Re: QUARANTINED: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2006-04-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Hex Star wrote: > Hmm, this is the second one of these virus alert emails I've gotten from > this list...what's going on? Are people really sending emails to these > lists that have viruses attatched to 'em? (Or for that matter any of the > below mentioned file types) The problem is that someone i

Can't apt-get install kde for amd64.

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Juranich
Right now, I'm using the mirror at the University of Arizona as my main debian archive (I guess there's no "official" debian repository for amd64?). Oh yeah, I'm trying to run etch/testing. So after doing an apt-get update, I do an `apt-get install kde', which fails horribly because of version co

Re: domain bandwidth tracking

2006-04-12 Thread Kim Christensen
* Brian Clark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-04-12 10:09:26 -0400]: > Hi there, > > I'm looking for something which can report total bandwidth usage for a > single domain on a shared Debian server. Any suggestions? > > Thanks for reading! > -- > Brian Clark > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

X error : Major opcode: 151

2006-04-12 Thread Laura Palmer
I just used aptitude to upgrade my debian/unstable box (the previous full update was on 2006-03-19), and then several graphical programs are now having one same error. For some it is fatal, for some it only prints an error report. These errors don't happen _at all_ when I launch windowmaker instea

Help with Hardware {Not Debian Specific}

2006-04-12 Thread Lynn Kilroy
My machine has twin WD1600JS SATA RAID hard drives. I have them setup to mirror each other, but I find them unreliable and I suspect heat trouble because they get really hot to the touch. They are not installed in a server {which is strange} and there is no room to install most of the hard dr

Re: QUARANTINED: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2006-04-12 Thread Hex Star
Hmm, this is the second one of these virus alert emails I've gotten from this list...what's going on? Are people really sending emails to these lists that have viruses attatched to 'em? (Or for that matter any of the below mentioned file types) On 4/12/06, WorkgroupMail Content Filter <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: etch - error upgrading xlibmesa-gl_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb

2006-04-12 Thread heba
2006/4/12, Mirto Silvio Busico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I've done what you suggested, but there is always an error. > What can I do? > > Thanks > Mirto You try this, you could resolve : -first command: apt-get -f install -Second command: apt-get -u update -Third command: apt-get -u upgrad

Re: Translucency in KDE too slow (Composite)

2006-04-12 Thread [KS]
[KS] wrote: > > However the translucency doesn't make the whole window translucent. Its > just the window decorations which become translucent! Is it really > possible to make the whole window translucent using X.org? > Spoke too soon without properly checking the options. The "Apply translucenc

domain bandwidth tracking

2006-04-12 Thread Brian Clark
Hi there, I'm looking for something which can report total bandwidth usage for a single domain on a shared Debian server. Any suggestions? Thanks for reading! -- Brian Clark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

NVidia 1.0.7174 driver and backports.org kernel 2.6.15

2006-04-12 Thread Dave Witbrodt
This is for anyone toying with getting the "legacy" NVidia proprietary drivers (NVIDIA-Linux-x86-1.0-7174-pkg1) to work with newer kernels such as linux-source-2.6.15 available at www.backports.org. I had never compiled a kernel before yesterday, having only been a Debian GNU/Linux user since

Re: Translucency in KDE too slow (Composite)

2006-04-12 Thread [KS]
Florian Kulzer wrote: > [KS] wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I was trying to enable translucency(in KDE) on my debian unstable box. >> After editing the xorg.conf for using the composite extension, I >> restarted X and it worked. However, I was a bit dismayed with the >> performance. It is so slow that

print to PDF in mozilla

2006-04-12 Thread H.S.
I have tried to install a virtual PDF printer in cups and it gets listed as postscript/pdfwriter (pdfwriter is the name I gave it) in Mozilla print dialog. I can print a web page to a PDF file by selecting that printer (and by NOT asking it to print to file). But that PDF file is named genericall

Firefox "Reloads" Due to KDesktop Change?!

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
A while back, I had mailed the list concerning a problem with Firefox: Every now and again, it would "refresh" the page. This entailed the programme freezing, the page part (under the tab bar) turning grey and the page, when it un-froze, returning to the top, regardless of where it had been prior t

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread John Hasler
Peter Hugosson-Miller writes: > While we're on the subject of unusual spelling variants, can someone > explain why, in American English, "moron" is spelt "bush" It's actually spelled "politician". "Bush" ("blair" in the UK) is just slang. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 09:49, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su > Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: > sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su > Terminal? Try

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 17:31:23 -0700 Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: > > has a valid domain, which results in actual sending and delivery > > of an e-mail. Robots which mine this address will flood the net > > with e-mails which must be discarded by earthlink.net. > >

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Ali Milis
> Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? Basbang! Hare genee masih ngomongin kolor ijo?! -- Raja Ali M.I. Ilias, Bengkalis, https://wiki.ubuntu.com/AliMilis Counted GNU/Linux Engineer # 405138 - http://counter.li.org/

Re: installing kde

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 22:35 -0500, lostson wrote: > Thought I would sit down and install KDE for fun today so i did a > apt-get install kde apt-get does its thing and lists all the packages, > then it tells me this > > LostSonMedia Change: Please insert the disc labelled > ‘Debian GNU/Linux test

Re: apt-build

2006-04-12 Thread S. M. Ibrahim
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 13:04, Adam Porter wrote: > S. M. Ibrahim (lavluda) wrote: > > Any body here useing apt-build. I am interested to know your openioun > > about this tool. > > I think it has great, great potential, but it still has some important bugs > that can make it unusable at times (

installing kde

2006-04-12 Thread lostson
Thought I would sit down and install KDE for fun today so i did a apt-get install kde apt-get does its thing and lists all the packages, then it tells me this LostSonMedia Change: Please insert the disc labelled ‘Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-1 (20060314)’ in

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread hendrik
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 03:23:02AM -0400, David R. Litwin wrote: > > To put it into perspective, what we think of the Metric system is what the > > rest of the world thinks of English measure. A gigabyte is 1024 MB, not > > 1000, dammit! > > > Really? There is a metric byte-system? I've never he

Re: Alsamixer: no master volume

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- Benjam$B!&(BVilloslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > The master volume control doesn't appears in > alsamixer. I only see > > - Headphones > - PCM > - Capture > - Input So > - Mux > > I can ear sound. In kmixer I can modify the volume > with the heaphones slicer, > but in p

gnome stones

2006-04-12 Thread ChadDavis
Can some one tell me how to get past the level where the green goo is spreading and there aren't enough diamonds to satisfy your requirement? This is on the atari caves.

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
Expect for gtk.All things that use gtk (Firefox, Synaptic and Gnome itself) do not run. News: This problem is fixed with the new xserver-xorg-core update.What went wrong the first time round? And why in the world did it remove xserver-xorg in the first place so that I had to install xorg? -- —A wat

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Fletcher
--- tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > > driver for your wireless card depends on the > hardware > > revision of your particular card. For your card > there > > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is > reported > > to have a work

Re: Sid: Nvidia kernel 1.0.8756-2

2006-04-12 Thread H.S.
H. S. wrote: > > I guess this might be related. I tried to upgrade a Debian Inspiron 5160 > running 2.6.16 yesterday and saw xorg 7.0 had arrived. However, I cannot > upgrade to it since nvidia-glx 1.0.8756 probably is causing some > problem. Using dist-upgrade option, I see that it needs to be >

QUARANTINED: Returned mail: see transcript for details

2006-04-12 Thread WorkgroupMail Content Filter
The message "Returned mail: see transcript for details" from , sent on 4/12/2006 09:00 was quarantined because it contained either an executable file, a batch file or a screen saver file. All of these types of attachments are considered security risks. Please consult your mail administrator who

Re: kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread lostson
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 20:10:26 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:46 -0500, lostson wrote: > > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:07:40 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: > > > > I am using debian te

Re: kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:46 -0500, lostson wrote: > On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:07:40 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: > > > I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. > > > > 2.4.32 is the latest. 2.4.27 i

Re: network connection

2006-04-12 Thread Kim Christensen
On 4/11/06, anonym ano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello list, > > I've just installed the Debian ech AMD 64 Version on a computer, which > should be a server in the near future. > > These are my first serious steps with Linux, I have never set up such a > system before, just worked with a pos

Re: etch - error upgrading xlibmesa-gl_6.9.0.dfsg.1-6_i386.deb

2006-04-12 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
I've done what you suggested, but there is always an error. What can I do? Thanks Mirto Here the transcript: msb01:~# apt-get -s dist-upgrade Lettura della lista dei pacchetti in corso... Fatto Generazione dell'albero delle dipendenze in corso... Fatto È consigliabile eseguire `apt-get -f in

Building packages with apt-src with --enable-debug?

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Porter
I'm trying to debug some annoying Jabber problems in Kopete. I need to build Kopete with --enable-debug. Naturally, Kopete is part of kdenetwork, which is a huge package. I'd like to build it with apt-src, but I can't find any way to use configure flags. I've also looked at dpkg-buildpackage an

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Steve Lamb
Mike McCarty wrote: > has a valid domain, which results in actual sending and delivery > of an e-mail. Robots which mine this address will flood the net > with e-mails which must be discarded by earthlink.net. Trust me, ELNK deserves it. Any of their customers that turn on their spam filterin

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread David R. Litwin
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote:> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:> >apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to> >7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > >a lot of mail... And here is my mail.I upgraded X to 7.0; it

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:10, Michael M. wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.ht ml Excellent FAQ I think. Thanks! You might want to update #17: "Currently Debi

Re: Sid: Nvidia kernel 1.0.8756-2

2006-04-12 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Curt Howland_, on 04/11/2006 03:07 PM,typed: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi. Up to date Sid, today's upgrade to nvidia-kernel 1.0.8756-2 has not gone well. Glad that I can fall back on the "nv" driver and at least have a working system, if not hardware accelerat

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 04:30:54PM -0700, Michael M. wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to > >7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate > >a lot of mail... > > > > > I ran Debian Etch for some mo

Re: kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread lostson
On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 18:07:40 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: > > I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. > > 2.4.32 is the latest. 2.4.27 is 19 months old. > > > Will this pose any problems because im u

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: apt-cache policy shows that xserver-xorg and x11-common just went to 7.0.10 today (I upgraded yesterday morning) so this is sure to generate a lot of mail... I ran Debian Etch for some months, but about two weeks ago I decided to switch to Sid. This morning I re

nslookup: something strange

2006-04-12 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
is this normal? > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ nslookup > 167.34.4.12 Server: 172.18.4.1 Address:172.18.4.1#53 ** server can't find 12.4.34.167.in-addr.arpa: NXDOMAIN it works ok for direct queries > www.google.com Server: 172.18.4.1 Address:172.18.4.1#53 Non-authoritat

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:10, Michael M. wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.ht > >ml > Excellent FAQ I think. > Thanks! > You might want to update #17: > "Currently Debian does not offer any security updates to tes

Re: kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:07 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: > > I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. > > 2.4.32 is the latest. 2.4.27 is 19 months old. > > > Will this pose any problems because im using the testing bran

Re: kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 17:17 -0500, lostson wrote: > I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. 2.4.32 is the latest. 2.4.27 is 19 months old. > Will this pose any problems because im using the testing branch ?? Itching to install a 2.4 kernel??? It's been 5 years since

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Mike McCarty wrote: Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: [...] My e-mail address is "rather uninviting" to spammers :) Apropos of this, it could be done better. [EMAIL PROTECTED] has a valid domain, Which is perfectly acceptable and necessary. which results in actual sending and

Re: syslog

2006-04-12 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Adam Hardy wrote: [...] I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I don't know which facility.priority it is being logged with. How can I find out? I recently had much fun (sarcasm) doing this. The only way I could find was to create separate logfiles for each facility: auth.*

Re: Gnome sound system

2006-04-12 Thread Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much)
Mark Grieveson wrote: Try to adduser yourusername audio and restart gnome. I have the exact same problem. And, I get this result from the advice given: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su Password: debian:/home/mark# adduser mark audio The user `mark' is already a member of `audio'. So, what do I try n

Re: apt-build

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Porter
S. M. Ibrahim (lavluda) wrote: > Any body here useing apt-build. I am interested to know your openioun > about this tool. I think it has great, great potential, but it still has some important bugs that can make it unusable at times (like simply not finding a source package, when $apt-get source$

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:31, Toby Satchell wrote: Hi, I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with it as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to go for, Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with for a

Re: syslog

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Adam Hardy wrote: I have way too much logging coming from hddtemp, which outputs a couple of lines every 5 seconds into /var/log/syslog. I tried to find a config file to control this but found nothing in /etc/default/hddtemp, or any reference from man hddtemp. If you look at /etc/init.d/hddtem

kernel 2.4.27

2006-04-12 Thread lostson
I am using debian testing and am itching to install kernel 2.4.27. Will this pose any problems because im using the testing branch ?? -- LostSon http://www.lostsonsvault.org I Want To Believe pgpRqWtbc2H1c.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: DHCP not working

2006-04-12 Thread Strake
One interface is a Marvell 88e1115 PHY (PCI), the other is 88e8053 (PCIe). I don't know what modules to load; it doesn't say in the manual and my Google search turned up nothing useful. On 4/12/06, Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Strake wrote:> Hi all,> I recently installed a new moth

Re: Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Florian Kulzer wrote: Nick Lidakis wrote: After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to

Re: / full?

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Adam Collins wrote: This little gem might help you diagnose your space issues from the command line, as it's saved me many times: # du -m -x --max-depth=1 / | sort -n You'll get a listing of top level directories disk usage (in MB) for the / filesystem only, sorted by size in ascending orde

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-12 Thread Almut Behrens
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:23:00PM -0400, T wrote: > On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:17:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > >> We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of > >> the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to Linux? > >> > >> I tried to do it under Linu

Re: thunderbird -> kmail

2006-04-12 Thread Michael M.
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:23, Michael M. wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Wow! Kmail's mailing list support is more than what I dreamed of. There is reply to list feature. Filtering based on mailing lists is a breeze. Out of curiosity, how is it eas

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:35:03AM -0400, Rick Friedman wrote: ... > I decided to restore my system from yesterday's backup. I am up and running > normally again but am at a loss as to what is causing X to fail upon startup. > I'm hesitant to upgrade again just to see the messages that appear in

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figu

Re: DHCP not working

2006-04-12 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
Strake wrote: > Hi all, > I recently installed a new motherboard (an MSI K8N Diamond Plus) in my > PC, and now DHCP fails to autoconfigure the network during installation > of Debian 3.1. This is weird, because not only has Debian 3.1 > successfully used DHCP to configure the network on previous oc

Re: two promise controllers

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 22:57 -0700, Matthew Ewanchuk wrote: > I'm trying to add a promise fasttrak 66 to my existing system. it > also has an onboard promise controller. > > Without the ft66, the 4 drives on the onboard promise work fine and > are hde-hdh. When I put the ft66 in, the drives get s

DHCP not working

2006-04-12 Thread Strake
Hi all,I recently installed a new motherboard (an MSI K8N Diamond Plus) in my PC, and now DHCP fails to autoconfigure the network during installation of Debian 3.1. This is weird, because not only has Debian 3.1 successfully used DHCP to configure the network on previous occasions (with everything

two promise controllers

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew Ewanchuk
I'm trying to add a promise fasttrak 66 to my existing system.  it also has an onboard promise controller.Without the ft66, the 4 drives on the onboard promise work fine and are hde-hdh.  When I put the ft66 in, the drives get seen during boot as hdi-hdm; however they are not accessible in any way.

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Chris
Thanks, I'll look into sux On Wednesday 12 April 2006 19:14, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote: > > Hello, > > > > Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an > > su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up su

Alsamixer: no master volume

2006-04-12 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hello, The master volume control doesn't appears in alsamixer. I only see - Headphones - PCM - Capture - Input So - Mux I can ear sound. In kmixer I can modify the volume with the heaphones slicer, but in programs such as XMMS your volume control doesn't works. Kradio doesn't works (log say

Re: xorg 7.0 in unstable for amd64 architecture has unmet dependencies

2006-04-12 Thread Ron Johnson
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 00:26 -0500, David Broome wrote: > Package: xorg > Version: 7:1:0:10 > > Hello. > I don't see this reported and just wanted to make sure since I have never > file a bug report before. > > When upgrade to xorg 1:7.0 in unstable, it has unmet dependencies. Here is > the >

xorg 7.0 in unstable for amd64 architecture has unmet dependencies

2006-04-12 Thread David Broome
Package: xorg Version: 7:1:0:10 Hello. I don't see this reported and just wanted to make sure since I have never file a bug report before. When upgrade to xorg 1:7.0 in unstable, it has unmet dependencies. Here is the output: The following packages have unmet dependencies. xorg: Depends:

Re: gnome - window manager

2006-04-12 Thread debianista . deb
yes metacity is installed and is in the good place this is really weird when I run gnome I haven't return of env | grep SESSION ;(thanksdebianista.deb

webdav problem in nautilus

2006-04-12 Thread H.S.
Hello, In my university, we have access to course materials and related stuff over WebCT. WebCT is (IIRC) software that runs on a WebDAV server. I am able to access the folder and files via Konqueror by replacing the "http" in the WebDAV folder address with "webdav". However, all my attempts to

Re: HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, 12 Apr 2006 19:49:42 +0100 Toby Satchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it > didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. > (Its only a home server and more o

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Hodgins Family
Hey, theo! On Wed, 2006-12-04 at 06:49 +0200, theo wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hodgins Family wrote: > > The short answer is that the French made us do it! > > > > Sorry for that. > > (I also plead guilty for centre/center, theatre/theater, > catalogue/catalog

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread theo
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hodgins Family wrote: > The short answer is that the French made us do it! > Sorry for that. (I also plead guilty for centre/center, theatre/theater, catalogue/catalog and utilise/utilize). cheers, theo. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuP

Re: Zero-content responses to ignored threads

2006-04-12 Thread Leonid Grinberg
> Why do people do this? If they're so upset about topic drift or thread > length, why do they insist on making it longer by being a loudmouth baby > about it? Seems counterproductive... It is basic psychology, and if you look at it from the point of view of one person, you will see. Every pers

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Luis Finotti
Zen Garden wrote: > I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the > X server. > Here the sollution: > > user$ xhost + (press enter) [snip] This seems to be a security risk... "sux" seems to be a better idea... (Or so I heard.) :-) HTH, Luis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

HDD errors, completely confused.

2006-04-12 Thread Toby Satchell
Hi, I tried to connect to my Samba share on my Debian machine and it didn't work for some reason. So I decided I would reboot it. (Its only a home server and more of a project/experiment so not that important) But when it came back up and tried to boot into the kernel I got these errors: Cur

Re: Screen resolution problem / unstable

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:56:26AM +0100, Steve Sheldon wrote: > Where my screen resolution has always been stable under SuSE or Fedora, it > doesnt appear to be with Debian. Do you recall if you also used the nv driver on SuSE/Fedora, or did you use nvidia or something else? Also, it would prob

Re: load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread John Schmidt
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 12:14, Ivan Longhi wrote: > hello, > I have 2 alpha machines identical. > they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by > module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek > RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). > The strange thing i

[OT] Unusual quoting styles (was Re: Everything 2 PDF)

2006-04-12 Thread Matthew R. Dempsky
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 11:57:09PM +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > That has gotta be the most unusual quoting style I've ever seen. You must not read the Ubuntu lists. :-) For example: https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-March/069690.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

load order of network interfaces

2006-04-12 Thread Ivan Longhi
hello, I have 2 alpha machines identical. they have 2 net interfaces on board (Digital DS21143 Tulip loaded by module tulip0 and tulip1) and 1 net interface on a pci slot (RealTek RTL8139 loaded by module 8139too). The strange thing is that on a machine eth0 is on tulip0, eth1 is on tulip1 and 8139

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figur

Re: trouble getting my wireless stuff to work

2006-04-12 Thread tom arnall
> Looks like whether or not there's a working Linux > driver for your wireless card depends on the hardware > revision of your particular card. For your card there > appear to be 3 revisions and only 1 (C1) is reported > to have a working native Linux driver. Check out this > link to help you figur

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-12 Thread Mike McCarty
Sumo Wrestler (or just ate too much) wrote: Pascal Hakim wrote: Making people subscribe is a barrier to entry, and we want to make it as easy as possible for people to contribute. [...] That makes sense to me. I think that some people are confused about the difference between spam sent to t

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 06:01:19PM +0100, Bruno wrote: > > Bruno wrote: > > > Hello to All, > > > > > > still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' > > > when > > > calling startx. > > > > > > Hi All, > I have indeed the following error in .xsession-errors file: > > .

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Michael Marsh
On 4/12/06, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > This is a problem that will get worse before it gets better as many > folks using a "corporate solution" have been trained that top posting > is proper. Expect bug reports to flow in the future against "broken" > clients like Mutt... Since HT

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:18, tom arnall wrote: > what is a 'top-poster'? > Question 5 "Avoid top posting and delete unnecessary stuff in the previous email" in http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html answers your question. raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/corn

Re: LD_LIBRARY_PATH under Linux

2006-04-12 Thread T
On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 21:17:44 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> We used the environment var LD_LIBRARY_PATH to give preference/order of >> the libraries that we use. Does this still applied to Linux? >> >> I tried to do it under Linux but didn't success. Here is what I tried: >> >> [...] > > I

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Zen Garden
I used to have te same problem. It is because root cannot access to the X server.Here the sollution:user$ xhost + (press enter)And then:user$ su (without the "-") (press enter)password: (type your root password) root#Now you can launch windows from shell as root.Ciao!Matías.- On 4/12/06, Chris < [E

syslog

2006-04-12 Thread Adam Hardy
I have way too much logging coming from hddtemp, which outputs a couple of lines every 5 seconds into /var/log/syslog. I tried to find a config file to control this but found nothing in /etc/default/hddtemp, or any reference from man hddtemp. I tried excluding it via /etc/syslog,conf, but I d

Re: su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Wed, 2006-04-12 at 18:49 +0200, Chris wrote: > Hello, > > Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su > Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo > kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal? >

Re: Could not start kdeinit ... again !

2006-04-12 Thread Bruno
> Bruno wrote: > > Hello to All, > > > > still receive 'could not start kdeinit. please check your installation' when > > calling startx. > > Are there any interesting messages in ~/.xsession-errors after such a > failed start? > > > I tried : > > apt-get remove kde* > > apt-install kdebase > > > >

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006 Apr 12 07:30 -0500]: > tom arnall wrote: > > what is a 'top-poster'? > > > It's a person who sends a reply to email by putting their response at the top > of the material to which they're responding. Some broken email clients, > notably Microsoft Outlook a

su and X question

2006-04-12 Thread Chris
Hello, Hi I'd like to open X-applications like the in the example below from an su Terminal, but get an Xlib connection error. I have set up sudo so that: sudo kwrite /etc/fstab works, but how come it doesn't in a normal su Terminal? Thanks, Chris athlon:/home/stoffel# kwrite /etc/fstab Xlib

Re: Gnome sound system

2006-04-12 Thread Mark Grieveson
Surachai Locharoen schrieb: I use gnome debian version 2.12. When I enable sound in gnome control panel (enable sound for user action such button click or system alert), The music player program seem to be unable to play sound. It show error message that "the sound device is busy" How could

New X upgrade in unstable makes fonts too big

2006-04-12 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD Athlon64 chip and Debian unstable, i386 port. My monitor is 1024x768. It is 328mm by 246mm (17 in). Today (April 11 2006) X was upgraded in unstable. Now all my fonts are much bigger. Some of the lines returned by "xdpinfo" are: version number:11.0 X.Org version:

Re: Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
Nick Lidakis wrote: After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to get whiteglass running.

Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel

2006-04-12 Thread Pabla,Balbir [Ontario]
Title: Solution Posted: How to make bootable GRUB CD ( IDE CDRW drive) for Debian 3.1 with 2.4 kernel Here is the solution, that worked for me to make bootable GRUB CD for Debian 3.1 server with 2.4 kernel having IDE CD-RW ( Dell PowerEdge 2800 3.6 MHZ). This is useful for booting up your s

Re: Upgrade xorg in Sid breaks link

2006-04-12 Thread Rick Friedman
On Wed April 12 2006 10:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 02:29:12PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 12 Apr 2006, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > > Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > >I just did an upgrade of X in Sid. Numerous packages were removed and > > > >installed (can't r

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 10:55:36AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > >On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 15:12 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > >>>Is your smarthost config working otherwise? if so, just alias root to > >>>'real-' > >>> > >>It isn't. I want to use mail to send email and als

Oh where, oh where has my whiteglass cursor gone??

2006-04-12 Thread Nick Lidakis
After a dist-upgrade today I was happy to see Xorg 7.0 installed on my sid box. After restarting X though, my whiteglass cursor has left me. Checking /etc/X11/cursors/core.theme [Icon Theme] Inherits=whiteglass This was the file I initally edited to get whiteglass running. But still no whiteg

Re: exim4 question

2006-04-12 Thread Casey T. Deccio
On Tue, 2006-04-11 at 10:55 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Casey T. Deccio wrote: > > What happens when you run: > > > > exim4 -bt root > > > /home/hugoTue Apr 11-10:51:14HDC3# exim4 -bt root > R: smarthost for [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >router = smarthost, transport = remote_smt

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 11:42:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 22:53, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > Kent West wrote: > > >>> On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? > > > > > > It's kind of like putting

Re: "zope3" dependency problem

2006-04-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Apr 12, 2006 at 09:02:05AM +0200, Piotr Chamera wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >>I am beginner user of etch (testing) distribution. > >>Installation of "zope3" package causes installation > >>of python2.4 and python2.3. Can I rid off python2.3 > >>somehow? I don't need it. Dependen

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