On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 10:11:19PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> I'll find you the reference and quote it.
It's in the readme. However, you're right, it doesn't say "after running any
of these
utilities." It says:
NtfsFix - Attempt to fix an NTFS partition
On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 09:11:04PM +0200, Szakacsits Szabolcs wrote:
> This was NEVER in the ntfsfix manual page, your claim is absolutely untrue.
You're right; it's not in the man page. If I had read only that man page I
wouldn't
have made that statement. I never installed ntfsprogs before a
On Fri, Dec 16, 2005 at 12:48:07AM +0100, Paul Seelig wrote:
> For ntfs partitions, i prefer the more mature ntfs support of the
> ntfsprogs and the added benefit of loop mounting an NTFS image file.
> BTW, to save an image via network one can use whatever the pipe
> permits. Here are some samples
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote:
> *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where
> a large number of identically configured systems used "ghost" (or similar
> tool)
> to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e.
> a
I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay
mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage.
Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke
all over itself, then restore the cleanness.
It's the only thing that makes patch
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 09:07:51PM -0500, David A. Cobb wrote:
> I haven't read the whole thread, so please pardon me if I repeat something.
>
> One area that causes many conflicts has Ubuntu "ahead" of Debian.
> Ubuntu is stabilized on Python 2.4, whereas Debian packages all demand
> <2.4 (Pyt
On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 07:40:18PM -0500, Bill Marcum wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 05, 2005 at 10:21:43PM +, s. keeling wrote:
> > I blew away CUPS last night, not noticing it was taking Gnome with
> > it. In the past, I've mixed "aptitude remove" with "dpkg -r", then
> > cleaning up after the result.
On Mon, Oct 31, 2005 at 10:28:33PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote:
> programs together. Daily life will remain more or less the same.
2GB makes VMWare very nice, especially with a modern fast CPU that mostly idles
anyway.
Carve off 3 512 MB chunks and you can simulate a network. It's also the best
w
Does XV work on Nvidia with Sid's Xorg, using Nvidia's propitary drivers?
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On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 09:44:43PM -0500, Ian wrote:
> Hope y'all like this wallpaper. The penguins aren't mine, I did the
> background, though. Enjoy.
Would their be any point in having an SVG wallpaper?
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On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 11:08:49PM -0500, Steve Block wrote:
> I think you've misunderstood one of the major purposes of XML, and that
> is to be descriptive in tag choices. This is still uncomprehensible and
That's what XSL is for. I think *you* misunderstand XML: the tag names
don't mean a dam
On Fri, Oct 21, 2005 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> > Single-letter element-centric XML is fairly readable:
> >
> >
> > 1432
> > 1892
> >
>
> You are joking, right?
You're just not used to it. Once y
On Wed, Oct 19, 2005 at 11:08:35AM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
> is great if you are trying to get to programs or machines to talk. It
> is terrible for something that must be composed by humans. If you don't
Single-letter element-centric XML is fairly readable:
1432
1892
could repr
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 11:00:23PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote:
> +--
> | On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:00:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> | > So it's not a special distro, like Coyote Linux or something like that?
>
> It i
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 10:00:50PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> So it's not a special distro, like Coyote Linux or something like that?
You just start with one floppy and it downloads the rest via FTP. It installs
to HD.
I really liked the installer :-)
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On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:29:32PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
> Link please?
Have their been remote 'xploits in OpenBSD since spring 04?
Should I be worried?
It's pretty much a vanilla minimial OpenBSD, with only enough to run pf, pretty
much
word-for-word matching http://www.openbsd.org/faq/pf/
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 09:05:06PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote:
> My mistake then :)
OpenBSD makes a smokin firewall. One floppy, an old P90 laptop w/ 90MB of ram,
a few
questions, a few lines of pf.conf, and I haven't touched it in a year.
Absolutely rock
solid. It makes Linux look absolu
On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 01:28:37AM +0100, Antony Gelberg wrote:
> left behind *shiver*. This is of course because I'm now running Window
> Maker on Sarge, and I can't get much more earthy unless I move to ratpoison.
I'm sure in a post-y mood.
I now have multimon: a 1280x1024 with 3 transparent
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:28:12PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote:
> +--
> | On (13/10/05 19:55), William Ballard wrote:
> |
> | To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> | From: William Ballard <[EMAIL PROTECT
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 08:21:28PM -0400, Chris Humphries wrote:
> I think everyone should try each out and then decide what is best for them.
> Most likely there will not be something that will fit everything, though
> debian is pretty close [it is used on most my production and development
> ser
On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 04:50:16PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I'm a developer now?! Cool!
Nor am I. But I heard that said "we don't care if anybody uses it but us"
comment a
couple years ago and I thought it was a good idea. Of course the OpenBSD
people (all
5000 of 'em) wonder why anyb
On Tue, Oct 11, 2005 at 08:33:42PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> Some people find the Ubuntu spin-off inappropriate (why didn't they just
> donate to Debian and try to get a commitment on release cycles?), and
> others have embraced it and are all fuzzy warm about it. Whatever.
>
> Me? I just kic
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:05:05PM -0300, Bruno Buys wrote:
> I'm trying to compile a 2.6 non-initrd kernel, but all I get are kernel
> panics. Did someone here manage to do it, or have any good link in this
> subject?
> I'm more or less following the article from
> http://www.debian-administrat
On Sun, Sep 25, 2005 at 11:22:11PM +0100, Edd Dumbill wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-09-25 at 18:06 -0400, William Ballard wrote:
> > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323365
> >
> > Why is this grave security bugfix not in Sarge security updates, more
> >
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=323365
Why is this grave security bugfix not in Sarge security updates, more
than a month later? I know there's a "good reason," but in my few years
of using Debian I have always run unstable.
What's the policy/urgency for getting grave security
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 08:36:07AM +0200, steef wrote:
> is it possible to harm a motherboard (asus A8V deluxe) AGP 8x, *1,5
> volt* with a nvidia geforce videocard FX5700, working on a voltage of
> 1,1: *1,1 volt* ??
Ask this at the OC forums like anandtech.com or nvnews.net.
Too OT here.
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Can I use a mirror for that?
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I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around
April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until
Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected Sid to become
horribly unusable. Now my question is, when should I start tracking Sid
again, because Nic
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 12:22:48PM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote:
> I got the vague impression that there are numerous answers to this
> situation, possibly including some sort of debian-standard samba.
apt-get install smbfs
$ grep -i SMB /boot/config-`uname -r`
CONFIG_SMB_FS=y
# CONFIG_SMB_NLS_D
All right, kids, that's enough.
Don't make me take off my belt.
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I would like to build a storage server. I have some hardware questions.
I don't know a forum where I will get intelligent practical questions
for this unusual task.
I'm envisioning adding 5-8 300GB or 400GB hard drives, a single gigabit
ethernet, a minimal mobo/proc/ram for strictly serving u
I see that Partimage is a Piece Of Crap(tm).
However, it is absolutely crucial to me under Linux to manage my NTFS
Windows partition - only. I've been using it under Sid and all 2.6
kernels with no errors.
I can't live without partimage or partimage-like functionality. While I
will download a
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:46:46AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Doesn't seem like it would be a problem. I would say, though, that the
> correct behavior for vrms is to ignore the package. If you have purged
> it, all traces a presumably gone. Thus, the package is no longer there.
> I would r
On Mon, Jan 10, 2005 at 12:22:50AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I have edited /var/lib/dpkg/status to recover from a b0rked system after a
> power outage in the middle of a fairly big dist-upgrade. Just be careful,
> as you have the potential to really hose dpkg's idea of what is on your
> syst
vrms still lists some non-free packages on my system as "purged."
References to these are found in /var/lib/dpkg/status.
Can I just edit this file?
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> On Fri, 2005-01-07 at 21:35 +0700, David Garamond wrote:
> > I'm using Sarge with GNOME 2.6 (haven't updated to 2.8). There's a
> > 'shrinking box' animation when you minimize a window. How do I disable
> > it? It gets pretty annoying after a while.
apt-get install fluxbox :-)
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> > The problem is, I can't figure out which package contains
Maybe the answer to this question should be made more
visible in the installation documents.
It's probably the most F. A.'d Q.
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On Sat, Jan 08, 2005 at 04:12:14PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> 2) Macintosh excepted, but it had it's own problems: the geniuses
> who wrote it had to be brilliant to squeeze all that greatness into
> a 64KB ROM, and the hacks they had to do mad it difficult to make
> multi-finder, do protected mu
On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 08:07:28PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> I heartily recommend anyone who uses a GUI MUA and is one of
> the *Step environments most of the time.
WWWM? :-)
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On Fri, Jan 07, 2005 at 10:12:19AM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> 1. Reputable providers: Who do you use that you would recommend? UML
> seems acceptable, since our load will be almost minuscule to begin with.
> At least one static ip is a must.
My (parent's) church has a website hosted on www.1and
On Thu, Jan 06, 2005 at 09:42:58PM +0100, Vegard Lundby Rekaa wrote:
> It can't boot from cdrom, it has one (4X) but the system doesn't know of
> it untill an OS is loaded (i.e. win98se). I'm forced to install linux with
> floppy disks.
Don't use this piece of crap as a desktop machine.
Use it as
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:30:08PM -0800, Gary Garibaldi wrote:
> I seem to have lost the toolbar and it's icons to synaptic under sarge.
> It was working correctly about a week ago before I did an upgrade
> dist-upgrade. Does anyone know if this is a bug.
You find the answer to this by looking
On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 08:07:04PM +, Dave Ewart wrote:
> [1] I'm not saying the original poster was arrogant, but this topic has
> drifted somewhat. Maybe we should stop now :-)
People who are annoyed by the US annoy me. When you go to their
countries you hear a lot of "hip-hop" on the rad
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 11:28:52PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-01-04 at 16:24 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> > William Ballard wrote:
> [snip]
> > "Y'know, having Debian experience with Perl and Python on my resume in Las
> > Vegas really doesn't
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 09:01:15PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote:
> > Running update-menus does not add a menu entry for this.
>
> In that case it's a simple matter to add the line
>
> [exec] (foo) {/usr/bin/foo}
>
> to your fluxbox menu file.
>
> Of course, if you do this, you'll want to name the m
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:56:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> Yeah, except for northeast Portland, which is almost entirely black.
> Multnomah County also contains a lot of rural areas far from the city
> and the north face of Mt. Hood. It's an extremely large county
> geographically for it'
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 07:49:47PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote:
> On Tuesday 04 January 2005 07:31 pm, William Ballard wrote:
> > Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications
> > but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't have a menu entry for it.
> >
> > I us
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:24:41PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> >I'm not saying "people are incapable of treating each other nicely."
> >I'm just saying is that some areas of the country, people get more
> >opportunities to succeed
Freeguide packages a .desktop in /usr/share/applications
but nothing in /usr/lib/menu, so I don't have a menu entry for it.
I use fluxbox. Is there something I can install which will
automatically add a menu entry for this for me?
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On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 04:10:26PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> But then, I'm a white male and wouldn't know how to treat other people
> fairly. It's genetic according to the likes of you.
Okay, okay, okay. Persist in your self-delusion.
The dutch thought they were tolerant too.
I'm not sayi
On Tue, Jan 04, 2005 at 03:32:48PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Monday 03 January 2005 11:44 am, William Ballard wrote:
>
> > Tell you what you can live in the 50% black city and I'll live in the
> > 90% white city. Then you can demonstrate your "tolerance&q
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:33:52PM -0800, Rich Rudnick wrote:
> Maybe only a handful for sure, but they
> do cast a wide pall.
So you don't disagree that nowadays most people aren't racists in the
south, which was the original point. A couple people will complain
about ubuntu being an African n
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 08:43:42PM -0800, Seeker5528 wrote:
>
> I can't spread for Oregon, but in the Tacoma area
I knew somebody was going to bring up Tacoma.
I'll grant you that Tacoma isn't lilly-white.
But a couple points: what kind of stories come on the
6 o'clock news about Tacoma? Is eve
If you use java-package to package Sun's 1.5 Java,
the GTKLookAndFeel option works. It was in Java 1.4.2
but it didn't work.
I patched Freemind (and filed bugs against it)
to support the GTKLookAndFeel. It makes working with
Java applications not like pulling teeth with an ugly
hygenist.
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On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:18:19PM +, Sue Spence wrote:
> I was born in and frequently spend time in a major American city which
> has a "white" population of ~30%. About 60% are African-American. My
> father grew up there, and my sister still lives there. I can't say that
> we have ever fou
On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 09:45:24AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> No, Couer d'Alane, ID is *quite* racist despite having only one black
> person as far as I can tell. Scary place, I'm a Scottish white boy and
> I felt too black to be there. CdA is home of the KKK...
You need to broaden your hori
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:04:39PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Sunday 02 January 2005 07:15 pm, John Hasler wrote:
> > Alvin Smith writes:
> > > To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a
> > > product with a Black African "sounding" name or not.
> >
> > What a loony no
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:48PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote:
> Yes, sadly Marketing has reached a new level. Shame it has come to this.
You mean like Operating System Version 10?
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 10:01:06PM -0500, Alvin Smith wrote:
> To put it bluntly, the issue is whether white people will accept a product
> with a Black African "sounding" name or not.
Nah, that's not it. It doesn't have an "h" in it.
That makes it not-very-African sounding.
I never thought a
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 08:25:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> When compiling a package, there are often configuration options
> (--enable-frobnication-support, etc.). How can I determine the
> configuration settings used when compiling a program for a Debian
> package distribution?
Down
On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 07:23:34AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> >Yeah! Mine does that too. It bugged me.
> What level Sarge d-i is this?
After it's done, during normal boot of the system.
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On Sun, Jan 02, 2005 at 11:21:27AM -, Rich Stanton wrote:
> I've just completed an install of sarge on my laptop. Everything is fine
> except that grub (installed into the MBR) pauses for ages at boottime after
> the 'stage 1.5' message. It seems to be accessing my cdrom periodically
Yeah!
On Fri, Dec 31, 2004 at 06:37:27PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
> Jonathan writes:
> > What about external USB modems? And PCMCIA modems. Some still are
> > winmodems or require drivers. All I'm saying is that your statement is a
> > bit too broad.
>
> In the context of this thread "external modem" m
On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 12:28:20AM -0600, Jacob Johnson wrote:
> What packages are needed for a bare bones working XFree86 4.3 on Sarge? I'm
> trying to trim down my testing system as it will eventually be used as the
> master image in a netboot situation for many public kiosks.
I don't use a gr
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 02:35:41PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote:
> I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at
> the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is
> several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some
> references about it, with
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 07:18:02PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Sorry I don't use apt and "dpkg -S Parse.pm", which probably is the same
> as "apt-file search Parse.pm" doesn't find anything.
dpkg -S only searches already installed packages.
apt-file does the same thing but includes not-installed pac
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 10:19:23AM -0700, CW Harris wrote:
> There are source packages kernel-latest-{version}-{arch}. Is this what
> you are looking for? (E.g. kernel-latest-2.6-i386)
Do you mean kernel-source-2.6?
There are no packages named kernel-latest-* in the repository.
However it look
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 05:18:34PM +0100, Otto Wyss wrote:
> Does anyone know in which Debian package the perl module Date::Parse is
> hidden?
apt-get install apt-file
apt-file update
apt-file search Parse.pm
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On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 08:49:19AM +0100, Pascal Bonesh wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 21:26 -0500, William Ballard wrote:
>
>
>
>
> Your religious-right-wing crap belongs off-list, this is about debian
> and linux.
Fuck you and the horse you rode in on. I read th
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 10:52:34PM -0600, Brad Sims wrote:
> The University of Northern Colorado [UNC] intramural basketball team is named
> the Fighting Whities (aka the Fighting Whites
That's intramural. There's a lot of ridiculous intramural names. It
don't mean a whole lot.
The official ma
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 11:08:19PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> Paul Gear wrote:
[snip nested attributions, correctly I hope]
> > Thanks for the detailed response. Are you saying that once my system is
> > installed (on 2.6.8, as it happens), it will never get an upgrade to
> > 2.6.9 (once it is rele
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 11:58:38AM +0800, Katipo wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> It does have one or two negative references to Jews, as I have already said.
> I can not recall anything negative in regard to Christians.
> Please provide a reference.
I didn't record the passage,
On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to
> > Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now
> > he
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 01:53:21PM +0200, David Baron wrote:
> Something I proposed a while back: A workable backtracking mechanism in apt.
I'll post version 2.0 of my script that does this, with some
documentation, here presently.
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On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:17:47AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:22 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> --snip--
> > The difference is this:
> >
> > 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the
> > teachings of Mohammed and Islam.
> > 2. Christians w
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 08:48:58PM -0600, Rick Taylor wrote:
> What would be a good name?
>
> Fred? Alice? Chief Running Current?
We'll call it "QuikProtect."
(from Dilbert: the whole joke is on the internet,
but all links are plagarized; google it).
"If you have a sound card it swears at you."
Sorry for starting a new thread; I deleted it.
Microsoft has a whole division of people and has written special
software ("PoliCheck") that automatically searches source code and
source texts for politically sensitive words and culturally sensitive
phrases.
It's better to avoid such names alto
On Mon, Dec 27, 2004 at 06:12:18PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> > > The folks there should change the name: I would never use a thing named
> > > _ubuntu_. Btw, Hurd is a name as horrible as ubuntu.
> >
> > Yeah, I've gotta admit, I'm a bit turned off by the name, "Ubuntu."
>
> I think Ubuntu is
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 10:39:47PM -0600, Tim Kelley wrote:
> I am getting really sick of people pushing sid for production use. Please
> stop
> doing it. I don't really care if it meets your needs. If it does, you are a
> tiny minority; your experience with it in this capacity is anecdotal, a
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:19:13PM -0500, Douglas Ward wrote:
> If you just want something for carrying encrypted passwords, get an older
> model Palm from eBay; many of the +4 year old models are
> $30 and less.
It's useless to carry around encrypted data when the private key is also
on the de
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 08:05:46PM -0500, Carl Fink wrote:
> Without taking up the issue of "my mailer is better than Outlook" (of
> course it is) XP's filesystem permissions *also* limit damage to
> user-owned files.
If you aren't in a domain new users in XP are by default added to the
Admins gr
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 11:08:17PM +0100, Marc Demlenne wrote:
> Seems to be a good way to operate, rather secure... But isn't there a
> way to manage this automatically ? It doesn't sounds impossible nor
> stupid, does it ?
It's really easy to set up your own "dists" directory with a tweaked
'Pa
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 02:56:47PM -0600, Skylar Thompson wrote:
> To a large extent, those books will apply to any distribution. The
> biggest difference between Red Hat and Debian is the package system.
> Everything else is pretty much the same.
A lot of files are in different places.
I expect
> On Sat, 2004-12-25 at 10:05 -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote:
> > Sid is probably not the right choice if you need to run a nuclear
> > defense grid, but for day to day work on the desktop and even on
> > servers, it's plenty stable enough in my experience.
Running unstable on an outward-facing serv
On Thu, Dec 23, 2004 at 05:38:36PM -0500, Brian Pack wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 16:20 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Thu, 2004-12-23 at 22:54 +0100, "Olivier Régnier (yahoo)" wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I'm trying to make a logo and i'm searching the name of the font used
> > > for debi
Just curious as to why these packages disappeared from unstable today:
< apps-wrappers
< clipbook
< gambas-gb-qt-kde
< gambas-gb-qt-kde-html
< gnumail
< gworkspace
< gwremote
< hamlib2
< hamlib2++
< hamlib2-perl
< hamlib2-tcl
< ion3-doc
< libdockapp1
< libluminate5
< libmysqlclient-dev
< libresid2
I thought you might find this script useful:
apt-cache rdepends `ls /a/l | cut -d_ -f1` | tr '\n' ';' | sed -r \
-e 's/Reverse Depends://g' \
-e 's/;; //g' \
-e 's/;+/\n/g' | \
egrep -v '^ ' | egrep -v ' ' | grep -v '|' | sort | less
Given a set of packagenames, it returns the ones for wh
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 07:39:45PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> Why are so many more applications listed under
> Gnome's->Applications->Debian menu that directly into Gnome->Applications ?
The former uses Debian's menu system. The latter uses its own mechanism
and makes its own decisions about
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 12:06:55AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> I just tried that, and it still isn't working. I don't know what else
> to try. I know the printer, cable, and connection are good, because
> earlier, I booted up Mepis and tested everything, and the printer worked
> perfectly. An
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:27:58PM +0100, Thomas Hood wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Dec 2004 05:30:12 +0100, William Ballard wrote:
> > My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc need
> > to be writeable."
>
> See http://panopticon.csustan.edu/thood/readonly-
On Wed, Dec 22, 2004 at 02:55:40AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
> IIRC I think there is something about this on wiki.debian.net under
> 'pre-seeding'?
For now I am going to just use the NONINTERACTIVE frontend with various
assume-yes parameter to apt, and go back and run dpkg-reconfigure on
individual
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 09:46:16PM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> Mepis Printer package onto my system. Hopefully, it will only require
> adding whatever repositories Mepis uses other than the Debian ones and
> doing a simple apt-get install.
It's not smart to do that.
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On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:41:15PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain
> > operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same
> &
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:41:15PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:35:38PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site. A certain
> > operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500. Running same
> &
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 02:09:46PM -0500, Mason Loring Bliss wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:39:48AM +0530, Sridhar M.A. wrote:
>
> > I personally would recommend qiv. A wonderful tool for viewing images.
> > Just apt-get it and you will, probably, never worry about xv :-)
>
> Does qiv have a
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:32:44AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> I've done all of that. This model is supported, and it still isn't working.
Once I could print a test page from http://localhost:631, printing from
Mozilla worked, printing from OpenOffice worked, and a2ps worked, and
configuring qt
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 12:14:30AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
> When I do a test page (this is from the KDE Control Panel), a message
> pops up saying that the page was successfully sent to the printer. But,
> that is obviously false, as the printer does nothing at all. Is there
> anything else
On Tue, Dec 21, 2004 at 06:11:52AM +0100, housetier wrote:
> I don't think that #debian is a place for newbies to turn to when they
> need help. When newbis ask for help they face a very urgent problem
> and are usually overwhelmed by it. For their questions to be answered
That's precisely the wro
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 08:34:10PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> if space and mem is an issue, motd is bells & whistles
> for gigb-byte sized installs
Actually, since I don't use KDE or Gnome, but use only
gnome-control-center and kcontrol and fluxbox, I have been
able to install almost everything on
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 09:49:06AM -0800, Joseph Schumacher wrote:
> I will sincerely appreciate any advice you might offer. Many thanks - Joe
Make a list of the hardware in your machine.
Download and burn a Mandrake ISO, and a Knoppix ISO.
use the lspci command
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