Re: GNU .screenrc and scrolling problem

2010-02-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
On 02/26/2010 10:27 AM, Matthew Moore wrote: > On Friday February 26 2010 9:42:09 am wishi wrote: >> Am 26.02.10 12:20, schrieb Alex Samad: >> Well... when I do that I can scroll up, but just within he >> xfce4-terminal, rxvt... buffer. >> That means I leave screen's screen, where the current scr

Re: regexp for rename command - please help!

2010-02-20 Thread Chris Burkhardt
enames] Use: rename 's/^---//g' -- * The -- is commonly used to let programs know that whatever follows should not be interpreted as an option (which is necessary because your file name begins with --) - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.or

Re: Inquiry:What is the equivalent of "ping -f -l" on the Debian server?

2009-11-18 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mariusz Sielicki wrote: > 2009/11/18 hadi motamedi : >> Thank you very much for your reply . Please be informed that it seems to me >> that the "-f" means flood ping and so the same option on the Debian server . >> (I mean "#ping -f -s 20 www.google.com) >> Thank you in advance > > On Win Box: > -

Re: gtk2 environment, what controls it?

2009-10-27 Thread Chris Burkhardt
vr wrote: > > Any other suggestions are greatly appreciated! Does Thunar work correctly on your system? If so, I'd file a bug against pcmanfm and see if you and the package maintainer can figure it out together. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a

Re: should debian FAQ suggest "alpine" as an alternative to "pine"?

2009-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Robert P. J. Day wrote: > currently perusing the FAQ, section 5.10 asks, "where is pine?" > since alpine is apparently available for debian, shouldn't that > section at least mention that alternative? i've used alpine as a > drop-in replacement for pine on fedora for quite some time. Yes, I thi

Re: "Unable to perform shutdown" from Xfce

2009-08-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
linked to suggested you can put "exec startxfce4" in .xession, and then start with startx, and Debian will take care of the ck stuff.) If you are using GDM or KDM, then something else is wrong... - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org

Re: Help - Updated Squeeze Last Night and My System is Messed Up!

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
achine is no more than a > paperweight! These bug reports might be related to your problem: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=538879 http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=481030 Can you update your gnome-settings-daemon to the 2.26.* version in unstable and see if tha

Re: GNOME settings on start up

2009-08-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
AG wrote: > Hello list & happy birthday Debian ... sweet 16 and all of that ;-) > [...] > Anyway, > one of the issues I am finding is that the gnome-screensaver is > triggered on start up and runs in the background, but despite being > configured to kick in after 20 minutes of inactivity, it does

Re: iceweasel 3.5?

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Soren Orel wrote: >> When will Iceweasel 3.5 come to Debian Lenny? :P > > A Lenny backport is a step closer, as it was just uploaded to experimental: > > http://glandium.org/blog/?p=391 And even better, Mike Hommey just posted step-by-step instr

Re: iceweasel 3.5?

2009-07-08 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Soren Orel wrote: > When will Iceweasel 3.5 come to Debian Lenny? :P A Lenny backport is a step closer, as it was just uploaded to experimental: http://glandium.org/blog/?p=391 - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: chown question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the >> old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is >> there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without >> chowning the whole box? > > In

Re: chown question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Chris Jackson wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >> I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the >> old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is >> there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without >> chowning the whole box? > > > Th

Re: chown question

2009-07-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [...] > I know that I could have used find to look for all files owned by the > old UID, plunked it through xargs and chowned them that way, but is > there a way, as root, to chown directly the hidden files without > chowning the whole box? > > Just for my future reference?

Re: iceweasel 3.5?

2009-07-01 Thread Chris Burkhardt
>> On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 2:49 PM, Soren Orel > > wrote: >> >> When will Iceweasel 3.5 come to Debian Lenny? :P >> >> I hope this bug >> >> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=525938 > I download it from http://packages.debian.org/sid/icewea

Re: compiling ZSNES from source

2009-06-27 Thread Chris Burkhardt
've never had the pleasure of sorting out the whole 32/64-bit library mess. I hope this points you in the right direction. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Services / Runlevel editor

2009-06-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Allen Kenner wrote: > Hey all, [...] > > In SUSE, I'd use YAST2 and open the Runlevel editor so I could set up > what I wanted as far as running processes, and shut off servers I didn't > need running. In Slackware I just didn't set up many by default and only > started what I wanted, but on Debia

Re: No 3D option on glchess

2009-05-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=495234 That bug was fixed by newer versions of PyOpenGL, so I'd expect the 3D option to reappear in future versions of Debian's glChess. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "

Re: 5.0.1 MD5SUMS

2009-05-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
loaded is a file named MD5SUMS (and there's also SHA1SUMS). For example, this file has the sums for all of the the i386 CD images: http://cdimage.debian.org/debian-cd/5.0.1/i386/iso-cd/MD5SUMS - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org wit

Re: virtualbox and usb devices

2009-04-25 Thread Chris Burkhardt
e): domount usbfs usbdevfs /proc/bus/usb usbfs -onodev,noexec,nosuid,devgid=127,devmode=664 (I added the devgid and devmode options; the devgid here matches the devgid in /etc/fstab) And make sure your user account belongs to the vboxusers group. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: script: test binary program vs shell script

2009-04-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Kevin Ponds wrote: >>> or something along those lines. Grepping fo "ELF" can also be useful. >>> > > Grepping for ELF is a dangerous way to do it! If you run the script on > itself, > it will think that it's a binary. I think he meant grep'ing for 'ELF' in the output of the file command, not th

Re: Suggestions for multilevel backup of single machine?

2009-04-11 Thread Chris Burkhardt
James Youngman wrote: > [...] > (2) It would be useful to have a historic backup capability too (e.g. > the way the filesystem looked yesterday, last week, last month and a > year ago), at least for filesystems like /home. > > What are good solutions for doing (2)? (Please only recommend > softw

Re: Which pakage for font tscu-comic?

2009-03-08 Thread Chris Burkhardt
nswer myself > By ttial and error, ie removing fonts-pakages until tscu-comic disappeared, I > found it is in package tts-tamil-fonts. For future reference, the 'apt-file' command is useful for finding out which package a file belongs to. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: disabling GDM beep?

2009-03-07 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Daryl Styrk wrote: > Girish Kulkarni wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 10:32 AM, Daryl Styrk wrote: I use Lenny on my Dell Inspiron 640m laptop. The beep that GDM throws with the login screen has been a source of embarrasment in classrooms many times. How do I disable it? >>> Have a

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-05 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Chris Burkhardt wrote: >> Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>>> But in the mean time I've built you a package (I'm assuming you are using >>>> an >>>> i386 processor): http://mretc.net/~cris/tmp

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: >>> Would you please help me to install that little one? KPackage also >>> gave me nothing. >> You would first need to convert the RPM package to a deb package using alien >> (see the package named 'alien'). >> >> Then you would install the resulting .deb using 'dpkg -i packa

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: >> You may try and install the RPM, it has few depends. >> http://rpmseek.com/rpm-dl/wmsm-0.2.0-alt1.i586.html?hl=com&cbd=0:W:120:1859264:48:0:0 > > Thanks, for the tip! I have got one here: > http://search.linux.kiev.ua/server/ftp.linux.kiev.ua/browse/pub/Linux/ALT/Sisyphus

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Thanks for replay! > > Pardon me, but that not the same applet :) Oh... um, then... I don't know. Sorry! - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Lenny stable. How to find wmsm WindowMaker applet?

2009-03-01 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mark Goldshtein wrote: > Hello, list! > > I am running Debian Lenny stable (fresh installed right after release > date) and WindowMaker. Here is my sources.list: > > [...] > > Looking for WindowMaker applets, I have not found 'wmsm' applet. This > is nice 'all in one' information icon with CPU, m

Re: 515...@bugs.debian.org

2009-02-24 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: > I quite don't understand how this bug had been treated, > or not treated. It was determined that the bug was not in midori but in swfdec or libwebkit. So the bug was reassigned to swfdec. It turns out the bug was actually in libwebkit (as you noted in your last comment on the b

Re: Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 09:59:35AM -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: >> Micha Feigin wrote: >>> I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with >>> "intelisense" >>> like behavior (the only thing I miss about

Re: Any programming editor/ide with "intelisense" for c++ and fortran around?

2009-02-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Micha Feigin wrote: > I'm trying to find if there is a proper programming editor with "intelisense" > like behavior (the only thing I miss about visual studio) that supports both > fortran and c++, or at least c++. Look at Vim 7's Omni-completion feature. http://vimdoc.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/help

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: > Thank you very much for your help :) > I found exactly the same results. > So now, though it's not a solution, we have > a very reproducible problem. And even different > cases where it behave the same or not the same. > Since you English is far much better than mine > maybe you

Re: Replacement for Dillo web browser

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 07:25:50PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: >> Is there a light-weight browser that does not have a huge list of >> dependencies? >> >> I had been using dillo for things like reading html documentation and >> other light-weight tasks, but then I upgraded

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: [...] >> There is a note in the man page about putting the --no-act flag before the >> action: >> >> $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.dfsg.1-2_all.deb >> >> Does that make it behave as expected? > > I wish but sadly no: > > $ sudo dpkg --no-act -i texlive-base_2007.d

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: >> have the following >> packages installed: >> >> midori 0.1.2-1 >> mozilla-plugin-gnash 0.8.3-6 >> swfdec-mozilla 0.6.0-4 > > apt-cache policy midori mozilla-plugin-gnash swfdec-mozilla > flashplayer-mozilla > midori: > Installed: 0.1.2-1 > Candidate: 0.1.2-1 > mozilla-plu

Re: [OT] Name of new testing?

2009-02-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Does any one know the name after Lenny? Squeeze - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: rc.local is not executed

2009-02-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mike McClain wrote: > So my questions to you who have an installed /etc/rc.local are which > package did it come from and how does it get executed? /etc/init.d/rc.local is included with the initscripts package, and it executes /etc/rc.local if it exists. /etc/init.d/rc.local is symlinked to the a

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Chris Burkhardt wrote: > In your bug report you mention "swfdec-mozilla 0.8.2-1" which is only in Sid. > If > you are using that with the Lenny version of midori, that might be the cause > of > your segfaults. Well nevermind, because you said you were getting the se

Re: test for package dependencies without installing

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I'm wondering if there is a command I can run on a debian package that > would test for whether all dependencies of that package are already installed > on the system without actually installing the package if so. This mailing > list thread http://lists.debian.org/debi

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: >> Do you know a way to change where midori looks for its >> plugins? > yes > update-alternatives --config flash-mozilla.so Thanks. I switched it to /usr/lib/swfdec-mozilla/libswfdecmozilla.so and tried again -- and that also played the videos fine! Maybe even better. So let's t

Re: request to try something with midori

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ink Bottle wrote: > Hi, > can you try something? > start midori www.google.com; > then click on video; > wait; > don't click to start the "large" video (it would work); > instead of it click on a small one > > Is it all right for you? Yes, I can play the small videos on that page fine. I'm us

Re: openoffice.org 3.0.1 and "--instdir" option

2009-02-13 Thread Chris Burkhardt
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to try out OOo 3.0.1 on Debian Lenny. From this web page: > http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Documentation/Administration_Guide/Linux > > looks like all I have to do is: > $> dpkg -i *.deb > > to the downloaded deb file to get the installation in /opt. >

Re: php5 gd imagerotate() function

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Joey L wrote: > To All: > > I am getting this error on my site: > *Fatal error*: Call to undefined function imagerotate() in > */var/www/html/websites > > > *I was told that i need the imagerotate() function to be enabled in the > pre-packaged gd package that i installed. > > I found this link

Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com

2009-01-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > Peter, how will you run it? Do you have a Windows dual-boot on this > machine? > > I just wiped out the Vista partition on my T61 by attempting a resize > with gparted (Vista's own reisize feature wouldn't resize more than a > few GB and no amount of fiddling with setti

Re: Retrieving a bios updater from ibm.com

2009-01-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Peter Crawford wrote: > Does anyone have a clever way to retrieve file > spsdks45.exe which has a link on this page? > > http://www-307.ibm.com/pc/support/site.wss/MIGR-4MCKB8.html > > Iceweasel in Lenny is here. > After I agree to the conditions of use, > transfer appears to happen but no re

Re: emacs-cvs (23) thru aptitude

2008-12-29 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Harry Putnam wrote: > I just started working with debian recently, I'm a long time gentoo > user. > > I want to install the latest cvs emacs but do not see it in an > aptitude search. See Romain Francoise's emacs-snapshot repository: http://emacs.orebokech.com/ - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: rhythmbox questions

2008-12-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
lostson wrote: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 18:31 -0700, Chris Burkhardt wrote: > >> lostson wrote: >> >>> Hello >>> I am using Lenny and have noticed when starting rhythmbox that most of >>> the plugins fail to load. For instance cover art, jame

Re: rhythmbox questions

2008-12-16 Thread Chris Burkhardt
lostson wrote: > Hello > I am using Lenny and have noticed when starting rhythmbox that most of > the plugins fail to load. For instance cover art, jamendo and Magnatune > pop up windows that say unable to activate plugin. I have looked for a > package maybe i missed with via synaptic but havent f

Re: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > like to avoid using it. > > However, while it is perfectly OK to edit one or two configuration > files to set-up wireless networking (or even cabled one, if DHCP is not > used) if the computer

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

2008-11-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
tôba wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:13 + > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to >> have the cvs version. >> >> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the >> old one? > > If it has the "m

electoral college

2008-11-06 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Clearing up some of my misinformation about the electoral college: "Electors chosen on Election Day meet in their respective state capitals (or in the case of Washington, D.C., within the District) on the Monday after the second Wednesday in December, at which time they cast their electoral votes

Re: how to execute a command as another user in one command?

2008-10-28 Thread Chris Burkhardt
hope I can do it in one command, so I tried this > --- > su -c "postgres -D ~/data > ~/log/logfile 2>&1 &" postgres What error does that give? > > but it doesn't work. what's wrong with it? or any other command to > r

Re: Hunting a Math Application

2008-10-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
hon: SymPy: http://code.google.com/p/sympy/ NumPy: http://numpy.scipy.org/ Other lists: http://www.usna.edu/Users/math/wdj/opensource_math.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numerical_analysis_software - Chris burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changelog broken on Lenny?

2008-10-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
g on? Is this planned? Any idea when it will be up again? They all seem to be back in place now. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Non-Debian Provided Packages

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Burkhardt
get Sympa to work from its .deb, for example. If you go that route, I'd suggest something like stow to keep everything tidy and easy to uninstall: http://www.gnu.org/software/stow/ - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: stupid nautilus question

2008-10-18 Thread Chris Burkhardt
n to > use the point and click navigation. Don't make me go to KDE! I don't use Nautilus, but in many programs typing a forward slash (/) opens a quick find box allowing you to search the contents of the window. It sounds like that's what you've described. Doesn't Nautilus have

Installing fonts in Lenny (use defoma?)

2008-10-17 Thread Chris Burkhardt
85653) which is almost 4 years old. Does anybody know of any good guides to installing fonts in Debian? - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No changelogs for all 50+ package updates

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Slim Joe wrote: > For the past four or five days I cannot see or download > the changelogs for any of the packages which the > Gnome Update Manager is supposed to install. A check > with synaptic confirms the problem. When I choose > \Package\Download_Changelog I get an error like: > > Failed to f

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-15 Thread Chris Burkhardt
27; to find only files in a 'bin' directory, for example. > $ apt-file find mysqladmin > [...] > > > Both outputs are similar. Yes, search and find are aliases; they do the same thing. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: About apt-file

2008-10-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
commandname` but that might not be what you're asking for... - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-29 Thread Chris Burkhardt
consultores1 wrote: > On Sat, 2008-09-27 at 22:53 -0600, Chris Burkhardt wrote: >> Felipe Gallois wrote: >>> the signature =] >> ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, that's >> what I >> based it on. I hope it wasn't t

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-27 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Felipe Gallois wrote: > the signature =] ... which I think is actually an ad appended by hotmail. But, yes, that's what I based it on. I hope it wasn't too presumptive :) - Chris B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Consultation on Linux for CD

2008-09-27 Thread Chris Burkhardt
mauricio fernando gallo wrote: > By this i am addressing you on request information on Linux. > I download the version "livecd" page and record directly in the CD, you > can start my computer for the same. Once recorded, restart my machine > and you are incie by the compactera. Which had no posit

Re: DirectFB and X.

2008-09-12 Thread Chris Burkhardt
out an X server... but I don't think Lenny has packages built with DFB support, so you'd have to build them yourself. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reply-to-list for icedove? was Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ron Johnson wrote: > This works for me: > http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson/replytolist-0.2.1.xpi > > v0.3.0 fails, since I use IMAP. > > I think that you need to install the Mnenhy add-on. Yes, downgrading to 0.2.1 works for me also. I don't think Icedove needs Mnenhy (but stock Thunderbird

Re: [OT] was Re: diff display

2008-09-11 Thread Chris Burkhardt
> to the Have Nots. I understand that state-sponsored social programs in the US get the label "Socialism", but "Modern" is not a very good adjective for distinguishing socialist ideas. I identify strongly as a Socialist, but my socialism is the libertian socialism o

Re: Way OT: OpenDNS

2008-09-09 Thread Chris Burkhardt
> Are there any known problems / gotchas with OpenDNS? I do know that > they redirect google queries through their own servers and return ads > in place of unregistered domains, but those 'features' can be turned > off. Anything else that I should be aware of? I don't know of any problems with Ope

Re: Remote administration of a machine behind NAT

2008-09-08 Thread Chris Burkhardt
On Mon, 08 Sep 2008 17:14:23 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 09/08/08 17:03, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,08.Sep.08, 16:52:52, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> Port forwarding? Or is the NAT at the ISP level, which would prevent > >> this? > > > > Of course... >

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-05 Thread Chris Burkhardt
n/3207 to workaround > the problem by forcing firefox to see the content-type to text/html Hey, that's a useful plugin to know about. Thanks. - Chris Burkhardt > > Mike Pobega wrote: > > > > > > On Fri, Sep 5, 2008 at 4:50 AM, Tim Edwards > > <[EMAIL PROT

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-04 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mike Pobega wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 4, 2008 at 12:41 AM, Chris Burkhardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > > Mike Pobega wrote: > > So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? > > That's what it s

Re: College Wifi - Problems with .pl file

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Mike Pobega wrote: > So it's a problem on my college's end and not mine? That's what it sounds like. Can use someone else's computer and see if you can connect from Windows? - Chris > > On 9/3/08, *Steve Lamb* <[EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 03, 2008

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
hine. I just realized that the "remotely through a computer network" doesn't pertain to any situation where the user is sitting in front of the machine (like slot machines and ATMs). So that renders many of our examples moot. Hopefully that makes you feel a little better about the scope of the AGPL. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
sagreement comes down to: I like that the AGPl extends rights to users of the service; you don't. You probably won't base any projects on AGPL code; I might. It should be an option for Debian software. > [...] (Everything else you wrote was clear, and highlighted the differences in our opinion over who the users of the software is. I think it's the person logging into Google and sitting in front of the slot machine; you think it is Google and the casino.) - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
cause some serious problems for the > adoption of OS tools to be used to build those custom applications > then you really don't understand what's going on nor the motivactions > of why people chose the solutions they do outside of your narrow > mindset. I understand why some

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
> I care. The AGPL is dangerous to Opensource. It is too aggressive and > too restrictive. As Opensource becomes more dominant, > software-as-a-service (SAAS) will become the primary way for people to > make money through software. The AGPL threatens to cut off Opensource > from its primary means o

Re: Do Debian's users care about the AGPL?

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
sed programs in main. It's certainly trying its best to keep the spirit of Free software alive even for binaries which are executed by end-users but not distributed. I like the idea. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: recommendations for CD burning.

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Chris Burkhardt wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Folk, >> >> The CD FAQ mentions K3b, X-CD-Roast and a few >> other GUI frontends. Judging by wikipedia, K3b >> is the most advanced. >> >> Can anyone recommend one of these for use under

Re: recommendations for CD burning.

2008-09-02 Thread Chris Burkhardt
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Folk, > > The CD FAQ mentions K3b, X-CD-Roast and a few > other GUI frontends. Judging by wikipedia, K3b > is the most advanced. > > Can anyone recommend one of these for use under > Xfce4. I'm more concerned for efficient > functionality than for sophistication

Re: making a subscript in text in SVG

2008-08-31 Thread Chris Burkhardt
/www.w3.org/TR/SVG11/text.html#BaselineShiftProperty - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Which ISO to use for Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5550?

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Chris Burkhardt wrote: > Amogh Hooshdar wrote: >> I have an Acer 4620 Laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5550. >> Which Debian ISO should I download? > > i386 if you want a 32 bit environment, or an ia64 ISO if you want 64 bit. Oops. By "ia64" I meant &q

Re: Which ISO to use for Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5550?

2008-08-30 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Amogh Hooshdar wrote: > I have an Acer 4620 Laptop with Intel Core 2 Duo processor T5550. > Which Debian ISO should I download? i386 if you want a 32 bit environment, or an ia64 ISO if you want 64 bit. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
ar case is, should bug reports be opened against librsvg, strigi, and the others requesting that they not directly allocate memory for the xmlEntity structure? I can take the time to do it, if it should be done. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-26 Thread Chris Burkhardt
ble and it works (thanks Mike!). Hopefully it will be in Lenny and Etch soon. - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
g, I guess). Or if your drive is not even being detected by the driver, you need to figure that out. Have you ever successfully read any CD in your system? - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lenny users: attn about Gnome/libxml2 breakage

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
rything works. Have you opened a bug report on this anywhere? I'm on a Lenovo X60 Tablet, Core Duo: 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Wed Aug 20 12:56:41 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux - Chris Burkhardt -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: F/OSS Repository

2008-08-22 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Hello all > > I am from Indonesia. I would like know, F/OSS repository besides > sourceforge. Can somebody mention other F/OSS repository? More an index than a repository, but if you're just looking for software to use: http://freshmeat.net/ - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: compatibility

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Kenn Bannerman wrote: > > I'm looking at various Linux versions but none seem to indicate whether > they are compatible with certain software programs such as: A better strategy would be to ask the software vendors whether or not their program is supported under Linux. - Chris -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
John O Laoi wrote: > > > Thanks for the help. > > > I am having problems installing the package thunar-volman. > > This is a package management problem, at which I am no expert! > > > The package is not available on etch, but is on the list of packages for > sid: > > http://packages.debian.

Re: Which C++ STL manual package in Debian

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Burkhardt
hce wrote: > Hi, > > I installed stl-manual in Debian, but it is HTML format, I cannot see > from the man. Is there a STL manaual package in Debian I can use the > man to display it? > > ii stl-manual 3.30-6 C++-STL documentation in HTML I can't find any reference to a man/troff ver

Re: automounting in xfce

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 09:43:30PM +0100, John O Laoi wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I want to set up automounting on my etch system, which is using XFCE4. >> >> Basically, I want my CDs and flash devices to automount when I insert them. >> >> >> I have done some googeling, and

Re: no network connection

2008-08-20 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Ed Sutter wrote: > My goal is to have the debian-based system start up with Ethernet > enabled immediately (I would have thought that would be the standard > way it would boot up). I don't want to have to log into my console > and click something to start up Ethernet. You shouldn't have to. It's

Re: Happy birthday, Debian!

2008-08-18 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > 14 years! 15 years even! :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: suspend / hibernate

2008-08-05 Thread Chris Burkhardt
I can't help, but I can confirm it. I see it on my Linux Certified laptop, which is some kind of Asus repackage job. I see system load spike as high as 15 or so for a few seconds and then it ramps back down to normal after a few more seconds. I've always assumed (I know, I know) that it was just s

Re: swappiness of 2.6 kernel

2008-08-04 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Account for Debian group mail wrote: Hello, Has anyone played with the swappiness settings of the 2.6 kernel? It looks like the default is set at 60. I was thinking on this new machine I put together with 4 gigs of ram that I might bump this number up a little, maybe like 80. Any thoughts?

Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/

2008-07-24 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Damon L. Chesser wrote: On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 18:20 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2008-07-21 at 14:57 흍㒲횛漨꺋帢ᚯ禫⵪ Paul, is your client hosed, or mine, or something else? It must be somewhere towards your end, because Paul's responses appear as perfectly legible text/plain here. Is i

Re: my ip was previously banned at http://forums.debian.net/

2008-07-21 Thread Chris Burkhardt
stabbyjones wrote: I have a static ip from my new isp and apparently it's been banned from http://forums.debian.net/ Is there any way to get it unbanned? because it's banned i can't find any admin to contact and i can't browse posts. it also can't be changed without paying. See if anyone at t

Re: Fast PDF File Viewing

2008-07-14 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: In comparison to a colleague's acrobat reader on windows, his acrobat reader performs a lot faster. Are your machines comparable processor- and RAM-wise? (sorry for not answering your actual question) - chris -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a su

Re: Firefox 3?

2008-07-12 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Dr. Jennifer Nussbaum wrote: Is there a version of Firefox 3--or, i guess, Iceweasel 3--in package form yet, or is it still in some kind of testing form where you have to compile it yourself? FF3 on my Windows machine is shockingly much faster, so id like to move over to it on my Lenny mach

Re: SOLVED (mostly): How to Boot a Dell Optiplex 320?

2008-07-03 Thread Chris Burkhardt
H.S. wrote: > Kent West wrote: >>> >> >> I've just discovered that upgrading from the 2.6.18-6-686 kernel to >> the 2.6.24-1-686 re-introduces a hang-up on booting. D'oh! (choosing >> the old 2.6.18 kernel from lilo gets me going again, though - whew! >> Stupid Optiplex 320!) >> > > This might not