Faster source of random numbers for blanking harddrives

2007-10-24 Thread Bob
if you type dd if=/dev/urandom of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 14.0076 seconds, 3.7 MB/s whereas dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/null count=10 10+0 records in 10+0 records out 5120 bytes (51 MB) copied, 0.0932449 seconds, 5

Re: Squid setup question

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm new to squid (installed it today) and I'm following > the instructions at the squid wiki. I'm finding them to > be confusing and I wonder if anyone can recommend instructions > that are specific to Debian and are specific to version > 2.6.

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/24/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> This is the first time that I hear of skim. I just looked into it >> briefly. It looks very interesting. However, it seems that it does not >> follow the standard im-switch laun

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Wei Chen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > This is the first time that I hear of skim. I just looked into it > briefly. It looks very interesting. However, it seems that it does not > follow the standard im-switch launching convention, which may cause > problems when I occasionally switch

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, Javier Vasquez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages > through a proxy server whenever required. > > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay a

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Wei Chen wrote: >> > 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current > user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. This was one step I ha

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > >>> Well, something doesn't seem to be right with my setup. Scim works in >>> Icedove, iceweasel and gaim. But it doesn't work in kate or konsole. >>> What am I missing? >>> >> I am not sure whether it is a problem of u

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-24 Thread francisco
El mié, 24-10-2007 a las 22:27 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribió: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote: > > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > > > > I had the same pro

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I tried with xcim: > $> cat .xinput.d/en_CA > # > # Use "X input Method" for all applications > # > # Per Ming's Documentation in SCIM, XIM Input Method is activated > # not only for old X-applications but also for GTK and QT appplication. > # > # If

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:27:02 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. > Looking in > /usr/share/doc/linux-doc-2.6.18/Documentation/networking/ \ > bcm43xx.txt.gz it says its for Broadcom BCM43xx chips. > > It mentions needing a firmware file. I'm assuming

Re: xkb settings messed up, seems to be two keyboards installed

2007-10-24 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 01:57:20 +0200 Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have two keymaps that I used to switch between with xkb alt_shift_toggle. At > some point it stopped working. xfce xkb applet shows that the keyboard is > switching but it doesn't do anything, sometimes it decides to st

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 19:07]: > H.S. wrote: > > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > > Maybe Br-script isn't "real" postscript, I really don't know. > > > > >>> If the printer is a "real" Postscript machine, it is specified > > >>> in CUPS as "raw", and you don't need foomat

Re: Can't Remove Files

2007-10-24 Thread David Fox
On 10/24/07, Telly Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My plan was to put all of the programs that I wanted to manually > install (compile) after I reinstalled the OS onto the usb You did say "reinstalled" - was the OS installed on the *same* partition as the program files you w

Re: Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007-10-24 Thread Keith Christian
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is possible, how would I go about doing it? All th

Re: Listing packages

2007-10-24 Thread David Fox
On 10/24/07, David Clymer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > > aptitude can do that: > > > > aptitude -F '%p %t' search '~i' That produces (imho) misleading output. It is telling me that I have many more packages that come from unstable then

Re: aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:51:44PM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: > However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with > no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them. Does > any one know how to overcome this? Also, I liked the environment > variables solution beca

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/07 18:03, Chris Parker wrote: [snip] > > Thanks for the responses. We do now use microfocus, but that is running > on SCO. I was looking for a Linux version less expensive. Licensing > for Microfocus on Linux is $500,000 for everything. T

aptitude upgrade through proxy

2007-10-24 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I've used http_proxy/ftp_proxy to enable apt-get to download packages through a proxy server whenever required. However I've tried the same environment variables with aptitude with no luck... Looks like aptitude doesn't pay attention to them. Does any one know how to overcome this? Also, I

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 07:00:39PM -0700, francisco wrote: > El mi??, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribi??: > > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > > > I had the same problem. > > > The mistake was made while installing. > > > It is not possib

Squid setup question

2007-10-24 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm new to squid (installed it today) and I'm following the instructions at the squid wiki. I'm finding them to be confusing and I wonder if anyone can recommend instructions that are specific to Debian and are specific to version 2.6. My immediate problem is that the wiki says to do testing of one

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-24 Thread francisco
El mié, 24-10-2007 a las 10:11 -0400, Douglas A. Tutty escribió: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:02:31AM +0200, Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > > I had the same problem. > > The mistake was made while installing. > > It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more > > than one etherne

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread H.S.
Wei Chen wrote: >> Well, something doesn't seem to be right with my setup. Scim works in >> Icedove, iceweasel and gaim. But it doesn't work in kate or konsole. >> What am I missing? >> > > I am not sure whether it is a problem of using immodule. You may try to > use the traditional XIM method by

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Lair
H.S. wrote: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > Maybe Br-script isn't "real" postscript, I really don't know. > > >>> If the printer is a "real" Postscript machine, it is specified > >>> in CUPS as "raw", and you don't need foomatic. > >> > >> Just tried the raw printer - looks like it is rea

xkb settings messed up, seems to be two keyboards installed

2007-10-24 Thread Micha Feigin
I have two keymaps that I used to switch between with xkb alt_shift_toggle. At some point it stopped working. xfce xkb applet shows that the keyboard is switching but it doesn't do anything, sometimes it decides to start switching between US and en_US instead of IL. setxkbmap does change the keyboa

Re: how to controll 2 internet connection

2007-10-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:19:41PM +0200, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > 2007/10/23, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0200, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > > > > > > I have now two internet connection: > > > one through eth1 and > > > one through eth2 interface. > > > > > > >

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Chris Parker
Daniel Mahoney wrote: Chris Parker wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a good cobol compiler and gui development enviroment? I have seen open-cobol as a compiler, but was wondering if anyone has any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris That's about the only freeware Cobol compiler I've

Can't Remove Files

2007-10-24 Thread Telly Williams
Hi, I mounted my usb storage device and placed files on it, no problem. However, I can't remove one of the folders in there. My plan was to put all of the programs that I wanted to manually install (compile) after I reinstalled the OS onto the usb storage.

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 08:24:40AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in > > Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms. Only if the platform has a COBOL compiler, which I think is the problem under discussio

Re: apt-get not working

2007-10-24 Thread Jochen Schulz
muthuraman.s: > > I use Ubuntu 7.04 and when I try to install K7(thinking to increase > the speed) kernel for the PC with apt-get, I get the following > error.not only for K7 it says the same message except for the package > name( last word in the message). I do not know what is wrong . > > Readi

apt-get not working

2007-10-24 Thread muthuraman.s
Hi ll, I use Ubuntu 7.04 and when I try to install K7(thinking to increase the speed) kernel for the PC with apt-get, I get the following error.not only for K7 it says the same message except for the package name( last word in the message). I do not know what is wrong . Reading package lists... D

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-24 Thread Wakko Warner
pgega wrote: Please do not top post. > I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does > not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. > > I completly do not know what to do now. I'm using i386 debian with a custom kernel. I'm running on xeon dual core processors

Re: Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it > was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and > writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is > possible, how w

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread H.S.
Russell L. Harris wrote: Maybe Br-script isn't "real" postscript, I really don't know. >>> If the printer is a "real" Postscript machine, it is specified >>> in CUPS as "raw", and you don't need foomatic. >> >> Just tried the raw printer - looks like it is real. Thanks for pointing >> t

Re: ping www.yahoo.co.uk - connect: Invalid argument

2007-10-24 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 24 Oct 2007 11:02:14 +0100 "Charlie Grosvenor" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anybody know why I would get a response of connect: Invalid argument > when I: > > ping www.yahoo.co.uk > I also get this error when I run commands like apt-get upgrade. > > Thanks Do you have *any* interne

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 15:28]: > Russell L. Harris wrote: > > * Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 07:42]: > > > I think the HL-5250DN does have postscript built in. Brother calls it > > > BR-Script which appears to be their postscript emulation. I have an 8840DN > > > multi

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Lair
Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 07:42]: > > I think the HL-5250DN does have postscript built in. Brother calls it > > BR-Script which appears to be their postscript emulation. I have an 8840DN > > multifunction unit and have printed to it using the foomatic/pos

Re: how to controll 2 internet connection

2007-10-24 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/10/23, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 02:42:40PM +0200, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: > > > > I have now two internet connection: > > one through eth1 and > > one through eth2 interface. > > > > How can I controll which one to use for download some stuff from internet? >

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Lair <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071024 07:42]: > I think the HL-5250DN does have postscript built in. Brother calls it > BR-Script which appears to be their postscript emulation. I have an 8840DN > multifunction unit and have printed to it using the foomatic/postscript > driver in cups for a le

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Daniel Mahoney
Chris Parker wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a good cobol compiler and gui development enviroment? I have seen open-cobol as a compiler, but was wondering if anyone has any other recommendations? Thanks, Chris That's about the only freeware Cobol compiler I've seen. I'd like to see

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/07 14:01, Martin Marcher wrote: > 2007/10/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in >> Because apps written in COBOL are highly p

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
On 10/25/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > >>> > >>> 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current > >>> user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. > >> This was one step I had missed. The second one was to put: > >> #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim > >>

Re: boot loader/ installer

2007-10-24 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 11:17:46AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 01:27:08PM -0400, Ryan Jones wrote: > > I recently tried to install Debian on my system but while i was installing > > it I ran across some problems unrelated to your program and had to do a > > system

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Martin Marcher
2007/10/24, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > I'll bite: why do you need COBOL? You've go C, Fortran, and Ada in > > Because apps written in COBOL are highly portable across platforms. > Are there any sarcasm tags missing? So it is highly port

Re: Drag, drop and execute in Nautilus

2007-10-24 Thread Jasper
I wrote before: = I would like to be able drag the icon of a file to the icon of a script with the expected result that the script is ececuted with the filname as parameter. Nautilus does not let me do this. It has '.desktop' - files for this purpose, but I do not like the add

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > >>> > >>> 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current > >>> user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. > >> This was one step I had missed. The second one was to put: > >> #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim > >>

Sharing CD-RW from Linux to Win2k

2007-10-24 Thread genkokitsu
I have a CD-RW drive attached to my Linux server and I was wondering if it was at all possible to be able to access this drive (for both reading and writing, though writing is what's important) from my Win2k box. If it is possible, how would I go about doing it? All the information I can find on

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread H.S.
Wei Chen wrote: >>> >>> 3. Run `im-switch -c` to configure the input method for the current >>> user. Choose scim from the interactive user interface. >> This was one step I had missed. The second one was to put: >> #GTK_IM_MODULE=xim >> GTK_IM_MODULE="scim-bridge" >> #QT_IM_MODULE=xim >> QT_IM_MO

Re: Strange X problem--right mouse kills X

2007-10-24 Thread javi78
Today after upgrade my debian Sid, many keys of my keyboard didn't work properly. For example, Alt-Gr key had the enter function, when I pushed "up" direction key the Ksnapshot was launched, etc. Then I saw in this forum that the package xserver-xorg-input-evdev could have a problem with other mod

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread Wei Chen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: >> On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> Hello, >>> >>> I have been using the KDE keyboard layout applet to type different >>> languages. I recently learned that uim or scim could be a better method. >>> >>> To

Re: Listing packages

2007-10-24 Thread David Clymer
On Tue, 2007-10-23 at 11:28 +0200, Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: > Miguel Cobá wrote: > > I have a mixed installation with packages from stable and testing and I > > want to list the packages and what version (stable, testing, unstable) > > of debian are they from. > > > > aptitude can do that: > > a

Re: Re: unable to boot

2007-10-24 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Thanks for reply, I have installed many and many debian on different machines ( which have Xp, and others Os ), so I am not new to debian. This is the first time I meet this problem, with VISTA on Laptop The installation is done normally without any error, I did it twice , at reboot grub trie

Re: 1GB RAM is missing.

2007-10-24 Thread pgega
I just installed AMD64 Debian, put 4th RAM stick, but new sysytem does not see the memory, even if I set mem=3900M in grub. I completly do not know what to do now. On Oct 24, 1:20 am, Wakko Warner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > Modern 32 bit processors and chipsets map aroun

Re: Keyboard mess after upgrading

2007-10-24 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please stop top-posting. ] On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 17:30:27 +0200, Adrian Ribao wrote: > I've got es_ES.utf-8 > but I think is not a probelm with locale definition. > The only key that work are letters, the other ones, just a mess, most of > them missing, and some changed. Ctrl and ALT not worki

Re: Keyboard mess after upgrading

2007-10-24 Thread Adrian Ribao
I've got es_ES.utf-8 but I think is not a probelm with locale definition. The only key that work are letters, the other ones, just a mess, most of them missing, and some changed. Ctrl and ALT not working either... well, it's very hard to work with the laptop, but I have no more computers. I'm getti

Re: getting scim to work on KDE

2007-10-24 Thread H.S.
Wei Chen wrote: > On 10/24/07, H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I have been using the KDE keyboard layout applet to type different >> languages. I recently learned that uim or scim could be a better method. >> >> To test these out, I installed scim. Then, following some web pages >>

Re: How to set up cups-pdf as default printer?

2007-10-24 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 10:18:18AM -0300, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El mié, 24-10-2007 a las 11:33 +0200, Avi Rozen escribió: > > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: ... > > > There are no man pages for cups-pdf either. I am not too familiar with > > > cups so I apologize if this question is quite trivial.

Re: Keyboard mess after upgrading

2007-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/24/07 08:03, Adrian Ribao wrote: > Hello, I run a Debian sid in my laptop, and usually, I upgrade it > almost every day. Today, after upgrading the system, all the keys > where changed, in KDE and Gnome. Every time I press the up-arrow > key, it

Re: cobol compiler/gui dev enviroment

2007-10-24 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/07 22:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 08:34:15PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 10/23/07 20:08, David Fox wrote: >>> On 10/23/07, Chris Parker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello all, Does anyone know of a go

Re: How to set up cups-pdf as default printer?

2007-10-24 Thread Gabriel Parrondo
El mié, 24-10-2007 a las 11:33 +0200, Avi Rozen escribió: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > Recently hear that ubuntu 7.10 has a PDF printer enabled by default. I did > > some digging around and found that this was accomplished through the use of > > cups-pdf. > > > > So I went

Keyboard mess after upgrading

2007-10-24 Thread Adrian Ribao
Hello, I run a Debian sid in my laptop, and usually, I upgrade it almost every day. Today, after upgrading the system, all the keys where changed, in KDE and Gnome. Every time I press the up-arrow key, it opens knsapshot, and so on with the other keys. The distribution of the keys, and the keyboard

Re: OT: laser printer: HL-5250DN or another one?

2007-10-24 Thread Scott Lair
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Oct 23, 2007 at 07:32:22PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > > > Now, Eric mentioned memory in his post. I can understand that since > > sometimes the 2070N at my home takes quite a while to print a page with > > graphics in it (it has 16MB RAM). HL-5250DN comes with 32MB. Ho

Keys changed in kde after upgrade

2007-10-24 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Hello, I run a Debian sid in my laptop, and usually, I upgrade it almost every day. Today, after upgrading the system, all the keys where changed, in KDE and Gnome. Every time I press the up-arrow key, it opens knsapshot, and so on with the other keys. The distribution of the keys, and the keybo

Re: Silly question: Where's eth0?

2007-10-24 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
I had the same problem. The mistake was made while installing. It is not possible to change things, e.g. having to configure more than one ethernetcard. I made a script of my own need and everythings works as I wanted it to work. So, first man ifconfig, then man route and if needed, you might start

Keys changed in kde after upgrade

2007-10-24 Thread Adrián Ribao Martínez
Hello, I run a Debian sid in my laptop, and usually, I upgrade it almost every day. Today, after upgrading the system, all the keys where changed, in KDE and Gnome. Every time I press the up-arrow key, it opens knsapshot, and so on with the other keys. The distribution of the keys, and the keybo

texlive no longer honours $TEXMFHOME?

2007-10-24 Thread martin f krafft
Hi there, Since Debian started using texlive, I cannot get mktexlsr to index my personal texmf tree in ~/.etc/texmf. I have set $TEXMFHOME to this path (and also tried it with $HOME/texmf, which is the default), but when I run mktexlsr, it just skips the directory. The source of the problem seems

ping www.yahoo.co.uk - connect: Invalid argument

2007-10-24 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Does anybody know why I would get a response of connect: Invalid argument when I: ping www.yahoo.co.uk I also get this error when I run commands like apt-get upgrade. Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Trying to preseed nagios-mysql install

2007-10-24 Thread Jaime Ventura
Hello. I'm trying to preseed nagios-mysql install. But but since at the time, the mysql server is stopped, the database creation failles and installation stops and waits for an answer. Is there any way to prevent this from happening? I mean, is there a way to install it with default valu

ping www.yahoo.co.uk - connect: Invalid argument

2007-10-24 Thread Charlie Grosvenor
Does anybody know why I would get a response of connect: Invalid argument when I: ping www.yahoo.co.uk I also get this error when I run commands like apt-get upgrade. Thanks

Re: How to set up cups-pdf as default printer?

2007-10-24 Thread Avi Rozen
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > Recently hear that ubuntu 7.10 has a PDF printer enabled by default. I did > some digging around and found that this was accomplished through the use of > cups-pdf. > > So I went ahead and installed it using aptitude. Now, I can access the cups > settin

Re: MACBook + USB-UMTS

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 01:07:09AM -0700, Michael Post wrote: > Hallo Listenbewohner, > > ich benötige für mein MacBook, auf dem das aktuellste Debian läuft, > eine UMTS-Karte mit Tarif. > Was könnt Ihr empfehlen? > Leider hat das MacBook keinen PCMCIA-Slot und wenn ich das richtig > sehe, dann ko

MACBook + USB-UMTS

2007-10-24 Thread Michael Post
Hallo Listenbewohner, ich benötige für mein MacBook, auf dem das aktuellste Debian läuft, eine UMTS-Karte mit Tarif. Was könnt Ihr empfehlen? Leider hat das MacBook keinen PCMCIA-Slot und wenn ich das richtig sehe, dann kostet so ein Adapter auch gleich schlappe 150,00€ :-( Was für UMTS-USB-Produ

Re: whats the need of files in /usr/lib/apt/methods/*

2007-10-24 Thread Kevin Mark
On Wed, Oct 24, 2007 at 12:05:49AM -0700, varun_shrivastava wrote: > > hi > > i am wondering that why some files like http gpgv etc are provided in apt > package even if they are already present on the system. > > Are they required for proper functioning of apt or they are just plugins > which c

How to set up cups-pdf as default printer?

2007-10-24 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Recently hear that ubuntu 7.10 has a PDF printer enabled by default. I did some digging around and found that this was accomplished through the use of cups-pdf. So I went ahead and installed it using aptitude. Now, I can access the cups settings from http://localhost:631 but I don't s

whats the need of files in /usr/lib/apt/methods/*

2007-10-24 Thread varun_shrivastava
hi i am wondering that why some files like http gpgv etc are provided in apt package even if they are already present on the system. Are they required for proper functioning of apt or they are just plugins which can be safely removed similarly some information regarding requirement for followin