Re: Open HTML file with OpenOffice in Gnome

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 12:56:54AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I just completed installing installing Debian Etch I386 on an AMD64 computer. A Gnome user needs to edit HTML with OpenOffice, so I right-clicked on one HTML file, and set it to open with OpenOffice. But Where did you get the

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing just works for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one is it? So you

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 09:55:08AM +, Nuno Magalhães wrote: I love the cream swirling into the coffee graphic that was a bootsplash at some point. Don't know if it's still around, but it sure captures my image of debian. If it doesn't even remotely hint of Java i'll vote for that. A cup

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 02:26:26AM +, Peter Tynan wrote: On 28/02/2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 06:14:22PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: This message was posted by Sam Hocevar (current Debian Project Leader) ... I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to the

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 04:06:56PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 28 Feb at 14:52 Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED] [snip] In your case, I would go with either Debian Stable or Ubuntu. Why Debian Stable? Because Debian stable is very reliable,

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #452

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 07:23:39AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 28 February 2008, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: The Debian Swirl, as relaxing as a whirlpool. I love the cream swirling into the coffee

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-03-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 05:20:41PM -0800, Steve wrote: Hi, I've just run up my first linux box and I'm goin ok. Only thing is I can't get SSH running on it (to enable me to access it from a windows box using putty or similar). I've tried openssh but of course that is a client. Can anyone

Re: font problem with xfig

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 12:23:32PM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: and when I try to rescale text in a xfig figure, I get the following messages for example: Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--13-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*, using 6x13 Can't find -*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-ISO8859-*,

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:56:35AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: It's called social engineering. want free porn?!? compile this! You'd be surprised how many Windows users install .exes with the hope of seeing some free porn. It is amusing[1] to see attachments that are supposedly .jpg files

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: sql injections are 'data' trying to be executable, aren't they? I know that generally folks aren't trying to open sql attachements (whatever the hell that might mean) from mutt... SQL injections are completely different

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing just works for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-03 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:18:45PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. What happens if

Re: microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 07:01:19PM -0600, cothrige wrote: Miles Fidelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: There's a difference between: - what makes sense (for some definition of makes sense) - what's right (for some definition right) - the legal and regulatory issues involved (there's

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 12:07:27PM +0100, Richard Lyons wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [...] http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg Excellent for breaking into the primary school market

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 09:47:15PM -0500, H.S. wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: [..] I have these installed (BTW, the usherbrooke site that you said is not an official site, it is actually a Debian mirror, listed on Debian website): Oooops, oh ok. Yeah I can see the indic-fonts package

Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 08:22:12PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: Since switching to Debian Etch, I no longer get messages (from cron and logcheck) delivered to my user-mailbox. Exim 4 delivers them to the mail-queue in /var/spool/exim4/input; when the queue is emptied, they appear to end up in

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:34:14PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: My wife loves hers. But be warned, DON'T spill liquid on the keyboard. My daughter accidentally spilled a glass of water, some of which (I don't know how much) hit the keyboard. I have heard

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: Hey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3 million years into the future. It was a great show, somewhere in the void between space balls and star trek. A giant spaceship

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 10:22:24PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/04/08 21:26, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hey guys, When I installed Etch for the first time, I installed msttcorefonts. I recently heard of the liberation fonts provided

Re: force kernel panic

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 01:20:54PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi to all, I have a problem, I need to test a kernel panic crash, I have an server Debian 4.0, some body know the way to force, may be to ins a module in the kernel, a kernel panic? Thanks in advance Possibly ...

Re: Can't find ndiswrapper.ko on debian stable :o(

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 04, 2008 at 01:52:30PM -0800, Mr Smiley wrote: I have googled around and most people using debian say that the install of ndiswrapper via apt-get install ndiswrapper is flawed. Huh? I can't find ndiswrapper.ko which is needed by modprobe. People have said install ndiswrapper

Re: Brower cannot open some web pages in Debian

2008-03-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 03:33:28PM +1100, hce wrote: Hi, I have installed Debian 2.6.18-4-686 in my two computers, both have difficultis to run web brower to connect to some web pages. I thought it is a brower problem so I have tried different browsers, firefox, icewealsel and opera, etc.

Re: Width of line

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 10:46:30PM +, Andrius wrote: 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. Is 5 rows really netiquette? No, it's 4[1]. But don't take my word for it. What does google say with query: netiquette number of lines in sig [1] :-) -- Chris. == -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: No orig.tar.gz or diff.gz with pdebuild

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 01:45:07PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I'm trying to build some packages, and am using the following: pdebuild --auto-debsign --buildresult /tmp/$(basename $PWD) \ --debsign-k 0x5005EF07 --debbuildopts -D -sa The packages build properly, but despite the

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:34:54PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Chris Bannister: Ron Johnson: Amit Uttamchandani: My question is, how do I go about installing [the Liberation fonts] and using it exclusively? They are at debian-multimedia.org as ttf-liberation

Re: netselect with proxy

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:49:41PM +, T o n g wrote: corporate firewalls. (FYI, my ISP is the most open one, not a single port is blocked, no username/password required while relaying my email, no dl cap, no nothing, yet netselect can't go through) An open relay? -- Chris. = -- To

Re: Wireless stopped working...

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:52:55PM +0100, laura eznarriaga wrote: My Dell Latitude C610 with an Atheros AR5212/5213 mini-PCI card (according to Hardware information) has been connecting to my wireless network for a good month. Then, it stopped working. It says connected,

Re: comments about Debian based Xandros

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:53:29PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:47:44PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: Xandros, you should get support from them, only. Debian has 16,000+ packages. Most of the derivitaves do not use all them. So, if you need a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~#

Re: [OT] Naming Schemes

2008-03-11 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:42:39PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: On 3/9/08, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:55PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: Hey, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holly_(Red_Dwarf) It's from Red Dwarf, a british comedy set ~ 3

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-15 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 09:11:00PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: No need to look at /usr/share/fonts. In /usr/local/share/fonts you could create any hierarchy you like. A few examples: /usr/local/share/fonts/tnrl2bi_.afm /usr/local/share/fonts/tnrl2bi_.pfb [..]

Re: Question about Desktop Environments

2008-03-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 08:29:21PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 07:34:04PM -0500, Jonathan Jacobs wrote: GNOME and KDE are the ones that I have. But, is there one out there that looks like XP. I am going to install Debian on my mothers computer and she is

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:16:52AM +0100, Vincent Bachelier wrote: Hi, I have a issue with IBM DB2 V9.5 (the express version) in 32 bits. I have install it on a 64 bits arch without any problem, on debian But in 32 bits, on a Bi-Xeon with 4g of ram, during installation they say

Re: gnome-network-manager broken? In testing, that is.

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Mar 21, 2008 at 10:52:58PM -0400, Patrick Wiseman wrote: I just updated my testing system, and NetworkManager seems busted. The applet can find no network connections, but my eth0 connects. Well, you are running the testing distribution, which means you are one of the testers of the

Re: network-manager stopped dynamically recognizing my network

2008-03-23 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 22, 2008 at 10:06:12AM +0100, markus wrote: Hello, I safe-upgraded yesterday (22.03.2008) an have exactly the same problem: Neither eth0 nor wlan0 are working anymore. Unfortunately, I have no idea why. Are you running stable or testing/unstable? The statement: Unfortunately,

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:51:23AM +0100, Strong Cypher wrote: Hi, Thanks for answer So here all collection I can do to find the problem : Yeah there is some difference ... perhaps I could try to copy the kernel config of redhat on a debian with the same version of kernel and see ... I

/etc/hosts + resolvconf (was Re: associating names and addresses)

2008-03-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 24, 2008 at 09:21:22AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Douglas anyone else interested, At Sun, 16 Mar 2008 20:12:44 -0400 Douglas Tutty wrote, # /etc/hosts file 127.0.0.1 peasthope.yi.orgjoule localhost ^^

Re: no sound on compaq armada 7770dmt with ess-1878 sound card

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 07:00:25PM -0700, joseph lockhart wrote: well i have been working on getting an old compaq armada 7770dmt up and running with debian etch 4.0r2. everything works good, only i cannot get alsa to find the sound card at boot, sound card is a ess-1878. added the sound

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:30:16PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: are searching for completely unrelated terms (say, Barack Obama or gravid platypus [0]) more than they used to. Daniel [0] I think the next Ubuntu release should be named gravid platypus, don't you? ;-) They tend

Re: /etc/hosts + resolvconf (was Re: associating names and addresses)

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 09:39:22PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:22:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# apt-cache policy resolvconf resolvconf: Installed: (none) [..] So thats ok? But If resolvconf is installed

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 08:43:53AM -0600, Walt L. Williams wrote: Greetings all I just made the move from SuSE 10.3 to Debian Etch. When I updated from SuSE 10.0 to 10.3 I found myself disgusted at how unpolished and rough it was. Things that worked before didn't after the update. XMMS

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-03-29 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:46:19AM +0100, cypherstrong wrote: I have already try to change it manually but DB2 auto rewrite the shmmax value Even in redhat? But it works in redhat? I have try to start db2 and after set the shmmax, but they still crash with same error. Annoying. Perhaps

Re: apache2 does not display blosxom blog

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 05:12:34PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: Faced with the prospect of frequent regular updates to WordPress (entirely too much hassle; this appears to be a result of the recent acquisition of WordPress by Google(?)), I am considering a return to blosxom. But I have

Re: Just testing.

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 07:08:02PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/29/08 16:19, steve wrote: Chris Walters wrote: | Just testing, because I haven't gotten a message from this list for over | 12 hours. | | Regards, | Chris 2nd

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 01:19:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Mar 28, 2008 at 02:38:32PM +1100, Rich Healey wrote: 9.2 was the only version i ever used (and didn't totally hate), it was the only distro that everything worked off the bat with my ancient laptop, debian with 99% of

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 02:09:10PM +1100, Owen Townend wrote: Hey, They also alphabetically increment with each release and Gutsy Gibbon, Hardy Herron and Intrepid Ibex are the current timeline releases for 7.10, 8.04 and 8.10 respectively. So it'll have to be 'j' onwards. How about Jovial

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-03-31 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from you\r xsessions...? :P Can it be erased? I've no need to troubleshoot as I'm not experiencing any problems that I know about. Not a good idea to erase log files. Once

Re: Wireless

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:09:30AM -0400, Jonathan Smith wrote: Hello, Hi, What is the best way to obtain wireless internet on Debian. I have version 4.0. Please read: http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html As root, what is the output of the following command:

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 05:22:13PM +0200, cypherstrong wrote: Ok in fact what I have saw is this First, db2 start with 256m share memory ... So it's ok, they are be able to do it on both system Second, they try to change by following the memory of the system On redhat, it's ok On debian,

Re: I would like to give my congradulation

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 10:52:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 09:02:18AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 11:00:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: I think xmms is no more anyway. A number

Re: Postfix Access Problem

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:36:28PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Ran apt-get install postfix and then fetchmail. Fetchmail saw the messages but could not post them (and, therefore did not purge them). Have you got procmail or maildrop installed? tail /var/log/syslog reported /etc/mail did

Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 04:17:33PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 06:06:03PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 03/31/08 17:42, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 01:54:44PM -0500, Vikki Roemer wrote: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 2:42 AM, Chris Bannister

ipw3945 wireless gnome-network-manager

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, Thought this might be handy for someone. - Forwarded message from Stuart Prescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] - User-Agent: KMail/1.9.7 From: Stuart Prescott [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 10:10:14 + To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: wireless puzzle, Lenovo T60, 2.6.24 Hi

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:37:25AM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 06:35:41PM +1300, Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: On Mon, Mar 31, 2008 at 12:45:16PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: ~/.xsession-errors (this one is 98 MB) ... the errors from

Re: Suggest one tool to collect favorite web pages?

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 11:44:16AM -0400, Michael Yang wrote: Hi guys: Is there any good tools you can recommend to save the web pages? When I find some pages that I'm interested in, or some good articles, I would like to save it (the content, not the link url) on my system, so that I can

Re: NameVirtualHost and dynamic subdomains on apache.

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
[Please don't top post, and please trim your quotes] On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 01:05:14PM -0400, Michael Habashy wrote: Steve - I am still testing, but I believe my issue was around disabling the 000-default config that comes with apache and debain. Once i disabled it, I was good to go..it

Re: Postfix Access Problem Procmail

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 09:50:32AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Ok, its probably a procmail problem. procmail is installed but there is no procmailrc (and I don't believe there was one on the other computer either ). Waste of time installing procmail without one. :-) I have never

Re: Sony VAIO support, anyone have experience?

2008-04-02 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 03:32:49PM +0100, Noah Slater wrote: Hello, I am wanting to buy a new laptop primarily to move away from PowerPC so that my machine is better supported by a default Debian installation. I really like the look of the VAIOs but wanted to know if anyone has any

Re: Debian? Not true GNU/Linux?? Say it isn't so!

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 09:39:00PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: as RMS would in saying closed source is unethical. I also have to wonder if he would have the same stance if, when he started that crusade, he weren't at a university, but had to make a living and pay the bills and pay for

Re: IBM DB2 V9.5 32 bits failed to allocate share memory

2008-04-05 Thread Chris Bannister
On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 11:54:53AM +0200, cypherstrong wrote: Ok After well testing on both system ... I have found that DB2 V9.5 FixPack 0 doesn't work on 32 bits system properly Redhat sets automatically some sysctl value after installation: kernel.shmmax So that's why db2 don't crash

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 06:51:07PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: On Apr 5, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I have seen direct evidence of the problem inherent in reply-to munging. We had a student reply to an email thinking she was replying only to the instructor and instead sent

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:18:23PM -0500, Mark Allums wrote: Hal Vaughan wrote: Yes, it is an attack on the language, since the other discussion (in terms of software) is a matter of degree and freedom is slavery is dealing with exact opposites. (Where have I heard that phrase about

Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:14:17PM -0500, Butch Kemper wrote: [snip] #

grep trick

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
Hi, If you work on the command line, here is a handy grep trick. In your .bashrc put: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' You can always try different values of GREP_COLOR. Although I can't seem to get yellow. Remember to: source .bashrc before trying it. --

Re: Install Memcache in debian

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:52:29AM +1000, hce wrote: Hi, While I am building and installing Memcache in debian, the README says If using Linux, you need a kernel with epoll.. Is the debian 4.0 uses kernel with epoll? Default 2.6.22-4-686 kernel from backports: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep -i

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #685

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:06:13AM -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: -Did any of you notice that Iceweasel has been updated to 2.0.0.13 in Etch, but is still at 2.0.0.12 in Lenny ? Seems puzzling... Maybe there's a reason for that... That was a security update for Iceweasel in Etch:

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2008 #685

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:06:13AM -0400, El Amigo De La Playa wrote: As of the talk about having kids or not, you need to have a global vision, not only a US vision. Yes, there are too many people on the planet, but most poor people from under-developed nation don't have anything else than

Re: Postfix Access Problem Procmail

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 02, 2008 at 06:13:20PM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Chis, I have attached the output of postconf -n and the contents of muttrc and master.cf. I really appreciate the help and did not mean to be unresponsive. I just felt obligated to keep trying to work things out

Reply to list (was Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question.)

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [..] Regarding: http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html yeah, it's tough. It was also a simply avoided mistake. We all make simple mistakes. One that is so simply avoidable should be, IMO. but it's only that, my

[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Let's resurrect Debian Weekly News]

2008-04-07 Thread Chris Bannister
Thought debian-user subscribers might be interested. - Forwarded message from Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] - User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-11) From: Alexander Schmehl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sat, 5 Apr 2008 16:46:53 +0200 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc:

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: Brian McKee [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: Unless they take the time to successfully factor the public key, Can you

pgp key servers (was Re: Suspend not working)

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:48 +0100 Bob Cox [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first time ever I

Re: Suspend not working

2008-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:47:48PM +0100, Bob Cox wrote: On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first time ever I tried suspending the computer from the GDM menu...but nothing happened. I have auto

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:18:07PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a header referred to as Face. Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see is a whole screen of ascii chars. Just as there's a netiquette rule about the number

Re: grep trick

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 06:49:20PM -0500, Kevin Monceaux wrote: On Tue, 8 Apr 2008, Chris Bannister wrote: You can always try different values of GREP_COLOR. Although I can't seem to get yellow. After another moment of Googling, for yellow, use: setenv GREP_COLOR '1;33' or your shell's

Re: grep trick

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:22:08AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike Bird wrote: On Mon April 7 2008 16:03:28 Chris Bannister wrote: export GREP_COLOR=33 alias grep='grep --colour=always' This will break any scripts which assume

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:51:07PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Mon, 7 Apr 2008 02:44:53 +1200 Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Chris, No man is an Island. I'm not a number I'm a free man! 10pts for the program and the actor. The Prisoner - Patrick McGoohan

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:56:32AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: /The Prisoner/, Patrick McGoohan. Google makes this kind of thing too easy. Ooops -1000pts -- Chris. == If you are not subscribed, ask to be CC'd as the Policy of this list is to reply to the list only. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:45:22PM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008, Brad Rogers wrote: unfulfilling. Patrick McGoohan always maintains there's more to it than that. He refuses, however, to be drawn on the subject. Which, in itself is just as weird. :-) No, it's

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest assured that lenny

Re: missing codecs.conf

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 07:45:53AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: Martin, I want to thank you for your explanation. DVD playing is something I've never even thought about. ... the dvd is usually encrypted and you have to decrypt the title first. this is done automatically by libdvdread and

Re: Enabling DMA with new MB (repost)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 04:25:58PM +0300, David Baron wrote: I am reposting since I have received no advice and have not found a solution: After my old far-eastern MB died, replaced with an aopen MB with a somewhat faster 600mhz PIII slot-1 CPU (I was running

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your responses

reporting spam with mutt (was Re: ...)

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:16:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:10:38AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: Go there: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ find the message and click on the button Report as spam on the top right of the page. is there any way to do this

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-09 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. Debian-user is an open list

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 07:44:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:21:42AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Or wonder if you will be stuck at a 2.6.22 kernel because you have a nvidia MX400 because m-a only works with the nvidia-glx from unstable if you try

Re: forgetting to snip

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 10:33:28AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Just a note: Posts recently are becoming many pages long with perhaps a one-liner comment somewhere. People are forgetting to snip. Nah, just lazy. Also, some people are forgetting to word-wrap. Some people might not know

Re: how to fix my broken system..

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:48:15PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 04/11/2008 03:59 AM, Jaisen N.D. wrote: Hai I have a problem here. I use Etch. I have installed a postgresql package from debian backports, with the following command.

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-12 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 05:45:01PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 08:36:26 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:18:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: ... As for everyone else why are we having this crap discussion AGAIN. only a

Re: 2.6.24.4+debian+openvz doesn't work with nvidia-glx

2008-04-17 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 01:50:31PM +0400, Alexander GQ Gerasiov wrote: It's kernel part compiles well, module loads, but Xserver can't get connection to kernel part, and says something like could not initialize device. Nvidia driver version 169.12-1 from Debian Sid. Is the card supported by

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:14:08PM +1000, Owen Townend wrote: Hey, Try vim, once you get your head around the way it works it is an immensely powerful editor. There are many 'cheat sheet' type reference sheets available if you google a bit which, when stuck to a nearby wall, help out as you

Re: Source code editor

2008-04-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:23:49PM +0100, Mark Clarkson wrote: Hi Tero, Vim is great for this but has a steep learning curve. Vim is also tuned for touch typists, which eventually pushed me into learning touch typing, which is great, especially for night time coding. One really simple and

Re: Mount problem SID

2008-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 01:42:56PM +0200, Asuka Langley wrote: Hello I have a big problem.. to be honest this problem belongs to a friend of mine, just he can't speak english, and he is blind, so it's a bit difficult. So..the problem He have this line in his fstab: /dev/sdb1 /media/disk2

Re: iptables rule for streaming

2008-04-20 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 07:32:43PM +0200, Shams Fantar wrote: Hi, With iptables, which are the rules to use to be able for streaming (audio/video) protocol ? Have a look at shorewall. You will need to know the ports the streaming protocol uses. -- Chris. == One, with God, is always a

Re: Re: Urgent: upgrading ipw3945 to 2.6.24

2008-04-21 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sat, Apr 19, 2008 at 11:52:01PM -0700, Leo L. Schwab wrote: I tried the stock Debian kernel 2.6.24 plus firmware-iwlwifi from Sid but although the wireless card does seem to be recognized it doesn't connect. I spent several days wrestling with it but gave up in the end and stayed with

Re: Qt4-config Qt4-designer

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 09:42:17AM -0500, lostson wrote: On Sunday 20 April 2008 09:33, Robin wrote: Try update-menus as root That brought in qt4-designer in the debian menu but nothing anywhere else I have qt4-config as well but that one is not showing up weird, thanks though never

Re: debian utility question

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 05:45:26AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: Does debian have a utility I can run to check and repair disk permissions? On a mac under applications and utilities and under disk repair utility there's a function for repair disk permissions which can check permissions

Re: pdf plugin

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 21, 2008 at 07:31:46PM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: when I click download it is meant to open a new tab and display in there. it opens the new tab but then starts a new window for xpdf this is the relevant line repeat noisy swallow(Xpdf) fill: xpdf -g +9000+9000 $file Can you

Re: website front-end

2008-04-22 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 20, 2008 at 07:30:16PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: I thought of writing a really minimal web-site front end, that would only look at incoming http requests and forward them to other processes, possibly on other machines, depending on the site name or pther parts of the URL. But

Re: Where to go to learn about reducing electricity use?

2007-01-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 07:38:00PM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:06:02PM -0600, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: I would like to make my Etch box use less power, but I'm having a hard time consolidating all the information I'm finding. Is there a package I can install or

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