me off the top of their head what media player would have been the default for AVIs if i installed Debian 4 binary 1 (gnome)

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread KS
Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Greetings; > >> Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? > > > Also, if you just want to do away with "Iceweasel" in the user agent > all together (a good idea, IMHO), just open about:config and change > the general.usera

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 27 Apr 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 21:39:41 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Scott Gifford wrote: > > > Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but... > > > > > > > > > Alan Chandler writes: > > > > > > [...] > > > > > > > OK, I think its t

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 13:28 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/27/07 13:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:19 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > >>> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > Which

Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-27 Thread John Hasler
Johannes writes: > Hair splitter: a fiber *is not* a cable! > If you insist on using a broader definition of cable to include fibers, > then you should also use a broader definition of wire to include fibers, > and then you end up that a "fiber optic cable" is not "wireless". A cable does not alw

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 12:50, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > Dennis G. Wicks wrote: >> Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D > > Please. > > You aren't even required to reboot when you upgrade your operating > system, why should this requi

Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Bill Thompson
Hay all, So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit chroot partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. The question I have is which Etch packaged kernel would you recommend for this situation? linux

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 13:24, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:19 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: >>> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: Which is better? Diet

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 18:20 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Andrew. > > Andrew Sackville-West, 27.04.2007 17:19: > > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > >> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > >>> Which is better? Diet cola or antilock brakes? > >

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 08:19 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > > On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > Which is better? Diet cola or antilock brakes? > > Both are worse, diet cola is a really bad choice for brake

Re: Joining an Etch AMD64 Samba server to an existing Windows2003 Domain

2007-04-27 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 09:25 -0700, Jeff Thurston wrote: > I’m hoping someone can give me a clue what I am doing wrong here, > Running Etch (AMD64), I followed the samba wiki at: > http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory#Prerequisites. > I get mostly good results, except when I try

Re: free mp3 to text converter

2007-04-27 Thread Siju George
On 4/26/07, Jonathan Kaye <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Siju George wrote: > Hi, > > Could someone please let me know if there is any free mp3 speech to > text converter for LInux? > > Thankyou so much :-) > KInd regards > > Siju Hi Siju, You might have a look over here: http://cmusphinx.sourceforg

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D [snipped] But nontheless you shouldn't top-post [1] on this list. You could switch to bottom-posting and trimming [2] without reboot and even without restartin

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D Please. You aren't even required to reboot when you upgrade your operating system, why should this require so much as a flinch? Linux requires reboots for on

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/27/07 11:20, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hello Andrew. > > Andrew Sackville-West, 27.04.2007 17:19: >> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: >>> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: Which is better? Diet

Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Björn Keil wrote: > Joe Hart schrieb: >> Noland Oakley wrote: >>> Please help, I have been looking everywhere online but I cannot find a >>> wireless network cable, where can I locate one? >> Oxymoron! >> > Not quite. There are wireless cables: > http:

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D Andrew J. Barr wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I ha

Re: grep | sed do not function inline?

2007-04-27 Thread nicholas
Michelle Konzack said: Am 2007-04-22 19:32:18, schrieb nicholas: I've seen the same thing with tail -f, and it confuses me as well. I look forward to an expert answer! In this case, sed alone can handle the job, if you want to avoid perl: tail -f mylog | sed -n '/smtg/s/end/notend/p' tai

Re: HELP: Separate GNOME configurations for home and workplace?

2007-04-27 Thread Julian Gilbey
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 09:24:26PM +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/27/07, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0100 > >Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> I use my laptop in two locations, one which has an HTTP proxy (work), > >> the other which

Re: postgresql problem? : etch

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2007-04-25 14:05:13, schrieb Andrea S. Gozzi: > On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 16:46 +0530, Erle Pereira wrote: > > these are the two commands I had to use. > > > > as "postgres" user > > 1. /usr/lib/postgresql/7.4/bin/initdb -D /var/lib/postgresql/ > > > > as root: > > 2. su -c '/usr/lib/pos

Troubles with my modem

2007-04-27 Thread Carlos Manuel GV
My problem: I have a M70 Toshiba Satellite and Debian 4.0 installed. I already have sl-modem-daemon packet and I´ve configured several times /etc/wvdial.conf and checked /etc/ppp/ppers/wvdial, pap-secrets and chap-secrets, and from root I gave privileges to users have access to them. I have gnome

Re: grep | sed do not function inline?

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-22 19:32:18, schrieb nicholas: > I've seen the same thing with tail -f, and it confuses me as well. > I look forward to an expert answer! > > In this case, sed alone can handle the job, if you want to avoid perl: > > tail -f mylog | sed -n '/smtg/s/end/notend/p' tail -f mylog | se

Re: grep | sed do not function inline?

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-23 11:32:53, schrieb Greg Folkert: > Tyler, look at what "tail -f" it means (basically): > > -f, --follow[={name|descriptor}] > output appended data as the file grows; -f, --follow, and > --follow=descriptor are equivalent > > Which mean it will sit watc

Re: to allow root logins or not?

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-21 12:45:38, schrieb Douglas Allan Tutty: > To make it harder: > secure the bios. You _could_ even have the bios need a password > to boot the hard drive. Some bioses allow you to bring up a > boot menu that bypasses the boot priority unless you require a > pass

Re: Oh, yeah: Unable to switch to TTY from X

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-20 15:29:10, schrieb Amy Templeton: > Since installing Debian (a while back), I'm unable to get > back to a TTY after I invoke startx. Do you have a customited xmodmap? Under Woody it was: 8<- keycode 67 = F1

Re: Noob question - best way to install software

2007-04-27 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2007-04-15 06:57:16, schrieb Freddy Freeloader: > Michael Pobega wrote: > >>I have one recurring problem with aptitude. It keeps trying to remove > >>gnome and everything related to it and a bunch of other stuff. ^^ > >>Fortunately it takes up enough real esta

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? > > I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any > reason to need it until today. Also, if you just want to do away with

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/27/07, Dennis G. Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any reason to need it until today. The User Agent Switcher extension will help: https://addons.m

Re: Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:50:41AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? > > Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the > location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your > Preferences (currently "/tmp/gimp-2.

How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; Is there some way to change which browser Iceweasel claims to be? I know I have ran across this feature before, but I haven't had any reason to need it until today. Many TIA, Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EM

Time Outs

2007-04-27 Thread J HU
Hi! I'll like some advices about how to create a time out in a debian. I need at least to do 4 different actions, for example: I have 4 threads and each one is going to create some data and store it in a structure (it's not a periodic task and each thread work with different structures and sto

Joining an Etch AMD64 Samba server to an existing Windows2003 Domain

2007-04-27 Thread Jeff Thurston
I’m hoping someone can give me a clue what I am doing wrong here, Running Etch (AMD64), I followed the samba wiki at: http://wiki.samba.org/index.php/Samba_&_Active_Directory#Prerequisites. I get mostly good results, except when I try to run ‘getent passwd’ or ‘getent group’ only local users/groups

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Andrew. Andrew Sackville-West, 27.04.2007 17:19: > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: >> On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Which is better? Diet cola or antilock brakes? >> Both are worse, diet cola is a really bad choice for brake fluid becau

Re: reasselbling IP fragments

2007-04-27 Thread J HU
Hi, No, it must be UDP, although I think that if I use TCP, the problem will be the same because is the IP layer who makes the fragments and how my socket is listening at IP level I get IP fragments and not complete datagrams. So I think that using the functions that are implementing for the

Re: HELP: Separate GNOME configurations for home and workplace?

2007-04-27 Thread Kushal Kumaran
On 4/27/07, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 20:33:35 +0100 Julian Gilbey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use my laptop in two locations, one which has an HTTP proxy (work), > the other which doesn't (home). Is there an easy way to set up GNOME > to understand multiple

Re: reasselbling IP fragments

2007-04-27 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2007/4/27, J HU <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Dear all, I'm developing an applications that is using UDP sockets but instead of creating a socket that received packets from the transport layer I have created the socket at the IP level, so I receive the message from IP layer. Why are you using UDP and n

Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your Preferences (currently "/tmp/gimp-2.0"). There's no such directory. If I create it, then restart The Gimp, a

Re: performance problems: hiccups with video, audio and graphics

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 11:53:57PM -0700, Avishai wrote: > hello all, > > I'm experiencing a rather head-splitting pain with my debian amd64 > machine. The symptoms > are not severe, but annoy me to no end: running xscreensaver, or > video, or anything which is a bit heavy on graphics and audio is

Re: XFCE (no gnome) = CDROM badness

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 11:58:42AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Since installing XFCE exclusively (ie debain xfce binary1 cd), my > computer struggles to read CDs. I can mount them ok, but: > > 1) when I open any folder (with Thunar) it will take me to the directory > that the folder itself

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 01:14:05PM +0300, Juha Tuuna wrote: > On Friday, 27. April 2007 11:46, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Which is better? Diet cola or antilock brakes? > Both are worse, diet cola is a really bad choice for brake fluid because it > contains gas and antilock brakes taste like s**t an

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