Re: need Lilypond 2.6

2006-01-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- debian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 19, 2006 at 03:40:11PM +0100, Andreas Janssen wrote: Hello icmp ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? Have we any idea when package searching at debian.org will be back on air ? I am

Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Chinook [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: A recap and progress update so anyone interested can get a quicker picture: Snip I'm coming into this discussion rather late, so apologies if my suggestion has been tried and/or rejected already. I found that putting the line: BrowsePoll 192.168.0.2:631

Re: please help me....

2006-01-03 Thread Joseph Haig
--- rozita reza [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: im going to use linux as my server for windows clients what distro should i use out of Debian and Redhat or Fedora core.? i prefer Debian but i doubt... please help me, thank you .. You are asking a Debian mailing list, so do not be

Re: Help with Linux selection please?

2005-12-29 Thread Joseph Haig
Sorry, been away for a bit and only just managing to catch up (hence the reply to a 10-day-old post). --- Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Lots of folks like Ubuntu. I've heard a lot of good things about Ubuntu, though I've never used it. I've heard two bad(?) things about Ubuntu. One

Re: Inetd vs. Xinetd

2005-12-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Simply put... being the relative newbie that I am, is there an advantage to having the xinetd package rather than netkit-inetd? Currently, I have netkit-inetd installed. Would I be better off removing it and installing xinetd? Any insight

Re: No comments

2005-12-13 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 10:59:50AM +0200, Rafi Gabzu wrote: Hi , In the last two weeks I stopped receiving answers to the questions I post in this mailing list , till now it was very help full. What happened ? something that I did ...?

Re: Login Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Libin Varghese [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, On my system I had 2 user root and xyz, while i was logged on as xyz on my gnome i changed my username to abc and logged on again. It gives me the following message. Your session only lasted less than 10 seconds. If you have not

Building ant from etch

2005-11-18 Thread Joseph Haig
I am backporting ant-1.6.5 from testing to stable (as part of the process of attempting to backport openoffice.org) and it seems to have just hung after showing the following lines: ... [javadoc] Resolving references in package comments... [javadoc] Running doclet... [javadoc] Building

Re: Building ant from etch

2005-11-18 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Nov 18, 2005 at 12:20:32PM +, Joseph Haig wrote: I am backporting ant-1.6.5 from testing to stable (as part of the process of attempting to backport openoffice.org) and it seems to have You shouldn't need to do that. The only

Re: Dual processor

2005-11-16 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:48:50PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've installed sarge from DVD onto a dual pentium 3 machine. How can I tell whether debian has detected both processors? Or can I just assume it will have? Top may

Re: Remote printing in cups

2005-11-15 Thread Joseph Haig
--- jpg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Migrating from lpr to cups, and can't get past square 1. Have read reams of docs Downloaded latest bits off of sourceforge. Gotten ppd for the remote printer. My setup is this: --- -

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-14 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Carl Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: gustavo halperin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf and many xterminals. The problem is that after many days without restart the system the memory grow a little more any day

Re: OpenOffice 2 on Sarge?

2005-11-10 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Clive Menzies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (09/11/05 12:08), Eriberto wrote: David Mummery escreveu: How can I install OpenOffice 2 on Sarge? Haven't found much useful info on the web yet. OpenOffice 2 is available on unstable repository. It is but that version is unlikely

Re: how to regress to stable

2005-11-07 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Nov 06, 2005 at 07:45:49PM -0800, Rodney D. Myers wrote: I've been using etch/testing on my laptop since the change over.. I would like to know of an easy way, short of a re-install, to revert back to stable. Go and fix all the release

Re: Minimal instalation

2005-10-27 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Mitja Podreka wrote: hello I have few old computers in a library and I want to set them up so that they will run Firefox for web browsing and nothing else. I've done a basic Sarge (net)install and then x-window + window manager + Firefox. Is

Re: Writing technical text

2005-10-27 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Alan Ezust [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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 back to docbook:

Re: OpenOffice.org 2.0

2005-10-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Rick Friedman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Edit your sources.list file (usually in /etc/apt). Add the following line: deb http://people.debian.org/~rene/openoffice.org/2.x ./ Once you've done that, run apt-get update followed by apt-get install openoffice.org Will this work in Sarge

Re: Y or I, N or O

2005-10-17 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Ken Bloom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joseph Haig wrote: --- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:49 +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: When upgrading with apt-get upgrade I get the option to install a new configuration file or keep the existing one

Y or I, N or O

2005-10-12 Thread Joseph Haig
When upgrading with apt-get upgrade I get the option to install a new configuration file or keep the existing one. The options are Y or I : install the package maintainer's version N or O : keep your currently-installed version Now, I know that with either Y or I and N or O, both old

Re: Y or I, N or O

2005-10-12 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Oliver Elphick olly@lfix.co.uk wrote: On Wed, 2005-10-12 at 10:49 +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: When upgrading with apt-get upgrade I get the option to install a new configuration file or keep the existing one. The options are Y or I : install the package maintainer's version

Re: Where did the diskusage increase?

2005-10-10 Thread Joseph Haig
--- John Plate [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm looking for a tool that can tell where diskusage has increased since last time the tool was run. Does such a tool exist? This may be a 'sledgehammer to crack a nut' solution, but I use munin to monitor various things, including disk

Re: Remote linux desktop access

2005-10-08 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Antonio Rafael C. Paiva [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi! Does anyone know how to have X access remotely through ssh? If I open a terminal and connect using ssh I can open specific application but not the whole desktop environment, that I would like to map to a different display on my

Re: Hi Can I tell root mail (from Cron) to go Elseware?

2005-09-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Fred OGrady [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi everyone. I would like to send these messages to my gmail account instead. any ideas? Yes. 'man cron' says the following: When executing commands, any output is mailed to the owner of the crontab (or to the user named in the MAILTO

Re: testing stable: vanished packages?

2005-09-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I'm wondering why some packages aren't available for the testing distribution. For example, I wanted to install apcalc (in the math section) but learned that it's available only for the unstable and stable distributions, not for the testing. (I

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-28 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Sep 27, 2005 at 09:40:57AM +0100, Joseph Haig wrote: --- Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, and even windows (gah!). So there is truth in the rumours

Re: Someone is breaking etch (testing)?

2005-09-28 Thread Joseph Haig
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If this is its intended pupose, wouldn't it be a good idea to try to assure that large scale problems are kept to a minimum? No, because that isn't its intended purpose. This being the case, is it possible (and relatively easy) for me to set up my own

Re: What is the different between kernel-image and linux-image

2005-09-27 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Tony Godshall [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Debian is moving toward equality among kernels- hurd, bsd, and even windows (gah!). So there is truth in the rumours that Windows Vista is going to be Linux based? But I suppose Debian with a Windows kernel wouldn't strictly be Linux based. I

Re: Cannot access the computer

2005-09-27 Thread Joseph Haig
--- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 13:04 +0200, Mitja Podreka wrote: Hello I have a big problem. I have six new computers running Mandrake. I would like to migrate them to Debian, but everything is password protected and the people who installed the original OS

Re: Newbie wants Firefox and Tbird

2005-09-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Albert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a new user of Debian. My first task after system install is to install Firefox and Tbird, preferably the latest 1.0.6 or 1.0.7. It's a piece of cake to download and install these from the mozilla site, but I have no idea how I might then wrap them

Re: Howto make the computer beep when system is halted?

2005-09-19 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Clemens Eisserer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Some Linux distributions make make the computer play a beep-sound when the computer is halted which is quite useful for shutting down screenless servers. Is this also possible with debian? Some time ago I had a problem with a

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Fritz Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Help! I have recently begun an attempt to install Debian on a Sony laptop (Mobile AMD K6-2 550MHz, 64MB RAM), and am thoroughly overwhelmed with choices about which I know nothing! I only need the ability to dial-up and network, surf the internet (I

Re: Common Users And Passwords For Multiple Computers

2005-09-16 Thread Joseph Haig
--- John [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm trying to set up a about half a dozen linux boxes for my company. I wanted to know how I can set one machine to maintain an user and password list that would be accessible to all of the computers. There is a How To for NIS here:

Re: sarge: the worst distro?

2005-09-14 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: a joe wrote: i have used Debian 1.2, 2.0, 2.1, potato and woody. with each new version come some new features that i found useful. a few days ago i installed sarge and found it the worst Debian distro because no new features is valuable

Re: How do you move to testing/etch?

2005-09-14 Thread Joseph Haig
--- marc [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I've scoured the archives and docs, and googled the globe, but I cannot find an explanation for safely moving - as safe as it can be - from stable/sarge to testing/etch. The Debian Reference has chapter 5, 'Upgrading a distribution to stable,

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-24 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Tim Ruehsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under control, and Linux does not suffer from this problem. Many people say so, but it is not true. Ext2 takes some

Re: Newbie: How do I defrag my drive?

2005-08-23 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I realized, I've had Sarge installed for a few months, and I should probably defragment my partitions. How can I do this? You don't need to. You only need to defragment your disk if your operating system is incapable of keeping the fragmentation under

Re: Mysql Editor/creator

2005-07-29 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello All, Does anyone know a mysql editor that will also show me things like relations between the tables etc? Would something like phpMyAdmin (see www.phpmyadmin.net) be what you are looking for?

Re: how to compute number bytes downloaded?

2005-07-26 Thread Joseph Haig
--- michael [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm trying to weight up whether monthly d/load caps by various ISPs would restrict me. (Firstly I'm assuming when they say 1Gb they mean 1000*1024 bytes and not bits?) More importantly, what's the best way to track amount of data downloaded per session?

Re: File cutting

2005-07-18 Thread Joseph Haig
--- Tshepang Lekhonkhobe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, What utility can I use to cut a file in different pieces and then assemble them back together? split and cat To cut a file into 140 byte pieces (to fit onto floppy disks, for example): $ split --bytes=140 INPUT PREFIX This

Re: isp service

2005-07-04 Thread Joseph Haig
be on your own with regards getting it set up. Bye, Joseph Haig I need the DNS or IP address number. Maybe, then again maybe not. All of the ISP's that I have contacted do not want to provide me with that number. If your a client, they should be able to give it. When I asked my ISP

Re: content filtering

2005-07-01 Thread Joseph Haig
in Spanish is probably as well developed as the English. Bye, Joseph Haig ___ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE