Re: openoffice 2.0 fail on start (debian unstable)

2005-11-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 08:10:52PM -0800, yzhh wrote: Hi,all Today I get openoffice 2.0 in debian unstable and found most of the components can not start. oowriter, oocalc, oobase and ooimpress all popup with a dialog asking me whether to recover an document untitled1 (this should have been

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:42:45AM -0200, Rogério Brito wrote: On Nov 02 2005, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Can someone with working emacs check and see if they have this file in their systems (sid)? Any other ideas? In my testing (etch) system, I have

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 09:15:30AM -0800, Bill Wohler wrote: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ls: /etc/X11/rgb.txt: No such file or directory This is bad (as you've noticed). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:863]$ dpkg --search /etc/X11/rgb.txt x11-common: /etc/X11/rgb.txt

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:42:05AM +, s. keeling wrote: Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. I had two lines in .emacs ;;(set-background-color black) ;;(set-foreground-color white) Suggestion: rely

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. I had two lines in .emacs ;;(set-background-color black) ;;(set-foreground-color white) which I commented after getting

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 02:35:36PM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 04:05:40PM +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. I had two lines in .emacs ;;(set-background-color

Re: emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
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emacs settings in sid gnome 2-10

2005-11-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I recently moved from sarge to sid, and emacs is giving me some trouble. I had two lines in .emacs ;;(set-background-color black) ;;(set-foreground-color white) which I commented after getting [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ emacs Undefined color: black [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ it didn't make any difference,

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 29, 2005 at 05:51:38PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Disclaimer: The intended dvds are not commercial ones. There are a few options: 'tovid' (http://tovid.sourceforge.net/), its a nice script for converting video to dvd, that started as a thread

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 12:46:39PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: Dvrequant can shrink vobs, and make a movie fit into smaller media. It uses the tcrequant tool from transcode to shrink mpeg2 streams. https://sourceforge.net/projects/dvrequant According to the man pages of dvrequant, it handles

Re: Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 30, 2005 at 02:38:13PM -0200, Bruno Buys wrote: According to the man pages of dvrequant, it handles only one title. In some cases, there are several titles (=5) in one dvd, where each individually doesn't require shrinkage. Indeed. Well, I never bother, cause the others are

Best way to copy a video dvd

2005-10-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am trying to find the best way to make copies of video dvds, especially when these are 6-8 gigs, and need to be split in two to fit the standard consumer dvd size of about 4.4 gigs. Disclaimer: The intended dvds are not commercial ones. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-27 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Oct 27, 2005 at 01:55:12AM -0700, Alan Ezust wrote: On 10/22/05, Rogério Brito [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 22 2005, Alan Ezust wrote: Docbook/XML can also be converted to LaTEX (although the reverse is not true). Actually, with a few indirect steps, LaTeX can be converted

Re: Three Doubts

2005-10-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Oct 26, 2005 at 12:28:07AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a program in Debian,which permits to erase files securely(using sophisticated patterns)?In PGP7 for Windows/Mac I think is there an utility to do so. info shred (type 'info shred' at the command prompt, hit enter)

Re: email components faq?

2005-10-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Oct 24, 2005 at 03:28:41PM -0400, Bernd Prager wrote: I would like to catch up on some mail component techniques and vocabulary. I am getting confused with meaning and interaction of all the different things like: - mail user agent (like mailx) - mail delivery agent (like maildrop)

Re: ati radeon x600 with etch

2005-10-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 15, 2005 at 11:55:01AM -0400, Cliff Pankonien wrote: hello all, i am trying to download the ati installer from ati's web site, but every time i try i get the contents of the file. i have successfuly downloaded it in the past (aug, when i got a new pc). i have tried saving

Converting asf to ogg

2005-10-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I recently found a script to listen to internet radio which seems to work fine most of the time at http://www.esdebian.org/article.php?story=20050927063657496#comments One thing that I would like to do is to recode asf files into ogg. Xine can read both, but I can't figure out how to use it for

Re: chiavi usb

2005-10-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 09, 2005 at 08:45:15AM +, Riccardo Corrado wrote: Ciao a tutti, sono un utente autodidatta che da windows è passato a Debian con buona soddisfazione; sono arrivato a configurare la Sarge abbastanza bene con l'aiuto del vario materiale in rete (grazie,lo ho trovato ottimo).

Re: Configuration error running su in unstable

2005-10-08 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 05:49:21PM +0100, Maximillian Murphy wrote: Whoops - sorry - forgot to change the subject line (cringe)! Regards, Max Changing the subject line doesn't help either if you are replying, because your message will still be inserted in the thread. It is usually better to

Re: Audio i/o

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Oct 01, 2005 at 03:01:31PM -0400, Roger Creasy wrote: Interesting... I was following the advise of someone on a forum...Should I undo my changes to permissions? If so, how? What is 'join #debian'? irc chat at irc.debian.org, #debian is a channel. You can use bitchx, or xchat, or

Re: linux-source 2.6.12 in sarge?

2005-10-02 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Oct 02, 2005 at 08:51:13AM -0300, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: Hello! I am running sarge with the standard debian kernel 2.6.8. I want to install the new kernel 2.6.12, but the related package linux-source-2.6.12 is in the unstable tree. How should I proceed? (swiching to unstable is

Re: hardware recommendation

2005-09-30 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Sep 29, 2005 at 07:33:30PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, first time in this list. I've been a Suse user for the last several years and have decided to try Debian. I'm looking to purchase a new system. Can anyone recommend a system that Debian will install with no problems, or

Re: Debian Kernel 2.6.12 and parallel port problems.

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 08:26:39PM -0700, Malcolm Lalkaka wrote: I just thought of another thing that could be causing this problem: udev. When I upgraded to kernel version 2.6.12, it would not let me upgrade my kernel unless I upgraded udev as well. Since you seem to be having similar

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 10:34:43AM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: described. and since, i've adopted a habit of keeping a GRUB boot disk around. (it's fairly trivial to create a bootable floppy. only slightly tougher to create a bootable CD.) i then use grub shell, to do a 'setup' of

Re: GRUB problem

2005-09-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 28, 2005 at 03:11:18PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: I know I created a GRUB floppy some time back. I'd have to find some old notes to remember the exact steps. Mike This way from /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz cat /boot/grub/stage1 /boot/grub/stage2 /dev/fd0 works fine,

Re: change window manager in Gnome

2005-09-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 26, 2005 at 09:30:05AM +0200, Lorenzo Bettini wrote: Hi I'm trying to replace Metacity with Enlightenment as the window manager in Gnome. I did this by modifying the corresponding entry in the Control Center of Gnome, but it is simply ignored... even Google didn't help

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I want to get a Xircom CBEM56G network/modem card (http://www.intel.com/network/connectivity/resources/doc_library/tech_sp ecs/spec_xircbem56g100btx.htm) enabled during the boot of Debian 3.1 (2.4 kernel) running on an old Dell D300XT latitute laptop. What should I install (and/or remove) and

Re: Network (pcmcia card) not enabled after boot [newbie alert]

2005-09-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 08:01:33AM -0400, Peter Coppens wrote: A search in google with 'linux kernel Xircom CBEM56G' gives thousands of pages indicating trouble. Most of all 2.4 kernels. Why don you try installing 2.6.x (x 10)? I guess I could try that. But to be honest I am faced with

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 08:47:13PM -0300, Romulo Sousa wrote: Can one of these software make slides w/ pics? You know...select some pics, playing a song on the background and then burn a dvd to watch the animation? Sorry, but i have no idea how these softwares are called. Thanks a lot,

Re: Printing via LAN fails - SOLVED

2005-09-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Sep 20, 2005 at 07:01:15PM +0100, Anthony Campbell wrote: On 20 Sep 2005, Anthony Campbell wrote: After some more googling I found someone else with the same problem. It was due to the -s switch on lpd, which is added by default by Debian. Removing this has fixed it. Would you

Re: digital camera software

2005-09-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 19, 2005 at 10:12:47AM +0200, Bayrouni wrote: Hello all, I need nice software for my digcameraital . But I have'nt any idea which software is fine for accessng, reading, ... all enabled info and data on the camera. Thank you. Bayrouni apt-cache search digital | grep camera

Re: watching an avi

2005-09-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 07:48:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: System: KM4M-V motherboard with onboard video using via driver 1-gig of ram (using less than 300mb) Running testing so have switched to X-org Most of the time I can watch avi videos using xine with no problem,

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:54:03AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: Well, I think I do need to change the mpeg/movie content, that is to make a copy with added subtitles. I'm looking for some kind of DVD-factory app. dvdauthor? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: app to add subtitles videoclips for DVD?

2005-09-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Sep 17, 2005 at 11:02:59AM +0200, Søren Christensen wrote: Iv'e been looking for an application to add subtitles to video-movies, that is I have some DVDs in english that I need to add danish subtitles. What app should I be looknig for? Severino apt-cache show kino Package: kino

Re: Problem whith fluxbox

2005-09-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 01:50:04AM -0700, Basajaun wrote: Álvaro Eixea wrote: Hello everybody: ¡Qué tal, Álvaro! I instaled the new version of Debian called Woody Woody is old, man! and when I try to install my window manager, fluxbox Aha!, the problem is this: Fluxbox :^)

how would remote user start X application on local monitor

2005-09-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Problem: I log in from a remote location, but I need to start an aplication (example: emacs /home/user/documents/importantpaper ) so that the person at home can see it and work with it. The person at home is very old (8x, x 5), so there is little hope of getting the person to start the

Re: adventures with window managers

2005-09-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Sep 13, 2005 at 05:39:58PM +0100, Adam Hardy wrote: This thread is turning into a bit of monologue. Does nobody else have issues with their window manager? Or even better, solved them? Adam, keep talking. It is an interesting monologue. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xdefaults versus Xresources (Re: Help!)

2005-09-12 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Sep 12, 2005 at 11:37:35AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: Sorry this posting was not the most accurate of references. I just flung it out from faded memory. Bob For me it has been great. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Help!

2005-09-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Sep 11, 2005 at 10:27:11AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: The solution is to include in your .Xdefaults the lines: *aixterm.Translations: #override KeyBackSpace: string(0x7f) aixterm*ttyModes: erase ^? Speaking of which, whats the difference between .Xdefaults and .Xresources?

From emacs TEXINPUTS doesn't work

2005-09-10 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I'm having a strange thing happening to me: In .bashrc and .bash_profile I have the line export TEXINPUTS=.:~/my_tex_macros: It has been working fine, until yesterday I noticed that it wasn't, the macro from that directory wasn't loaded. From the console, and from the xterm they work, but not

Laptop choice to run debian

2005-09-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am planning to buy a laptop for my self in the near future for travels, stinks not having with you a debian system. Any good recommendations by any chance? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: mutt rocks

2005-09-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 12:32:40AM -0500, Steve Block wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:38:07AM +0100, Joe Mc Cool wrote: mutt really is super. Thanks a lot to everybody involved. And to think it took me all these years to find out. Happy day! If you're like many of us your muttrc

Best strategy for multiple terminals connected to one server

2005-08-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I plan to implement a system similar to a cybercafe, the basic being the following: A central server. Several end points with terminals, keyboards (no sound), with access to programs running from the server, which output to the terminals. The end points are connected to the central

Re: No sound in sarge, all devices drivers present

2005-08-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Aug 28, 2005 at 02:47:10AM +0100, M Carlock wrote: After my recent upgrade to Sarge, and a 2.6.8-2-38 kernel, I find I can run audio apps OK, but no sound comes out. There is also another odd thing -- /dev/dsp seems to disappear after each reboot, and does not reappear until the

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 02:26:24AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: One thing I've noticed about the Debian lists and attitudes: There is a group of people that are so absolutely sure they're right, that they are determined they will do things their way, and no other way, whether it's a reply to,

Re: www.debian.org down?

2005-08-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 25, 2005 at 09:06:54AM +0200, Nico De Ranter wrote: Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine 194.109.137.218. hardware problem? scheduled

Re: Default installation of themes from http://art.gnome.org

2005-08-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 04:58:23AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do you change the default installation for new users, using one of the themes from http://art.gnome.org? On a case by case base following the instructions in http://art.gnome.org/faq.php seems not difficult. For a debian

Re: call for a vote -- should debian-user mailing list replies go to author or to list?

2005-08-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 09:56:20PM -0700, David Christensen wrote: debian users: I am tired of replying to messages on this list, only to realize that my reply went to the message author and not to the list. It is my understanding that the people in charge of this list think that his

Default installation of themes from http://art.gnome.org

2005-08-23 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you change the default installation for new users, using one of the themes from http://art.gnome.org? On a case by case base following the instructions in http://art.gnome.org/faq.php seems not difficult. For a debian system, system wide change, it will be more involved. -- To

Re: Upgraded kernels, now eth0 and framebuffer are gone

2005-08-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Aug 19, 2005 at 11:27:37PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: L.V.Gandhi wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: They are complementary. The discover process runs at boot time to load up statically attached hardware. This would typically be things like PCI network cards, PCI sound cards, and things like

Re: Starting USB in Debian with kernel 26

2005-08-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Aug 18, 2005 at 10:41:29AM +0200, Diego Martínez Castañeda wrote: On 18/08/05, Jesús Fernández [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: it happens the same to me, it never passes the usb loading section have you ever tried to disable acpi? USB devices sometime uses the IRQ (number 11 in my laptop)

Re: CD file copying problem with kernel 2.6

2005-08-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
To copy svcds (and vcds) the procedure is different, as outlined below: 1. mkdir limpio 2. cd limpio, then put the svcd in the dvdwriter bay. 3. cdrdao read-cd --paranoia-mode 2 --read-raw --driver generic-mmc --device ATAPI:0,1,0 data.toc 4. umount if needed, remove the original svcd from the

Re: Apt-Get udev and the Newest Kernel

2005-08-18 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 09:15:15PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: If this is ridiculously complex, umm. are you sure you want to be running Sid? manoj Manoj, btw, as an insider, how broken is sid as of now? I'm waiting for some unstable stability before I go back to it

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Aug 17, 2005 at 10:02:02AM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: BTW: I assume that the IRQ- messages are harmless, but I might be proven wrong.. AR I have the feeling that they are related to the problem, because it AR happens always when I connect anything to a usb port for the first AR time

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
It was a kernel problem, I had not thought of that. I went ahead, grabbed a kernel image from sid, installed it (2.6.11) and all usb and scanner permissions problems dissapeared. But now there is no sound, I tried to find any info in kern.log, syslog, but didn't see any reference to alsa.

Re: Hardware or software?

2005-08-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 07:21:40PM -0700, Mark Fletcher wrote: Or, you could post details of the kernel you are using, and the config details of the kernel if you built your own kernel from source, and someone on this list may by luck have similar hardware and be able to help you out.

Reading an autocad dwg file

2005-08-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What tool could I use to read a dwg autocad file? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-16 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Aug 16, 2005 at 11:59:25PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: Hi Antonio, 6) examine /var/log/messages. It *should* say something :-)) Send in the relevant output (lines are marked with default.hotplug).. AR and here is what I got: AR tail -f /var/log/messages AR Aug 15 20:18:47

Hardware or software?

2005-08-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do I determine if the reason for the kernel not handling well my card reader and usb ports is hardware failure? Before buying a new piece of hardware, I would like to know the answer to this, but I am not sure how to do it. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Hardware or software?

2005-08-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 06:12:40AM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do I determine if the reason for the kernel not handling well my card reader and usb ports is hardware failure? Before buying a new piece of hardware, I would like to know the answer to this, but I am not sure how to do

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Aug 15, 2005 at 10:58:03PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: Hi Antonio, all was present, so I continued to this step: 5. edit the file /sbin/hotplug and add, on the second line: export DEBUG=1. Dis- and reconnect your scanner; 6) examine /var/log/messages. It *should* say something :-))

Kernels 2.4.x and 2.6.x coexistence issues

2005-08-14 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I would like to know what problems could occur from installing both kernels in sarge and how to deal with them. I can think of 1. alsa problems 2. cdrecord problems 3. mounting points problems (cdrom is expected in different places) 4. X problems (mouse expected in different places) These last

usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I'm having some issues with my usb system in my fresh sarge installation, the scanner's are permission issues, multicard doesn't even make the kernel blink. As root, xsane has no problems. I am using a 2.6.x stock debian kernel, the one in sarge. Here is some about my system: uname -a Linux hpd

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 07:59:17PM +0200, Bob Vloon wrote: Hi, AR I'm having some issues with my usb system in my fresh sarge AR installation, the scanner's are permission issues, When looking in /proc/bus/usb, if found that my scanner is owned by root.scanner. At your system, things will

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am going to add the following, which may be relevant: tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 13 23:16:56 localhost gconfd (trc-4692): Resolved address xml:readonly:/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults to a read-only configuration source at position 2 Aug 13 23:17:00 localhost kernel: usb 2-1: control timeout

Re: usb issues in sarge: scanner, multicard

2005-08-13 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Everything below occurred after a fresh reboot. On Sat, Aug 13, 2005 at 11:23:35PM -0400, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am going to add the following, which may be relevant: tail -f /var/log/messages Aug 13 23:16:56 localhost gconfd (trc-4692): Resolved address xml:readonly:/etc/gconf

When the thread wanders too far

2004-12-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I think it would be wise to implement a way of stopping a thread at the top level when it goes to far off topic. It has been the case is several of them very recently. In the last DWN there are some references about it, with some propositions about implementing a list moderator I think. It is

Re: [Way off topic] the politics of ubuntu.org

2004-12-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:40:33AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: Ecclesiates 3:1-8 = bull What do you think a time to keep silence, and a time to speak; means, then? I agree that the Q'uran contradicts itself numerous times, but there is no evidence of such thing in the Bible. Care to

Re: {advocay] Linspire machine

2004-12-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 26, 2004 at 01:38:11PM -0500, Ryan D'Baisse wrote: Ya' know, that has been something which I have wondered about. While I like what Linspire is trying to do (i.e. produce consumer-priced machines with Linux) I am somewhat fearful of their approach. They could do a lot of damage

Re: Kernel Compilation

2004-12-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 07:39:01AM -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: Hello, Anyone can tell me howto install kernel sources under Debian Testing, I already try: apt-cache search kernel sources and things like that, I also install a kerne-image and it just install a kernel but

Re: Sarge with an Ensoniq Soundscape Elite ISA sound card

2004-12-20 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Dec 20, 2004 at 06:00:11PM -0500, Etienne Fontaine-Lavoie wrote: html head meta content=text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1 http-equiv=Content-Type title/title /head body bgcolor=#ff text=#00 font size=-1Hi, br br I'm running Sarge with an old Ensoniq Sounscape Elite ISA

Re: starting x

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Dec 18, 2004 at 06:59:01PM -0800, cfk wrote: On Saturday 18 December 2004 18:14, Sam Watkins wrote: Dear Sam: Thank you very much for the tip. I did do a 'apt-get install x-window-system', and a number of good things happened. I can now do a startx and get twm. I can also

Re: Problem with /dev/scd[0-9] permissions

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 05:56:45PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have a problem with permissions to my cdrom devices. If I try to access them as an user just to playback audio-cds or mounting data-contents there is no problem at all. Even when I try to use them for ripping my

Re: how to use

2004-12-19 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 19, 2004 at 06:10:06PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: * donald szatkowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Dec 19 16:34 -0600]: With so many requests for assistance upon reaching the command line, MAYBE it is time to include a simple text file (README.FIRST) to assist. I realise this may

Mozilla crashing in sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I am running mozilla in sarge, and it is crashing frequently, with increasing frequency, first when several tabs were opened, now with only one tab. Has anybody had this crashing? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Mozilla crashing in sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 04:05:00AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am running mozilla in sarge, and it is crashing frequently, with increasing frequency, first when several tabs were opened, now with only one tab. Has anybody had this crashing? It h=just hapenned again with konkeror

Re: Mozilla crashing in sarge

2004-12-17 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Dec 17, 2004 at 06:05:45PM +, Cláudio E. Elicker wrote: On Friday 17 December 2004 09:05, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I am running mozilla in sarge, and it is crashing frequently, with increasing frequency, first when several tabs were opened, now with only one tab. Has anybody had

Re: Forward all mail in mbox to new email address

2004-12-11 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Dec 10, 2004 at 04:47:07PM -0800, ThanhVu Nguyen wrote: I have a large number of emails stored in a mbox file and I read these mails from mutt. I'd like to forward *each* one of them to a new email address (not as a big attachment). I can forward one by one manually but I am looking

Re: X.org ----- Xfree

2004-12-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 11:16:49AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: I see a lot of discussion about packaging and which distro it may end up in but nothing about why you might want to use X.org instead of XFree :) http://necrotic.deadbeast.net/xsf/XFree86/trunk/debian/local/FAQ.xhtml -- To

Re: Debian retail kit?

2004-12-09 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 07:51:39AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi Paul, When I was becoming more intereted in Debian, I printed the install manaul and the debian refernce. I did it at Kinko's by giing them a PDF which they easily printed and spiral bound. (B/W -- as color is a bit beyond my

Re: paper size

2004-12-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 05:34:28AM -0500, David Raleigh Arnold wrote: On Monday 06 December 2004 06:14 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: In a sarge installation, I should have leter as paper size for my system, but it seems more like a4. Checking config.ps I see a4 listed before letter. A few

Re: devfs_mk_cdev question

2004-12-07 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:13:23AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 06:57:41PM +0100, Paul Akkermans wrote: Where can I find this documentation? A: No. Q: Should I include quotations after my reply? The one above is a good piece to show the inconvenience of top posting.

paper size

2004-12-06 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
In a sarge installation, I should have leter as paper size for my system, but it seems more like a4. Checking config.ps I see a4 listed before letter. A few years ago, it meant that ps docs produced locally would be a4 by default. Then I had to manually tweak it to get paper size. Afterwards

Re: virtual interfaces

2004-12-05 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Dec 05, 2004 at 11:07:55PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 11:07:08AM -0500, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: After 1. adding the needed paragraph to /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the virtual iface with 'anotherIP', 2. adding the corresponding file in /etc/apache2

virtual interfaces

2004-12-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After 1. adding the needed paragraph to /etc/network/interfaces to reflect the virtual iface with 'anotherIP', 2. adding the corresponding file in /etc/apache2/sites-available, 3. creating the symlink in /etc/apache2/sites-enabled 4. stopping, starting, reloading again networking and apache2

Re: How to Forwarding all old emails to a new email address

2004-12-04 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sat, Dec 04, 2004 at 07:20:55PM -0500, Thanhvu Nguyen wrote: I want to forward all my old mails to a new email address one by one instead of a big achieve. Of course I can manually forward one by one but I like to have this automated. Is there any (mail) application that allows me to do

Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult to distinguish braces { from parentheses (. Bad news for coding. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Emacs fonts for coding

2004-12-03 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 09:22:22AM -0700, s. keeling wrote: Incoming from Antonio Rodriguez: I would like to know what font are people using for coding. I have tried a bunch of different ones, and it always seems to have some bad corner. This last one I am using makes it difficult

Re: How can I change the locale setting?

2004-12-01 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Wed, Dec 01, 2004 at 04:42:08PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I must have missed something very elementary. I can't find out how to change the locale setting from POSIX to en_US. locale -a shows both are available. apropos locale provides a long list of locale programs including

Re: cgiemail installs owned by root in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2004-11-29 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:49:30AM +0200, Black Dew wrote: Antonio Rodriguez wrote: I noticed that when installing cgiemail it is set as owned by root, same as other scripts simultaneously installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin I figure this is right, I would be surprised if i were the first finding

cgiemail installs owned by root in /usr/lib/cgi-bin

2004-11-28 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
I noticed that when installing cgiemail it is set as owned by root, same as other scripts simultaneously installed in /usr/lib/cgi-bin I figure this is right, I would be surprised if i were the first finding a bug, but I don't see why it makes it safer than installing it as owned by

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc? What do you mean by registered user? Adam Good question, hmm, the ones that you can unregister with deluser? Ls-ing /etc/passwd you can see a bunch of

Re: determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-26 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Can the root remove h[i,e][m,r]self from the system? Of course - just remove the entries from /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow. However, I would strongly recommend you NOT do this (unless you want to cripple your system). Adam I wouldn't do it, I am trying to understand better the guts of

determining who is a registered user in your system

2004-11-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
Whats the command to determine who is a registered user in your system, or to gather stats about them, such as registration time, etc? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: huponexit in bash (solved!)

2004-11-25 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Thu, Nov 25, 2004 at 04:59:29AM -0800, Olive Esseret wrote: --- Olive Esseret [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I want to configure bash in order that background process remains alive if we close the windows from which we have lauched the process (this would be especially

Re: Local Deb Mirror

2004-11-24 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
snip To me seems overkill to have a complete Debian mirror, have you checked the apt-proxy package? Andrea Is that an answer to my question? -- Raquel Raquel, I don't know if you are aware of the fact that any answer that you get in this list is coming from good

udev + mouse

2004-11-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
After yesterday's cleaning I have had to reinstall from scratch, don't remember what's the deal with udev and the mouse, can anyone point out? I'm also testing exim. Thankyou. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: HELP!!!, can't login even as root

2004-11-22 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 05:02:43PM -0500, David Mandelberg wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the chroot step didn't work, rr webmail is being a pain, loging me out every 5 sec, sorry if send this mail twice, dont know if it made it Hmm, it worked before though, are you sure you followed the

X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to forward X through ssh you still need X there. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: X running without monitor (may be w/o videocard)

2004-11-21 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Sun, Nov 21, 2004 at 11:58:05AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sun, 21 Nov 2004, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: How do you set up X to run in a machine without monitor, or even may be without video card? About this last one I am not sure. A hosted server, to forward X through

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