Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: (Appologies to Patrick, to whom I accidentally sent this, instead of to the list.) * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hi, A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
P. Johnson wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment, and ice never has any positive connotations either. Eagles may fly, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines. Ice in those engines, however, could be a big problem. -- Marc

Re: Petition about the Firefox trademark problem

2006-10-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Lamb wrote: Hans du Plooy wrote: Calling someone a weasel has never been a compliment *covers his ferrets eyes* Hey, there's children present! Sheesh, some people. My 5 year old daughter always likes to see the weasles when we are in a pet store. -- Marc Shapiro

How to access PrimaScan Colorado 2400p scanner?

2006-10-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
to connect it directly to the desktop box and not have to copy stuff, especially since the laptop is old and does NOT have an ethernet port. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom

Re: Debian /etc/apt/sources.list

2006-10-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
again, and lshold to list currently held packages. This way I don't have to use aptitude, or mess about with 'pinning' files. I like those. Thanks a lot. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Where is this font?

2006-10-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
on my system. Does anyone know where to find them, or how to get around this problem? I have tried an apt-cache search, but can not seem to locate them. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Re: Printing the date just before execution of commands in bash

2006-10-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

(FIXED) Re: startx question -- Etch Xorg vs Sarge and XFree86

2006-10-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 05 Oct 2006 10:29:33 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am currently running Sarge with XFree86. I have done a chroot install of Etch with Xorg. When I boot into Sarge I run X with the command: startx -- :1.0 vt07 (through an alias) and my wife

startx question -- Etch Xorg vs Sarge and XFree86

2006-10-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
with Sarge and XFree86. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: [Way OT] Re: Not a query, but an observation.

2006-10-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
) doesn't fly here (much like pigs). I like the idea. Microsoft is 'lo kasher' (non kosher). BTW there are many things, other than pigs, which are not kosher, but that would be getting even farther off topic. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: (end of) Development and documentation in Debian

2006-10-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
version of the software. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: capturing terminal scrollback buffer?

2006-10-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
the way to the bottom, then paste with a middle-click. This gets the entire buffer in a single opperation, instead of two. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later

Re: NTP Daemon

2006-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
and monitoring program. An administrator can use this to fine-tune various parameters within the daemon, add or delete servers etc whilst the daemon is running. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around

Re: Bluefish docs? (WAS: Re: Debian apps for CSS editing)

2006-09-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bud Rogers wrote: On Thursday 28 September 2006 16:59, Marc Shapiro wrote: I decided to take a look at bluefish, but, after installing it, I can not find the docs for it. The manpage is just a single page saying that it was created for Debian since there was no upstream manpage

Bluefish docs? (WAS: Re: Debian apps for CSS editing)

2006-09-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
be a manual in the /doc subdirectory, but I can not find such a subdirectory, or manual. Is this one of those instances where the developers decided that it was OK to have the app in Debian, but that the docs were not acceptable? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always

Re: Debian 2.4.3

2006-09-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
: Ive searched around to no avail but Im actually interested in getting an i386 copy of Debian 2.4.3. No such version exists. Michael -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around

Oracle Express Edition licensing (WAS: Re: Driver ODBC for Oracle)

2006-09-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
free). Doe the Express Edition limit itself to 1 GB, or do I need to do something to limit it, or how do I assure compliance with number 4? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom

Re: still in search of a good news reader

2006-09-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
that. Tin for usenet and Pine for mail. Did that for at least a year, or two. This is why I still use pico for a lot of my text editing. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom

Re: good personal information manager

2006-09-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
, but it does what I need it to do, and it does not require any KDE, or GNOME libs to do it. HTH -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova

Re: SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bill Smith wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: So, SATA drives will 'just work' with a 2.6.x kernel? I am running testing here on a 200G sata drive on an Asus P5P800 no problems at all, though strangely grub would not install, but lilo did, so it is fine. It is an Intel ICH5 controller. Thanks

SATA Drives and 2.6.x (WAS: Re: 2.6.16-2-686 not booting: Waiting for root filesystem)

2006-09-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
' with a 2.6.x kernel? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: ls sort order

2006-09-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
files being interspersed with ordinary files when doing 'ls -all'. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Help with screen artifacts after MB upgrade.

2006-09-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Can anyone point me to the correct info for this? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: No sound for non-root users

2006-09-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
... The reason that sound came back only after the reboot is that adding a user to a group does not take effect until you exit the user and logon again. Rebooting took care of that. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Horrible mouse problems under Sid with 2.6.17, latest xorg

2006-09-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
, but the last time I had the exact same problem, replacing my mouse with a new $5 optical mouse solved the problem for me (if config changes dont work, of course). Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

AMD 64 Dual Core questions

2006-09-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
this for a maximum of a 2 week loan. Then she wants it back! So I need to find something soon and it needs to be as inexpensive as I can make it. Thank you for any help, or pointers. Marc Shapiro

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
install something that requires such libs, if I decide to remove it, I know that the libs will go away with the package. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Clive Menzies wrote: On (30/08/06 08:27), Marc Shapiro wrote: Ah! Another straight fvwm user. I have been devising plans to completely rid myself of the last vestiges of gnome and KDE (neither of which I ever used) that remain on my system. I finally decided that the best way was to do

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
? The last time that I tried it, it did not, but I got the impression that it might, at some point down the line. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom

Re: Email programs that work.

2006-08-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
. I don't want Google, or anyone else for that matter, storing my documents. I'll keep them on my own disk, Thank you, very much. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner

OpenOffice crashing in Sarge

2006-08-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
the solution had been to remove (or rename) my .openoffice.org2 directory and let OOo rebuild a new one. I just tried that, now, but the problem remains. Does anyone have a fix for the problem this time? Is this going to happen every time that OOo is upgraded? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today

Questions about Etch in chroot.

2006-08-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
and tested, or can I actually do this from the chroot (as I would prefer). -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: Questions about Etch in chroot.

2006-08-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Dwerryhouse wrote: On Sat, Aug 26, 2006 at 12:34:53PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: 1) I have noticed that some commands, like 'uptime', do nothing in the chroot. No errors, just no output. Try mounting /proc within the chroot: mount /proc /proc -t proc That will get a number

OT: Cats (WAS:Re: An elementary question about execution permissions)

2006-08-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
with keyboard support) Our cats have never shut down the computer, but they have started programs and attempted to send e-mail. (I also use fvwm, BTW.) I usually move to a blank window and then shut the monitor off. We have at least one cat that is fascinated by the mouse pointer. -- Marc

Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
development files for libpq (PostgreSQL libr ii postgresql-doc 7.4.7-6sarge2 documentation for the PostgreSQL database ma Have you looked at backports.org? Apparently 8.0 had some security issues, but the home page says that they have 8.1 up and available. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom

Install Etch from Sarge with debootstrap question

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
to Etch so that I will have a clean system without any leftovers from Sarge, or earlier. My current system has been built through a running upgrade since Bo (IIRC). -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Re: Re: Install Etch from Sarge with debootstrap question

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
On Thu, 24 Aug 2006 15:34:59 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Aug 24, 2006 at 11:37:33AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am currently running Sarge and want to install Etch, using debootstrap, so I can play around with it while I still have Sarge to fall back on. I have set up

Re: PostgreSQL 8 debs on Debian 3.1r2

2006-08-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
install postgresql -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
? If so, then we now know who to blame. If not, then don't make comments like that about other countries and their citizens! -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later

Re: Hey, Steve! (WAS: Re: Pumping Gas in Oregon)

2006-08-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: But I DO know that blaiming EVERY INDIVIDUAL Brazilian for the mess that YOU feel exits in their country's networks is just a bunch of BUNK! Are YOU responsible for everything that U.S. polititians in Washington (D.C., not state) say? Are YOU

Pumping Gas in Oregon (WAS: Re: Osama Bin Laden Take Over List!)

2006-08-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
self pumping customers. The total number of spills, from either, sources, is rather low. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
M-L wrote: On Wednesday 16 August 2006 03:11, José Alburquerque shared this with us all: -- M-L wrote: -- -- On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: -- -- -- This tells me where the printer is, but I still do not know how to tell -- CUPS where it is. Do I put the full URI

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
M-L wrote: On Tuesday 15 August 2006 16:41, Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: José Alburquerque wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet

How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500 (was: Re: Using udev as-is and device URI)

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
be a really handy thing. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to check ink level on HP Deskjet 5500

2006-08-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
José Alburquerque wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 03:13:46PM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: Is there a utility to check ink levels on HP Deskjet series printers? I looked through the djtools manpage, and, while there is some interesting stuff there, I do not see

MP3 resampling

2006-08-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
.? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?

2006-07-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
a rendering difference significant enough to warrant opening another browser. I had tried Seamonkey when it first came out. I don't remember, now, why I decided that I still preferred Firefox. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: Mozilla or firefox package-what is the difference?

2006-07-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matej Cepl wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I am working on removing the last vestiges of KDE from my box, which will eliminate Konqueror, as well. Just curious (really -- no flame intended), why do you switch from KDE and where (Gnome?)? Actually, I use fvwm2. I have never really

Re: Thunderbird mail opens links in email in a new mozilla window

2006-07-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
in. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
' class which ran FOCAL on a DEC PDP 11/15. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Debian on i486

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
. The box I had it on only had 12MB, but it was originally installed with Bo, IIRC, and just upgraded from there. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom

Re: Debian Support for IBM xSeries 360

2006-07-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
notes for a term paper on that stuff and when I printed out the term paper I got more of the stuff. (Can you tell that I was a broke college student?) -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around

Re: sun-java5-jre installed but not recognized

2006-07-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
it there and is an option to select in enabling java, along with the default installed? 1.4.2. Mine is in '/usr/lib/j2sdk1.5-sun/jre/' and OOo is happy with it there. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn

Re: OOo check and radio buttons

2006-07-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
have not done the upgrade, yet, so I have a question. I do not run either KDE, or Gnome. Is this going to be a problem for me? Do I need to install packages for a DE that I don't even run? Or should I wait until they fix this before upgrading? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow

Getting help from within boa-constructor

2006-06-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
in it? Any help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Getting help from within boa-constructor

2006-06-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jun 26, 2006 at 01:01:13AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I have just installed boa-constructor and it seems to be running OK. There are three buttons on the Palette Toolbar for help -- One for help on boa-constructor (which works just fine), one for help

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
not going to change it all back, now that I have the backports version working, however. Besides, now I can probably get rid of those last vestiges of KDE. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Re: OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-22 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Wed, 21 Jun 2006 17:28:59 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: but it said that openoffice.org-core conflicted with openoffice.org-help-en. I removed the help package from the list and the install went just fine, except... I have no help files

OOo2 from backports questions

2006-06-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Except for appletviewer, these tools do not provide a graphical user interface. . This package has been automatically created with java-package (0.24). -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
(), instead of time_total(0). -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Digby Tarvin wrote: On Wed, Jun 14, 2006 at 11:19:08AM -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I am writing a program using pygame to play musical sound cues. I need a way to determine the play length of a sound file. I can get the length of .mp3 files with python-pymad. I have also installed

Re: How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael Marsh wrote: On 6/15/06, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Digby Tarvin wrote: I would take a look at the source for the 'ogginfo' command, or if performance is not important, just parse its output: I am hoping for a pure python method of doing this, so parsing the output

How to find play length of .ogg file using python?

2006-06-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
not have to download C source code and plow through that. Is there a list of the attributes for this object, somewhere? Can anyone give me an easy way to find the play length of an .ogg file, or point me to where the documentation exists. TIA -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow

MP3 encoding?

2006-06-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
package that can handle this conversion? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

(SOLVED?) Re: MP3 encoding?

2006-06-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Sox says that it can handle .mp3, but when I try to convert a file to .mp3 I get the following error: sox: Sorry, no MP3 encoding support Am I missing something? Does it only decode .mp3 and not encode them? Is there some way to get sox to handle .mp3 encoding

Re: (SOLVED?) Re: MP3 encoding?

2006-06-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun June 11 2006 12:29 am, Marc Shapiro wrote: Well, lame does a conversion and does not give me any errors. I can play the file with 'play' from sox, and sox will take it as input to another conversion, so it seems good (and suggests that sox does do decoding

apt, dpkg and dependancies

2006-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
to remove OOo-base. I don't want to remove OOo-base. I want apt to know that the dependancy is filled. How do I do that? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later

Re: (Solved, I think) apt, dpkg and dependancies

2006-06-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been trying to install OOo2 on Sarge from backports.org but OOo-base insists that it wants j2re1.4 | java-gcj-compat | java2-runtime, none of which are in Sarge, or backports. I have the j2re1.4 and jdk1.5 from Sun installed, so I installed the package with 'dpkg

switching OOo2 from upstream to backports

2006-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
show openoffice.org I get both the 2.0 version from backports and the standard 1.1.3 version from Sarge. Do I need to do anything special to insure that I get the backports version, or will its higher version number automatically insure that I get it? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom

Re: switching OOo2 from upstream to backports

2006-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have OpenOfice.org 2.0 installed from the packages on the OOo site. I am thinking of switching to the packages on backports (I am running Sarge) since they do not depend on anything from KDE (I am told) and I am trying to eliminate all of Gnome and KDE from my system

More Details about OOo install from backports (WAS:Re: switching OOo2 from upstream to backports)

2006-06-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Is the backport for OOo broken? Is there a problem with openoffice.org-base? I just did: apt-get -u -t sarge-backports install openoffice.org and got the following results: Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sat, 03 Jun 2006 16:37:39 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [SNIP] It does not explain, however, why removing that package does not want to remove thye rest of OOo if it does, indeed, intertwine with everything else. The package was generated using

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
(151) than there were in the old tree (18), so I am guessing that this was probably the source of that problem. It does not explain, however, why removing that package does not want to remove thye rest of OOo if it does, indeed, intertwine with everything else. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant on kdelibs4, which is, of couse, dependant on libarts1. I have OpenOffice 2 installed from the tarball at openoffice.org

Re: What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 02 Jun 2006 08:53:22 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:10:11 -0700 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apt-cache depends shows openoffice.org-core04u as being dependant on kdelibs4, which

Re: Debian Installation ISO DVD Image Files

2006-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Frequently from more than one person, and frequently multiple request from each. If you feel the need to receive receipt confirmations from your regular correspondence at least turn it off when sending to a list. Please. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom

What is in openoffice.org-core04u?

2006-06-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
? I have Googled the file, but have not found anything that seemed useful. Any help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
what is causing the delay, but it does not seem to have resolved itself, yet. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
. murphy (the machine that handes lists.debian.org) has been listed by SpamCop. Not as of 12:11 AM (PDT). I just checked Murphy's ip at SpamCop and the result was: 70.103.162.31 not listed in bl.spamcop.net -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom

Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
seem that gconf and gconf2 are the only things keeping all of these libs around. Can I let apt remove all of this? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom

deborphan defaults?

2006-05-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
a tarball and not by debian package management tools will not prevent a package from being shown as an orphan, but I rarely install non debian packages, so... Can I reasonably assume that it is safe to uninstall these packages? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom

Re: [OT] Re: Problem with T-bird (was Re: Mail Issues (pt 2 ))

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
to spice things up a little...) If I need a console based MUA, I use pine, so, of course, pico is my editor of choice. No extra quirks there, except typing cntl-x when I want to exit from kate. Come to think of it, kate is not too happy with cntl-k and cntl-u, either. -- Marc Shapiro No boom

Re: dhcp, router and debian

2006-05-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
all the time, or, at least power it up a minute or so before powering the system on? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: sx audio stream only for windows??

2006-05-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
ii xine-ui0.99.3-1 the xine video player, user interface $ dpkg -l | grep codec ii libxvidcore4 1.1.0-beta2+cv High quality ISO MPEG4 codec library ii w32codecs 20050412-0.4 win32 binary codecs -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow

(Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
, and I just noticed it, or if something has caused this to revert, somehow. Can anyone tell me where this is set so that I can correct this? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom

Re: (Slightly OT) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Matthias Julius wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Is the mail client responsible for setting the time on outgoing mail? I am running Sarge, with exim 3.36-16 and Thunderbird 1.0.2. I used to live on the east coast (of the US) and am now living on the west coast (3 TZs later

Re: (Slightly OT) (SOLVED) TZ settings for outgoing mail?

2006-05-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Matthias Julius wrote: Take a look at http://kb.mozillazine.org/Time_and_time_zone_settings This says that the TZ can be checked from the javascript console, but that it must be changed through the OS. The problem

Re: audio cd

2006-05-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
Henrique G. Abreu wrote: I can't mount an audio cd that runs on a diskman can any one help? You don't mount audio CDs. They have no filesystem. You just play them with your media player of choice. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: Firefox SPAM filtering (Observation)

2006-04-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
the rest of my e-mail into seperate folders, so it runs only against what I have not already picked out as being good. Works like a charm! -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom

Backports: Questions about OO.o 2.0

2006-04-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
the upgrade from backports and remove the non-deb version. But I don't want to do this if I am going to lose any functionality. Can anyone who is using the backports version comment on its completeness and functionality, especially as compared to the version from the OO.o web-site? -- Marc Shapiro

Beaverton Linux Group (WAS: Re: Fortune file!)

2006-04-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Michael M. wrote: Beaverton: http://www.bluegroup.org/ (link is dead, at least for me, but I'm pretty sure the group is still active) This site didn't work before, but it is, now. - Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
that, according to you, hampers her freedom? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Doofus wrote: That was four questions. But Passover was last week :-) -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective around here. Boom. Sooner or later ... boom! - Susan Ivanova: B5 - Grail

Re: Upgrading from Stable to Testing...

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
. This will leave you with a somewhat mixed distro box, which is potentially troublesome. If you do a 'dist-upgrade' it will get everything, INCLUDING new packages and deleting obsolete and renamed packages. HTH -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: Fortune file!

2006-04-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
in Aloha, only about 3 miles from the 'center of the universe'. I frequently pass within site of OSDL when I am out shopping. I wonder how many of us on this list are in the immediate local? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's

Re: QT Designer errors (SOLVED)

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jan Schledermann wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Jan Schledermann wrote: Those headers should reside in /usr/include/qt3, in a standard debian install. snip the program compiled without error, but... Can anyone tell me what I need to set in Designer so that it will use libqt

Re: time incremented one hour with every boot.

2006-04-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
offer a beer or a coffee if you stop doing so... just a joke... ok that wasn't funny... :) So, for the lack of humor, you owe all of us a beer, or coffee (our choice). ;-) -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some

QT Designer errors

2006-04-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
have looked for a package containing either of these files with dpkg -S, also with no luck. Does anyone know what I am missing? What have I done wrong? Is this a bug that should be reported? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look

Re: QT Designer errors

2006-04-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
tell me what I need to set in Designer so that it will use libqt-mt automatically, for all compiles, so that I don't have to remember to manually change Makefile each time? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some

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