Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-27 Thread Wulfy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 05:40:03PM -0800, Michael M. wrote: On Sun, 2007-02-25 at 17:14 -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I've only used Mutt for a day or so now, and I like to do more productive things with my time than learn random acronyms. But thanks for filling

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 10:31, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/07 10:10, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/07 07:49, Vibhav Sharma wrote: another collection of stories and nothing

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 10:10, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/07 07:49, Vibhav Sharma wrote: another collection of stories and nothing more seem more likely. Of course this too is just another view but more

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 07:49, Vibhav Sharma wrote: another collection of stories and nothing more seem more likely. Of course this too is just another view but more viewpoints are always useful ... right? Nope. Belief in religi

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 23:53, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 but then again, storing it in underground bunkers for thousands of years doesn't appear to

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-25 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 but then again, storing it in underground bunkers for thousands of years doesn't appear to be a much better solution. Sure it does. Oh, yeah. Leave it for later generation to clean up... very much bet

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-25 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 22:01, Wulfy wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 21:39, Wulfy wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ooh. Don't even get me start

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-25 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/25/07 21:39, Wulfy wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ooh. Don't even get me started on nuclear power. Cheap, clean, virtually unlimited. We can't use it *because* of the conservationists and environ

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-25 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Ooh. Don't even get me started on nuclear power. Cheap, clean, virtually unlimited. We can't use it *because* of the conservationists and environmentalists. Regards, -Roberto Decommissioning nuclear plant... storage of nuclear waste... clean? hardly. Chern

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-25 Thread Wulfy
Steve Lamb wrote: The Theist is claiming to have answers, that they are right, absolutely. Not all Theists believe in Absolute Truth... but then again, not all Theists are Monotheists. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play wh

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-07 Thread Wulfy
Celejar wrote: A common problem with linux gui tools is that they are often really just simple front ends to the cli tools, and they often aren't really easier to use than them; if the user doesn't have a pretty good understanding of the underlying cli tool he'll be stuck even in the gui, and if

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Wulfy
Glenn Becker wrote: To some of us, GUI tools are more intuitive than the opaque, cryptic command line tools. I appreciate your point(s) but to others of us the CLI is neither opaque nor cryptic. Choices is what it's all about - for me. G Which was the point of the bit you snipped... not

Re: Booting Debian/testing fails

2007-02-06 Thread Wulfy
Chris Bannister wrote: For example, I prefer to set up my system the way I want to, I don't want a GUI whereas a newbie doesn't understand a computer without one. Already you have a conflict. I don't think it's quite that simple. Just because someone "prefers to set up [his] system the way [he]

Re: Dependancy problem

2007-01-24 Thread Wulfy
Kevin Ross wrote: Check out the "equivs" package. -- Kevin Thanks, Kevin! -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your opinion. Leave your Mark

Re: Dependancy problem

2007-01-24 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: I want to install jEdit 4.3pre9. I downloaded the deb from the download link given on the jedit.org site. When I try to dpkg -i jedit..., I get an error because it's dependant on sun-java5 and I have sun-java6 installed. How can I get it to accept sun-java5 *or later*?

Dependancy problem

2007-01-24 Thread Wulfy
I want to install jEdit 4.3pre9. I downloaded the deb from the download link given on the jedit.org site. When I try to dpkg -i jedit..., I get an error because it's dependant on sun-java5 and I have sun-java6 installed. How can I get it to accept sun-java5 *or later*? I run Sarge, though t

Re: dialup connectivity problem

2007-01-24 Thread Wulfy
Zach wrote: On 1/24/07, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This ISP switched to v.92 protocol and my old modem would not connect. The ISP said nothing, but with a new v.02 analog modem the connections are a lot better. If it is the modem protocol why can it sometimes stay connected fo

Re: Root privilege (SOLVED)

2007-01-10 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:31:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Yes, this is the right word. GUIs frequently sacrifice security, flexibility and functionality in favor of being relatively drool-proof. Sacrificing security at the root level is never the brightest idea

Re: ignore additional launches

2006-12-21 Thread Wulfy
Mark Grieveson wrote: Is there a way to have applications that are opening ignore subsequent requests to open? Mark Using Sarge here. May be different if you have Etch... Right-click on the icon. Click on Properties. Open the application tab. Open Advanced Options. At the bottom there i

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Wulfy
Marc Shapiro wrote: Wulfy wrote: Wulfy wrote: I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under /usr/lib... I "fixed&qu

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-16 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: I found references to v.7 in ~/.mozilla/firefox/pluginreg.dat but I really don't know how to change that without screwing everything up. One of the references pointed to a now non-existent directory under /usr/lib... I "fixed" the problem... reinstalled v.7. I

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Wulfy
Marc Shapiro wrote: I don't appear to have ANY version of flash currently installed -- $ aptitude search flash p flashplayer-mozilla - Macromedia Flash Player p flashplugin-nonfree - Adobe Flash Player plugin installer p flashybrid - automates u

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-15 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: Dumb question: have you restarted FF? Yes. I stopped FF before making the changes. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest in between. Share your affections. Voice your o

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 16:31, Wulfy wrote: I saw the etch/sid deb... I'm running sarge The dependencies seemed to be very different. I thought it would be unsafe to install that deb. Ah, ok. I think I'

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Wulfy
Kent West wrote: You probably still have the ver7 .so in one of the plugins paths for Firefox. Do a "locate libflashplayer.so" and rename/move any that you aren't confident is the v.9 version out of any relevant plugins directories. I used locate to find all the libflashplayer.so's. Most are sy

Re: flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/14/06 15:09, Wulfy wrote: I got fed up with messages on sites saying "please update your flashplayer". so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page; http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/debian-how-

flashplayer9?

2006-12-14 Thread Wulfy
I got fed up with messages on sites saying "please update your flashplayer". so, not finding a deb for it, I googled and found this page; http://wizah.blogspot.com/2006/10/debian-how-to-flash-9.html I followed the instructions on that page, purged all the debs for flashplayer, installed the .s

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Wulfy
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Brian Durant wrote: >> > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>

Re: Media player

2006-11-29 Thread Wulfy
Brian Durant wrote: On 11/29/06, matthew yee-king <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Brian Durant wrote: > On 11/29/06, Виталий Ищенко <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sarge main >> > Sorry, I am a newbie. What would Etch be? deb > ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/

Re: Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

2006-10-22 Thread Wulfy
Rogério Brito wrote: Hi, Wulfy. On Oct 16 2006, Wulfy wrote: In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg

Badly formed dpkg-status entry.

2006-10-16 Thread Wulfy
In my cron-monthly e-mail I got this message; /etc/cron.monthly/vrms: vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #74! pkg=[sysutils], pkgstatus=[install ok installed], section=[] vrms: ERROR- Badly formed dpkg-status entry #1603! pkg=[xjig], pkgstatus=[install ok install

Re: how could i scan more cds after installation to use as mirrors ?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
Jabka Atu wrote: Hello... i'd like to add more cds to my debian installation. now i have only 1 cd and i wish to add more 3 dvds. thnx in advance. apt-cdrom will add the cdroms to your sources.list. Not sure about dvds. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young.

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:30:12AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: The problem with this is the same as the problem with fora vs. mailing lists. DWN comes to me... with Planet Debian and the rest, I have to go to them to find out if there's anything of interest

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
Joey Hess wrote: I've considered taking over writing DWN again (if you're confused, I'm the other Joey who originally started it in '99). However, it's not clear to me that DWN is still relevant enough to be worth the large amount of work it takes to maintain it[1]. A lot of communication is done

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: On Friday 13 October 2006 11:43, Wulfy wrote: I haven't had the last two edition of Debian Weekly News. I thought that I'd somehow become unsubscribed from the list, but when I went to the site, it seems I have all of them and the October editions that I

Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-13 Thread Wulfy
I haven't had the last two edition of Debian Weekly News. I thought that I'd somehow become unsubscribed from the list, but when I went to the site, it seems I have all of them and the October editions that I'm missing haven't been sent. Any idea what's wrong? The only thing I can think of i

Re: Problems with gnupg, apt-get says 'no pubkey found...'

2006-10-09 Thread Wulfy
michael wrote: I get a similar error to the OP... any ideas? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get update Password: Get:1 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release.gpg [189B] Get:2 ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release [79.6kB] Ign ftp://ftp.uk.debian.org unstable Release Get:3 ftp://ftp.uk.debian

Re: following an ssh chain

2006-09-18 Thread Wulfy
Marty Landman wrote: I've got 3 'nix boxes on my office lan. Sometimes I'll open an ssh session to one of them from my windoz workstation, then ssh from that session to another, then the the third. Anyone know of a simple way for me to know where I'm at? IOW hostname will always tell me which

Re: Libcap problem in Snort installation

2006-09-07 Thread Wulfy
Alejandro wrote: Dear all, I have a Debian Etch system. After I download the Snort 2.6 tarball and I do tar -xzvf, I execute "./configure --with-mysql" and I get this error message: ERROR! Libpcap library/headers not found, go get it from http://www.tcpdump.org or use the --with-libpcap-

Re: dpkg segfaults installing locales: [SOLVED]?

2006-09-02 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: I have a problem. While updating, dpkg segfaults while configuring locales. The error message is: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 6634 Illegal instruction localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale dpkg: error processing locales (--configure

Re: dpkg segfaults installing locales

2006-09-01 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: then it tries again and eventually the whole machine freezes and I have to hard boot. On one of the runs, it segfaulted. I think it was one of the first runs. Seemed to be at different places. Onvce again, I'm way out of my depth... though that has deepened in the last

dpkg segfaults installing locales

2006-09-01 Thread Wulfy
I have a problem. While updating, dpkg segfaults while configuring locales. The error message is: /usr/sbin/locale-gen: line 41: 6634 Illegal instruction localedef -i $input -c -f $charset -A /etc/locale.alias $locale dpkg: error processing locales (--configure): subprocess post-install

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-31 Thread Wulfy
Derek Martin wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 02:28:24AM +0300, Micha Feigin wrote: Right now, on my system, t-bird is using 76MB RES & 200MB VIRT memory. :( And I thought that sylpheed-claws-gtk2 is using too much at 17MB resources and 38MB virtual. Reminds me why I stopped using T-bi

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-30 Thread Wulfy
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2006-08-26 11:30:33, schrieb Wulfy: It does lack a decent GUI... Oh yes, running BALSA, KMAIL and such in a ssh terminal and a 486dx40/12MB =8I don't use ssh. My box is a K7, not a 486... I have 512MB of RAM. And I *like* GUIs... :@þ -- Bles

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-26 Thread Wulfy
s. keeling wrote: Matej Cepl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Michelle Konzack wrote: Thunderbird - Copies entire message at reply. Works fine on my box. Balsa - Copies entire message at reply. I have tried the suggested "Ctrl Kmail - Configured it, and got test messages in and out then it started

Re: wxWidgets versus gtkmm

2006-08-19 Thread Wulfy
Micha Feigin wrote: Also, AFAIK qt draws all it's own widgets (buttons, lists, etc.) itself while wxwidgets uses local ones (which is gtk under linux, native everywhere else). Is gtk "native" to all Linux but KDE? Or is it just "native" to GNOME? -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Aug 1 well, my experience with a power-up not "catching" ended up being a failing mobo. I think it can come from failing memory too. I think it can also come from a failing power supply that doesn't give enough juice over all the lines resulting in some parts

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Well, half done. The reboot hangs after the keyboard lights flash and before the BIOS screen shows... I have to power off by the button and power on again. And that doesn't always work. I've been watching this thread, and I think you might be facing a hardwa

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: I see. I only hopped into this thread after the post in which you asked about the KDE power control settings and the error messages about the incomplete ACPI installation. From that I got the impression that you wanted to activate these laptop-specific ACPI features in KDE.

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: ACPI seems to be broken for you. Are there any "helpful" error messages during boot? Try to run dmesg | grep -i acpi ACPI can be a real pain in the neck on some hardware. Your best bet is probably to go to tuxmobil.org and see how far other people have gotten with your lap

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-10 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: ACPI seems to be broken for you. Are there any "helpful" error messages during boot? Try to run dmesg | grep -i acpi ACPI can be a real pain in the neck on some hardware. Your best bet is probably to go to tuxmobil.org and see how far other people have gotten with your lap

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: I think that KDE should recognize that the AC adapter and the battery ACPI modules are loaded. Let's check some ACPI functions: Do you have the /proc/acpi/ac_adapter/ and /proc/acpi/battery/ directories? Test if you can do things like: (The sub-directories might have diff

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 19:23:55 +0100, Wulfy wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: I don't know of a module called 'power'. Try this command to find power-related modules: find /lib/modules/$(uname-r) -name *power* I ran the command; [EMAI

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread Wulfy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, Aug 09, 2006 at 08:12:59AM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 08 August 2006 22:54, Wulfy wrote: Is there any way to check the power supply's wattage without opening the case? Yes, but it generally requires lightning for approximatel

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-09 Thread Wulfy
Liam O'Toole wrote: I don't know of a module called 'power'. Try this command to find power-related modules: find /lib/modules/$(uname-r) -name *power* I ran the command; [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ find /lib/modules/$(uname -r) -name *power* /lib/modules/2.6.8-3-k7/kernel/arch/i386/kernel/cpu/c

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 04:46:39PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: On Tuesday 08 August 2006 11:39, Wulfy wrote: I have a similar problem. During the recent very hot weather here in the UK, my box kept crashing. So I had to reboot a lot. I noticed that when

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Aug 08, 2006 at 23:27:06 +0100, Wulfy wrote: Further to the last e-mail: I removed apm using aptitude, it removed libapm0 and powermgmt-base as well. Then I checked in my BIOS setup and there's no mention anywhere of apm though acpi defaults to S1 (I

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Mike McCarty wrote: Wulfy wrote: I have a similar problem. During the recent very hot weather here in the UK, my box kept crashing. So I had to reboot a lot. I noticed that Define "very hot weather". We've been two weeks now hitting a high over 100F (38C) here in Texas

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Liam O'Toole wrote: I suspect that the kernel has acpi enabled. You can check by seeing if the directory /proc/acpi exists and is populated. To use apm, you will need to disable acpi. You do this by passing the argument 'acpi=off' to the kernel, either on the grub command line or in the grub con

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 08 Aug 2006 19:39:59 +0100 Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a similar problem. During the recent very hot weather here in the UK, my box kept crashing. Not something we have to worry about very often :-) True! :) [...] I f

Re: why sarge can't power off PC

2006-08-08 Thread Wulfy
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 8 Aug 2006 00:53:29 -0700 (PDT) Serena Cantor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thanks! I use sarge's default kernel, 2.4. It seems that I would wait for Debian 4.0, which use kernel 2.6, in Dec, 2006 APM (Advanced Power Management) should work with that kernel.

Re: pine

2006-07-27 Thread Wulfy
Anton Piatek wrote: Hi, Anyone know if "pine" is in debian? I can't find it... If you know where it is, let me know! Anton Hi, Anton! [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-cache policy pine pine: Installed: (none) Candidate: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 Version table: 4.64-1duo+sarge1 0 500 http://ftp

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Wulfy
Simon wrote: Wulfmann, No, not the mainframe :) http://www-132.ibm.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/CategoryDisplay?catalogId=-840&storeId=1&categoryId=2344267&langId=-1&dualCurrId=73 Yeah... I think the one I learned on was a little larger than that... like "fill the air-conditioned room wi

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Carl Fink wrote: Quick poll: how many people here are old enough to read that subject line and think of the IBM Series/360, the mainframe? I learned to program on that beast in 1975... now I feel old... -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate wit

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
bob hole wrote: This happened to my brother,try moving ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozilla.bak or something and then try it.I deleted a bunch of stuff in ~/.mozilla(pretty much everything except my bookmarks,extentions and plugins) and that fixed it. I moved ~/.mozilla to ~/.mozill.bak and then restarted

Re: just some thoughts

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: It's with shame that I even admit this affects me, but if yall didn't know, the social site myspace.com has just moved all its multimedia content to Flash 9.0 due to security problems they had with the previous version, and Adobe has yet to come up with Flash Player 9.0 for

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-24 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: Wulfy wrote: Does anyone else still have this problem? Not only do I now have no sound, but the video doesn't play either... I've tried everything I can think of to no avail... Any idea how to fix? Does no-one have any idea how to fix this? I noted that according

Re: which process is writing to disk?

2006-07-22 Thread Wulfy
Lubos Vrbka wrote: hi guys, i sometimes see the following happenning on my notebook. every few seconds, i can hear a tick from the harddrive. it seems, that some process writes just a little bit to disk and the heads are immediately parked. the sound is quite annoying. it doesn't happen all t

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-22 Thread Wulfy
Wulfy wrote: Iván Alemán wrote: Hello list, While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I have tried the following solution with no luck https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ree/+bug/29760 Any thoughts? Thanks Does anyone else still have this problem?

Re: newbie question

2006-07-20 Thread Wulfy
Miles Fidelman wrote: Gabriel Parrondo wrote: El jue, 20-07-2006 a las 22:09 -0400, Miles Fidelman escribió: and it turns out that it sure looks like the messages I'm trying to capture are generated too early in the startup process to hit the log files - guess I have to connect my laptop to th

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-20 Thread Wulfy
Iván Alemán wrote: Hello list, While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I have tried the following solution with no luck https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu...ree/+bug/29760 Any thoughts? Thanks Does anyone else still have this problem? Not only do I now have

Re: apt has wrong links

2006-07-16 Thread Wulfy
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: And then I checked the Italian site to see what version of hotplug it has, and it is 0.0.20040329-22, and yet Synaptic is STILL telling me: "udev: Depends: hotplug (>=0.0.20040329-17) but 0.0.20040329-16ubuntu17 is to be installed" If all your sources are Debian, why is Syn

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-11 Thread Wulfy
Iván Alemán wrote: Yes, you're right in order to use "aoss" you need to be using alsa, follow the intructions here: http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75237 I did that and now my sound is back! Thanks, Iván! And everyone else who answered! Well it was... I have a slow dial-up so flas

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-11 Thread Wulfy
Jochen Schulz wrote: Wulfy: Jochen Schulz wrote: Iván Alemán: While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't us

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-11 Thread Wulfy
Iván Alemán wrote: I have the same problem. I use KDE. What should I put in there? I tried "aoss", "artsd" and "alsa" but they don't work... Try restarting firefox, I edited /etc/firefox/firefoxrc and changed to "aoss" and it didn't work until I restarted the computer (in my case and by accid

Re: No sound on flash movies

2006-07-11 Thread Wulfy
Jochen Schulz wrote: Iván Alemán: While a flash movie loads very well on firefox, I can't get any sound, I solved this problem a few days ago by editing /etc/firefox/firefoxrc. Since I am not using a sound daemon (I don't use Gnome or KDE), I put "aoss" in there. I have the same proble

Re: Mplayer output

2006-07-07 Thread Wulfy
LeVA wrote: 2006. július 7. 00:53, Wulfy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -> Debian User ,: Hi, d-u! When I play a video from the command line (as a user rather than root) with mplayer, I get the following output: * MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Advan

Mplayer output

2006-07-06 Thread Wulfy
Hi, d-u! When I play a video from the command line (as a user rather than root) with mplayer, I get the following output: * MPlayer dev-CVS--3.3.5 (C) 2000-2006 MPlayer Team CPU: Advanced Micro Devices Duron Morgan,Camaro (Family: 6, Stepping: 0) MMX2 supported but disabled 3DN

Re: Nvidia (their's) driver on multiple kernels.

2006-06-28 Thread Wulfy
Linas Žvirblis wrote: David Baron wrote: OK. Now the question. Which packages are needed for a GEforce 440 card? Probably the normal (the non-legacy) driver packages. Are there debs for the *legacy* driver? I couldn't find one when I was looking. I need the 7167 driver for my TNT2

Re: How to install acroread

2006-06-10 Thread Wulfy
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: The only thing aptitute is able to do is remove cvs ... I'm sure there's a way to do this from the command line but I use the curses interface for aptitude. Run aptitude, find cvs, press "m" to make it a "manual" install... that will stop aptitude wanting to remove

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-31 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Katipo wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: This is a consequence of the fact that, in the USA, the Sovereign is the Electorate, Yes, but that's all rapidly changing, isn't it? When was *your* Head of State elected? Oh, wait, she wa

Re: firefox printing: question about paper size

2006-05-17 Thread Wulfy
Paul E Condon wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 05:45:57PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:05:43AM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I run firefox under Sarge, using Debian repository version of firefox Recent posts on this list indicate that there is a (non-functionin

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-02 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Wulfy wrote: Hmm... and who pays for this "foster-schooling"? The state? Just like they do now with food and clothes. I had a friend who was a foster parent for several years. He and his wife have taken in many kids over the years. Basically, he sa

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-05-02 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: I'm afraid it would not work without it. Do you want to base the education of children who's parents can not afford to pay for the education of their kids on voluntary redistribution of wealth, on charity? Or how do you think it should be pai

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-30 Thread Wulfy
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: The problem is that in ... education there is *no* incentive to perform *at all*. Then perhaps you Americans should take a look at how we British are solving a similar problem... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ofsted http://www.ofsted.gov.uk/ Instead of complaining ab

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Wulfy
Steve Lamb wrote: Wulfy wrote: Erm. What does "ponzi" mean? I can't find it in any of my dictionaries, so I assume it's American Slang... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ponzi_scheme Thanks, Steve. -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young.

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Wulfy
Steve Lamb wrote: the only legal ponzi scam Erm. What does "ponzi" mean? I can't find it in any of my dictionaries, so I assume it's American Slang... "Divided by a common language..." -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play w

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
chris roddy wrote: Wulfy wrote: Hmm... I know a little about midi, but not much. Since I'm able to play it with some application, I should think it would be possible with any... I have the same problem with the Control Centre... I've read cryptic mentions of "sound fonts&

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: Hi Wulfy, This is probably not a good moment to mention it, but I actually have no clue about how MIDI works. The OP had an error message which suggested that udev had not created the appropriate node in /dev; this, as expected, seems to be fixable by probing the necessary

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Robert Kopp wrote: --- Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm installing timidty, cited by wulfy, to see if it succeeds. But being able to play it with kmid would be more desirable, as timidity seem to need freepats which is a 28mb download. Isn't it just a matter

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-24 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: udev should generate the device for you. As John O'Hagan already suggested, try to modprobe snd_seq and snd_seq_midi. If that works without errors the device should be created. If that goes wrong post the error messages, the output of dpkg -l udev hotplug and the relevant

Re: Playing midi?

2006-04-23 Thread Wulfy
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 17:47:56 -0300, Bruno Buys wrote: This is debian sarge with marillat multimedia sources. I'm trying to play a midi file, but I get a "Could not open /dev/sequencer to get some info. Probably there's another program using it" error, from kmid. Th

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
lostson wrote: On Thu, 2006-04-20 at 11:02 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Attila Horvath wrote: Mutsuura Associates, Inc. /\ \ Vienna, VA 22181 / \ \ / /\ \ \ / / /\ \ \ E-MAIL: [EMAIL PROTECTED] / /_/ \

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
Mike McCarty wrote: Only if they want "most" people to read what they write. Should people who use Hindi characters change? How about Arabic? Hebrew? How about Linear B? Why do we even want people only to post in English? Why not post in whatever your native tongue is? I guess I'll switch to Spa

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
Matthias Julius wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: The "ae" is a poorman form of "æ". In German it is perfectly legitimate to use "ae" instead of "ä" if you can not use that for what ever reason. It is just ugly. The character "æ" is used nowhere in German. Matthias But

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
Mike McCarty wrote: Wulfy wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII in a standard way. Unicode is text... just not ASCII. So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic. So? Digby said that ISO wasn't

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
Mike McCarty wrote: Wulfy wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII in a standard way. Unicode is text... just not ASCII. So is Hiragana. So is Kanji. So is Arabic. So is Hebrew. So is Cyrillic. So? Digby said that ISO wasn't

Re: Udev problem

2006-04-20 Thread Wulfy
Ross Boylan wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 07:39:09PM +0100, Wulfy wrote: I was updating my Sarge system using the backports.org repository. Foolishly, I updated Udev... which promptly told me it needed a later kernel. I downgraded back to the one I had before. Now I'm getting pro

Re: Color printers (was Re: Printer for linux?)

2006-04-19 Thread Wulfy
Ron Johnson wrote: What *is* gold pressed latinum (in the ST universe, of course)? It's what every Ferengi loves more than his mother... money! :) -- Blessings Wulfmann Wulf Credo: Respect the elders. Teach the young. Co-operate with the pack. Play when you can. Hunt when you must. Rest

Re: OT: Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-19 Thread Wulfy
Digby Tarvin wrote: ISO is not the same as text. Most character sets only display ASCII in a standard way. Unicode is text... just not ASCII. When I read your original message I see a Cyrillic capital 'D' between the 'J' and the 'germeister'. If I use vi or cat to view the message, I see 'J

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