[RESOLVED] Re: sid + gnome + automount

2007-05-16 Thread fabio natali
fabio natali wrote: > hi all of you! > > since yesterday i'm facing problems with automounting. i use gnome and > my debian version is sid. > > when i plug my usb hd nothing happens on my desktop. :-( this morning i had another dist-upgrade and now everything is ok. just in case somebody else m

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Mihira Fernando
Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/17/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >> You got a TLS issue. What's your Postfix setup (OS, Postfix version, >> pluggins) ? also show output of postconf -n > > OS: Debian Etch Stable > Postfix ver: 2.3.8-2+b1 did you install : # libsasl2 (the Cyrus SASL li

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/17/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Why is this OT? Postfix is packaged for Debian, by Debian. This might be related to TLS entropy problem when there is not enough activity or "randomness" from the system. Exim experiences similar problems when there is not enough activity to

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/17/07, Mihira Fernando <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You got a TLS issue. What's your Postfix setup (OS, Postfix version, pluggins) ? also show output of postconf -n OS: Debian Etch Stable Postfix ver: 2.3.8-2+b1 Here's the output from postconf -n: alias_database = hash:/etc/aliases alias

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

2007-05-16 Thread Bruce M. Ward
Thanks guys. Yes, Michael, problem user cannot start using startx. Since there is a possibility that it may involve groups here are the two users (renamed). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups problem problem : problem dialout cdrom floppy audio video plugdev netdev powerdev [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ groups

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 03:40:15AM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-05-17, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Some general comments, mostly aimed at making your code cleaner without > > changing what it does. > > > > First, both 'echo' and 'printf' put their results on standard out.

Re: kernel or ppp problem?

2007-05-16 Thread Eugene Stemple
To all: Problem resolved with the aid of James at stev dot org. Closing this thread. There is no bug in either ppp or kernel ppp support. Chalk up another "plus" for Linux community user support. ...Gene_S... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 05:31 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > Sorry about postign here. I'm neither gettign a response to my posts > from the postfix-users list nor getting any mail from the list even > though I am subscribed since 2 years. I subscribed again and still not > got a rely from the majordomo add

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

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 03:28 +, s. keeling wrote: > Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I might be able to tell you how to set this up using xmodmap, but this > > depends on how similar your Apple keyboard is to the "pc105" ones that I > > know. For a start, I need to see the output of: >

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-17, Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Some general comments, mostly aimed at making your code cleaner without > changing what it does. > > First, both 'echo' and 'printf' put their results on standard out. Your > call of 'printf' is inside command substitution, so its STDOUT

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:37:39PM +0200, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. > > > > - -- > > Ron Johnson, Jr. > > Jefferson LA USA > Hi Ron, > Actually, you can get a tar

Re: [OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Mihira Fernando
Deboo ^ wrote: > Sorry about postign here. I'm neither gettign a response to my posts > from the postfix-users list nor getting any mail from the list even > though I am subscribed since 2 years. I subscribed again and still not > got a rely from the majordomo address. I remember having faced this

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

2007-05-16 Thread s. keeling
Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 14:48:53 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: > > > > thanks for your replies so far. It looks like I'll have (i) to look harder > > to find the correct key combination or (ii) tweak the configuration my > > keyboard setup. I prefer

Re: Connect to Internet through cable

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 20:38, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > I purchased a broadband internet service from my ISP. They offered me > the cable through which I can use dial-up network wizard in Windows XP > to set up the Internet access. I'm planing to install Debian on

Re: The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 20:26, gray wrote: >>> Chris - you are right to ask this poster to check the facts. I wonder >>> if he was ever on welfare and if so - for how long? Also I wonder how >>> easy it actually is to qualify for this welfare. >> I assume you're

Re: Connect to Internet through

2007-05-16 Thread pinniped
You would have to explain your setup more or we might give you all the wrong advice. For example: 1. Are you getting internet access through 'cable' (which requires a cable modem, probably built into the cable TV receiver) OR 2. Is your internet via ADSL, in which case you have an ADSL modem a

Re: Trimming the fat off an installation

2007-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
Chris Bannister wrote: 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 t

Re: Connect to Internet through cable

2007-05-16 Thread Julian De Marchi
Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:38:22PM -0700, rocky wrote: Hey, I purchased a broadband internet service from my ISP. They offered me the cable through which I can use dial-up network wizard in Windows XP to set up the Internet access. I'm planing to install Debian on my o

Re: Connect to Internet through cable

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:38:22PM -0700, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > I purchased a broadband internet service from my ISP. They offered me > the cable through which I can use dial-up network wizard in Windows XP > to set up the Internet access. I'm planing to install Debian on my old > Desktop. Can a

Re: The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:26:49PM -0700, gray wrote: > > Minimum wage workers are getting a very raw deal in most parts of the > world at present as far as I can see. It is interesting that Joe > cites the US as a possible exception. Most Australians (and I expect > the rest of the world) have

Connect to Internet through cable

2007-05-16 Thread rocky
Hey, I purchased a broadband internet service from my ISP. They offered me the cable through which I can use dial-up network wizard in Windows XP to set up the Internet access. I'm planing to install Debian on my old Desktop. Can any of you tell me the steps I should take to make the fresh Debian

Re: The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread gray
> > Chris - you are right to ask this poster to check the facts. I wonder > > if he was ever on welfare and if so - for how long? Also I wonder how > > easy it actually is to qualify for this welfare. > > I assume you're talking about me as the OP in this case, but it would > help if you would i

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I've got a question about a short bash script I wrote. I need it to --snipped-- #!/bin/bash lab_num=41 for map_name in aest_90 bush_90 carol_90 comp_90 \ hirs_90 roan_90 swan_90 vir_90 ; do lab_let=$(echo -n $(printf "\\x$(echo $lab_num)")) echo " $la

[OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
Sorry about postign here. I'm neither gettign a response to my posts from the postfix-users list nor getting any mail from the list even though I am subscribed since 2 years. I subscribed again and still not got a rely from the majordomo address. I remember having faced this problem 2 years ago to

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:04:42AM -0400, Marty wrote: A better alternative may be to first set up lilo to boot Debian from another device or partition. Then when you install NT/2k you can still boot Debian, and you also have the option of using the BIOS boot menu (typ

[SOLVED] Re: Gigabit ethernet low traffic and high latency

2007-05-16 Thread Sylvain Le Gall
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 15-05-2007, Sylvain Le Gall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have spend the two last day, trying to solve a strange problem. I have > 2 hosts connected using Gigabit Ethernet link and a switch between: > * host giga: NFS server, Cat6 SFTP l

Re: Really slow xterm

2007-05-16 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-05-16 15:59:10 -0500, cothrige wrote: > I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it > scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in > /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier > it was even worse taking over 10

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-16, Karl E. Jorgensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This was the only way I could figure out to loop from A to H. But >> since it works on hex escape codes, it won't work past 9. Is there a >> cleaner, more general way to do this? > > I think there is: > > #!/bin/bash > > ( cat < A aest_

Re: bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:46:37PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > I've got a question about a short bash script I wrote. I need it to > loop over a number of names, and pass a command to grass that includes > two variations of those names. That was easy. Harder was getting > getting a letter

bash scripting question

2007-05-16 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I've got a question about a short bash script I wrote. I need it to loop over a number of names, and pass a command to grass that includes two variations of those names. That was easy. Harder was getting getting a letter included in each iteration, starting with A for the first one and going u

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Florian Kulzer napisał(a): To me that looks like the pinning worked and I do not understand how apt can think of "upgrading" to the same version. Is your currently installed gimp a version from another repository? What happens if you ask specifically for gimp: apt-get install gimp Also, what

Really slow xterm

2007-05-16 Thread cothrige
I have installed xterm via apt, running etch, and have noticed that it scrolls really slowly. I compared it to rxvt by running `time ls` in /usr/bin with rxvt taking 0.572s and xterm running at 4.633s. Earlier it was even worse taking over 10 seconds. It is a very big difference in usage, and if

Re: Troubles with initramfs configuration

2007-05-16 Thread Dallas Clement
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 13:40 -0500, Dallas Clement wrote: > Dear All, > > I'm having problems with configuring my initramfs so that the /init file > will be executed correctly. > > If I have a configuration file for my initramfs as follows with the > simple "hello world" program as my init - it is

Re: LVM and RAID

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: > Hello, > > I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. > Is there any order or procedure to respect when installing both together ? > Some HOWTO or README somewhere about this ? > > Thanks for any info. > Is this a

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. As in a non-zero exit code? Or just deafening silence? > file /bin/bzip2 > /b

Re: Delete garbage in /var

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:43:16PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > Do you have logrotate installed? > > apt-cache show logrotate > That should be 'apt-cache policy logrotate' ^^ Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://ww

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 14:09, Jay Wilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. > > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty A

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:09 -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: > Hello, > > I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to > unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala > tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. > > file /bin/bzip2 > /bin/bzip2: empty > > I reinstall with a: apt-get

Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-16 Thread Celejar
On 16 May 2007 00:09:39 -0700 NickDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 15, 9:10 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > Is DNS working ('cat /etc/resolv.conf')? > > moria:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf > # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by > resolvconf(8) > #

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

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 14:48:53 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: > Dear all > > thanks for your replies so far. It looks like I'll have (i) to look harder > to find the correct key combination or (ii) tweak the configuration my > keyboard setup. I prefer (ii) because I want to use the keys

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

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:35 +, 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. Which groups are those? Maybe the

bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Jay Wilton
Hello, I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. file /bin/bzip2 /bin/bzip2: empty I reinstall with a: apt-get install --reinstall bzip2 and it still happens but not every time. I hav

Re: HAL crashes with dbus

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:32:17 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: > 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 install

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 18:46:48 +0200, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: > Florian Kulzer napisał(a): >> You are missing the blank lines to separate the records: >> $ man apt_preferences | awk '/Effect/,/^$/' >>The Effect of APT Preferences >>The APT preferences file allows the system administrat

Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-16 Thread mess-mate
Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | > Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | > | > Hi list, | > | > i've a machine with xubuntu installed. | > | > The machine have ONLY

Gana un MP3 de 1 Giga

2007-05-16 Thread Lasagra.com
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Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: 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.lin

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Bob McGowan
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 mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device wi

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I should have known about xvattr then, in order to at least have the > movie show up on the right display. How did you use xvattr to switch the > display? For i810 you need to set the XV_PIPE attribute. Maybe it's the same fo

how to disable XEmacs font-lock-mode?

2007-05-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
How can I disable font-lock-mode in Emacs (actually XEmacs)? It appears that, upon seeing the first line of a Perl script: #!/usr/bin/perl Emacs sets font-lock-mode. But I do not wish to use font-lock mode when working with Perl scripts. I am editing a number of short Perl scripts, and I d

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA Hi Ron, Actually, you can get a tarball with the .ttf files here: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ Then install them with your favourite font installer. I did tha

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-16 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/15/2007 05:36 PM, Seb wrote: > 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 gettin

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-16 Thread Amy Templeton
Sorry to revive this after a while of no response, but I've only just now found time *to* respond. John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Amy writes: > > By "decoders" I mean things like antiword that remove all the > > nasty binary blobs and leave the ASCII text. > Format converters. Sure. >

Re: disappearing files

2007-05-16 Thread Collin Monahan
--- "Karl E. Jorgensen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why!? That's really "crossing the river to fetch water" - or > whatever the English expression is... > > Why not: > # mount -oremount,rw /usr > # apt-get install whatever > # cp /home/fred/bin/somecommand /usr/local/bin > # mo

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to hook a Sony Vaio running Debian lenny with a Radeon > Mobility M6 LY to a projector to demonstrate some animations, using > the xv extension. > > The basic device section in xorg.conf, as autodetected,

[Solved] Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However, some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the menu is not `xterm`. Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with differe

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Florian Kulzer napisał(a): You are missing the blank lines to separate the records: $ man apt_preferences | awk '/Effect/,/^$/' The Effect of APT Preferences The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to control the assignment of priorities. The file consists of o

Re: Re: Bug???

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:00 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: > Wiadomość Oryginalna > Od: Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Do: DebianUser List > Kopia do: piter_p_92 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Data: 16 maja 2007 7:47 > Temat: Re: Bug??? > > > On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: >

Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-16 Thread Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel
I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 60K

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 17:18:32 +0200, jakub AT ifmpan DOT poznan DOT pl wrote: > hi all! > Can some one explain to me how /etc/apt/preferences file works? In order > to improve the performance of my etch box i downloaded src packages of few > programs and recompiled them (the debian way) useing m

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:19:36AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. :) We have a new meaning for ASAP: As Soon As Packaged (for Debian) :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Ei

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 10:26, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: >>> Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem >>> to like the fine, more detailed look. >> $ wajig search liberation >

[etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread jakub
hi all! Can some one explain to me how /etc/apt/preferences file works? In order to improve the performance of my etch box i downloaded src packages of few programs and recompiled them (the debian way) useing my own cflags. Now after instalation of those recompiled packages I have a problem to keep

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: >> Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem >> to like the fine, more detailed look. > > $ wajig search liberation > $ > > What's a liberation font? > >

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -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 fe

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:31:35PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I havn't followed this thread, so maybe someone spotted this already: > > You have 'allow-hotplug eth0' and 'iface etho'. It seems the OP is copying "by hand" so these are just transcript errors. Regards, Andrei -- If you

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

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:10:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc. > > Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the "-- ". Interesting, I don't find this option in mutt (though I bet vim could do this). But I couldn't use it anyway as I

Compiling for lib32 under amd64

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Vajzovic
Hi all How do I compile a program for i386 on Debian amd64 to run under Debian amd64 and link it to libraries in /lib32 and /usr/lib32 ? Going beyond that, is it possible have some modules of a program compiled for amd64, linked to /lib64/libc-n.n.so and others, and some compiled for i386 and lin

Re: Gaim with corrector of orthography in pt-BR in system en-US

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:49:57AM -0300, João Schmutz wrote: > How I make to change my corrector of orthography of the Gaim for pt-BR being > been that my system is in en-US, and cannot change my system of en-US for > pt-BR, somebody knows as to make this? You can try something like: LANG=pt_BR

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:43:53PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And That's not my experience. I *always* had to restore grub after reinstalling W2k. Maybe your grub wasn't in the MBR? > installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a prob

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:04:42AM -0400, Marty wrote: > A better alternative may be to first set up lilo to boot Debian from > another device or partition. Then when you install NT/2k you can still > boot Debian, and you also have the option of using the BIOS boot menu > (typically started b

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: > How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them > installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop > or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I > would lik

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread cothrige
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: > > > >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 yo

Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-16 Thread NickDG
On May 16, 9:40 am, NickDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On May 15, 9:10 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 15 May 2007 08:01:32 -0700 > > > NickDG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I upgraded the system but I'm not out of the woods yet: networking > > > works only partly. > > The plot t

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

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: >> Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: >> >>> >>> Greg Folkert wrote: >>> 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 lis

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Eric. Eric A. Bonney, 16.05.2007 15:56: > How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them > installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop > or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I > would like to have the normal icon

Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Eric A. Bonney
How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I would like to have the normal icons showing. Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:43 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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 wi

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:55:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: > > Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem > > to like the fine, m

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

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Dear all thanks for your replies so far. It looks like I'll have (i) to look harder to find the correct key combination or (ii) tweak the configuration my keyboard setup. I prefer (ii) because I want to use the keys on my keyboard in the way they are labelled (I'm really bad in remembering wh

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
> What does "mount /dev/sda /mnt/something" do? It seems to mount OK. Then you have no partitions, I think. About one year ago I formatted a pen drive (mp3 player also) with mkfs.vfat and the mp3 player would not work. I did something like mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX After a lot of tries I thought

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: > Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem > to like the fine, more detailed look. $ wajig search liberation $ What's a liberation font? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Giv

Re: install with dmraid

2007-05-16 Thread axs203dd
So, then create two partitions on each of your two disks. > Install Linux across two of them using Linux software RAID and install > windows across the other two using Windows software RAID. You cannot install windows on a software raided partition. Win Installer cannot detect the LVM. Regar

Gaim with corrector of orthography in pt-BR in system en-US

2007-05-16 Thread João Schmutz
How I make to change my corrector of orthography of the Gaim for pt-BR being been that my system is in en-US, and cannot change my system of en-US for pt-BR, somebody knows as to make this? -- Att Debian User João Schmutz Geek by nature, linux by choice

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-16 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nelson Castillo wrote: >> 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? > That's what fdisk s

have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. - -K - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal |mysite.verizon.net/kevin.mark/|

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

2007-05-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) said: [...] > > Everything about locales on Sven Mascheck's new site: > http://www.un-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ The URL above should be: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ > The little tester utility is at: > http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/checkloca

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 13:19:00 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: > >> > >> Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) > >> Reading package lis

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Michael V. De Palatis
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:42:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: > On 5/16/07, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: > > > >xterm*font: 10x20 > > > >Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my > >fonts, but I don't sw

LVM and RAID

2007-05-16 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. Is there any order or procedure to respect when installing both together ? Some HOWTO or README somewhere about this ? Thanks for any info. Bye, Bruno -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key : http://www.costacurta.org/keys/bruno_costacurt

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
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? It's not a linux command, but a DOS command, "fdisk /mbr" (or something simila

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Greg Folkert wrote: 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

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:51:09 -0400 Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > > On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56 -0400 > > Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_packages.pl?keyw

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Hi, >> >> trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: >> >> Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/

Re: [OT] Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:13:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: >> Chris Bannister wrote: [snip] >>> >>> We need a list ethicist who is not "out to lunch" :-) >>> >> Fine. I nominate you then. I don't want to be the ethicist anyway.

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: > > Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org

Re: Bug???

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:14:34AM +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 engl

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: > 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

chroot and random numbers?

2007-05-16 Thread Raphael
Hi Users! I use debian testing and installed a chroot environment in /var/etch... Ok, now, when I boot my system, there it show a lot of messages with random numbers at the end. Eg like this: /var/etch-386-aioqmvasw-8932nds983-34ref893 and lot more of this... and I have the feeling, they grow

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Johnson wrote: > Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared > to configure properly - software installation from mirror > went without a problem > > The problem (sort of) goes like this: > I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes

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