On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 01:34:45PM -0500, Rob Bochan wrote:
> On Friday 19 November 2004 12:56 pm, Kirk Strauser wrote:
>
> > > What's the most reasonable way to *downgrade* a system from sid to
> > > testing? Do I need to suck it up and do a reinstall?
> >
> dpkg --get-selections > packages.dpkg
I'm hacking together a little prototype for somebody, mostly as
a curiosity and kindness. It'll be just a prototype.
If they like it, I'll flesh it out and charge them money.
Regardless, I'd like to put the prototype on SourceForge.
(It might help close a sale.)
Do I need some kind of dual licen
On Fri, Nov 26, 2004 at 04:58:49PM -0200, Frederico Rodrigues Abraham wrote:
> licq, gaim, kopete, they all have this strange interface...
> nothing is simple to do or to find...
I don't find them the least bit strange. Perfectly intutive. Enter
connection parameters, connect, talk. Goes b
On Sat, Nov 27, 2004 at 09:14:38PM -0500, Thanhvu Nguyen wrote:
> Windows. I have seen Matlab 6.5 running on Linux *twice* as slow as on
> Windows, e.g a 30 minute routine runs on Matlab 6.5 Windows take an hour
> or more on Matlab 6.5 Linux (same machine specs of course)
Haven't used Matlab on e
Whenever Lilo used to mess up with Woody, I'd:
1) Boot from the Woody CD.
2) Mount my existing single Debian partition as /
3) Execute a shell
4) Make sure /vmlinuz and /vmlinuz-old pointed to the right
places in /boot.
5) Exit the shell.
6) Run "make system bootable." which would Lilo it up.
Tod
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 09:58:24AM +0100, Bram Mertens wrote:
> On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 21:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> > $ gnome-terminal --command=ls
> xterm has a '-hold' option:
> -hold Turn on the hold resource, i.e., xterm will not immediately
I usually use something like:
gnome-terminal
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 07:57:20AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> >For now I just reinstalled the OS. It takes me 30 minutes with scripts.
> >But I looked like a tool having to do that.
>
> What does "30 minutes with scripts" mean?
I talked about this a year ago. Several people told me with ch
On Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 03:55:27PM -0600, Jim Hall wrote:
> I'm trying to understand Grub as well. I finally found out how to make a
> boot disk from the FAQ (see link). The Grub project calls this the
> "legacy" version (0.9x).
>
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/grub-legacy-faq.en.html
>
> T
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:21:55PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> I've always found them hard to use.
I use GTK2 apps with Fluxbox. I like Gaim.
When I need to use it a lot I just give it its own virtual desktop,
let it clutter windows all over, and wait for it to go beep.
Then I context switch.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Do any of those do any syncing with the banks like Quicken does? I
> finally weened myself from Quicken when I got pissed off at Wells Fargo for
> the final time. It was nice, though, to have Quicken sync with them
> whenever I
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:14:06PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 December 2004 4:07 pm, Shawn McCuan wrote:
> > Is there a good Linux counterpart to MS Access?
>
> Yes, anything is better than Access, even Excel.
>
> Go check out mysql...
The nice thing about Access is it doesn't
Google's becoming evil.
Not only have they screwed up groups layout, showing a few columns of
text and leaving a big space for ads, now they're pimping their own
group namespace beside usenet.
It's horrible.
Is there any other usenet archive?
I'm getting sick of the things Google's doing (put
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 03:08:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I was wondering the same thing as I was driving around today. Seems
> like (from firsthand experience) a great way to lose a lot of data if
> the slightest thing goes wrong...
You wouldn't use it for a 3-tiered or web app or anythi
When I install openoffice.org-gtk-gnome OpenOffice looks exactly the
same. I've tried googling "vclplug" or seeing how to enable them,
but no luck.
How do you use this feature?
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 04:12:22PM -0800, Mr. Jan Hearthstone wrote:
> =
Use the proper syntax for signatures:
"-- " on a line by itself.
I don't want to read the crap in your signature block.
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On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 07:00:57PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> school district). That being said, they threw the kid that wrote Code
> Red in jail, let's do something about those Access bastards.
We were talking about Access clones, not Access. But Access does
relational integrity.
Funny stor
On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 09:47:42PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> Thus, an Access replacement should do all those things, but w/o
> being buggy. Certainly you could have figured that out
Since my data is stored in XML, I can do everything and more I can do
with Access queries and reports using xslt
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 12:54:47AM -0600, John Foster wrote:
> systems. It does provide online downloads for many different types of
> financial institutions and of course for banks. If for some reason your bank
Wow, that's slick. MSMoney 2005 is the first version that does automatic
integratio
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 02:14:45PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> Does anyone know why we might be missing this and/or what the most
> reasonable way to remedy the problem is?
Have you installed alsa-source?
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 03:39:42PM -0500, Christian Convey wrote:
> Then I ran "make install", then "depmod", and rebooted (just in case -
In Debian you shouldn't run "make install."
Use make-kpkg to build your kernel and modules, then
install with dpkg.
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Currently when I need to pass a password to a script I log into sash
first since it doesn't keep history.
Is there a better way to read a username password into a shell variable?
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On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:16:31PM -0600, Jacob S wrote:
> I would check running processes, but they know the power of Linux and
> always leave it logged in while they're gone, with a couple dozen
I'm interested to learn the technical solutions to this, such as forcing
a console logout via ssh, b
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 03:05:56PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-12-07 at 14:12 -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote:
> > If I get the point, aptitude can do it for you.
> >
> > aptitude remove kdegames
> >
> > will remove all dependent packages
> >
> > I once used apt-get to remove kde, but all
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:42:45PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
> What resource(s) would you recommend to someone who's new to GUI programming
> and would like to learn GTK+ development under Debian Woody/Sarge? I've
> messed around with Motif and Xlib in the past on HP-UX and Solaris, but GTK+
>
On Wed, Dec 08, 2004 at 04:54:49PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote:
> And if you are interested even Microsoft themselves don't use visual. The
> whole
> tool chain for windows is command line (I think it is proprietary though).
I worked there. They use the Microsoft C++ compiler, a whole bunch of
pe
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:24:49PM -0800, Eric Gaumer wrote:
> Does anybody know the easiest way to change the email address I
> subscribed to the list with?
$grep subs ~/.muttrc
subscribe debian-user debian-devel debian-qa debian-gtk-gnome
debian-curiosa debian-announce debian-devel-announce deb
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 12:29:58AM +, Al Lelopath wrote:
> I am considering installing Debian 3.0 r3 "Woody".
Woody is very old. Sarge is about ready. I guess in the spring.
> I use Eclipse (3.1M2), MySQL4.1 (and administrator and query browser),
> PHP5, and Java1.4.x to develop applicatio
On Sat, Dec 11, 2004 at 09:39:51AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> The kernel is the core of the operating system. The operating system is
> composed of the kernel and any utilities that ride on top of that
> kernel. Debian/GNU Linux is a GNU operating system using the Linux kernel.
Today's CPUs are a
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:32:24PM +, Al Lelopath wrote:
> So if i go to a mirror, e.g.
> http://ftp.ndlug.nd.edu/mirrors/debian-cd/i386/
>
> how do i tell if this is woody or sarge?
That's Woody: 3.0 (Revision 2)
Sarge is 3.1.
http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/
They really need
On Sun, Dec 12, 2004 at 06:58:25PM -0600, Rodney Gordon II wrote:
> I've been looking for a Debian-based live-cd with LVM2 support for a
> long time, Gnoppix, Knoppix, etc.. all do not support LVM2 volumes.
>
> Feeling left out in the dark here.. anyone know of one that does?
I haven't used it, b
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:32:17PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Is there a list of Open Source jre / sdk / j2ee equivalents available for
> Debian somewhere?
Although there are now a good many free JVMs in Debian Main now, I have
been utterly unsuccessful at getting Eclipse to be happy with
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 07:44:45PM +, Dalibor Topic wrote:
> William Ballard alltel.net> writes:
> > It's really scandalous. One Day there will be a free JVM and all will
> > rejoice, but that day is not today.
>
> You're cordially invited to help fix t
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 05:31:18PM -0600, Michael Madden wrote:
> unneeded utilities. Does anyone know of an active
> floppy based firewall (Linux or *BSD)?
No. Use an old laptop with a hard drive, and two PCMCIA net cards.
Take one floppy. Put the OpenBSD install image on it.
Install OpenBSD vi
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 05:47:42PM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> anyone have suggestions for an xml viewer? I get losti n xml very
mozilla
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8.6.35.2 at
http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/ch-tips.en.html#s-chroot
recommends using login to chroot because otherwise "lots of
environment varibles" are left around and has "other issues."
I don't want to switch to a different TTY to mess with my chroot.
I want to use it in an X-Term
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:45:16PM -0500, Xinjiang Lu wrote:
> Recently, every time when I upgrade or install a package on a sarge box,
> an annoying message always pops up:
>
> ** (process:9094): CRITICAL **: file eggdesktopentries.c: line 2223
> (egg_desktop_entries_add_group): assertion
> `e
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:48:20PM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Just out of curiousity, when was it published? I was under the
> impression that most accepted serious biblical commentaries were
> written long ago enough that they had passed into the public
> domain.
In the 1950s. I don't know
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:13:18AM +0200, ocl wrote:
> This opinion of mine will be valid (AFAIC) until
>
> a) there is a way to authenticate these PnP devices
>
> b) someone comes up a workable solution that enables per-user
>authorization for these PnP devices [in a single-sign-on
>envi
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 09:39:36PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> >>The one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even
> >>close to in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package
> >>packaged only for Windows.
All the "Sword Data" is released under GPL:
http://www.cros
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> Again, this is not "all the scholarly Bible Research there is" --
> this is "All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there is."
Yeah, the more I look at this, the more I realize that both are
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:32:33AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> http://www.anova.org/sev/
> (The Koran will be up there "in a while" -- too)
I don't know what to make of the link at the bottom of the page:
http://www.anova.org/software/
which goes on to talk about Wind
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:02:39AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> http://www.anova.org/software/
This is just bizarre. "Zaine Ridling, Ph.D." is listed as the "editor"
in the PDF file. This same twit who put together this list of his
favorite Closed Source applica
Aparenty Zaine is Kibo or something. All his screenshots are of porn.
The mystery evolves:
The Revised Standard Version is not distributed with any Linux software,
or Windows Freeware, but the Oxford text is available from Oxford at:
http://ota.ahds.ac.uk/textinfo/1061.html
and in another form
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 02:43:34AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> but apparently Mr. "I Love Windows, Porn, and the Bible" Zaine is the
> only person who has the Oxford commentaries (the stuff at the start of
> each Book of the Bible).
The National Coalition of Churches,
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:37:52AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
> *plonk*
*plonk* right back atcha. I put OT in the subject. Stop grandstanding.
I'm done anyway.
It's interesting why this version of the Bible isn't distributed in
Debian and Freeware software. Don't be a dick.
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On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 04:52:29PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> By its very operation it writes only the latest, yes?
Yes, that's a built-in feature that comes for free,
and is the real magic. The rest is incidental.
>
> Then what exactly are those last 2 steps you mention?
I've posted these
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 11:08:25PM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> /var/lib/cache into /home/httpd/local-deb-mirror ?
I looked at apt-move but I didn't want a http based mirror.
I access my via file protocol.
My scripts are a
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 07:37:37PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> > /a/o/YYMMDD_HHNNSS/*.deb - the debs which were replaced at
>
> okay... i'm confused ... what does each subdir dor ??
Facilitates rollback, similar to snapshot.debian.net.
It goes like this:
apt-get update
aptitude upgrade
/a/u <--- s
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:24:51PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> and your L*.gz files are for your own "time stamping"
> and status checking ?
Something like that. It's just a flat list of the *.deb files in the
mirror /a/l, that's why it's called L*.gz ("list").
It's so I can tell what
I'll say Sarge on April 1st, 2005. Takers?
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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 :-)
I second this. There is also "display" from imagemagick. qiv loads
more quickly; but I think
In SQL you join tables. If it's indexed it's fast.
Can you do this using text files from the prompt?
Example:
I'd like to investigate the most popular RSS readers Debian offers.
$apt-cache search rss | cut -d' ' -f1 > rss.txt
$wget http://popcon.debian.org/main/by_vote.gz
I'd like to "filter" b
You can specify "tail -n+5" to output "all but the first 5 lines".
But "head" has no such option to output "all but the last N lines."
I could use "wc" to count the lines first, but that's less efficient
than a simple adapter that buffers at least N lines before outputing.
Is there a tool for me
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 07:45:50PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I will be out of the office starting Monday, December 20 and will
> return on Tuesday, January 4. I will not be checking email regularly
> during this time.
>
> Have a great holiday break!
This is going to get old extremely
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 08:51:46PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote:
> Perhaps you missed this from the head man page:
Okay, this is the dumbest thing I've done all month. Thanks!
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Sarge installs ipchains by default.
Nothing that depends on ipchains is installed by default.
I don't use ipchains. I use less.
Can we have less in the base install and not ipchains?
I use OpenBSD as my firewall.
I think it's fair for people who want to use this non-essential
feature of the ke
I have Audigy2. I've done no special twiddling. I use Kernel 2.6.9
with built in Alsa.
Part of the output of "amixer" is:
Simple mixer control 'Master',0
Capabilities: pvolume pvolume-joined
Playback channels: Mono
Limits: Playback 0 - 100
Mono: Playback 50 [50%]
I use commands like "a
I've run "debootstrap sid" (it spewed an ungodly number of warnings and
failed to configure many packages, but it essentially worked) and I can
chroot into it.
Now what? Is there a way to run the rest of debian-installer inside of
it to finish properly configuring the system?
The ultimate goa
On Mon, Dec 13, 2004 at 11:31:05PM -0500, Bruce Park wrote:
> By the way, what is up with all these broken up things in GNOME. Eversince
> I did an upgrade, it's been a nightmare when it comes to small things like
> this. I really like Debian but it seems like I'm spendin a lot more time
> tryin
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 04:51:28PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote:
> This unfortunately doesn't seem to tell you where in the menu hierarchy
> something will appear, but all the descriptions are there.
clever grepping of the .config file will help you see things near it and
help you zone in. you have
On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 01:45:35PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
> You do know you can turn on Classic view in that case, right? Usually
> the first thing I change when I'm stuck having to use a login on a
> windows box (increasingly rare).
Disable the Themes service.
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On Wed, Dec 15, 2004 at 06:19:31PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> I have almost completely gone away from Windows for my desktop OS. The
> one program I have found so far that I can't find anything even close to
> in a Debian package is e-Sword, a Bible study package packaged only for
> Wind
Boy, BootCD is one superslick package. Used it with a debootstrap
chroot. It just works, seriously.
I might finally be able to give my friends and family a LiveCD that will
entice them to switch. A Kernel that works just for them, Fluxbox,
Firefox, MPlayer, Java, OpenOffice, Eclipse, all gus
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:14:29AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 01:06:20AM -0500, William Ballard wrote:
> > Again, this is not "all the scholarly Bible Research there is" --
> > this is "All the Public Domain scholarly Bible Reserach there
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:56:53AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
> True, but fitting it on one CD seems a problem with an existing system.
> I am going to try building one from scratch to keep watch on the size.
I keep a local mirror of all the .debs I have installed.
I have a script that moves /v
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 01:17:43AM -0400, Shaikh Quader wrote:
> Did anyone know a good dvd player program that can play DVD/ .VOB extension?
> I tried with several players that come with Debian Sarge installation.
> But none of them are good for that.
google "mplayer+debian" to find pre-built mpl
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 02:44:50PM +0800, Enrico Zini wrote:
> Does someone know of work-arounds to this with Thunderbird or Evolution?
If nothing else, use a compressed file system and gzip your archives.
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On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 12:51:11PM +0100, Bob Alexander wrote:
> In my neverending tweaking of the system I would like to setup a backup
> cron job which would not only (possibly incrementally) save the files or
> directories I indicate, but for /etc and /home would keep the revisions
> of the f
Could someone please translate a few sentences of German for me?
http://tinyurl.com/6245d (gzipped svg file, 236k)
http://tinyurl.com/6ksdr (png, 625k)
I think it says he had an operation in Frankfurt in Novemember and
had four weeks recovery.
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 12:40:42PM +0800, Lian Liming wrote:
> Hi all,
> I just receive a file from my friend in Microsoft Access database
> file format. Since there is just debian linux on my box, i wonder if
> there is any linux tool that can correctly open that file?
mdbtools
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On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 02:24:38PM -0600, Eric Scott wrote:
> What I want to know is if I can plug in the x86 disks and install
> software from them, so I don't have to spend all day downloading stuff
> for the Mac. So: Are .deb packages arch independant? I gather so, just
Um, hell no. Sourc
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 04:32:25PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> advances. Pretty much all the "Live CD" distros (Knoppix, Mepis,
> Gnoppix, LNX-BBC, Damn Small Linux, etc.) automatically detect hardware
> and configure themselves to it, booting to a desktop or command prompt
> in a couple of mi
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:31:33PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
>For every anecdotal story of some hardware not being detected you'd have
> to conceed at least as many, if not more, anectodal stories of hardware
> that would be detected and configured.
Fat lot of good that did me when I took Kno
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:54:18PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> William Ballard wrote:
> >Fat lot of good that did me when I took Knoppix on two representative
> >computers and it didn't work.
>
> So? What's your point exactly aside from bitching to bitch
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 07:10:56PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote:
> of Knoppix and other live CD Debian derivatives are that they are better
> than Debian at detecting and configuring things and that if they can detect
> and configure themselves to some piece of hardware it should be possible
> for a
Bootcd allows you to use the NOT_TO_RAM option to make files
physically reside on the CD and only be symlinked into the Ram disk.
I wrote a script which adds every file in /etc to NOT_TO_RAM, needing
to conserve space in the Ram Disk. The theory is if I need to change
settings in the liveCD I'll
I'm aware that a "text" frontend for DebConf is available, where one can
simply provide keystrokes to DebConf on stdin.
Is there a frontend that informs me "which" package is being configured,
and lets me decide what answers to provide based on that?
Otherwise my scripts are brittle and break i
Helping a friend debug a PHP error on a hosted site.
A certain operation (building a large PDF) causes an Error 500.
Running same operation offline doesn't throw error.
A larger PDF (running different code) succeeds.
How can I debug this error?
I can't find wherever the hosting provider hid apache
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 12:36:04PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
> On Mon, 20 Dec 2004, William Ballard wrote:
> > What other files need to be writeable?
>
> most everything under /var/log /var/spool /var/run /var/tmp
My bad. I should have said "what other files in /etc
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
Keep a windows PC up with google.
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 09:27:58PM +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 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 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
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
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
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
> 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 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 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 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 11:19:13PM -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
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