Re: Kmail................

2009-07-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. What did you move to, Dotan? Thunderbird. I'm actually quite happy with it, even though it does not have a reputation as a good email client. It does need a whole slew of addons to bring it up to standard, though. It works with

Re: Musings on debian-user list

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:53, Tim Beauregard wrote: I recently re-subscribed having been off for about four years. The changes I have noticed are: Good to have you back. 1. Much less traffic. I previously got 250+ posts per day. Now 50-100. Could this be due to the development of ubuntu? I

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 01:40, AG wrote: [snip] Thanks for the many suggestions of applications and approaches. The next step for me is to take each one and do some further research and make a decision. If it would be useful, I'm happy to post back once I've done so and

Re: Installation trouble

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
Plz disable html formatting in gmail. On 2009-07-27 11:05, Matt Seburn wrote: Hi all, I'm having a lot of difficulty getting Debian set up on a server here at work. It has 6 SATA hard drives and (I think) a SATA CD/DVD ROM drive as well. That would mean 7 SATA devices, and thus a new and

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 02:32, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 27 Jul 2009, Siggy Brentrup wrote: On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 07:45 +0100, AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Jochen Schulz wrote: AG: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? I usually install all available upgrades daily (or even twice a day) using 'sudo aptitude

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
John Hasler wrote: AG writes: With this in mind, what do the more experienced sid users do in terms of the daily updates of packages that come through - for example - the Update Notification? Nothing. I make no attempt to track Unstable. I keep an eye on what's new and what is being

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
Tim Beauregard wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 AG wrote: Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and I manually use apt-get update then apt-get upgrade. If no

Re: Kmail................

2009-07-27 Thread marc
Dotan Cohen wrote: Do you have the bug number? This is the reason that I left Kmail. What did you move to, Dotan? Thunderbird. I'm actually quite happy with it, even though it does not have a reputation as a good email client. It does need a whole slew of addons to bring it up to

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread AG
AG wrote: Hi Having recently upgraded to sid, I want to try to ensure that I am able to maintain a more or less stable system under those circumstances and in the full knowledge that, by definition, sid is unstable and may be subject to breakages. With this in mind, what do the more

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a6b3b97.60...@gmail.com, Πρεκατές Αλέξανδρος wrote: As a dedicated debian user i want to express my concerns and worries regarding mono inclusion in main and i ask for a vote for mono in non-free/main because: 1) I feel like microsoft is not clear about the license issues. Do you have some

Re: -- SPAM -- Integrity check of a downloaded with http-browser package.

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:23, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. I have downloaded a package from debian repo with my http browser. Now, how I can check its integrity, that an evil doer did not modify it some malicious way while the transfer? Use apt-cache show to find the file's nominal hash, then run

Re: -- SPAM -- PSI does not let me chat with 'Not allowed' message.

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 10:28, Sthu Deus wrote: Good day. My PSI ceased to work. Now when I try to start chatting I get (and this for every recepient): What, besides pounds per square inch, or Petroleum Services Inc, is PSI? Not allowed. The recipient or server does not allow any entity to perform

Re: request for a mono vote.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a6b45bf.5090...@yahoo.gr, aprekates wrote: I'm not saying to 'kick someone', i'm arguing about moving in non-free section. If it is to be removed from main for patent issues, it can't be distributed in non-free either. It would be in the same boat as MP3-encoding. So i think formally

Re: PSI does not let me chat with 'Not allowed' message.

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 4a6de169@cox.net, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-07-27 10:28, Sthu Deus wrote: My PSI ceased to work. Now when I try to start chatting I get (and this for every recepient): What, besides pounds per square inch, or Petroleum Services Inc, is PSI? http://psi-im.org/ -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Re: Is it a bug: huge dependency problems of php5 and ikiwiki

2009-07-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Jul 22, 2009 at 10:18:16PM +0530, Kapil Hari Paranjape wrote: Hello, On Wed, 22 Jul 2009, Xan wrote: I have a NSLU2 device (armel computer). With Debian 5.0.2 installed. I cannot use reportbug because exim4 is not configured properly Use reportbug -o bugreport.txt to

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
AG: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are superfluous from the perspective of an experienced sid user? I can only speak

Re: choice of a Network mapping tool

2009-07-27 Thread Gilles Mocellin
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 11:06:52AM +0200, Gilles Guiot wrote: Hello, I am currently looking for a good network mapping software. I do not need an overly complex and exhaustive mapping tool. I've experimented with a few on the windows side, but to no avail. Would any nice souls outhere come

Chinese in rxvt

2009-07-27 Thread T o n g
On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:32:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Chinese fonts render perfectly for me in Iceweasel, Icedove and even rxvt. hmm..., how did you do -- rendering Chinese in rxvt? Thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/

Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to read): Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap

mysql-server install script defective

2009-07-27 Thread Jude DaShiell
The script couldn't install because it doesn't know what to do with the --skip-federated option being passed. Apparently a new option being used by mysql. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 631fe46c0907271347g341e048udf74d5ee643e1...@mail.gmail.com, Mark wrote: A couple of questions (background is below the questions if you want to read): Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and

Re: Chinese in rxvt

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 15:46, T o n g wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 16:32:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Chinese fonts render perfectly for me in Iceweasel, Icedove and even rxvt. hmm..., how did you do -- rendering Chinese in rxvt? I *think* just by installing the packages I mentioned in the 26 Jul

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Mark: Question 1: In the Debian manual it says a swap partition isn't needed but recommended for efficiency. Anyone else installed without swap and had success? Is my installation a ticking time bomb if I don't have a swap partition? I ran my previous laptop with 768MB of RAM for several

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating the swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)? # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile bs=1024 count=65536 And would the correct use of mkswap be: # mkswap

Can't retrieve online quotes with gnucash

2009-07-27 Thread Bernard Fay
Hi, Using GNUcash version 2.2.6 with Debian 5.0, I have the following message when I try to get online quotes for US stock exchanges: Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: NYSE:C NYSE:BAC NYSE:F NYSE:AIG NYSE:HAR NASDAQ:NOVL Continue using only the good quotes? So far, when I

Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In 631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com, Mark wrote: I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my Debian and Ubuntu machines). Is the following code correct for creating the swap file (assuming 1 GB swap file size)? # dd if=/dev/zero of=/swapfile

[SOLVED] Re: Installing with no swap partition

2009-07-27 Thread Mark
Thanks for the help! Mark On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 2:46 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. b...@iguanasuicide.net wrote: In 631fe46c0907271429n387f32bp42606b1755eae...@mail.gmail.com, Mark wrote: I like this idea of using a swap file instead of partition (for both my Debian and Ubuntu machines).

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100 AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello AG, Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine that is safe for dummies (i.e. me) and is low maintenance that I can

Error loading operating system

2009-07-27 Thread Mark Neidorff
Hi, I just installed Lenny on a new SATA disk in my AMD64 system (4 Gig of ram). I manually partitioned the SATA disk: sda1 /10Gb sda2 /usr 10Gb sda3 /var 10 Gb sda5 swap 1 Gb sda6 /tmp 1 Gb sda7 /home the rest of the driveabout 456 Gb and the installer formatted it for me.

Re: font enlargement on file

2009-07-27 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 02:58:29AM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: I'm working from the command line and need to put two lines of writing on a 4x6 card as a sign so need the font larger than 8 point type. I have emacs on this machine and am wondering if something in emacs might help or might

RE: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-27 Thread Gibson, Jodie MRS
UNCLASSIFIED Lee, I haven't replied before this because it was the weekend, I wasn't at work (therefore had no access to my WORK email account), and frankly, this topic is so trivial that it does not warrant a response. However, I can see that if I don't reply to you, you will keep going like a

RE: Emails [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2009-07-27 Thread Gibson, Jodie MRS
UNCLASSIFIED Oh, and to all those people that have provided useful suggestions to my problem, thank you. I will look into each of them and see which one will work for me at work. I have just changed to 'digest' format as a starter.. Thanks again, Jo. x -Original Message- From:

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Miles Bader
AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or possibly because they are superfluous from the perspective of an

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:09:34 +0200 Siggy Brentrup deb...@psycho.i21k.de wrote: ... In my understanding there is no warranty whatsoever that testing / unstable won't burn your house, void the universe or whatever you can imagine. Nitpick: *no* version of Debian, not even stable, comes with

Re: Back up routines

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 16:55, Eric Gerlach wrote: On Sun, Jul 26, 2009 at 07:12:49PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: On Sun, 26 Jul 2009 18:48:17 +0100 AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com wrote: Hello AG, Thus, can I please have a few recommendations for a backup routine that is safe for dummies (i.e. me)

Re: Safest maintenance of a sid system

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 28 Jul 2009 10:34:19 +0900 Miles Bader mi...@gnu.org wrote: AG computing.acco...@googlemail.com writes: As an aside, I noticed that none of the respondents picked up on the scripts sxmi, et al. Is that because of a lack of experience with these, or because they are no good, or

approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-27 Thread whollygoat
I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. The first is, anybody else get caught in an infinite loop updating the Packages files? I've tried from localhost and a remote machine. On both machines, running aptitude update causes the Packages file to start downloading (you can

Re: approx: infinite loop during update, importing

2009-07-27 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 27 Jul 2009 19:55:06 -0700 whollyg...@letterboxes.org wrote: I've two questions re approx version 3.3.0 on lenny i386. ... Secondly, sites such as the following lead me to believe that it is possible to import packages from the local download cache to the approx repository:

batch automation

2009-07-27 Thread jeremy jozwik
sorry if this is not within the scope of the debian user list. but im stuck in a rut. im running exiftool to copy exif data from my jpg files to my converted raw files. individually i am running ./exiftool -TagsFromFile jpg.jpg raw.jpg but i have a folder loaded with .jpg files and this could

Re: batch automation

2009-07-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-27 22:41, jeremy jozwik wrote: sorry if this is not within the scope of the debian user list. but im stuck in a rut. im running exiftool to copy exif data from my jpg files to my converted raw files. individually i am running ./exiftool -TagsFromFile jpg.jpg raw.jpg Why are you in

Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection opened from the MS Windows client's side ? Regards H.Motamedi

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread hadi motamedi
Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details on your proposed NX, VNC ? Regards H.Motamedi On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser debu...@yandex.ru wrote: В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: Dear All Can you please let us know what is the

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:22 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: Dear All Can you please let us know what is the required service that needs to be enabled on the Debian server to allow for Remote Desktop Connection opened from the MS Windows client's side ? Regards H.Motamedi As I know it's

Re: Inquiry:Debian server Remote Desktop Connection

2009-07-27 Thread debuser
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virtual_Network_Computing В Втр, 28/07/2009 в 06:40 +0100, hadi motamedi пишет: Thank you for your reply . Can you please provide me with more details on your proposed NX, VNC ? Regards H.Motamedi On Tue, Jul 28, 2009 at 6:33 AM, debuser

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