Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger (try Ekiga)

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 07:21:30AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:57:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > > Hello, > > I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many > > programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) > > when other person is using Yahoo Mes

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 05:57:29PM +0100, Martin wrote: > Hello, > I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many > programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) > when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows. > Is there some program for debian that can do this

Is there cheap website host using debian+apache2+mono(asp.net)+postgresq to sell?

2008-11-07 Thread Star Liu
I want to buy a cheap website host for my personal website(a very simple and small website), and this website is now hosted on my own PC using debian+apache2+mono(asp.net)+postgresq. It seams quite hard to find a cheap website host on sell which satisfy my request(they usually only support php+mys

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 07 November 2008 17:23, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Etch, grub couldn't > boot from LVM Is this changed or changing in Lenny or Sid? -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]                      ((_/)o o(\_)) ICQ: 514984 YM/AIM: DaTwinkDaddy        

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:02:02PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Reiserfs was developed by a company (namesys, Hans Reiser's company). > It has great problems getting merged into the mainline kernel because > it behaves a bit strange. For instance, each file there is also a > directory. Too man

Trouble with DRI

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri Nov 7 19:41 , "Jason C. Wells" sent: I'm having trouble with DRI on my Radeon 9600 Pro. From everything that I have read, it should be working. I don't really know what to ask, except to ask, "Can you help me?" These are the errors from Xorg.0.log (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] Could not map

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Sam Kuper wrote: 2008/11/7 Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Sam Kuper wrote: Dear all, I selected option three (report abuse). Sucker! Listen, moron, some sites (Facebook, Reverbnation, etc) let users import their address books from Hotmail, et

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Martin wrote: Hello, I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows. Is there some program for debian that can do this? Friend told me t

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> editable. I think the best way to make them learn the folly of their > (people who insist on .doc) ways is to convert each page of the > pdflatex's output into a png and embed them as pages in the .doc > format :) Actually, that sounds like a good idea. Tho PNG being bitmapped is a bad choice.

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:20:51PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Ken Heard wrote: > I don't like the sound of *that*. RAID 5 done in software can be > dreadfully slow. Buy two drives and do a RAID 10, or stick with RAID 1. If you do only have three drives, add it to the raid1 array. -- To UN

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 02:06:27PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: > > The installer does not allow / (root), /boot or swap to be part of a > > RAID array. I consequently had to put them in only one of these hard > > drives as "ordinary" partitions, along with /tmp. > > I also found etch not to al

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
Ken Heard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lee wrote: Now when you have three disks, you can run a raid 5. In case one of the disks fail, all you need to do is to replace the broken one. Perhaps I should invest in a third HD, and before I go any further switch from RAID 1

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-07 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Martin wrote: > Hello, > I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many > programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) > when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows. > Is there some program for debian that can do this? > > Friend told me that he is using Ya

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Julian De Marchi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > The installer does not allow / (root), /boot or swap to be part of a > RAID array. I consequently had to put them in only one of these hard > drives as "ordinary" partitions, along with /tmp. I also found etch not to allow this. Lenny however has

Trouble with DRI

2008-11-07 Thread Jason C. Wells
I'm having trouble with DRI on my Radeon 9600 Pro. From everything that I have read, it should be working. I don't really know what to ask, except to ask, "Can you help me?" These are the errors from Xorg.0.log (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] Could not map ring (EE) RADEON(0): [agp] AGP failed to initi

Re: Debian Etch Installation. Root password doesn't works, why?

2008-11-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
make sure the keyboard works normally. Try typing a few minutes with a live CD. You can reset the password by: appending "init=/bin/bash" to boot parameter remount root directory # mount -o remount,rw / reset root's password # passwd root 2008/11/8 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROT

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lee wrote: > Now when you have three disks, you can run a raid 5. In case one of the > disks fail, all you need to do is to replace the broken one. Perhaps I should invest in a third HD, and before I go any further switch from RAID 1 to 5. > And alw

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Fri, 07 Nov 2008, Mike Bird wrote: >> systems have RAID / and RAID /boot. Some have RAID swap, although >> there are performance tradeoffs to be considered for RAID swap. > > Well, I hope you ARE aware that the

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > On Fri November 7 2008 14:59:19 Ken Heard wrote: > I can't quote Ken's reply as it was off-list. However some hints > would appear to be in order: Sorry about that; I had intended to send it to the list and have now done so. Bett

Re: get Rob off the list

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:33:04AM -0800, Robert Caruso wrote: > I have tried ceaselessly to be removed from this e-mail string. I have > unsuscribed several times. I have contacted all. I am at wit's end. Would > someone please help. Thanks. > On Fri Nov 7 15:28 , "Douglas A. Tutty" se

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: > What makes you believe that the Etch installer doesn't allow RAID > for those partitions? I started out by creating partitions and then selecting them for RAID. When I selected the "finish" option whereby they are written to disk,

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Teague
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008, Mike Bird wrote: >> systems have RAID / and RAID /boot. Some have RAID swap, although >> there are performance tradeoffs to be considered for RAID swap. > On Fri Nov 7 18:50 , Henrique de Moraes Holschuh sent: > Well, I hope you ARE aware that the box will lock up hard or p

Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
lee wrote: On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:39:43 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their enthusiast line. Asus sucks. Support is nonexistent; losing connection to a disk all the time is unacceptable, especially for a board that expen

Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:39:43 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their > enthusiast line. Asus sucks. Support is nonexistent; losing connection to a disk all the time is unacceptable, especially for a board that expensive. The

Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:39:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their enthusiast line. However, do not buy Asus for production work. For workstations, servers, and non-consumer-grade desktops, Asus is subpar, as

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008, Mike Bird wrote: > systems have RAID / and RAID /boot. Some have RAID swap, although > there are performance tradeoffs to be considered for RAID swap. Well, I hope you ARE aware that the box will lock up hard or panic if anything happens to the device hosting the swap AND it

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-07 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 02 Nov 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > EXT3, I started to use EXT3 in those new servers. But unfortunately, > after every electricity cutoff[1], EXT3 just crashes and waits prompt > from me standing at boot. I start the servers with Knoppix (Gee!) and Is your storage sane? Or is it el-cheap-

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread M.Lewis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:39:47AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:40:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this is not

Re: device mapper help

2008-11-07 Thread William Thompson
I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:46:24PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, William Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote about 'Re: device mapper help': > >On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:44:00PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote:

Poor Wine sound quality on Intel AC'97 (T41 laptop)

2008-11-07 Thread Nate Bargmann
I'm trying to figure why the sound from WINE is poor to non-existant on this laptop. I am running Sid and ALSA with the latest kernel 2.6.26 package and KDE. Sound from KDE and Audacious is working well only WINE is not working. I've tried the 1.0.0 and 1.0.1 Debian packages as well as the 1.1

Re: /usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed

2008-11-07 Thread Roger Leigh
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:29:28PM -0200, Marcelo Laia wrote: > Hello, > > Several days I have been having problems with my printer Epson Styllus > Collor 740. It was working perfectly. But about 30 days a go it > stopped working. > -Stylus Color-740 --- CUPS + Gutenprint-V5.0.2 > "/usr/lib/cups/

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri November 7 2008 14:59:19 Ken Heard wrote: > Mike Bird wrote: > > What makes you believe that the Etch installer doesn't allow RAID > > for those partitions? I can't quote Ken's reply as it was off-list. However some hints would appear to be in order: 1) Create matching sets of software-RA

/usr/lib/cups/filter/pstoraster failed

2008-11-07 Thread Marcelo Laia
Hello, Several days I have been having problems with my printer Epson Styllus Collor 740. It was working perfectly. But about 30 days a go it stopped working. Since I use Debian testing, I was searching on google and waiting for an update. However, there was no update and neither the google reso

Re: OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 05:39:43PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their > enthusiast line. > > However, do not buy Asus for production work. For workstations, > servers, and non-consumer-grade desktops, Asus > is subpar, as are many other

OT about Asus, was Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Allums
lee wrote: advantage is that the system keeps running --- I've had a crappy Ausus board (don't buy Asus!) that would loose connection to one of the SATA Asus is fantastic! for a consumer-level board, especially their enthusiast line. However, do not buy Asus for production work. For workst

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:44:01AM -0700, TW wrote: > >> Why not just use PDF/HTML? Those will do very well for a read-only version. > > I might just stick with PDF. I was thinking about something else when > I mentioned Microsoft Word. > > >> If you want them to be able to edit it: how

Re: Debian Etch Installation. Root password doesn't works, why?

2008-11-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 22:02:45 +, Manuel Gómez wrote: > Hi, i am on Debian Etch since january, but when i have installed the last > release of Debian Etch (last month) the root password doesn't works. No > matter how many times i try, it says "password incorrect. So, I reinstalled > the OS fo

get Rob off the list

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:33:04AM -0800, Robert Caruso wrote: > I have tried ceaselessly to be removed from this e-mail string. I have > unsuscribed several times. I have contacted all. I am at wit's end. Would > someone please help. Thanks. > > > Robert Caruso > President/Owner > Mitigati

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 09:39:47AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: > > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:40:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: > >>I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I > >>want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this is not possible > >

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:55:38PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > > >Can't you just send a pdf? It's as ubiquitous as Word (or even more), > >and this will keep the beautiful formatting Latex does. > > If I can get them to accept it. They probably want it to be editable. I > think the best way

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 17:15:08 -0500 Ken Heard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The installer does not allow / (root), /boot or swap to be part of a > RAID array. It should allow that --- I haven't tried it with software raid, but you can boot from the raid array when you have a hardware raid controlle

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/07/08 16:15, Ken Heard wrote: [snip] The only way I can think of to avoid such a situation in this particular box where there are only two drives in the RAID array, it to have a third drive with everything but the /home partition stored in it, and Or any common "data" partitions, as in a

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri November 7 2008 14:15:08 Ken Heard wrote: > The installer does not allow / (root), /boot or swap to be part of a > RAID array. I consequently had to put them in only one of these hard > drives as "ordinary" partitions, along with /tmp. Except for laptops with only one HD, all of my Etch (a

Re: Debian Etch Installation. Root password doesn't works, why?

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 22:02:45 + "Manuel Gómez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, i am on Debian Etch since january, but when i have installed the > last release of Debian Etch (last month) the root password doesn't > works. No matter how many times i try, it says "password incorrect. > So, I rein

What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-07 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In a new box I decided to install Etch with a RAID array. In that box I had two 1 TB hard drives to use for a RAID 1 array. I discovered that there is much to installing a RAID array which is not explained in the Installation Guide. The installer do

Re: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 07/11/08 18:24, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, With 'xrandr -o left' you rotate the display. Anybody use that for a useful purpose? Of course! It is very useful with LCD monitors with pivot. You can rotate (physically) the screen 90 degrees, use xrandr -o left and here we go - everything lo

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
Guys, That was the longest and useless thread of the day. It's sad to see intelligent people acting like this in such useful environment. Vinicius Robert Caruso escreveu: You guys obviously want to be tortured you eurotrash fucks Robert Caruso President/Owner Mitigation Online Consultants

Debian Etch Installation. Root password doesn't works, why?

2008-11-07 Thread Manuel Gómez
Hi, i am on Debian Etch since january, but when i have installed the last release of Debian Etch (last month) the root password doesn't works. No matter how many times i try, it says "password incorrect. So, I reinstalled the OS four times and its says the same. Why this happens? What could i do?

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 15:05:21 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > But, if you're > current set up is working for you, and you're simply curious to see if > newer will be better, then I say don't do it. Why fix what isn't > broken? Because it will become broken over time: "Broken" in

RE: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Caruso
You guys obviously want to be tortured you eurotrash fucks Robert Caruso President/Owner Mitigation Online Consultants 818-501-1520 Main Office 818-501-1524 Direct Office 310-709-7157 Cell 310-997-3677 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mitigationonlineconsultants.com AIM: robmodelinla -Original Me

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

2008-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 07 October 2008, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: nspluginwrapper problem': >On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:33:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Monday 06 October 2008, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote >> >> about 'nspluginwrapper problem'

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/11/7 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri,07.Nov.08, 20:57:08, Sam Kuper wrote: > > > If one of the imported email addresses is, say, the debian-user mailing > list > > address rather than, for instance, a friend's email address, then the > user > > has abused the facility. Reverbnatio

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,07.Nov.08, 20:57:08, Sam Kuper wrote: > If one of the imported email addresses is, say, the debian-user mailing list > address rather than, for instance, a friend's email address, then the user > has abused the facility. Reverbnation is quite right to provide an abuse > link. It's actually

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,07.Nov.08, 15:01:00, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Friday 07 November 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three': > >On Fri,07.Nov.08, 17:09:33, Sam Kuper wrote: > >> I selected option three (report abuse). > > That seems appros.

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Sam Kuper
2008/11/7 Robert Holtzman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Sam Kuper wrote: > >> Dear all, >> I selected option three (report abuse). > > Sucker! > Listen, moron, some sites (Facebook, Reverbnation, etc) let users import their address books from Hotmail, etc and then send out invitations

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008 17:02:58 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. Don't do it! Resist the temptation. Stay with good

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Holtzman
On Fri, 7 Nov 2008, Sam Kuper wrote: Dear all, I selected option three (report abuse). Sucker! -- Bob Holtzman A day without fusion is like, a day without sunshine If it smells it's chemistry, if it crawls it's biology, if it doesn't work it's physics -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 07 November 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three': >On Fri,07.Nov.08, 17:09:33, Sam Kuper wrote: >> I selected option three (report abuse). That seems appros. >1. Please don't reply to spam - it makes it impossible to remove it

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 19:55:38 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > > Can't you just send a pdf? It's as ubiquitous as Word (or even > > more), and this will keep the beautiful formatting Latex does. > > If I can get them to accept it. They probably wan

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

2008-11-07 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 14:02:34 -0400, Thomas H. George ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [...] > Note: This is a reposting as the original sent yesterday (5 Nov 08) > never appeared in my mail from the list and also not in the archives. Probably not relevant, but your posting suggests you have you

Re: device mapper help

2008-11-07 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 07 November 2008, William Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: device mapper help': >On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:44:00PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: >> William Thompson wrote: >> > I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. >> > >> > Is there a tool somewhere that will a

problems with pcmcia wifi card

2008-11-07 Thread Bernard
Hi to everyone, I have an old laptop (Thinkpad 600) running on Debian Etch, and I am trying to get a pcmcia 'deXlan' wifi card (Intersil Prism2 chipset) working on it. I want WPA encryption, and I am told that my Hostap driver is supposed to work WPA provided that the daemon 'hostapd' is running a

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread lee
On Fri, 07 Nov 2008 10:15:53 -0600 Ramasubramanian Ramesh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not > sure how much difference there is, in terms of stability. When you run testing (and keep it updated), you don't need to worry about making the leap from one stab

Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Brian McKee
-- Forwarded message -- From: Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:19 PM Subject: Re: xrandr -o left To: Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 1:24 PM, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > With 'xrandr -o left' you rotate

Re: how to use squid as a Debian package proxy / cache (instead of approx, apt-cacher, etc)

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Somewhere I got the idea of using Squid as a package cache > instead of approx, apt-cacher, apt-proxy, etc. (E.g. [1]) That thread > had some of the details needed, but it is missing some details. > E.g. The settings that will allow the hard drive to spin down. For what it's worth, I use p

Fwd: Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Brian McKee
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 2:36 PM, Rob Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:24:08PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: >> I was actually doing it here >> for a bit, but my CRT distorts colours when you put it on it's side. > did you find all colors distorted? or just text? and w

Re: OT: wireless router suggestions

2008-11-07 Thread Stefan Monnier
> The time has come to replace my garbage router. I am looking at the > WRT54GL because of the available firmware, however, I need a USB print > server as I do not want to replace my wonderful USB all-in-one HP > printer. Which quality wireless routers can run Tomato and have USB > print servers? T

Re: Fwd: xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Rob Starling
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 02:24:08PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I think that's the point - e.g. Sears Portrait Studios (and other > photography stores that do portrait shots) often set their monitors up > that way for more vertical real-estate. I was actually doing it here > for a bit, but my CRT

Re: nspluginwrapper problem

2008-11-07 Thread Thomas H. George
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:33:44PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Monday 06 October 2008, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'nspluginwrapper problem': > >When I run nspluginwrapper -i > >/usr/lib/browser-plugins/libflashflashplayer.so the response is > > Could you ru

xrandr -o left

2008-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, With 'xrandr -o left' you rotate the display. Anybody use that for a useful purpose? I am at a loss to find one because mouse action is all backwards. Do you physically have to rotate your monitor for it to be useful? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

.xsession-errors messages

2008-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I get a lot of: error 182 request 157 minor 8 serial 773 where 'serial'keeps climbing. Anybody knows what it means? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: radeonhd 1.2.3 working for DRI ?

2008-11-07 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
The Friday 24 October 2008 15:37:35 Thomas Preud'homme, you wrote : > The Friday 24 October 2008 04:09:07 Amit Uttamchandani, you wrote : > > > Yeah I did upgrade the xorg and mesa to be able to install radeonhd. > > > Here are the package that have been upgraded : > > > > > > [MIS A JOUR] libgl1-m

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,07.Nov.08, 17:09:33, Sam Kuper wrote: > Dear all, > I selected option three (report abuse). 1. Please don't reply to spam - it makes it impossible to remove it from the archives 2. Don't quote spam messages (partially or entirely) - it confuses the spam filters Regards, Andrei -- If you

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Raj Kiran Grandhi escreveu: > Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > >> Can't you just send a pdf? It's as ubiquitous as Word (or even more), >> and this will keep the beautiful formatting Latex does. >> > > If I can get them to accept it. They probably want it to be editable. I > think the best wa

Re: Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear all, I selected option three (report abuse). Regards, Sam 2008/11/7 I Am Three <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > debian-user@lists.debian.org, > > > I Am Three is now using our secure emailing software (FanReach, from > ReverbNation.com) to keep fans up to date about their music, shows, and > ne

Re: kernel 2.6.27.4

2008-11-07 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-07 17:02 +0100, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Anybody running the latest stable kernel yet? For about ten days. > Satisfied? Problems? Works quite well, even the WLAN problems ([0], [1]) that exist in 2.6.26 with the combination 64-bit kernel/ 32-bit userland are almost gone. Only problem

Confirmation Message from I Am Three

2008-11-07 Thread I Am Three
debian-user@lists.debian.org, I Am Three is now using our secure emailing software (FanReach, from ReverbNation.com) to keep fans up to date about their music, shows, and news. I Am Three has indicated that you opted-in to be on their existing email list. As part of our rigid anti-spam proto

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread oneman
On 7-nov-2008, at 2:04, TW wrote: Hi, I'm going to be writing a political book soon and I'm not sure what software to use to write it. I want to use something like Vim to write it, but, I want to be able to convert it to OpenOffice/MicrosoftWord, etc. format(s). The reason tha

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not > sure how much difference there is, in terms of

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. Which packages are too old for a 'gateway/file server? >

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 7 2008 08:15:53 am Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not sure > how m

Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Ramasubramanian Ramesh
All, I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not sure how much difference there is, in terms of stability. I am not worried about a

Re: how to use squid as a Debian package proxy / cache (instead of approx, apt-cacher, etc)

2008-11-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 11:06:29AM -0500, CSights wrote: > Hi everyone, > Somewhere I got the idea of using Squid as a package cache instead of > approx, > apt-cacher, apt-proxy, etc. (E.g. [1]) That thread had some of the details > needed, but it is missing some details. E.g. The setting

LPD and text-based printer

2008-11-07 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Is it possible to create an LPD printer that outputs to a text file? I have created printers in CUPS before but it always has been a PDF printer or a printer via SAMBA. Basically I print out a bunch of text files but I want it to be printed directly as text (not postcript). Well I guess if its po

Re: kernel 2.6.27.4

2008-11-07 Thread Adrian Chapela
Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: Hi, Anybody running the latest stable kernel yet? Satisfied? Problems? Hugo I am running on two PC and it is working well. I only use to do test. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: device mapper help

2008-11-07 Thread William Thompson
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 11:44:00PM +0800, hhding.gnu wrote: > William Thompson wrote: > > I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. > > > > Is there a tool somewhere that will allow me to merge a snapshot into the > > parent device? > > > > For instance, if I have a snapshot of /dev/

Re: Who does makes USB dev files ?

2008-11-07 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:38:19AM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I'm looking for routines which make dev files (for example, /dev/usb/lp0 > for usb printer) of USB character devices. udev > Is it udev or kernel driver module? udev loads kernel driver module required to support devic

kernel 2.6.27.4

2008-11-07 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Anybody running the latest stable kernel yet? Satisfied? Problems? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-07 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 07:31:06PM +0100, Michelle Konzack wrote: > Am 2008-11-03 12:00:03, schrieb Volkan YAZICI: > > I really wonder the future of ReiserFS. I don't follow kernel related > > improvements (and discussions) that much, but I still don't have a > > reliable information about the deve

Re: device mapper help

2008-11-07 Thread hhding.gnu
William Thompson wrote: > I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. > > Is there a tool somewhere that will allow me to merge a snapshot into the > parent device? > > For instance, if I have a snapshot of /dev/sdb like this: > sdb-snap1: 0 16777216 snapshot /dev/sdb /dev/sdb-snap1-ba

Desktop hangs after awhile if using both IDE and SATA hard disk

2008-11-07 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
I'm using GA-8N-SLI Intel Edition motherboard I actually wanted to transfer datas from SATA hdd to (80 GB)IDE hdd (40 GB) and install Debian on that SATA hdd. My problem is, it stops transferring data after a few minutes. Somebody suggests that the problem lies from the incompatability between old

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread M.Lewis
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 04:40:04AM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: I'm installing Lenny on a machine with a pair of 80GB SATA drives. I want to do a RAID1 during the install. Apparently this is not possible using the graphical install. Or else I have over looked it. Is there a

Re: Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 6 2008 11:50:07 pm Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-11-07 04:56 +0100, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I noticed) I > > have no sound in the unreal games (ut-goty, ut2003 and ut2004). I haven't > > changed anything that I am aware of.

Re: Wireless network is not working

2008-11-07 Thread Allan Dreyer Andersen
Sven Joachim skrev: I've a Ubuntu live cd, and there isn't any problem and the network-manager works as it should. Package version is 0.7.0 and Debian only is at 0.6.6 so guess I have to wait for a Debian package. There is a prerelease of 0.7.0 in experimental¹, it should be worth a try.

device mapper help

2008-11-07 Thread William Thompson
I'm not on the list. Please always keep me in the CC. Is there a tool somewhere that will allow me to merge a snapshot into the parent device? For instance, if I have a snapshot of /dev/sdb like this: sdb-snap1: 0 16777216 snapshot /dev/sdb /dev/sdb-snap1-backing P 8 sdb-snap2: 0 16777216 snapsh

Re: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread Sam Kuper
Dear Robert, 2008/11/7 Robert Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have tried ceaselessly to be removed from this e-mail string. I have > unsuscribed several times. I have contacted all. I am at wit's end. > Would > someone please help. Thanks. At the bottom of this message and every other messa

RE: Lenny install SATA+RAID1+LVM

2008-11-07 Thread Robert Caruso
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Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread TW
>> Why not just use PDF/HTML? Those will do very well for a read-only version. I might just stick with PDF. I was thinking about something else when I mentioned Microsoft Word. >> If you want them to be able to edit it: how are you going to merge in their >> changes? Thank yo

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-07 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Raj Kiran Grandhi escreveu: Can it convert from latex to odt format? I have spent quite a bit of time unsuccessfully searching for something that would do it without causing a lot of grief. Please point me to it. It would be a life saver in those cases where people

debian-user@lists.debian.org

2008-11-07 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:34:59AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > Yes, but I believe the skipper of a boat is usually a captain rather > than a kernel. So I guess you'd have to ask the captain for his view of > hardlinks vs soft, if you're referring to boat-anchor links. I wonder if in unified milita

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