Re: egrep oddity

2012-02-05 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Sun, 5 Feb 2012 16:03:45 -0500 Neal Murphy wrote: > For quite some time now, I've been getting peeved with egrep not > doing what it should. > > I have Squeese installed and up-to-date. In an xterm running bash or > on a console running bash or dash, this command: > ls -C1 | egrep "^[A-Z]"

Re: CD ISO images for the "testing" release

2009-11-09 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Mon, 9 Nov 2009 22:44:09 + Nuno Magalhães wrote: > On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 22:15, wrote: > [...] > > If you're looking for the netinst image, the links on > > > > seem to work. > > That's for stable, the OP asked for testing. Oops... You should listen

Re: virtualbox error-SOLVED

2008-11-11 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Tue, 11 Nov 2008 16:50:31 -0500 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue November 11 2008, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Tue November 11 2008, Mariusz Sielicki wrote: > > > aptitude install bridge-utils virtualbox-ose-source > > > module-assistance m-a auto-install virtualbox-ose > >

Re: dovecot help?

2008-08-19 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Mon, 18 Aug 2008 14:28:58 -0400 (EDT) I Rattan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Trying to make dovecot-imap server run under linux > (Linux tigaon 2.6.25-4.slh.3-sidux-686 #1 SMP PREEMPT Fri May 23 > 21:58:49 \ > UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux) > > The following config generates the error: > dovecot:

Re: debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso

2008-06-26 Thread Jeff Goodman
On Thu, 26 Jun 2008 09:34:56 -0700 (PDT) Vwaju <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I downloaded debian-40r3-i386-netinst.iso from > http://www.debian.org/distrib/. and copied it to a CD. It appears to > be about the right size (163,392KB), but it fails to boot on any of > the follwoing computers: > > G

Re: What can I do with an unloaded partitioned data set on Linux?

2008-05-02 Thread Jeff Goodman
Hendrik Boom wrote: What would help most would be the exact file format for unloaded partitioned data sets. That's the file format they got converted to when backing them up onto magnetic tape. I've never seen that documented. -- hendrik I'll assume that the PDS members were text, as in a so

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Goodman
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 11:58:02AM -0700, Jeff wrote: If you want Debian to be popular with more people, work at making it better for more people. However, be careful not to make it worse for the previously loyal users. If you add fancy but fragile knobs and eye-candy

Re: Alsa Problems with new Etch

2008-03-27 Thread Jeff Goodman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 10:30:49AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alsa has gone through some changes. And though I'm no expert at all, you should likely provide us with some additional information to help you on the way. Please provide the output of dpkg -l \*alsa\*

Re: Losing static ip address

2007-06-28 Thread Jeff Goodman
Bob Proulx wrote: Jeff wrote: From /etc/network/interfaces... auto eth0 allow-hotplug eth0 That is unusual to have two entries. I don't know if that is valid or not but I have never seen such a configuration in the wild before. I suggest picking one or the other. 'auto' is enabled when the

Re: error while loading shared libraries

2007-06-14 Thread Jeff Goodman
Gilles Sadowski wrote: Hello. After upgrading, I have the following problem when trying to execute some programs, e.g. "ls": $ ls ls: error while loading shared libraries: librt.so.1: cannot open shared object file: No such file or directory [Same problem with many other programs ("locate", "f

Re: Laptop choice?

2006-11-27 Thread Jeff Goodman
Hans du Plooy wrote: On Thu, 2006-11-23 at 17:32 -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Compaq Presario ($399.98 US) [snip] HP ($379.99 US) Don't buy an HP/Compaq. Two reasons: 1. They never perform as good as the hardware suggest. This has been my observation over several years dealing with clients

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-29 Thread Jeff Goodman
anthony wrote: Hello I'm embarrassed to admit this, but after using various flavours of debian for over a year 've managed to lock myself out of my /home directory. When I log in I get the message - your home directory .dmrc file has the wrong permissions - permissions should be set to 664

Re: Disappearing text in Mozilla

2005-07-18 Thread Jeff Goodman
Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have problems viewing some pages with Mozilla. For example this one: http://www.sajeta.org/index.php?neki=x&x=delavnice Parts of text just disappear if I scroll down the page with mouse wheel or use scroll-bar too quickly. If I use PageUp/Down keys or use scroll

Re: [OT] vmware / boot floppy

2001-03-03 Thread Jeff Goodman
Did you set the VMWare BIOS to boot from the floppy? - Original Message - From: "ktb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Saturday, March 03, 2001 10:47 AM Subject: [OT] vmware / boot floppy > I'm trying to set up vmware in order to test debian boot floppys. > VMware installed fine on slink,

Re: Comments VMWare?

2001-03-01 Thread Jeff Goodman
I used to do something similar, but I also needed complete portability of the Windows system in "standalone" mode. So I put the data files back on the Windows machine, but added automatic backups - using Second Copy (Windows shareware) - from Windows to Linux, through Samba. Now, when Windows is