[SOLVED] Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread Hans
Am Donnerstag, 25. Mai 2023, 10:36:18 CEST schrieb Brad Rogers: Hi Brad (and all the others), this is what I missed. The table makes it fully understandable (did not know, that it exists), I always thought "freeze" means "Now do not touch all packages any more, except for bg problems" - and

Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread Brad Rogers
On Thu, 25 May 2023 10:06:16 +0200 Hans wrote: Hello Hans, >What did I not understand? For me "freeze" means "stay at actual status >and do only necessary changes for security or breaking reasons". It's that. Only "essential"(1) updates are permitted. If you think there are a large number of

Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread tomas
On Thu, May 25, 2023 at 10:06:16AM +0200, Hans wrote: > Hi folks, > > just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. > > I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is > shortly to come. > > As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka

Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread DdB
Am 25.05.2023 um 10:06 schrieb Hans: > Hi folks, > > just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. > > I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is > shortly to come. > > As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka > bookworm),

Re: What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread Erwan David
Le 25/05/2023 à 10:06, Hans a écrit : Hi folks, just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is shortly to come. As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka bookworm), still gets a lot of

What does "freeze" mean in Debian?

2023-05-25 Thread Hans
Hi folks, just a little thing, I am somehow confused about. I read that debian/testing is now in state "freeze" as the next release is shortly to come. As I running "bookworm" now, I am wondering, that debian/testing (aka bookworm), still gets a lot of changed packages last days. Obviously

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-24 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 08:50:44PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120724_022817, Chris Bannister wrote: Did you not see this: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/knoppix701-bootscreen.png In the bottom left hand corner there is boot:. The rest is art work, not information. Huh? what happens

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
of its progress. The script does not crash. It continues to be possible to interact with it, including, even using aptitude to install software. What does this outburst mean? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- Joel Rees -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-24 Thread Joel Rees
On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 1:21 PM, Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net wrote: On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Keith McKenzie
-- Forwarded message -- From: Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net Date: 23 July 2012 05:21 Subject: Re: What does this mean? Using the disk I downloaded yesterday and got burnt today, there is a fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 22 Jul 2012 16:18:07 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120722_132033, Camaleón wrote: Message from syslogd@gq at Jul 21 04:40:03 ... kernel:[233576.618994] EIP: [f7de2458] jbd2_journal_grab_journal_head+0xf/0x36 [jbd2] SS:ESP 0068:f6e83d38 (...) You got a kernel oops, and

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it

ultimatebootcd (was ... Re: What does this mean?)

2012-07-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: fancy KDE gui, but no help screens about such trivia as getting it working on possibly defective, broken, hardware. I got it working on a different computer and discovered that it uses UNIONFS to overlay an Regarding testing other

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Morning Star
brew data processing script in written in Bash and there are several window open to monitor different aspects of its progress. The script does not crash. It continues to be possible to interact with it, including, even using aptitude to install software. What does this outburst mean? TIA

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120724_022817, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 10:21:34PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-23 Thread Paul E Condon
window open to monitor different aspects of its progress. The script does not crash. It continues to be possible to interact with it, including, even using aptitude to install software. What does this outburst mean? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
to install software. What does this outburst mean? Dunno, but I wouldn't trust it. I'd suspect a h/w problem. Don't store any important data on it. Can you guarrantee that the data integrity is ok? Boot a knoppix cd, run memtest. Find a test disk to test h/w HDD, motherboard, etc Anyone know

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Camaleón
On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I got this burst of lines on all open

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120722_132033, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 21 Jul 2012 11:58:52 -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I'm running a computer box that is recently purchased second hand - new to me, but not new. While running a script that does a disk to disk copy with some reformatting on a file of a few GB, I

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, component test software on it? Yes. At boot prompt read help screens. :) -- If you're not

Re: What does this mean?

2012-07-22 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120723_110432, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sun, Jul 22, 2012 at 04:18:07PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: I have already downloaded Knoppix v7.0.1, per Chris' suggestion, but have not yet found out what to do with it. Does it have memory, component test software on it? Yes. At boot

What does this mean?

2012-07-21 Thread Paul E Condon
does not crash. It continues to be possible to interact with it, including, even using aptitude to install software. What does this outburst mean? TIA -- Paul E Condon pecon...@mesanetworks.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-30 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:21:48 -0600, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : (...) You will get what you expect if you grab the ISO file from Debian site. Other sites can be hosting different

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-28 Thread Lisi
On Friday 27 January 2012 02:48:07 Scott Ferguson wrote: ; ADRIANE (a truly astonishing work). Yes, brilliant. :-) Lisi -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive:

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-27 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 26 ian 12, 22:03:01, Tom H wrote: I don't know why Debian's chosen not to include NM on its LXDE Live CD but it's just a apt-get update apt-get install network-manager away for your corner case. One of the goals of Debian Live is to use as much as possible unmodified packages (and

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : [SNIP] there is no app for configuring a possible connection to the internet. Launcher: In addition to text and

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Richard Owlett
Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: Yes. A so-called live CD, or more precisely, a live system, is a complete system prepared for a CD, DVD, USB key or other medium. _*You*_ do not need to install anything on the hard drive. Instead you boot from the CD or other medium and _*are

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:19:06 Richard Owlett wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : [SNIP] there is no app for configuring a

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Patrick Bartek
Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.    Got some surprises : [SNIP] there is no app for configuring a possible connection to the internet. There should be.  Has

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Arnt Karlsen
On Thu, 26 Jan 2012 10:19:06 -0600, Richard wrote in message 4f217cfa.1050...@pcnetinc.com: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : [SNIP]

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Jo, 26 ian 12, 10:19:06, Richard Owlett wrote: But that's not relevant. I am not ready to commit to installing yet. I wish to verify that in can operate with my hardware. Specifically connect to internet via my USB Analog Modem (it's *NOT* a winmodem ;) You later define a live CD as

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Tom H
On Thu, Jan 26, 2012 at 1:48 PM, Lisi lisi.re...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2012 16:19:06 Richard Owlett wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Lisi
On Thursday 26 January 2012 22:03:01 Tom H wrote: To Lisi: I don't really see the advantage of Knoppix of the Live CDs of Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu in any of the four DE flavors. It's just a question of habit and preference. Yes, I like it better. In the past it was generally accepted as the best,

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/01/12 09:33, Lisi wrote: On Thursday 26 January 2012 22:03:01 Tom H wrote: To Lisi: I don't really see the advantage of Knoppix of the Live CDs of Debian/Fedora/Ubuntu in any of the four DE flavors. It's just a question of habit and preference. Yes, I like it better. In the past it

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-26 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 27/01/12 03:19, Richard Owlett wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : [SNIP] there is no app for configuring a possible connection to the

Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-24 Thread Richard Owlett
I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : Inspite of http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#live-cd stating in part: Is a Debian live CD available? Yes. A so-called live CD, or more precisely, a live system, is a complete

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-24 Thread Andrei POPESCU
On Ma, 24 ian 12, 13:21:48, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : ... Evidently start working right away means using an open office app. [a suite that is irrelevant for me] Not only is there no

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-24 Thread steef
Richard Owlett schreef: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD. Got some surprises : Inspite of http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#live-cd stating in part: Is a Debian live CD available? Yes. A so-called live CD, or more precisely, a live system,

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-24 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 25/01/12 06:21, Richard Owlett wrote: I downloaded a 770MB file titled debian-live-6.0.3-i386-lxde-desktop.iso . Burned a DVD.Got some surprises : Inspite of http://www.debian.org/CD/faq/#live-cd stating in part: Consider reading all the FAQ - instead of just part. If you're going

Re: Just what does _DEBIAN_ mean by live

2012-01-24 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
Yes. A so-called live CD, or more precisely, a live system, is a complete system prepared for a CD, DVD, USB key or other medium. _*You*_ do not need to install anything on the hard drive. Instead you boot from the CD or other medium and _*are able to start working on the machine right

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz [2009 Jan 25 06:02 -0600]: Also, just because Exim4 is the Debian default, why does that mean it should have *more* support than, say, postfix or any other MTA. Hold on a minute! I'm not sure what caused this tempest in a

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net [2009 Jan 31 07:34 -0600]: A bit late, but I've been unavailable. When I need help configuring Exim, I look at the Exim mailing lists - just like I do any product. In the README.Debian file it quite explicitly discusses that support should be sought

Re: Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Jeff Chimene
On 12/23/42 12:59, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Jerry Stucklejstuc...@attglobal.net [2009 Jan 31 07:34 -0600]: A bit late, but I've been unavailable. When I need help configuring Exim, I look at the Exim mailing lists - just like I do any product. In the README.Debian file it quite

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 31, 2009 11:13:13 am Jeff Chimene wrote: What was the solution? I'm interested in getting Exim4 to talk to a smarthost provider. TBird seems to have no problem, but Exim4 provokes an unexpected error. Did you run dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config? I use a smarthost here with no

Re: Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jeff Chimene jchim...@gmail.com [2009 Jan 31 13:32 -0600]: What was the solution? I detailed my config files earlier in the thread. The bullet points are that I had to ensure the actual hostname of the SMTP server was in the config and passwd files. I had to enable a macro to send the

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Jerry Stuckle
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Jerry Stuckle jstuc...@attglobal.net [2009 Jan 31 07:34 -0600]: A bit late, but I've been unavailable. When I need help configuring Exim, I look at the Exim mailing lists - just like I do any product. In the README.Debian file it quite explicitly discusses that

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-27 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:38:53PM +, Bob Cox wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:39AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have used Postfix for years (I have a

What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have used Postfix for years (I have a static IP etc and send and receive direct-to-mx) but no doubt exim would do the job just as well and as it's the Debian default it really should have more support available on this list. The last

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have used Postfix for years (I have a static IP etc and send and receive direct-to-mx) but no doubt exim would do the job just as well and as it's the Debian default

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:39AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have used Postfix for years (I have a static IP etc and send and receive direct-to-mx) but no doubt

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Chris Bannister mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz [2009 Jan 25 06:02 -0600]: Also, just because Exim4 is the Debian default, why does that mean it should have *more* support than, say, postfix or any other MTA. Hold on a minute! I'm not sure what caused this tempest in a teapot to occur, but

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Bob Cox
On Mon, Jan 26, 2009 at 01:18:00 +1300, Chris Bannister (mockingb...@earthlight.co.nz) wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:40:39AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 11:43:28PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 12:43:07PM +, Bob Cox wrote: I have

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread S. Fishpaste
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 08:01:28 -0600, Nate Bargmann in gmane.linux.debian.user wrote: It seems to me that the level of support enjoyed by a particular package is dependent on the experience of its users (a package with low installation numbers and rank may have highly experienced and

Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* S. Fishpaste s...@deer-in-the-headlights.ca.invalid [2009 Jan 25 13:10 -0600]: I've never had any problem getting all the help I needed when setting up Exim in the past from this list. Doesn't sound like you checked the archives ? I tried several search terms in Google and it's obvious that

strange system mail : what does this mean ?

2008-12-04 Thread Bernard
Hi to everyone, My system (Debian Sarge) was left running all night (usually I shut it down). In the morning, I noticed that a system mail had come : * From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 04 06:25:57 2008 Return-path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Envelope-to: [EMAIL

Re: strange system mail : what does this mean ?

2008-12-04 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-12-04 12:25 +0100, Bernard wrote: My system (Debian Sarge) Did you ever consider upgrading to Etch? was left running all night (usually I shut it down). Under these circumstances installing anacron is strongly recommended. It is very possible that your system's cron jobs had never

Re: strange system mail : what does this mean ?

2008-12-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
[CC'd because you mail headers indicate you want replies sent to your address.] On Thursday 04 December 2008, Bernard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'strange system mail : what does this mean ?': /boot/lost+found#cd #171379 /# The octothorpe ('#') marks the beginning of a comment

Re: strange system mail : what does this mean ?

2008-12-04 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 04 December 2008, Sven Joachim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about 'Re: strange system mail : what does this mean ?': Two of them: install anacron ASAP and upgrade to Etch. I agree. I install anacron even on system intended to be on 24x7 so that cron jobs aren't missed during downtime

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-28 Thread John L Fjellstad
Mumia W. [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: What I need is an X keyboard configuration tutorial. The Keyboard-and-Console-HOWTO is long in the tooth and only glances over X. I used this site: http://www.jw-stumpel.nl/stestu.html -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.fjellstad.org/ Quis

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Set up the compose key (I have it set up as the Left Alt key) Then compose c = -- John L. Fjellstad web:

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Mumia W. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Thibaut Paumard wrote: Multi_key = e gives € Multi_key + - gives ± ... And the Multi_key is? You define the Multi_key using xmodmap. xmodmap is a bit outdated, and in fact deprecated now; see the Debian X Window System Frequently Asked Questions

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread Mumia W.
Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: [...] For instance to input accents by means of dead keys, and to input an enormous variety of combined characters by means of the Compose key, on a US keyboard, for instance, you could use setxkbmap us -variant alt-intl -option compose:rwin [...] Thanks, it took me

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-26 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:15:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I mean,

What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Surachai Locharoen
I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. Thank you.

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. It means the default language - the one the application is actually written in. In practice this is usually English, but one could

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. It means the default language - the one the application

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. The LANG variable sets the user's locale, which tells the system what language and local

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Linas Žvirblis
Ron Johnson wrote: I thought C meant plain *old* ASCII encoding, like what was used on the PDP computers that C was written on. Well, yes, it is US English ASCII. But I have seen it being abused. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Xeno Campanoli
I've wondered about that. Why aren't modern systems just moving straight to Unicode? Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. The LANG variable sets the user's locale, which tells the system what language and local conventions for things like time, money, numbers, etc

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: I've wondered about that. Why aren't modern systems just moving straight to Unicode? Well, as I said, they are. It's mostly the modern PEOPLE who are not... ;-) Debian Sarge is pretty good as far as UTF-8 support, though for

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 07:37:51AM -0700, Xeno Campanoli wrote: [snip] While the majority of people in the Windows world have switched to XP by now, there are still a surprisingly large number of people using Windows 98/ME (or

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I mean, why limit that idea to just the Euro symbol? Why not include the Yen, or the Korean Won, the

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Derek Martin
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:54:54AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it? I keep a file in my home directory with a few common symbols that are hard or impossible to type with a US

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. Well, I don't think that is or should be a requirement... I mean, why limit that idea

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 10:48:28AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Copy-paste from a web page or other source which has it? I keep a file

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread hendrik
On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:36:59AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: I just want to know 'LANG=C' what does it mean? Normally, I see LANG is set to laguage which exist in the real world such as en, th, fr. The LANG variable sets

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 09:36:59AM -0400, Derek Martin wrote: On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 08:01:21PM +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote: [snip] Still very relevant, because it is used to tell the application which language to

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Lothar Braun
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? P.P.S. - How do you do the same from the console? You can use xmodmap for that. I'm using Alt Gr

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Thibaut Paumard
Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Multi_key = e gives € Multi_key + - gives ± ... P.P.S. - How do you do the same from

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le dimanche 25 juin 2006 à 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson a écrit : When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? Multi_key = e

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lothar Braun wrote: On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 10:48 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? P.P.S. - How do you do the same

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Mumia W.
Ron Johnson wrote: When US keyboards have the Euro symbol on it, then it will have happened. P.S. - How do you enter a Euro symbol from a US kbd into Tbird? One key on your keyboard might be set aside for composing foreign characters; this is called the Compose key. To enter a Euro (€)

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Lothar Braun
On Sun, 2006-06-25 at 15:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. What's Alt *Gr*? Oh. That's the right alt-key on German keyboards. -- Lothar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Mumia W.
Ron Johnson wrote: Thibaut Paumard wrote: Multi_key = e gives € Multi_key + - gives ± ... And the Multi_key is? You define the Multi_key using xmodmap. I used the program xev to discover that the right windows key on my keyboard generates a keycode of 116, and I'm not using Windows,

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Mumia W.
Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. What's Alt *Gr*? Right-Alt key -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What does it mean 'LANG=C'

2006-06-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W. wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. What's Alt *Gr*? Right-Alt key Of course, how silly of me! :P - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Is common sense really valid? For example, it is common sense to white-power racists that

What does this mean (A SMART error of hard disk)?

2006-06-12 Thread Wang Xu
Hi list, The following message was reported by smartd daemon several times, it seems to be a hard disk error, but does this mean I should purchase a new disk as soon as possible? I checked the log file but got nothing. The message: *

Re: What does this mean (A SMART error of hard disk)?

2006-06-12 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 08:13:21PM +0800, Wang Xu wrote: The following message was reported by smartd daemon several times, it seems to be a hard disk error, but does this mean I should purchase a new disk as soon as possible? It means that a sector of your disk was unreadable, probably due to

Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/ What does this mean for mozilla, firefox

Older Mozilla not supported anymore (was: Re: Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?)

2006-04-26 Thread Rogério Brito
On Apr 26 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. Thank you very much for this information, Johannes. What does this mean for mozilla, firefox and thunderbird

What does it mean in the kern.log ?

2005-05-23 Thread BAGI Akos
Hi List! I find periodically such enties in the kern.log. What do they mean? I use sarge with teh official kernel: 2.6.8-2-k7. Kern.log extract: May 22 12:31:25 atilla kernel: Redirect from 212.92.23.1 on eth0 about 212.92.23.13 ignored. May 22 12:31:25

What does it mean: [3ware 3DM alert -- host: debpro]

2004-10-08 Thread Jacob Larsen
Anyone know what this means? Original Message Subject: 3ware 3DM alert -- host: debpro Date: Thu, 23 Sep 2004 06:31:45 +0200 (CEST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WARNING: Drive sector ECC error corrected on port 0 on controller ID:0. (0x23)

What does -bf mean?

2003-11-05 Thread Cyril
Dear Sirs, Could you explain what does -bf mean in the file-name like parted-bf_1.4.24-4.woody.1_i386.deb in the directory http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/parted; and maybe in GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2003/debian-user-200311/msg00023

Re: What does -bf mean?

2003-11-05 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 05, 2003 at 05:16:06PM +0300, Cyril said Dear Sirs, Could you explain what does -bf mean in the file-name like parted-bf_1.4.24-4.woody.1_i386.deb in the directory http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/parted; and maybe in GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 on http

Re: What does -bf mean?

2003-11-05 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Cyril ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Could you explain what does -bf mean in the file-name like parted-bf_1.4.24-4.woody.1_i386.deb in the directory http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/p/parted; and maybe in GeForce4 MX440 with kernel 2.4.18-bf24 on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user

Re: What does 3 mean? 2.4.20-3-k7

2003-09-26 Thread Lionel Elie Mamane
Please use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for that kind of questions. On Mon, Sep 22, 2003 at 05:22:00PM -0700, Shaun Jackman wrote: 2.4.20 is the Linux kernel version. k7 means optimise for Athlon. What does 3 mean? It is the fourth binary-incompatible (as far as modules are concerned, not userspace

Syslog message: kernel: memory : d6abe3a0. What does that mean?

2003-01-14 Thread Janke Dvid
Hi all! I got a little afaraid that I have bad memory, after I saw some of those messages (like int the subject) in the syslog. after running memtest86 (which reported that there's no problem), I can't imagine what this thing is? Can anybody help? Thanks, David --- Outgoing

exim error: What does it mean?

2002-06-24 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 What does this mean? # /usr/sbin/exim -v -M 17MVAm-0002nz-00 delivering message 17MVAm-0002nz-00 LOG: 0 MAIN PANIC DIE Neither the system_aliases director nor the address_pipe transport set a uid for local delivery of | /usr/lib/sympa/bin/queue

Re: exim error: What does it mean?

2002-06-24 Thread Omen Wild
If there are any mailing list and exim experts out there I would appreciate a second set of eyeballs on what I've done. Quoting Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] on Mon, Jun 24 07:55: What does this mean? # /usr/sbin/exim -v -M 17MVAm-0002nz-00 delivering message 17MVAm-0002nz-00 LOG: 0

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