Sid wants to kill off abiword, aspell, and gedit

2005-07-28 Thread Joe Potter
I figure that someone at Debian hates the editors I like. What to do? An apt-get dist-upgrade will remove abiword and gedit. They then would be un-installable. This always happens with Sid and Gnome. Abiword is always the last to be fixed. I smell a conspiracy! -- Regards, Joe -- To

Re: Sid wants to kill off abiword, aspell, and gedit

2005-07-28 Thread Joe Potter
James Vahn wrote: On Thu, 28 Jul 2005, Joe Potter wrote: I figure that someone at Debian hates the editors I like. What to do? An apt-get dist-upgrade will remove abiword and gedit. They then would be un-installable. This always happens with Sid and Gnome. Abiword is always the last

apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Joe Potter
then upgrade would also. Does anyone know the status of the repositories? Thanks. -- Regards, Joe Potter -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: apt-get update works fine; but apt-get upgrade does not

2005-07-26 Thread Joe Potter
Josh Battles wrote: Joe Potter said: I am running Sid, and I can use apt-get update just fine. However, when I then run apt-get upgrade I see apt fail to get even a single file. Each one yields the message about failed to open the file. I thought that if the server was down, update would fail

Re: Can't install KDE in Sid

2005-07-17 Thread Joe Potter
Nate Bargmann wrote: Hi All. I've been building a partition on my laptop for Sid (with 40 GB available one might as well play, right?) and I'd really like to run KDE. However whenever I select KDE, libglu1-xorg is shown as broken. The description says: * libglu1-xorg conflicts with

Re: i think I switched to Etch without knowing it

2005-06-12 Thread Joe Potter
Bob Proulx wrote: Marty wrote: Bob Proulx wrote: snip You are very close to trolling. Please don't do that. Bob Hi Bob, He may be close to trolling, but I am glad they all got those posts out of you. What great explanations of the situation. I have tried to impart this information in

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Potter
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: Joe Potter wrote: You want to see the context. You want to see the flow of the discussion --- like we did years ago before you had to cave due to all the suites who can do no better. Sorry, but I'm not too slow to remember the substance of 95

Re: Programming Backwards (was Re: Top posting (a different point of view))

2005-06-11 Thread Joe Potter
Ben wrote: Well, I find that most C programs nowadays are written backwards : main() on top and functions below. Having learned C from KR, that's backwards for me. But the point is : I put up with it. No whining and no expectations that everyone will want to follow my preferences.

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Joe Potter
Phil Dyer wrote: I agree with that point exactly. PS: 2 points for anybody that can figure out which point, or even which poster I'm agreeing with. (I really did try to stay out of this...) phil I get no points at all as it is not worth trying to figure out what the point was. That,

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Joe Potter
Carl Fink wrote: On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 12:46:20PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote: Carl Fink wrote: Just out of curiosity: you do realize that LCD is an insult, right? What is LCD? Least Common Denominator. I thought it was Last Chick Drunk. --Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Top posting (a different point of view)

2005-06-10 Thread Joe Potter
Roger B.A. Klorese wrote: Joe Potter wrote: That, of course, is the main point you made. I put all this in the lap of Bill Gates --- the miserable ass. He is never happy unless he is destroying some standard and replacing it with crap of some kind. Outlook does it this way

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Joe Potter
Graham Smith wrote: Lech Karol Pawaszek wrote: snip PS Have you noticed that there aren't many people who are top posting zealots? I wonder why. Maybe tops posters are just more relaxed and chilled out people. :o) No, I would guess they are Winders folks mainly and just have no good

Re: Top posting

2005-06-09 Thread Joe Potter
Robert Wolfe wrote: On Thu, 9 Jun 2005, Joe Potter wrote: No, I would guess they are Winders folks mainly and just have no good reason to offer for top posting. I further think they just don't give a darn about helping others out. Heh thing is is I am a Windoze as well as a Debian user

Re: Sarge release

2005-06-06 Thread Joe Potter
Tom Allison wrote: Should I be concerned that my link to http://non-us.debian.org testing/non-US/non-free and other 'non-us.debian.org' URLs? It seems that a lot of things are not responding. Is this the result of 38000 users all trying to access the exact same server? The non-US

Will Sid go nuts?

2005-06-01 Thread Joe Potter
Hello all, When we get a Sarge release in a few days, we will get crazy behavior out of Sid for a while? I seem to remember that when Woody was released, updating in testing or Sid was a problem for a long time. Will that be the case again? Regards, Joe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-31 Thread Joe Potter
Romulo Sousa wrote: On 5/30/05, Joe Potter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe Potter wrote: Hello All, I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit a brick wall. I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and manually tell it where to find

Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-30 Thread Joe Potter
Hello All, I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit a brick wall. I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and manually tell it where to find the proxy, i.e. at 127.0.0.1 and port 3128. The logs (/var/log/squid/access.log) show

Re: Squid and Transparent Proxy for just one box

2005-05-30 Thread Joe Potter
Joe Potter wrote: Hello All, I need to test some proxy methods for our school lab. I seem to have hit a brick wall. I have squid running just fine on this Debian Sid box. I use Firefox and manually tell it where to find the proxy, i.e. at 127.0.0.1 and port 3128. The logs (/var/log/squid

Sarge will not print text, but Fedora Core will

2004-08-08 Thread Joe Potter
I now have checked printing by putting Fedora Core 2 on this box. After following Sarge since the damn beginning and printing to my trusty HP 920c deskjet the cups team has finally screwed up printing in Sarge just as we freeze it. This is a tad irritating. It started in Sid with the

Sarge breaks some HP deskjets

2004-07-29 Thread Joe Potter
Hello all, Is there anyway that the Debian team could make it so I could use libcupsys2 in Sarge rather than libcupsys2-gnutls10 ?? The latter breaks my HP 920c in that I can no longer print text --- but graphics still works. With libcupsys2 it works just great. Can we put back the library

Can anyone print to an HP inkjet after Cups upgrade? (libcupsys2-gnutls10)

2004-07-14 Thread Joe Potter
Hello all, The above says it all. If I am to keep Sarge upgraded, I will have to accept libcupsys2-gnutls10. :-( This makes my HP 920c print graphics only. I lose text printing. I do not print many photos however. I do like to print a little text once in a while! Any workarounds? Regards,

libcupsys2-gnutls10 breaks printing of text on HP 920c deskjet printer

2004-07-13 Thread Joe Potter
Package: libcupsys2-gnutls10 Version: 1.1.20final+cvs20040 I have a HP 920c deskjet printer. It has worked fine with Cups for a long time. It works fine with libcupsys2, but upon using libcupsys2-gnutls10 it will no longer print text. On printing the CUPS printer test page you get the graphics

Re: GUI-tool for network configuration

2004-07-10 Thread Joe Potter
Karl Hegbloom wrote: aptitude install configure-debian configure-debian Very nice. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

libcupsys2-gnutls10 in Sid breaks my HP 920c printer

2004-07-08 Thread Joe Potter
Hello All, I can print perfectly to an HP 920c inkjet printer with my setup using libcupsys2. But, when I upgrade to libcupsys2-gnutls10 (it is in Sid) I can only print the graphics portion of a doc --- no text at all. Anyone know what I might be doing wrong? -- The slightest acquaintance

Printing problems with libcupsys2-gnutils10 in Sid

2004-07-08 Thread Joe Potter
Hello All, I am now running pure Sarge and everything works just dandy. If I upgrade to Sid, then I end up with the new cups libcupsys2-gnutils10 (I think, this is from memory). Now, with that in place, my HP 920c inkjet will print only the graphics stuff but not any text at all. Not the first

Re: Sid login problem (delay)... PAM or something else?

2003-12-14 Thread Joe Potter
Kenward Vaughan wrote: I noted on my Dec. 10 dist-upgrade of Sid that logging off of a virtual terminal had a large delay introduced (minutes, it seems). An error msg. is spit out after a bit: INIT: Id 2 respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes This does NOT happen with the console