Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship

2008-11-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/15 Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left >> running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to >> the backend from another computer? >> > rTorre

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/14 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > [snip] >> >> If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > > This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers with >

Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script

2008-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:55:09AM +, Anton Piatek wrote: > I work for a company that uses a specific java build - we are only > allowed to download it from a specific internal site, that is > authenticated. > I have written a package that downloads and builds it into a deb > (using make-j

Re: Preseeding

2008-11-14 Thread M.Lewis
Osamu Aoki wrote: Hi, Read following documents first please: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:49:07PM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: Is there a list for discussion of preseeding? If so, what is it.

Re: Preseeding

2008-11-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, Read following documents first please: http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/example-preseed.txt http://wiki.debian.org/DebianInstaller/Preseed On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:49:07PM -0600, M.Lewis wrote: > > Is there a list for discussion of preseeding? If so, what is it. Although it is not

Re: power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/14/08 21:22, D G Teed wrote: [snip] You can build a desktop from an Intel Atom based motherboard and CPU. 40 Watts maximum for the CPU and mainboard. With a high efficiency power supply, I'm measuring 42 watts idle, 47 watts under load. That is with twin 320 GB SATA drives and 2 GB of RA

Re: power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

2008-11-14 Thread D G Teed
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 6:49 PM, elijah rutschman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I have recently heard that ARM CPU's tend to be more power efficient > than x86 CPU's. > I know that several free operating systems, Debian GNU/Linux included, > support some non-x86 architectures, such as AR

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the >> cvs version. >> >> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old >> one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old >> insta

Re: full headers in Iceape (thunderbird) has no scroll bar

2008-11-14 Thread steve
Dotan Cohen wrote: > I forgot to mention, there exists an extension that fixes the issue. > hey thanks for that! it always was annoying to have to resize the view to be able to view headers.. not anymore! -- Steve Reilly http://reillyblog.com "Any people anywhere, being inclined, an

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': >On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> On Friday 14 November 2008,

Re: full headers in Iceape (thunderbird) has no scroll bar

2008-11-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
I forgot to mention, there exists an extension that fixes the issue. -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ä-ö-ü-ß-Ä-Ö-Ü

Re: full headers in Iceape (thunderbird) has no scroll bar

2008-11-14 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/15 H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello, > > On Debian Testing, when I turn full headers on in Iceape (Thunderbird), > there is no scroll bar in the header section and if the header of a > message has a lot of lines the lower lines are just not visible. > > Is this just me or is this a common

Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship

2008-11-14 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left > running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to > the backend from another computer? > rTorrent is excellent. It's still a client, but you can leav

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 04:22:16PM +0100, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 03:36:15PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > > Did you try terminus? It's available as console and X11 font and last > > > time I tried it looked equally well in b

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > >[snip] > > >> > > >>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > > > > >[Sigh] Doug,

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, ghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: udev causing data loss?': >Florian Kulzer wrote: >The names of internal disks change without notice. This, IMHO, is an >extremely lame idea. I know better now, but it was an expensive lesson. That could happen with devfs, or sta

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/14/08 19:42, ghe wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:01:26 -0700, ghe wrote: [...] particularly hated; massive nuisance causing data loss and grief: UDEV!!! (not the idea; the implementation) How does udev cause data loss? I was working on a system wher

bittorrent client with server/client relationship

2008-11-14 Thread Adrian Levi
Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded and connect to the backend from another computer? I'm trying to get the number of 24h running computers down to just one. Adrian -- 24x7x365 != 24x7x52 Stupid or bad maths? hm

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, "S.D.Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?': >I would imagine you're in the minority or running older hardware ? Most >people running a desktop environment want bleeding edge GUI IME. It's not older hardware (or at least,

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

2008-11-14 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 13 13:13 -0600]: > file:///usr/share/doc/udev/writing_udev_rules/index.html#udevinfo > > This should make it possible to find a combination of device and parent > attributes that is unique for each dongle. Well, having read that and putting the foll

Re: [OT] Burning usb keys (was: Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?)

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 02:46:43AM +0100, s. keeling wrote: > I can recommend unetbootin (google). I needed to get a few things > (all available in etch) for it to install correctly, but I've since > burned Zenwalk to a usb key and it boots into the installer. I'm > getting ZW live iso now to s

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Friday 14 November 2008, "Jeff Soules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and > corrupted .DEB packages': > >Memtest86+ is a GPL'd m

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2008/11/14 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [ Please don't top post. ] > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:37:48 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > 2008/11/9 Florian Kulzer: > > > Does the sound work when you run > > > > > > speaker-test -t sine > > > > > > or are there any erro

[OT] Burning usb keys (was: Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?)

2008-11-14 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/13/08 21:30, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > >> [Sigh] Doug

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:20:35PM -0500, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I get your point .. I asked for this behavior .. so I shouldn't complain > about it. That may or may not be true, but my point was that you could solve your problem by removing that line. :-) Daniel

Re: udev causing data loss?

2008-11-14 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:01:26 -0700, ghe wrote: > > [...] > >> particularly hated; massive nuisance causing data loss and grief: >> >> UDEV!!! (not the idea; the implementation) > > How does udev cause data loss? >

Re: install Debian

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:46:49PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:57:12PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: > >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in > >> gmane.linux.deb

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-14 Thread S.D.Allen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:28:59 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > --nextPart1351195.SGEzLtLnJY > Content-Type: text/plain; > charset="iso-8859-1" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > Content-Disposition: inline > > On Friday 14 November 2008, "S.D.Allen"=2

Re: install Debian

2008-11-14 Thread S.D.Allen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:30:00 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:57:12PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: >> On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> > >> > i've downloaded four debian iso installers

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote >> about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?':

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/15 H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adrian Levi wrote: >> 2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM >>> and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. >> >> I had a 486DX4-120 32MB running as my firew

full headers in Iceape (thunderbird) has no scroll bar

2008-11-14 Thread H.S.
Hello, On Debian Testing, when I turn full headers on in Iceape (Thunderbird), there is no scroll bar in the header section and if the header of a message has a lot of lines the lower lines are just not visible. Is this just me or is this a common problem? If the latter, it is a *way old* problem

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:07:22AM EST, Daniel Burrows wrote: [..] > I don't think it's a default, but if you have the line > > set crypt_replysign=yes > > in /etc/Muttrc, /etc/Muttrc.d/*, or ~/.muttrc, you'll see this > behavior. Absolutely .. never removed it from the .muttrc I used

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread H.S.
Adrian Levi wrote: > 2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM >> and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. > > I had a 486DX4-120 32MB running as my firewall / storage file server I have slightly

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:29:03AM EST, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 13 21:54 -0600]: > > > Maybe I need to purge mutt on this system .. and re-apt-get it? > > It's doubtful that will help unless you find all Mutt related RC files > in ~ and purge them as wel

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Adrian Levi
2008/11/7 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > What size hard drives have you had your box recognize? My box is an IBM > and its BIOS baulks at many 8GB drives and all larger ones. I had a 486DX4-120 32MB running as my firewall / storage file server at one time, I had a 2GB disc as a boot and

Re: small web browser

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:10:07AM EST, Aioanei Rares wrote: [..] >Elinks has tabs and supports ssl and javascript. tabs - yes frames support - yes ssl support - yes.. afaik javascript support - very patchy afaik If you can post a screenshot of the google advanced search pa

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
> > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 06:02:24PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: [.,] > I cannot even switch to a tiling window manager because of the line > length issue. My 14", 1024x768 display is just too narrow to have two > windows side-by-side and too wide to have Firefox running fullscreen. mine is 14

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:33:13AM EST, NN_il_Confusionario wrote: [..] > I am _sorry_ to say that even terminus (!) is better for may eyes. terminus is very nice at smaller sizes: http://www.geocities.com/fcky1000/fcky/screen0.png o's and zeroes .. l's and one's are immediately recognizable

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-14 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': > >The other thing to consider as that you don't necessarily need the same > >performance/protection for the whole dataset on a

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-14 Thread steve
Paul Johnson wrote: > Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: >> AFAIK, gaim can't do voice chat. Use Skype for voice chat. Skype works both >> in Linux, Windows. >> > To use Skype is to say that it's perfectly OK to grossly violate the > GPL. Boycott Skype. > > wasnt skype found violating gpl because

Re: TV has no sound in etch

2008-11-14 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > I use snd_ens1371 module. > DVD has sound when I play it. > But xawtv and tvtime has no sound. > Maybe I shall use some wrapper for alsa driver? > Which command I should enter? try loading pcm and mixer oss modules or use aoss this should help I hope -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, "Jeff Soules" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': >Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with >anything in the i386-amd64 family. Yeah, but it's not actually that go

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > AFAIK, gaim can't do voice chat. Use Skype for voice chat. Skype works both > in Linux, Windows. > To use Skype is to say that it's perfectly OK to grossly violate the GPL. Boycott Skype. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

problems with module-assistant and gspca

2008-11-14 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running etch and I have a pleomax pwc-2100 webcam by Pixart Imaging Inc. The pwc-2100 doesn't run out the box. After googling a bit, I found that it needs the gspca module. I installed the gspca-source and followed the instructions in /usr/share/doc/gspca-source/readme.debian:

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Charlie
On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Srinivasa Ramanujam engaged keyboard and shared this with us all: >--} hi, >--} >--} i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and >--} wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with > the --} first dvd itself, and i couldn't

power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

2008-11-14 Thread elijah rutschman
Hello, I have recently heard that ARM CPU's tend to be more power efficient than x86 CPU's. I know that several free operating systems, Debian GNU/Linux included, support some non-x86 architectures, such as ARM and MIPS. So, this brought 2 questions to mind: Which processor architecture, or speci

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Jeff Soules
Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with anything in the i386-amd64 family. If you can burn the CD, it will do its own thing so long as you boot from the CD drive. See: http://www.memtest.org/ (Don't know if your system is functional enough to download and burn a cd, but y

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Sam Kuper wrote: > With apologies for cross-posting. > > Dear all, > > I have copied below the text of a blog post* I wrote a few minutes > ago, because it addresses an issue in Debian and Debian-derived > distros that I've encountered several times, and which no doubt many > people encounter frequ

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, "S.D.Allen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?': >On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:28:43 -0400, diane mittnik in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500

Re: Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Johnson
Michael Pobega wrote: > I would *not* use Skype. The last time I had Skype installed it opened a > ton of ports on my router (I have no clue how it got into my router > configuration without the password), and since then I've switched to > using Ekiga for my everything SIP calls. It wouldn't need y

udev causing data loss? (was: what's your favourite FLOSS?)

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:01:26 -0700, ghe wrote: [...] > particularly hated; massive nuisance causing data loss and grief: > > UDEV!!! (not the idea; the implementation) How does udev cause data loss? -- Regards,| http://users.icfo.es/Florian.Kulzer Florian |

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 November 2008, "diane mittnik" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?': >On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in >> >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >>> Yes, I agree BUT by u

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ Please don't top post. ] On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:37:48 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > 2008/11/9 Florian Kulzer: > > Does the sound work when you run > > > > speaker-test -t sine > > > > or are there any error messages? > debguy:~# speaker-test -t sine > -su: speaker-test: command not found

Re: small web browser

2008-11-14 Thread lee
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 21:26:52 +0200 Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > what's a good web browser that doesn't need so much memory? > > midori? It looks good, but it crashed after 3 minutes. I'll try it some more, maybe that was just bad luck ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2008/11/15 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:37:48 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis ( > [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > debguy:~# speaker-test -t sine > > -su: speaker-test: command not found > > > > I couldn't even find "speaker-test" package with aptitude. any other way? > > > Plea

Re: What is the point of RAID?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: What is the point of RAID?': >The other thing to consider as that you don't necessarily need the same >performance/protection for the whole dataset on a system. Yeah, I can understand that. I use software raid-

Cannot install flashplayer-plugin

2008-11-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Installing other packages will result in the same fashion debguy:~# aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-14 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:37:48 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > debguy:~# speaker-test -t sine > -su: speaker-test: command not found > > I couldn't even find "speaker-test" package with aptitude. any other way? Please try not to top post. It makes it very difficult for

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread lee
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 14:03:16 + Nick Syrotiuk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yes, it could be that. I'm a software guy not a hardware guy. How > do you suggest I diagnose a hardware problem? Try shutdown -rF now and watch when the file systems are checked on reboot. Try to remove as many memor

Re: [ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released

2008-11-14 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Daniel Burrows wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I've finally released aptitude 0.5.0 into experimental. The main > change here is that it's the first release containing the GTK+ frontend. > You can find a longer description of the release (with a screenshot) > here: > > http://algebraicthunk.net/~db

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

2008-11-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
debguy:~# speaker-test -t sine -su: speaker-test: command not found I couldn't even find "speaker-test" package with aptitude. any other way? 2008/11/9 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sun, Nov 09, 2008 at 12:54:06 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > the sound device se

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'what's your favourite FLOSS?': >audio player: Amarok >cd-ripper: KAudioCreator >desktop OR window manager: KDE 3 >DBMS: PostgreSQL >development: > >disc burner: K3B >e-mail client: KMail >file manager: Konqueror

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 14 November 2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?': >John Hasler wrote: >> machiner writes: >>> what's your favourite FLOSS? >> >> I've been using some Johnson & Johnson "Reach" brand that the dentist >> gave me recently, but I think that

Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script

2008-11-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 13 November 2008, "Anton Piatek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: dpkg -i from within postinst script': >2008/11/13 François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Le Jeu 13 novembre 2008 12:26, Anton Piatek a écrit : >>> Installing this package pops up a debhelper choice of which packag

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 18:44:38 +, Russell Gadd wrote: > I ran this command : > # udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=block --attr-match=removable=1 > > Output was: > /block/fd0 > /block/hdc > /block/hdd > > These are my floppy drive and my CD and DVD drives. It seems that the system is

Re: [ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released

2008-11-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 12, 2008 at 19:40:01 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: > Hi, everyone, > > I've finally released aptitude 0.5.0 into experimental. Thanks a lot! I installed it as soon as it became available on my mirror. > The main > change here is that it's the first release containing the GTK+ fron

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/14/08 12:57, S.D.Allen wrote: [snip] One only needs the net install image and everything else can be installed over the Internet. That is the way I do my installs. Don't assume everyone has broadband. -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree with me, you are worse than

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Koh Choon Lin
> Sure, but if you have the debs on local media, its a lot faster; > especially if you're on dial-up. > I always assume one needs only the first CD? -- In Liberty Koh Choon Lin -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 01:57:12PM -0500, S.D.Allen wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in > gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > > > > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and > > wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got comp

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread S.D.Allen
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > hi, > > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and > wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the > first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the s

Re: usb discovery fails on initial boot

2008-11-14 Thread Russell Gadd
I ran this command : # udevtrigger --verbose --subsystem-match=block --attr-match=removable=1 Output was: /block/fd0 /block/hdc /block/hdd These are my floppy drive and my CD and DVD drives. To check if I have and /dev/sd* devices I ran ls -l /dev |grep "sd" which I presume would do it - it prod

Re: Spam assassin outgoing email

2008-11-14 Thread Chris Davies
José Santos <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I recently setup an email server using postfix and spamasssin, all seems > to be working fine except for the outgoing email that is getting tagged > as spam by my own server. > His there a way to avoid the outgoing checks? Thanks. > I edited /etc/spamassass

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:23:16PM +0530, Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote: > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and > wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the > first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the softwares which are written in

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread John Magolske
* John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [081114 09:46]: > Ron Johnson writes: > > I wish there were a ~/.bcrc to auto-set the scale > > There can be. Put > > alias bc="bc $HOME/.bcrc" > > in your .bash_profile and then put the commands you want bc to execute on > startup in .bcrc. You can also put y

Re: install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Raquel
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 23:23:16 +0530 "Srinivasa Ramanujam" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http > website, and wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation > got completed with the first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the > soft

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread tyler
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs > version. > > Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? > Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation?

install debian

2008-11-14 Thread Srinivasa Ramanujam
hi, i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the softwares which are written in second and rest dvd's as debian says the dvd is empty. this is not tru

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:29:57AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > >On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >[snip] > >> > >>If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. > > > >[Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... > > > >This is the 21st Centu

Re: java plugin (SOLVED)

2008-11-14 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I finally solved my java plugin problems (as well as, it seems, several instability problems I was having with iceweasel) by: 1. apt-get removing and dpkg --purging any java-related packages found by dpkg -l|grep -i java. 2. apt-get installing azureus (which pulls in openjdk-6*) and icedtea-gcjweb

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:11:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 11/14/08 06:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > >On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, Fran?ois Cerbelle wrote: > [snip] > >>You should try "bc". I'm sure that you can type in everything you can type > >>in your GUI based calculator. Yo

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-14 Thread Tom Low-Shang
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 02:18:26PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > > audio editor: > > audio player: moc > > cd-ripper: jack > > desktop OR window manager: fvwm > > DBMS: postgresql > > development: gcc, python > > disc burner: wodim > > e-mail client: mutt > > file mana

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

2008-11-14 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Nick Syrotiuk wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> Nick Syrotiuk wrote: >>> Unfortunately, I'm still having major problems: [snip] >>> bzip2: data integrity error when decompressing >>> ... >>> E: Some index files failed to download... >> Several strange issues... have you checked your hardware (

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 14 Nov 2008, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs > version. > > Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? > Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation? > >

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,13.Nov.08, 22:17:24, Chris Jones wrote: > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > list require that I provide a "PGP passphrase" .. whatever that may be. > > I would gladly comply .. but I have no idea what that "PGP passphrase" > is and how I can obtain it

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/14/08 09:29, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri November 14 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: >   When you install a package from a .tar.gz file, you're installing > software by hand and there isn't a general procedure -- you do it by > unpacking the archive and following the instructions it contains.  For > that reason, there is no general pro

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:31:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs > version. > > Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? > Or maybe simply installing

Re: Why do I need a passphrase???

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:53:36PM -0500, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 10:29:06PM EST, Kent West wrote: > > Chris Jones wrote: > > > I have noticed that in order to reply to their posts some users on this > > > list require that I provide a "PGP passp

Re: Canadian Walmart Photo Centre Problems?

2008-11-14 Thread S.D.Allen
On Thu, 13 Nov 2008 19:28:43 -0400, diane mittnik in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: > On 11/12/08, S.D.Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 09:07:29 -0500 (EST), Doug Mitton in >> gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: >> >>> Yes, I agree BUT by update you keep updated in your current v

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread François Cerbelle
Le Ven 14 novembre 2008 16:51, tôba a écrit : > If it has the "make unistall" capability, I think it will be easy to > remove. > Otherwise, I think you have to read the original Makefile file and > remove installed files one by one. Hi, You can also install the checkinstall package and use it

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread tôba
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:13 + Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to > have the cvs version. > > Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the > old one? If it has the "make unistall" capability,

Re: small web browser

2008-11-14 Thread Javier Vasquez
On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 1:26 PM, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu,13.Nov.08, 02:33:25, lee wrote: >> >> Hi, >> >> what's a good web browser that doesn't need so much memory? I have the >> same group of tabs open in each browser to compare memory useage: > > midori? > > Regards, >

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:46:06AM +0100, Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > NN_il_Confusionario: > I cannot even switch to a tiling window manager because of the line > length issue. My 14", 1024x768 display is just too narrow to have two > windows side-by-side and too wide to

Re: [OT] runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1

2008-11-14 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:23:19 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Why are you using 2.6.28? I started using bleeding edge wireless-git kernels in order to help the b43 devs by testing patches that needed to be applied to it. > Hugo Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 09:23:27PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old

How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-14 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs version. Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override the old installation? Thanks for any reply Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

2008-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/13/08 11:49, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] If you have a floppy and a floppy-drive, there's the grub-disk package. [Sigh] Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug, Doug... This is the 21st Century. Only crotchety old geezers have computers with floppy drives in them. Thanks. ;

Re: Spam assassin outgoing email

2008-11-14 Thread José Santos
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 16:26:44 +, debianite wrote: > Hi > > I recently setup an email server using postfix and spamasssin, all seems > to be working fine except for the outgoing email that is getting tagged > as spam by my own server. > His there a way to avoid the outgoing checks? Thanks. Wel

Re: [OT] runaway loop modprobe char-major-5-1

2008-11-14 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Celejar wrote: Hi, [OT since this may not be Debian related.] My 2.6.28 kernels with initramfs hang on boot, a problem that I found discussed here: http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/10/28/98 I can use kernels without initramfs. What is the protocol here? Should I add my two cents on lkml? Just wait?

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