Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Mark Allums
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Sam Leon
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Napoleon
Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __

Cannot compile gspca

2009-02-06 Thread Sridhar M.A.
Hello, I have installed linux-image-2.6.28-1-686 from the kernel trunk and the corresponding header files (after building linux-kbuild from source). Everything works fine except my webcam. The webcam works perfectly under the kernel 2.6.26-1-686 from debian/testing. I have downloaded the gspca-s

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 February 2009 16:46:13 Nuno Magalhães wrote: > The fact that it was developed by MS kinda creeps be but it has been > standardized... I understand the distrust of MS, but C# is actually a pretty nice language, at least on par with Java. > Is it "backward-compatible" with C++? No.

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:25:31 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone, but whic

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: javu...@gmail.com >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Which programming Language >Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 21:47:02 +0100 > >>Jeff Soules escribió: So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). >>> >>> I hear that Python is an excell

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-06 Thread Thilo Six
Florian Kulzer wrote the following on 06.02.2009 10:15 <- *snip* -> > I have no idea if Gnome has a mechanism to override that > once it starts. That's posible with: ,[ $ grep LANG ~/.gnomerc ] export LANG="en_US.UTF-8" `- -- bye Thilo

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread jatos . software
True, I can see your point there. I would say, I am in the habit myself of making MVC styled php code. However, I also think for a beginner, it would help because learning is as I say much easier. That said, I think would wise for our first time coder to get to know some more experienced devel

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 11:49:41PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:10:40 +0200 > "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" wrote: > > Don't include Perl here, it has much different concepts than C/C++/Java. Perl is a multi-paradigm language. It can be written in a very C-like fashion if you so c

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:52:06PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > I actually consider PHP to be a good starting point for programming; > it's easy to use, and easy to build a GUI around (HTML is exponentially > easier than GTK/Qt/Tk), teaches functional programming, and has C-styled > syntax. Unfo

Re: Term not set

2009-02-06 Thread Angus Auld
--- On Fri, 2/6/09, Frank McCormick wrote: > From: Frank McCormick > Subject: Re: Term not set > To: l.glidewell.li...@gmail.com > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org > Date: Friday, February 6, 2009, 2:11 PM > L Glidewell wrote: > > On Thursday 05 February 2009 20:06:54 Frank McCormick > wrote:

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Robert Baron
For what it is worth: I would start by learning C. Basically, C++, java, php, perl, python all share enough similarities that they are rather easy to pick up (Yes I know php, perl and python have less in common which is why I put them later in the list). Don't worry about if a language has stron

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Mike Bird
On Fri February 6 2009 14:52:06 Michael Pobega wrote: > I actually consider PHP to be a good starting point for programming; > it's easy to use, and easy to build a GUI around (HTML is exponentially > easier than GTK/Qt/Tk), teaches functional programming, and has C-styled > syntax. PHP is perhaps

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Pobega
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 10:39:58PM +, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > On 06/02/09 21:40, jatos.softw...@gmail.com wrote: >> I have to say, if you want to get into programming seriously DO NOT >> start with Python or BASIC. Why? Because their syntax is very >> different to the languages (such as C)

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I started with Pascal, then C, then C++, then Java. I'd go for C++ 1st though. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 PM, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > C# may be a good alternative. It's similar in many ways to C++, Java, Object > Pascal (Delphi), rather strict, and quite portable. The fact that it was dev

Re: using modem with phone

2009-02-06 Thread Patrick Ouellette
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:17:45PM +, Bhasker C V wrote: > > Hi all, > > I tried to google around but could not even get a match near to what i > want. In fact i am running short of terminologies to exactly define what > i want. > > What i want is, i want to use the internal modem of a sys

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 06/02/09 21:40, jatos.softw...@gmail.com wrote: I have to say, if you want to get into programming seriously DO NOT start with Python or BASIC. Why? Because their syntax is very different to the languages (such as C) used for more mainstream purposes. If start with Python or BASIC your goin

Re: A question about /etc/profile

2009-02-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: I start the terminal by left-clicking on the small icon on the desktop panel. I tried to do what you suggest: I right clicked on the small terminal icon, then in Properties I edited the command from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal to: 'xmodifie...@im=

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread jatos . software
I would think best actually if he trys some php scripting, gets him use to the basic syntax likes of c uses and generally gives him practice. That should then put him in good stead for learning C, which isn't easy to learn... Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- F

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 22:10:40 +0200 "Eugene V. Lyubimkin" wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > >> So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). > > > > I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I > > think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's > > v

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 19:14:45 +0100 Javier wrote: > Abdelkader Belahcene escribiף: > > HI, > > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > > use that language instead of the other. > > > > In many

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Micha Feigin
On Fri, 06 Feb 2009 18:25:31 +0100 Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > HI, > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone,

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Don't include Perl here, it has much different concepts than C/C++/Java. >> > > But the mention of Basic was OK?!? > I don't care much with it :). -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com C++/Perl developer, Debian Maintainer signature.asc

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Sebastian Günther
* Dotan Cohen (dotanco...@gmail.com) [06.02.09 21:13]: > 2009/2/6 Sam Kuper : > > 2009/2/6 Mitchell Laks : > >> On 18:25 Fri 06 Feb , Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > >>> In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. > >> > >> > >> > >> Common Lisp! > > > > > > > > Scheme! > > > >

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread jatos . software
I have to say, if you want to get into programming seriously DO NOT start with Python or BASIC. Why? Because their syntax is very different to the languages (such as C) used for more mainstream purposes. If start with Python or BASIC your going to have a much harder time learning C, which is wha

using modem with phone

2009-02-06 Thread Bhasker C V
Hi all, I tried to google around but could not even get a match near to what i want. In fact i am running short of terminologies to exactly define what i want. What i want is, i want to use the internal modem of a system to work as a PSTN gateway so that i can control my telephone when conne

Re: removing X

2009-02-06 Thread Adrian Levi
2009/2/6 Francesco Pietra : > Does the likely presence of corrupted X files hinder a clean unistalling? If by "corrupted" you mean configuration files left behind (default action) you can add "--purge" on the end of your aptitude or apt-get command to also remove config files, nothing is left beh

Re: Solid DSL gateway for server environment

2009-02-06 Thread Bao Ha
Hi Chris, See comments inside. On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 11:32 AM, Chris Thompson wrote: > On Fri, February 6, 2009 7:46 pm, E Frank Ball III wrote: > > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Chris Thompson wrote: > > > >> I run two mail and web servers from my house on a DSL line. Until a > >

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Javier
Jeff Soules escribió: So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's very different from the major language families and (last I heard) still relied on s

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
> Don't include Perl here, it has much different concepts than C/C++/Java. > But the mention of Basic was OK?!? -- 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 ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Jeff Soules wrote: >> So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). > > I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I > think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's > very different from the major language families and (last I heard) > still reli

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/2/6 Sam Kuper : > 2009/2/6 Mitchell Laks : >> On 18:25 Fri 06 Feb , Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: >>> In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. >> >> >> >> Common Lisp! > > > > Scheme! > Assembler! -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Jeff Soules
> So start with Python or Basic (search for Gambas IDE). I hear that Python is an excellent learning language. However, I think that Basic might be less useful for this, simply because it's very different from the major language families and (last I heard) still relied on some features that teach

Re: Solid DSL gateway for server environment

2009-02-06 Thread Chris Thompson
On Fri, February 6, 2009 7:46 pm, E Frank Ball III wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 05:31:16PM +0100, Chris Thompson wrote: > > >> I run two mail and web servers from my house on a DSL line. Until a > few > > >> > > >> Both the servers sustain quite some traffic and (especially the > mail) > >

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Sam Kuper
2009/2/6 Mitchell Laks : > On 18:25 Fri 06 Feb , Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: >> In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. > > > > Common Lisp! Scheme! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact list

Re: [POSSIBLE SPAM] Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:25 Fri 06 Feb , Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > HI, > There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, > Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances > use that language instead of the other. > > In many situations we can use anyone, but which i

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

2009-02-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 11:41 PM, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > 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 i

find least used packages

2009-02-06 Thread muzzle
Hi debianers, I would like to clean up my system a bit. I already used deborphan to remove unused libs, now I would like to use the popcon information on my pc to find the least used packages I have. Is there a tool, maybe just a clever bash line or a script, that can help me with that? Cheers, E

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Javier
Abdelkader Belahcene escribió: HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. For learning purpuses

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Antonio Macchi
In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. in this situation, maybe, scripting languages is better (no waste time for compilations...) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.or

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Javier
Cahaya Lilin escribió: mmm ... I will try it out, i hope no problems occur.. Thanx Ey don't forget to preserve permissions. If you use "cp", it is the -p option. If you don't do it, some services are surely going to fail, as well as other programs not functioning as expected. Take care.

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-06 Thread Javier
Bob Cox escribió: On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:51:37 +0100, Jonathan Kaye (jdkay...@gmail.com) wrote: 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

Re: Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Michael Shuler
On 02/06/2009 11:25 AM, Abdelkader Belahcene wrote: > which is better. Similar to: what is the best ice cream flavor? what is the best car? :) -- Kind Regards, Michael Shuler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact l

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob Cox wrote: > On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:51:37 +0100, Jonathan Kaye (jdkay...@gmail.com) > wrote: > >> Javier wrote: >> >>> Hugo Vanwoerkom escribió: Hi, Using a link in the New York Times to the transcript of Flight 1549, Ice

Which programming Language

2009-02-06 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
HI, There are many and many programming languages (mainly : C,C++,java, Shell, Perl, python, php). which learn and use, in which circonstances use that language instead of the other. In many situations we can use anyone, but which is better. thanks a lot bela __ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: iceweasel segfault

2009-02-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 07:51:37 +0100, Jonathan Kaye (jdkay...@gmail.com) wrote: > 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://w

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Antonio Macchi
Nagy Daniel wrote: "how to get gnome to remember" :P "Open With" will works with every file of the same type http://library.gnome.org/users/user-guide/stable/nautilus-open-file.html.en -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: Evolution: Error loading addressbook

2009-02-06 Thread Eric Brooks
Thanks. I did the following: sudo chown -R eric:eric /home/eric/.evolution/ sudo chmod -R 770 /home/eric/.evolution/ but that did not resolve the issue. Since I can read my email, I was wondering if there are specific permissions at the database level and enforced via data in addressbook.db? T

Re: Evolution: Error loading addressbook

2009-02-06 Thread webmaster
Try: #chown -R eric.eric /home/eric/.evolution/ #chmod -R 770 /home/eric/.evolution/ Bye. Eric Brooks wrote: Hi. I restored evolution from a backup and now I get the error: Can you offer any suggestions on how to address this? I searched Google and Debian bugs and found ver

Evolution: Error loading addressbook

2009-02-06 Thread Eric Brooks
Hi. I restored evolution from a backup and now I get the error: Can you offer any suggestions on how to address this? I searched Google and Debian bugs and found very contradictory reports. Thanks. Eric -- Eric Brooks www.digitalexplorations.org <>

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Stefan Monnier
> I want to know is there Debian linux can install by copy the entire files > in the hard disk to another hard disk ?? Yes, you can. > 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

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Nagy Daniel
"how to get gnome to remember" :P 2009/2/6 Antonio Macchi : > Nagy Daniel wrote: >> >> Sorry for asking this, but what is the best solution for associating a >> file to an app under gnome? >> I mean like, how to get gnome to remember that open PDF files with >> acroread, and not evince? >> >> than

Re: A question about /etc/profile

2009-02-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 4:43 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> I start the terminal by left-clicking on the small icon on the desktop >>> panel. >>> I tried to do what you suggest: I right clicked on the small terminal icon, >>> then in Properties I edited the command from '

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Antonio Macchi
Nagy Daniel wrote: Sorry for asking this, but what is the best solution for associating a file to an app under gnome? I mean like, how to get gnome to remember that open PDF files with acroread, and not evince? thank you..:\ right click Properties Open With -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: A question about /etc/profile

2009-02-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I start the terminal by left-clicking on the small icon on the desktop panel. >> I tried to do what you suggest: I right clicked on the small terminal icon, >> then in Properties I edited the command from '/usr/bin/gnome-terminal to: >> >> 'xmodifie...@im=scim GTK_IM_MODU

Re: Labeling backup DVD+RW's

2009-02-06 Thread Barclay, Daniel
Chris Jones wrote: > 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. >> Woul

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 09:09:29PM +1030, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the > search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" > appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). > > How does one get s

slate.com/rss liferea works, kontact does NOT

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
I'm going to ask this one more time. I just figured out that my slate.com/rss feed hasn't worked on Kontact since October. I tried deleting it and adding it, but it says the feed doesn't exist. I fired up lifera and updated slate.com and got lots of new items. SO, Kontact-feeds: slate.com/rss do

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread Nuno Magalhães
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 5:58 PM, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Frank Lloyd Wright had a term for the family houses he designed that fit > more in the middle class than wealthy. He called them Usonian homes. > Perhaps Usonian? In Esperanto, USA is "Usono", the word comes from Frank Lloyd Wright's term. US-

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 6 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > And what about gnome?:P:S > I guess I don't understand. I am running gnome, and gdm. what do you use for file management, and maybe there is a similar option there? > 2009/2/6 Paul Cartwright : > > On Fri February 6 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > >> Sorry

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Nagy Daniel
And what about gnome?:P:S 2009/2/6 Paul Cartwright : > On Fri February 6 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: >> Sorry for asking this, but what is the best solution for associating a >> file to an app under gnome? >> I mean like, how to get gnome to remember that open PDF files with >> acroread, and not evin

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/06/2009 05:58 AM, Johannes wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/05/2009 04:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Canadians sometimes call our southern neighbours "Amereecans" :) When they re-elected Bush, the majority were considered just idiots. Canadians bureaucrats have made too many inane ruling

Re: file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri February 6 2009, Nagy Daniel wrote: > Sorry for asking this, but what is the best solution for associating a > file to an app under gnome? > I mean like, how to get gnome to remember that open PDF files with > acroread, and not evince? > > thank you..:\ I just went through this the other da

Re: Term not set

2009-02-06 Thread Frank McCormick
L Glidewell wrote: > 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? >> Nob

Re: KDE 4

2009-02-06 Thread kj
Dean Chester wrote: Hi does any one know where i can install KDE4 from its not in sid and in experimental its missing KDEbase so it can't install. It is now in experimental, I installed it on Sid earlier today, without any problems. Add this to your sources.list: deb http://ftp.debian.org/d

file association how - gnome

2009-02-06 Thread Nagy Daniel
Sorry for asking this, but what is the best solution for associating a file to an app under gnome? I mean like, how to get gnome to remember that open PDF files with acroread, and not evince? thank you..:\ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Philp wrote: > I would say "be very careful". It will work if the following are true: > > 1. All the drivers loaded on computer A are the same as required for > computer B - do they have the same CPU/motherboard chipset/graphics card Not necess

Re: A question about /etc/profile

2009-02-06 Thread Aneurin Price
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:25 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina > wrote: > > > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: > > > > export xmodifie...@im=scim > > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim > > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Cahaya Lilin
mmm ... I will try it out, i hope no problems occur.. Thanx

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
dan said: > First of all Bush was born in New Haven, Connecticut. That's up > north, not even close to Texas. He, like a lot of other > carpetbaggers, moved to our fine state to help himself to our oil > fields. Secondly, he isn't a cowboy. It seems to be a common > misconception among some folk

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
John Hasler said: > Please try to come up with something less idiotic than "USian". > That's about as likely to catch on as "EUian". > I like USian. Then we can refer to everyone else as, "Themians." JOKE! Don't hang me! Cybe R. Wizard -- Nice computers don't go down. Larry Niven,

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread dan
On Friday 06 February 2009 11:58:49 Johannes wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/05/2009 04:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> Canadians sometimes call our southern neighbours "Amereecans" :) > >> When they re-elected Bush, the majority were considered just > >> idiots. > > > > Canadians bureauc

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-06 Thread Antonio Macchi
Foss User wrote: 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-

IBM thinkpad A22 serial ports and debian

2009-02-06 Thread John Lindsay
I have installed Debian on my Thinkpad A22. Seems to be working fine except for the wireless. I also have Wine installed as I want to run an executable program that downloads a file to an FTA receiver via the serial port. Do I need to 'turn on' the serial port under Linux or would it already b

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-06 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Foss User [2009 Feb 05 22:37 -0600]: > 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. B

Re: A question about /etc/profile

2009-02-06 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On Thu, Feb 5, 2009 at 8:19 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I added the following lines to /etc/profile: > > export xmodifie...@im=scim > export GTK_IM_MODULE=scim > export QT_IM_MODULE=scim >> [...] putting those `export' commands in /etc/profile has th

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread Johannes
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/05/2009 04:57 PM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Canadians sometimes call our southern neighbours "Amereecans" :) >> When they re-elected Bush, the majority were considered just idiots. > > Canadians bureaucrats have made too many inane rulings for you all to > throw stones.

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Magnus Therning wrote, on 2009-02-06 21:57: On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to insta

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/6 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

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Mitja Podreka
Kevin Philp wrote: I would say "be very careful". It will work if the following are true: 1. All the drivers loaded on computer A are the same as required for computer B - do they have the same CPU/motherboard chipset/graphics card 2. Your partitions are the same and match up in FSTAB - be p

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-06 11:39 +0100, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the > search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" > appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). You're probably aware that you can use

Re: aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Magnus Therning
On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 10:39 AM, Arthur Marsh wrote: > Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search > function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in > lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). > > How does one get some text in

aptitude: searching for a short package name that is a common substring

2009-02-06 Thread Arthur Marsh
Hi, I was wanting to install midnight commander and realised that the search function in aptitude wasn't helping me much as the string "mc" appears in lots of package names. (I used apt-get to install mc). How does one get some text in the search box in aptitude to match the start of line or e

Solid DSL gateway for server environment

2009-02-06 Thread Chris Thompson
Hi all. I run two mail and web servers from my house on a DSL line. Until a few weeks ago I was on cable but a new ISP launched some good SME offers and I decided to make the switch. Both the servers sustain quite some traffic and (especially the mail) need to open many more connections that a mid

bug in pkg-fglrx 156

2009-02-06 Thread SOliver
hello, when i make an .deb for fglrx-driver 9-1-2 with the svn version Current directory: [pkg-fglrx] Current revision: 156 there is no problems to build the pakage, but when i install it on my debian lenny there gives me the following error /var/lib/dpkg/info/fglrx-driver.config: lin

Re: How to change LANG = en_US ?

2009-02-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Feb 06, 2009 at 04:35:56 +, Foss User wrote: > 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 reboo

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Kevin Philp
I would say "be very careful". It will work if the following are true: 1. All the drivers loaded on computer A are the same as required for computer B - do they have the same CPU/motherboard chipset/graphics card 2. Your partitions are the same and match up in FSTAB - be particularly careful

Re: altering iceweasel print settings

2009-02-06 Thread Richard Lyons
Replying to my own posting, in case it helps someone else... On Wed, Feb 04, 2009 at 05:16:08PM +, Richard Lyons wrote: > This seems quite out of control now. I have a lenny box with iceweasel > 3.0.5 > [Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; it; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008122011 > Iceweasel/3.0.5 (De

Re: OT: Bush quotes

2009-02-06 Thread consultores1
El jue, 05-02-2009 a las 14:15 -0200, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escribió: > 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.

Re: Install Debian GNU/Linux

2009-02-06 Thread Mitja Podreka
Cahaya Lilin wrote: 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