Re: Why Debian

2013-11-10 Thread Conrad Nelson
t licenses do have an impact how individuals, groups, and businesses will end up using the software. On Nov 9, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * On 2013 09 Nov 10:49 -0600, Conrad Nelson wrote: I like Debian. My only real beef with it is the DFSG. Debian developers (And a lot o

Re: Why Debian

2013-11-09 Thread Conrad Nelson
ry little chance of significant adoption (Debian kfreebsd: BSD is in a decline, and (Debian Hurd) I see very little point in Hurd, as the project is virtually dead.). This keeps Debian from switching to better stuff like systemd (Yes, I know systemd is in the repos.) that could make better use

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/04/2013 12:22 PM, Tom H wrote: On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 4:37 PM, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 11/03/2013 10:41 AM, Reco wrote: On Sun, 3 Nov 2013 14:21:40 + Jonathan Dowland wrote: On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 02:06:06AM +0400, Reco wrote: Well, there are some nice features in systemd

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
n't do the same for unit files. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5277d05a.5020...@marupa.net

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 11/04/2013 04:06 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 03.11.2013 10:23, Marko Randjelovic a écrit : On Sat, 02 Nov 2013 15:58:45 +0100 berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: _ sysvinit scripts are scripts. Scripts needs programming skills, and the sh language does not have an easy to

Re: Init system deba{te|cle}

2013-11-04 Thread Conrad Nelson
ying (I personally think the only thing sustaining it is Apple. I know I'll catch flak for this opinion, but I can't look at usage statistics for BSD and really think it's doing anything but losing users and developers.). In my opinion neither are really worthy of much attention.)

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-30 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/30/2013 08:10 AM, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 23:35:37 +1100 Charlie wrote: On Wed, 30 Oct 2013 07:40:27 -0400 "Celejar cele...@gmail.com" sent this: >The point here is that the FSF, who you consider "the right kind of nuts", *discourages* you from using Debia

Re: ANDROID

2013-10-30 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/29/2013 11:23 AM, Richard Owlett wrote: Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-10-29 at 10:56 -0400, alex.pad...@laposte.net wrote: I shall want to buy a SMARTPHONE with a free O.S (GNU). Many of my friends say to me that ANDROID is a free system, it is LINUX! What do you think about it? http

Re: Installing Cinnamon 2.0

2013-10-11 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 10/11/2013 09:57 AM, Jack Malmostoso wrote: On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 16:50:01 +0200 Ralf Mardorf wrote: MATE from upstream does conflict with other software. This isn't good, it's the most worse I can imagine and likely the reason that distros aren't interested to add it to official repositories

Re: Building computer

2013-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
s makes me conclude that if you want a good UEFI-enabled system you don't buy an off-the-shelf computer. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/5242f22a.7000...@marupa.net

Re: itunes under debian

2013-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2013 12:23 PM, Pascal Obry wrote: Le 03/09/2013 19:00, Mike McGinn a écrit : Has anyone in this group had any luck getting iTunes to work under Linux? I understand it will not help but I couldn't resist. Free your son and buy him a device offering standard MTP interface (like Android).

Re: Thanks

2013-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2013 03:08 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Mon, 2013-09-02 at 11:24 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: What's wrong with MATE? It could cause conflicts with packages from official repositories. Could, could, could. So what? I've seen conflicts of the same nature in the official re

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/02/2013 03:38 PM, Lisi Reisz wrote: On Monday 02 September 2013 17:24:56 Conrad Nelson wrote: I used to actually be a big KDE user. I still like it but I've found it's gone from being one of the fastest, but still flexible desktop environments around to being one of the absolu

Re: Thanks

2013-09-02 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/31/2013 06:07 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Sat, 2013-08-31 at 07:01 -0400, Thod Motte wrote: Thanks to debian and Gnome 3 for making my desktop as buggy and unstable as Windows 95 was in 1997 and less customizable. I'm just going to revert to squeeze, that desktop actually worked. Don't! I

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 12:00 PM, Conrad Nelson wrote: On 08/27/2013 10:22 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 27.08.2013 17:07, Conrad Nelson a écrit : Debian's other problem is this need to split packages. A lot. Debian likes to brag about having a HUGE repository, but when you actually

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 10:22 AM, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote: Le 27.08.2013 17:07, Conrad Nelson a écrit : Debian's other problem is this need to split packages. A lot. Debian likes to brag about having a HUGE repository, but when you actually look at it, it's actually an AVERAGE repos

Re: oh no something is definitly wrong adieu debian.

2013-08-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/27/2013 07:22 AM, Ralf Mardorf wrote: On Tue, 2013-08-27 at 11:55 +, Curt wrote: What a traitor (or not)! "arch traitor" ;) since I prefer Arch Linux and my explanations might be a "traitor's kiss", since I referred to the KISS principle. I am still a big Arch fan myself. But after

Re: what happened to the task bar??

2013-06-28 Thread Conrad Nelson
Welcome to GNOME 3, the desktop environment that attempts to solve a problem that isn't there and changes things for the sake of changing them. Perhaps you'd like MATE, which is a fork of GNOME 2. On Fri, 2013-06-28 at 09:28 -0500, John W. Foster wrote: > I finally got my drop down menus back by

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
I'm sorry, but if you're using a 32-bit PAE kernel to address more that 4 GiB of RAM on a *64-bit machine* you are completely and utterly doing it wrong (In fact, you're doing it stupid.). PAE is slower, can't address anywhere near as much as native 64-bit can, and isn't as stable. Heck, even the

Re: Switching to 64 bit

2013-06-27 Thread Conrad Nelson
It is a choice, but if you have a 64-bit machine, just use 64-bit. There's really no reason not to unless you're using some specialized application that doesn't work at all with multilib. And the benefits are nothing to dismiss. For one, you're actually getting the full use of your CPU. 32-bit can

Debian Installer can't see my partition table

2013-06-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
29760 861818879 194560 83 Linux /dev/sda6 861820928 96677478352476928 83 Linux /dev/sda7 966779370 976773145 4996888 82 Linux swap / Solaris How can I get my partitions known in the installer? Thanks, Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user

Re: Just a question...........

2013-06-20 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/20/2013 06:22 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jun 20, 2013 at 03:19:25PM +1000, Charlie wrote: I don't know enough about this hope someone can help: My ISP CEO suggests that this address is BitTorrent: http://ftp.au.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main non-free contrib Is that correct?

Re: Debian is the best!

2013-06-20 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/18/2013 11:35 AM, Gary Dale wrote: On 18/06/13 10:35 AM, Lars Noodén wrote: On 06/18/2013 05:03 PM, Dirk wrote: you are clearly talking out of your ass... a boot loader doesn't need features other than loading the kernel... what crucial work do you do with the features of grub? spreadshe

Re: What's the nick name?

2013-06-17 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 06/17/2013 10:37 AM, Nikolas Kallis wrote: For God's sake, what is the nick name of my Debian? I am using Debian 7.0. For God's sake, it's Wheezy. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.o

Re: strange authentication request (GNOME)

2013-05-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 05/29/2013 04:47 AM, Matej Kosik wrote: On 28/05/13 16:38, Brad Rogers wrote: On Tue, 28 May 2013 16:16:36 +0100 Matej Kosik<5764c029b688c1c0d24a2e97cd7...@gmail.com> wrote: Hello Matej, On my desktop (squeeze), I've noticed the following "authentication request" ... attached {etc.} Do

Re: Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/25/2012 04:21 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: On Sep 25, 2012 12:18 PM, "Conrad Nelson" <mailto:y...@marupa.net>> wrote: > Any ideas on why ALSA is suddenly outputting my sound so very quietly despite my volume levels being all the way up? Annoyingly, this has always

Sound very *very* quiet on Debian.

2012-09-25 Thread Conrad Nelson
Hello everyone! I have a conundrum for you. Today I had rebooted into Windows to take care of something and when I booted right back into debian, my sound became very very very quiet. To confirm my hardware wasn't on the fritz, I rebooted back into Windows to be greeted with normal volume. Ba

Re: Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio

2012-09-03 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 09/03/2012 08:47 PM, T o n g wrote: Hi, Do I still need alsa if I have pulseaudio? Thanks Yes. Pulseaudio is merely a sound daemon, not an actual sound core complete with driver API. PA will need either ALSA or OSS to run on. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
On 08/29/2012 11:28 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 11:21:30 -0500, Conrad Nelson wrote: (snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny

Re: need kernel update for lenny ..

2012-08-29 Thread Conrad Nelson
(snip) In the second link, someone told that the problem may solved in the kernel 2.6.30. I tried to upgrade to the latest kernel via: deb http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main deb-src http://ftp.de.debian.org/debian-archive/debian/ lenny main and aptitude update aptitude

RE: Starting Mysql service.. Problem

2006-07-06 Thread Conrad Williams
Try making the directory writable. Don't know why the permissions have been changed, but...    # chmod u+w /var/run/mysqld      dr-xr-xr-x   2 mysql root 4096 2006-07-04 07:30 . ^  this is not writable for the mysql user. 

RE: Postfix under Debian 3.1 not working

2006-07-04 Thread Conrad Williams
Just guessing, try command> hostname   was this working before hand? Or is this a new install?   what's in your /etc/hosts ,  /etc/hostname and do you have a  /etc/mailhostname  ?   The gethostbyname should be able to resolve your computer's hostname.   What about doing some nslookups. Do

debconf/config.dat corruption

2006-07-04 Thread Conrad Williams
While installing a few packages, I had a RAID disk failure, resulting in a RAID cache flush. This corrupted the install process, but it had downloaded the packages. Into recovery mode and did following; Logsave was installed (using aptitude, yep the system kept going OK) after the initial failur

Re: How do I completely reconfigure my network connection?

2006-05-18 Thread Conrad
Ouch, this is scary. I had installed postfix, courier-imap, mysql, sasl etc to setup a IMAP mail server. At the end of the setup, I did a /etc/init.d/postfix restart and >>> wack <<<. Lost network connection. OK, go and stop and start services, and it comes back again. Then do a /etc/init

unsubscribe

2006-03-14 Thread Conrad McClure
unsubscribe me from this list please.   I had amd64 testing installed, but it would not get any thing or install any "desktops"   It kept telling me it had broken packages.   If you ever get debian AMD X2 64 bit working I will try again.   Thanks   Conrad  

HELP

2006-03-11 Thread Conrad McClure
s almost like unix, which is very unfriendly to me.>>>>I would appreciate some feed back, are did I do a network install invane?>>>>Thanks in advance for your help>>   Conrad  

Re: DVORAK

2005-06-06 Thread Conrad Newton
e change in typing speed has not been dramatic -- I should add that I am not primarily a writer. I use a mix of mouse and keyboard, and I have never had any problems with RSI or CT. Occasionally, when I have a lot of high-speed writing to do, I do feel the strain on my wrists. > 4) I use a natural keyboard, which helps a lot. Does that make a difference > with Dvorak? No idea. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-09 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Eugen Leitl on Wednesday, 2004-12-08 at 16:15:49 +0100: > On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:04:43PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > > > Linksys WRT54GS and Sveasoft firmware + fwbuilder. Don't diss Linksys: > > > their > > > firmware is pure crap, but t

Re: wi-fi - choice of hardware

2004-12-08 Thread Conrad Newton
aper. > > Linksys WRT54GS and Sveasoft firmware + fwbuilder. Don't diss Linksys: their > firmware is pure crap, but the hardware (radios) is excellent (you'll need > better aerials than default ones though). I just got one of these, but have not set it up yet. Which aeria

RE: Bug#237377: unsure if I am suffering the same tihng

2004-11-05 Thread Adam Conrad
Dave Ewart wrote: > > FWIW, for me, a manual '/etc/init.d/apache reload' *does* cause the > problem too. My difficulty therefore reduces completely to be > "/etc/init.d/apache reload makes Apache die". > > Apache is version 1.3.26-0woody5 and included PHP support (version > 4.1.2-7.0.1) - on a W

Re: Knoppix question

2004-10-28 Thread Conrad Newton
ools > on it? >Thank you for suggestions! See http://www.knoppix.net/ for rather extensive information on Knoppix. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

2004-09-09 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Carlos Sousa on Monday, 2004-09-06 at 22:38:14 +0100: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote: > [...] > > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even > > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems > > here with

Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

2004-09-07 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Carlos Sousa on Monday, 2004-09-06 at 22:38:14 +0100: > On Mon, 6 Sep 2004 23:18:25 +0200 Conrad Newton wrote: > [...] > > It is not an answer to your question, and maybe it is not even > > relevant to your problem, but I am having similar problems > > here with

Re: sarge dist-upgrade "Package is in a very bad inconsistent state"

2004-09-06 Thread Conrad Newton
ready at the first step, I get a reboot!!!!!! What could be causing this? Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix Install -- /usr/bin/ld: Cannot find -ldb

2004-07-06 Thread Arthur E. Conrad
How do I fix this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Installation -- Kernel Link Failure --

2004-07-06 Thread Arthur E. Conrad
What is this about and how do I fix it? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Postfix Install -- /usr/bin/ld: Cannot find -ldb

2004-07-06 Thread Arthur E. Conrad
How do I fix this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Conrad Newton
ed and everything. > > Owen Correct the spelling and (as root) type /sbin/lilo Conrad PS You can actually test lilo before running it: /sbin/lilo -t (t for test). But the contents of /etc/lilo.conf will not be installed. This is a good way to check if there are any errors before

Re: Re : L 90 90 90 90 90

2004-07-05 Thread Conrad Newton
is is all I remember. At first I thought I was sunk, but then I tried the System Rescue CD, and it (somehow!) found the partition table and booted into the lost system with the "disk1" boot option: http://www.sysresccd.org/ I don't know what magic this CD uses, but it sure helped m

ldd output

2004-07-03 Thread Arthur E. Conrad
in the following case is does [libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40034000)] == [libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40154000)] [EMAIL PROTECTED] saslauthd]# ldd saslauthd libcrypt.so.1 => /lib/libcrypt.so.1 (0x40034000) libresolv.so.2 => /lib/libresolv.so.2 (0x40061000)

Re: Stalled AT Poor Man's install with KNOPPIX 3.4

2004-06-09 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Conrad Newton on Wednesday, 2004-06-09 at 22:45:28 +0200: > >From ts on Thursday, 2004-06-10 at 00:52:08 +0800: > > Hi! > > > > Just downloaded knoppix3.4 iso (KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17-EN.iso)last night under > > windows , > > I have many t

Re: Stalled AT Poor Man's install with KNOPPIX 3.4

2004-06-09 Thread Conrad Newton
ou can remove the CD from the tray. If you have trouble with knoppix26, try instead knoppix bootfrom=/dev/hda12/Downloads/KNOPPIX_V3.4-2004-05-17.iso Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Aging commercial binaries on Sarge

2004-05-08 Thread Conrad Newton
ed > object file: No such file or directory" I have encountered similar problems when installing netscape (an older program) under Knoppix (Debian testing/unstable). In that case, this forwarded e-mail gives the solution. Perhaps this could solve your problem too? Conrad -

Re: problems with fetchmail and sent mail

2004-03-13 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Paul E Condon on Friday, 2004-03-12 at 14:30:29 -0700: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 08:24:56PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > > > Quoting Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 06:53:37PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote:

Re: problems with fetchmail and sent mail

2004-03-12 Thread Conrad Newton
Quoting Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Mar 12, 2004 at 06:53:37PM +0100, Conrad Newton wrote: > > > > But since two days ago, fetchmail does > > not work. A call to > > > > fetchmail -v > > > > lists the number of mails wa

problems with fetchmail and sent mail

2004-03-12 Thread Conrad Newton
default values, which so far as I know do not make any services available. So I am completely at a loss as to what could be wrong! Can someone make a suggestion? Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What's the easiest way to move some files in a directory tree?

2004-02-13 Thread Conrad Newton
rsync is it allows you to make these kinds of changes also across the network. gentoo and debian both use rsync to keep their mirrors up-to-date. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ALSA midi SBLive - sfxload?

2004-02-10 Thread Conrad Newton
t; > with it after all. Am I correct in assuming that with ALSA my MIDI H/W > > ports are probably working now? I haven't had a chance to test yet. > > From what I can tell from here, yes. > > I'm not sure what timidity sound patches, if any, debian currently has. T

Re: recommended reading?

2004-02-08 Thread Conrad Newton
utorial and Exposition": http://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/index.html The level may be a little high for a beginner, but you already have a lot of computer experience, and Paul Sheer used his book (among other things) as a teaching tool for former Windows systems administrators. Conrad

Re: What command tells you most about your hardware?

2004-02-08 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Roger Chrisman on Saturday, 2004-02-07 at 16:47:13 -0800: > > What command tells me most about my hardware? > > # lspci Better: lspci -vv Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Need a user-friendly, low-requirement desktop

2003-11-25 Thread Conrad Newton
ut it I'm afraid. Same specs as my old laptop. I would recommend icewm or xfce. icewm has a smaller footprint, plus in appearance it is more like windows, so maybe it is the best pick. Make sure she has some low-memory desktop applications like abiword and gnumeric. Conrad -- To UNSUB

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-26 Thread Conrad Newton
mething, so I am fetching the mail from their server more often, in the belief---not the knowledge---that the problems were related to going over quota. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Problem Maintaining Subscription

2003-10-25 Thread Conrad Newton
m: > > Diagnostic-Code: X-Postfix; host mail.broadpark.no[217.13.4.2] said: > 550 > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: User unknown in local recipient table > --- Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Boot Partition corruption

2003-10-21 Thread Conrad Strydom
Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cd burning

2003-07-30 Thread Conrad Schuler
for the modules:   ide-cd ide-scsi loop scsi_mod sr_mod iso9660   and my good computer says they are nowhere to be found.   So where do I get them?   Thanks, Conrad Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software

Re: Access to Windows partition

2003-06-18 Thread Conrad Newton
as root. --- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mkdir tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ touch tmp/test1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls tmp test1 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld tmp drwxr-xr-x2 conrad conrad 72 Jun 18 16:21 tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ chmod 664 tmp [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -ld tmp d

Re: what does rsync do when an input file changes?

2003-06-04 Thread Conrad Newton
at the first pass > won't generate inconsistent files on the target side if the file changes > in the middle. This was the first idea that occured to me, too. I would guess that more sophisticated procedures are possible, but I do not know what they might be. Conrad > >

Re: Local copy of mails in IMAP folder?

2003-06-03 Thread Conrad Newton
lder contents, but the message bodies are not > > displayed. Is there a way to get a local copy of those mails, so that I > > can read them weh I'm offline, too (and archive them on a backup CD)? > > offlineimap? > > (don't know if KMail supports Maildi

which files configure the language in openoffice ?

2003-04-04 Thread Conrad Newton
-en openoffice.org-l10n-sv installed on my system. Thanks, Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: rsync: what userid to run it?

2003-04-01 Thread Conrad Newton
I imagine /var/log might be more appropriate? For the backup of system files, I use uid = nobody gid = nogroup in /etc/rsyncd.conf on a debian-based source machine, and uid = nobody gid = nobody on an rpm based source machine such as Red Hat or Mandrake. Hope that helps, Conrad -- To UNSUBS

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-25 Thread Conrad Newton
re the specs of the new machine, and what are they proposing to do with it? I cannot understand why they did not buy 2-3 machines instead of one expensive one. Is there some explanation other than blind stupidity? Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE 3.1 installation complains about kmidi

2003-03-25 Thread Conrad Newton
DE Multimedia metapackage ii kmidi 3.1.0-1 midi-to-wav player/converter for KDE so in principle it should be possible. To get from stable to unstable is rarely a straight path though, so if you want to do things this way, you have to give more precise e

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-19 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Russell Shaw on Wednesday, 2003-03-19 at 14:59:01 +1100: > Conrad Newton wrote: > >>From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: > > > ... > >But I half suspect that the Epson Stylus Color 800 is less well > >supported because it is an

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Conrad Newton
>From Deryk Barker on Tuesday, 2003-03-18 at 13:26:51 -0800: > Thus spake Conrad Newton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > > My only problem in setting up CUPS was that the drivers for my > > printer (Epson Stylus Color 800) did not work. I saw something > > in the manual a

Re: Why use COPS?

2003-03-18 Thread Conrad Newton
rake, and both times I had the problem that, sooner or later, the printer starts printing out garbage, and I cannot get things working again. Like you, I gave up and installed lprng (with printtool). Now the printer is stable again. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Convincing someone to switch to Linux

2003-03-15 Thread Conrad Newton
point that even Windows-users could > agree on, namely that you do not need $1000 to buy a computer. Or buy two machines, one expensive Windows machine, but also one $200-$300 Linux machine. That should be enough for your terminal server. If you can convince the others that you can do mo

SOLVED: dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-15 Thread Conrad Newton
following messages at boot. Is this a kernel bug? Why does it load all these extra unneeded modules? I have not requested them. Conrad isofs 26548 0 (autoclean) vfat 10860 0 (autoclean) fat32760 0 (autoclean) [vfat] ext2

dvd + cdrw + modules = problems

2003-03-13 Thread Conrad Newton
: viszla:/home/conrad# cdrecord -scanbus Cdrecord 2.01a04 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Copyright (C) 1995-2002 Jörg Schilling cdrecord: No such file or directory. Cannot open '/dev/pg*'. Cannot open SCSI driver. cdrecord: For possible targets try 'cdrecord -scanbus'. Make sure you are

Re: How can I check which services are on or off.

2003-03-10 Thread Conrad Newton
d/networking start etc. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Partition Magic-like S/W for Knoppix/Debian

2003-03-07 Thread Conrad Newton
e only resize program that is able to > work with ntfs, I think. Yes, but see http://mlf.linux.rulez.org/mlf/ezaz/ntfsresize.html Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

2003-03-04 Thread Adam Conrad
> -Original Message- > From: bernhard [mailto:bernhard] On Behalf Of Bernhard Kuemel > > Hmm, I managed to 'apt-get -t unstable install php4' which did not > work without '-t unstable'. Everything now works ok again. I include > the shell output and my /etc/apt/preferences, sources.list. S

RE: Installing php4-mysql 4.2.3-9

2003-03-03 Thread Adam Conrad
> -Original Message- > From: bernhard [mailto:bernhard] On Behalf Of Bernhard Kuemel > > I'm a bit clueless how to activate mysql support with the > php4-mysql/unstable package. There are no instructions included. The postinst script for php4-mysql should ask if you want it added to your

Re: Two keyboard layouts qwerty and russian ??

2003-02-24 Thread Conrad Newton
e give you a whole menu-structure in Russian or Swedish. If things are not working out for you, try using these. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing duplex & 2 pages per side of each sheet

2003-02-22 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Torquil" == Torquil Macdonald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Torquil> They all give me 2 pages of the original document on each Torquil> side of the sheet of paper, but everything is upside down Torquil> on the back of the sheet. When you do duplex printing, you typically have to

CUPS spews out garbage

2003-02-21 Thread Conrad Newton
? Any other suggestions? CUPS has been so highly praised that I expected more, especially since Epson has such a long history of Linux support. Conrad -- siisu:/home/conrad# dpkg -l '*cups*' '*foo*' gs enscript mpage gsfonts ps

Re: Converting Knoppix to Woody

2003-02-18 Thread Conrad Newton
4.2. You could do the same thing, however, by including the following line in /etc/apt/sources.list # Added to upgrade to XFree86-4.2 deb http://people.debian.org/~blade/woody/i386 ./ When you install Woody, there is an option to "add other apt sources". Take it! And add this line.

Re: Install problems: 3.0r1/i386 and Realtek 8319 network card

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Newton
work via the sis900 card, which is not attached. The sis card is part of the motherboard, and my rtl8139 card is a PCI card. I have rtl8139 cards in two of my computers, so I find it hard to believe that there is any issue with your card. This card and driver has been around a long time. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Thinkpad T30?

2003-01-28 Thread Conrad Newton
al OSS drivers---it was not an issue for me. About a year and a half ago, I installed Mandrake on a newer Thinkpad, and even sound worked out of the box. Unless the thing is on the absolute cutting edge, I bet you your installation will be pretty smooth. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: vsound issue - a return

2003-01-23 Thread Conrad Newton
It allows use to listen at the same time you are recording. vsound --timing --dspout --file=test.wav realplay \ http://128.208.34.102:8080/ramgen/RadioIntersection/20021203intersection.rm Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Linux partition question

2003-01-22 Thread Conrad Newton
that you go ahead and do your install as you had planned. Usually I use Mandrake for first-time installs on Windows-only computers, because they have excellent re-partitioning tools, but if you are familiar with Partition Magic, that should be just as good. Conrad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Making music

2003-01-09 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Frank" == Frank Copeland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> I'm looking for some combination of software that will Frank> allow me to enter the score for each call and then say Frank> 'play this on a bugle'. Any suggestions on how to proceed? Frank> I'm basically musically

Re: ntpdate from cron -- DON'T DO THAT!

2002-12-28 Thread Laura Conrad
> "Michael" == Michael D Schleif <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Michael> imho, all isp's ought to be required to *have* time servers . . . No, anyone who sells disk space should have a time server. I don't care whether my time is exactly in sync with the ISP who provides my internet connect

Re: what's loading stv680?

2002-11-29 Thread Laura Conrad
>>>>> "Mark" == Mark L Kahnt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Mark> On Tue, 2002-11-26 at 09:11, Laura Conrad wrote: >> >> I have a cheap camera that connects to a USB port. One of my problems >> getting it to work with debian

what's loading stv680?

2002-11-26 Thread Laura Conrad
I have a cheap camera that connects to a USB port. One of my problems getting it to work with debian (woody) is that when I plug it in, the module stv680 gets loaded. After I 'rmmod stv680', gphoto2 can download the pictures in the camera, but while it's loaded, it can't. What is causing that m

Syncing some flavor calendar and bbdb address book with pilot

2002-11-16 Thread Laura Conrad
I know the demise of ical has been discussed, and I've read the suggestions, and some of them work for just the calendar part, but I still don't have a good one-step solution for getting my pilot synced and backed up. Before I installed Woody, I was using a script which did a syncal to sync my ic

html-mode in xemacs

2002-11-10 Thread Laura Conrad
I switched to Debian from Mandrake a couple of weeks ago, and my record is pretty good on making most things I had working on Mandrake work on Debian, but one irritating failure is the html-mode for editing html files. I don't see anything that would be relevant in any of the local directories on

RE: Bits from the uw-imap maintainer

2002-10-15 Thread Adam Conrad
> -Original Message- > From: Jaldhar H. Vyas [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > The latest version of the uw-imap packages (upstream version > 2002RC7) are > going to make some significant changes so I want to make sure > you all have > plenty of warning. The affected packages are: > > u

Re: Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I havn't found anything regarding XPERT 2000 (and neither seems to be supported under r4) any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance Sincerely Conrad Delbert Seaman

Support for ATI XPERT 2000 under Debian 2.1r4??

2000-08-18 Thread Conrad Delbert Seaman
I havn't found anything regarding XPERT 2000 (and neither seems to be supported under r4) any help would be appreciated... thanks in advance Sincerely Conrad Delbert Seaman - Original Message - From: "Philip Hands" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; ; Sent: