Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

2009-02-05 Thread Zanga Chimombo
ok, i needed to do the following on the gateway. iptables --table nat -A POSTROUTING --out-interface ppp0 -j MASQUERADE iptables -A FORWARD --in-interface eth0 -j ACCEPT Aneurin Price wrote: My personal recommendation would be to use Shorewall thanks, but usual story: i want to know what's goin

Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-05 Thread Cahaya Lilin
Hello all.. I want to know is there Debian linux can install by copy the entire files in the hard disk to another hard disk ?? Because i already install linux in my computer and now i want to install linux in another computer but not install it from the cd, it would be good if Debian GNU/linux c

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Javier wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: >> Hi, >> >> Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, >> Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. >> >> http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript >> >> Anyone verify this? > > For me it does not sefault

Re: MIT Kerberos won't start at boot.

2009-02-05 Thread Louis Opter
Le vendredi 30 janvier 2009 à 08:22 +0100, Louis Opter a écrit : > Hello, > > I have installed MIT Kerberos in conjunction with OpenLDAP and OpenAFS > on Debian Etch 'n half with this excellent howto : > http://techpubs.spinlocksolutions.com/dklar/kerberos.html > > But Kerberos won't start at boo

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-05 Thread Foss User
If export is the only way to do it, I can of course put the export LANG=en_US statement in /etc/profile. However, I am thinking then what is the use of /etc/environment? What purpose does /etc/environment serve if changing LANG="en_IN" to LANG="en_US" in /etc/environment doesn't affect the LANG sh

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-05 Thread Onur Aslan
You should change language in login screen for gnome. Otherwise, you can change your language with export command in terminal. i.e. export LANG='en_US' But this doesn't affect the gnome. It's only work for current terminal. On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 04:35 +, Foss User wrote: > I want that when Deb

Re: Term not set

2009-02-05 Thread L Glidewell
On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:06:54 Frank McCormick wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Lately when the terminal is running in update-manager installing > > packages, it says "Term not set" so Dialog won't work. It falls back to > > readline. > > How can I fix this? > > Nobody ?? Well, the ques

How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-05 Thread Foss User
I want that when Debian boots and I log into gnome and open gnome-terminal, echo $LANG shows en_US instead of en_IN. I found that in /etc/environment, the content was: LANG="en_IN" So, I changed it to LANG="en_US" and rebooted the system. But after rebooting and opening gnome-terminal, I find ec

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu February 5 2009 15:00:51 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > What's a Pom? Pom or Pommie = Prison Of his/her Majesty = British person --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Term not set

2009-02-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Frank McCormick wrote: > Lately when the terminal is running in update-manager installing > packages, it says "Term not set" so Dialog won't work. It falls back to > readline. > How can I fix this? Nobody ?? signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Deng Xiyue
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >> I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >> >> export xmodifie...@im=scim >> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim > > > How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in > /etc/profile? I mean, if I put that in /e

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Douglas A. Tutty [2009 Feb 05 17:02 -0600]: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:20:07AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > > > Common soldiers and sailors solved this problem long ago. > > > > Yanks, frogs, aussies, canucks, poms, krauts, ... > > > > I have no problem being called a Canuck. > > Do South

Re: Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 07:46:31PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > It puzzled me. My system was, and is, working. I know I am actually > using procmail, because I see the results of making changes in my > .procmailrc but ... the procmail man page said I have to use .forward > to do this --- not quit

Re: Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-02-05_17:32:08, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:20:35AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > The documentation says that to get an MTA (exim4?) to forward email to > > procmail for processing, I need to have a .forward file in ~/ and that > > it needs a certain magic string in

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:09:13PM EST, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > Dave Thayer wrote: > >... > > > > One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to > > recharge gadgets such as cellphones and mp3 players without having to > > leave your computer on. > > Wouldn't that work for u

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 01:24:56AM EST, Dave Thayer wrote: > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 07:23:38PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 12:46:22PM EST, Barclay, Daniel wrote: > > > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > > On Friday 2009 January 09 21:09:30 Chris Jones wrote: > > > ... >

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 February 2009 23:00:51 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > What's a Pom? Either an English person or a citizen of the United Kingdom. I'm not sure, but I think the first. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Con

List management (was Re: OT: Bush quotes)

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 05:33 PM, L Glidewell wrote: [snip] It may *seem* harmless, but in fact prolonged off-topic stuff endangers the relevance of the resource, because it just dramatically increases the chances that I right-click on the list's folder and select "Mark all as read." At least you have

Re: Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread s. keeling
Paul E Condon : > I am running fetchmail, exim4, and procmail on a standard Lenny > installation. It all seems to be working as intended but I noticed > something while reading procmail documentation about which I am > puzzled: > > The documentation says that to get an MTA (exim4?) to forward

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Aneurin Price wrote: > On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev > wrote: > >> >> they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... >> same mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check >> > > This is an interesting point. > I've just managed to get the connection

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread L Glidewell
On Thursday 05 February 2009 15:22:44 Steve Kemp wrote: > Alternatively we could just have a free-for-all and let everybody > post about anything they want, and the people that spend their > spare time reading Debian lists willing to offer help to strangers > will just get bored and stop doing

Re: Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:20:35AM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > The documentation says that to get an MTA (exim4?) to forward email to > procmail for processing, I need to have a .forward file in ~/ and that > it needs a certain magic string in it. But I don't have a .forward > file in my home di

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 04:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:50:41PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: John Hasler a ?crit : -c writes: If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to get this r

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Kemp
On Thu Feb 05, 2009 at 18:05:53 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > The thread is marked 'OT'. Indeed. That's fine for a little while; but people come here for Debian assistance, help, and experience. I'm certain you're not suggesting that I'd be OK to write multiple posts every day about my

Re: umask problem

2009-02-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 04 February 2009 20:55:50 Ding Honghui wrote: > Bash will not read the profile when in notty mode. > The /etc/profile and .bash_profile both set the umask to 022, so after > login, the hostA and hostB any user have same umask. > The problem occurs in notty mode. Perhaps .bashrc then?

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:19:45 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > The Terminal is slowed > down when starting. Konsole on my system isn't slowed down at all. It opens virtually instantaneously. Just goes to show that our systems are as individual as we are. Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >>> > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >>> > >>> > export xmodifie...@im=scim >>> > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >>> > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim > > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> $ source s

Re: [solved] Re: Scim does not work with openoffice

2009-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 February 2009 21:42:57 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > the problem > is solved: \o/ I'm very pleased. And you gave me the impetus to get it going on my own system, and not only my granddaughter's! :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subje

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 06:45:22PM +, Steve Kemp wrote: > > Regardless of how much people might enjoy debating this > issue it is clearly off-topic for this list. > > Please take the discussion elsewhere. > Steve, The thread is marked 'OT'. Etch is as stable as anything. Lenny wil

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:20:07AM -0800, Mike Bird wrote: > Common soldiers and sailors solved this problem long ago. > > Yanks, frogs, aussies, canucks, poms, krauts, ... > I have no problem being called a Canuck. Do Southern USonians like to be called Yanks? What's a Pom? We know what

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:50:41PM +, thveillon.debian wrote: > John Hasler a ?crit : > > -c writes: > >> If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take offense at > >> us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to get this > >> right (and even support the effor

Re: removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 04:19:07PM +0100, Francesco Pietra wrote: > May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken > packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, > kernel 2.6.26? > > Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? If

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > IOW, when someone utters the phrase "Ugly American", we *all* know that > he/she is *not* referring to someone from El Salvadore! Heh. You might want to read the book and find out who the ugly American really was. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-r

Re: removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 09:19 AM, Francesco Pietra wrote: Hi: May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, kernel 2.6.26? Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? And maybe a few others

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 01:27 PM, Javier wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? For me it does not sefault.

Re: OT: Americans or Usonians

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 12:49 PM, Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva wrote: Em Qui, 2009-02-05 às 13:36 -0500, Barclay, Daniel escreveu: (Extra off topic: Hey, when Latin Americans say "norteamericanos," do they usually mean to include Canadians? (Does refer more to non-Latinos or more to "Unitedstatesians"?))

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 12:44 PM, edu gargiulo wrote: On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: [...] (Extra off topic: Hey, when Latin Americans say "norteamericanos," do they usually mean to include Canadians? (Does refer more to non-Latinos or more to "Unitedstatesians"?)) Canadians a

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 12:05 PM, Juan Carlos Avila wrote: [snip] In Spanish-speaking America we don't call "Americans" americans. They simply are "estadounidenses" But "Mexico" is the Estados Unidos de Mexico, the United States Of Mexico. or norteamericanos. So, rest-of-the-wo

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 10:02 AM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: [snip] Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and without any dude i am American. The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and abbrev

Re: audacious-crossfade

2009-02-05 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 01:58:38AM +, T o n g wrote: > I am missing the audacious-crossfade plugin, after switching over from > xmms. From the inet search I have an impression that audacious-crossfade > has been a normal Debian package. True. It existed since uploading 0.3.11-3

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/05/2009 10:30 AM, charlie derr wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009, Ignacio Mondino wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: [snip] Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and without any dude i am American.

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:02:35PM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > > [snip] > >> [snip] > > There may be different names for countries: Germany is called > 'Deutschland' in German, 'Germany' in English, 'Allemagne' in Frenc

[solved] Re: Scim does not work with openoffice

2009-02-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina writes: > Any Scim users out there? Scim does not work for me within Openoffice. It > works fine with gedit, just with the command > > $ GTK_IM_MODULE="scim" gedit > > . Any help very much appreciated. Thanks to the help coming from this list, particularly from Lisi, the pro

OT: Experiences with broadcast traffic in OpenVZ

2009-02-05 Thread Jason Voorhees
Hi everyone: I hope someone here with some experience with OpenVZ can help me. I have a VE with a Virtual Ethernet (veth) interface. Its connectivity is OK, from the OpenVZ host I can ping and ssh my VE and viceversa. But my VE isn't able to handle broadcast traffic. It can't resolve Netbios named

Term not set

2009-02-05 Thread Frank McCormick
Lately when the terminal is running in update-manager installing packages, it says "Term not set" so Dialog won't work. It falls back to readline. How can I fix this? Thanks signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-05 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 05 Feb 2009 16:15:34 + Joe wrote: [snipped Joe's helpful tips on practical, basic LDAP configuration.] Thanks very much for the information. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPGP) email ssuds.sourceforge.net - A Simple Sudoku Solver and Generator -

Re: rereading/reloading keyboard layout files without relogging in?

2009-02-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 23:07:08 -0500, H.S. wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > > I don't understand which file(s) you want to modify and in what way. [...] > Consider the file /etc/X11/xkb/symbols/fr. I am looking for a way to > reload this files after I modify it in some way. In other words,

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I can't even get it to scroll, but it's not crashing. It does crash if i open too many embeded documents. Around the 10th it'll not only crash, but kill my session. I have to login again!! Nuno Magalhães -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Javier
Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? For me it does not sefault. Lenny amd64. It must be a Flash probl

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ignacio Mondino
You are right, not an easy issue for sure. I really think this thread should be moved elsewhere. Please, everybody have a nice day. -- --- http://stupidityandmalice.blogspot.com Ignacio Mondino

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Glenn Becker
Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? FWIW (very little) I was having this problem with Iceweasel a lot on what appeared to be random s

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 14:04 -0500, Rob Singelais wrote: > mitch wrote: > >> I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. > >> The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong > >> with my cups config because XP can't see the printer and I can't f

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Kent West
John Hasler wrote: > Ron Johnson writes: > >> The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and >> abbreviation. That would be "us". >> > > But we didn't. It was the Europeans who attached the label "american" to > first residents of the colonies and then to citizens of the Un

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, > Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. > > http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript > > Anyone verify this? > No, here I was able to scroll through all the document.

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Lisi Reisz writes: >> > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >> > >> > export xmodifie...@im=scim >> > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >> > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> $ source script >> >> has the same effect than running those three commands from

iceweasel segfault

2009-02-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Iceweasel segfaults scrolling through the document. http://www.scribd.com/doc/11719666/Tracon-Transcript Anyone verify this? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "un

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
edu writes: > Canadians are not included in "norteamericanos"... Nor are Mexicans. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: OT: Americans or Usonians (was: Bush quotes)

2009-02-05 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Here [in Portugal] we say "americans" to refer to those from the USA. Mexicans and canadians are also in North America, but we don't call them "americans". We seldom use "noth-americans", and it usually means usonians. Nuno Magalhães -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.o

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread Rob Singelais
mitch wrote: I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong with my cups config because XP can't see the printer and I can't figure out what that may be. Help please? If you post your cups c

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Tom writes: > In France we sometime refer to the United States of America citizens as > "Nord Américains" (Northern Americans ?), but then we have all the > Canadian and Inuit pissed... The Mexicans might not be pleased either. "North American" would be appropriate for a resident of any of the th

OT: Americans or Usonians (was: Bush quotes)

2009-02-05 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Em Qui, 2009-02-05 às 13:36 -0500, Barclay, Daniel escreveu: > (Extra off topic: Hey, when Latin Americans say "norteamericanos," do > they > usually mean to include Canadians? (Does refer more to non-Latinos or > more > to "Unitedstatesians"?)) Here in Brazil usually "norte-americanos" refer to

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Thursday 05 February 2009 19:35:36 Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: > > > > export xmodifie...@im=scim > > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim > > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim > $ source script > > has the same effect than runni

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 7:35 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Aneurin Price writes: > >> Let's say you've saved this as 'script', and you're running '$./script' or >> '$bash script'. What that will do is spawn a new bash process which >> interprets the script, and then exits. If you want the variables

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Steve Kemp
Regardless of how much people might enjoy debating this issue it is clearly off-topic for this list. Please take the discussion elsewhere. Steve -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debi

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread edu gargiulo
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Barclay, Daniel wrote: [...] > (Extra off topic: Hey, when Latin Americans say "norteamericanos," do they > usually mean to include Canadians? (Does refer more to non-Latinos or more > to "Unitedstatesians"?)) Canadians are not included in "norteamericanos", but

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I don't know, why the US's founding fathers did not pick a more > appropriate name. How was it not appropriate if they were the only states in America that were united? Were any others united into a federation or country back then? Daniel -- (Plain text sometimes c

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Ignacio Mondino wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: >> [snip] >>> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and (Probably) yes, except we don't have that equivalent of "estadounidenses" in English. Yes, maybe we should (and I've ev

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Lisi Reisz writes: > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: > > export xmodifie...@im=scim > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim Rodolfo Medina wrote: How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in /etc/profile? I mean, if I p

RE: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Juan Carlos Avila
> -Mensaje original- > De: thveillon.debian [mailto:thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com] > Enviado el: Jueves, 05 de Febrero de 2009 11:51 a.m. > Para: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Asunto: Re: OT: Bush quotes > > John Hasler a écrit : > > -c writes: > >> If other (non-USian) residents of th

Re: Trying to replace my router with a Debian machine - but I can't understand my existing setup

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Wed, Feb 4, 2009 at 10:47 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > they could be configured to take the mac address and obtain the ip ... same > mac, same IP ?? do you think its possible. check > This is an interesting point. I've just managed to get the connection to work by re-entering the connection

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread mitch
> > Sharing a printer to Windows XP clients with Samba and Cups > > > > http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/425 > > > > > > > I've tried that tutorial and others online, and none of them has helped. > The way it looks to me on XP is it can see Samba but something is wrong > with my

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Mike Bird
On Thu February 5 2009 09:58:39 Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Thursday 05 February 2009, John Hasler wrote: > > -c writes: > > > If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take > > > offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to > > > attempt to get this right (and even su

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-05 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Dave Thayer wrote: >... > > One nice bonus about having a powered hub is that it can be used to > recharge gadgets such as cellphones and mp3 players without having to > leave your computer on. Wouldn't that work for unpowered hubs too? An unpowered hub can still supply 100mA to each port. Pres

Re: Problem getting Win to see Samba shared printer

2009-02-05 Thread Rob Singelais
mitch wrote: On Thu, 2009-02-05 at 07:42 -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Rob Singelais wrote: Hello, I have installed hplip 2.8.7 using the automatic installer from sourceforge and the printer works fine on Debian Lenny. I installed samba and am trying to share it to a Windows XP machi

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 05 February 2009, John Hasler wrote: > -c writes: > > If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take > > offense at us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to > > attempt to get this right (and even support the effort to attempt > > to educate my fellow USians).

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 6:37 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: export xmodifie...@im=scim export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim export QT_IM_MODULE=scim > > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> How can I get the same result *without

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread thveillon.debian
John Hasler a écrit : > -c writes: >> If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take offense at >> us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to get this >> right (and even support the effort to attempt to educate my fellow >> USians). > > Please try to come up wit

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Lisi Reisz writes: >>> I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >>> >>> export xmodifie...@im=scim >>> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >>> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in /etc/profile? >> I mean, if I put that in /et

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
-c writes: > If other (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take offense at > us referring to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy to attempt to get this > right (and even support the effort to attempt to educate my fellow > USians). Please try to come up with something less idiotic than "U

Question about procmail and exim4

2009-02-05 Thread Paul E Condon
I am running fetchmail, exim4, and procmail on a standard Lenny installation. It all seems to be working as intended but I noticed something while reading procmail documentation about which I am puzzled: The documentation says that to get an MTA (exim4?) to forward email to procmail for processing

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/2/5 charlie derr > > I completely agree. As someone who lives here (and is a citizen), I hold a > very different opinion (than Ron) about who gets to name what. If other > (non-USian) residents of the greater "Americas" take offense at us referring > to ourselves as Americans, I'm happy

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread charlie derr
Hal Vaughan wrote: On Thursday 05 February 2009, Ignacio Mondino wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: [snip] Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and without any dude i am American. The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pi

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Johannes Wiedersich writes: > Just imagine if there was a referendum and the German people decided, > that in order to stop this confusion, their state should internationally > be known as 'United states of Europe'. Very fortunately, no one in > Germany would be so arrogant as to suggest such a thi

Re: [OT] improving the mailing lists WAS: Re: Debian VPN

2009-02-05 Thread Joe
Celejar wrote: Your example of LDAP, OTOH, is an interesting one. I've tried more than once to grok LDAP, and given up in bafflement. I can't quite tell if it's inherently just overkill for my needs, or if my Google-fu is just insufficient to find a basic introduction to the system. [I'd be u

Re: A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Lisi Reisz writes: > >> I added the following lines to /etc/profile: >> >> export xmodifie...@im=scim >> export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim >> export QT_IM_MODULE=scim > > > How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in /etc/profile?

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Thursday 05 February 2009, Ignacio Mondino wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > > [snip] > > > >> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El > >> Salvador and without any dude i am American. > > > > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
consultores1 wrote: >> Strange... I thought you Americans value freedom of speech so much. >> (Can't remember the number of the amendment, though.) >> > > > Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? Yes, I am. Context should make that clear. > because i am from El Salvador and > without any du

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and > abbreviation. That would be "us". But we didn't. It was the Europeans who attached the label "american" to first residents of the colonies and then to citizens of the United States of America. 18th century "Am

Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

2009-02-05 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 3:11 PM, Zanga Chimombo wrote: >> You said 'i am able to ping 172.21.5.136 but not 172.21.0.1' > > from a client machine on the internal network. > >> and 'i can >> connect fine to the internet from the gateway'. > >> So you can ping, say google.com from your gateway machine

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > [snip] >> >> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and >> without any dude i am American. > > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and > abbreviation. That would be "us". Nonsen

Re: hg Behind Proxy

2009-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 10:16:28PM +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hello, > > I am trying to install mwlib following this instructions[1]. My > computer is behind proxy. I've done this command (with the result) > > $ hg clone http://code.pediapress.com/hg/mwlib mwlib.hg > abort: error: Connection ti

Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

2009-02-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Thu, Feb 05, 2009 at 05:11:47PM +0200, Zanga Chimombo wrote: >> You said 'i am able to ping 172.21.5.136 but not 172.21.0.1' > from a client machine on the internal network. > >> and 'i can >> connect fine to the internet from the gateway'. > >> So you can ping, say google.com from your gateway

totem and gxine crashing

2009-02-05 Thread lee
Hi, do totem and gxine just not work on amd64? I'm only getting: l...@cat:~$ totem E: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol Segmentation fault l...@cat:~$ gxine E: socket-client.c: socket(): Address family not supported by protocol gxine has suffered a fatal interna

removing X

2009-02-05 Thread Francesco Pietra
Hi: May I ask advice to remove completely X - without leaving broken packages - from a multisocket server running on debian amd64 lenny, kernel 2.6.26? Is it enough to purge remove the packages "xorg" and "xbase-clients"? Does the likely presence of corrupted X files hinder a clean unistalling?

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread Ignacio Mondino
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > [snip] >> >> Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and >> without any dude i am American. > > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and > abbreviation. That would be "us". Sorry,

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-05 Thread consultores1
El jue, 05-02-2009 a las 08:54 -0600, Ron Johnson escribió: > On 02/05/2009 08:44 AM, consultores1 wrote: > [snip] > > > > Are you refering to Unitedstatesdians? because i am from El Salvador and > > without any dude i am American. > > The oldest nation[0] in the region gets to pick it's name and

Re: Sane uninstallable (MOSTLY Solved)

2009-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Daniel Dalton wrote: uh, probably a dumb question, but did u try aptitude install -f Yes. Apparently the partially installed sane packages were what was preventing iscan from being purged. Once I uninstalled sane I was able to purge iscan. Then I could reinstall sane without errors. Now

A question about /etc/profile (was: Scim does not work with openoffice)

2009-02-05 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Lisi Reisz writes: > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: > > export xmodifie...@im=scim > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim How can I get the same result *without* putting that stuff in /etc/profile? I mean, if I put that in /etc/profile, those commands are run at e

hg Behind Proxy

2009-02-05 Thread Zaki Akhmad
Hello, I am trying to install mwlib following this instructions[1]. My computer is behind proxy. I've done this command (with the result) $ hg clone http://code.pediapress.com/hg/mwlib mwlib.hg abort: error: Connection timed out What configuration I should do so that hg command can access Intern

Re: Modem and NIC Gateway

2009-02-05 Thread Zanga Chimombo
You said 'i am able to ping 172.21.5.136 but not 172.21.0.1' from a client machine on the internal network. and 'i can connect fine to the internet from the gateway'. So you can ping, say google.com from your gateway machine correctly? yes. But you can't ping 172.21.0.1 from your gateway?

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