Re: A question of fonts

Ron Johnson wrote: > Attached is my list of installed fonts. A good list. I was too lazy to crosscheck that with my list but here are the fonts that I installed when upgrading to be able to enable a large selection of fonts for web pages. I am sure there is overlap with Ron's list. ttf-opensy

Re: My experience with Lenny.

Pedro Izecksohn wrote: > I've being using Lenny Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 > 20070725-21:16 from that date on. > > I just compiled and installed my personal Linux kernel 2.6.22.1 > optimized for Pentium D. It seems to me that most programs work faster > with the default ker

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? > Is it better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? > Is the rule of thumb still RAM*2 for the total size? For a server I turn off Linux memory overcommit. This avoids ever having the

Re: How to upgrade a 686 system to x86_64?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/07 20:27, Magicloud Magiclouds wrote: > Dear all, >I am using a x86_64 hardware, but I installed a 686 sid on it. Now I > want to use x86_64 sid. >I installed x86_64 linux image, and booted, but all my softwares are > still 686, so new

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

- Tong - wrote: > Matthew K Poer wrote: > > > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have > > searched around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that > > they know to be a good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works > > and what its capabilities are? > > Check

Re: dpkg purge problem

Sasho Angelov wrote: > Updating /boot/grub/menu.lst ... done > And stop here. Only I can do is to press Ctrl+C That is running update-grub. You should be able to run that command manually. sudo update-grub If that hangs (hopefully it will) then you can debug from that point. It is a shel

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:31:09PM -0400, Steve Kleene wrote: > In case it's relevant, here's how fdisk showed the filesys in rescue mode: > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hde1 * 1 12 96358+ 83 Linux > /dev/hde2

Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

(quote) One of the most common operations performed in a Web page is to detect the browser type and version. Browser detection is performed to ensure that the content presented to the browser is compatible and renders correctly (end quote) The quote is 100% bullshit of course. The whole i

Re: Download debs of installed packages

Rage Callao wrote: > How do I download the .debs of packages already installed in my system > without having to reinstall them first via apt? > > The command I'm using right now is: > > apt-get --yes --reinstall install `cat package_list.txt` > > where package_list.txt contains the package names

Re: Disabling Print Screen key [Solved]

Hey Mumia, Davide, and all, On 7/31/07, Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/31/2007 04:18 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: > > [...] > > On the other hand, I still don't see why the key wasn't disabled > > by the "xmodmap -e" command... Is that a bug?? > > > What about this: > > xmodmap -e "keyco

Re: adduser

Oleg Verych wrote: > Ids may change and i will end up with /var/spool/exim4 owned by > different user in case /etc/passwd is new. I don't think that should be a concern because if the ownership of /var/spool/exim4 needs to be non-root then it should be set in the postinst script. That would be tr

My experience with Lenny.

I've being using Lenny Official Snapshot i386 NETINST Binary-1 20070725-21:16 from that date on. I just compiled and installed my personal Linux kernel 2.6.22.1 optimized for Pentium D. It seems to me that most programs work faster with the default kernel 2.6.21-2-686, as it does not recogn

Bookmark nicknames, and address drop down in Epiphany

Dear Debian user, Could someone direct me on how/whether the "bookmark nicknames" support which Galeon and Iceweasel have is available on Epiphany? What I mean is, I should be able to set things up such that: wp Epiphany: Launches a search for "Epiphany" in Wikipedia bug : goes to bugs.debian.org

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

Wow, you seem to be really singing the praises of chroot. I have a spare 10gig partition on my hard drive. I originally considered simply dual-booting Etch and Lenny, or Etch and Feisty, or something similar. Perhaps instead I will make it a chroot jail for Lenny. Big question answered: you can

screen and alternate wm's [was: Re: IM on a home debian network]

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:16:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: ... > I just started to use screen and it has 'control-a ?' which given you > the 'cheatsheet'. But you dont need all the commands to start using it. > > I use: > 'screen MYCOMMAND' to start a new screen session > control-a " for menu-b

ntfs mount errors

(quote) I still have the problem. ie. The windoze partition is mounted automatically fine, but I can only cd to it if I am root. (end quote) Do: man mount Look at the 'Mount options for ntfs'. All your mysteries are explained there - for example: "... By default, the files are owned by root a

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Jul 31, 9:30 am, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: > > > > > Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from > > > > "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5". > > > > Worked li

Re: IM on a home debian network

On 7/28/07, Jesus Arocho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a home network with 5 boxes, one of which is a server. I run a > combination of Ubuntu and Debian desktops and Debian on the server. Is there > a program available that will provide instant messaging within the network? Pidgin as well

Re: IM on a home debian network

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 04:22:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 10:54:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 28, 2007 at 11:30:05PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > > > > and leave this VC 1 open. VC 2 is ssh'd to the box and either mutt or > > >

Re: new Etch install fails to boot

On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:00:30PM -0400: > [I wrote that my fresh Etch install calls grub and then stops.] I've tried the remaining suggestions without luck and am now royally confused. 1. I installed the grub-disk package and ran the following: dd if=grub-0.97-i486-pc.ext2fs of=/dev/fd0 bs

How to upgrade a 686 system to x86_64?

Dear all, I am using a x86_64 hardware, but I installed a 686 sid on it. Now I want to use x86_64 sid. I installed x86_64 linux image, and booted, but all my softwares are still 686, so new x86_64 software can not be installed. How to upgrade all my softwares? Thanks. -- To UNSUBS

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

On 7/30/07, Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Have you run apt-get update, and is your mirror up to date? I just > switched to > 2.6.21 from 2.6.22 an hour ago and had no problem with the same version of > the nvidia-kernel-source. Sure have. I'm using ftp.debian.org , and I just wen

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Tue, 2007-31-07 at 21:14 +0200, Stephan Hachinger wrote: > On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:41 -0400 > Phill Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my > > windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user. > > > > >from dmesg: > >

Re: ntfs mount errors

> > > > > > Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my > > > windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user. > > > > > > >from dmesg: > > > > > > NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. > > > NTFS volume version 3.1. > > > NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_fi

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

On 07/31/2007 04:18 PM, Luis Finotti wrote: [...] On the other hand, I still don't see why the key wasn't disabled by the "xmodmap -e" command... Is that a bug?? Thanks again, Luis What about this: xmodmap -e "keycode 111 = BackSpace" or xmodmap -e "keycode 111 =" -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > What are the current best practices with regards to swap partitions? > > Is it > > better to create one big, or several smaller swap partitions? Is the > > rule > > of thumb still RAM*2 for

PAM + LDAP and SSH

and now for everyone else too :) -- Forwarded message -- From: Martin Marcher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Aug 1, 2007 1:33 AM Subject: Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH To: Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> hello, On 7/31/07, Ron Peterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2007-07-31_12:51:35-0400

Re: Using Wine to do my Tax (Australia)

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 17:04:23 +1000 Keith Bates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:29:20 -0500 > "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 07/30/2007 05:35 AM, Keith Bates wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I wonder if anyone using the Australian Taxation Office's infamous > > >

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

On 7/31/07, Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? chroot is

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 08:04:10 -0400, Matthew K Poer wrote: > My understanding of chroot is extremely limited, right now. I have searched > around, but can anyone point me to anything specific that they know to be a > good tutorial/explanation or how chroot works and what its capabilities are? Ch

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

On Tuesday 31 July 2007 23:21, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > > I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has > > beaten me. > > > > Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and > > Udev is not in

Re: A question of fonts

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: [...] And in response to xrdb -query: Xft.antialias: 1 Xft.dpi:120.00 Xft.hinting:1 Xft.hintstyle: hintfull Xft.rgba: none

Re: A question of fonts

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 21:35:50 +0100, andy wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: [...] >>> And in response to xrdb -query: >>> >>> Xft.antialias: 1 >>> Xft.dpi:120.00 >>> Xft.hinting:1 >>> Xft.hintstyle: hintfull >>> Xft.rgba: none >>> [...

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 19:47:51 +0200, Nigel Henry wrote: > I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has beaten me. > > Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and Udev > is > not in the equation. Etch has a 2.6.8, and a 2.6.17 kernel, and Lenny

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On 07/31/2007 01:50 PM, John Hasler wrote: > Glen Pfeiffer writes: >> Accept that it will not display the same on all browsers. > > Why do you think it should display the same on all browsers? > Or even on all instances of the same browser? Oh, I don't. But there are certain types of designs th

Re: Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/31/07 15:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon > processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute > servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each runnin

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

Dear Davide (and all), Thanks for the reply! On 7/31/07, Davide Mancusi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Found it. It is in (err... sorry, non-English KDE) Regional & > Accessibility -> Input Actions (?) -> Preset Actions -> PrintScreen. If > you look for "gestures" in Control Center, it will pop up

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

> hmmm... very interesting but it makes my toes curl to think of > installing IE... What I really need to do it duplicate my windows qemu > image and upgrade IE in one of the two images. That makes me happier, > having that segregation... No need for VM image duplication. That wastes disk space, a

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

Luis Finotti ha scritto: Hi, First, thanks for the reply! My system (Debian 3.1, KDE 3.3.2) does not exhibit this behavior by default. I can enable (and disable) it by going into the KDE Control Center: K-> Control Center-> Regional & Accessibility-> Keyboard Shortcuts-> Command Shortcuts-> Gr

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 08:42:42PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 05:34:13PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> what is the output of tail -f /var/log/syslog > > > > See below... > > > >> when started before plugging the device in until a

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Glen Pfeiffer writes: > Accept that it will not display the same on all browsers. Why do you think it should display the same on all browsers? Or even on all instances of the same browser? -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Swap configuration for 16GB of RAM, 8 cores

I am installing two servers, each with 16GB of RAM, two quad-core Xeon processors, and a SATA hard drive. The machines will be compute servers, meaning lots of concurrently logged in users, each running an assortment of jobs, and various long-running processes. The jobs will be vastly dissimilar

Re: A question of fonts

Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Jul 30, 2007 at 21:45:07 +0100, andy wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] This could also be a problem with your settings for font display rather than with the fonts themselves. [...] Maybe you can post your font settings and we can have a

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

Hi, First, thanks for the reply! > My system (Debian 3.1, KDE 3.3.2) does not exhibit this behavior by > default. I can enable (and disable) it by going into the KDE Control > Center: K-> Control Center-> Regional & Accessibility-> Keyboard > Shortcuts-> Command Shortcuts-> Graphics-> More Applic

Re: dpkg purge problem

On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote: > > When I try to purge old linux image: > > > > sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 > > Why --force-all ? > Without --force-all the result is the same. > > Which deb

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On 07/31/2007 09:30 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > IIUC websites shouldn't care about/need to know what browser is > used, as long as they are following the standards. You do understand correctly, but emphasis must be placed on the word "shouldn't". Websites *should* not need to care or know about

Re: .bash_history deleted

Eduard Bloch, 07/08/07 16:40: >> Hi Anna. >> >> Anna Machens, 08.07.2007 15:48: >> That’s really odd; I experienced the same thing yesterday. Suddenly >> there was no >> history anymore but since then, the file has been growing normally like >> before. > > I have seen this several times in the pa

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:41 -0400 Phill Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my > windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user. > > >from dmesg: > > NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. > NTFS volume version 3.1. > NTFS-

Re: Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

On 07/31/2007 12:47 PM, Nigel Henry wrote: I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has beaten me. Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and Udev is not in the equation. Etch has a 2.6.8, and a 2.6.17 kernel, and Lenny has a 2.6.11, and a 2.6

Re: Disabling Print Screen key

On 07/31/2007 10:09 AM, Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, My Print Screen key is too close to BackSpace, so I keep pressing it by accident. I use KDE, and this makes "KSnapshoyt" pop up. (In fluxbox, it sends the content of the terminal to the printer.) I checked the key assignments of KDE, and I found

Re: ntfs mount errors

On Tue, 31 Jul 2007 14:26:41 -0400 Phill Atwood <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my > windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user. > > >from dmesg: > > NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. > NTFS volume version 3.1. > NTFS-

ntfs mount errors

Further to my problem of not being able to automatically mount my windows xp partition and cd to it as a regular user. from dmesg: NTFS driver 2.1.27 [Flags: R/W MODULE]. NTFS volume version 3.1. NTFS-fs warning (device sda1): load_system_files(): Unsupported volume flags 0x4000 encountered. NTF

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-31 > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:32PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > I reinstalled Debian using "amd64-expertgui" at the first prompt, using the > > same DVD. The reinstall completed successfully, but it is unable to boot. > > When I add

Udev. Problems with ordering hardware using /dev/video

I've managed to resolve most of my problems on my own, but Udev has beaten me. Sarge is not a problem, as it's using the 2.4.27, or 2.6.8 kernel, and Udev is not in the equation. Etch has a 2.6.8, and a 2.6.17 kernel, and Lenny has a 2.6.11, and a 2.6.17 kernel. The problem is with the 2.6.17 ke

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 07:30:16PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 19:10: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > >> Hi Andrew. > >> > >> Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25: > >>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45A

Re: PAM + LDAP and SSH

2007-07-31_12:51:35-0400 Allan Senna Porto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > Anyone know about problems with /etc/security/access.conf and > SSH in Etch? > I'm trying to block ldap users to access my servers, but > everything that I made don't block user to loggin. > If I use

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Hi Andrew. Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 19:10: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: >> Hi Andrew. >> >> Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25: >>> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: Not to get all gripey or anything, but there a

After installing mindi system won't boot

I am testing mindi and mondo, but after installing mindi, install mdadm too, and asked me some question referred to raid (I think so), well I answered either no or none to questions, and after reboot, it seems that kernel search for raids, but I have one single disk, and it stops searching for a

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 05:53:16PM +0100, michael wrote: > On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:18 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:27:33AM +0100, michael wrote: > > > > > > I've just tried the 'debian-testing-i386-netinst.iso' (build 30 July > > > 2007) but it also fails on

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:45:17PM +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: > Hi Andrew. > > Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: ... > >>> > >> Not to get all gripey or anything, but there are web standards for > >> precisely > >> th

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

On Tue, 2007-07-31 at 09:18 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:27:33AM +0100, michael wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:41 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > > > > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. Wh

PAM + LDAP and SSH

Hi, Anyone know about problems with /etc/security/access.conf and SSH in Etch? I'm trying to block ldap users to access my servers, but everything that I made don't block user to loggin. If I use this to /etc/pam.d/login and /etc/pam.d/gdm, the user can't loggin. Allan

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Hi Andrew. Andrew Sackville-West, 31.07.2007 18:25: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5". >>> Worked like a treat, thanks!! >>> >>>

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:55:45AM -0500, Anson Gardner wrote: > > > > > > > Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from > > > "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5". > > > > Worked like a treat, thanks!! > > > > > Then web sites won't be able to tell

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:07:32PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > * Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-23 > > I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard > > drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first prompt, > > since "amd64-ex

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:27:33AM +0100, michael wrote: > On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:41 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > > > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying > > > to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it ini

Re: Debian Etch apache2 virtual host problem

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 09:30:38AM -, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > I'm runing Debian etch with apache2 on it. To make the server host > many website I added the following code to the end of /etc/apache2/ > apache2.conf > --Code > begin

Re: Part3: More problems.

Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:03:54AM -0500, Brad B wrote: >> Thanks for helping me. I installed both of those, and it got past requesting >> libc! >> Now, it's requesting the kernel source, which i can't seem to find the >> appropriate version of. > > 'uname -a' will tell you

Re: Part3: More problems.

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 02:03:54AM -0500, Brad B wrote: > Thanks for helping me. I installed both of those, and it got past requesting > libc! > Now, it's requesting the kernel source, which i can't seem to find the > appropriate version of. 'uname -a' will tell you the running kernel. I have: $

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

> > > > Change the preference general.useragent.extra.firefox from > > "Iceweasel/2.0.0.5" (or whatever your version is to "Firefox/2.0.0.5". > > Worked like a treat, thanks!! > > > Then web sites won't be able to tell the difference, and FWIW you > > should report the web site to it's owners as b

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 04:39:47PM +0930, Stef Daniels VK5HSX wrote: > > Then web sites won't be able to tell the difference, and FWIW you > > should report the web site to it's owners as broken. User-agent > > detection is broken behavior. > > I feel it's the website not knowing the browser, he

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Paul Johnson wrote: On Jul 30, 8:30 pm, arijit sarkar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: As far as I know, Iceweasel is Firefox without the "Talkback" component, which is not open and matches debian-philosophy. The name and logo are also nonfree in Firefox. thanks for the correction. :)

Disabling Print Screen key

Hi, My Print Screen key is too close to BackSpace, so I keep pressing it by accident. I use KDE, and this makes "KSnapshoyt" pop up. (In fluxbox, it sends the content of the terminal to the printer.) I checked the key assignments of KDE, and I found no shortcut for the PrtSc key, and even defin

Re: Not able to find qwtplot3D

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 19:46 -0500, Ashivni Shekhawat wrote: > Hi! >I am new to Debian. I have trying to install qwtplot3d on my > machine; however I get the following error: > > # apt-get install qwtplot3d > Reading package lists... Done > Building dependency tree... Done > E: Couldn't find p

Re: NPTL issues w/ stable

Try resetting environment variable GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION export GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION="" Then check for thread version again. getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION e.g. getconf GNU_LIBPTHREAD_VERSION NPTL 0.61 If this tells you the version of threads is NTPL then this will solve your problem.

Re: dpkg purge problem

On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote: > When I try to purge old linux image: > > sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 Why --force-all ? > (Reading database ... 259033 files and directories currently installed.) > Removing linux-image-2.6.14-2-k7 ... > Pu

Re: Setfont

On 30 Jul., 19:50, "Loeghmon T. Nejad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a minimal installation of Debian Etch (with xserver-xorg-core > installed) that gives me an error message when I run the script -at the > bottom of this email. > The message says, > " > setfont: command not found > m

how to save a caneva

Hi, I use fltk (C++ graphical interface) to create an electronics design package. I created a list of objects and placed them on a window. My problem is how to save the file, I think to create a list in memory for the objects placed on the sheet and store them in a file. I think (not sure of co

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

I have also thought heavily about doing this sort of thing, for developing and testing and such. My understanding is that there would be very close to having two differant GNU/Linux operating systems running at once, but using only one kernel. Once inside the chroot, BASH would be using tools f

Re: Debian Linux in Chroot

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are running in Linux-1? Say you are booted into Lin

Re: Debian Etch apache2 virtual host problem

# HTML documents, with indexing. > > Options +Includes > this is extremely insecure if your machine is public see Order Deny, Allow # CGI Handling > ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /var/www/workzone/cgi-bin/ > > Options +ExecCGI >

Debian Etch apache2 virtual host problem

Hey, I'm runing Debian etch with apache2 on it. To make the server host many website I added the following code to the end of /etc/apache2/ apache2.conf --Code begin-- NameVirtualHost * # Basic setup S

Debian Linux in Chroot

I have two Linux installations in my hard drive, and I want to modify Linux-2 from Linux-1, using Chroot. Basically "dpkg-reconfigure" and similar stuff. How do I tell DPKG of Linux-2 to not disturb the daemons that are running in Linux-1? -- Masatran, R. Deepak

checking mobo etc okay for Debian

I'm having problems installing Debian 'etch' and wanted to double check that my mobo is indeed that as per my price quotation (below). >From /var/log/boot I can see it is the Intel Core2 Duo chip: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 CPU 6700 @ 2.66GHz stepping 06 checking TSC synchronization [CPU#0 -> C

Re: etch installation probs (CD?)

On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 07:41 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Mon July 30 2007 07:10, michael wrote: > > Folks, I've a new machine with a "writemaster" CDROM drive. When trying > > to install Debian 4.0 from iso image burnt to CD, it initially > > recognises the CD and starts the installation but fail

How to re-generate the info index?

Hi Debian users, It seems that some uninstallers didn't remove their info pages correctly. For example, I have the entries * Emacs: (emacs-20/emacs). [ . . . ] * Emacs: (emacs-21/emacs). [ . . . ] both of which give error such as Info file emacs-21/emacs does not exist (Indeed they d

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

* Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-07-23 > I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard > drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used "expert" at the first prompt, > since "amd64-expert" was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 kernel during > installation.

Re: Root partition full

> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 10:32:11PM +0100, Mastery wrote: > > I have different partitions for / and /home.Unfortunately my root > > partition is full (7GB).What can i do now? > > Shall i try repartitioning my root through boot disk or there is any > > other way to clean the / partition. I don't

Re: Firefox \ Iceweasel Differences?

Hi Andrew, On Mon, 2007-07-30 at 13:25 -0400, Andrew J. Barr wrote: > On 7/30/07, Stef Daniels VK5HSX <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Greetings, > >I am aware that Iceweasel uses the same engine as Firefox for > > the operation, however, there seems to be problems with using Iceweasel >

Re: Using Wine to do my Tax (Australia)

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 10:29:20 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 07/30/2007 05:35 AM, Keith Bates wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I wonder if anyone using the Australian Taxation Office's infamous > > e-tax package has been able to get it going under wine. > > > > I'm using debian testing

Part3: More problems.

Thanks for helping me. I installed both of those, and it got past requesting libc! Now, it's requesting the kernel source, which i can't seem to find the appropriate version of.