Re: Tax software for Debian (Lenny)?

[Michael Paulsen]

Mark wrote:
I've done the typical Internet scrubbing and didn't find anything 
specific to tax software for Debian (something similar to TurboTax, 
for example).  I found a few interesting options but nothing in the 
official Debian packages.  Here's what I have so far as options 
(on-line versions), any insight into the most Linux/Debian-friendly 
one of these?  I live in the USA and run Lenny on the machine I"ll do 
my taxes with.


-taxact.com  http://www.taxactonline.com/
-taxslayer.com  http://www.taxslayer.com/
-taxgeek (looks a couple years old) http://taxgeek.sourceforge.net/

Thanks!
Mark

I have also used taxact for many years and have found it fast and easy 
(Debian Lenny and Firefox 3.6).  I've looked for a Debian alternative 
but as yet have not found one.  Gnucash is a bookeeping system with tax 
tracking, but it won't file your taxes for you.  For free on-line 
federal tax filing solutions check with irs.gov they have many options 
available


mtp5150


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Re: debian tools for public safety

[Michael Paulsen]

I don't know of any Linux or Debian specific packages either. As
Rogelio said www.arrl.org is a good place to start and for loads of
Disaster Planning information and instructions try
http://www.training.fema.gov/IS/

On 6/23/08, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> * Rogelio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jun 23 16:22 -0500]:
>> Ron Johnson wrote:
>>> What exactly (or, even, more specifically) are you asking for?
>>
>> Sorry, I was unclear - this is a general question on deb packages that
>> might be of value to people who are interested in building public safety
>> resources for future emergencies in their local communities.
>>
>> The Sahanna project has a debian pkg, and I was wondering what other
>> debian programs others might have used in similar situations (streaming
>> scanner info across the internet, GIS updates, etc)
>
> I don't know about Linux in general or Debian in particular, but you
> may want to get in touch with the local amateur radio emergency
> response groups to see how you may become more involved, if that's your
> desire.  A good place to start is http://www.arrl.org
>
> - Nate >>
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Re: INQUIRY for DEBIAN LINUX

[Michael Paulsen]

On 6/9/08, 서청원 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I need the kernel version 2.6.18-3-686 but I couldn't find anywhere.
> How to get the kernel version and what is OS version included 2.6.18-3-686?

http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-image-2.6.18-6-686_2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch4_i386.deb

> Cheers
> CheonWon

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

Florian,

You assume correctly I inserted;

  deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free

into /etc/apt/sources.list.

Thank you for pointing me in the right direction, I'll get your
suggestion a try and see what happens.

Regards,
Michael

On 3/24/08, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 17:02:18 -0700, Michael Paulsen wrote:
> > On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen wrote:
> > > Hi ya,
> > >
> > > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> > > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> > > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> > > of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> > > easiest way to do this?
> > >
> > > Thank You,
> > > mtp5150
> > >
> >
> > STATUS: Completed, Solved
> >
> > Hi Ya,
> >
> > First off let me thank all of you for providing input, advice, and
> > support.  I have successfully merged all of the CDs on to a hard drive
> > partition and it is working with one minor glitch.  I keep getting the
> > following error, "warning the following packages cannot be
> > authenticated".  APT-GET INSTALL does allow me to continue, so
> > everything is working.  I just don't know how to resolve this error
> > message, yet.
>
> You can try to put
>
> APT::Authentication::TrustCDROM "true";
>
> into a file in /etc/apt/apt.conf.d/. This gets rid of the warning
> message for CDrom sources, but I am not sure if it will work for your
> configuration: I assume that you use a "file" declaration in your
> sources.list to refer to your merged archive on the hard disk. If this
> is not covered by the TrustCDROM directive (I never tried) then you may
> have to go through the procedure described in the ARCHIVE CONFIGURATION
> section of "man apt-secure".
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Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi ya,
>
> Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> easiest way to do this?
>
> Thank You,
> mtp5150
>

STATUS: Completed, Solved

Hi Ya,

First off let me thank all of you for providing input, advice, and
support.  I have successfully merged all of the CDs on to a hard drive
partition and it is working with one minor glitch.  I keep getting the
following error, "warning the following packages cannot be
authenticated".  APT-GET INSTALL does allow me to continue, so
everything is working.  I just don't know how to resolve this error
message, yet.

For anyone wanting to do the same, here is what I did;

!!--!!
!!  WARING: I'm am an amateur at Debian/Linux use the following at
your own RISK   !!
!!--!!

1)  Listed all the .iso files to the text file "filelist.txt" with ls
*.iso > filelist.txt
2)  Edited the text file "filelist.txt" and arranged them in the order I wanted
 (This is not a necessity but I wanted to process them in disk order)
3)  Wrote this script to do the following;
 3a)  Mount each iso file.
 3b)  Copy each iso file to /mnt/maddog2/debian.
 3c)  Unmount each iso file.
 3d)  Repeat until all iso files are done.

---SNIP---
#!/bin/bash
#
#  FILENAME: cpfiles
#
#  Short Bash script to:
#  Mount each iso file.
#  Copy each iso file to /mnt/maddog2/debian.
#  Unmount each iso file.
#  Repeat until all iso files are done.
#
#  If someone else is using the script be sure to change all the
directories to match your
#  system.

for file in $(cat /home/michael/filelist.txt);do
mount -t iso9660 -o loop /home/michael/linux/$file /mnt/old
cp -R /mnt/old/* /mnt/maddog2/debian/
umount /mnt/old
done
---SNIP---

4)  apt-ftparchive packages ./ | gzip > Packages.gz
 This should probabley be done for;
./etch/main/
./etch/contrib/
./etch/non-free/
with each resulting Package.gz file moved to;
./dists/etch/main/binary-i386/
./dists/etch/contrib/binary-i386/
./dists/etch/non-free/binary-i386/
Although, I'm am not 100% certain, as I have not done it, Yet.
5)  In /etc/sources.list create the following and delete or comment
out everything else.
 5a) deb file:/mnt/maddog2/debian etch contrib main non-free
  NOTE: Be sure to change the directory to match your system.

NOTES: 1) The merged CD's required 17G of hard drive space.
 2) During APT package installation I now receive an error message
 regarding libraries that cannot be authenticated.
APT allows you
 to accept these libraries without verification, and
so far nothing
 has gone wrong.
 3) The CD copy process took several hours as well did the
apt-ftparchive command.
 So be prepared to sit and wait.  Took me most of the
day on my P-III 1gig box.

Thank You,
mtp5150


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Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/21/08, Tom Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/21/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition
> > in preparation for my first attempt. Mean while I found a program
> > APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on
> > it yet, but I'm wondering if this is something I should use.
>
> I think you should use it if you were planning on setting up a local
> Debian mirror for your other computers there. Otherwise, the brute
> force cp approach looks easier.
>
> Tom

Yea, I'm thinking your right.  Been looking at/for documentation on
APT-MOVE and I'm thinking its more complicated then I want to handle.

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Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi ya,
>
> Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> easiest way to do this?
>
> Thank You,
> mtp5150
>

Hey all,

I haven't tried merging a the CD's yet. I'm cleaning of a HD partition
in preparation for my first attempt.  Mean while I found a program
APT-MOVE, anyone know about this? I haven't looked up any man pages on
it yet, but I'm wondering if this is something I should use.

Thanks,
mtp5150


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Re: source for mechanical keyswitches

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/20/08, Reid Priedhorsky <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Thu, 20 Mar 2008 18:20:21 +0100, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:12:12AM -0500, Reid Priedhorsky wrote:
> >> Dear All,
> >>
> >> I would like to rebuild a keyboard that uses mechanical keyswitches (see
> >> previous post). Do any of you know where I can buy new mechanical
> >> keyswitches?
> >
> > If they are like IBM model M clicky keyswitches, do they ever actually
> > wear out? I'm doubtful. But regardless, if they are the same keyswitch
> > then check out www.clickykeyboards.com, they may have a source.
>
> No, they're a bit different. They look like
>
> http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/fk2001/swassybl2_s.jpg
> http://sandy55.fc2web.com/keyboard/fk2001/FCS_sldr.jpg
>
> though the internals are a bit different.
>
> I'm pretty sure it was the switches wearing out, since a handful of the
> most-used keys gradually became less and less reliable.
>
> Thanks again,
>
> Reid
>
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Rather than replace the switches, you might try using some contact
cleaner.  Maybe they're just dirty.  Should be able to find electronic
contact cleaner at Radio Shack or a electronic hobby store near you.

Regards,
mtp5150


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Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/20/08, Tom Goulet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 3/20/08, Michael Paulsen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> > of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> > easiest way to do this?
>
> mount /cdrom
> cp -R /cdrom .
> umount /cdrom
>
> Repeat.
>
> You can use dpkg directly on the archives, of course, but you can also
> tell APT to use a
> file:/ resource in /etc/apt/sources.list. See man sources.list for
> more information.
>
> Sure copying the CDs over and over again will overwrite some files,
> but none of those files
> will be Debian packages. They would be README.html and things like that.
>
> Tom
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Tom,

Thanks I was worried about over-writing the files but as you pointed
out they're extra junk anyway so why worry.  The "cp -R" option is
what I was overlooking, when I was trying do this on my own. I'm gonna
try it today and see what happens.

Much Thanks,
mtp5150


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Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

On 3/20/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Michael Paulsen wrote:
> > Hi ya,
> >
> > Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
> > time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
> > to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
> > of all the CD's when installing new packages? What would the be the
> > easiest way to do this?
> >
> > Thank You,
> > mtp5150
> >
> >
>
> Is there a reason that you are not using net accessible repositories?
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Jeff,

Actually, there is.  I forgot to mention that due to my rural home I'm
subjected to an extremely slow dial-up internet connection.  We're
talking less than 33k most of the time, and quite often as low at 24k.
 I know, I'm back in the 80's time frame with connections like that.
:)

Thanks,
mtp5150


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Merging all 30+ Debian CD's onto hard drive

[Michael Paulsen]

Hi ya,

Debian Etch now has over 30 CD's. I'm bored with CD swapping every
time I want to install a new package. Is it possible to merge the CD's
to my hard drive and direct APT or DPKG to use the hard drive instead
of all the CD's when installing new packages?  What would the be the
easiest way to do this?

Thank You,
mtp5150


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