On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 01:18:11PM +0200, vizze wrote:
I'm trying to configure ulogd to put iptables log into postgreSQL, but i
can't make ulogd to insert data into the database.
tail -f /var/log/ulog/syslogemu.log tell me that ulogd is receiving ip
details from iptables but in ulogd logfile
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Well, not that I can see. But, I will admit that I am likely
overlooking something. The complaint, input: AT Translated Set 2
keyboard as /class/input/input4, is in /var/log/messages. Earlier in
the same file there are more of the
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 11:26:10AM +0200, vizze wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
Yup. ulogd_PGSQL.c LINE 1: insert into public.ulog ) values )
Without seeing the line, I'm guessing it should be ) values (
instead of ) values )
Does this make any sense?
Yes, the query is totally wrong
On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 01:08:57PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
* Chris Bannister ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 12:13:22PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
Well, not that I can see. But, I will admit that I am likely
overlooking something. The complaint, input: AT Translated Set 2
On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 11:31:46PM -0500, cothrige wrote:
With this install of Debian I decided to stick to what I know, and
grabbed the binary installer direct from NVidia. I ran that, and in
less than two minutes I was up and running. No complaints from Debian
and no complaints from
On Tue, Oct 24, 2006 at 12:30:06PM +0100, Ken Walker wrote:
I'm getting a little confused about security updates
I'm using Debian stable and daily do the apt-get update/upgrade.
But when a package has a security update, do i have to start/stop specific
applications.
The pre/post scripts
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:09:36AM -0500, Robotis Konstantinos wrote:
I have Debian Sarge with kernel 2.6.8-2 and I want to install a wireless
pcmcia
card. The kernel is configured with every module related to PCMCIA as far as I
am concerned and the pcmcia-cs package is also installed. The
On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 12:17:51PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Ken Irving wrote:
[snip]
[Ken, quoting Wikipedia]
PDF is a file format instead of a programming language and for that
reason it doesn't need to be interpreted. For instance, flow control
commands like if and loop are
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
Hi,
A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big
winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and
Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those
who are get bored by
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 09:13:36AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
Now my Wacom Graphire 4 mouse moves in fits and starts. It worked
smoothly before the upgrade. The upgrade was from Debian Sarge with a
2.6.11 kernel to Debian testing with a 2.6.17 kernel built from
linux-source-2.6.17 with
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:48:57AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I would prefer to switch from DVD images to a Debian i386 testing
repository within the LAN. Can a local repository be updated as easily
as CD-ROM and DVD images can be updated with jidgo-lite? Is there a
simple HOWTO for
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 12:45:02AM +0100, Kay Smarczewski wrote:
As far as the cursor (which I was wondering if I could change my
self).
/usr/share/doc/kernel-doc-2.6.8/Documentation/VGA-softcursor.txt.gz
I tried the examples (underline,block and solid block) in one of my
consoles and
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:34:14AM -0600, Kent West wrote:
Also, everything I was able to find via Google and a specific
instruction on this list mentioned using fdformat -n ...fd0u1440 or
...fd0H1440. Whereas the man page for fdformat does indeed mention
using setfdprm, it says it in this
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 08:58:57AM +0900, Miles Bader wrote:
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I think you need to take a closer look at synaptic; or perhaps you have
formed your opinion strictly on the basis of hearsay.
No, I tried to use synaptic (I like bling as much as
On 2006-11-02, Dean Allen Provins wrote:
Hello:
It seems that the PC clocks here in Alberta are still on daylight
savings time. This is odd as Alberta's clocks switched back last
weekend.
/etc/timezone contains:
Canada/Mountain
Anyone know how to fix them?
apt-cache policy
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 06:40:09PM +, Clive Menzies wrote:
On (03/11/06 10:06), Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
You'd be well advised to use the package management system to remove the
kernels. Personally, I use aptitude. Having checked which is your
running kernel, go into aptitude,
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The package chain is as follows:
INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP -- getmail4 -- maildrop --
[maildir] -- mutt
Does getmail4 feed the mail through exim4, fetchmail does.
OUTGOING MAIL: smtp server @ my ISP --
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 02:10:59AM -0800, Eeltje wrote:
[..]
Then I decided to install Debian. I chose the 'testing' distribution.
Now I have it two years running and I am very satisfied. 'Testing' is
continuously updated, so you have very recent software. Moreover, the
updating is a
On Sat, Nov 04, 2006 at 10:06:32PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
schmity wrote:
Ok, newbie here so go easy on me.
In general, what type of files would I expect to find in the /etc
directory? How would I have known to look in the /etc directory for
the hosts file?
Don't feel
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 11:38:59AM +, Michael Ott wrote:
Hi!
I found two directories for pkgconfig files. One is the normal one
/usr/lib/pkgconfig/
and the other one is
/usr/share/pkgconfig
Why that? Bug or feature?
Dunno :-)
# ls /usr/share/pkgconfig
gnome-icon-theme.pc
On Sun, Nov 05, 2006 at 07:15:54PM +, s. keeling wrote:
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, Nov 03, 2006 at 02:47:21PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The package chain is as follows:
INCOMING MAIL: pop3 server @ my ISP -- getmail4 -- maildrop --
[maildir
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 02:15:38AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
The file /etc/X11/xorg.conf, reads:
Section Screen
Identifier Default Screen
Device Trident Microsystems Cybyer 9397
Monitor Generic Monitor
Default Depth 24
Subsection Display
Depth 24
Modes 1024X768 800X600 640X480
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:12:34PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote:
You know that annoying little speaker in the computer that goes beep
everytime you hit the wrong key.
Well, mine didn't work for years.
I just did a -testing upgrade and now it works.
How do I make it stop without opening the
On Tue, Nov 07, 2006 at 10:53:53PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
Please forgive the cross-post, but I have gotten no response on this
matter from the mutt list or from the maildrop list. I have read all
the relevant man pages and have been searching without success on Google
for a
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 12:33:21PM -0500, Bob Bosiljevac wrote:
I tend to do my upgrades like this:
apt-get update -u
look at the list, and then do
apt-get install packages
for things I want to do at this session. I want to be selective because I
tend to only want to do certain
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:04:05PM -0400, David Whelan wrote:
I've just done almost exactly the same thing as you are contemplating
(upgraded to sarge, then from 2.2.20idepci to 2.6.8-3-386). I used
aptitude to install the new kernel and seemingly everything went well,
but when I
On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 10:39:34AM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
Yes. I have read the howtos now. But there's one more question. What is
this Automatic Metric (thats what I saw in Windows XP ..related to a
Gateway).
The Network Administrators Guide 2nd Ed. is a good read. It is available
from
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 11:44:48AM +0100, Jarek Buczy?ski wrote:
PS.
My firewall logs me all messages to console, it's good idea to set
KLOGD=-c 4 In /etc/init.d/klogd?
/etc/sysctl.conf
--
Chris.
==
... the official version cannot be abandoned because the implication of
rejecting it is
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:21:20AM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
The selection of the proper From: header for outgoing mail is the duty
of your mail user agent (MUA); the MUA may be Mutt, Gnus, Balsa,
Sylpheed, Thunderbird, etc. Read the documentation concerning
multiple send 'personas' or
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 08:57:48AM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Hello Einar. I tried the -e command (xterm -e dict), but it did not
work. The terminal appears for a second, but then dies. Perhaps I'll
try writing a simple script that gets called upon, as it appears that
I'm not having
On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 09:35:02PM +0200, Hans du Plooy wrote:
There is a EFI enabled lilo though, called elilo. Apple has released
a tool called Bootcamp, that allowes you to install WindowsXP (heaven
knows why they had to go do that), which adds a PC-style boot
record/partition table, and
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:08:18AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
according to Craig A. Finseth, and Emacs fan, whose thesis on text editing
technology was regarded as the authority in the field
^^^
What is regarded as the authority in the field now?
Novice users have used a
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 01:39:21AM -0500, Chris Metzler wrote:
Here's my situation and what I want:
1. I have a machine with no domain of its own, in the sense that I
haven't registered a domain or anything like that. My ISP is
speakeasy.net. Outgoing email goes to a smarthost. Incoming
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 07:27:12AM +, Francesco Pietra wrote:
While I am OK with debian etch amd64 (kernel 17), I found difficulties in
upgrading i386 from 15-1 to 17, using module-assistant. Because linux kernel
installs, I guess I was unable to get rid from my current X installation
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:09:53PM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote:
I tried downgrading to udev 0.100-1, a version I know worked, but I
saw the same problem.
Could it be my configuration? My /etc/udev/rules.d/local.rules file
contains the following:
SYSFS{model}=5VLAT80,
On Fri, Nov 17, 2006 at 09:56:51AM +0200, Debeselis wrote:
Please don't top post.
Hi,
Sorry for the problems if there were any from me:( But I have problems with
this mailing list and I wanted to find what causes them.
Problem is that when I send my initial e-mail to this list I can see
On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 05:12:15PM -0600, Owen Heisler wrote:
I would like to be able to store all my contacts in a specific location
in my home directory that would be accessible by Evolution, Icedove, and
mutt. Does anyone know of a good way to do this? I've tried using
slapd for a LDAP
On Sat, Nov 18, 2006 at 01:06:41PM +, Wackojacko wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 11:09:53PM -0800, Jason Dunsmore wrote:
I tried downgrading to udev 0.100-1, a version I know worked, but I
saw the same problem.
Could it be my configuration? My /etc/udev/rules.d
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 07:51:49PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 12:17:03AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
On 2006-11-21 15:49:07 +0100, Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote:
Indeed your hosts.allow probably wasn't complete. In addition to
localhost, you should have added
On Tue, Nov 21, 2006 at 05:10:19PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote:
I am not sure why your xorg.config with the s3 driver does not work
anymore. I think the old s3 driver has now been split into s3,
savage and s3virge. The new s3 driver seems to be for legacy cards
only; all newer cards are
On Wed, Nov 22, 2006 at 02:23:53PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
On Tuesday 21 November 2006 21:56, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
trimmed
mhhh... I don't have a Savage Video Cards section, I am compiling from
2.6.8 sources, should I use newer ones?.. but still asking myself why it
worked..
On Sat, Nov 25, 2006 at 06:40:29PM +0530, Amit Joshi wrote:
Oh...its good to see that it has worked with you. I had a lotta trouble with
the 2.6.8 Kernel on Debian Sarge 3.1r0 and that video card.
Well..but here I am a bit confused. The 2.6.8 kernel doesn't even have the
module required
On Tue, Nov 28, 2006 at 09:39:44PM +0100, Imre Vida wrote:
Hi,
i am running Debian testing on a IBM/Lenovo Thinkpad T60p.
For the graphics, i have chosen the vesa driver from xorg -
as it works together well with software suspend.
This combination worked quit well uptill now: X
On Thu, Nov 30, 2006 at 03:39:55PM -0800, Francis Healy wrote:
The classic definition of the killer app is the one program that justifies
the entire cost of the computer.
The only ones I can think of were Visi Calc for the Apple II
and Pagemaker for the Mac.
AFA GNU/Linux is concerned I
On Fri, Dec 01, 2006 at 02:54:12PM +, George Borisov wrote:
Ron Johnson wrote:
Win32 belies that. It's been stable for 8 (possibly 11, not being a
Windows developer) years. Windows XP will run 8 year old Windows 98
apps with no problem.
Sadly this does not include any of the
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 01:35:34PM -0500, David Shultz wrote:
Whenever I browse any website, mozilla says
Resolving www.google.com and waits for about
15 seconds to resolve the host. I've disabled
ipv6 but the problem is still there. Also I've
checked the isp nameserver and
On Sat, Dec 02, 2006 at 09:38:51PM +0300, Salman Al-Rahma wrote:
[..]
Stable-, so as this is just a desktop computer.. I decided an upgrade is
due.. so changed the sources in /etc/apt/sources.list from stable to
testing and did a dist-upgrade.
Same here, although on a laptop.
so I did a
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 02:01:07AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 07:52:23AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
snip
Also, my brother loves Debian (except that he wouldn't if I
wasn't around), but has to dual-boot since he needs a Cubase or Reason
(music production) which
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 01:01:15PM +0100, Brian Durant wrote:
Where is xorg.conf located? I am experiencing the same problem as well.
As root run 'updatedb' (although a cron job periodically does this.)
Then 'locate xorg.conf' or whatever you are looking for.
--
Chris.
==
... the official
On Tue, Dec 05, 2006 at 11:21:04PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
well, you answered your own question, but here's what I do.
mostly I ignore anyhting marked as done. Anything marked as
pending (or other things, are there others?) I review carefully to
IIRC, there was a post on
On Thu, Dec 07, 2006 at 06:34:39AM -0600, Martin McCormick wrote:
[..]
You are responding to a thread in name only. You should list reply to a
previous message in the thread. Sorry for being picky, but when I saw
Re: I wondered why my threaded mail reader was 'playing up'.
The MUA should
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 12:13:26AM +0100, Martin Fuzzey wrote:
Hi,
I have been succesfully running postfix on Sarge as a local mailserver
relaying all outbound mail (from multiple internal accounts) to my ISP.
However my ISP has just decided to require SMTP authentication.
I have set
On Wed, Dec 06, 2006 at 10:36:37AM +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi;
I am using a debian linux-2.6.17 system to build a linux-2.6.x
(x = 12 or 9). After `make install` the newly built kernel, I could boot
up the new kernel without error. However, when I boot up the system back
to the
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 03:19:07AM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I've noticed the same kind of disputes in natural languages. For
example, English speakers usually perceive a clear semantic difference
between many and much. Yet it's possible to give a
On Mon, Dec 11, 2006 at 01:56:27AM -0800, Scarletdown wrote:
I just attempted an install of etch on an old Toshiba Satellite 425CDT.
I used a set of install floppies because this laptop can't boot from the
CD-ROM drive.
Anyway, the install ran its course (it was a Network install), but after
On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 11:13:49AM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
apt-cache rdepends zeroconf will get you the packages which depend on
zeroconf. then you can march up the tree a bit with
apt-cache rdepends zeroconf | grep -v Depends | xargs apt-cache \
rdepends
that gets you a much
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 01:28:06AM +, Michael Fothergill wrote:
[..]
I am thinking of buying a new box from an outfit in the UK Golden
Electronics. For 170 GBP they will give you a box (no monitor) that has an
AMD 64 Sempron CPU and a decent hard drive and other gear etc Plus
512
On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 10:51:05PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
Hi A,
welcome to your first exposure to politics of Free software! DVD css was
the first flagpole that the entertainment lobby put in the ground to lay
claim to your property. Css provides no other use but to forbid you from
fully
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:07:22PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:
Dear all,
I'm using Debian Sarge. When I ran apt-gete upgrade, this message shows:
~# apt-get upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree... Done
The following packages have been kept
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 08:56:17PM +, Liam O'Toole wrote:
The file /etc/smb.conf is not a conffile, so it will not be removed by
Seems like a configuration file to me, can you explain what you mean.
purging the samba* packages. It has to be removed manually. The
Umm, removing a package
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 07:42:21PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote:
Coming here is a good place to start when having issues getting sound.
Some suggestions: try installing alsa-base, alsa-utils, and alsa-oss.
Then, as root, run the command alsaconf. Check the volumes with
alsamixer.
If
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 03:02:36PM -0500, Ed wrote:
Running etch. I used to be able to play dvds, but all of a sudden I
cannot. They can neither be played nor mounted. CDs work fine in
the same drive. I realize it may be a hardware problem, but I wonder
if anyone who has experienced the
On Mon, Dec 18, 2006 at 02:21:05PM -0800, Bill wrote:
Hi folks,
I have alsa installed and working properly.
I configure it with alsaconf.
Everytime I reboot, I have to reconfigure it again with alsaconf.
It's only a few keypresses but annoying.
Is this a known issue?
What can I
Hi,
I use apt-cache search when I'm looking for a package which may suit
my needs. I was amused to get:
$ apt-cache search power | wc -l
791
$ apt-cache search power | wc -l
159
$ apt-cache search power | wc -l
151
How many non-powerful packages are there. :-)
--
Chris.
==
--
To
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 01:46:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 06/27/07 11:34, Orestes leal wrote:
Hi Folks,
I want that some of the members of the group comments something
about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration
I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:00:47AM +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
On 7/9/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
What output do you get when you run this:
dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print $1,$2,$3}'
$ dpkg -l libc6\* timezoneconf | awk '/^[^D|+]/{print
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 12:08:35PM +, Mathieu Malaterre wrote:
Ok installing tzdata from testing (lenny) did work for me.
sudo apt-get install -t testing tzdata
You may have trouble going from Sarge - Lenny like this.
Maybe you should upgrade to etch (replace sarge with etch in your
On Tue, Jul 10, 2007 at 10:14:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
If you like/tolerate vi, then sc is more than adequate for simple
arithmetic. Don't know about it's fancier functions.
Its also got a print to latex file facility, which is handy for using in
your printed documents (that is if you
[ Sorry this is a late posting, haven't been reading much mail lately,
but ...
I noticed I had the same /command directory, ... so
dpkg -S /command
daemontools
(pulled in by 'djbdns-installer')
a 'dpkg --purge daemontools' got rid of the '/command /service and
/package' directories.
[
On Wed, Sep 05, 2007 at 02:50:12PM -0400, Nathan wrote:
I've found a perl script on the 'Net that does a very good job of
recursively searching a directory of sub-directories and files. I pipe the
output to the 'mail' program and email it to myself. However it would help
the readability
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 05:40:38PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote:
Serena Cantor wrote:
Thanks! Could you give me a list of programs that start automatically? Do
you mean that there's
nothing I can do about it?
Run top when the noise starts. Could be anacron kicking in. Does it
happen 5
On Fri, Sep 07, 2007 at 03:04:50PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote:
Hi, all you script wizards.
I thought this would be easy, but I haven't found anything to crib
from...
I need a script to read a text file (actually tex) and parse lines of a
table that may or may not span newline characters
On Sun, Sep 09, 2007 at 05:57:15PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote:
Would you believe...
...It's finally on DVD, but from only one source (I think Time-Life, but
for some reason, I think it's HBO that owns the rights now). You can't
buy it retail or through discount sources, though. (Sorry
On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 09:00:58AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote:
I had this problem with an earlier version of exim4 and was advised to
change the line
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = *
to
smtp_accept_queue_per_connection = 0
in the file /etc/exim4/exim4.conf.template.
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:32:55PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
and HOME/.xbindkeysrc with contents:
mpc toggle
XF86AudioPlay
mpc stop
XF86AudioStop
mpc prev
XF86AudioPrev
mpc next
XF86AudioNext
This works, but not when the screen is
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 08:36:59PM -0400, Tom Allison wrote:
I'm at a road block...
I was reinstalling my hard drives to put in a RAID1 array.
The RAID/LVM stuff works 100%.
But somewhere I screwed up my postgresql-8.2 database installation.
I meant to set up the data directory on the RAID
On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 11:47:47AM +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote:
Hi you all,
I am going to buy a laptop and install debian on it, so I would like to
receive some feedback/suggestions from the list in this sense.
thanx in advance
The 'debian-laptop' list is an excellent resource
On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 04:16:37PM -0500, violet penny wrote:
I do hope I'm sending this to the right place. I find everything so
confusing and difficult, here.
On the subject of which: I can't find anything, anywhere, that tells
me what's on these 20 additional CDs I've taken
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:41:04AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
If I start Audacity from a terminal I see a lot of errors. Is this to
be expected?
[heaps of errors snipped]
You seems to be having a few problems, but you aren't really giving out
much information.
What is the output of:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 03:43:03PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 21:59:02 -0400
Andrey Falko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi everyone,
I am having some very strange, likely Debian-related networking
problems. I was trying to set up some bandwidth tests between a few
nearly
Sorry for the late reply. Haven't been online. :-(
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 01:46:51PM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
On 16/09/07 13:00:27, Chris Bannister wrote:
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 11:41:04AM +0100, Barry Samuels wrote:
If I start Audacity from a terminal I see a lot of errors
On Wed, Sep 19, 2007 at 06:28:22AM +0100, Chris Lale wrote:
Hi? Chris,
Would the existing [EMAIL PROTECTED] fit the bill?
Alas, most OT stuff would be too OT even for debian-curiosa. In an
effort to cut down on unnecessary postings people need to remember there
are other lists besides
On Fri, Sep 21, 2007 at 11:38:51AM +0200, Joerg Schilling wrote:
The CDDL does not restrict the code, the GPL hovever has some restrictions
that prevent you from using GPLd code from within CDDLd (or any other license)
projects. As the GPL is an asymmetric license, it allows to use CDDLd code
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 09:58:13AM +0200, pietia wrote:
so , why the developers doesn't recompile their packages ? Or why there
are no
packages in two version (compiled using gcc 3 and 4 )?
Sorry for my questions - if sounds stupid.
Time to start reading about Debian.
Start at:
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 11:13:13AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
Linux's target is the modern desktop and the focus is on keeping up with
new hardware. The BSDs keep the drivers for old hardware but patches
require building and that building relies on gcc which isn't optimized
for use on old
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 12:34:53AM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
Sounds good to me, but I'm no image guru.
The only reason I asked was because in Mac OS X, when you click Save As..
under the Preview application (which is a PDF/Image viewer), there is a
Reduce file size... menu
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 10:25:24PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:
Testing is not a released version of Debian; testing exists to get
bugs fixed. You only use testing if you want to test software.
Speak for yourself. No one is testing Evolution 2.10, or GNOME 2.18,
or much of the other
On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 10:21:04AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
One has to change the tool so if one is advocating LaTeX because of the
merits of LaTeX over WYSIWYG one cannot offer up WYSIWYG as a front end for
LaTeX without invalidating the argument that it is superior.
Humbug! It allows
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 01:11:32AM -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote:
And I'm much too lazy to bother using a newsreader for anything other
news. What is it with you guys and newsreaders? Ick.
You are going to have to try harder than that to get the Gnus users to
bite. :-)
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Chris.
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 11:12:02PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote:
more likely to give better reports if asked by a nice dd. But since its
not 'policy', its not something that is required. There is the obvious
situation where DD have real lives and can not respond to every user,
Apparently policy
On Fri, Sep 28, 2007 at 09:08:16AM +0200, Nick De Graeve wrote:
I just upgraded our server to Etch but now I see there are line
starting with Ign when I update my repositories:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# aptitude update
Get:1 http://security.debian.org etch/updates Release.gpg [189B]
Hit
On Sat, Sep 29, 2007 at 10:25:10AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote:
On Sat, 29 Sep 2007 10:30:29 -0400, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
Apparently policy does not list requirements but best practices. IOW
policy is not (supposed to be(?)) used to enforce behaviour
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
hi all and *especially j?rg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and
cdrtools*.
two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on
one of the
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote:
I have running here a PII with Asus P2B-F motherboard and a 40Gbyte
IDE drive. The manual for the P2B-F is rather poor, and fails to
provide a number of vital details.
I have been running a dual-boot Debian/W2000 scheme,
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 06:46:47PM -0400, Eric Estes wrote:
Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that
has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a
replacement asap.
Hi Eric,
I am disappointed no one has replied to this as it
On Sat, Oct 06, 2007 at 05:06:39AM -0700, Dancing Fingers wrote:
This is one of the best threads I ever read. I took a basic course
in linux security and I stiil feel that I've only scratched the
surface. I would say the most important thing is to learn your
system inside out. You don't
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:19:33AM +0200, Tobias Nissen wrote:
Hi Martin!
Martin Waller wrote:
Is it safe to switch to using aptititude as my package manager after
having used dselect up to now?
Yes, it is safe. dselect and aptitude use different databases.
dpkg seems to rely on
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 01:30:45PM +, Oscar Corte wrote:
Hello:
I used Synaptic Package Manager to install ?eboard? (described a A Graphical
Chess program).
The installation finished successfully but I can't find any option menu to
launch it. Could somebody give me any hints in
On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 11:48:15AM -0400, Jody Gugelhupf wrote:
hi there :)
i run debian etch on a pentium 3 desktop machine, i did a fresh install a
couple weeks ago and was
doing 'apt-get update' and 'apt-get upgrade' but when it wants to install the
new kernel it is
[..]
Reading package
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 07:18:12PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/10/05/1234217
http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/scrt/CD0B9D97EE6FE411CC25736A000E4723
Those were the very links with which this thread was started
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