Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:40:22PM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a359636.4090...@gmail.com>, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: > >I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, > >but some characters of my country language is broken. > >However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well. Whose bug is

Re: xnest on testing doesn't start session

2009-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:15:38PM -0700, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > I'm looking for some tips on how to debug xnest on Debian testing. I've > been trying to test out some alternative window managers under the > current X session using xnest and xephyr, but regardless of which window > manager I choos

Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/6/15 Kousik Maiti > http://get.adobe.com/reader/ > > You can get adobe reader from here. It may work for you. > > 2009/6/15 J.Hwan.Kim > > Hi, everyone >> >> I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, >> but some characters of my country language is broken. >> However, Acrobat Reader i

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 15, 2009, at 1:20 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,14.Jun.09, 22:33:07, Rick Thomas wrote: It may ask for a userid and password at low priority. See "-- priority=value" option in the dpkg-reconfigure(8) man page. The same one that says: dpkg-reconfigure normally shows low p

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 22:33:07, Rick Thomas wrote: > > It may ask for a userid and password at low priority. See "-- > priority=value" > option in the dpkg-reconfigure(8) man page. The same one that says: dpkg-reconfigure normally shows low priority questions no matter what your def

Re: device or resource busy

2009-06-14 Thread Abhishek Amberkar [अभिषेक]
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 1:29 PM, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > I cannot get sound on my debian lenny laptop when playing Unreal Tournament > 2004 and its mod TOC. Th program is using OpenAL sound driver. What should I > do? > > umarz...@ctrl:~$ ./runTOC.sh > Exporting OBJ-Malicious.Successful! > E

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto was heard to say: > However, when I enter 'aptitude why-not locate' I'm told "Unable to find > a reason to remove locate." Just FYI, why-not tells you what would actively prevent the installation of a package (i.e., what conflicts with it)

Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread Kousik Maiti
http://get.adobe.com/reader/ You can get adobe reader from here. It may work for you. 2009/6/15 J.Hwan.Kim > Hi, everyone > > I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, > but some characters of my country language is broken. > However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well. > > Is there

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-06-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009, Girish Kulkarni wrote: Also try -float-store. Sorry I meant -ffloat-store. -- Girish Kulkarni - Allahabad, India - athene.org.in/girish -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 04:50:23PM +0300, David Baron wrote: > Even more. I get a bootup error message failing to set date (and time) > to ... the following day + 3 hours!! You may have a bad system clock. That does happen on some older hardware or if a CMOS battery goes bad. I'd do the following

xnest on testing doesn't start session

2009-06-14 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I'm looking for some tips on how to debug xnest on Debian testing. I've been trying to test out some alternative window managers under the current X session using xnest and xephyr, but regardless of which window manager I choose all I get is an immediate return to the nested login screen. What can

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-06-14 Thread Girish Kulkarni
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I have a rather funny and annoying problem with a third-party fortran program. It is a non-free scientific program for some physical calculations. I get different output values, if I compile and run the same fortran co

Re: Does anyone else consider this a bug?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Jun 09, 2009 at 10:00:21PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Nuno Magalhães wrote: > > Regardless of mode it should always ask for dhcp/static. Didn't it do > > this before? > > IIRC, since sarge or etch it tried to automatically detect a dhcp server > and on success would configure the

Re: differences of gfortran on amd64 and i386

2009-06-14 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Hello list, > > I have a rather funny and annoying problem with a third-party fortran > program. It is a non-free scientific program for some physical > calculations. I get different output values, if I compile and run the > same fortran code on amd64 or i386. > >

Re: slapd + TLS Problem.

2009-06-14 Thread Maria McKinley
Alessandro Baggi wrote: Hi there. I've problem setting up SLAPD + TLS and libnss-ldap. When I try to get the passwd entry with getent passwd I get the following error: TLS: can't accept: A record packet with illegal version was received.. connection_read(13): TLS accept failure error=-1 id=1

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P.

[Solved] Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread gcrimp
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19 -0300, "Tiago Saboga" wrote: > whollyg...@letterboxes.org writes: > > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" > > wrote: > >> >> On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > >> >> Hi, > >> >> > >> >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It w

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 9:38 PM, Steve Reilly wrote: It may be that you can get to it by running dpkg-reconfigure Anybody on this list have any suggestions for appropriate values of ? Rick i believe what your looking for in is cupsys. but thats not going to ask you for passwords or u

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 21:19:52 -0400 Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > > > On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" > > wrote: > On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed cups to mana

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Reilly
Rick Thomas wrote: > > On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: > >> On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" >> wrote: > On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web > interfa

Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <4a359636.4090...@gmail.com>, J.Hwan.Kim wrote: >I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, >but some characters of my country language is broken. >However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well. > >Is there Acrobat Reader package for Debian? Pursuant to the Debian Social Contract (http:

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 7:53 PM, whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" wrote: On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: Hi, I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jun 14, 2009, at 8:24 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what "sudo -i" in a normal terminal is for... 'sudo -l' you mean? That

Re: Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 09:30:46 +0900 "J.Hwan.Kim" wrote: > Hi, everyone > > I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, > but some characters of my country language is broken. > However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well. > > Is there Acrobat Reader package for Debian? Yes; you'll need

Acrobat Reader in debian

2009-06-14 Thread J.Hwan.Kim
Hi, everyone I'm using KGHOSTVIEW and EVINCE for PDF viewer, but some characters of my country language is broken. However, Acrobat Reader in Windows displays well. Is there Acrobat Reader package for Debian? Thanks in advance. Regards, J.H.Kim -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ..

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 3:13 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: > > Bug reported as Bug#533089 > > Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... > > Oh well, I guess that's what "sudo -i" in a normal terminal is for... 'sudo -l' you mean? That (or just 'su' alone) gives me root access within

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 08:26 +0100, "Anthony Campbell" wrote: > On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web > > interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select > > a driver and click on "Add Printer". At tha

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread whollygoat
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009 09:30 +0100, "thveillon.debian" wrote: > >> On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > >> Hi, > >> > >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web > >> interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select > >> a driver and click on "Add Printer".

Re: IPv6 docs, howtos, descriptions

2009-06-14 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kelly Clowers [2009.06.14.2146 +0200]: > I found Martin Krafft's guide to be useful: > http://madduck.net/docs/ipv6/ In this context, it's http://ipv6.debian.net ;) I'd be happy to work with people who wanted to point that to a more resourceful collection. -- .''`. martin f. kra

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-14 23:06 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'mlocate' was already installed but I had overlooked the line about > /usr/bin/locate using /etc/alternatives to actually point to mlocate. > > Did the 'locate' database get purged when 'locate' was removed? No, it¹ gets purged when the locate pack

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread JoeHill
Alan Chandler wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sun,14.Jun.09, 11:53:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > >>> The libwebkit-1.0-1 package is still available in testing: > >> So, enabling testing in your sources.list should allow installation of > >> gimp without affecting other packa

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 07:48:41PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-06-14 19:13 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > > removed. > > This is because

Re:Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread David Baron
On Sunday 14 June 2009 19:50:14 debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > 1. It does not download anything without knowledge or permission. Others > > will open an upgrade available window on start and give you the choice. > > Chrome, if you do not defeat this feature, upgrades will s

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:50:37 -0700 gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web ... > The prompt prompt in the dialogue box where a uname and passwd > or requested says 'A username and password are being requested > by http://localhost:631. T

Continued DVD-RAM writer problems (was Re: SATA CD/DVD drive not showing up in Squeeze)

2009-06-14 Thread AG
AG wrote: AG wrote: Hi After my last machine crashed and burned, I replaced the box with an HP Pavillion which has the following specs: AMD Sempron 2300 Dual-Core Dual Layer DVD Rewriter With a fresh installation of Squeeze (using Netinst via a CD) there have been several issues which I am

Re: IPv6 docs, howtos, descriptions

2009-06-14 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:37, Tony Asnicar wrote: > I know...google...BUT: > Does someone has good howtos, docs, descriptions, opinions in forums, or > similar things about IPv6 and "related things"? > I just think it would be a very good idea to collect some links about it... > Regards, and thank

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun,14.Jun.09, 11:53:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: The libwebkit-1.0-1 package is still available in testing: So, enabling testing in your sources.list should allow installation of gimp without affecting other packages (since you are already running Sid). Adeoda

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Thomas
Bug reported as Bug#533089 Sadly, if your diagnosis is correct, it may not be fixable... Oh well, I guess that's what "sudo -i" in a normal terminal is for... Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@l

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Stephan Seitz
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 01:13:50PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: Looking at the depends, conflicts, and replaces lines I can find nothing to indicate that upgrading 'dlocate' involves removing 'locate'. Could someone explain what's going on? From the dlocate changelog for version 1.0: no longer u

Re: [OT] Inline Evolution GPG/PGP Signing

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
In-line signing is deprecated, or what did you mean by your subject? Also you message appears quite strange in mutt :-/ On Sun,14.Jun.09, 18:45:09, Harry Rickards wrote: > Also, I'd love to get away from a GUI mail client altogether, but I need > to be able to view messages in a seperate frame.

Re: [OT] Inline Evolution GPG/PGP Signing

2009-06-14 Thread hrickards
On Sun, 14 Jun 2009, Harry Rickards wrote: Is there a way to send PGP or GPG encrypted messages inline in Evolution? I mean so that instead of an attachment with the signature in, you have: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I managed to find a thread about it online at http://lists.x

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 13:13:50, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > removed. Please post the full output of 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' Regards, Andrei -- If you can't

Re: aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-06-14 19:13 +0200, Rick Pasotto wrote: > 'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' > and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be > removed. This is because locate is marked as automatically installed, and the old dlocate is the only

[OT] Inline Evolution GPG/PGP Signing

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Rickards
Is there a way to send PGP or GPG encrypted messages inline in Evolution? I mean so that instead of an attachment with the signature in, you have: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I managed to find a thread about it online at http://lists.ximian.com/pipermail/evolution/2003-January/024

aptitude wants to remove 'locate'

2009-06-14 Thread Rick Pasotto
'dlocate' now shows in the update list for 'aptitude -s safe-upgrade' and when I try 'aptitude install dlocate' I'm told that 'locate' will be removed. However, when I enter 'aptitude why-not locate' I'm told "Unable to find a reason to remove locate." Looking at the depends, conflicts, and repla

slapd + TLS Problem.

2009-06-14 Thread Alessandro Baggi
Hi there. I've problem setting up SLAPD + TLS and libnss-ldap. When I try to get the passwd entry with getent passwd I get the following error: TLS: can't accept: A record packet with illegal version was received.. connection_read(13): TLS accept failure error=-1 id=18, closing This is a cert

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 11:53:26, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >The libwebkit-1.0-1 package is still available in testing: > > So, enabling testing in your sources.list should allow installation of gimp > without affecting other packages (since you are already running Sid). Adeodato Simó (Debian

Re: run ssh as service for port forwarding

2009-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 12:16:22AM +0800, Zhang Weiwu wrote: > Hello. We have a great firewall that scans keywords on tcp connections' > raw data, thus I could not use my http proxy server outside of the > firewall because both direct connection to the web server and in-direct > connect to the http

Debian multi-domain authentication (using a LDAP backend)

2009-06-14 Thread Jamie Thompson
Just throw-out for some thoughts I was musing on. In the windows world of old, you had your domains, each with a SID, and thus your users ended up with unique SIDs as the domain SID is prefixed to their user SIDs. Domain trust accounts could be established to enable users from other domains to aut

run ssh as service for port forwarding

2009-06-14 Thread Zhang Weiwu
Hello. We have a great firewall that scans keywords on tcp connections' raw data, thus I could not use my http proxy server outside of the firewall because both direct connection to the web server and in-direct connect to the http proxy are scanned by the firewall. My trick is to run 'ssh -L' and

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090614132300.ga5...@isar.localhost>, Florian Kulzer wrote: >On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:03:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: >> Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy >> on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its >> name to libwebkit 1.0-

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:31 PM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, marc wrote: >> Patrick Wiseman said: >> >>> It doesn't do authentication yet, so password-protected sites just hang. >> >> It authenticates just fine in the cases I've thrown at it. > > It prompts you for u

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 12:23 PM, marc wrote: > Patrick Wiseman said: > >> It doesn't do authentication yet, so password-protected sites just hang. > > It authenticates just fine in the cases I've thrown at it. It prompts you for username and password? For me, it just sits there spinning. Patric

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread marc
Patrick Wiseman said: > It doesn't do authentication yet, so password-protected sites just hang. It authenticates just fine in the cases I've thrown at it. -- Best, Marc "Change requires small steps." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:27:56AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu > > wrote: > >> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equiva

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,14.Jun.09, 01:19:40, Steve Lamb wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, >> most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't >> anything special. > > Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video

Re: Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:47 AM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:27:56AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu >> > wrote: >> >> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-14 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 08:16:26AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: > > On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > >> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports > > > > How do you know that? I thought gksu was u

Multilingual voice over, dubbing and subtitle services

2009-06-14 Thread Graffitti Studio
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Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 10:34:15AM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > > It creates a daily cron job to check for updates and appears > temporarily to modify sources.list to grab the update. Some find this > behavior offensive, but it's by no means the only package which > creates a cron job which d

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 9:40 AM, David Baron wrote: > I am liking this more and more. I have preferred opera but the current version > is awful slow to start doing anything. Chrome, it's just there, up and > running. I'm enjoying it, too, but for some major features missing so far. > A few points

Paternalistic D-Bus Restrictions (was Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently)

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 8:16 AM, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu > wrote: >> On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >>> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports >> >> How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that.

Re: 30 Minutes (system time/ntpdate/dovecot)

2009-06-14 Thread David Baron
>>>Has been happening quite a bit lately: >>>Problem with ntpdate. If and when it finally works, get a change of 10,800 >seconds ... that is 30 minutes. >>>The dovecot IMAPd server is unreadable. Restarting it yields a complaint >>>about 10,800 seconds of time, killing itself now! Restarting it

Re: Google Chrome

2009-06-14 Thread David Baron
I am liking this more and more. I have preferred opera but the current version is awful slow to start doing anything. Chrome, it's just there, up and running. A few points: 1. It does not download anything without knowledge or permission. Others will open an upgrade available window on start an

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 11:03:56 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy > on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its > name to libwebkit 1.0-2. > > I submitted a bug about this, but a bug number was never a

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-14 Thread Suno Ano
Oliver> Thanks a lot. This is great. I had been looking for some tool Oliver> like that for a while and had some failed attempts with SVN Oliver> (failed with respect to the metadata). yes, SVN, about that ... see http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/scm.html#why_git Oliver> Thanks for the h

Re: Random seamonkey crashes when playing flash videos

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 04:25:36AM EDT, Andreas Juch wrote: > Am Fri, 12 Jun 2009 15:55:32 -0400 > schrieb Chris Jones : > > > It looks like they're caused by some mixed environment issue. > > > > Should I remove every mozilla on the system and reinstall from > > scratch? I removed iceape from t

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-14 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:19 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: >> Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports > > How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that. Try: > > gksu gnome-terminal That yields: ** (gnome-terminal:1

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Frank Lin PIAT
On Sun, 2009-06-14 at 12:02 +0100, Harry Rickards wrote: > > On 06/14/09 11:03, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy > > on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its > > name to libwebkit 1.0-2. > > > As to questi

Re: etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-14 Thread Oliver Schneider
> I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to > keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something > bad happens during an upgrade or so. > > http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/scm.html#etckeeper Thanks a lot. This is great. I had been looking for som

Re: Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-14 Thread Chris Jones
On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 03:20:30AM EDT, j t wrote: > Good morning all. > > I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters > by holding down and and then tapping out the hex code > for the character that I wanted, and then releasing and > . For example, pressing and holdi

etckeeper - keeping /etc under version control

2009-06-14 Thread Suno Ano
Hi folks, I wrote an article about etckeeper... that nifty thing that allows to keep /etc under version control and thus "rollback" in case something bad happens during an upgrade or so. http://sunoano.name/ws/public_xhtml/scm.html#etckeeper pgp07fiZKbukS.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Harry Rickards
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 06/14/09 11:03, Alan Chandler wrote: > Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy > on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its > name to libwebkit 1.0-2. > > I submitted a bug about this, but a

Gimp and unstable

2009-06-14 Thread Alan Chandler
Gimp is currently uninstallable in unstable because it has a dependancy on libwebkit 1.0-1 and (as far as I can work out) it has changed its name to libwebkit 1.0-2. I submitted a bug about this, but a bug number was never assigned, although there is a bug (528012) which does refer to this.

USB problems on fresh install of Lenny

2009-06-14 Thread Lisi Reisz
I installed Lenny on someone's box a couple of days ago, with KDE 3.5.10. I am getting the following error when I try to use the USB card: Rejected send message, 3 matched rules; type="method_call", sender=":1.6" (uid=1000 pid=2582 comm="kded [kdeinit] --new-startup ") interface="org.freedeskto

Re: [OT] The perfect system ...

2009-06-14 Thread Steve Lamb
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Determine what you want the box to do. If its only watching movies, most new computers with a decent video card will do that as is and isn't anything special. Heck, until I figured out a method to stream video to my XBox360 I was watching video on my ~10 year old D

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread thveillon.debian
>> On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web >> interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select >> a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am >> prompted for a username and a password. >> > [sn

Re: 'Applications, Accessories, Root Terminal' fails silently

2009-06-14 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,13.Jun.09, 09:32:52, Patrick Wiseman wrote: > Running 'sudo gnome-terminal' (which is the equivalent) reports How do you know that? I thought gksu was used for that. Try: gksu gnome-terminal Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert E

Re: dovecot sees ~/Maildir, seeks folders in ~/ on Lenny (OK on Etch)

2009-06-14 Thread John Stumbles
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <4a33b953.5030...@stumbles.org.uk>, John Stumbles wrote: >> I've got dovecot set up on an Etch box to use maildirs, with folders >> under ~/Maildir. >> >> The same setup on Lenny finds a user's INBOX in their ~/Maildir but >> doesn't find any other folders - inst

Re: what user and password for cups

2009-06-14 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 13 Jun 2009, gcr...@vcn.bc.ca wrote: > Hi, > > I've just installed cups to manage an HP Laserjet 6P. It web > interface finds the printer everything is peachy until I select > a driver and click on "Add Printer". At that point I am > prompted for a username and a password. > [snip] Not a

Whatever happened to Unicode input (using + )?

2009-06-14 Thread j t
Good morning all. I'm reasonably sure that I used to be able to input unicode characters by holding down and and then tapping out the hex code for the character that I wanted, and then releasing and . For example, pressing and holding and and then tapping 20AC would give me a euro symbol. No