Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 23:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:33, Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-24 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 22:02 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: On 5/23/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dusty Wilson wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted I have data that was exported from MySQL Query Browser to what appears to be an OpenXML-formatted Excel document. I can't

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 17:01 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 16:18, Mike McCarty wrote: [snip] It compromises sharability. If the goal is to share info, then why encrypt? If the goal is to protect info, then physical security is the way to go. Adding encryption only slows down access

Re: OT: Petition: StarCraft 2 for Linux

2007-05-23 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-23 at 15:55 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: At least it's related to Linux :) To make it short here is the link: http://www.petitiononline.com/ibpfl/petition.html If you liked

Re: Install Vmware player on debian unstable.

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 06:35 -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Surachai Locharoen wrote: I use debian unstable (linux kernel 2.6.20). I want to install vmware player 2.0 but I can't compile vmware module. It is a segmentation fault. There are warning message about version incompatible of

Re: Blacklisting genrtc

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 11:20 +0300, David Baron wrote: I want rtc to load rather than genrtc. I had this blacklisted somewhere but that has vanished. Putting this in /etc/hotplug/blacklist did not help. Where must it go? /etc/modprobe.d/ In there I create a file called: blacklist-hostname

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:03 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: can anybody explain the following to me? It happens in full production use. Should i change back to ext3 ? I can't explain it since I've never had a kernel

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 16:41 -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who bothers to read our user lists) due to volume and offensiveness/repetativeness of

Re: Read OpenXML Excel file in OpenOffice.org?

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:39 -0700, Dusty Wilson wrote: I have data that was exported from MySQL Query Browser to what appears to be an OpenXML-formatted Excel document. I can't seem to get OpenOffice.org to open it. Do you guys know how to go about opening this document? I'm sure I could

Re: XFS Filesystem problem

2007-05-22 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 23:39 +, George N. White III wrote: On Tue, 22 May 2007, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-22 at 12:03 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 22, 2007 at 03:45:01PM +0200, Andreas Grabner wrote: can anybody explain the following to me? It happens

Re: reconfiguring grub to see windows partition etc....

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:11 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Dear Debianists, I am using a machine at work that has an AMD Duron 1200 MHz i386 chip in it and two hard disks. The master is a 40GB drive and the secondary one is a 20GB drive. Debian Etch r0 i386 lives on the 40GB drive.

Re: why linux?

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:57 -0400, S C wrote: For months now I have been trying to make Debian behave like a real OS. However, I still cannot print, format/initialize a new cd or use one to back up files, get the sound working, watch a movie or read images from my digital camera. With

[Very-OT] rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 08:36 +, steef wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 11:57:42AM +1000, Ben Finney wrote: . As a side note I must say that I have been a member of a volunteer organization for 11 years and I have seen a bit of the dynamic involved

[OT]rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 02:22 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/21/2007 01:55 AM, Andrei Popescu wrote: Just in case you missed my initial proposal, I was suggesting a separate list for OT, but still within the Debian project. This way when OT gets out of hand posters could move the thread to

Re: boot error messages with custom kernel

2007-05-21 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-21 at 22:33 +0200, David Fuchs wrote: hi all, I want to have a grsecurity enabled kernel and thus compiled my own. while doing so, I also removed tons of modules from the kernel config (drivers I know I'll never need), and chose to compile some into the kernel instead of

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 01:10 -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 07:33:51PM EDT, Owen Heisler wrote: On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 19:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Thu

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-20 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-20 at 17:25 -0400, cga2000 wrote: On Sun, May 20, 2007 at 12:01:18PM EDT, Greg Folkert wrote: Mind if I add snippets of you two posts to Owen to that Vesa Mode Page? Not in principle naturally. [snip] Oh, if you do decide to add something to your web page, please let me

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 01:18 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: If you wait until May24th, Dell will be shipping Desktops and Laptops with Ubuntu Linux pre-installed on them. Everything will work on them. I believe the same model you just quoted. Similar prices too. In fact here is a blog

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 08:43 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 16:41:49 PM -0400, Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Frans, Cord, Martin, Pascal, I'm writing the listmasters because reading debian-user has become nearly unbearable for me (one of the sadly few DDs who

Re: man beeps more than woman

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:10 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: How do you stop man from beeping when going below or above EOF or at other times when it beeps? blacklist pcspkr In /etc/modprobe.d/ To make sure things don't get over written during an update/upgrade, I create a file called

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 09:17 -0700, Mike Bird wrote: On Saturday 19 May 2007 08:02, M. Fioretti wrote: Offensive or not, it doesn't even matter with you, will you please realize it? You are simply making a lot of USELESS noise. I just move on and forget it. More people should try that.

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 07:43 -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote: I believe the correct model number is the XPS 421, not the 521. At least that is what was posted on Groklaw. Dimension E520, Inspiron E1505 and XPS 410 Cheers. -- greg, [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP key: 1024D/B524687C 2003-08-05

Re: (OT) Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 20:13 +0200, M. Fioretti wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 11:18:22 AM -0500, Gnu_Raiz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: What it comes down to pretty much is some people want a moderated debian-user list! The only choice left is to see if you can change, the list type to

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:09 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 00:10 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html Very

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:06 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/19/07 10:24, mailing.lists wrote: [snip] Not all pre-built computers are that bad. I have used Dell PCs in many cases and have never had any trouble. I just checked a few sites that i What are the fan noises like on Dell PCs?

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 18:33 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: video=:xres:,yres:,depth:,left:,right:,hslen:,upper:,lower:,vslen: It looks like I need something like this: Modeline 1280x1024 DCF HR SH1 SH2 HFL VR SV1 SV2 VFL Is there some way to get that from xorg? And what do I use for the

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-19 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-19 at 17:59 -0800, Ken Irving wrote: On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:19:17PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: Come, lets here a solution, I've discussed some solutions, how about you? If folks were reasonable about it, they'd simply take it off list on their own, as is done

Re: Compaq R1500H UPS with Debian?

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 09:44 +0100, Marcin Owsiany wrote: Hi, Has anyone had any success using Compaq R1500H UPS with Debian? Information on the internet suggests that you can connect it to the computer using a serial cable, but I cannot find any information about management software for

Re: Duplicate menu item

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 13:06 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:14 +0530, Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:00 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-05-11 10:48:06, schrieb Joe Hart: What really fears me is that it is just a matter of time before one group of radicals gets access to WMD and I pray they don't send them my way. Right, - and it is already to late. The USA

Re: in which packages can I found: libccext2 libccgnu2 ?

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 19:19 +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, to compile a program the README says that I need : libccext2 (version = 1.4.2) [GNU Common C++] libccgnu2 (version = 1.4.2) [GNU Common C++] libccrtp1 (version = 1.5.0) [GNU RTP Stack] libzrtpcpp (version = 0.9.0) [Extension

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 12:46 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 18:00 +0200, Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2007-05-11 10:48:06, schrieb Joe Hart: What really fears me is that it is just a matter of time before one group of radicals gets access to WMD and I pray they don't send

Re: in which packages can I found: libccext2 libccgnu2 ?

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 21:50 +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 01:25:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: From: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: in which packages can I found: libccext2 libccgnu2 ? On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 19:19 +0200

Re: rampant offtopic and offensive posts to debian-user

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
. Now that the complaint is coming from a DD, I hope that some action/policy will be laid out... Greg Folkert (http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2007/05/msg01282.html) even made a mockery of people complaining about OT posts. That is just sad. It was a mockery, but if you'll notice I have

Re: getting a new Debian box

2007-05-18 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 21:51 -0700, Alexandru Cardaniuc wrote: Hi All! I've been using Debian with my desktop replacement laptop HP Pavilion zv5260 for about 2 years now. This was the only computer I had for about 2.5 years. I got tired of using the laptop constantly. I want something more

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 11:45 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/17/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why is this OT? Postfix is packaged for Debian, by Debian. This might be related to TLS entropy problem when there is not enough activity or randomness from the system. Exim

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 04:30 -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Serena Cantor wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user: Which software is Linux's equivalence of M$'s PowerPoint? Openoffice.org has Impress, which is probably what you're looking for. It's deprecating

Re: Etch Xorg memory leak?

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 12:58 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 05:31:09PM +0100, Tom Furie wrote: On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 12:17:34PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 10:22:00AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 05/13/2007 06:51 AM, Douglas Allan

Re: amarok / libgpod destroys iPod playlists

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 15:56 +0200, Jörg Becker wrote: Hello, I have a problem using my iPod with amarok from etch. Whenever I use the iPod with amarok I loose the contents of all my iPod playlist except the first one. I can see the playlists within the iPod, but they are empty. It seems

Re: Duplicate menu item

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:14 +0530, Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in

Re: vesa display codes (Etch Xorg memory leak?)

2007-05-17 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 18:34 -0500, Owen Heisler wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 16:02 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: http://www.gregfolkert.net/info/vesa-display-codes.html Very helpful! Although no 1280x960 (grr) unfortunately. Is there any way to get that? vbetool is supposed to do

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. I

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:43 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's

Re: Re: Bug???

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:00 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: Wiadomość Oryginalna Od: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do: DebianUser List debian-user@lists.debian.org Kopia do: piter_p_92 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 16 maja 2007 7:47 Temat: Re: Bug??? On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 +0200

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:09 -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: Hello, I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. file /bin/bzip2 /bin/bzip2: empty I reinstall with a: apt-get install

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 03:28 +, s. keeling wrote: Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I might be able to tell you how to set this up using xmodmap, but this depends on how similar your Apple keyboard is to the pc105 ones that I know. For a start, I need to see the output of:

Re: [not-OT] Postfix - STARTTLS problem: 454 4.3.0 TLS not available due to local problem

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-17 at 05:31 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Sorry about postign here. I'm neither gettign a response to my posts from the postfix-users list nor getting any mail from the list even though I am subscribed since 2 years. I subscribed again and still not got a rely from the majordomo

Re: Re(2): Grub without Linux.

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 18:31 -0700, Easthope wrote: At Tue, 15 May 2007 12:12:02 +0800 Mr. Ray Chan wrote, '1. Use a Win98 startup disk to start the system; 2. After your saw the prompt, use command FDISK /MBR;' At Tue, 15 May 2007 20:41:36 +0200 Nyizsnyik Ferenc wrote, fdisk /mbr will solve

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 22:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug could download it and let me know whether it works for them. Will do. Will report back if I see

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 22:12 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug could download it and let me know whether it works for them. Is it in incoming right now (0.4.4-5~1)?

Re: Bug???

2007-05-15 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: Hello! I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding hdd. I heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is anybody who reported about this bug so i'm writing. Thx PS sorry for my english:P English

Re: Xmms: 'Double size' and flac problem

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 11:49 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: Running debian etch 4.0 stable. xmms 1.2.10+200611. When I click on Options - Double Size, the display gets messed up and xmms hangs. Also, though the flac plugins are installed, it does not play flac files, saying that they are

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 06:58 +0100, william pursell wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: then i type fakeroot make-jpkg jre-1_5_0_09-linux-i586.bin which i assume changes it into a .deb file? and the terminal then tells me: -su: fakeroot: command not found whats going wrong? D: Try /usr/bin

Re: Re[2]: Build X 3.3.6 version under etch

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-14 at 15:05 +0300, Egor Tur wrote: Hi folk. Yes, I use etch. I have upgraded sarge to etch. If you are then install the libc-compat libraries. Sorry, but waht of libc6 compatibility package called something like libc-compat can I install? [snip no compat libc available

Oh-NOOOOS: Microsoft says Linux infringes 235 of its Patents.

2007-05-14 Thread Greg Folkert
Pretty much as expected, *IT* is going to use more Patent FUD to try to kill Linux. http://money.cnn.com/magazines/fortune/fortune_archive/2007/05/28/100033867/index.htm But then, PJ at Groklaw is a bit pessimistic. http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20070513234519615 Come on, when will

Re: SSH daemon doesn't accept incoming connections

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 13:59 +0400, Kirill Kuvaldin wrote: Jose Luis Rivas Contreras wrote: Well, it's very weird. If you restart ssh daemon does works? ( /etc/init.d/ssh restart ) But if this has happened twice then there must be any reason for this happening. I tried: - restarting the

Re: installing JRE

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 05:27 -0700, David wrote: Hey, I am trying to install this .bin file from my desktop jre-1_5_0_09- linux-i586.bin I want to change it into a .deb package file so its easier to install. what im doing now is opening up the terminal the file is on my desktop, so i type

Re: external hdd problem APOLOGIES

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 14:21 -0700, tom arnall wrote: I sent the following mail this a.m. after looking via google for help on the issue. but i forgot to look on this user list and just now stumbled onto a lot of posts on the topic. i need of course to read these before posting new

Re: help!

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 10:21 -0600, Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Thursday 10 May 2007 04:10:25 David wrote: Hey everyone, I just downloaded and installed debian 4.0 stable on my laptop a couple of days ago, i've been playing around with it and its great!. although i have been having a

Re: sane question

2007-05-13 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-13 at 20:41 -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote: Does the sane package in the debian archives locate usb scanners or is it only capable of parallel port and serial port scanner location? I have an Epson RX600. It is USB only. It is a printer, scanner and copy machine. SANE works just

Re: I/O Wait and CPU Usage

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sat, 2007-05-12 at 13:59 -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 07:43:50PM -0400, Grok Mogger wrote: In this interpretation, wa is really like blocked CPU time. The CPU has processes that are not really doing anything, because they are waiting on

Re: iceape (mozilla browser) and CSS of gallery website

2007-05-12 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 17:33 -0400, H.S. wrote: Hello, If I try to enlarge the fonts (CTRL+Wheel) in iceape of this website: http://gallery.menalto.com/ the menus, or those little gray background windows, on the right hand jump into the middle of the page after a few magnification steps.

Re: swap

2007-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:22 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/10/07 16:12, Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] I guess that's called a mainframe :) No, mainframes are not really that capable as a holy grail to set your sights on. Yes they operate on a different set of standards, but over all

Re: XFCE, and Gnome

2007-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:51 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are based on GTK, won't Gnome be equally fast? What is it that makes XFCE faster than Gnome? Try it. Experience it. You can easily install it and try it, without losing

Re: Re[2]: Build X 3.3.6 version under etch

2007-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:21 +0300, Egor Tur wrote: Hi Gerardo, Hi folk. I try build old version of XFree86 (3.3.6-44 from http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ woody) under current etch. But there are problems with malloc function. For examle: XFree86 3.3.6 is several years

Re: GRUB duplicates kernel entries in menu.lst

2007-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:11 +0200, Raffaele Morelli wrote: Hi you all I noticed this strange behaviour in grub, in etch and now in lenny. Every time update-grub is called, due to a kernel installation or removal, menu.lst grows bigger. Installed kernel entries for (recovery mode) are

Re: XFCE, and Gnome

2007-05-11 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 10:09 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Fri, 11 May 2007 08:33:57 -0400 Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-11 at 16:51 +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: XFCE advertises itself as a fast window manager. But since both are based on GTK, won't Gnome

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 09:46 -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Almost as bad is when people top post their replies. Did these people utterly fail in grade school, or are they deliberately ignoring the flow of language? Their MS outlook

Re: getting a pdf document to print

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 17:46 +0100, andy wrote: Hi all I have received a multipage pdf document that has been locked so it cannot be printed. I would like to be able to print this document so that I can read it on the road. Any ideas for by-passing the lock? pdf2ps then ps2pdf might just

Re: Issues with external HD, changed to read-only

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:40 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: I have an external hard drive that for some reason in the last couple of days was changed to a read-only file system. I have looked at /etc/fstab and the drive is being mounted correctly as rw. I have looked at the permissions of

Re: Remote desktop into my linux server

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Thu, 2007-05-10 at 14:42 -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: I am currently using VNC to remote desktop into my server that is in the basement when I need to make configuration changes. It works just fine, but the only issue is that I have to remain logged into the system in order for it to

Re: OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 12:58 -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: Come on, we all come here for TOPICAL discussions and bare metal Debian stuff. [snip] Oh, wait. No. Joe? you are the one supposedly doing this. For those of you not in the know: Yes, I am being facetious and sarcastic, by a long shot

Re: swap

2007-05-10 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 15:39 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 01:07:23PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:15 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: Cluster? HA! Bigger Single computer? HA

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 21:07 +0800, Wang Xu wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Tom Grove wrote: Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I recently installed Testing (Lenny) and see

Re: Purging bad exim4 stuff

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 15:02 +0300, David Baron wrote: I have a non-zero panic log and other logcheck item show frozen messages and stuff on permanent non-deliver status and such. A lot of these items are old. If I try to remove them using webmin, often they are locked. How might I flush

Re: Re: xhosts problem

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 17:46 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:19:13 +0530 Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snipped buncha stuff] Isn't there any way to give fedora-like ability to open xwindows-dependent programmes as the original user. Some /etc/Xhost*

Re: Re: debian linux-image update

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 14:20 +0530, Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: Ok, so that's why menu.lst looks the same. The time stamp was for the day I updated, so that means it has updated the kernel, right? The vmlinux file in /boot has date stamp of the day I installed etch, but the initrd.img file has

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 18:01 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Greg. Greg Folkert, 09.05.2007 17:37: On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 21:07 +0800, Wang Xu wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 09:01:50AM -0400, Tom Grove wrote: Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody days

Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 09:56 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:34:38PM +0200, Sven Arvidsson wrote: From the description you gave above, it sounds like you should have everything needed to at least display Japanese, so what exactly goes wrong? Can you for example copy

OT: Can't we just drop all the OT stuff...

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
Come on, we all come here for TOPICAL discussions and bare metal Debian stuff. I mean, I might just have to unsubscribe and find another venue to find my fix for Debian only topics. Heck, even Debian Devel have been obsessed with the number string: 09F911029D74E35BD84156C5635688C0 And

Re: Japanese fonts in gnome-terminal

2007-05-09 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 13:44 -0400, Victor Munoz wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 12:42:47PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: You might want to change to an rxvt that does unicode or kxvt. It appears that mutt/jed are having a tough time picking up the right encoding from gnome-terminal. Some old

Re: faceless google (was: Re: How do I setup printer?)

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 23:59 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: You would be well served to learn to google-fu to help you with this stuff. I prefer mailing lists myself. It's more human, rather than the faceless, conglomerate google. The thing is, many times it is those same people's responses

Re: access to DVD movies

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 20:55 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian users, http://xinehq.de/ suggests xine_dvd_plugin for access to DVD movies. xine_dvd_plugin is not visible in Debian. What in Debian has a similar function? please goto http://www.debian-multimedia.org and look to setup

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 14:04 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 02:28:52PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/08/07 14:17, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] flame Joe Hart is not worthy of being an ethicist. Although he does have strong opinions, that is exactly what

Re: Problems with KDE on mounted home

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-09 at 04:31 +0200, Rico Secada wrote: Hi I have been testing KDE on a mounted home directory. I am using sshfs. I have changed the different KDE variables so everything point to the mounted home directory. I have also made sure that both uid and gid are the same on the

Re: How can I refresh Etch completely?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 18:54 -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Greetings; I think I have something basically wrong with my system. Programs that nobody else has problems with fail with a floating point exception. [snip] Any way, any ideas short of the old Windows stand by, Format the hard

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 17:42 -0400, Eric d'Alibut wrote: I seem to recall a linux command line wave player -- wavp, or waveplay, or something like that? Does that ring any bells with anybody? Alternatively, has anyone tried to build the *bsd audioplay package on linux? Sox? [EMAIL

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-05-08 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-05-08 at 19:02 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2007-04-29 @ 00:04:49 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 23:10 +, J.A. de Vries wrote: On 2007-04-28 @ 15:36:10 (week 17) Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-28 at 19:22 +, J.A. de Vries wrote

Re: (solved)Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 08:09 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Serena Cantor wrote: Thank you for your efforts! I convert it to pdf with ps2pdf, then open it with Adobe Reader of Windows, it's fine. --- Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote

Re: google earth, pango

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 10:29 +0200, Gregor wrote: Hi, I have a problem. 2 tools I have tried give me such an output and wont work: 1. pcsx2 (NOT from debian repository) [snip] (unknown:5861): Pango-CRITICAL **: _pango_cairo_font_map_get_renderer: assertion `PANGO_IS_CAIRO_FONT_MAP

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 05:24 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/07/07 04:53, Francesco Pietra wrote: Is it conceivable to add a low-quality 300GB HD (for swap file) to a raid1 system? The system consists of ---Tyan S2895 Thunder K8WE

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-05-07 at 12:15 -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 11:55:56AM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: I've part-time admin'd (contracted) a couple of systems that required 128GB of swap during batch processing middle of the night setups. Primarily because of the inner

Re: Help with setting up home network

2007-05-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 09:38 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 08:41:47PM -0400, Eric A. Bonney wrote: So before I start really getting to far into this, can I get sharing going on my home network with just samba or do I also need NFS? I want to be able to read and

Re: why these files can't be displayed properly by gv

2007-05-06 Thread Greg Folkert
On Sun, 2007-05-06 at 15:10 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I have sarge and gv, I find tutorial below is useful: http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/unix-tutorials/courses/unix.ps however, it can't be displayed properly by gv what's the problem? It doesn't display properly in a few viewers I

Re: Can't disable NCQ, /sys/block/sdc/device/queue_depth is readonly

2007-05-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 19:13 -0700, Roy Franz wrote: I can't disable NCQ due to the sysfs file being read-only: amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# ls -al queue_depth -r--r--r-- 1 root root 0 2007-05-04 18:44 queue_depth amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# amd64:/sys/block/sdc/device# echo 1 queue_depth

Re: How to boot in to Etch if grub fails to load and deletes NTLDR?

2007-05-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:46 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/4/07, Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 09:39:57AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: Is there an option I can make a boot CD like the boot floppy option present in RedHat/Fedora systems towards the end of

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 13:22 -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: On 5/4/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 12:42:40PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:34:27AM -0600, Javier Vasquez wrote: [heavy snippage dude] You mentioned

Re: Installing OpenLDAP on Etch

2007-05-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 16:08 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: I'm trying to install OpenLDAP. Has anyone done this on Etch yet? I have downloaded the software and extracted the files as per the Admin Guide and I'm stuck on one of the steps. I think based on the output in the log files that this has to

RE: Installing OpenLDAP on Etch

2007-05-04 Thread Greg Folkert
On Fri, 2007-05-04 at 20:54 -0400, Jan Sneep wrote: -Original Message- From: Greg Folkert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: May 4, 2007 4:13 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Installing OpenLDAP on Etch snip Then follow your instructions after

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