Re: [Mondo-devel] mondoarchive

2007-09-25 Thread Bruno Cornec
harland christofferson said on Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 05:51:17PM -0700: > Then I receive this error: > > Mindi failed to create your boot+data disks. > ---promptpopup---1--- Fatal error. Filesystem cramfs > not supported for initrd image. Terminating. > > I've attached the end of the log file ...

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 01:17 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > > [snip of something I can't help with] > >> She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, > >> but there is already another thread

Re: Installing 2 Linux on one HD.

2007-09-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Yazad Khambata <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070926 01:14]: >Can someone make it a bit simpler... I didn't follow much... I am ready to >install the 2 OSs just tell me what to do with the GRUB in simple words... >how do I know where the kernel is and what is it's name? and how do i >access

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 20:49 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does it run?

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: [snip of something I can't help with] She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, but there is already another thread about that. There is currently no work around, but there is hope that using t

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 20:49 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > >> Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. > >> > > > > Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does it run? > > Maybe

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread debian
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:55:36PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > Occasionally while writing, I save the document, switch to the > command-line window and execute LaTeX, then look over the xdvi > displays (which are updated automatically whenever LaTeX is run). I can avoid the switch to the cl

Re: Installing 2 Linux on one HD.

2007-09-25 Thread Yazad Khambata
Can someone make it a bit simpler... I didn't follow much... I am ready to install the 2 OSs just tell me what to do with the GRUB in simple words... how do I know where the kernel is and what is it's name? and how do i access the kernel of CentOS from Debian... Sorry if my questions sound dumb; I

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 21:33 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: [snip of something I can't help with] > > She can't associate multiple queues with a single printer, > but there is already another thread about that. There is > currently no work around, but there is hope that using the > CUPS I/F direc

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Masatran, R. Deepak
* Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-09-25 > I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on > via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close > the session? Nohup, Screen, and VNC (in increasing order of complexity). I have a small introduction to screen at

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Manoj Srivastava shared this with us all: >--} On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:05:53 -0700, David Brodbeck >--} <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: >--} >--} > On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >--} >> I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need >--} >

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Peter Robinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070926 00:35]: > If you write in latex you can always convert to RTF via latex2rtf, which in > my experience works excellently. If needed, it is no big deal to convert > this to word format. It is definitely worth the effort to learn latex. This afternoon, o

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Peter Robinson
Steve Lamb wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: The output is PostScript so I kept a copy of GhostView (gv) running (watching the file) and whenever I wanted to see how things looked, just ran lout on my file to the same output file name. Yeahhh, no thanks. I don't like coding HTML with

Re: wireless keyboard encryption

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
[catching up on a d-u backlog] On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 02:23:07 -0600 Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > I think you'll find that even "good" wireless keyboards won't easily > penetrate more than a single wall of your home, and won't extend very > far past an exterior wall in most se

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:21:18PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 09/25/07 18:44, Kevin Mark wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani > > wrote: > >> Hey guys, > >> > >> I recently installed etch on this old laptop

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Rob Mahurin wrote: > I know you've settled on OOo, but it's worth pointing out that TeX is > a simple language if you're writing a simple document. In particular > you are already writing valid plain TeX in your email. Copy the above > (without the >'s) into file.txt; change /'thinking'/ to {\it

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:50:44 -0500 Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: [snipped the on-topic stuff] > > Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > > Hit him with a fish, and he goes away for good! > > Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. > Teach a man to fish, and

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. Oops! I somehow neglected to specify... PS/2 style keyboard PS/2 style mouse Keyboard works PS/2 style keyboard USB

Re: Search for string in files

2007-09-25 Thread William Pursell
Johannes Tax wrote: I'm trying to figure out how to find a certain string inside a bunch of files. If I, for examples, look for a certain function in a large source tree, I could do cat `find . -name '*.c'` | grep 'a_certain_function' but this seems quite awkward, furthermore it doesn't help t

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:10:17 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > USB keyboard? (I've always been leery of them, because of the > mutually-exclusive HID and {o,u}chi drivers. I use a Dell USB keyboard, scavenged from an old desktop. It "just works": > usb 1-1: new full speed

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 09:26:06 +0800 Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > you can launch jobs with at as well. I don't think ncurses apps will necessarily run successfully via at; mc doesn't, and I think I recall that rtorrent itself didn't (it isn't currently installed). > hth,

Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 21:33, Mike McCarty wrote: > These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested > that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff > YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please. > > My GF installed a USB mouse, an

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-25 Thread Simon
On 9/26/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Quoting Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Hi There, > > > > We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a > > SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it > > is booted. How do i move forward h

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 09:17:05PM -0500, cothrige wrote: > Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I believe that is what the poster above was saying, and most likely you > understood him as being defensive or confrontational. I really don't > think the people here are trying to be in any

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 22:57 -0400, Guillermo Garron escribió: > On 9/25/07, Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on > > via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close > > the session? > > I like to use ctor

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:55:26AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > I have some feedback about my GF who uses Debian at my suggestion. > I have no irons in the fire on this one, as I don't use Debian, > though I do administer her machine for her. So, please don't take > this as a complaint from me, as

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Guillermo Garron
On 9/25/07, Sid Arth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on > via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close > the session? I like to use ctorrent, http://www.go2linux.org/Command-line-Bit-Torrent-client-for-Linux-writ

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 19:27, Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] > > Am I writing a book? Yes. > > Am I writing a technical book? No! > > I am writing fiction. I have no in-line graphics, complex font changes > for examples, silly little icons to denote s

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this "room for improvement." A lot of projects and products spend a lot of time working on non-goals; the question at hand is whether adoption by the level of user in question is or is not a goal. I'm

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Rob Mahurin
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 05:27:02PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Good thing that what I'm writing is not at all complex. The two most > complex things are italics and indent-first-line. [...] > Am I writing a book? Yes. > > Am I writing a technical book? No! > > I am writing ficti

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
cothrige wrote: After walking in from a day of my kids' soccer matches I noticed this thread and feel I really must post a comment. I may be very late to It seems like just one of those things, doesn't it :-) [snip] which posts or questions were those being talked about here. Really, with

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Sid Arth
Thanks its working perfectly On 9/25/07, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > you can launch jobs with at as well. > > hth, > Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Repost of some earlier described "challenges"

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
These have (nearly) all been posted before, but some have requested that they be reposted. If you don't like reading stuff YET AGAIN, then just skip this message, please. My GF installed a USB mouse, and her keyboard went away. They work together with THE OTHER OS. IIRC (it's been a while) using

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread John Hasler
David Brodbeck writes: > TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're > writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. Now _that_ sounds like driving a semi truck to the supermarket to pick up a bottle of milk. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 19:11, David Brodbeck wrote: [snip] > changes. About the time we hit the 650 page mark, Word started > corrupting the file and it became impossible to go through more than a > few edit/save cycles before the file became unreadable and we h

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 18:44, Kevin Mark wrote: > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani > wrote: >> Hey guys, >> >> I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no >> problems with it whatsoever. I had no hardware issues or >> any

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread cothrige
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John Hasler wrote: >> >> I don't see that you provided any useful information. > > Then it wasn't directed at you. > > There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux > to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was > directed at

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread s. keeling
Roger B.A. Klorese <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Kent West wrote: > > Like he said, he's not complaining, or asking for help, or asking for > > information; he's just saying that we have room for improvement. > > Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this > "room for improv

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-25 Thread michael
Quoting Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Hi There, We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it is booted. How do i move forward here? Sounds like etch doesn't have the drivers for your sata controller. e

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Martin Marcher wrote: > > Why is it that simple statments, preceded by disclaimers > indicating that they are not complaints, get treated as > complaints? > > > Hello, > > > > I'm interested in the job offer you posted on > > Sarcasm is unbecoming, espec

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 16:05:53 -0700, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need >> to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I >> use grep for this

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: [that he couldn's use the GUI to put multiple queues on one printer] I don't run Gnome or KDE here I hope they accept the Cups config. If not, someone someone that does run them, should submit a bug report. CUPS Adm

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: Works on my distro. I can't get it to work with Debian. Cool! What distro is that? What version of gnome does it run? Maybe it's running a newer version that didn't hit debian yet. I'm normally not into go

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you tried it on other distros and it's different? Yes. [snip] This is gnome, love it or leave it! Works on m

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, you can launch jobs with at as well. hth, Jerome Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 19:23 -0500, Sid Arth escribió: What is screen? apt-cache show screen It let's you do a lot of fancy stuff in the terminal (have multiple windows, detach the session and reattach it, c

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. > > > > We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess > > some of us would appreciate your postin

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
s. keeling wrote: [snip] fwiw, I've found a really good place to ask difficult questions is in debian-mentors. Thanks for the pointer. If I can convince her not to wipe Debian from the disc, I think I'll subscribe there as well. I don't have much hopes on that point, however. Mike -- p="p=%c

Re: Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-25 Thread Jeff D
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Simon wrote: Hi There, We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it is booted. How do i move forward here? Thanks Simon Something that you might want to try is to set your sat

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:23:55PM -0500, Sid Arth wrote: > What is screen? http://packages.debian.org/sid/screen http://www.gnu.org/software/screen/ Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah, 458, Jamuna Hostel, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, Chennai - 600 036 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 19:23 -0500, Sid Arth escribió: > What is screen? > apt-cache show screen It let's you do a lot of fancy stuff in the terminal (have multiple windows, detach the session and reattach it, copy/paste with the keyboard and a lot of other stuff). It's exactly what you need.

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Mark Phillips wrote: > > > > Mike, you have to realize that support is provided by volunteers who > > have lives (families, children, jobs, little league, etc.) outside of > > supporting the software. There is no guarentee of any support when you > > install De

Re: Spamassassin and Exim4

2007-09-25 Thread Daniel D Jones
On Monday 24 September 2007 19:03:47 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 06:40:58PM -0400, Daniel D Jones wrote: > > On Monday 24 September 2007 15:50:58 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > I've reconfigured the file with your recommendations and restarted exim. > > I'm still not

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Mike writes: > Once again, mail to you has bounced. ?? > If you read here regularly, then you would have seen the reports, I most likely did. So what? How am I to know which of the innumerable "reports" posted here you refer to? > My only point was this: She's leaving Debian because she perce

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 18:43 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > >> That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer > >> manager shipped with Debian is either broken or deficient > >> in this area

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
David Brodbeck wrote: > As long as you realize it probably won't look the same to the other > person, unless they have the same Word version, the same operating > system, and the same fonts. It will look similar enough. > It's rare that someone sends me a complicated Word file and I'm able >

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Sid Arth
What is screen? On 9/25/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:25:22PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > >> > >> On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote: > >> > >>> I want to have rtorrent running in

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:16 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:25:22PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote: I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Wayne Topa
Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: >>> My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than >>> one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing >>> that,

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:43:47PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Gabriel Parrondo wrote: >> El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: >>> That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer >>> manager shipped with Debian is either broken or deficient >>> in this area. >

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-25 Thread Kent West
Nate Bargmann wrote: This is one of the joys of using Sid. ;-) I noticed over the weekend when using OOo Calc that pressing Num Lock on my IBM PS/2 keyborad did nothing. Neither the LED lit nor did Calc receive numerals from the keypad. I can switch to a VT and the LEDs light correctly and th

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 04:25:22PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote: > > >I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on > >via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close > >the session? > > Use "screen". It w

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 5:11 PM, David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: No, my issue is that I have some formatting I want to be there and I need to be able to express that formatting in a way that will be accepted by the broadest scope of submission requiremen

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:31 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: No, my issue is that I have some formatting I want to be there and I need to be able to express that formatting in a way that will be accepted by the broadest scope of submission requirements. Working in ODT and then either printing it and ma

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: Mike writes: There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux to be a viable alternative to Windows for more users. It was directed at those people. You told us that some unnamed person had unidentified problems which they reported in some unknown way with reported

Debian install to Inspiron 530 with SATA DVD drive

2007-09-25 Thread Simon
Hi There, We are trying to install debian etch onto our Inspiron 530 that has a SATA DVD drive, but the installer cannot detect the CD drive once it is booted. How do i move forward here? Thanks Simon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

Re: How do I know debian has detected all my hardware?

2007-09-25 Thread Kevin Mark
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 02:29:45AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I recently installed etch on this old laptop and have no problems with it > whatsoever. I had no hardware issues or anything. It "seemed" like all the > hardware was automatically detected. Now the question is, h

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: That's precisely it. It appears to me that the GNOME printer manager shipped with Debian is either broken or deficient in this area. Why are you saying the version shipped with Debian is broken? Have you tri

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Steve Lamb
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The output is PostScript > so I kept a copy of GhostView (gv) running (watching the file) and > whenever I wanted to see how things looked, just ran lout on my file to > the same output file name. Yeahhh, no thanks. I don't like coding HTML with the produce and peek

Re: Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 4:14 PM, Sid Arth wrote: I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close the session? Use "screen". It will let you detach from the session, and reattach to it later. It's perfect f

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Sep 25 18:08 -0500]: > Yup. NumLock light stays on, CapsLock and ScrollLock stay off. At > the console, they toggle as normal. (I use startx to fire up X.) I log in via KDM. > Even though the lights don't toggle, CAPS LOCK still works. Hmmm, my LEDs st

Is it possible to keep a program running even when when no users are logged in

2007-09-25 Thread Sid Arth
I want to have rtorrent running in the background once I turn it on via ssh. Is there a way to keep rtorrent running even after I close the session? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > using WordPerfect. When I switched to Linux, I was overwhelmed with the > thought of learning LaTex. So I tried Lout. I found it great after a > while. Think of it as a stripped-down LaTex. "... written by a language lawyer." -Miles -- It wasn

Re: How to reply in the mailing lists

2007-09-25 Thread Sid Arth
I still use gmail because I can access it everywhere, and if I use it with google reader, I have no need for a something such as thunderbird or any other email client. Those two do everything I need them to do. On 9/25/07, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 10:06:38 -0400 > "

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 24, 2007, at 9:39 PM, Russell L. Harris wrote: I use XEMacs daily to produce LaTeX documents. I have frequent need to search my archives of material I have written in the past, and I use grep for this purpose. It is difficult for me to imagine an advantage offered by OpenOffice which wo

Re: Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 09/25/07 17:55, Nate Bargmann wrote: > This is one of the joys of using Sid. ;-) > > I noticed over the weekend when using OOo Calc that pressing Num Lock > on my IBM PS/2 keyborad did nothing. Neither the LED lit nor did Calc > receive numerals

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Mike writes: > There are those here who have expressed a desire for Linux to be a viable > alternative to Windows for more users. It was directed at those people. You told us that some unnamed person had unidentified problems which they reported in some unknown way with reportedly unsatisfactory r

Num Lock nor Caps Lock LEDs working in Sid

2007-09-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
This is one of the joys of using Sid. ;-) I noticed over the weekend when using OOo Calc that pressing Num Lock on my IBM PS/2 keyborad did nothing. Neither the LED lit nor did Calc receive numerals from the keypad. I can switch to a VT and the LEDs light correctly and the keyboard output is co

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread David Brodbeck
On Sep 25, 2007, at 8:01 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: PDF? Haven't seen it as an acceptable format for submission, no. Some on-demand publishers use it. For example, Lulu.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Cont

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Charlie
On Wed, 26 Sep 2007, Mike McCarty shared this with us all: >--} Anyway, that's it, FWIW. >--} As interesting as this appears Mike, it again shows the main difference between operating systems that "supply everything" a user requires, and one that supplies everything, but the user has to be willi

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Miles Bader
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Wow. Mike takes the time to offer a common courtesy of informing the > Debian community of how it's being perceived by Jane Average Girlfriend, > and the community jumps all over him about various aspects. Why was it courteous? Despite the "polite" tone, it

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 07:30:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Neil Watson wrote: > > With TeX and LaTeX and its ilk the templates actually work. I can use > > the same template for all of my reports and they always look the same. > > There are no annoying format inconsistencies that are so common

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 26-09-2007 a las 00:04 +0200, Florian Lindner escribió: > Hello, > I have a virtual server with a Debian etch installed by myself from > debootstrap. The machine has two IPs assigned: > > # ifconfig > [snip output] > > The interface config I have set in /etc/network/interfaces copied fro

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mar, 25-09-2007 a las 15:04 -0500, Mike McCarty escribió: > Wayne Topa wrote: > > Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >> My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than > >> one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing > >>

Re: Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Lindner
Am Mittwoch, 26. September 2007 schrieb Florian Lindner: > Hello, > I have a virtual server with a Debian etch installed by myself from > debootstrap. The machine has two IPs assigned: [...] > Any idea what makes these two files changing and how to avoid it? Additional information, ping does not

Who is altering my hostname?

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Lindner
Hello, I have a virtual server with a Debian etch installed by myself from debootstrap. The machine has two IPs assigned: # ifconfig venet0Link encap:UNSPEC HWaddr 00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00-00 inet addr:127.0.0.1 P-t-P:127.0.0.1 Bcast:0.0.0.0 Mask:255.255.25

Re: Nomachine on Debian unstable?

2007-09-25 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Tuesday 25 September 2007 07:51:12 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > On Tue, 25 Sep, Gilles Mocellin wrote: > > Le Monday 24 September 2007 08:41:34 Stefan Bellon, vous avez écrit : > > > Hi, > > > > [...] > > > > I think the problem is here : > > > NX> 208 Using auth method: publickey > > > NX

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070925 16:07]: > Steve Lamb: >> they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another >> editor. Since an outside editor is required it is my impression >> that there is no WYSIWYG, no way to get a basic view of how it >> might look printed outside o

Re: Warning: attempt to remove nonexistent passive grab

2007-09-25 Thread Benjamin A'Lee
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 06:07:46AM -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I searched this group on this error message, which I get at odd times > on Debian Etch, usually when using Mutt or xpdf to read an attachment. > I'll go to those groups too, but sometimes I think I see it even from > the command l

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Roger B.A. Klorese
Kent West wrote: Like he said, he's not complaining, or asking for help, or asking for information; he's just saying that we have room for improvement. Well, yes, but it remains to be seen whether everyone considers this "room for improvement." A lot of projects and products spend a lot of

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
John Hasler wrote: I tried to reply off-list, but the email bounced. Mike writes: I provide this information only as an indicator of where there might be an opportunity to win more Windows users and lose fewer. I don't see that you provided any useful information. Then it wasn't directed a

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Kent West
Mike McCarty wrote: So, please don't take this as a complaint from me, as it isn't. I'm simply informing the Debian forum of a situation. Wow. Mike takes the time to offer a common courtesy of informing the Debian community of how it's being perceived by Jane Average Girlfriend, and the commu

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread Jochen Schulz
Steve Lamb: > > To be fair I am operating out a large measure of ignorance. :) > One of my > main concerns is that the typesetting languages are languages. I'm sure > they're robust but I have always seen their use tied to another editor. Since > an outside editor is required it is my

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread John Hasler
Mike writes: > I provide this information only as an indicator of where there might be > an opportunity to win more Windows users and lose fewer. I don't see that you provided any useful information. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Tuesday 25 September 2007, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. > > > > We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess > > some of us would apprecia

Re: SAMBA ground-up tutorial?

2007-09-25 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Chris Lale wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> [This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] >> I've got a Debian bastion host at a small nonprofit. >> Windoze. We're using CUPS on the >> Debian box. We want to share all the printers >> across all the

Re: ATI or Nvidia

2007-09-25 Thread Brad Sawatzky
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Guillermo Garron wrote: > I have my system as dual boot, Debian Etch and ubuntu Gutsy, I am > asking on the Ubuntu list, which is my best option nVidia or ATI, > actually I have an ATI Radeon X300, and I want to change it. > > In your Debian experience which has better suppor

Re: UTF-8 support in Latex (was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-25 Thread David Baron
> > Some years ago I changed from LyX to OpenOffice. These days I tried to > > change back. One of the reasons was that there is no grep possible in OO. > > I believe that the common desktop search tools can search and index > OASIS documents. I know that it works with namazu, which I use, and I >

Re: trouble installing pidgin (was: trying to get the windows icq program QQ to work under etch)

2007-09-25 Thread tom arnall
On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:19, Jeff D wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: > > On Tuesday 25 September 2007 11:24, Jeff D wrote: > >> On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, tom arnall wrote: > >>> Peter, > >>> > >>> i tried another approach. i just read that qq has been merged with the > >>> new gaim

Re: GNOME: Associate multiple queues with one printer: HOW?

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Wayne Topa wrote: Mike McCarty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: My GF has a Debian/GNOME/CUPS machine, and wishes to associate more than one queue with it. I use Fedora/GNOME/CUPS and have no problem doing that, but so far have failed to manage it with Debian. Can anyone help me get

Re: Debian may lose a user

2007-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike Bird wrote: On Tuesday 25 September 2007 12:45, Mike McCarty wrote: I'm not trying to be mean, either. I'm reporting a single event. We're all volunteers here. You too. If you find time I guess some of us would appreciate your posting links to the previous problems you discussed. And i

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