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

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:17:31 -0800 "David Fox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was helping to update a friends (old) p3 box that ran an old version > of etch, needed a bunch of security updates and kde and some other > stuff installed last night. I got all the updates installed except for > two thin

Re: [OT] Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Grieveson
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 00:35:50 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was > somehow joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly > attempted to unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get > over 50 e-mails a day

Re: What package should I install to see man pages for C library?

2008-11-09 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:54:30PM +0900, J.H.Kim wrote: > What package should I install to read C library manual using man? > I installed glibc-doc and glibc-doc-reference-2.3.6-1.all.deb but I > cannot see man page for C libray such as "fprintf". > When I do "man fprintf", "No manual entry for

What package should I install to see man pages for C library?

2008-11-09 Thread J.H.Kim
Hi, everyone What package should I install to read C library manual using man? I installed glibc-doc and glibc-doc-reference-2.3.6-1.all.deb but I cannot see man page for C libray such as "fprintf". When I do "man fprintf", "No manual entry for fprintf" message is found. Please let me know what

Re: i386 to amd64

2008-11-09 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
Thanks Boyd, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. escreveu: On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:04, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Sven Joachim escreveu: Setting up ia32-libs-tools (11) ... mangle: ia32-libs-tools/mangle.cc:231: size_t PkgDepAnd::parse(std::string&, size_t): Assertion `is_name(s[offset])' failed. /va

[Fwd: Zimbra]

2008-11-09 Thread rjubio
--- Begin Message --- Does anyone know if ZimbraWebClient can be installed separately so that I could use its features like AtmailOpen and roundcube. I've been trying to research on this and so far from what I get is that the Open source Zimbra Collaboration Suite includes the mail server. T

[Fwd: Zimbra]

2008-11-09 Thread rjubio
--- Begin Message --- Hello, I've been trying to setup Zimbra for my Debian 4.0/ppc arch server. Can anybody tell if zimbra collaboration suite contains the zimbra server? I would only like to install the web client excluding the server. --- End Message ---

Fwd: Zimbra

2008-11-09 Thread Rod James Bio
-- Forwarded message -- From: rjubio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 10:10 AM Subject: Zimbra To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Does anyone know if ZimbraWebClient can be installed separately so that I could use its features like AtmailOpen and roundcube. I've been t

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

2008-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:25:29AM -0600, lee wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:50:28 -0500 > "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Parts break, > > redundancy kicks in, change the dead part, still the same computer. > > If so, you can do that with three cheap i386 boxes. > > Let's say

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

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 17:53, Napoleon wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > In a similar vein: contrary to Unix lore, most C apps are horribly > > non-portable, whereas COBOL apps are *very* portable. > > Contrary to popular lore, COBOL apps are typically no more portable than > C apps. Yeah, I've

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/09/08 17:53, Napoleon wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the 1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even f

Re: i386 to amd64

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 19:04, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > Sven Joachim escreveu: > Setting up ia32-libs-tools (11) ... > mangle: ia32-libs-tools/mangle.cc:231: size_t > PkgDepAnd::parse(std::string&, size_t): Assertion `is_name(s[offset])' > failed. > /var/lib/dpkg/info/ia32-libs-tools.postin

Re: Accept only "smtp.gmail.com" and "pop.gmail.com", how i could do that?

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 11:37, Manuel Gómez wrote: > I allow the IPs (pop.gmail.com, smtp,gmail.com) but the connection doesn't > works, what i could allow? http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Basically, I'm not sure you've given me enough information to diagnose and suggest a

Re: i386 to amd64

2008-11-09 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
Sven Joachim escreveu: On 2008-11-09 03:51 +0100, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Sven Joachim escreveu: On 2008-11-08 17:06 +0100, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Is there any way to build amd64 packages from i386? There is probably more than one way, but assuming you have a 64-bit processor (if n

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

2008-11-09 Thread Napoleon
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the 1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even for mainframes, the shelf-life of wha

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread steve
Doug Mitton wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:10:30 +0100, you wrote: > >> Doug Mitton wrote: >>> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0100, you wrote: >>> >>> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> Doug Mitton wrote: > Hi All; > > I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Wal

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread Doug Mitton
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 21:10:30 +0100, you wrote: >Doug Mitton wrote: >> On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0100, you wrote: >> >> References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >>> Doug Mitton wrote: Hi All; I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo web site. It a

problem connecting to pppoe server in etch

2008-11-09 Thread M. Horbatsch
Hi, I connect to my ISP using pppoe. This works fine in Fedora core 4, which has pppd version 2.4.2, and rp-pppoe version 3.5. I recently installed Debian 4.0r5, which has pppd version 2.4.4 and rp-pppoe version 3.8. I tried to setup the connection using pppoeconf, but it could not find any a

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

2008-11-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-11-09 06:04:13, schrieb Hugo Vanwoerkom: > Michelle Konzack wrote: > >Am 2008-11-07 18:43:45, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: > >>What brand board would you use for a reliable box? > > > >Tyan > > Why? And what is the difference with Asus? ...becaue Tyan is manufacturing "professionel" ones ...

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

2008-11-09 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/10 David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a >> long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and >> it could be months at times.

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:24:23PM -0800, Robert Caruso wrote: > [...] > I have ceaselessly attempted to > unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. You really must learn how to spell "unsubscribe" ;) > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 14:24, Robert Caruso wrote: > Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was somehow > joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly attempted to > unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get over 50 e-mails a > day from this g

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 18:13:21 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: > On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:34:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > modprobe -r ehci_hcd > > > > That did not work for me. > > > You could also try if the 2.6.27 kernel improves the situation. (What > > you report in your other mail in

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

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:56 PM, Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it takes a > long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could be days and > it could be months at times. I did have some issues with the nvidia driver,

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

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 20:56:51 + Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Stable is rock solid. It does not break. > > Testing breaks less often than Unstable. But when it breaks, it > takes a long time for things to get rectified. Sometimes this could > be days and it could be months at times. >

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

2008-11-09 Thread David Fox
On Fri, Nov 7, 2008 at 12:35 PM, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When you run testing (and keep it updated), you don't need to worry > about making the leap from one stable release to the next. That was I ran etch when it was still testing, then kept it at testing for sometime until I got a new

Re: iceweasel www.flyordie.hu is unworkable

2008-11-09 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 17:27:06 +0100 "Péter Varga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Welcome > > Im using debian about 2 years ago and iceweasel is my favourite > browser, i would like to make iceweasel right. > I usually play gomoku , billiard an online page the page is this > http://www.flyordie.hu or

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 9 2008 12:24:23 pm Robert Caruso wrote: > Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was somehow > joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly attempted to > unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get over 50 e-mails a > day from this

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

2008-11-09 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 10:56:31 -0600, lee ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:56:06 +1300 > Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My understanding is that "stable" means unchanging. > > See http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1. That would > indicat

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 09 November 2008 21:24:23 Robert Caruso wrote: > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Robert Caruso
Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was somehow joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly attempted to unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get over 50 e-mails a day from this group and as you can imagine it's driving me over the edge. Plea

Gnome file type association

2008-11-09 Thread T o n g
Hi, I can't set file associations for my Gnome any more. Here is how I did: . Open the ("Nautilus") file browser. . Left click on a file to change the association. . Select "Open With" then select "Other Application". . Select the program to open the file. It works, but the problem is that t

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread steve
Doug Mitton wrote: > On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0100, you wrote: > > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> Doug Mitton wrote: >>> Hi All; >>> >>> I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo >>> web site. It appears it has gone "Internet Explorer" only as I can't >>>

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/09/08 10:25, lee wrote: On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:50:28 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Parts break, redundancy kicks in, change the dead part, still the same computer. If so, you can do that with three cheap i386 boxes. Let's say you have a router/firewall/proxy, a file

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread Doug Mitton
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:40:19 +0100, you wrote: References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >pch wrote: >> Hello, >> Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. >> > >I don't know MS Virtual PC, but I use the VMware server with good >result. The only complaint: VMware is slow to a

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 13:34:21 +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > modprobe -r ehci_hcd > That did not work for me. > You could also try if the 2.6.27 kernel improves the situation. (What > you report in your other mail indicates that WinXP can operate the > I quess, I can

Re: KDE Kicker autohide stopped working

2008-11-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Jonathan Kaye wrote: > Hi all, > I'm running Debian Lenny (2.6.26-1) with a KDE desktop using Kicker > 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5. After a recent upgrade (AFAIK not directly related to > KDE) my favourite KDE feature, the Kicker autohide) suddenly stopped > working. I have repeatedly used the Config Panel a

Good website!

2008-11-09 Thread Zakaria
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KDE Kicker autohide stopped working

2008-11-09 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Hi all, I'm running Debian Lenny (2.6.26-1) with a KDE desktop using Kicker 4:3.5.9.dfsg.1-5. After a recent upgrade (AFAIK not directly related to KDE) my favourite KDE feature, the Kicker autohide) suddenly stopped working. I have repeatedly used the Config Panel applet to set Hide automatically

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread Doug Mitton
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 18:00:15 +0100, you wrote: References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Doug Mitton wrote: >> >> Hi All; >> >> I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo >> web site. It appears it has gone "Internet Explorer" only as I can't >> get Konqueror or Mozilla on

Accept only "smtp.gmail.com" and "pop.gmail.com", how i could do that?

2008-11-09 Thread Manuel Gómez
Hi, i would like accept only smtps and pop3s on my OS and i only want to know how accept "smtp.gmail.com" and "pop.gmail.com" in my icedove. I allow the IPs (pop.gmail.com, smtp,gmail.com) but the connection doesn't works, what i could allow? I know how to use my firewall (it works allowing all sm

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
pch wrote: Hello, Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. I don't know MS Virtual PC, but I use the VMware server with good result. The only complaint: VMware is slow to adapt their *closed* source to new kernels, e.g. server 1.0.7 to linux 2.6.27. Hugo --

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

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Mon, 10 Nov 2008 04:56:06 +1300 Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My understanding is that "stable" means unchanging. See http://www.debian.org/doc/FAQ/ch-choosing.en.html#s3.1. That would indicate that "stable" doesn't mean "unchanging" but "likely to not have as many bugs" as test

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread steve
Doug Mitton wrote: > > Hi All; > > I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo > web site. It appears it has gone "Internet Explorer" only as I can't > get Konqueror or Mozilla on Linux (or WinXP) to work. The clerk at the > store says she is processing online orders.

iceweasel www.flyordie.hu is unworkable

2008-11-09 Thread Péter Varga
Welcome Im using debian about 2 years ago and iceweasel is my favourite browser, i would like to make iceweasel right. I usually play gomoku , billiard an online page the page is this http://www.flyordie.hu or works this too http://www.flyordie.com i can to log in to page but the rooms isnt appea

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

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:18:53 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Also, I'm not just prepared to be wrong about render servers, I'm > prepared to be wrong about everything. :) Well, the numbers are arbitrary. If you assume that "production" takes place in some kind of company, the li

Etch and ATI Xpress 200G video support?

2008-11-09 Thread Scott R. Ehrlich
I have a Compaq desktop whose motherboard has an intergrated ATI Tech RS480 [Radeon Xpress 200G series] video card. I have pretty decent video support now under Ubuntu. If I were to switch to Debian, what are people's experiences with video support for this card? This is a home PC, so I do

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

2008-11-09 Thread lee
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 08:50:28 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Parts break, > redundancy kicks in, change the dead part, still the same computer. > If so, you can do that with three cheap i386 boxes. Let's say you have a router/firewall/proxy, a fileserver, a mailserver and a w

Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-09 Thread Doug Mitton
Hi All; I'm looking to see if anyone can confirm a change on the Walmart Photo web site. It appears it has gone "Internet Explorer" only as I can't get Konqueror or Mozilla on Linux (or WinXP) to work. The clerk at the store says she is processing online orders. It was working fine for the

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

2008-11-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:32:14 -0600 Mark Allums <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Mark, > Does anybody sleep around here? Yes, just not at the same time as you, though. :-) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately apparent" I'm

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

2008-11-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 08:23:09 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, > Nowadays, probably. Back in the day (10-15-20 years ago), vendors > kept large stocks of old parts, and FEs could actually repair this > stuff. Don't get me started; FEs seem to be little more than board c

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 04:57:10AM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:30:07PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I think you can use a versioning system to merge latex files (since they > > are plain text) Editing a LaTex file is straight-forward for anybody > > with half a

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:30:07PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I think you can use a versioning system to merge latex files (since they > are plain text) Editing a LaTex file is straight-forward for anybody > with half a clue. That is a bit unfair. TeX/LaTeX is not that straight-forward and

Re: Trouble with DRI

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 07:41:38PM -0800, Jason C. Wells wrote: > (II) [drm] DRM open master succeeded. > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] Using the DRM lock SAREA also for drawables. > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] framebuffer handle = 0xd000 > (II) RADEON(0): [drm] added 1 reserved context for kernel > (II) RAD

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

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:15:53AM -0600, 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 su

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

2008-11-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 06:53:59PM +0200, Γιώργος Πάλλας wrote: > I have exactly the same opinion as Alan. As I wrote in another thread > about debian versions, Lenny (or testing in general) is so stable that > personally, having never run 'Stable', I can't imagine how much more > stable could a di

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Allums
pch wrote: > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. > > Pawel > > Heh, heh, heh... :) Uh, go with virtualbox. There are two versions, the open source and the closed source. The closed source is free to use for personal use, but not "Debian Free". X

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

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Allums
Does anybody sleep around here? Mark Allums Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/09/08 06:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:23:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is that the cost of maintenance contracts

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread Feng King
Try kvm,you will like it. as fast as i can see 2008/11/9 pch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. > > Pawel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a > subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/09/08 06:41, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:23:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is that the cost of maintenance contracts skyrocket after 4ish years, Surely, in part at least, that's roc

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/09/08 06:58, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the 1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even for mainframes, the shelf-life of what is generally consi

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

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Allums
replying to my own post: lest this be incendiary, note the weasel words: "if it were up to me" Also, I'm not just prepared to be wrong about render servers, I'm prepared to be wrong about everything. :) Mark Allums Mark Allums wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: O

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/09/08 07:50, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:57:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/08/08 18:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:38:39PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: What about if you don't stick with i386/amd64? I know, the

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:54:06 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > the sound device seems to be detected > > debguy:~# lspci [...] > 00:13.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation MCP04 AC'97 Audio > Controller (rev a1) That should be vendor-ID 10de, device-ID 003a, supported by the sn

Re: .xsession-errors messages

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I get a lot of: error 182 request 157 minor 8 serial 773 where 'serial'keeps climbing. Anybody knows what it means? Its meaning is still a mystery. But they show up after issuing: xcompmgr -c -f I've filed a bug: http://bugs.debian.or

Re: LPD and text-based printer

2008-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 08:13:33AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > 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

Re: Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread Bipin Babu
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 5:20 AM, pch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. > > Pawel > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". > Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > I like Virtual

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

2008-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 09:57:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/08/08 18:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Nov 08, 2008 at 04:38:39PM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > >>Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > >What about if you don't stick with i386/amd64? I know, there are fewer > >and fewer (e.g. V

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

2008-11-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 06:58:24AM -0600, Mark Allums wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: > >[snip] > > >An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is that > >the cost of maintenance contracts skyrocket after 4ish years, so that > >it's cheaper

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-09 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sat, 08 Nov 2008, Volkan YAZICI wrote: > On Sat, 8 Nov 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Is your storage sane? Or is it el-cheap-o crap that lies about when > > data really made it to the permanent media? > > Default IBM System x3650 configuration. (SAS disks.)

Virtual PC

2008-11-09 Thread pch
Hello, Can anyone recommend a good virtual machine, equivalent MS Virtual PC. Pawel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:54:11PM +0100, oneman wrote: > > On 9-nov-2008, at 10:35, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> I think LaTeX is the best! You can convert export and manipulate the >> document very efficiently and if you have graphics, mathematics and so >> on >> I've not seen anything better yet.

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-09 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:40 AM, Nate Duehr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is very common for software developers to plow ahead without thinking > much about the versions the distros provide. > > You may want to contact them and see how they would expect users to use > their software effectively. >

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

2008-11-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 09 Nov 2008 06:23:10 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, > An important reason, though, why many mainframe shops upgrade is > that the cost of maintenance contracts skyrocket after 4ish years, Surely, in part at least, that's rocketing price is to coerce the custome

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

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Allums
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the 1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even for mainframes, the shelf-life of what is generally considered useful for a lot of applications

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

2008-11-09 Thread Mark Allums
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: 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 desk

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

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Star Liu wrote: the problem is no web host provider support mono, do you know any web host support mono? thanks No mono, but e.g. http://www.godaddy.com there is a big difference in "cheapness" between VPS + Web hosting: $4.25/mo vs. $33.58/mo. Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 09:05:33 +, Virgo Pärna wrote: [...] > Here is the log: > > virsik:~# tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog [ snip: camera recognized, hal reacts normally, sd driver loaded; everything looks fine until... ] > Nov 9 10:54:18 virsik kernel: [ 4016.216143] usb 4-3: reset high s

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-09 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Nov 9, 2008 at 12:32 PM, James Youngman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You should arrange for your systems to be cleanly shut down (with, for > example, shutdown) before the UPS runs out of power. There even > exists software for some UPS types that allows you to defer the > shutdown until

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-09 Thread James Youngman
On Sun, Nov 2, 2008 at 9:39 AM, Volkan YAZICI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This year I'm obligated to administrate extra ~5 production servers and > as a result of major GNU/Linux headquarters moving from ReiserFS to > EXT3, I started to use EXT3 in those new servers. But unfortunately, > after eve

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

2008-11-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/08/08 23:25, Mark Allums wrote: [snip] But, would you want a render farm made up of SGI workstations from the 1990s? The state of the art is still moving pretty fast. Even for mainframes, the shelf-life of what is generally considered useful for a lot of applications is less than 6 years

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

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-11-07 18:43:45, schrieb Douglas A. Tutty: What brand board would you use for a reliable box? Tyan Why? And what is the difference with Asus? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

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

2008-11-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
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: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread oneman
On 9-nov-2008, at 10:35, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: oneman wrote: 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 OpenOf

Re: Extract .war File

2008-11-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Zaki Akhmad wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Hello, > > Can I extract .war file? How do I do it? > > Thanks > - -- > Zaki Akhmad man jar jar tvf .war - will list the content jar xvf .war - will extract the content jar is pretty similar to tar regards --

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
oneman wrote: > > 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. for

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

2008-11-09 Thread Abel McClendon
On Sun, 9 Nov 2008 15:32:59 +0800 "Star Liu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > the problem is no web host provider support mono, do you know any web > host support mono? thanks at linode if you can configure it you can run it. I got mine on a Friday night and was up and runni

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

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 01:32, Star Liu wrote: > the problem is no web host provider support mono, do you know any web > host support mono? thanks I don't know of any, and I doubt you'll find one, but it's possible. If you are capable of setting up your website on your home machine, you are c

Re: pbuilder/chroot problems

2008-11-09 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 09 November 2008 03:05, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-11-09 01:06 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > I attempted to to the chroot command directly, and got a bit more > > verbose output ending in: > > Setting up libc6 (2.7-16) ... > > sh: /dev/null: Permission denied > > sh: /dev/nu

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
Additionally - I rebooted my laptop toto Windows XP Home, connected the camera and copied ~500 MB of video clips and images to computer. It worked just fine, it took less than a minute to copy and there were no errors in event log. -- Virgo Pärna [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 06:04:03PM -0700, TW wrote: >>> 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 con

Re: USB drive not ready

2008-11-09 Thread Virgo Pärna
On Sat, 8 Nov 2008 17:27:04 +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > tail -fn0 /var/log/syslog > > This will list all new messages appearing in the system log. (You can > exit with CTRL-C.) Then plug in the camera, turn it on, and wait at > least thirty seconds. Post the syslog messages

Re: pbuilder/chroot problems

2008-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-09 01:06 +0100, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > I'm trying to set up a pbuilder environment on my laptop, and it's failing > with this error: > W: Failure trying to run: chroot /home/bss/debootstrap-test > dpkg --force-depends --install var/cache/apt/archives/libc6_2.7-16_amd64.deb >

Re: i386 to amd64

2008-11-09 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-09 03:51 +0100, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: > Sven Joachim escreveu: >> On 2008-11-08 17:06 +0100, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: >> >>> Is there any way to build amd64 packages from i386? >> >> There is probably more than one way, but assuming you have a 64-bit >> processor (if not, why w