Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: > Dear all > > I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best > to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). > > I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G

Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-15 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. I managed to setup my (external/USB) Apple keyboard with a Swiss-German

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge > I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's > installation. > So I should clear mbr. > > which linux command should I use? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

Re: (solved, THANK Amy Templeton/Julian De Marchi/Yasar Sarcan) Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Amy Templeton
Serena Cantor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Amy Templeton wrote: > > [...] if you have to present on a computer that hasn't yet > > figured out how to deal with OpenOffice, you can save your > > presentation as a PDF presentation and use (PDF reader of > > choice)'s fullscreen mode to give a present

how to clear mbr

2007-05-15 Thread Serena Cantor
I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? Building

(solved, THANK Amy Templeton/Julian De Marchi/Yasar Sarcan) Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Serena Cantor
Thanks! I'll try pdf. --- Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? > > OpenOffice Impress is that same kind of point-and-click > presentation-making tool, and if you have to present on a computer >

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 2:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my > >>> mp3 player,

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 2:30 am, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my > >>> mp3 player,

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/15/2007 08:12 PM, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work so well for you. Thanks. This works if I

Re: lost default gw

2007-05-15 Thread remigio
After uninstalled network-manager, all is ok! Now the system is reading the file /etc/network/interfaces for options and settings. Thank you for all! Remigio -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Bug???

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: > Hello! > I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding > hdd. I heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is > anybody who reported about this bug so i'm writing. > Thx > > PS sorry for my english:P Eng

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Amy Templeton
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? OpenOffice Impress is that same kind of point-and-click presentation-making tool, and if you have to present on a computer that hasn't yet figured out how to deal with OpenOffice, you can save your presen

RE: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Yasar Sarcan
Openfice Impress -Original Message- From: Serena Cantor [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 16, 2007 8:33 AM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: can you recommend any open source presentation tool? Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? __

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 22:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix > this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug > could download it and let me know whether it works for them. Is it in "incoming" right now (0.4.4-5

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Julian De Marchi
Serena Cantor wrote: Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Look at the openoffice. It has what you are after. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:43:32PM -0700, DavidDutch1964 wrote: > > I love debian. I guess we all do here. > > > > Recently, thoguh, I had to switch to Kubuntu =only= because wireless > > on my laptop JUST WORKED. > >

can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-15 Thread Serena Cantor
Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://answers.yahoo.com/dir/?link=list&sid=396545367 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Bug???

2007-05-15 Thread piter_p_92
Hello! I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding hdd. I heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is anybody who reported about this bug so i'm writing. Thx PS sorry for my english:P

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 22:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix > this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug > could download it and let me know whether it works for them. Will do. Will report back if I see any

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-15 Thread Daniel Burrows
I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug could download it and let me know whether it works for them. Thanks, Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh -- problem solved

2007-05-15 Thread Amy Templeton
"Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070515 11:07]: > > Alternately, have you considered using GNU Screen? That way, if you > > start up mc in it and later SSH in, all you need to do is screen -r > > and you've got it... > Thanks for the introductio

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Paul E Condon
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:01:57PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > > pedxing wrote: > >> Lenny AMD64. > >> > >> When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that > >> the writes appear to happen quickl

Re: hardware freezez and no clue where to start searching

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:06:14AM -0700, AndiSHFR wrote: > Here is an example: > > sv-vmhost02:/home# date ; time dd if=/dev/zero of=test.dat bs=1MB > count=1000 ; date > > Thu May 10 17:53:45 CEST 2007 > 1000+0 records in > 1000+0 records out > 10 bytes (1.0 GB) copied, 2.89129 seconds,

Re: GDM default locale--can't set

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:07:39AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > I can't seem to set the default locale to en_US.UTF8 for GDM. When I > change the settings at the GDM window, it offers to make my new locale > the default. I always say "Yes" to this prompt, but whenever I log in to > GDM again, I get

Re: strange "?" characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 11:20:11AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Deboo ^ wrote: > > Using Debian Etch stable version without X. Everything works fine > > since installed a few days ago except that in aptitude or midnight > > commander or even dpkg-reconfigure screens, I get lots of question > > marks d

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 07:23:27AM +0100, andy wrote: > Dear all > > As a Debian n00b I enthusiastically gorged myself on the wonders and > ease of apt-get. Now, having recovered from my initial over-indulgence, > like one considers one's post-festive waistline, I am wanting to figure > out a w

Re: sound recording configuration problem

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:07:20PM -0500, Charles Berman wrote: > I'm running etch and having trouble recording sound. My card is a Sound > Fusion CS46xx with Cirrus Logic CS4297A Rev 4 (according to alsamixer). > Sounds plays OK; however, I can't use the microphone. My goal is to use > skyp

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:09AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >> Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>> Hash: SHA1 > >>> > >>> On 05/08/07 19:51, Eric d'Alibut wrote: > On 5/8/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL

Re: Delete garbage in /var

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:09:05PM -0300, Valdir Marcos wrote: > How can I identify what is garbage in /var? > How can I delete files and directories older than a specific date? > > # df -h > Sist. Arq.Tam Usad Disp Uso% Montado em > /dev/sda2 449M 132M 293M 32% / >

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:53:49PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Amy writes: > > By "decoders" I mean things like antiword that remove all the nasty > > binary blobs and leave the ASCII text. > > Format converters. > > > Does the new version of M$-Word include some sort of code for embedding > > mo

Re: [OT] Screen

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 06:51:12AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: > Word Perfect 5.0 for DOS. The ability to see EXACTLY what codes where > where made finding those formatting errors so much easier. 5.1 was the defacto standard AIR -- don't remember 5.0. How long was 5.0 in use, can you remember?

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 11:50:54AM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > Yeah, I definitely do mention things about version control, > privacy, etc., more than the virtue of free software (because > strong as the latter argument is, it doesn't hold up unless people > care). Basically my argument is always

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 08:12:49PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Michael Marsh wrote: > > A 30 day moratorium on re-sale doesn't hurt the store that much, the > > seller still gets paid, and if the discs were stolen, the victim has > > some chance of recovery. That does not, of course, justi

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:42:26PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > There are also problems here: Netherlands? > There are too many political parties, so in order to have a working > government, coalitions must be formed, and in the process of forming the > coalitions, parties quite frequently must aband

Re: etch help

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 02:52:48PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > > Try a new reply to Andrew's message. That is a bunch of nothing. That is unfair and incorrect. He is a newbie and that sort of message (your

Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:31AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > how to use dpkg to list all packages in doc section that can be installed? > > just list package names. You could look at grep-dctrl. I think you can search by section on the packages section on debian.org. But, I think you are bar

Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:27:57AM +0200, bdeferme wrote: > Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >how to use dpkg to list all packages in doc section that can be installed? > > > >just list package names. > > > >Thanks! > > dpkg -l will list all the packages in /var/lib/dpkg/list and brie

Re: actual dimensions of X display.

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 12:07:38PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > You can run xrandr from the commandline or, if you're using Kde, go into No you cant. It needs X to be running. -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:09:36AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > By definition, the natural man is *not* a spritiual man, and hence not > bron again, and hence not a Christian. So if you are not a Christian you are not spiritual? -- Chris. ==

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:17:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On 10 May, Joe Hart wrote: > > > ... > > > > > I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that > > they so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people > > that seem to do well on Sunday and f

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:58:24AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: [Please trim unnecessary quotes] > I will quote my own message: > > The difference is that the person "dressing" the lamb is preparing it > for use, usually to eat. That serves a purpose in at least nourishing > the body. I suppose sacrif

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 10:54:17PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > (I am currently in a hotel with a time-limited internet connection and > it will run out in a few minutes. Therefore I cannot provide the actual > citations right now. I will be back online on Friday, but by then this > thread wil

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:08:42PM +1000, SB wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: > >>> Ron Johnson: > And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor as yourself". > > That doesn't mean that the humans who purport to believe in it > actually foll

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Sure, but the Hindus aren't doing it in the name of God, Allah, > > Shiva or whatever. Hinduism has other problems but claiming an > > exclusive franchise on truth is not one of them. > > And Christianity teaches "love your neighbor

Re: swap

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:33:26AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 8 May 2007 10:28:02 -0400 > Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > > In fact, it was poor browser performance (read inability to view some > > sites) that was the drive to buy my new box. For everything els

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 03:47:43PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Even if the discharge of a firearm is illegal, doesn't mean that making > one is. The hack that you posted is not dangerous, imo. As you point > out, it is just a random string of numbers. However, applying this > random string of numbe

Re: How do I setup printer?

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 09:36:48AM -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: [please snip unnecessary bits!] > I have it working, which is great, but now I'm wondering, what steps did I > do that I didn't NEED to do to get this working, because I removed some > entries from the smb.conf to get it exactly what was sh

Editing config files [was Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - ]

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 08:02:40AM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Ah, then it is most likely the dhcp client causing your problem with the > resolv.conf > > You can edit the file /etc/dhcp3/dhclient.conf and look for this line. > > #prepend domain-name-servers 127.0.0.1; > > Remove the comment and cha

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: > On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Rick Thomas wrote in Article > ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> posted to > >gmane.linux.debian.user: > > > >> http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html > > > >Al

Re: configuring midnight commander for use via ssh -- problem solved

2007-05-15 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Amy Templeton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070515 11:07]: > Alternately, have you considered using GNU Screen? That way, if you > start up mc in it and later SSH in, all you need to do is screen -r > and you've got it... Thanks for the introduction to screen, Amy. I installed screen and printed the man

Re: Canon PowerShot A570IS

2007-05-15 Thread KS
Raquel wrote: > In the next couple of days I'm getting the A570IS and will be > wanting to upload images to my desktop and from there editing, etc. > What is the best tool for Gnome? > Check out f-spot too. Digikam is a good one but is a KDE app. Package: f-spot Priority: optional Section: gnom

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

2007-05-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:35AM +, Bruce M. Ward wrote: > Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm > restricted to using web-mail so can't continue the thread ... > > Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user. > > Here follows the output Flori

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-15 Thread Nelson Castillo
I am going to try a new card unless someone here tells me that no partition is normal for a CompactFlash card (8 mb). Maybe you have a file system in the raw device, with no partition table? What does "mount /dev/sda /mnt/something" do? Regards, N.- -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com

Re: Re(2): Grub without Linux.

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:31 -0700, Easthope wrote: > At Tue, 15 May 2007 12:12:02 +0800 Mr. Ray Chan wrote, > '1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; > 2. After your saw the prompt, use command "FDISK /MBR";' > > At Tue, 15 May 2007 20:41:36 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote, > "fdisk /mbr wi

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

2007-05-15 Thread Bruce M. Ward
Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted to using web-mail so can't continue the thread ... Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user. Here follows the output Florian asked for: egrep '^\((EE|WW)\)' /var/log/Xorg.0.log (WW) The director

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/12/07 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? > >> I am trying to get the photos off a Minolta Dimage E201 digital >> camera. > >> It is recognized : > > [snip] >> This same

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 20:37, H.S. wrote: > pedxing wrote: >> Lenny AMD64. >> >> When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that >> the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to >> complete. I assume there is some form o

Re(2): Grub without Linux.

2007-05-15 Thread Easthope
At Tue, 15 May 2007 12:12:02 +0800 Mr. Ray Chan wrote, '1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; 2. After your saw the prompt, use command "FDISK /MBR";' At Tue, 15 May 2007 20:41:36 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote, "fdisk /mbr will solve the problem." The system was given to my mother witho

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread H.S.
pedxing wrote: Lenny AMD64. When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on. To be safe, I issue a sync command from a terminal and wait for it (up

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 23:00, Brendan wrote: > On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-16 02:54:06 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name >> > "Brendan" c

Re: MBR problems

2007-05-15 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 21:53 +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > Hello all, > > I work for a very tiny charity. I was given 2 Dell Dimension 1100 > computers with Debian installed originally, used as test machines. > Their hard drives were wiped on purpose by an external company (long > story, tha

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: * Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the

Re: lost default gw

2007-05-15 Thread Bill Thompson
On 15 May 2007 14:40:23 -0700 remigio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > I've installed Debian Etch (KDE) and I put in rc.local the command: > > ip route add via 192.168.10.254 > > for setting the default gw at startup. > When the pc starts, using 'ip route' on a shell I can see the route is > p

Re: lost default gw

2007-05-15 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 14:40 -0700, remigio wrote: > Hi, > I've installed Debian Etch (KDE) and I put in rc.local the command: > > ip route add via 192.168.10.254 > > for setting the default gw at startup. This does not set a default route. To set the default route you would do: ip route add def

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Brendan
On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: > >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when > >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my > >>> mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately > >>> unmount the de

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/12/07 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: > Can someone help diagnose this problem on Debian Sid ? > > I am trying to get the photos off a Minolta Dimage E201 digital > camera. > > It is recognized : > [snip] > > This same camera worked flawlessly

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-15 Thread Andrew M.A. Cater
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 09:00:46PM -0400, Amy Templeton wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Andrew M.A. Cater) wrote: > > There is a serious point [about proprietary formats] to be made > > to your college. Archiving, readability, public record. I've only > > been dealing with computers for about 22 years:

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-15 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 18:03:09 -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: >> Florian Kulzer wrote: > > [...] > >>> Let's have a quick look at the partition table. Please post the output >>> of >>> >>> fdisk -l /dev/sda >>> >>> (You need

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 17:09, Didier Raboud wrote: [snip] > > Everything is true, but never forget : Debian is ROCK-solid. Such > cannot be said about Ubuntu... Not everyone wants ROCK-solid but trailing edge features. I'll take cutting edge features on a foun

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: >>> I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when >>> I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my >>> mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately >>> unmount the device w

Re: HAL crashes with dbus

2007-05-15 Thread Kristian Lampen
Florian Kulzer schrieb: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 22:20:58 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18 (update almost everyday). As I tried to use my USB-Stick yesterday,

Re: [ltp] Re: R40 soft modem & wifi with Debian Etch

2007-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Michael Powell([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > Actually, I am attempting to use the built-in infrared port for wifi, as a > website I visited made it > sound like that was what it was for. > > However, upon some further research, I think some of the laptops must have > shipp

Re: lost default gw

2007-05-15 Thread Wayne Topa
remigio([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi, > I've installed Debian Etch (KDE) and I put in rc.local the command: > > ip route add via 192.168.10.254 > > for setting the default gw at startup. > When the pc starts, using 'ip route' on a shell I can see the route is > present, but i

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 09:34:05AM -0700, pedxing wrote: > Lenny AMD64. > > When I write to a USB device (stick or mp3 player), I notice that > the writes appear to happen quickly, but actually take a long time to > complete. I assume there is some form of caching going on. > > To be safe, I iss

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 07:27:26PM +0100, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 10:22:50AM +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > On Tuesday 15 May 2007 17:33, Antti Talsta wrote: > > > On Tue, 15 May 2007, Tim Johnson wrote: > > > > eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:80:AD:79:35:E1 > > >

2.6.20-1-amd64 Xen with RHEL5 guest

2007-05-15 Thread Alex Samad
Hi I am having some problems installing a paravirt RHEL guest on a deb amd64 xen machine uname -a = Linux debxen 2.6.20-1-xen-amd64 #1 SMP Tue Apr 24 22:23:22 UTC 2007 x86_64 GNU/Linux == xm info == host : debxen release: 2.6.20-1-xen-am

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-16 02:54:06 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: >> > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name >> > "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread cothrige
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other > terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very > small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the > HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread Didier Raboud
geoff wrote: > On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:43 -0700, DavidDutch1964 wrote: >> I love debian. I guess we all do here. >> >> Recently, thoguh, I had to switch to Kubuntu =only= because wireless on >> my laptop JUST WORKED. >> >> I have an HP zt3000 with one of those Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless

Re: aptitude wants to install apache

2007-05-15 Thread Robert S
>> I've decided (for better or worse) to go ahead with the "dist-upgrade" > > It will probably work out OK; if it does not then you know where to find > us. > Thanks. I've fixed the problem by installing apache and apache2 (as part of a full dist-upgrade which seems to have gone OK) then purgin

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-15 08:48:44 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > If you're already compromised, chkrootkit won't do you any good as it > could be compromised too. Perhaps reboot the machine in single user (in case a rootkit is run from the init files), check the ctime of chkrootkit, and if it is OK, t

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread geoff
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 12:43 -0700, DavidDutch1964 wrote: > I love debian. I guess we all do here. > > Recently, thoguh, I had to switch to Kubuntu =only= because wireless on my > laptop JUST > WORKED. > > I have an HP zt3000 with one of those Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG wireless > cards built in.

lost default gw

2007-05-15 Thread remigio
Hi, I've installed Debian Etch (KDE) and I put in rc.local the command: ip route add via 192.168.10.254 for setting the default gw at startup. When the pc starts, using 'ip route' on a shell I can see the route is present, but if I wait for a minute the route disappear, likely something overwrote

VIDEOMED-CUBA 2007 (English/Spanish)

2007-05-15 Thread videomed-cuba
Dear Colleague: We would greatly appreciate if you could forward this message to any of your colleagues that could be interested. Thank you very much. We hope to see you in Havana. Organizing Committee --- VIDEOMED-CUBA 2007.

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-15 Thread Michael Pobega
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:43:32PM -0700, DavidDutch1964 wrote: > I love debian. I guess we all do here. > > Recently, thoguh, I had to switch to Kubuntu =only= because wireless > on my laptop JUST WORKED. > > I have an HP zt3000 with one of those Intel PRO/Wireless 2200BG > wireless cards built

xmms segfaults

2007-05-15 Thread Bruno Buys
Xmms segfaults with no apparent reason. I apt-get --purge removed it, then reinstalled, but the error remains. Is someone having these same problems? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms Segmentation fault You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit http://bugs.xmms.org and fill out a bug report.

xterm fonts

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable font with the HUGE option in the right-click menu but I need bigger fonts. How do you exactly specify big

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-15 Thread Seb
On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:30:26 +0100, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Haven't seen that one before. Any clues in /var/log/cups/error_log? Nada; just after getting the error: ,-[ sudo tail /var/log/messages ] | May 15 13:27:25 patagonia -- MARK -- | May 15 13:47:25 patagonia --

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 15 May 2007 16:24:30 -0500 Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:05:12 +0100, > Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [...] > > > Try 'apt-get --purge --reinstall install cupsys'. Failing that, > > 'apt-get --purge remove cupsys && apt-get install cupsys' should d

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-15 Thread Seb
On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:05:12 +0100, Liam O'Toole <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > Try 'apt-get --purge --reinstall install cupsys'. Failing that, 'apt-get > --purge remove cupsys && apt-get install cupsys' should do it. The latter worked, although now I'm getting: "413 request entity too larg

Re: Security Breach: A zero byte file created in my home directory

2007-05-15 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/15/07, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 2007-05-15 11:35:03 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I saw today that there's a zero byte file in my hoem dir with the name > "Brendan" created yesterday but I couldn't search whp created it or > what was the command that created it etc from any l

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-15 Thread pedxing
> > I would like > > to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my > > wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy > > dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device without > > having to wait for a delayed write. > > I have looked at the mount ma

MBR problems

2007-05-15 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I work for a very tiny charity. I was given 2 Dell Dimension 1100 computers with Debian installed originally, used as test machines. Their hard drives were wiped on purpose by an external company (long story, that I'm not too fully aware of) and I was told to try and recover

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-15 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 15 May 2007 15:20:03 -0500 Seb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I messed up my cupsd config file and would like to reinstall it, but > doing 'apt-get --reinstall install cupsys' nor 'dpkg-reconfigure > cupsys' seem to reinstall this configuration file. How can this file > be reinstal

Test, don't read

2007-05-15 Thread Andrea Giuliano
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Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:37, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 11:53:18 +, Tim Johnson wrote: > > [...] > > > Didn't help. I'm going to pick up a new linksys card. Tomorrow > > or later today, I will try a fresh install off of a connection that I > > know to be good. > > Why

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-15 Thread Tim Johnson
On Tuesday 15 May 2007 19:07, Hubert Mauchle wrote: > >> ## --- > >> auto lo > >> iface lo inet loopback > >> allow-hotplug eth0 > >> iface etho inet static > >>address 192.168.1.3 > >>netmask 255.255.255.0 > >>network 192.168.

Re: KDE login manager?

2007-05-15 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Martin Marques wrote: > Eric A. Bonney escribió: >> >> Does KDE have a login manager similar to Gnome? When my laptop boots up >> it first enters a login manager if you will that is Gnome. Then when I >> login it brings up the KDE desktop. Does KDE have anything similar? > > $ apt-cache searc

Re: disappearing files

2007-05-15 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 01:27:39PM -0700, Collin Monahan wrote: > I'm thinking I didn't get enough sleep. > > I have /usr mounted ro. I guess the security should be better. > > Anyhow anytime I want to install or change an executable I go to single > user mode (init 1), mount it rw, make the chan

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