Re: HP Lightscribe and Etch

2006-04-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
, eroaster, gcdw, k3b, nautilus-cd-burner and xcdroast. Oli I believe (correct me if I'm wrong, Simon) that the OP is referring to the ability of the Lightscribe to print it's own lable directly on the reverse side of the DVD/CD. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always

Re: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
of those that do not display it. -- 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: ATTN: Barbara Oncay

2006-04-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I'm using Firefox and the unsub messages shows up at the bottom of some posts, but not others. It is in the raw message text of those that do not display it. Sorry, that should be Thunderbird, not Firefox. Standard Debian Package 1.0.2 in Sarge. -- Marc Shapiro

Re: Running 2 versions of Debian?

2006-04-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
, or Sid, while keeping the safety of Sarge. I have never used chroot. Could you point me to a HOWTO, or tutorial that would tell me how to set this up? -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Re: PHP security issues? (Thanks)

2006-04-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
David Clymer wrote: On Sat, 2006-04-08 at 21:34 -0700, Marc Shapiro wrote: I recently installed php4 (4.3.10-16) since I am about to bite the bullet and pay for hosting of my web-site and the hosting service (11.com) only allows php3, php4, or php5 with its least expensive service. I am

Re: how do I upgrade while I sleep?

2006-04-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
will still have to answer all of the questions, but you will know what is happening -- 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

PHP security issues?

2006-04-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
be. I keep seeing posts, however, about security issues with badly written php scripts. Can someone point me to some info explaining what the security issues are so that I don't end up writing scripts that will be a security risk. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always

Re: dune2 on debian

2006-04-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
dosbox I got four out of five working and the one that doesn't work is one that she is not worried about. This will help 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 around here. Boom. Sooner

Re: Upgraded to FVWM 2.5 and I need help.

2006-04-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
) VNC viewer does not work with fvwm 2.5. Is there a known work around. I don't use VNC, so I can't add anything 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

Re: kernels: i386 vs optimized

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
with an Athlon K7 2400+ and 1.25 GB of memory and I am still quite happy with fvwm. -- 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: טכנאי מחשבים בח ינם

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
במחירי סיטונאי!! שדרוג מחשבים וחלקי מחשב. -הקמת רשתות אלחוטיות ,ביתיות ושיתוף מדפסות . -חיבור לאינטרנט במחירים הזולים מכולם כולל התקנה ושירות ! התקשרו עכשיו לייעוץ חינם!!! אם לא תתקשרו לא תבינו כמה הפסדתם!!! 077-6633677 שירות כלל ארצי www.compix.co.il -- Marc Shapiro No boom today

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
use linux? Why do YOU bother with this list? I ask because the ongoing theme in your post (the ones that I have read) seems to suggest that you really don't LIKE linux all that much, or the people who voluntarily help other people with their linux questions. -- Marc Shapiro No boom today

Re: Install sid NVU package on Sarge system

2006-04-04 Thread Marc Shapiro
. If there IS a new file and if it decompreses into a directory other than nvu-1.0 then you would need to use the actual directory name in th ln command. HTH -- Marc Shapiro No boom today. Boom tomorrow. There's always a boom tomorrow. What?! Look, somebody's got to have some damn perspective

Re: macromedia flash plugin for firefox?

2006-04-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
also unable to type in my zip-code under the 'Build and Price Your Toyota' option. This goes for both Firefox 1.0.4 and Opera 8.52. -- 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

Re: How do you grow a pineapple in non tropical areas?

2006-04-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
now and then. This series of threads has done better than almost anything else at making me smile for the past 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

Re: ssh and X forwarding

2006-03-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
to initiate X when I need it. -- 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

Firefox SPAM filtering (Observation)

2006-03-27 Thread Marc Shapiro
in. Only 1 was uncaught. 26 were marked by Yahoo, but only 20 of them were caught by Thunderbirds internal filters. I think that this rule is staying 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

Re: dyndns and webserver

2006-03-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
Westell DSL Modem/Router the option seems to be found under Configuration/Service Configuration. -- 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: Old mail - how to get access

2006-03-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
Paul Scott wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: That sound like maildir folders, as opposed to mbox. Does Thunderbird handle maildir? Maybe my description wasn't complete enough but I am talking about mbox which I believe is what Netscape and Mozilla have always used. My first sentence says

Re: Old mail - how to get access

2006-03-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
. With other mail clients similar things are possible. That sound like maildir folders, as opposed to mbox. Does Thunderbird handle maildir? -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: users getting confused between mailing lists and forums?

2006-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
mind. However you can get the best answers to your questions is OK by me. BTW, I didn't see any confusion in the two postings. Now, posting in one place and expecting an answer in the other -- that would be confusion. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Poster to this lists email address not obfuscated? If so it makes this list a heaven for spam bots...:-(

2006-03-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
addresses in the archives are unobfuscated, and, yes, the spam-bots do harvest there. I will leave it to others to explain the rationale behind this methodology. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to restore /bin?

2006-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
| grep ^/bin You will see that this package, alone, provides 14 files in /bin. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to restore /bin?

2006-03-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
| grep ^/bin You will see that this package, alone, provides 14 files in /bin. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Files piling up in /var/* directories

2006-03-11 Thread Marc Shapiro
of the script, please let me know. I don't currently have a public ftp site, but I could put a link to it somewhere on my website and you could get it from there. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Release cycle

2006-03-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
of Toy Story character names. What do we do when there are no more characters left? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Generate thumbnails

2006-03-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
will fit in a 130x130px box regardless of its original size and orientation. My 400x600 original picture is resized to 87x130. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Gecko crashing?

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
thing happens with mozilla suite 1.7.8-1sarge3. Seamonkey 1.0, which was installed from the mozilla site, however, does NOT seem to have this problem. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Gecko crashing? (further info)

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error. This probably reflects

Re: Gecko crashing? (further info)

2006-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Marty wrote: http://www.wunderground.com/US/CA/San_Jose.html and related links are crashing mozilla and forefox on my sarge systems. This site was working until recently. From .xsession-errors: The program 'Gecko' received an X Window System error

Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
to just leave bugs in their software like some other company (who shall remain nameless, here, forevermore). -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
and do not use a modem, in order to access the USB ports because /dev/ttyUSBxx seem to require it. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: firefox very slow since start of Feb

2006-03-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
/. ;) http://developers.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/14/2154224 That talks about Firefox v1.5, but the problem has been around at least since v1.0.4, which I am still using), besides, the cache only makes it faster until such time as you start swapping out the cache. -- Marc Shapiro

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
J. Van Lierde wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Vitaliy Ischenko wrote: The best SDK is SUN sdk read this http://newbiedoc.berlios.de/wiki/Installing_Java and especially last part Installing eclipse is extremely easy -- just unpack archive with binaries somewhere and launch it :) Yeah, I

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-21 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, 20 Feb 2006 13:41:15 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If my DSL modem is using NAT, so that my box shows a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address but the outside world is seeing 71.xxx.xxx.xxx can I still use a service like dyndns? Will that get past

Re: which command can be used to show IP address

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
a bell as a Debian package. If my DSL modem is using NAT, so that my box shows a 192.xxx.xxx.xxx IP address but the outside world is seeing 71.xxx.xxx.xxx can I still use a service like dyndns? Will that get past the modem to my box, or will it get stuck? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-20 Thread Marc Shapiro
slightly usable version of Windows? Yes, it was. Is this a prophesy of doom for Debian? Let's hope not! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
was open. Whether this could be harmful to the laptop, I dont know. I got a replacement battery for it. It did not seem to hurt the laptop in the meantime, however. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Laptop battery

2006-02-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
. YMMV. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
to deal with the visual interface at the same time. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

How to determine the VT of a running X session?

2006-02-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
is started on. If I can say start this X session on tty8 even if there is no session on tty7, or always start this X session on tty7 then I would know exactly which Ctl-Alt-Fx sequence to use to switch to the desired session. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

(SOLVED): How to determine the VT of a running X session?

2006-02-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jan C. Nordholz wrote: On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 01:04:49PM -0600, David Berg wrote: On 2/15/06, Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there any way to determine the virtual terminal that an X session is running on? $ man -k vt ... fgconsole (1)- print the number

What is the best java development and vm ?

2006-02-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Is there someplace else that I should be looking? Links to info, or previous posts covering this would be OK. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Erwin Rennert wrote: that sounds like fun ... but OTOH, that's what user accounts are for. Why don't you use your own account and make it accessible on your wife's desktop with the help of tightvnc or something similar

Re: Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: I have just decided to go back to using Firefox instead of the Mozilla-Suite. I've got it communicating properly with Thunderbird in both directions (which had been my problem, previously). My wife, however, has been using Firefox all along, and if we both use

Re: Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-13 Thread Marc Shapiro
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Erwin Rennert wrote: that sounds like fun ... but OTOH, that's what user accounts are for. Why don't you use your own account and make it accessible on your wife's desktop with the help of tightvnc or something similar? Short of that the obvious solution seems

Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
that was likely to work, and man fvwm is crazy to look through if you don't know exactly where to look. I tried there, but couldn't find anything. Does anyone know if this even CAN be done. If so, where do I look to find the information. Any help appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Backport Questions

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Steve Block wrote: On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 09:01:23PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: Nothing replaces, or conflicts with openoffice.org-debian-files (that I can see), ^^^ s/b openoffice.org-debian-menus yet it is being removed. I'm not surprised

Re: Backport Questions

2006-02-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, 09 Feb 2006 13:27:15 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [major snip] ALSO, apt-cache show says that it is for desktop integration. Is that for Gnome and KDE? I am using fvwm2 and do not use an integrated desktop environment. Do I even need

Backport Questions

2006-02-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
not providing any for oo.o 2.0 and will break the version 2.0 of oo.o that I currently have installed. Is this correct, or am I missing something here? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Form Completion -- Mozilla vs Firefox

2006-02-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
easy and intuitive. Is there any way to get Mozilla, or Seamonkey, to act in this manner? -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OpenOffice 2.0 Sarge or Etch

2006-02-07 Thread Marc Shapiro
. I have not noticed any problems so far. I'm using the openoffice.org packages. I dl'd and untarred them. Ran alien followed by dpkg -i. No problems here. I have the v1.1 debian version and the 2.0 openoffice.org version both running happily on this Sarege box. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL

Changing fonts in Seamonkey Mail panels

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Any help will be appreciated. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Changing fonts in Seamonkey Mail panels

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
Felix Miata wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been unable to find any play on the mozilla.org site to ask this question, so I am hoping that someone here can help me. I am trying to change the fonts used in the various panels in Seamonkey Mail. I am using the same profile as I use

Re: (SOLVED, but...) Changing fonts in Seamonkey Mail panels

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
Felix Miata wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: I have been unable to find any play on the mozilla.org site to ask this question, so I am hoping that someone here can help me. I am trying to change the fonts used in the various panels in Seamonkey Mail. I am using the same profile as I use

Re: (SOLVED, I think for good) Changing fonts in Seamonkey Mail panels

2006-02-06 Thread Marc Shapiro
to worry about it. Thanks for the prompt reply. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Interpreting output of tiger scripts (WAS:Re: Is my system compromised)

2006-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Todd Weaver wrote: On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 09:35:07PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: According to Todd Weaver, You can try tiger... sudo apt-get update sudo apt-get install tiger sudo tiger I have no reason to believe that my box is compromised, A script that doesn't belong to a package

Re: USB flash drive not automounting or mounting

2006-02-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
, as needed. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Interpreting output of tiger scripts (WAS:Re: Is my system compromised)

2006-02-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
2.4.17 Since I am running kernel 2.6.8 (the most recent available in Sarge) I am curious as to why it is trying to match the files to 2.4.17. If anyone can point me in the right direction, I would appreciate it. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: VMPlayer installation problems (SOLVED)

2006-02-01 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:34:14 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The headers do not appear to be available in Sarge anymore. Do I need to upgrade to 2.6.8 and use the matching headers? I generally try not to change kernels unless there is a really good reason

VMPlayer installation problems

2006-01-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
-images-2.6.7-2-k7 under Sarge. Has anyone gotten vmplayer to install under Sarge? Using stock vmware modules? Using a stock debian kernel? Which kernel? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: VMPlayer installation problems

2006-01-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
Bill Thompson wrote: On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 13:03:51 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to install the vmplayer. I DL'd the tarball from the vmware site and untarred it into my home directory. I then ran the install script which seemed to work fine until it needed to find

Re: Mouse jumping all over the place

2006-01-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
problem recently. The mouse would suddenly start bouncing around, selecting text, doing all sorts of strange stuff. I bought a new $5.00 optical mouse and the problem went away. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: How to track what packages apt-get installs and removes?

2006-01-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
to download the updated files overnight, but not install them. In the morning, I run apt-get -u upgrade and I can see what will be installed before I let it actually make the changes. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: ktuberling

2006-01-17 Thread Marc Shapiro
Elmer E. Dow wrote: Renamed ~.kde/share/config/ktuberlingrc and it works just fine now. I thank you and my four-year-old user thanks you. Elmer Thank YOU. I was unaware of this program until you mentioned it. Now MY daughter (4, but almost 5) wants to play it all the time. In

Re: Debian Etch DVD download help

2006-01-16 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Something definately seems to be a little off. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2006-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, 15 Jan 2006 13:25:14 -0800 David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 30 Dec 2005 02:11:31 -0800 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Actually, I just tried xine. So far, it has handled all file formats that I have thrown at it, including Real Media live

Re: how do i downgrade to xfree86 on sid?

2006-01-15 Thread Marc Shapiro
, due to dependancies. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Immortal processes (SOLVED)

2006-01-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
as TkRemind was doing to get its information. Unfortunately, I forgot to CLOSE the pipe. One extra line of code and the zombies are all gone, now. BTW, TkRemind is a frontend to remind in the package remind. Slapping myself on the head for making this mistake in the first place. Marc Shapiro

iRock 530 MP3 Player and Debian?

2006-01-09 Thread Marc Shapiro
, in a pinch, is to get a USB multicard reader and a SD card, since the player has a card slot. All in all, I know that I can make use of the player, but workarounds are still workarounds and it would be much simpler to plug the cable into a USB port and mount the device. -- Marc Shapiro

Re: Questions about partitioning and ext3

2006-01-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
+ 424908) / 456730 = 0.94836 Could the missing blocks (471655 - 456730) be the journal file, since that is completely invisible and not accessable through the filesystem? If so, what is using the 8239 blocks shown by df? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Immortal processes

2006-01-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
to something that TkRemind is doing incorrectly? I haven't really done any tcl/Tk programming, but I could find my way around the TkRemind script, I think, if I had a way to prevent the process from becoming a zombie. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: OT: Subscribed addresses with auto-reply anti-spam systems

2006-01-03 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Everything else, I quarentine and check out, but that goes straight to the bit bucket. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting xfree86 running

2005-12-31 Thread Marc Shapiro
that WinXP can read? Then you could copy it into a posting. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
from NPR, as well as Real Media Video (.rmvb) and Quicktime video (.mov). I may yet be able to get rid of Real 10, and all the other progs that I have been trying that can not play .mov files. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Chinook wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player that's hooked up to a standard TV set. I'd like to play them on Sarge. Just today I clicked on a .mov file and was asked if I wanted to use

Re: Is there a GPL substitute for RealPlayer?

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Tiago Pedrosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chinook wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format on a standalone DVD player

Re: How to play these files on Debian (Sarge)

2005-12-29 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Shapiro wrote: Tiago Pedrosa wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thu, 29 Dec 2005 10:30:18 +0100 Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chinook wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: Robert Glueck wrote: I'd like to play video clips in .avi, .wmv and .mov format

How to play these files on Debian (Sarge) (WAS:Re: How can I play avi, wmv, mov videos on a standalone DVD player?)

2005-12-28 Thread Marc Shapiro
the file? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-26 Thread Marc Shapiro
and kcalc and I will be virtually DCOP free. Thanks. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
that it will be acceptable. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Replacement suggestions for konsole, kate, kcalc

2005-12-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
compatibility with (in adition to mozilla, firefox and opera). It is also, by far, the most convenient to pop up from a command line to view HTML docs. So, does anyone have any replacement suggestions? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: slide rule (OT) was: Question on backups using rsync

2005-12-23 Thread Marc Shapiro
and I wrote an interpreter for the HP 25 language in C for a class when I went back to school for a second degree -- in CS. I guess I'm Jurassic, too -- and a geek! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mozilla-firefox and firefox packages

2005-12-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
of memory and swap! I just recently increased my swap from 256 MB to 512 MB thinking that would help, but all it does is give Firefox more memory to gobble up. Something is rotten in the State of Firefox! -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Xorg leaking

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
firefox with it. It freed up about 10MB of real memory and about 240MB of swap. The system immediately started to respond normally after that. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: tool to print photos

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
, and montage seems to be exactly what I was looking for. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Shapiro
up there at the top of my list. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Diamonds Jewelry

2005-12-12 Thread Marc Shapiro
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 18K White Gold Pear Round Cut Diamond Ring Style Code : RNF-50 _Market Value_ US $ 683.87 http://www.aartijewels.com/wishlist.asp?prodId=11oc=18433.32 Are these diamonds supposed to be used to refocus the lasers in our CD/DVD burners? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL

Re: Ram Not Showing

2005-12-10 Thread Marc Shapiro
the extra memory that I was thinking of. I find it curious that some are set one way and some the other. Could it be because I am using a k7 kernel? -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: *nix cert

2005-12-08 Thread Marc Shapiro
Alvin Oga wrote: - get a 4yr college degree ... $1200 for certs or a year of college tuition(?) When was the last time YOU looked at the cost of college tuition? Then there is the cost of textbooks. CS textbooks are not cheap. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: PC Slowdowns and Lock-ups

2005-12-02 Thread Marc Shapiro
. Of course, it took out Mozilla Suite, or Firefox along with the VM, but what can you do. This also requires that your system is still usable enough to be able to check top, or ps, or somesuch and kill whatever is problematic. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to start mysql service

2005-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
mysql database documentation (4.1 branch ii mysql-server-4 4.1.11a-4sarge mysql database server binaries ii python-mysqldb 1.2.1c2-1 A Python interface to MySQL -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: Debian 1.3.1 (Bo) ISO files

2005-11-25 Thread Marc Shapiro
have been trying to figure out how to get Debian onto. Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
allow you root access? I don't know and I would not want to try it on MY system. -- Marc Shapiro -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sarge: what package replaced ntptime?

2005-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
use this to fine-tune various parameters within the daemon, add or delete servers etc whilst the daemon is running. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [root user] How to disable root account?

2005-11-24 Thread Marc Shapiro
Björn Lindström wrote: Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Secondly, if you do lock out root, how whould you administer the system? Would sudo still allow you root access? I don't know and I would not want to try it on MY system. If you don't know, why are you answering? ;-) It works

Re: Debian installation cannot see the partition table

2005-11-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
unless you backed it up first. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WordPerfect 8.0 considered harmful

2005-11-19 Thread Marc Shapiro
has NOTHING to do with Corel! -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: WordPerfect 8.0

2005-11-18 Thread Marc Shapiro
that other word processors would start using it, too. It seems like such an easy thing, I don't know why others have not picked it up. -- Marc Shapiro [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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