Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:28:55 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer > > so i install etch, only to use mplayer > > only to learn mencoder is not included > > > > Why? > > Wh

Re: etch/powerbook G4 wlan/wpa not working

2007-05-31 Thread Andrei Morgan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 hi, Georg Heinrich wrote: > I don't get wlan with wpa working on my powerbook g4 with etch. you probably need bcm43xxx-fwcutter package. i wrote up how i got mine working: http://travelsoforion.net/debian-wireless --asm > This is the lspci

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread debian
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:28:57PM -0400, Ed Jabbour wrote: > about:plugins. But, BBC radio is a nogo, as above. Same failure at CSPAN, My 2c: when I click on the Radio Player icon (Radio3 in my case), I click on "Listen using stand-alone Real Player". I then save the file to disk. At the cl

[SOLVED] Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-05-31, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I think that in the end console-setup uses the definitions in >> /etc/default/console-setup, which have a syntax similar to the keyboard >> section in xorg.conf, e.g. >> >> XKBMODE

Re: disk i/o performance problem

2007-05-31 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:02:06PM -0400, WHIRLYCOTT wrote: > Hi, I'm trying to track down a pretty apparent problem that I'm > having with disk i/o on an Etch box. Basically, I have two identical > machines. One is running Etch and one is running CentOS. The Etch > machine is really slow.

Re: Security question: are these vulnerabilities addressed?

2007-05-31 Thread Scott Gifford
Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 12:23:46AM -0400, Scott Gifford wrote: >> Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [...] >> > BTW, is upgrade to Etch from Sarge not an option in your case? >> >> Our upgrade from Woody to Sarge was so disastr

etch/powerbook G4 wlan/wpa not working

2007-05-31 Thread Georg Heinrich
Hello, I don't get wlan with wpa working on my powerbook g4 with etch. This is the lspci output: 0001:10:12:0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4306 802.11b/g Wireless LAN Controller (rev 03) This is my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto eth2 iface eth2 inet manual wpa-sriver we

Great advice

2007-05-31 Thread domski
Well, for the record, all of those remedies worked for me. pdf2ps followed by ps2pdf worked perfectly. The gconftool override_restrictions worked. And the pdftk worked too. Nice work guys! XOX DOM -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

disk i/o performance problem

2007-05-31 Thread WHIRLYCOTT
Hi, I'm trying to track down a pretty apparent problem that I'm having with disk i/o on an Etch box. Basically, I have two identical machines. One is running Etch and one is running CentOS. The Etch machine is really slow. I'm trying to figure out why. Details are as follows: Etch: (

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread cothrige
* Manoj Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100, Nic James Ferrier > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > > My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years > > of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I > > am so angry wi

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:37:45PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > Does you boss want RTF of is it just "page breaks, centered text, and > > > dif

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:18:26PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Carl Fink writes: > > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. > > Try Privoxy for blocking ads. I used Privoxy for years, but hav

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:04PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > did you test TED? > > > > > > Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not > > > necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character > >

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread John Hasler
Carl Fink writes: > As for alternative browsers, I rather like Galeon and Konqueror, but I'd > miss the plugins. Adblock in particular makes many sites bearable. Try Privoxy for blocking ads. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troubl

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ed Jabbour
On Thursday 31 May 2007 09:26, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Thursday 31 May 2007 03:07, Ed Jabbour wrote: > > On Wednesday 30 May 2007 06:00, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > > > I can listen to it by just clicking on the "listen" link at > > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2, using the realplayer package; this

Re: [OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:17:49PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/31/07 13:39, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: > [snip] > > > >I'm sorry, mate. But not everyone in this list and/or using Debian is > >from the USNA (United States of North America, as I call it, since it is > > not the only federative

Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Serena Cantor
mencoder is part of mplayer, it can encode a/v files --- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer > > so i install etch, only to use mplayer > > only to learn mencoder is not include

Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:28:55PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer > > so i install etch, only to use mplayer > > only to learn mencoder is not included > > > > Why? > > What is mencoder

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:57:43AM +0200, Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: > I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously > without problems of any sort. Speed is good, and there's no latency in > terms of closing down tabs, even when I have like ~30 active tabs with > mixed

Re: protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:22:47PM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: > i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer > so i install etch, only to use mplayer > only to learn mencoder is not included > > Why? What is mencoder? It may not be possible to be part of debian but it may be on debian-multimedia.org

protest: why etch exclude mencoder from mplayer

2007-05-31 Thread Serena Cantor
i'm happy to learn etch include mplayer so i install etch, only to use mplayer only to learn mencoder is not included Why? Food fight? Enjoy some healthy debate in the Yahoo! Answers Food & Drink Q&A. http://

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:44PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? > Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by > > ln -s A mylink > > and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do > > rm mylin

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 02:36:45PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates wrote: > > I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process > > itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not > > bring up

how to undo e16keyedit config in enlightenment?

2007-05-31 Thread Jason Dunsmore
Hi, I'd like to configure keybindings using the ~/.enlightenment/keybindings.cfg file, but I've previously used e16keyedit and I'm having trouble undoing the changes made by it. I'm trying to restore a few keybindings that I deleted using e16keyedit to verify that the keybindings.cfg file is work

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:51:59PM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > Does you boss want RTF of is it just "page breaks, centered text, and > > different fonts"? What file formats will your boss accept? Will he > > accept pd

[OT] I also am AAAAANGRY (was Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.)

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 13:39, Cassiano Bertol Leal wrote: [snip] I'm sorry, mate. But not everyone in this list and/or using Debian is from the USNA (United States of North America, as I call it, since it is not the only federative republic in America -- read North, Central and South). The USA was the "

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:46 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > Iceweasel is really boring me. And many plugins that work on firefox, > don't work on it, and it crashs frequentally. > I tried diferent versions, but I'm just tired too... gonna look for > another option. I'm getting annoyed too by ice

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Michael Marsh
On 5/31/07, Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:39:39 -0400, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Given one particular invariant section that always appears in FSF/GNU > GFDL'ed documentation, my preferred analogy is, "You can't skip the > commercials."

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread cothrige
* Nic James Ferrier ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea > > getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that > > Debian is being petty and fighting over trivial political s

Printers won't run

2007-05-31 Thread Dennis G. Wicks
Greetings; I have two printers. I set both of them up using the Add Printer Wizard in/from Gnome. I have printed test pages but they are stuck in the queue with a status of job-stopped. The first printer is a windows printer, HP Deskjet 6540, IP connected, and all of my windows computers can

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Ron Johnson wrote this at Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:05:06PM -0500 > On 05/31/07 15:53, Carl Fink wrote: > >Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 > >seconds to close a tab? I have about ~20 or so plug-ins installed, all running simultaneously without problems of any

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I think that in the end console-setup uses the definitions in > /etc/default/console-setup, which have a syntax similar to the keyboard > section in xorg.conf, e.g. > > XKBMODEL="" > XKBLAYOUT="es" > XKBVARIANT="nodeadkeys" > XKBOPTIONS="

Re: Problem with Debian Etch on s390

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 11:41, Rod Clayton wrote: I am trying to install Debian 4.0 Etch under VM on an s390 mainframe. I am using a network install and a guest lan for connectivity. After I sucessfully install the OS, the system re-boots. On Re-boot, Linux doesn't recognize the guest lan, even though did a

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Mike McCarty
Nic James Ferrier wrote: My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. [snip] Why? Same reason as with Emacs-snapshot: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=357260 After reading that, I came to the conclusion that you are angry at the wrong people. ISTM that you should

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:05:32AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 09:13:32PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > So... you're not interested in my bridge for sale? > > If he buys your bridge, how will you chew your food? that's what the kids are for!! A sig

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 May 2007 20:05:44 +0100, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > And I do not accept that it is ok because it's only transitional and > eventually documentation will be pushed into non-free. If that's the > case why couldn't we wait for that to happen before it got removed > fro

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew J. Barr
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 31 May 2007 21:01:44 +0200 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? Try using the -f switch on ln. - -- Andrew J. Barr X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.9.1 (GTK+ 2.10.12; powerpc-unk

Re: [OT] Re: installing tutos2

2007-05-31 Thread csanyipal
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:20:04AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > > I run http://csanyi-pal.info/tutos/php/admin/scheme.php and get an > > empty webpage in my browser without any error message. > > > > Then I try to open http://csanyi-pal.info/tutos/php/mytutos.php but get > > only an empty

/media directory has unused "phantom directories" with hidden files .created_by_pmount

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I noticed that my /media directory has a few directories that are not used. Why and when were they created. Are they legacy from past. I run sid. /media/NIKON D80 /media/RICOHDCX /media/sdd1 each of these directories, which don't seem to be used, has a hidden file named: .created_by_pmount, w

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 04:53:01PM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 > seconds to close a tab? Yes, it happens to me also -- unfortunately, because I have gotten used to having several tabs open, and I keep opening and closing tabs al

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 15:53, Carl Fink wrote: Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Or am I just using too many plugins? Current Testing version. I'm running Sid's 2.0.0.0.3, and before that v1.5.0.10-dfsg3 and tabs close just about instantaneo

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 May 2007 19:59:27 +0100, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > My name is Nic Ferrier. I am really ANGRY at Debian. After 10 years > of being a dedicated Debian user I have reached the point at which I > am so angry with what is being done that I want to stop using it. I > wi

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-05-31 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/31/2007 01:03 PM, Robert Cates wrote: Hi all, I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the keyboard. In other words, I'm now locked out.

Re: File Notes

2007-05-31 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Deboo, On 5/30/07, Deboo ^ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Can you detail a bit about this file notes thing a bit more? What all does it let you do? Does it have to be in the FS only? Can it not be a software package? An AmigaDOS file note surely is a file system thing, it's certainly no soft

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
Iceweasel is really boring me. And many plugins that work on firefox, don't work on it, and it crashs frequentally. I tried diferent versions, but I'm just tired too... gonna look for another option. On 5/31/07, Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness

FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Carl Fink
Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel, like 30 seconds to close a tab? Or am I just using too many plugins? Current Testing version. -- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] Read my blog at nitpickingblog.blogspot.com. Reviews! Observations! S

Re: Opening 300MB sent mail file

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 09:45 Wed 30 May , [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What's a workable method of opening a 300MB file that I saved > several years ago ? It's from Mozilla's email client, and it I recently opened and was browsing a 250G file with less. It was an .xsession-errors file that filled my home director

Re: Problem with Debian Etch on s390

2007-05-31 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rod Clayton wrote: > I am trying to install Debian 4.0 Etch under VM on an s390 mainframe. > I am using a network install and a guest lan for connectivity. After I > sucessfully install the OS, the system re-boots. On Re-boot, Linux > doesn't recognize

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 May 2007 06:39:39 -0400, Michael Marsh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Given one particular invariant section that always appears in FSF/GNU > GFDL'ed documentation, my preferred analogy is, "You can't skip the > commercials." Man. You don't have MythTV? Or Tivo? My sympathies.

Re: Firefox and Thunderbird show selected menu items blank

2007-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 13:27:51 -0700, George Langford wrote: > This has happened before ... Firefox and Thunderbird today started > showing selected menu items as white text on a white background. I > could rant for days about the stupidity of this, but what's even > more exasperating is that it'

How to apply procmail to a maildir Mail/inbox?

2007-05-31 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, My main inbox has a bunch of mails that really belong in other mail directories. They went to Mail/inbox because of an error in my .procmailrc I have now fixed my .procmailrc to correct the errors and now want to reapply the procmail to the contents of ~/Mail/inbox. Thus, I would like to tak

Robert Alan Soloway Arrested

2007-05-31 Thread Mike McCarty
Hurray! Hopefully, he'll get put away for a while. Charged with SPAMming, money laundering, fraud, etc. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found

Re: which package contains mkfs.vfat

2007-05-31 Thread Tom Rauchenwald
Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have trouble using logical vfat partition > so I intend to try mkfs.vfat > (I use sarge) > Thanks in advance! ,[ apt-file search bin/mkfs.vfat ] | dosfstools: sbin/mkfs.vfat ` Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 31 May 2007 08:57:43 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > I especially hate man pages that basically > tell nothing about the program and say something to the effect "this > man page was written for debian because the origional package did not > include a man page and w

Re: which package contains mkfs.vfat

2007-05-31 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Serena. Serena Cantor, 31.05.2007 23:48: > I have trouble using logical vfat partition > so I intend to try mkfs.vfat My suggestion: avoid that one and use a Windows system to format with FAT32. This tool thrashed the filesystem of my digital camera twice that much, that not even a Windows sys

Re: Etch: network won't work

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:49:03PM +1000, Robert S wrote: > > what do you get from > > dmesg | grep -i eth > > 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.27 > eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x1000, 00:40:f4:35:60:e0, IRQ 11 > eth0: Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8139C' > > It might be of interest that I used mo

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Consultores Agropecuarios
El jue, 31-05-2007 a las 19:59 +0100, Nic James Ferrier escribió: > Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Watch out for loaded words. The decision was indeed > > ``political'' in that it was put up to a vote, but > > `politics' has negative connotations that I don't think > > apply here. E

Re: [OT] Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:11:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/30/07 23:12, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 06:06:43PM -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > >>-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >>Hash: SHA1 > >> > >>On Tue, 29 May 2007 13:21:32 -0700 > >>Andrew Sackville-We

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > People often seem to resent what looks like a personal political idea > getting in the way of the system. In this case it is suggested that > Debian is being petty and fighting over trivial political stuff. I am NOT trying to debate the decision to regard G

which package contains mkfs.vfat

2007-05-31 Thread Serena Cantor
I have trouble using logical vfat partition so I intend to try mkfs.vfat (I use sarge) Thanks in advance! Be a better Heartthrob. Get better relationship answers from someone who knows. Yahoo! Answers -

OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by ln -s A mylink and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do rm mylink ln -s B mylink but is't there a simpler way to do it? I would be amazed if the

Re: cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 06:03:06PM +, Robert Cates wrote: > Hi all, > > I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process > itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not > bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the keyboard. In > other

Re: How to create own keyboard layouts for X.org and Console?

2007-05-31 Thread Jens Peter Secher
On 5/29/07, "Arne Götje (高盛華)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what is the Debian way to create custom keyboard layouts for X.org and Console for locales which don't exist yet in Linux? For the X Window System you might want to try package xkeycaps. --

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Klein Moebius
* Cassiano Bertol Leal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-05-31 15:39:42 -0300]: > I'm sorry, mate. But not everyone in this list and/or using Debian is > from the USNA (United States of North America, as I call it, since it is > not the only federative republic in America -- read North, Central and > Sou

Problem with usb wifi dongle

2007-05-31 Thread Sylvain Archenault
Hi, I'm trying to make my wifi dongle working on my debian sid box (Asus wl-167g). I tried with the official drivers (rt2500 or rt2x00) and with ndiswrapper. With the official drivers, iwconfig detects nothing (module is loaded) and I noticed nothing in the logs. With ndiswrapper, it's not bett

Re: console keymap and console-setup

2007-05-31 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 19:34:10 +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-05-30, Mumia W.. > wrote: > > On 05/30/2007 11:26 AM, Tyler Smith wrote: > >> > >> [...] I copied the custom keymap to /etc/console-setup/ and > >> rebooted, but it still doesn't load. It works when I run > >> /etc/console-setu

Re: Wierd Konquerer Behaviour

2007-05-31 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:35:27AM -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > This is one for the books! I opened, from a new installation, the main page > of 'phppgadmin' & 'phpmyadmin' one after the other in iceweasel & then in > Konquerer. In iceweasel they both performed as they should, however, in > k

Re: OT: symlinks question

2007-05-31 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:01:44PM +0200, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Is there a single command to change the target of a symlink? > > Say I have a link which points from mylink to A, made by > > ln -s A mylink > > and I want to make the link point to B instead. I can of course do > > rm my

Re: Debian 4 and gfs-tools

2007-05-31 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 31 May 2007 18:09:38 +0100 Jaime Ventura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > Im new to debian and was trying to install gfs-tools using > aptitude("aptitude install gfs-tools") > It cant find it. > My source list is the default one. > Do I need any extra source? > Is downloading it fro

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Nic James Ferrier
Max Hyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Watch out for loaded words. The decision was indeed > ``political'' in that it was put up to a vote, but > `politics' has negative connotations that I don't think > apply here. Each person voting, whether pro or con, was > voting out of principle, not beca

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Cassiano Bertol Leal
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Max Hyre escreveu: > Nic James Ferrier wrote: > >> [T]earing useful stuff out of packages because of a >> political decision without providing an automatic upgrade >> is stupid. It *will* lose you users. > >Watch out for loaded words. The decisi

upgrading kernel in encrypted system

2007-05-31 Thread James R. Van Zandt
I installed Etch on a new Sony Vaio TXN-27N, using the default encrypted root option. Very easy, and it works great - my congratulations to the Debian installation team! A 2.6.18 kernel was installed. I would like to upgrade that to 2.6.21, to take advantage of some new Sony-specific features.

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 31 May 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > did you test TED? > > > > Just did. Brings in the right overall format but font sizes are not > > necessarily correct. Main problem is that it not handle the character > > codepages (for a Windows Hebrew document). Probably decent for good old

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread cothrige
* Stephan Seitz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Marty wrote: > >license, which *is* considered a free license. In my opinion, all the > >analogies fall short because documentation is not software, regardless > >of Debian's dogmatic claims to the contrary. >

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2007-05-31 Thread Fritz Petersen
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Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Max Hyre
Nic James Ferrier wrote: > [T]earing useful stuff out of packages because of a > political decision without providing an automatic upgrade > is stupid. It *will* lose you users. Watch out for loaded words. The decision was indeed ``political'' in that it was put up to a vote, but `politics' h

cannot access machine after apt-get dist-upgrade

2007-05-31 Thread Robert Cates
Hi all, I've just decided to upgrade my Sarge server to Etch, which the process itself seemed to go very smoothly, but now after rebooting it does not bring up my eth0 and eth1, nor can I input any on the keyboard. In other words, I'm now locked out. The last thing I did was installed kernel/li

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Juergen Fiedler
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 11:42:17AM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > Do you do other formats for other than your boss? I don't really generate any documents except for him. > Does you boss want RTF of is it just "page breaks, centered text, and > different fonts"? What file formats will your

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 11:42, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] I don't understand where they are pointing to. What does the ../../ signify? Go up 2 directory levels. I'm not knocking Christian's package, but just couldn't get it to work for some reason or other. Hmmm, it's always works well for me. -- Ron

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, S

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Allan Wind
On 2007-05-31T17:05:04+0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > I need to delete some words out of a large file containing > information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do > this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to > do it. Two example lines are as of be

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 10:14:15PM +0600, Luis Hidalgo wrote: > > I've managed to fix most of the problems, it seems there was some trouble > with some packages that were installed (like fglrx-driver and > nspluginwrapper) that > had some dependency conflicts that prevented gdm and some other prog

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 11:05, Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below:

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, S

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Bob McGowan
Piers Kittel wrote: Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below: "181","1324.014027"

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Andre Majorel
On 2007-05-31 17:05 +0100, Piers Kittel wrote: > "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" > "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payload t > ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=20082

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Piers Kittel
On 31 May 2007, at 17:49, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Piers Kittel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP","Payloa d t ype=ITU-T H.261, SSRC=2008229573, Seq=54520, Time=1725612773, Mark" "185","1324.078941","111.111.111.111","111.111.111.111","RTP",

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Larry Irwin
Here's one way: # Put the sample lines into a file called inline.txt for inline in `cat inline.txt | tr -d " "` #remove spaces for cut do # Remove quotes Tmp=`echo $inline | tr -d "\""` # Break into fields... f1=`echo $Tmp | cut -f1 -d","` f2=`echo $Tmp | cut -f2 -d","` f3=`echo $Tmp | cut

Re: grub

2007-05-31 Thread Ron Johnson
On 05/31/07 08:42, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm still a linux newbie and I've gone from bad to worst. I used You might be too newbie for Debian. Ubuntu might be more your speed, until you become more experienced. to have a working etch system but in an attempt to get my printer working I r

Debian 4 and gfs-tools

2007-05-31 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello, Im new to debian and was trying to install gfs-tools using aptitude("aptitude install gfs-tools") It cant find it. My source list is the default one. Do I need any extra source? Is downloading it from http://packages.debian.org/stable/admin/gfs-tools the only way to install it? Thank

Re: Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Georg Heinrich
Piers Kittel ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote on Thu, 31 May 2007 17:05:04 +0100: >What's the best way to do this? I've been reading the man pages of >sed, cut and awk but I can't quite figure out how to do this. Any >ideas? The sed man page is not very helpful I'm afraid. A pretty good manual is

Problem with Debian Etch on s390

2007-05-31 Thread Rod Clayton
I am trying to install Debian 4.0 Etch under VM on an s390 mainframe. I am using a network install and a guest lan for connectivity. After I sucessfully install the OS, the system re-boots. On Re-boot, Linux doesn't recognize the guest lan, even though did a network install using it. Is this a ke

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-31 Thread Nigel Henry
On Thursday 31 May 2007 16:43, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/31/07 08:26, Nigel Henry wrote: > [snip] > > > Hi Ed. Its probably worth trying http://www.co.uk/radio4 > > Of course, what you *really* mean is http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ > > -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA Yeh. Sorry. Unintent

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Tyler Smith
On 2007-05-31, Nic James Ferrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > An alternative action would have been to move bash-doc, emacs and > other packages that are going to be altered by this decision to > non-free rather than removing the documentation and leaving us with > none. > emacs21-common-non-dfs

Sed advice needed

2007-05-31 Thread Piers Kittel
Hello all, I need to delete some words out of a large file containing information about packets I'm analysing. I know I can use sed to do this, but haven't really used it before, so am a bit unsure of how to do it. Two example lines are as of below: "181","1324.014027","111.111.111.111"

Re: grub

2007-05-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:42:19PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still a linux newbie and I've gone from bad to worst. I used to have a > working etch system but in an attempt to get my printer working I reinstalled > etch several times and when it reboots it comes up in grub instead of t

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch problems

2007-05-31 Thread Luis Hidalgo
Hello again, I've managed to fix most of the problems, it seems there was some trouble with some packages that were installed (like fglrx-driver and nspluginwrapper) that had some dependency conflicts that prevented gdm and some other programs to work correctly (I was in the middle of the upgrade

Re: grub

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 01:42:19PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm still a linux newbie and I've gone from bad to worst. I used to > have a working etch system but in an attempt to get my printer working > I reinstalled etch several times and when it reboots it comes up in > grub instead of t

Re: Lightweight RTF Editor in Debian?

2007-05-31 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 09:59:53AM -0400, Juergen Fiedler wrote: > On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 08:17:33PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > >> What about latex2rtf for outputing rtf and wv, catdoc, or unrtf to >> get latex? > > I'd considered that, but I think having to install Latex to create > do

Re: I am ANGRY with Debian.

2007-05-31 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Thu, May 31, 2007 at 08:01:20AM -0400, Marty wrote: license, which *is* considered a free license. In my opinion, all the analogies fall short because documentation is not software, regardless of Debian's dogmatic claims to the contrary. If you mean with documentation some files you have o

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