Re: why is glimpse only in Stable?

2008-06-23 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 23 Jun 2008, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Glimpse is available for Stable but not for Testing or Unstable. I find > > it very valuable, almost essential. I tried swish++ but it's much less > > easy to configure. I d

Re: usb hub with fluxbox

2008-06-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
> > Hello. I recently got a USB hub with four ports. While I can plug > > a storage device, or a digital camera, into it, and read these > > devices separately, it seems that I cannot mount and read them at > > the same time (IE, view images from the digital camera, while > > simultaneously viewi

Re: ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?

2008-06-23 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon June 23 2008 22:27:50 Rick Thomas wrote: > So, if I *must* have ntp from ntp.org on my Lenny system, is there a > place I can get a working ".deb"? Can it be put in "non-free"? It's still available in Sid. You can either mess with apt's sources or preferences, or just wget the following a

Re: ntp not any more supported in Debian or did I miss something?

2008-06-23 Thread Rick Thomas
OK, So, if I *must* have ntp from ntp.org on my Lenny system, is there a place I can get a working ".deb"? Can it be put in "non-free"? Thanks! Rick On Jun 5, 2008, at 9:35 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 2008-06-04 17:59, Stackpole, Chri

frustrated webcam help.

2008-06-23 Thread i'll teach you to turn away.
something got half installed in an upgrade the other day, borked apt-get, & i had to remove a bunch of testing stuff which didn't seem necessary. (isn't that always the way?) so i thought i'd reinstalled it all /stable, but my webcam has quit working. it's a philips logitech quickcam pr

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 11:30:32PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > > > >> [snip] [snip] > mogwai:~# uname -a > Linux mogwai 2.6.25-2-686 #1 SMP Tue May 27 15:38:35

Re: debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Michael Paulsen
I don't know of any Linux or Debian specific packages either. As Rogelio said www.arrl.org is a good place to start and for loads of Disaster Planning information and instructions try http://www.training.fema.gov/IS/ On 6/23/08, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Rogelio <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Balsa's "Gnome editor?"

2008-06-23 Thread Eric d'Alibut
On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Eric d'Alibut <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does anyone know how to change the "Gnome editor" -- in Xfce4 -- to > something other than mousepad? Thanks to those who replied! What I found in Gnome was the file in my home directory: ~/.local/share/applications/def

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > > In the real world, nobody I know has got any sort of GNU/Linux > > > installed and working in a few days. Most have tried and giv

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/08 22:07, Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: >>> s. keeling wrote: Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new > windows

Re: RAID5 problem.

2008-06-23 Thread Matt Gracie
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 12:28:03PM -0400, Matt Gracie wrote: > >> [snip] > > The problem is that when I tried, using "mdadm /dev/md0 --add > /dev/sdd1", the rebuild would kick off and then fail after a short time, > marking all fo

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: >> s. keeling wrote: >>> Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new windows with my statusline), but works great for my

Re: Lenovo Thinkpad, HP, or Vostro/Latitude? was Re: OT: Laptop for College Bound Student?

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Sam Kuper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/22 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > The tell people like Ted Kennedy to put up (and allow that wind farm > > off Martha's Vineyard) or shut up about the environment. > > That's way off topic. Yeah, he's troling. :-) > Personally, I've found all

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/08 21:36, Rich Healey wrote: > s. keeling wrote: >> Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >>> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >>> illitera

Re: usb hub with fluxbox

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello. I recently got a USB hub with four ports. While I can plug a > storage device, or a digital camera, into it, and read these devices > separately, it seems that I cannot mount and read them at the same time > (IE, view images from the digital camera

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> illiterate housemate. >> >> That and putting xey

GNOME and auto-"using" DVDs and CDs

2008-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, How can I tell GNOME (up-to-date Sid) not to manage optical drives, while still auto-mounting USB & Firewire drives? (I can't think of what search terms to Google for...) TIA - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In

Re: Fail event on /dev/md0:phreaque

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Christofer C. Bell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:45 PM, s. keeling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi. I've been fiddling with a RAID5 on usb pendrives plugged into usb > > Your system has a raid5 array configured as /dev/md0 containing disks > sda, sdb, and sdc. Your sdb d

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 s. keeling wrote: > Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new >> windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically >> illiterate housemate. >> >> That and putting xey

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/6/21 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 20:20 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Additionally, should I have a dotan account on that machine I will > >> habitually back it up, and always worry that there are files there > >> that I need

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
Rich Healey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > Can't use it with other nix users, (although i'd see them creating new > windows with my statusline), but works great for my technically > illiterate housemate. > > That and putting xeyes all over his desktop remotely is hilarious. Whatever happened to

Re: Root sending messages to users

2008-06-23 Thread s. keeling
elijah r. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jun 18, 2008 at 1:00 PM, i'll teach you to turn away. > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Owen Townend <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > OT> On 17 Jun 2008 04:01:26 GMT, i'll teach you to turn away. <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> wrote: > >>> does no one use 't

Re: Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive

2008-06-23 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/6/23 Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Sam Kuper: > > > > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > > or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev > > Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! > > I guess one of your new drives uses /dev/sda which was pr

Re: debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Rogelio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 23 16:22 -0500]: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> What exactly (or, even, more specifically) are you asking for? > > Sorry, I was unclear - this is a general question on deb packages that > might be of value to people who are interested in building public safety >

Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Joe Hickey
On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 12:20:44AM +0100, Jason Williams wrote: > Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't > really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please > help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. A simple way of fin

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 23/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2) I must be interoperable with the other engineers running Solidworks. Your definition of interoperable seems a little weird. It sounds too much like the definition of vendor lock-in. - Jordi G. H. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Nautilus smb support broken?

2008-06-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:13:59PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > Which versions of the kernel are you running? Your problems may be due 2.6.24-1-amd64 > files/directories and delete existing (dummy) files. This should tell > you if the problem is limited to nautilus or if it is a general > prob

Re: Re: Debconf problem: DbDriver "config": /var/cache/debconf/config.dat is locked by another process

2008-06-23 Thread Jason Williams
Have the same problem as Graham did, but I'm still new at this and don't really understand how to find and disable running process(s)? Please help, trying to get my soundcard working, really doing my head in. Cheers, Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubs

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:27 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > >> The version of wine I'm trying to install is 1.0.0. >> Debian version is testing. > > Aah, that's probably your problem. 1.0.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in > testing

Problem with AMD K7 and Lenny Beta2 - please reply

2008-06-23 Thread Odair Augusto Trujillo
Sorry, I forget say: please send the reply at [EMAIL PROTECTED] (message copy included) Hello, I have installed Debian Lenny Beta2 on a PC with this hardware: Processor AMD Athlon 2100+ k7 Main Board Asrock K7S41GX with chipset SIS http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S41GX 521MB RAM DDR

Problem with AMD K7 and Lenny Beta2

2008-06-23 Thread Odair Augusto Trujillo
Hello, I have installed Debian Lenny Beta2 on a PC with this hardware: Processor AMD Athlon 2100+ k7 Main Board Asrock K7S41GX with chipset SIS http://www.asrock.com/mb/overview.asp?Model=K7S41GX 521MB RAM DDR I HDD Maxtor IDE 160GB 7200 rpm The installation with KDE-CD1 was succefully, but on bo

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 01:24 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/24 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Is it possible to wine your way out of this one? Forgive me if this has > > already been brought up; I appear to only have the thread after the > > subject change. > > > > Solidworks <=2005 run

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/24 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to wine your way out of this one? Forgive me if this has > already been brought up; I appear to only have the thread after the > subject change. > Solidworks <=2005 runs in codeweavers, but nothing in wine. I need a later version anyway

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-06-24 at 01:03 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/6/24 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:31 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> If anyone has any proprietary Windows apps that they'd like to see > >> ported to Linux, then mention them and I will write to the devel

Re: iceowl extension not working with icedove

2008-06-23 Thread H.S.
Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: May be, this is a bug. Check it and probably submit a bugreport. 'reportbug' packages is useful for these purposes. Already did that, many days ago. Only that I never got any reply from the maintainer. However, I just checked the bug report on the Debian bug track

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/24 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:31 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> If anyone has any proprietary Windows apps that they'd like to see >> ported to Linux, then mention them and I will write to the developers >> as well. > > Wouldn't it be a better thing in the lon

Re: Restarting X from command line

2008-06-23 Thread Lee Glidewell
On Monday 23 June 2008 02:40:22 pm Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. How can I restarting X from command line? I do not use login > manager, then /etc/init.d/gdm restart cannot work. I use startx after > autologin (inittab) [startx is in .bashrc] > > Thanks! > > -- > Openclose.it - Idee per il software

Re: Restarting X from command line

2008-06-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrea Ganduglia wrote: > Hi. How can I restarting X from command line? I do not use login > manager, then /etc/init.d/gdm restart cannot work. I use startx after > autologin (inittab) [startx is in .bashrc] > > Thanks! > "killall X && startx" ? - -

Re: large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
gary turner: > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox). I suspect that large swap and > temp partitions will be helpful, as I tend to leave my app

Restarting X from command line

2008-06-23 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
Hi. How can I restarting X from command line? I do not use login manager, then /etc/init.d/gdm restart cannot work. I use startx after autologin (inittab) [startx is in .bashrc] Thanks! -- Openclose.it - Idee per il software libero Openclose.it - Some ideas about free software http://www.openclo

Re: large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
gary turner wrote: > After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB > HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. > > Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, > Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home > Premium in a

Re: Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Sam Kuper: > > Check root= bootarg cat /proc/cmdline > or missing modules, devices: cat /proc/modules ls /dev > Alert! /dev/sda1 does not exist. Dropping to a shell! I guess one of your new drives uses /dev/sda which was previously used by your flash drive. You probably need to fi

Re: getting a RealTek 8197 to work

2008-06-23 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Sonntag, 22. Juni 2008 14:51:10 schrieb Florian Kulzer: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 16:24:27 +0200, Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Toshiba Satellite laptop, integrated rtl8197. Got a patched 8187b driver > > from the aircrack people but can't make it go WPA, only sees WEP. > > Anyone know how to make t

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread David Goodenough
On Wednesday 18 June 2008, al davis wrote: > On Tuesday 17 June 2008, Michelle Konzack wrote: > > I am using *** but those programs are crap > > and you  can not .  Even my 18 years > > old MS-DOS software works better. > > > > So, my requirements are: > > > > 1)  PCB-Layouts up to

Re: root file system question

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 11:18 -0400, Mag Gam wrote: > This is more of a theoretical Unix question, > > When there are no users on the system, the system is idle, would there > still be I/O activity on the root disks? Yes. > If so, what processes will be doing the I/O ? Writing to log, cron jobs

large HD partition plan

2008-06-23 Thread gary turner
After 8 years on my PIIIs w/10Gb HDs, I've bought a Core2 duo w/320GB HD and 4GB mem. I will install Lenny AMD64. Usage will will be primarily web development using multiple browsers, Emacs, GIMP, Inkscape and ImageMagick. I also plan to run Vista Home Premium in a VM (probably VirtualBox).

Re: What we want from software vendors (Was: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing)

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 21:31 +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > If anyone has any proprietary Windows apps that they'd like to see > ported to Linux, then mention them and I will write to the developers > as well. Wouldn't it be a better thing in the long term to encourage vendors to take a far more user-

Re: debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Rogelio
Ron Johnson wrote: What exactly (or, even, more specifically) are you asking for? Sorry, I was unclear - this is a general question on deb packages that might be of value to people who are interested in building public safety resources for future emergencies in their local communities. The

Re: Wine package dependencies

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-06-23 at 14:27 +1000, Keith Bates wrote: > The version of wine I'm trying to install is 1.0.0. > Debian version is testing. Aah, that's probably your problem. 1.0.0 is in unstable. 1.0rc2-1 is in testing. Unstable does not play well with others: Don't try to pull unstable sources

Re: debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/23/08 15:40, Rogelio wrote: > A friend of mine from the Debian community is extremely close to several > northern CA fires. > > http://tinyurl.com/5vp933 > http://tinyurl.com/3mk4ah > http://tinyurl.com/4jm67 > > Once things die down (he was ev

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

2008-06-23 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, 2008-06-22 at 08:00 -0500, Mark Allums wrote: > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must

Re: debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rogelio wrote: > A friend of mine from the Debian community is extremely close to several > northern CA fires. > > http://tinyurl.com/5vp933 > http://tinyurl.com/3mk4ah > http://tinyurl.com/4jm67 > > Once things die down (he was evacuated last week),

debian tools for public safety

2008-06-23 Thread Rogelio
A friend of mine from the Debian community is extremely close to several northern CA fires. http://tinyurl.com/5vp933 http://tinyurl.com/3mk4ah http://tinyurl.com/4jm67 Once things die down (he was evacuated last week), he and I are planning on investigating various Debian / nix public safety

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/23 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Michelle > I have run several hardware/software shops and for me the only rational > arguement for source code is "what will I as a user do if the company goes > "belly up" or stops supporting the product. The only pragmatic solution > that I was able to work out

Re: Nautilus smb support broken?

2008-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 10:28:56 -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running nautilus 2.20.0-4, and currently I can't open files on SMB > shares via Nautilus. I can browse and copy files, but any attempts to > open, view, or edit remote files seems to fail miserably. Which versions of the kernel ar

Trouble adding SATA HDDs to Etch box (ProLiant ML110 G4) that boots from USB flash drive

2008-06-23 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I have a Hewlett Packard ProLiant ML110 G4 running Etch that currently has no HDDs, just a 4GB USB flash drive on which Etch is installed. It boots fine, and I have no problems with it. However, I want to add four 500GB SATA HDDs to the box; my intention is to make these RAID 5 and use t

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread owens
> Am 2008-06-21 09:22:17, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: >> I think this is rather nearsighted. Although for what I do, >> mathematics, it's easier to argue for openness of the software (a >> mathematical proof must be available and the method disclosed, > > Sorry, but I habv my own Enterprise, w

Re: How to simulate key hit or pointer move?

2008-06-23 Thread Mumia W..
On 06/23/2008 12:50 PM, abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi all, I am using DSL small distro, with fluxbox, there is no action to disable the "powersave" as in more complete window manager, I want to keep the display always awake. [...] Read the outputs of these commands: man xset xset q

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread owens
> Am 2008-06-21 09:22:17, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: >> I think this is rather nearsighted. Although for what I do, >> mathematics, it's easier to argue for openness of the software (a >> mathematical proof must be available and the method disclosed, > > Sorry, but I habv my own Enterprise, w

Re: onak Documentation

2008-06-23 Thread rhododendronbusch
Michelle Konzack schrieb: Hello Rhodo, I have ask for some hours about installing a GPG Key-Sever and your message gaved me the name... :-) As I read your other posting and if I understand you correctly, it seems to me you're having the same problem as I do. :-) There are different solu

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
David Barrett: > > Toward this end, do you know if I can just unpack the businesscard ISO > into this new filesystem (instead of using debootstrap) and configure it > with a preseed file? This seems sensible, but I don't see how to avoid > deleting itself midway when I do the full-drive for

Re: Nautilus smb support broken?

2008-06-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm running nautilus 2.20.0-4, and currently I can't open files on SMB > shares via Nautilus. I can browse and copy files, but any attempts to > open, view, or edit remote files seems to fail miserably. > > I vaguely remember t

Re: iceowl extension not working with icedove

2008-06-23 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Hello, >> >> I just noticed that Debian has iceowl-extension package. I removed >> lightning extension that I was using (I had installed it from within >> thunderbird and thus was not a system wide install), and installed >

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/6/23 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 21/06/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> [a long point-by-point reponse to something I wrote] > > Michelle, I'm not sure how worthwhile it will be to repeat to you > arguments that I'm sure you have heard endless times

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread David Barrett
Jochen Schulz wrote: David Barrett: Well, debootstrap is great (totally awesome, really) for setting up a chroot, but I'm not super sure how to pull the rug out from underneath the old bootable OS installation and insert the new bootable chroot, swap in the new kernel, etc. You'll need a

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
On 21/06/2008, Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [a long point-by-point reponse to something I wrote] Michelle, I'm not sure how worthwhile it will be to repeat to you arguments that I'm sure you have heard endless times before. I could repeat those arguments, but I doubt you would be

Nautilus smb support broken?

2008-06-23 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm running nautilus 2.20.0-4, and currently I can't open files on SMB shares via Nautilus. I can browse and copy files, but any attempts to open, view, or edit remote files seems to fail miserably. I vaguely remember this working properly in the past, but could just be having KDE flashbacks. :) I

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 23 Jun 2008 16:16:00 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Anyhow, I've got my aptitude working again, and I'm profoundly > grateful for the help you and others gave me. The essential problem > was having "stable" instead of "sarge" in my sources.list. Sometime > or other, I will be upg

How to simulate key hit or pointer move?

2008-06-23 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi all, I am using DSL small distro, with fluxbox, there is no action to disable the "powersave" as in more complete window manager, I want to keep the display always awake. So I want to write a script or prog (shell or C) , to simulate a keyboard hit or mouse movement periodically to awake

wifi gone AWOL in Etch

2008-06-23 Thread Ernest Humpoletz
wifi (for broadband Internet) worked briefly on my Etch (and the double booted Windows XP Prof) and soon vanished from Etch. My attempts to revive it have failed abominably. Machine is DELL INSPIRON 6400 laptop, with Intel 3945 ABG v 10.1.0.13 Network controller found by lspci (as is Broad

Re: An inquiry

2008-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please try to turn off the HTML part of your messages. ] On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 16:46:43 -0700, Stephen Mazurek wrote: > Is ALSA broken in Debian etchnhalf (linux-image 2.6.22-4-686)? I am using a > ThinkpadT42 with an Intel audio controller 82801DB/DBL/DBM > (ICH4/ICH4-L/ICH4-M) AC'97 Audio Co

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-21 18:39:19, schrieb Michal R. Hoffmann: > Michelle, > > I may be talking rubbish, but I remembered there was a PCB layout design > tool called Eagle; it was German but I think it had also English > interface. It worked both in MS Windows and in Linux environment. Not > sure if this

[Semi-SOLVED] GPG Key-Server setup

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Shit... While I was continue to read the message sin my mailfolder I found the answer in another message: onak Stay only, how do I sync my Key-Sever with the ublic ones and how much disk space do I need=? Thanks, Greetings and nice Day/Evening Michelle Konzack Systemadministrator

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-21 10:50:32, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > 2008/6/21 Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 20/06/2008, Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Motivate the people that you know to let the software houses know that > >> we want their software. > > > > And we want it with free

Re: onak Documentation

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello Rhodo, I have ask for some hours about installing a GPG Key-Sever and your message gaved me the name... :-) Am 2008-06-21 16:19:36, schrieb rhododendronbusch: > Hello! > > I recently found onak[1] in the Debian-Repositories[2]. I'm looking for > a small howto or even documentation a

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-20 23:57:27, schrieb Dotan Cohen: > I was speaking in the general sense. Even if the company in question > cannot produce a 'today' solution, Michelle and others will benefit > from a 'next version' solution. The narrow-view of "it won't be now so > why bother" is exactly the reason that

GPG Key-Server setup

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello, last weekend I have again created a Debian Package for my customers which correct the user settings in gnupg (keysever) on all FileServers (nfs:/home) because the previosly kesever does not more exist... ON, now I want to know, HOW to install my own Key-Server which is exclu

Re: CAD software for PCB engineering and routing

2008-06-23 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-06-21 09:22:17, schrieb Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso: > I think this is rather nearsighted. Although for what I do, > mathematics, it's easier to argue for openness of the software (a > mathematical proof must be available and the method disclosed, Sorry, but I habv my own Enterprise, working a

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

2008-06-23 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 17:20:34 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:16:53PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 20:38:39 +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > > > directory (th

/etc/shorewall/rule for POP3

2008-06-23 Thread peasthope
Folk, I am restarting this thread; it was looped and too difficult to follow. At Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:42:41 -0700 A.S-W. wrote, "that does not mean that a rule for POP3 is not needed. I don't remember if shorewall is case sensitive, but I bet it is in the context of defining a rule. maybe post th

RE: MP3 Player for Ogg?

2008-06-23 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>Question: Is there an MP3 player that plays Ogg files right out of the box? I too second Rockbox. I bought into the iPod craze a couple of years ago and quickly discovered that I hated it. I didn't care for the interface, I couldn't access my music from other computers, continuous problems with i

RE: wireless on debian

2008-06-23 Thread Stackpole, Chris
>I'm looking at buying a wireless card for my laptop running debian lenny >with 2.6.24-1. >the machine is i386 and has a pcmcia card slot. > >What wireless card should I buy for this machine? And are there any good >howtos out there on setting up wireless? >If so can someone please provide a url? I

RE: slight OT, enterprise backup

2008-06-23 Thread Stackpole, Chris
[snip] >What do the big boys use to backup systems (say ESX with win servers >running DB's). I have never been tasked with finding an enterprise >solution, but have heard of nothing but horror stories with some big name >products. [snip] >What do we have in the FOSS area for this? I quick look a

slight OT, enterprise backup

2008-06-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Had a friend call me up and ask me about backup solutions (for a mostly win server shop). I suggested running a Linux server with Mondo (ESX is used extensively as well). This brings up a question in my mind: What do the big boys use to backup systems (say ESX with win servers running DB's).

Re: broken fetchmailconf

2008-06-23 Thread peasthope
Andrei, At Mon, 23 Jun 2008 12:30:04 +0300 you wrote, "... try dpkg -i /var/cache/apt/archives/fetchmailconf..." The reply from dpkg ends with these lines. pycentral pkginstall: package fetchmailconf is not installed dpkg: error while cleaning up: subprocess post-installation script returned er

which netinst to use?

2008-06-23 Thread michael
I've acquired an old computer with Intel Pentium D chip which I believe is a 64 bit, i686 architecture? So which netinst should I be using? I presume 'amd64' or 'i386' are the only choices but... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: iceowl extension not working with icedove

2008-06-23 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: Hello, I just noticed that Debian has iceowl-extension package. I removed lightning extension that I was using (I had installed it from within thunderbird and thus was not a system wide install), and installed iceowl-extension: $> sudo aptitude install -V iceowl-extension .. .. T

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Monday 23 June 2008 11:00:52 am Alan Mackenzie wrote: > Hi, Daniel! > > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [ ] > > > Just to be a little more clear, you can find out exactly what aptitude > > thinks by examining the status flags on the left-hand side of the

Re: How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-06-23 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: Chris Burkhardt wrote: I may be misunderstanding, but when the grub menu comes up can you not press 'e' to edit. If so select kernel line and press 'e' again and add option there. Hit the 'Return' key and then 'b' to boot. No, there's not so much as a grub menu; it's like the

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: [ ] > Just to be a little more clear, you can find out exactly what aptitude > thinks by examining the status flags on the left-hand side of the > package list. Normally packages have flags like this: > pi packag

Re: wireless on debian

2008-06-23 Thread Richard Möhn
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 09:56:23PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > I'm looking at buying a wireless card for my laptop running debian lenny > with 2.6.24-1. > the machine is i386 and has a pcmcia card slot. > > What wireless card should I buy for this machine? And are there any good > howtos out the

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

2008-06-23 Thread H.S.
Andrei Popescu wrote: Debian also has this enabled by default. See README.Debian file for openssh-server for an explanation. Hi, Thanks for that pointer. I disallow it usually though. On one or two machines on my home network, I have allowed this for custom auto rsync based backup scripts

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread Jochen Schulz
Please don't top-post. Thanks. David Barrett: > > Well, debootstrap is great (totally awesome, really) for setting up a > chroot, but I'm not super sure how to pull the rug out from underneath > the old bootable OS installation and insert the new bootable chroot, > swap in the new kernel, et

Re: Using gtkpod for an ipod

2008-06-23 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:32:58PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Jun 21, 2008 at 03:41:12PM +0200, Peter Robinson wrote: > > peter:/home/peter# mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ipod/ > > mount: you must specify the filesystem type > > Try: > >mount -t vfat /dev/sdb1 /mnt/ip

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread David Barrett
Well, debootstrap is great (totally awesome, really) for setting up a chroot, but I'm not super sure how to pull the rug out from underneath the old bootable OS installation and insert the new bootable chroot, swap in the new kernel, etc. Basically, if at all possible, I'd really like to just

Re: Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:03:04AM -0700, David Barrett wrote: > What is the best way to wipe and install a remote headless server without > console access? > > (The server is an old FC4 box, but I'm looking for a general technique.) > > debtakeover looks pretty good, except it appears to be 4 yea

Re: [OT]: possible spyware?

2008-06-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 01:46:30PM -0400, H.S. wrote: > Regarding the root login via SSH, the log says: > -- > [13:36:44] Checking if SSH root access is allowed [ Warning ] > [13:36:44] Warning: The SSH and rkhunter configuration options should be > the same: > [13:36:44]

Remote upgrade headless server with businesscard ISO?

2008-06-23 Thread David Barrett
What is the best way to wipe and install a remote headless server without console access? (The server is an old FC4 box, but I'm looking for a general technique.) debtakeover looks pretty good, except it appears to be 4 years out of date and not really working (according to other reports on th

Re: openvpn with debian stable

2008-06-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 02:51:50PM +0200, Pol Hallen wrote: > If already there's openvpn2.1-rc7-4 without some bugs, why the stable distro > doesn't show me any upgrades? Because stable receives only security updates and serious bug fixes. The version is never increased, instead the fixes are

Re: mount partitions as normal user?

2008-06-23 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun, Jun 22, 2008 at 08:38:39PM +1000, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > When I mount a partition, I must use sudo, and when I create the > directory (the mount point) in /media I must also use sudo. > I chmod -R 777 the mount point directory before mounting, but... I must > use root to copy files

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