[OT] VT's

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >>> [snip] >>> My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 20:43, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 17 20:07 -0500]: >> On Monday 17 March 2008 22:57, T o n g wrote: >>> On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/w

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 23:12, Thierry Chatelet wrote: [snip] > > Well, I don't about other countries, but in France you can get the new office > 2007 for free from $M. I guess, people are not going to like it? [smile] Does $M stand for $ado-Masochism? :) - -

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 22:24, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> [snip] >> >>> My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here >>> since I bought it

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: >>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html DC: quoted some 23 lines of RJ's message, including signature block, and added one line of text: Well, That explains why people use MS. Please trim posts b

Screen resolution amd64 and NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE

I just installed Debian etch 40r3 on an AMD64 PC. However, screen resolution is set to 640x480. Video device is: NVIDIA GeForce 6150 LE When entering: Desktop>>Preferences>>Screen Resolution, the only option available is 640x480 What can I do in order to set it to 1024x768 or any other? Pleas

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 04:50, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/artic

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 10:30:24PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > Interesting. This reminds me

Re: apt.conf doesn't have effect anymore

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 11:40:14PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > #deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Did you mean for that to be commented out? > deb-src http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free [snip] > *

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 09:56:56PM -0400, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> Hi >> >> I was wondering if any one has got this combo to work with the >> vmware-package package. I have it working on 2.6.22 >> >> I have done a google, and seen people have got it working with the >> vmware

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Monday 17 March 2008 06:33:37 pm Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] > > > My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here > > since I bought it. I remember going to his work (insurance > > underwriter) when I was a kid; I remember al

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Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

* Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 17 20:07 -0500]: > On Monday 17 March 2008 22:57, T o n g wrote: > > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031 > > >602168.html > > > > Sorry to be the one w

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 17 March 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > This, he says, has the benefit of making those people think that > > they are getting a product worth a lot for free because they > > happen to know someone who is an 'insi

Re: cron and command quote

T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I.e., somehow, the 'ps | grep' was able to find something in cron, whereas > when executed directly under shell: > > $ ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao *write|growisofs.*speed=' > > $ /bin/sh -c "ps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao

Re: configuration of a linux router

Douglas, dt> if you don't own peasthope.yi.org, then I wouldn't use it even locally. But I do own the machine and the name. yi.org is a dynamic dns service. Not already being allocated is a precondition to assigning "peasthope.yi.org" to my computer. dt> It is a valid name. So ... I miss

Re: iceweasel (firefox) and Hummingbird Exceed

Thanks - but that was not the problem. One thing I notice is that when I trace the connection, iceweasel isn't opening any fonts on the X-server. Could it be doing everything with bit streams to the X-server? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Troub

Re: KDM not working

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 If you want to use kdm, can you start it from a shell, and then send us the debug output? what exactly does it do? You need to be more specific than "it doesn't work" to get useful replies. As per your suggestion I started KDM from the shell. And I

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

Munra wrote: On Mar 15, 8:00 pm, Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer and she is running...slowly...XP. Every other comment out of my mom, about th

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 02:37, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 20:17, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 02:12, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:51:47AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > >> > >> Apparanty, Sharp makes something called a Zaurus, quite popula

He's probably referring to... (was Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 21:10, steve wrote: > Jeff D wrote: > .com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > |> > |>> Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. > |>> > |>> > |> > |> Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red Hat. > |> >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeff D wrote: .com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html |> |>> Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. |>> |>> |> |> Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red Hat. |> |> raju | | um, look at the graph at top ;) | eh?

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Mar 15, 8:00 pm, Jonathan Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have.  But, is there one out there > that looks like XP.  I am going to install Debian on my mothers > computer and she is running...slowly...XP.  Every other comment out > of my mom, about the comput

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 20:51, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [snip] > How much did your link cost? Huh? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQF

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

Alex Samad wrote: Hi I was wondering if any one has got this combo to work with the vmware-package package. I have it working on 2.6.22 I have done a google, and seen people have got it working with the vmware installer (and patches) alex I always just downloaded the rpm package. Run alien

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

T o n g wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Sorry to be the one who breaks the embarrassing news to you but the above url led me to something related to *sex scandal*, from

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 20:17, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 18 March 2008 02:12, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:51:47AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: >> >> Apparanty, Sharp makes something called a Zaurus, quite popular in Japan >>

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 20:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > My dad would be quite at home in front of my VT520; he hasn't been here > since I bought it. I remember going to his work (insurance > underwriter) when I was a kid; I remember all the green-scree

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 05:14:45PM -0700, joseph lockhart wrote: > take it as you will, but I think that it would be > useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps > together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch) > disks to install onto a low powered computer, when > everything togethe

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Tuesday 18 March 2008 02:12, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:51:47AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > Apparanty, Sharp makes something called a Zaurus, quite popular in Japan > but I've never seen one. It runs all the free OSs including OpenBSD. > > I think there was a th

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 07:05:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > >>> I will also tell her that I will install D

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 01:51:47AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 23:51, Andrew Reid wrote: > > On Monday 17 March 2008 07:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > > However, I have never actually run Debian *on* my Palm TX, which > > is what your question sounds like it might

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/17/2008 07:42 PM: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

> > > On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: > > On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > > > >> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > > > > > Er, Ron? Wrong C&P? This links

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 19:46, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 19:05:30 -0500]: > > >> e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school. >> > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect > go.

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 19:58, Alexander Samad wrote: > Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: >>> On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Monday 17 March 2008 22:57, T o n g wrote: > On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031 > >602168.html > > Sorry to be the one who breaks the embarrassing news to you but the above > url led me to something

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Monday 17 March 2008 23:51, Andrew Reid wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 07:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > However, I have never actually run Debian *on* my Palm TX, which > is what your question sounds like it might mean. > > -- A. > -- > Andrew Reid / [EMAIL PR

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 8:42 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am I the only one on this list who can see that people who think > that expensive wines and energy drinks are "better" than cheap wines > and energy drinks just might also think that expensive operating > systems are bett

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Quoting Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR200

Re: vmware-server with 2.6.24

To answer my own question. I eventually got it to work. I need the vmware-any-any packages version 115a. so make deb out of the vmware tgz (server and mui) (i tried 1.0.5 as it was out) make deb's out of the vmware-any-any. install the vmware any any make the any-any kernel modules, install

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:29:17 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Sorry to be the one who breaks the embarrassing news to you but the above url led me to something related to *sex scandal*, from which I failed to compreh

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-17 19:05:30 -0500]: > e3 and joe emulate WordStar, if she's *really* old-school. > *MY* mother was ever so glad to see BOTH Wordstar and WordPerfect go. And she bakes better cookies than yours does. -- Regards, Klein If built in great numbers, mote

Re: cron and command quote

On Sun, 16 Mar 2008 06:48:19 +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: >> >> * * * * * rootps -eaf | grep -E 'cdrecord.* -[dts]ao |cdrdao >> >> *write|growisofs.*speed=' > /dev/null || logger get executed. >> >> PS. I'm sure the PATH is setup properly in my cron, so cron can find ps >> >> & grep. > >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 14:57, Steve Lamb wrote: > On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 > >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > > Er, Ron

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

On Mar 9, 2008, at 8:05 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:06:37 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - I also would like to spend some Debian money

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Monday 17 March 2008 07:29:17 am Ron Johnson wrote: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red Ha

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Mon, March 17, 2008 7:29 am, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Er, Ron? Wrong C&P? This links to an article about Spitzer. -- Steve Lamb -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 07:29:17 am Ron Johnson wrote: >> > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. > > Same here. I do not know how it is related to Red Hat. raju -- Kamar

Re: What CDs and DVDs should we produce for lenny?

take it as you will, but I think that it would be useful to group the terminal and lightweight apps together, just seems a waste to download (25 for etch) disks to install onto a low powered computer, when everything together would all fit on one disk (that is base system and all terminal apps that

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 15:17, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Monday 17 March 2008 07:29:17 am Ron Johnson wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html > > Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. People who read

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:38, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: >>> I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:13:47 -0500 "Mumia W.." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, I have been able to backup my Palm TX PDA with kpilot (for Sarge) a > couple of times, but kpilot is not very good software. Most of the time, > it can't get a connection to the handheld, and kpilot crashes when it

Errors installing dansguardian

Greetings; I am trying to install dansguardian and it won't go. I have tried renaming and removing file & directories to no avail. I always get these errors from aptitude install. Setting up dansguardian (2.8.0.6-antivirus-6.4.4.1-2) ... grep: /etc/dansguardian/dansguardian.conf: No such fil

libgconf2 dependencies..

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can't upgrade a lot of packages (perl for one) because apt says that: The following packages have unmet dependencies: libgconf2-4: Depends: gconf2-common (>= 2.22) but it is not going to be installed Depends: gconf2-common (< 2.23)

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:00, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> >> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html >> > > Interesting. This reminds me of some article I read somewhere regarding > the perception

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

On 17/03/2008, Jörg Becker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. > The message is the famous "already mounted or busy". I found many things in > google, but nothing matches my problem. > > symptoms: > - device is detected on

Re: etch: cannot mount usb hd

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 12:04, Jörg Becker wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. > The message is the famous "already mounted or busy". I found many things in > google, but nothing matches my

Re: List of allowed rcpt hosts

Sorry to follow up on myself, but I found a rather strange exim log entry when sending a message to a bogus address: 2008-03-17 18:29:50 1JbNq2-000248-V1 <= [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=brownh P=local S=530 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-03-17 18:29:51 ** [EMAI

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On Monday 17 March 2008 07:55, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I want to buy a Palm TX. Has anyone experience on running Debian on it? > Thank you I have one of these, and I successfully back it up on a Debian "etch" system. I was never able to get the USB syncing to work properly, but I'm able

Re: Ssh connection hangs. Ignored ACK packet?

On 17/03/2008, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > MTU is my standard WAG for this kind of thing, having had problems in > the distant past. I don't understand how MTU could be the culprit, as my problem seems to be that a packet is not resent, and not that a packet doesn't arrive. Anyway,

Re: apt.conf doesn't have effect anymore

On Sat, 8 Mar 2008 11:07:52 +0200, "Andrei Popescu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Wed, Mar 05, 2008 at 03:59:04PM +0100, Dvorzhetsky wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I'm mainly using lenny, but I have as well sid and experimental > > repositories in my sources.list. To give priority to lenny I use > >

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

On Monday 17 March 2008 07:29:17 am Ron Johnson wrote: > http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Looks like the article is about Elliot Spitzer. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: List of allowed rcpt hosts

"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:27:17PM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: >> I'm setting up exim on a system and find that mutt can receive mail, but >> not send it. > >> The exim configuration is the same on my desktop (debian etch having the >> address 192

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 03:20:36PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > > and word documents over for her. > > Enjoy teaching her LaTex while she's at it. May a

Re: KPager

On 03/17/2008 12:49 AM, Ty Tower wrote: have a start up script and I want to start email on page 1 and browser on page 2 #! sleep 5s Desktop 1 kmail Desktop 2 firefox If I am on page 4 when sleep ends it kicks off kmail on page 1 and firefox on page 4. Can I change this

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: Palm TX Handheld and Debian

On 03/17/2008 06:55 AM, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Hi, I want to buy a Palm TX. Has anyone experience on running Debian on it? Thank you Thierry Yes, I have been able to backup my Palm TX PDA with kpilot (for Sarge) a couple of times, but kpilot is not very good software. Most of the time, it

Re: exim: too many connections?

On 2008-03-13, Paul Johnson penned: > > Are you already using greylisting? If not, the easiest way to set > this up is to install the greylistd package and follow the easy > instructions in /usr/share/doc/greylistd. The whole process > should take download time+5 *dropping in after a long absenc

etch: cannot mount usb hd

Hello everyone, I cannot mount an usb hd when it was connected while switching on my machine. The message is the famous "already mounted or busy". I found many things in google, but nothing matches my problem. symptoms: - device is detected on startup (currently /dev/sdc with 3 partitions sdc1-

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html Interesting. This reminds me of some article I read somewhere regarding the perception that people tend to take things that are free as in bee

Re: Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: Ssh connection hangs. Ignored ACK packet?

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 02:49:21PM +0100, Bernardo Dal Seno wrote: > I have intermittent problems in transferring files between two > machines via scp. Symptomps are: when transferring a large file from > the server to the client, scp transfers a few Kbytes and then says > "stalled". > > ... > Wha

Re: Icedove shuts down after send

On 03/16/2008 06:32 PM, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Ron Johnson wrote the following on 03/16/2008 05:17 PM: [...] God is telling [you] to move off Stable. Probably! How do I do that? Where is the Migration Guide?? Thanks! Dennis There is no need to move off Stable. You can install a previous v

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 05:50:47PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 16 March 2008 12:20:36 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 01:48:13PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: > > > I will also tell her that I will install Debian and migrate her email > > > and word documents over

Why Red Hat is the "business" distro

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/16/AR2008031602168.html - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is a pain in the a**." My wife -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFH

Ssh connection hangs. Ignored ACK packet?

I have intermittent problems in transferring files between two machines via scp. Symptomps are: when transferring a large file from the server to the client, scp transfers a few Kbytes and then says "stalled". After a while I was having this problem, I tried to investigate it, and captured the TCP

Re: Application to find RGB hex values?

On 17 Mar 2008, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Anthony Campbell wrote: >> I'm looking for a way to identify the RGB hex value of a large image >> I've created with Gimp. I thought I might be able to use Gimp itself but >> I can't find a way. Much googling produces various Windows programs >> (e.g. pixe

Re: Make Error Building Module

Robert Rawlins wrote: Hello Guys, I’m getting the following errors when trying to install the HSO modem drivers for my GPRS/3G dongle, I think its related to my system but can figure out what’s causing it. make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23-486-voyage/build M=/home/driver/hso MODVERDIR=/home

Re: Problems with network printers. Additional explanations ...

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 07:21, luisben wrote: > Hi Ron. What do you think about to change the print processor who actually is > HPPRN05 and put in a WinPrint. Do I have to save any system information > before? is there any danger to change the printer processor o

Re: difficulties configuring PPPoE

Yu-ning Feng wrote: Hello, I am a new Debian user. I used PPPoE during installation process, and it worked well. However, when I was finally in the new system, I could not access the Internet at all. output of ifconfig was like, eth0 ... 192.168.1.3 lo ... ppp0 ... 123.1

Re: Application to find RGB hex values?

Anthony Campbell wrote: I'm looking for a way to identify the RGB hex value of a large image I've created with Gimp. I thought I might be able to use Gimp itself but I can't find a way. Much googling produces various Windows programs (e.g. pixeur) but I can't find anything for Linux, though I'm s

Re: Problems with network printers. Additional explanations ...

Hi Ron. What do you think about to change the print processor who actually is HPPRN05 and put in a WinPrint. Do I have to save any system information before? is there any danger to change the printer processor of a TCP/IP network printer connected with another one to the same HPJetDirect?. Thanks

Application to find RGB hex values?

I'm looking for a way to identify the RGB hex value of a large image I've created with Gimp. I thought I might be able to use Gimp itself but I can't find a way. Much googling produces various Windows programs (e.g. pixeur) but I can't find anything for Linux, though I'm sure there must be a simple

Palm TX Handheld and Debian

Hi, I want to buy a Palm TX. Has anyone experience on running Debian on it? Thank you Thierry -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: I want Get Debian Linux 3.0. where is they?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 유희원 wrote: | Hello~ | | I Want to have Debian Linux 3.0. | | Where is Debian Linux 3.0? | | Please give me location… | | Good bye… | | | why you would want it i have n o idea, but here you go. check the mirrors here http://www.debian.org/CD/http-ftp

Re: I want Get Debian Linux 3.0. where is they?

On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:21:34 +0900, 유희원 wrote: http://www.debian.org/distrib/archive -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Make Error Building Module

Hello Guys, I'm getting the following errors when trying to install the HSO modem drivers for my GPRS/3G dongle, I think its related to my system but can figure out what's causing it. make -C /lib/modules/2.6.23-486-voyage/build M=/home/driver/hso MODVERDIR=/home/driver/hso/tmp/.tmp_version

Re: is there a comprehensive howto on setting up wireless

Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I have a "Intel Corporation PRO/Wireless 3945ABG Network Connection (rev > 02)" wireless card. I am able to access the wireless connection from a > router (linksys wrt54g) by adding a stanza into /etc/network/interfaces if > the wireless connection does not use any au

Re: Having problem with recording voice

On Mon, Mar 17, 2008 at 16:20:38 +0800, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi > > I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have tried > many different solutions without success. > > The error I am getting is : > > debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav > Send break (control-c) to end recording > sox:

Re: I want Get Debian Linux 3.0. where is they?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 04:21, 유희원 wrote: > Hello~ > > I Want to have Debian Linux 3.0. Why? It's *very* old. > Where is Debian Linux 3.0? > > Please give me location… > > Good bye… Good bye. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Working with women is

I want Get Debian Linux 3.0. where is they?

Hello~ I Want to have Debian Linux 3.0. Where is Debian Linux 3.0? Please give me location… Good bye…

Re: Having problem with recording voice

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/08 03:20, Pete Kay wrote: > Hi > > I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have > tried many different solutions without success. > > The error I am getting is : > > debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav > Send break (control-c

Re: Having problem with recording voice

Pete Kay wrote: > Hi > > I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have tried > many different solutions without success. > > The error I am getting is : > > debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav > Send break (control-c) to end recording > sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': Device

xenblk and xennet kernel modules

So I have a few Debian (4.0) DomUs running; they work great, except that I am using a generic (open-source xen generic, that is) kernel rather than a debian specific kernel. I see that there are kernel-xen packages, however, they appear to be aimed at the Dom0 (they have no xennet or xenblk mo

Re: configuration of a linux router

On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 08:12:44PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 04:38:36PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > # /etc/hosts file > > 127.0.0.1 peasthope.yi.orgjoule localhost > ^^ > this should be: localho

difficulties configuring PPPoE

Hello, I am a new Debian user. I used PPPoE during installation process, and it worked well. However, when I was finally in the new system, I could not access the Internet at all. output of ifconfig was like, eth0 ... 192.168.1.3 lo ... ppp0 ... 123.116.xxx.xxx It looked like it got an address f

Having problem with recording voice

Hi I am able to get my debian running, but not to record audio. I have tried many different solutions without success. The error I am getting is : debian:/tmp# rec hello.wav Send break (control-c) to end recording sox: Can't open input file '/dev/dsp': Device or resource busy debian:/tmp# My a

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