Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > So before I start really getting to far into this, can I get sharing > going on my home network with just samba or do I also need NFS? I want > to be able to read and write to my linux server from all machines (XP > and Linux)

Re: OOo-Base

2007-05-05 Thread Mankuthimma
Hi, On 5/6/07, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus > Approach, and it was great. > I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try > printing the forms, and it only prints half. Okay, I did manage to figure

Re: OOo-Base

2007-05-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
> Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus > Approach, and it was great. > I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try > printing the forms, and it only prints half. > Well, that ends my rant for today. > Mark Okay, I did manage to figure out how I cou

OOo-Base

2007-05-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
Man, I just tried OOo-Base, and it stinks. I used to use Lotus Approach, and it was great. I can't even cut and paste the table entries into Calc. I try printing the forms, and it only prints half. Well, that ends my rant for today. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/07 20:54, Martin Marcher wrote: > On 5/6/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:26:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> > On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: >> > > >> > > Exactly, but we consider human sac

Re: timeline application?

2007-05-05 Thread Sudev Barar
On 06/05/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there an application that draws timelines? > > That makes much more sense graphically than in prose... Project planners like planner, kfocus & opensched might do the trick, as might vector drawing apps like inkscape, skencil & sodipodi.

Re: Can't disable NCQ, /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth is readonly

2007-05-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 06:58:29PM -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > > 1) After coming across a simple random seek benchmark, I am finding that my > WD raptor 10K drive is giving me about 10 ms seek time, where other raptors > benchmarked with the same program are reporting 7.5 - 8.0 ms. This is > a fair

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Sudev Barar
On 06/05/07, Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070505 16:14]: > >> I don't mind reading and actually prefer it as this way I learn more. >> It's great to be given direct steps on how to do something, but then it [Huge Snip]

Re: Can't disable NCQ, /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth is readonly

2007-05-05 Thread Roy Franz
There are two reasons: 1) After coming across a simple random seek benchmark, I am finding that my WD raptor 10K drive is giving me about 10 ms seek time, where other raptors benchmarked with the same program are reporting 7.5 - 8.0 ms. This is a fairly substantial difference, and I am trying to

Re: Broken AMD-64-DVD-ISO-image retrieved via bittorrent

2007-05-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:00:07PM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: > After downloading "debian-40r0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" via bittorrent two days > ago, I was unable to write the image to DVD. K3B said, that it was > actually not an ISO-image. The md5-sum computed by k3b did not match the > one found in t

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Marcher
On 5/6/07, Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:26:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > Exactly, but we consider human sacrifice today to be a bad thing. > > That's my exact point. What we consider murder, they considered

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Russell L. Harris wrote: * Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070505 16:14]: I don't mind reading and actually prefer it as this way I learn more. It's great to be given direct steps on how to do something, but then it doesn't stick in ones mind as well as if you research it yourself.

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:26:10PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: > > > > Exactly, but we consider human sacrifice today to be a bad thing. > > That's my exact point. What we consider murder, they considered > politics and religion. > Not quite so. Abortion. It

Epiphany error

2007-05-05 Thread J. Pablo\" Fernández
Hello, I am getting this warning message from Epiphany very often: "Epiphany could not connect to the session message bus. Your default settings will not be available." When I start to get it I get it for the whole session. When I log out and log in, it 'works' again. Any ideas what might be caus

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-05 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
Thanks Wei Chen, it worked now! I was really environment variables problem. Included in crontab, just as shown in man 5 crontab thanks everybody. On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:22:11AM -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > runing on cron, I ca

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
> It's basic thing but I don't remember how to setup printer. > In general user, I can't print any paper. > I tried 'lpr' command for test, it gives about permission denied > error. > I checked the Debian/GNU Linux System Admin's manual. > The printer setup section is blank. :-( > In addition, h

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Nelson Castillo
I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable len Wa

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Dennis. Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 22:53: > Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 15:02: >> >>> I am having problems with some web pages not working. >>> (Not working means just that. The details vary from page >>> to page.) >>> >>> When I check the error console I find a lot

Mounts in Etch

2007-05-05 Thread Mirko Scurk
Hi! I googled a bit but don't know exactly what term to use. I have two issues bout disk mounting in Etch. 1. Windows partitions mounted from fstab have meaningful names on Etch desktop. Other mounted linux partitions have GB values in place of label. How to change that nonsense? I just want to c

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Eric A. Bonney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070505 16:14]: > I don't mind reading and actually prefer it as this way I learn more. > It's great to be given direct steps on how to do something, but then it > doesn't stick in ones mind as well as if you research it yourself. See the latest (second edit

Re: what's with epiphany?

2007-05-05 Thread Mark Grieveson
On 5/3/07, Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, > > when I visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it > > crashes. What is up with that? After the initial crash, it's > > usually fine, but the constant first cras

Re: What is the maximum UID/GID allowable for NIS?

2007-05-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 26.04.07 12:13, Michael S. Peek wrote: > Does anyone know what the maximum UID/GID allowable for NIS is? We're > migrating from Solaris to Linux, and I want to make sure that all of our > user and group accounts translate properly. I am not sure, but I think they are 32bit, so three should n

eth1_rename: transmit timed out

2007-05-05 Thread jason . public
Every once in a while, my eth1 interface dies with the following messages. # dmesg [...] APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) APIC error on CPU0: 02(02) NETDEV WATCHDOG: eth1_rename: transmit timed

How to make a nfsboot kernel?

2007-05-05 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
Dear all, I want to use diskless debian. And accroding to many articles I read, I need to do some special config to make a kernel. But while I look around in aptitude (etch), I found many packages that said something like what I need. So I wonder if there is some exist tools that can do these w

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:24:31PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me config

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Dennis. Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 15:02: I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared

Re: Disable ipv4 fragmentation

2007-05-05 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> > > I'm working with sockets in a debian with a version of kernel 2.6.x, and > > > I'd like to disable the fragmentation of the ipv4 introduce. > > > I have read that there was the option of modified the file > > > /proc/sys/net/ipv4/ip_always_defrag but it doesn't exist. > > > So I'm totally l

Re: timeline application?

2007-05-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/07 15:15, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I have Debian installed on 12 partitions across 3 drives. > > Most of them are interrelated: they came from each other via > backup/restores. > > I would like to show that interrelation graphically

Flash seems to have not work in Konqueror

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Chandler
This afternoon, in order to solve a long term font problem in GTK apps I effectively removed pango and related packages. For some reason that meant the flash stuff. When I put it all back, youtube in particular, but other sites as well have stopped working. However they do work in Iceweasel.

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/05/07 09:29, Joe Hart wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/04/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote: >> [snip] >>> Well, >>> Good is a relative term. To some people something is good while other >>> people think the same thing is not good. For example good

timeline application?

2007-05-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I have Debian installed on 12 partitions across 3 drives. Most of them are interrelated: they came from each other via backup/restores. I would like to show that interrelation graphically. Is there an application that draws timelines? E.g Now I run on SDA6 USB disk that was restored on

Re: debian verizon.net and smtp

2007-05-05 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/05/2007 02:55 AM, Kevin Mark wrote: > I am a subscriber to verizon dsl and I choose yahoo as my email > provider. I use fetchmail to getmail and exim4 to send mail. I use mutt > to read mail. For exim4 setup I use 'smarthost' option and specify > 'outgoing.yahoo.verizon.net'. Kev, are you p

can't copy to /dev/parport0

2007-05-05 Thread Steve Kleene
I've successfully installed VMware Server 1.0.2-39867 on my Etch machine (as host) with the help of the any-any-update109 patch. To print to my parallel printer, the VMware virtual machine needs the ppdev and parport_pc modules loaded in Linux, and they are. It also requires that the lp module no

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 03:24:31PM -0700, Kenward Vaughan wrote: > On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > > Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home > > > network? I have

Re: Broken AMD-64-DVD-ISO-image retrieved via bittorrent

2007-05-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:00:07PM +0200, Andreas Glaeser wrote: [...] > 84% complete after re-scanning with ktorrent. I re-downloaded > the .torrent-file and compared it with the one I was using for download, > but found no difference. What to do about it ? File this as a bug > against cdimage.deb

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 10:56 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > > Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home > > network? I have one machine that is setup as a file/web/mail server and > > then I want

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:22:11AM -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > runing on cron, I can't see any error message. All I got is the log I > generate on the script: > >BEGINNING DAILY BACKUP ZENOSS > >BACKUP ZENOSS WITH TROUBLE - ERROR! well, this error message doesn't tell us anything. maybe you

Re: Install Debian Etch on VMWare server 1.0.3

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 02:40:43PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install etch on vmware > server, which runs on iwndows 2003. During the install it hangs during > the "select and install software" phase. After I've selected the FTP > mirror > and it has scanned it, and I've select

Re: Sid and Xorg

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:12:25AM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:54:25PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > I had some problems after upgrading the i810 too. The resolution was set > > to 1172x768 though I'm on a laptop with 10

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's > and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. is that by ip address or by name? A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 10:47:54AM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: > Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home > network? I have one machine that is setup as a file/web/mail server and > then I want to access it from my laptops and desktops. These machines > are a mixt

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:34:30AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: > > > Graham Seaman wrote: > > > > After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no > > longer sees the printer. Cups is running ok, and knows about the > > printer, but the web interface always displays the me

how to disable pnp in etch

2007-05-05 Thread a
In kern.log, I find a line : May 6 02:52:21 debian kernel: pnp: Device 01:01.03 activated. how to disable kernel 2.6's pnp? One of my cards can't be used properly with pnp.

Re: twiki on etch

2007-05-05 Thread Jeff
Tony Heal wrote: anyone using the new twiki package? I need help with the auth I have a very old install of twiki (circa 2001 I think) and I needed to update it finally. When I saw that debian etch now has a package I about freaked. I thought this is great! I set up a new server, installed

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Wayne Topa
Eric A. Bonney([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home > network? aptitude install debian-reference Chapter 10 Network Configuration Wayne -- I am a computer, dumber than any human and smarter than any administrator.

Re: Can't disable NCQ, /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth is readonly

2007-05-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:13 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: > I can't disable NCQ due to the sysfs file being read-only: > > amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# ls -al queue_depth > -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-04 18:44 queue_depth > amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# > amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# echo 1 > queue_

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-05 Thread Ninenineone Efx
I installed above packages by using atp-get. Did not use 'aptitue' because I got some bad experience few weeks ago. Setup Xorg, install fluxbox, setup cups. After giving the access permission to general users, I can print it. Still I need to figure out how to print ps (PostScript file). I gonna

twiki on etch

2007-05-05 Thread Tony Heal
anyone using the new twiki package? I need help with the auth I have a very old install of twiki (circa 2001 I think) and I needed to update it finally. When I saw that debian etch now has a package I about freaked. I thought this is great! I set up a new server, installed etch with the latest

mutt courier exim4 - configuration help required

2007-05-05 Thread Richard Lyons
I am really beginning to hate squirrelmail. It doesn't thread, it doesn't break lines to 72 (or whatever) chars... But I am stuck with using it unless someone can tell me where to look for my misconfiguration. I have a server (actually a vm with Bytemark) on which I run courier-imap and exim4.

Broken AMD-64-DVD-ISO-image retrieved via bittorrent

2007-05-05 Thread Andreas Glaeser
After downloading "debian-40r0-amd64-DVD-1.iso" via bittorrent two days ago, I was unable to write the image to DVD. K3B said, that it was actually not an ISO-image. The md5-sum computed by k3b did not match the one found in the corresponding MD5SUMS-file. When I reopened the .torrent-file and the

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Dennis. Dennis G. Wicks, 05.05.2007 15:02: > I am having problems with some web pages not working. > (Not working means just that. The details vary from page > to page.) > > When I check the error console I find a lot of messages > like: > > Warning: assignment to undeclared variable spee

Re: Install Debian Etch on VMWare server 1.0.3

2007-05-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to install etch on vmware > server, which runs on iwndows 2003. During the install it hangs during the > "select and install software" phase. After I've selected the FTP mirror > and it has scanned it, and I've s

Help with setting up home network

2007-05-05 Thread Eric A. Bonney
Can anyone point me to some docs that would help me configure my home network? I have one machine that is setup as a file/web/mail server and then I want to access it from my laptops and desktops. These machines are a mixture of XP and Debian machines. Currently I am most intrested in gettin

MATLAB: xcb_xlib.c:50: xcb_xlib_unlock: Assertion `c->xlib.lock' failed.

2007-05-05 Thread Micha Feigin
Since a recent upgrade to sid I've started getting this error whenever I try to startup matlab. This seems to come from the java environment since disabling java removes the error (but also the gui and the ability to open images). I tried googling around and this comes up with relation to several

Re: Sid and Xorg

2007-05-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Sven Arvidsson wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 09:12 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: OK did it all, driver is now intel, sync rates commented out and all sub-sections display removed. Xrandr now reports the proper number of videomodes available and will switch back and forth, however I do lose

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Nick Jacobs
Graham Seaman wrote: > > After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no > longer sees the printer. Cups is running ok, and knows about the > printer, but the web interface always displays the message: > > " HL5040 (Default Printer) "Printer not connected; will retry i

Re: Remote HOME with SSHfs

2007-05-05 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007.05.05.1623 +0200]: > you have to adapt your work cycle slightly to the svn workcycle... > (but that could be handled by login/logout scripts mostly) http://www.theficks.name/VCS-Home/HomePage -- Please do not send copies of list mail to me; I

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/04/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote: > [snip] >> Well, > >> Good is a relative term. To some people something is good while other >> people think the same thing is not good. For example good food. > > Human sacrifice was consider

Re: Remote HOME with SSHfs

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Marcher
Hi, it may not be exactly what you wanted in the first place: Have you thought about having your home in a svn repo? I had (after some quirks with the first checkout) most of my $HOME (including dotfiles, excluding .subversion) in a svn and it works very reliably. Pros: disconnected operations

Re: Sid and Xorg

2007-05-05 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sat, 2007-05-05 at 09:12 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > OK did it all, driver is now intel, sync rates commented out and all > sub-sections display removed. > > Xrandr now reports the proper number of videomodes available and will > switch back and forth, however I do lose the Icewm toolb

Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-05 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I am having problems with some web pages not working. (Not working means just that. The details vary from page to page.) When I check the error console I find a lot of messages like: Warning: assignment to undeclared variable speed Warning: assignment to undeclared variable l

Re: Sid and Xorg

2007-05-05 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:54:25PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > > Hi, > > I had some problems after upgrading the i810 too. The resolution was set > to 1172x768 though I'm on a laptop with 1024x768. Here's what helped me: >

Re: debian verizon.net and smtp

2007-05-05 Thread John W. Foster
On Friday 04 May 2007 05:49, Jude DaShiell wrote: > When I try sending any email out on my verizon.net account with debian I > get asked for the password for verizon.net and then get told the message > wasn't sent because no mail from command was sent. Is exim4 needing some > configuration repairs

Install Debian Etch on VMWare server 1.0.3

2007-05-05 Thread elpresidente1
I'm trying to install etch on vmware server, which runs on iwndows 2003. During the install it hangs during the "select and install software" phase. After I've selected the FTP mirror and it has scanned it, and I've selected the software I want it to install it hangs at 5% for ever. Anyone encoun

Problems in installing Windows in VMWare 5.5 on debian

2007-05-05 Thread Liao Xuefeng
Hi, I have installed vmware workstation 5.5 in debian etch r0, but it has problems in installing windows xp. some files cannot be found in CD-ROM or ISO (both I have tried). Anybody who installed windows successfully in vmware on Linux? Yours sincerely. Liao Xuefeng New book: Spring 2.0 Co

Re: Idiot needs help enabling php in apache or apache2

2007-05-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Martin. Martin Marques, 05.05.2007 14:43: > Land Haj wrote: >> --- Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> You add the following lines in your apache conf file, >>> probably, your httpd.conf or apache.conf file. >>> >>> AddType application/x-httpd-php php PHP >>> AddType application/x-

Re: Idiot needs help enabling php in apache or apache2

2007-05-05 Thread Martin Marques
Land Haj wrote: --- Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, You add the following lines in your apache conf file, probably, your httpd.conf or apache.conf file. AddType application/x-httpd-php php PHP AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps let me know, if it works It di

running an MSExcel add-in under linux spreadsheet.....

2007-05-05 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists Does anyone know if there is a way to run a MIcrosoft Excel add-in outside MSExcel? Is there any software like OpenOffice or even gnucash that can read in an Excel add-in and then run it happily within the linux application? My internet searches found stuff about visual basi

Re: AMD 64 DVD Installer for Debian Lenny Hangs

2007-05-05 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 09:51:15AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:31:03PM -0700, Redefined Horizons wrote: > > > > I've tried both the DVD installer for AMD 64 and the i386 CD installer > > for Debian Lenny. The installer hangs in the same spot with both media > > instal

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-05 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > runing on cron, I can't see any error message. All I got is the log I > generate on the script: >> BEGINNING DAILY BACKUP ZENOSS >> BACKUP ZENOSS WITH TROUBLE - ERROR! > > the entry in my cron is: > 35 13 * * * root /usr/loc

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
Also note that I tried pinging remote ip addresses (like google.com's and yahoo.com's) and was unable to get any response. Regards, Deboo -- Please don't Cc: me, I'm subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

[Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
Hello, I just installed Etch using the netinstall CD. Also installed pppoe using dpkg, from the CD packages manually. pppoe detects and makes the connection. ifconfig shows the ppp0 details and the ip too. But I'm unable to ping any remote servers. I am able to ping the ISP gateway though. The c

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-05 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/4/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 04:46:27PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >>> Is there an option I can make

Re: Dangers of "stable" in sources.list

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 03:49:08AM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: > why I'd never use it. So I'd be for one of these two: > -removing the public link to 'stable' > -putting a strong warning in the Debian reference about the hazards of > using it. > So if someone uses 'stable', do tell. And if so, would

Re: backup script and python

2007-05-05 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
runing on cron, I can't see any error message. All I got is the log I generate on the script: BEGINNING DAILY BACKUP ZENOSS BACKUP ZENOSS WITH TROUBLE - ERROR! the entry in my cron is: 35 13 * * * root /usr/local/zenoss/scripts/backup_zenoss.sh I change hour and minute every test, to few minute

Re: Remove mounted drive links from desktop?

2007-05-05 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:48:18PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 04 May 2007 12:15:02 -0400 > "Eric A. Bonney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is it possible to remove the mounted drive icons from my desktop in > > Gnome? Every time I connect to another server location, it creates > > an

Re: Idiot needs help enabling php in apache or apache2

2007-05-05 Thread Land Haj
--- Indraveni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > You add the following lines in your apache conf file, > probably, your httpd.conf or apache.conf file. > > AddType application/x-httpd-php php PHP > AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps > > > let me know, if it works > It

Idiot needs help enabling php in apache or apache2

2007-05-05 Thread Land Haj
Hi! I guess I'm an idiot, and I'm certain this is somewhere right in front of my eyes, but I can't seem to enable php on my webserver. I've tried both apache and apache2, following the instructions from www.debian-administration.org. I get the webserver working, and I apt-get install libapache-mod

Re: octave-forge usage?

2007-05-05 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 04 May 2007 10:29:32 +0900 Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, thanks for the response, but I think I'm asking a slightly > different question than you answered. > > I know how to use octave generally, but I want to use some of the > specialized functions which are distributed in