Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.12.15 21:54, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 03:46:09PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Wed, 2007.12.05 10:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:51:30PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > > I don't know whet

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-15 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007.12.05 10:14, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Dec 04, 2007 at 07:51:30PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I don't know whether the hardware errors are related, but I'm beginning to > > not > > trust the PCDoctor software included on the ThinkPad Rescue

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.12.04 08:51, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Dec 02, 2007 at 09:28:59PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Sat, 2007.12.01 06:27, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > > > El vie, 30-11-2007 a las 17:16 -0600, Owen Heisler escribi??: > > > > On Thu, 2007.1

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-04 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.12.01 20:33, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Nov 29, 2007 at 09:32:52PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > > ignored. > > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-12-03 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.12.01 06:27, Gabriel Parrondo wrote: > El vie, 30-11-2007 a las 17:16 -0600, Owen Heisler escribió: > > On Thu, 2007.11.29 22:39, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, a

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-11-30 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.29 22:39, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > > ignored. > > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart&quo

Re: please help about etch

2007-11-30 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007.11.30 16:22, chloe K wrote: >2/ I follow the link >http://kernel-handbook.alioth.debian.org/ch-common-tasks.html to compile >the kernel. 2.6.18 > >final step dpkg -i ../linux-image-2.6.18_custom.1.0_i386.deb is ok too > >When i boot up the new kernel, it said > >

Re: random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.29 21:32, Owen Heisler wrote: > Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are > ignored. > If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch > and > the command fails. In that same ca

random keystrokes ignored on console

2007-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
Sometimes, when I type in the console, about 40% of the keystrokes are ignored. If I type (for example) "startx" and hit enter, I'll see "sart" or somesuch and the command fails. In that same case, typing "sttartxx" and enter probably would have worked, with "startx" being run. The enter key

Re: b43 wireless firmware problems on 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-22 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.22 19:51, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Thu, 22 Nov 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: > > [...] > > __/etc/network/interfaces portion: > > iface wlan0 inet dhcp > > wireless-channel 11 > > wireless-essid > > wireless-ap any > [...] &

b43 wireless firmware problems on 2.6.24-rc2

2007-11-22 Thread Owen Heisler
Hello! I'm trying to get a wireless adapter to work on a laptop using the b43 driver in 2.6.24-rc kernels. The card requires firmware which is located in /lib/firmware/b43. The problem is that I can't always use ifup and ifdown on the connection; those commands fail sometimes. It seems to be

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.11.17 18:22, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 15 Nov 2007 Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > > > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your con

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-15 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007.11.10 18:49, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 8 Nov 2007 20:50:42 -0600, Owen wrote: > > start with /boot/config-2.6.18-4-486 as your config. Be sure to include > > the > > initrd option when compiling the kernel with make-kpkg. > > I'm curious; why do you recommend initrd? I built plenty

Re: Installing a new Linux build on a Debian distro

2007-11-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.11.08 20:58, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Randy Patterson - [Tech] wrote: > > I'm looking for some advise before installing a version of Linux that I > > built from the latest source. I am very pleased with the Debian/Lenny > > distro that I use and my only real reason for building m

Re: Old mixed distro machine upgrade to stable: possible? worth it?

2007-10-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007.10.26 09:26, Jaime Herazo B. wrote: > I'm inclined to just format it and be done with that mess, but he doesn't > want to go that route since he'd have to reconfigure it all (i'd personally > be willing to pay that price to be able to have the comfort of trusting the > contents of t

Re: file system on / grew over night?

2007-10-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.10.25 10:08, Michael A. Miller wrote: > I came in this morning to find that the / filesystem on a machine > is at 100%. This is on a stable machine installed with one > partition as per the installer suggestions. I've cleared off > enough space to be able to get log in and find that t

Re: how to match parenthesis in sed

2007-10-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007.10.17 15:33, Mathias Brodala wrote: > H.S., 17.10.2007 06:44: > > I am renaming files by removing parentheses from them. These are image > > files which were sorted in Windows (by placing them in the desired order > > and then by renaming them in batch mode in Windows explorer -- could

Re: etch + xp

2007-10-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.10.02 05:10, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > The safest way to do this: > > Disconnect your disk with linux (hdc) > > Install windows as you normally would on your other hard disk (hdd). The > windows installer will write its boot loader onto the master boot record of > hdd. > > After win

Re: Re: etch + xp

2007-09-30 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007.09.30 13:14, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > But I want to install XP in another disk, different from which etch is > installed. So XP will install its own bootmanager into the mbr of this > different disk. Am I wright? Remember that I can tell the bios from what > disk the system boots.

Re: rescue bootable cd ???

2007-09-28 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007.09.28 21:25, helices wrote: > Bill Thompson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007:09:28:16:18:26-0700] scribed: > > If you are looking at just recovering a system that won't boot, you > > don't need a specific Debian disk to do it. I usually carry a copy of > > the System Rescue CD (http://www.sys

Re: Stupid question (was Re: Repost of some earlier described "challenges")

2007-09-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007.09.26 12:52, Mike McCarty wrote: > Fedora I would not recommend to anyone not interested in > eternally fiddling with the machine, broken interfaces, > and churn. It's for people whose hobbies include fiddling > with new installs and reloading. > > I'm not into that, either, for these

Re: smtp to bytemark.co.uk smarthost (was: using a remote IMAP server and smarthost)

2007-08-28 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.08.28 13:41, Richard Lyons wrote: > On Mon, August 27, 2007 10:44, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Mon, Aug 27, 2007 at 08:41:36 +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: > >> Done that. Sending from the VM, now I get > >> > >> msmtp: the server does not support DSN > >> msmtp: could not send mail (ac

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.08.23 21:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > >> you want to create CD exacly like the Offical CD, same arborescence, > >> pool/main/a, poo

Re: How to create like-official CD from list of packages

2007-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.08.21 10:00, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Thanks for reply, > But there is no answer for my questions, I fomulate it in another way: > Suppose you have a thounsand packages ( you downloded them because you > need them for your own purpose) > > you want to create CD exacly like the Of

Re: network trouble: dhcp works, resolv.conf correct, ping doesn't work

2007-08-23 Thread Owen Heisler
(Sorry about the delay!) On Mon, 2007.08.20 21:37, Joachim Fahnenmüller wrote: > On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 09:26:11AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I'm having trouble with the internet connection on a Lenny/Sid system. > > It is a very simple connection to a cable modem via a

Re: network trouble: dhcp works, resolv.conf correct, ping doesn't work

2007-08-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On 8/20/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm having trouble with the internet connection on a Lenny/Sid system. > It is a very simple connection to a cable modem via an ethernet > cable. > "ping google.com" returns "unknown host". Here

network trouble: dhcp works, resolv.conf correct, ping doesn't work

2007-08-20 Thread Owen Heisler
I'm having trouble with the internet connection on a Lenny/Sid system. It is a very simple connection to a cable modem via an ethernet cable. /etc/network/interfaces includes the lo interface and "iface eth0 inet dhcp". "ifup eth0" seems to work: the dhcp server (cable modem) gives the correct I

Re: Organising MP3 Files into folders

2007-08-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007.08.16 19:25, Magnus Pedersen wrote: > Adam Gray wrote: >> Basically while backing up my system I used my iPod to back up my >> music collection, which used to be neatly sorted into folders with >> artists & albums. Then when downloading it again with gtkPod I was >> left with one direc

Re: Switch keybord layout from the console

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.08.07 14:35, Kelly Clowers wrote: > On 8/7/07, Oscar Corte <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > How should be done in order to switch to "Latin-American" keyboard layout > > from the console? I'm using a very basic installation with no graphics > > desktop environment. > > Make sure the co

Re: A basic question about apt-cdrom

2007-08-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007.08.07 18:35, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > After adding a CD-ROM with `apt-cdrom', running `apt-get update' will be > enough? Or should I also run `apt-get dist-upgrade' as a third step? Using apt-cdrom is enough as far as I know; it will add the apt source entry and create the list of wha

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, Jul 27, 2007 at 08:25:16AM -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: > On Fri July 27 2007 03:07, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: > > I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent > > *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried > > qtorrent, but it is so minim

Re: saving package selections (Stability issues)

2007-07-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 08:14:23PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jul 26, 2007 at 04:07:59PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > if you are only installing the tasksel selections and not adding > > additional software, then there is no reason to do this. I just know > > that if I h

Re: clamd niceness (outgoing mail: "From isn't in return path")

2007-07-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 09:57:04PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Jul 24, 2007 at 10:06:18PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > as far as i can tell, there is no way to set the nic

Re: clamd niceness (outgoing mail: "From isn't in return path")

2007-07-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 08:53:13PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 06:56:18PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > [issues with gmail and spam scoring] > > I really can't help you with this, but for the record, they both came > through my inbox just f

outgoing mail: "From isn't in return path"

2007-07-23 Thread Owen Heisler
In one of the messages I sent to this list, the following line showed up: X-SpamDetect: **: 2.099000 From isn't in return path=1.1,From: ends in numbers=1.0 I'm wondering if this is a problem and how to fix it. Here is how I'm handling mail: This Gmail address I the only one I use, though my loc

Re: XFCE memory leak in Lenny

2007-07-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 03:59:34PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I was told that XFCE has a memory leak. I am currently using Lenny. Has it > been fixed in the Lenny packages? How can I know when it gets fixed? xfdesktop4 still leaks memory badly. Bugs: 376177 376372 373010 You can avoid t

enter single passphrase for multiple encrypted partitions

2007-07-22 Thread Owen Heisler
I have three partitions encrypted (by d-i), each listed in /etc/crypttab: /var, /home, and one for backups At startup, I am prompted to enter three passphrases. Is there a way to enter only one? Using luks, I have included a keyfile in another key slot, and put that keyfile on /var. This doesn'

make clamd nicer

2007-07-13 Thread Owen Heisler
I am using clamav to filter mail but can't figure out how to set the nicelevel. There seem to be two applicable files: /etc/default/clamav-daemon /etc/clamav/clamd.conf The clamd.conf man page mentions "nice" not at all. I've tried: NICE="--nicelevel 10" in the clamav-daemon file but it made

Re: spreadsheet question

2007-07-10 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 06:34:58PM -0700, David Fox wrote: > On 7/10/07, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > For the debian command line user, what spreadsheet package comes equipped > > with the most functions? > > I'm not sure that "command line user" and "spreadsheet" should be uttered

Re: mail server for offline system

2007-06-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 09:57:49AM -0400, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 22:40:04 +0100 Hans du Plooy wrote: Owen Heisler wrote: Postfix, exim4, or any other decent mail server in Deiban that (preferrably) can be configured easily with will suffice. The server must support Maildir folders

Re: hddtemp value

2007-06-24 Thread Owen Heisler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ralph Katz wrote: > On 06/22/2007 05:03 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> Quoting Pol Hallen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Which value hddtemp show? (about my ata disks, between 45-55 C) >>> >>> Is it correct? Or I should worry? >>> >> 45-55 C seems a little

mail server for offline system

2007-06-24 Thread Owen Heisler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (I'm sorry if this message shows up several times; mutt mangled my mail) I've been using Postfix, but would like to find a mail server that supports running on an offline system. I tried masqmail, but it is old, has lots of very old bugs, and the sof

Re: evolution and LDAP

2007-06-15 Thread Owen Heisler
michael wrote: > On Thu, 2007-06-14 at 14:00 -0400, Roberto D'Oliveira wrote: >> OK, OpenLDAP allows anonymous connections for reading by default, but >> it doesn't allow writes on the tree, you have to specify rights on >> slapd.conf (WHO can do WHAT on WHERE). Aditional, you have to think >> tha

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-12 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-06-12 at 11:29 +0200, Valentin wrote: > > Does editing /boot/grub/device.map not fix this? > > I don't know, haven't tried that. But wouldn't that just change the > drive grub boots from? grub's working fine, after all. It's the kernel > that can't find the disk... Or does the kernel

Re: cryptsetup: Source device /dev/sda7 not found

2007-06-11 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-06-10 at 18:15 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sun, 10 Jun 2007 06:19:45 +0200 > Valentin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Small correction: > > Changing the kernel version *does* make it bootable again. The kernel > > under the first one was just another 2.6.21 ;) > > That's a sh

Re: FireFox slowness

2007-05-31 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 19:46 -0300, Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > Iceweasel is really boring me. And many plugins that work on firefox, > don't work on it, and it crashs frequentally. > I tried diferent versions, but I'm just tired too... gonna look for > another option. I'm getting annoyed too by ice

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:53 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 05/23/07 20:40, Ken Hu wrote: > > Well , I think the filsystem my mac uses is HFS, but I can find no way > > to mount HFS on Linux. > > > > Of course my Mac can read cdrom or dvdrom, but what I need is to plug my > > usb external hard driv

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-22 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 18:56 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 07:24:40AM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > There doesn't seem to be a correct vga= parameter for 1280x960. > > I was suggesting 791 as it is still better then the default and you can &g

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-22 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 09:33 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 07:44:14PM -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > Anyway, I tried some other video= lines and nothing makes any > > difference. I tried vesafb, rivafb, and nvidiafb for the driver and > > both 1024x76

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-21 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 19:27 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > _Owen_, > > What do you get .. a kernel oops .. a black screen of death .. a vga > console with oversized fonts ..? With any video= parameter, I get the default resolution (640x480/80x25, I suppose), just like there was no vga= or video= para

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote: > On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 1

Re: running qemu on an AMD64 box to host Windows 98......

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 20:30 +0200, Michael G. Hansen wrote: > KQemu used to be proprietary and was thus not in Debian. But as of > version 1.3.0-pre11 it is under the GPL and it is in lenny/sid. You can > also grab it from http://www.qemu.org There is a binary in the package > and a wrapper around

Re: procmail vs maildrop (Found: excellent procmail HOWTO)

2007-05-20 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 11:11 -0700, BartlebyScrivener wrote: > I found a good HOWTO also. It said use getmail and maildrop instead of > fetchmail and procmail. :) I spent a whole day trying to get procmail > to work, then gave up and set up maildrop in half an hour. I switched to getmail from fetc

Found: excellent procmail HOWTO

2007-05-19 Thread Owen Heisler
Just a tip: I've been wanting to set up procmail for a while (with a .forward file), but wasn't able to find a good HOWTO. This time I found one: http://www.ii.com/internet/robots/procmail/qs/ There is a LOT of information there (and on one page), but it is easy enough to follow. signature.asc

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > > http://www.gregfolkert.ne

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > > On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > > > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html > > > > Very helpful! Although n

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: > http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any way to get that? signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: XFCE will not manage desktop

2007-05-14 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 12:58 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I started using XFCE. But after I configured it, it will not manage the > desktop. I turn on "Allow XFCE to manage the desktop" in Desktop Settings, > but it turns off automatically. Kindly suggest a solution. Make sure you are saving

Re: hda:lost interrupt!!!

2007-04-30 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-04-30 at 08:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 05:26:13PM +0530, shyam narayanan wrote: > > hi all, > > I had a perfect debian installation and as i boot up i am getting the > > error messsage > > hda:lost interrupt > > hda:DMA interrupt recovery > > hda:d

Re: RAM 95% used

2007-04-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-04-29 at 14:30 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 09:08:21PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: > > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > >I am curious about your sluggishness though, as I've had xfce running > > >for days with multiple apps open and problems. Currently

Re: Idea for weekly/monthy wallpaper/themes package

2007-04-19 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 16:09 -0400, P Kapat wrote: > On 15 Apr 2007 01:52:28 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Do you have any ideas for how to do it better, or what to include? > > Maybe different themes, like scenery, urban, art, Linux-related, > > water, sky, macro, etc. What do you think? > > But s

Re: Replicate installed packages to new system

2007-04-12 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-12 at 17:22 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 02:36:38PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 06:21:08PM -, McNamee, John wrote: > > > I've been evaluating Etch for several months on a test machine, and now > > > I'd like to install

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 09:57 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > >

Re: ntfs in etch

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-04-07 at 14:41 +, steef wrote: > Dmitri Samsonov wrote: > > ntfs-3g was delete from Etch. [1] > > > > Is there any other way ("true way") to work with NTFS (write) in > > Debian Etch? > > > > Or now we can't work with NTFS at all? (Of course, i know about > > experimental, un

Re: IDE to USB Adapter

2007-04-07 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 01:34 +0200, Matt Miller wrote: > > > If I reboot my computer with the device already plugged in then the > > > device is not recognized until I unplug it and plug it back in. > > > > Since the kernel will see it as a USB drive, you probably don't have > > to reboot. > > Y

Re: reiserfs to ext3

2007-04-05 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-04-05 at 08:32 +0530, Kushal Kumaran wrote: > On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4/4/07, Johannes Wiedersich > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you have enough disk space to accomodate your data *without* > > > compression you could do the following

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-03 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 09:28 +0200, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Owen Heisler: > > > > We have the names: Sarge, Etch, Lenny > > and aliases: stable, testing, sid > > I am not sure whether I understand this correct, but I think you got the > current release process wro

Re: Desktop user: Etch or the next testing?

2007-04-02 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 14:53 -0700, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: > Wei Chen wrote: > > So I'd say that maybe Stable is really not for Desktop use. > > Testing is the best choice because it is neither too dangerous > > nor too old. > > What do you think about adding a new release type maybe called > "c

Re: dreamweaver-esque webpage design program?

2007-04-02 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-04-02 at 20:06 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: > Alexander J?ger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> i'll teach you to turn away. escribi?: > >> > >>> hi. what's your favorite don't-have-to-think-about-it webpage > >>> design program for debian? i'm thinking dreamweaver

Re: Lilypond

2007-04-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 09:28 +0300, David Baron wrote: > On Sunday 01 April 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > dfeuer wrote: > > >> This comment is very late, but I thought I'd mention that LilyPond is > > >> another program for engraving music. I don't know how it compares to > > >> MusiXTeX (al

Re: gps navigation, maps

2007-03-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On Thu, 2007-03-29 at 12:37 -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > I found a new one recently that I have not yet used in the car. > . There is a Debian package. Thanks: I hadn't found this one yet. Another is roadmap: http://roadmap.digitalomaha.net/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Wed, 2007-03-28 at 02:08 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The point you've been trying to make all through this thread is I > > think starting to become clear to me (everyone cheer now), because I > > didn't reali

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 18:15 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I would think that this would then use

Re: getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-27 Thread Owen Heisler
On Tue, 2007-03-27 at 11:06 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Paul Stolp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I would think that this would then use exim's spam and > > virus checking (I actually don't have that going > > through exim.) > > > > Perhaps I'm missing the point ... can spam and viruses > > be

Re: "I do consider Ubuntu to be Debian" , Ian Murdock

2007-03-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 21:25 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: > Roberto wrote: > > That's not really a fair characterization. The Debian project (release > > managers, developers, et al) value the target dates. However, they > > value completeness and stability *more* than the calendar. > > There should be

Re: Apt-listbugs Problems

2007-03-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On Mon, 2007-03-26 at 13:54 +0200, David Baron wrote: > I can get reports for one (count 'em) upgrade at a time. Attempts at more > will > time out with a failed HTTP Get. Single package failed for me, although it was an install instead of an upgrade. signature.asc Description: This is a digit

Re: getmail configuration

2007-03-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 15:52 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Can I not send mail to the Postfix MDA somehow? What I essentially > > > want to end up with is for

Re: getmail configuration

2007-03-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 22:28 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And also: can postfix not act as the MDA? I'm not really clear on all > > the M*A stuff, so I looked on Wikipedia for MDA and it says there > > that: "[An M

Re: getmail configuration

2007-03-24 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2007-03-24 at 10:07 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My mail is in ~/.Maildir, accessed by dovecot-imapd, delived to by > > postfix. How can I configure getmail to deliver mail through postfix > > or dovecot? I

getmail configuration (How to run fetchmail as daemon at startup)

2007-03-23 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2007-03-23 at 09:38 -0400, Celejar wrote: > I'm not much of an expert, but here's an excerpt from the getmail FAQ: > > > Why did you write getmail? Why not just use fetchmail? > > > >Short answer: ... well, the short answer is mostly unprintable. The long > >answer is ... well, lo

Re: [little ot] official 64bit ooo

2007-03-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On 3/17/07, Tomasz Kaźmierczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Searching the web doesn't give any clear answers and I'm just curious how many issues are there to resolve and how many problems one can still encounter when using the 64 bit version. I've been using 64bit OpenOffice since it was av

Re: Email receiving problems

2007-03-02 Thread Owen Heisler
Am 2007-02-19 21:35:37, schrieb Kelly: > I am having a problem with my email. I am running 'Postfix' SMTP > server. I am running the 'Courier IMAP' server. I can send email just > fine. When I am receiving email there is a problem. The email is > supposed to go to the 'maildirs' directory i

Re: security updates download

2007-02-13 Thread Owen Heisler
On 13 Feb 2007 12:55:11 -0800, onlineviewer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello All, Is there a way to download and save all of the sarge security updates. I need to burn them to cd. I have a few machines which have no internet access, so i can not grab them with apt. Suggestions? apt-zip can wri

Re: Debian/NT Dual Boot?

2007-02-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/29/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, Jan 27, 2007 at 10:54:56PM +, John K Masters wrote: > It can be done but it is very, very convoluted. Windows always > likes to overwrite the MBR which means you will lose GRUB or LILO. Not necessarily. You can tell LILO to pu

Re: dialup connectivity problem

2007-01-26 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/25/07, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 1/25/07, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I had the problem of only 2KB/s on Debian and 4 on Windows. I fiddled > around with it and discovered that when I ran "wvdial" it would do the > full 4 (you get 30-50

Re: dialup connectivity problem

2007-01-25 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/23/07, Zach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (also I wonder why the max download transfer rate I get is around 30KB whereas in Windoze I can get 50KB in Windoze). I had the problem of only 2KB/s on Debian and 4 on Windows. I fiddled around with it and discovered that when I ran "wvdial" it woul

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-10 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/9/07, Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Video acceleration: > All I can find is ATI or Intel video chipsets... but I've heard say > that ATI (3D acceleration) is a pain to get working. I've had some > trouble myself for older cards (mine was Radeon 7200, not supported at > all, a

Re: Alsa needs reconfiguration after every reboot

2007-01-10 Thread Owen Heisler
"Francisco Zabala" < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a similar problem. After I restart my computer xmms says that there isn't a soundcard. So: 1. I have to execute ./snddevices 2. Then, run alsa-config 3. Then run alsamixer (to unmute) And then I have sound again. Any suggestions to avoid ha

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/8/07, Andrew McMillan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2007-01-04 at 16:46 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > Here's what seems to be available for video: > Integrated Intel 945GM > Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950 > ATI Mobility Radeon X1300 64MB > ATI Mobility

Re: ThinkPads

2007-01-08 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/5/07, Florian Reitmeir <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: there is a thinkpad ML .. your question would get there more answers.. At thinkwiki.org? I don't see a Debian ThinkPad list... On Don, 04 Jän 2007, Owen Heisler wrote: > Video acceleration: > All I can find is ATI or Int

Re: Determining Page Size on AMD64 Etch

2007-01-01 Thread Owen Heisler
On 1/1/07, Jhair Tocancipa Triana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Owen Heisler writes: > On 12/29/06, Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > see what my page size is? >> > >> > man 2 getpagesize >> >> Thanks, that helped. I wrote the

Re: Determining Page Size on AMD64 Etch

2006-12-31 Thread Owen Heisler
On 12/29/06, Matt Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > see what my page size is? > > man 2 getpagesize Thanks, that helped. I wrote the following C program which apparently tells me that my pagesize is 4K: #include #include int main () { printf ("%d\n", getpagesize ()); return 0; } M

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 02:11:38PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > >> With the regular GUIs in Win

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Ken Irving <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, Nov 29, 2006 at 01:51:21PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to > use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well > hidden, badly nam

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/29/06, Owen Heisler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: With the regular GUIs in Windows (XP), I don't think it is possible to use BIOS UTC time... but maybe (probably) there is some very well hidden, badly named registry key that magically makes Windows read UTC time from the BIOS.

Re: How to switch my timezone configure

2006-11-29 Thread Owen Heisler
On 11/28/06, Paul E Condon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 11:57:14AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote: > I just talked with a Windows-XP user to get things > straight, so here is what I found out. You can either set your > Windows time to local wall-clock time or UTC. You

Re: centralized location for contacts

2006-11-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 09:36 -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > > I have set up a Dovecot IMAP server and Postfix to use ~/.Maildir; it > > > works w

Re: centralized location for contacts

2006-11-18 Thread Owen Heisler
On Sat, 2006-11-18 at 23:51 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote: > > I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location > > in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and > &g

Re: centralized location for contacts

2006-11-17 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 11:35 +, Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete DUTRA wrote: > Em Thu, 16 Nov 2006 17:12:15 -0600, Owen Heisler escreveu: > > I've tried using slapd > > for a LDAP server, but this seems like overkill and has yet to work right > > anyway (I always ge

Re: Gnome and KDE menus empty

2006-11-16 Thread Owen Heisler
On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 02:24 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: > Owen Heisler said the following on 17.11.2006 01:20: > > On Fri, 2006-11-17 at 00:20 +0100, Tobias Niemann wrote: > >> I have a problem with the menus of Gnome and KDE. The applications menu > >> is completel

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