Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-10 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: Joe Hart wrote: steef wrote: I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that they so firmly believe in. But alas, we have a whole lot of people that seem to do well on Sunday and forget about the rest

Re: Business card iso

2007-05-10 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 02:39:19PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: I went ahead and downloaded the net install for Lenny, and have since upgraded it to Sid. It works just fine, and the only differences so far that I noticed

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: Considering that I am still a noob, I can feel proud that I can pluck things from experimental and still have no broken packages. I have even managed to edit a few files and written a couple of scripts, Oh boy. Heh.

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrei Popescu wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 10:38:03PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Tomorrow my Etch is going to turn into Sid. I let you know how it does. Worst case scenario I can reinstall Etch. Before reinstalling Etch you can try to install

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

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto � wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:39:06PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: That type of law is one reason. Iraq and general foreign policy is another. See, I thought the main reason that many Europeans were opposed to US involvement in Iraq

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:08:42PM +1000, SB wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/09/07 04:02, Jochen Schulz wrote: Ron Johnson: And Christianity teaches love your neighbor as yourself. That doesn't mean that the humans who

Re: etch help

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Try a new reply to Andrew's message. That is a bunch of nothing. Joe - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG

Re: xhosts problem

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Vidyadhar Gadgil wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 15:19:13 +0530 Vidyadhar Gadgil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Logged in as one user, I often need to check mail of other users (I use Evolution). In Fedora Core 5, which I used earlier, I would just log in

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 the left bracket in my /usr/bin directory and do

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

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: 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

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-09 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:09AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 19:51, Eric d'Alibut wrote: On 5/8/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart for its own good. The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was accurate. Joe Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Remember to always change the subject!! A -- To

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joe Hart wrote: While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart for its own good. The Dilbert cartoon was not funny, it was accurate

Re: swap

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Mon, 7 May 2007 12:15:31 -0400 Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] To generalize the problem, given that the software can't be changed, at what point do you start to look at either a bigger single computer or a

Re: top vs htop %MEM

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tyler Smith wrote: Hi, I'm running a process that is very memory intensive (analyzing ca. 500,000 phylogenetic trees). It's using 1.6Gb of virtual memory, 1.2Gb of physical memory (I have 1.5Gb of RAM). However, htop reports only 21.5 for MEM%,

Re: swap

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] I run several apps at the same time. Currently there are 105 processes running, although most are sleeping according to top. Are you on i386 or amd64? I'm wondering how memory gets packed when things are

Re: swap

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nigel Henry wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007 16:21, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] Sometimes, just links2, sometimes konq. I ususally use Xfce but have tried it with just rxvt, pdmenu, then links2 or konq. Try this site:

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

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: I'm left speechless, honestly... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html Ha! Makes me glad I don't live there. Looks to me like another reason to download music

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 04:22:46AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joe Hart wrote: While we're at it, lets top paste and write it in HTML. Damn, my MUA won't let me to that. It also keeps the tread. Program too smart

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

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/08/07 14:37, Lubos Vrbka wrote: Not to mention that the idea is idiotic - punish everyone because some people steal. Sheesh. i think this is on par with the fact that we have (here in czech republic, i'm not sure about

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

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt Howland wrote: On Tuesday 08 May 2007, Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: ýNo wonder so many people are starting to think poorly of the U.S. government. Lots of Americans have been warning anyone who will listen about

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amy Templeton wrote: Hey all, Can anybody recommend a *really, really convincing* source of information I can give people/my college that will aid in deterring them from trying to force people to use MS-Office files (by sending them via email

Re: Really annoying.

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 they are. I mean come on, the guy isn't really running Debian. He uses

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

2007-05-08 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2007 19:08:11 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jostein Elvaker Haande wrote: I'm left speechless, honestly... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507

Re: [Etch] pppoe problem - unable to ping or lookup

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/7/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, May 06, 2007 at 07:11:34PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/5/07, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 05:12:25PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote:

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

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. Please don't top post on this list. It seems to me that reverting to using windows to view Unix documents is

Re: swap

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: 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 mother board ---Two WD Raptor 150GB each

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: Dominique Dumont wrote: From my experience fglrx works with kernel 2.6.20 (amd64). I would recommend using 2.6.21 on new HP laptops. Not sure about this particular one, but on some models ACPI is totally broken with

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-07 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: Joe Hart wrote: After a bit of investigation, I just want to point out that the hacks that you provided are illegal. They directly violate the ATI license agreement that one agrees to when installing the proprietary

Re: Is it Java or is it Iceweasel?

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: I appreciate the help and the effort, but come on people! - I *am* running Iceweasel/FireFox. - These web sites work *on*all*other*systems* I have accessed them from, and have done so for weeks, months, and years. It

Re: Sid, xorg and fglrx

2007-05-06 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Wood wrote: I'm another who has problems with the latest upgrade in sid's xorg. My video is ATI Radeon X1600, which requires the proprietary fglrx driver. This has been running well on my HP NX8420 giving me the full 1680*1050 resolution.

Re: OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/04/07 13:15, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Well, Good is a relative term. To some people something is good while other people think the same thing is not good. For example good food. Human sacrifice was considered Good

Re: Install Debian Etch on VMWare server 1.0.3

2007-05-05 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to install etch on vmware server, which runs on iwndows 2003. During the install it hangs during the select and install software phase. After I've selected the FTP mirror and it has scanned it, and I've

OT: Religion, Good and Evil (was Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?)

2007-05-04 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, May 04, 2007 at 10:09:38 -0400, Celejar wrote: On Thu, 03 May 2007 18:52:02 -0700 Kenward Vaughan wrote: [...] Kenward -- With or without (religion) you would have good people doing good things and evil

Re: same problem

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip] He/she uses debianhelp.org. Over there they simply do not understand that the Debian user list does not look like this http://www.debianhelp.org/node/5890 to most of us. Instead they are probably wondering why

Re: msttcorefonts, fc-cache and problems

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anton wrote: Hi. I just installed etch system. Then I add the msttcorefonts package, but these fonts are not appear. Just nothing changed. Then I tried to do the # fc-cache -f -v (it shows me many failed messages, see below. New fonts are

Re: how to give a user write permition to a ext2 partition

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge, as root, I mount a ext2 partition, I find only root can write how to let others write? Thanks! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam

Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-02 at 17:13 -0400, P Kapat wrote: you mean to say the ffmpeg from www.debian-multimedia.org are robust enough to work on 32-bit as well as 64-bit systems without doing a chroot? Read here:

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 yag wrote: Hi I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something else. I didn't notice any difference when comparing mplayer's behavior, although

Re: pros/cons of installing from source

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Thu, 2007-05-03 at 13:59 +0100, yag wrote: Hi I would like to know whether installing from source rather than from the repositories has any advantage in terms of performance or something else. I didn't notice any

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-03 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Sneep wrote: [snip] I just check my sources.list file and interestingly the default when doing a clean NetInst is to point to the Etch folders on the miror site, not stable. No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free

Re: Setup PATH for X Window (urxvt)

2007-05-02 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 10:12:14PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Shouldn't pre-compiled tarballs go in /opt? Does it really make a difference? What matters is that it is in a different place than /bin or /usr/bin so

Re: where is the w32codecs for amd64 testing?

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raphael wrote: Dear Users, The last time I googled a lot for w32codecs-package for mplayer. But, I can't find them for amd64 system (debian testing). Is it still there, but I'm too stupid to find it, or changed something I don't realised?

Re: Setup PATH for X Window (urxvt)

2007-05-01 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 04:39:39PM +0200, csanyipal wrote: On Tue, May 01, 2007 at 11:51:07AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: Better, though, would be to install the software to /usr/local instead. I agree with this. But

Re: windows download

2007-04-30 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Casey wrote: it already has windows on it [snip] Then add this to the bottom of your /boot/grub/menu.lst title Windows (hda1) root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive Of course, if hda1 is not your windows drive, then you will need to modify

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] Can't you just alias the command as above, so that when you execute 'lynx' it launches 'xterm -e lynx'? Do you have more than one terminal app installed? How would it know which terminal you want to use for any

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call it a shortcut. Actually, the windows

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 02:07:31PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 10:11:40PM +0100, somethin2cool wrote: not using Gnome or KDE, I seem to be

Re: webhttrack. start please

2007-04-29 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: Joe Hart wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 07:53:55PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Use KDE. Right click on somewhere on the desktop, choose new, choose link. Hmm, sounds like windows to me, except they call

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 01:40:09AM -0400, Max Hyre wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Sadly it's not made with cane sugar anymore. :( Now /that's/ the worst programming news in years. Do they still use the ``all the

Re: btw: gnome desktop manager

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: this starts up as the last thing when I boot up. But why? I don't have Gnome, and haven't had it at all on this installation. XFCE has its own which I would like to use (it doesn't seem to do anything anyway) instead as this

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: it would be useful to be able to copy files onto ntfs external hds. (i like reiser 4, but lets not get into alternatives) I know about captive and have never got it to work. Fuse seems new, and somehow related. I read a

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Sometimes when I'm sailing in internet with my epiphany or mozilla browser the following message appears: This page contains information of a type (application/x-shockwave-flash) that can only be

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] Well things are going well now. I have ethernet internet (so i have to sit by the router) and can install from DVD. But lots of things are still a royal pain when it comes to installing. It seems there are no

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: Answer to this one: ntfs-3g. It works. But, never trust anything to work with an undocumented file system. Frequent backups are a good idea. Reformatting the ntfs drive is a better idea, but your Windows might complain

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/28/07 09:22, Roberto C. Sýnchez wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 08:54:04AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/28/07 02:38, Joe Hart wrote: Well, you could always switch over to one of the many energy drinks like Red Bull

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-free repositories to /etc/apt/sources.list and run: aptitude install flashplugin-nonfree Rodolfo: Thanks. I unpacked the file install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz and installed it with: $ ./flashplayer-installer . Now it seems all right. Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip] I unpacked the file install_flash_player_7_linux.tar.gz and installed it with: $ ./flashplayer-installer . Now it seems all right. Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that is not something I can understand. Why would you want

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] It seems there are no perfect methods, but that apt works perfectly IF you have all the repositories in there (although sucks at uninstalling). Many many things I want are not in repositories for some reason, so I have

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: I think the point might have got lost in there: So can anyone tell me how to add a Sarge repo, and also the Etch one. Yes they ought to be set up already but they aren't and the information is not on any link in Google's

Re: ntfs read-write

2007-04-28 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 somethin2cool wrote: [snip] Back when I still had windows, I created a fat32 partition and used that to share, but since then I have reclaimed the space that Windows was using and changed it so that Windows runs in a VM so I can still access

Re: More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:56:37 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas

Re: Etch 32-bit system w/ AMD64 proc.

2007-04-27 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Thompson wrote: Hay all, So, I do a lot of multi-media work on my home workstation. The processor is an AMD64, but I don't want to hassle with a 32-bit chroot partition, so I just run the whole machine in 32-bit mode. The question I have

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 P Kapat wrote: Might be a little OT, but here is the question: Suppose I plugin an USB drive (small pendrives, or may be a big backup external disk), KDE pops up a box to choose the action to mount/cancel the new drive. What if I don't want to

Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noland Oakley wrote: Please help, I have been looking everywhere online but I cannot find a wireless network cable, where can I locate one? Oxymoron! - -- Registerd Linux user #443289 at http://counter.li.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-

Re: [OT] Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wackojacko wrote: Michael M. wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Granted days like 12/04 could be confused for the 12th of April, but really mean the 4th of December. Still, your system should know the real day, and really

Re: Error message: `This page contains information of a type...'

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew J. Barr wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, debian users. Sometimes when I'm sailing in internet with my epiphany or mozilla browser the following message appears: This page contains information of a type

Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: spent the last 24 hours trying to get on top of this but reached the limit of my resources now and seem to have hit most of the relevant googleable info out there without getting past the current impasse. I've got a hot nvidia

Re: migrate / to new partition; wants to use old mount points

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ric Otte wrote: I wanted to migrate a sid install from a partition on a sata drive to a partition on another ide drive. I used dd to copy the partion, changed fstab, and tried to boot into the system on the ide drive. Grub recognizes the ide

Re: tv-out, nvidia, nvtv etc

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: Joe Hart on 26/04/07 16:07, wrote: Here's my relevant part of the xorg.conf (it works), different card, most likely same driver though. This also allows beryl to work. Identifier GForce 6200 Driver nvidia

Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/07 10:24, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 03:26:50PM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Thu, 26 Apr 2007 08:19:02 -0500 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 04/26/07 05:59, Paul Johnson wrote: Noland

Re: [OT] Re: SSH versus SSHFS

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 nicholas wrote: Ron Johnson said: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/26/07 11:55, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:10:53AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/26/07 08:35, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: To

Re: hda / hde - Debian can't seem to make its mind up

2007-04-26 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Hi, I have mentioned this before but in a slightly different context and I can't remember what was said. I have a Compaq ProLian DL320 server and Debian seems to have a little problem I have installed Debian

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now that is a good reason. AFAIK, as of the newer kernels (forget which release) all drives are now sdX, so this issue becomes moot. I can see why UUID is a good idea, but a LABEL

Re: More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Joe Hart wrote: Just because you gave me this opportunity. ;-) This is one of the reasons I run Sidux. I can sail the stormy waters of Sid in a boat that floats nicely on the waves, although I admit some of the waves

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Ken writes: Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? man locale locale doesn't seem to have an effect for Icedove. My system date today is 25/04/2007, but Icedove shows it as 4/25/2007, which tells

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] How about posting it here? - # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #file system mount point type options dump pass proc /proc proc defaults 0 0 # /dev/hda3

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 19:13 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] How about posting it here? - # /etc/fstab: static file system information. # #file system mount

Re: Dates and times in Icedove

2007-04-25 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, Apr 25, 2007 at 19:08:35 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Ken writes: Is there a way to set date and formats user-wide, even system-wide? man locale locale

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:26:46AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote: Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s! Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the ideal time

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: I installed etch onto a new pc which is made up of a low energy consumption mobo and two 2.5 inch laptop 120 gig harddrives. The low energy consumption was my priority because I want to leave the machine on 24x7. However these

Re: More Nvidia Problems

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 16:14:26 +0300 David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Any ideas or must we wait until Sid finally gets straightened out? We'll be waiting a long time ;-) Just because you gave me this opportunity. ;-)

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew J. Barr wrote: Celejar wrote: I can't access the site, since I don't have a flash extension installed. See what not enabling flash can gain! I'm on a PowerPC laptop. Flash isn't an option for me. :P Yes, that's why people shouldn't

Re: When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars de Bruin wrote: Hi, When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a new device connected: Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using address 2 What happens then is a mistry for me:

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: [snip] I think UUID is used because it is better to use UUID to recognize the drives than /dev. For example, if you're trying to have your USB drive automount to /mnt/usb, you'd use something like

Re: UUID vs /dev

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John L Fjellstad wrote: Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I can understand the usage of UUID on removable drives, but it seems the new way of dealing with *all* disks is UUID. Why this needs to be so for normal hard drives remains a mystery

Re: laptop harddrive noise

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Adam Hardy wrote: Joe Hart on 24/04/07 15:51, wrote: Adam Hardy wrote: harddrives are making a disconcerting clicking noise every 5 to 25 seconds at random - it sounds a bit like a metronome, if it wasn't so irregular. What I'm wondering

Re: When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

2007-04-24 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lars de Bruin Johansen wrote: Hi, When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a new device connected: Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using address 2 What happens then is a mistry

Re: User level alternatives?

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter Valdemar Mørch wrote: Joe Hart j.hart-at-orange.nl |volatile-lists| wrote: I don't know about other WMs but KDE lets users set some default applications. Control Center KDE Components Component Chooser Sure, KDE has that setting

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Baron wrote: Which drivers are you using? �On my system, the nv drivers are very sluggish, and the new xorg broke my 97.55, so I upgraded to the new beta 100.14.03, and performance is back. This happens (and will happen) again and again

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] I would think that anyone hacking into my system would face a login prompt, but who knows? I'm not running a ssh daemon, so it I don't see what would give them such prompt, and my firewall should block anyone attempting

Re: oddity in apt-cache

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: I have three separate machines that have identical entries in /etc/apt/sources.list. All were updated and upgraded this morning as a result of troubleshooting this issue. On machine #1 I can apt-cache show nhfsstone and

Re: Newbie Aptitude Question about Security Updates

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Sneep wrote: I could log in, but every command I could think of to try failed ... the only command that worked was help and it didn't really provide any helpful advice ... so I've started to re-install the OS, this will be the 7th or 8th time

Re: [OT] Re: Debian User List

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew J. Barr wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: Oh, and the point of this mail is that I too fall into the Young group, seeing as I'm seventeen. While most of my friends have spent half the day boasting about how AOL has a new layout, I've been trying

Re: New computer

2007-04-23 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard wrote: Hi all I just put a new computer together and would like to know your input about the following problems i experience. My new system has these components.: Motherboard - Intel DP965LT CPU - Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 HD - Seagate

Re: security for a home system

2007-04-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: On Sat, 2007-04-21 at 21:55 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Perhaps one of the gurus in this field will take the opportunity to explain why having a root console open all the time is a bad thing (other than the obvious local

Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade

2007-04-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zlatko Calusic wrote: Hello! First post to the list after a looong time, so be gentle. :) I'm using lenny/sid distribution. Few days ago, after Xorg packages got upgraded to 1.3.0, display became very slow. Every redrawing, every scroll, it's

Re: xorg 1.3 breaks 9755? (was Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade)

2007-04-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/07 14:16, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Which drivers are you using? On my system, the nv drivers are very sluggish, and the new xorg broke my 97.55, so I upgraded to the new beta 100.14.03, and performance is back. How

Re: xorg 1.3 breaks 9755? (was Re: X11 display terribly slow after upgrade)

2007-04-22 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/07 15:58, Joe Hart wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/22/07 14:16, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] Which drivers are you using? On my system, the nv drivers are very sluggish, and the new xorg broke my 97.55, so I upgraded

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