Re: How to use old CPUs (Not Debian Specific)

2005-10-15 Thread Katipo
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Oct 14, 2005 at 10:17:57PM +0100, Graham Smith wrote: On Friday 14 October 2005 21:45, Marty wrote: You're ignoring the uses in between those two extremes. For example, why use a modern machine, which uses 3 or 4 times the power, just for a firewall or

Re: Jikes RVM

2005-10-08 Thread Katipo
Jeffrin wrote: hello all, One of my Friend wants to do a project as a feature enhancement on Jikes RVM (http://jikesrvm.sourceforge.net) can you all suggest a feature enhancement ? Thanking you in advance... Well, if he feels there is some requirement for enhancement, by connotation, he

Re: Using xfig

2005-10-04 Thread Katipo
Rogério Brito wrote: On Oct 02 2005, Alvin Oga wrote: i can only draw squares with xfig or dia or geda - too much buttons and menus just to make simple squares, rectangles, cirles, lines, and arrows Really, using xfig is an excellent option for those interested in

Re: hardware recommendation

2005-09-30 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, first time in this list. I've been a Suse user for the last several years and have decided to try Debian. I'm looking to purchase a new system. Can anyone recommend a system that Debian will install with no problems,

Re: ReiseFS vs XFS

2005-09-25 Thread Katipo
Daniel Garcia wrote: Hello, I would like to know wich is the best filesystem to use: the ReiseFS or XFS. Is it possible to do a whole installation of the Debian system (testing) with XFS. If you only deal with small file sizes, Reiserfs/Reiser4fs is the best option. If you go for a lot of

Re: Opinions -- When will Sid be usable again?

2005-09-18 Thread Katipo
Seeker5528 wrote: On Sun, 18 Sep 2005 02:41:37 -0400 William Ballard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I started using Woody in Jan 03, and switched to Sid maybe by around April, and learned to deal with its unstability and stuck with it until Sarge came out. Now I run Sarge, because I expected

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-18 Thread Katipo
Angelo Bertolli wrote: The repositories contain Dillo which loads up pretty fast--haven't checked the memory usage though. Not the browser most newbies are looking for, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-17 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: He's also trying to install Opera and yet noone's jumped on the 3 people that are shoving him towards Firefox and Thunderbird. I don't know if they are doing that. It's far easier for a newbie to install from main, without having to play around with their sources list

Re: No Starch Press releases _The Debian System_ by Martin Krafft

2005-09-16 Thread Katipo
Jules Dubois wrote: On Thursday 15 September 2005 13:58, Roberto C. Sanchez [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: While appreciate the hard work that Martin has done on his book, and the general interest about it on this list, I think that advertising it like this goes against the

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Katipo
Angelo Bertolli wrote: On that note, I found that Firefox and Thunderbird are a couple of those programs that you don't want to use the Debian repository to get. I don't know why but the Debian versions of Firefox and Thunderbird don't allow me to install new themes or extensions. Angelo

Re: Overwhelmed newbie

2005-09-16 Thread Katipo
Andy Streich wrote: Would a few months of using Ubuntu cause me to come running back to Debian? I have no idea. Yes, it would. I started off with Libranet, but once you reach a certain point, the specific configurations, the tailored /etc/apt/sources.list files, the over abundance of

Re: Gnome 2.10 going in to etch today

2005-09-14 Thread Katipo
Jason Clinton wrote: On Tuesday 13 September 2005 10:43 pm, Marc Wilson wrote: a bunch of arrogant, rude, concecending replies I'm not feeding this troll any more. Well, I don't know if he's trolling. He comes across as someone who uses one app. and therefore nothing else is any good.

Re: ftp://ftp.nerim.net repository broken?

2005-09-13 Thread Katipo
Tong wrote: Hi, Yes, it is, but I'm sure they are aware of it, as I couldn't get a connection with aptitude. Server probably down for maintenance. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: William Ballard wrote: All right, kids, that's enough. Don't make me take off my belt. Yes, the threat of William with his pants down is sure to scare anyone. Especially William. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Derrick Hudson wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 06:11:46PM -0700, Darrell Bellerive wrote: | I will soon be moving into a house in the rural country. Best dial-up modems in the world are... http://www.maestro.com.au/special%20modems.htm In the country you have special situations that gift

Re: Tips and Tricks for Dial-Up Internet Access?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
On Tue, 30 Aug 2005 16:40:12 +0200, Derrick Hudson wrote: | and keeping my Debian stable system up to date. Do it at night. 'Aptitude update' before bedtime, then 'aptitude upgrade' as you're heading off to bed. Wake up in the morning and it's all done. Debian can do it all by itself.

Re: OT: Who will switch to (or at least try out) Opera now that they have free registrations?

2005-08-30 Thread Katipo
Ian wrote: I picked up a copy of it, now I'm surfing sans Ad-bar! It's an OK browser. I might use it sometimes. Anyone else's thought's on it? I've used it. Small footprint, therefore quick. Mozilla suite, - browser, mail, calender, gives me all I need for a small business setting. --

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Katipo
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, Aug 29, 2005 at 11:14:24AM +0800, Katipo wrote: Any government, that usurps the right of an individual to: make his/er own decision on his own personal existence; to make the wrong decision; and to suffer by it, is not a democratic institution, and fails in its

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Katipo
Steve Lamb wrote: If you want to see a liberal dictating larger government at tbe expense of a person's personal life just look for the word protect and you'll spot it. It's a bingo if protect is followed almost immediately by children. Not always.

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Katipo
David Jardine wrote: Wouldn't that give you the same result as a direct popular election, mob rule as you call it? What I like about mob rule, is that after the initial stages where a dumbed down, general population had made a few painful mistakes, and it had sunk in that they were big

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-29 Thread Katipo
David Jardine wrote: I still don't see the difference between mob rule (as used here) and democracy - and how electoral colleges produce the latter rather than the former. That's what I said. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: OT: Electoral College [Re: U.S. federal income tax program]

2005-08-28 Thread Katipo
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: big snip It would be better if all states did that, if only because it provides a more accurate reflection of what the people want without allowing sudden changes in the public mood to unduly affect election results. Any government, that usurps the right of an

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

2005-08-26 Thread Katipo
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I vote for Reply to list it is more simple, i think that anybody at least onece replied to message author by mistake. PAolo Is it really all that hard? 'Reply to all' (in this case, Thunderbird), and delete the non-applicable address. It is possible to have

Re: Installation problems

2005-08-26 Thread Katipo
Ken Heard wrote: After considerable web research on various distros I decided to try the then new Debian 3.1r0a-i386 Sarge. After booting -- I thought successfully -- strange things happened which did not strike me as quite right. For example: 1. Printing I tried first to use

Re: Portable OGG Player

2005-08-26 Thread Katipo
Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Fri, 2005-26-08 at 12:23 +0100, Dave Ewart wrote: I got an Ibead 400: 1GB flash RAM and a 'proper' USB mass storage interface. Anybody have a player that has at least 20GB of storage that plays oggs? My rio karma crapped out and they just gave

Re: www.debian.org down?

2005-08-25 Thread Katipo
Nico De Ranter wrote: Is anybody else having problems reaching the debian website? I can't reach www.debian.org or security.debian.org. DNS still works (ah, wait, they appear to be the same machine 194.109.137.218. hardware problem? scheduled downtime?). Nico Yes. Just tried to do an

Re: Debian Wiki Down: Permanantly?

2005-08-25 Thread Katipo
C Shore wrote: (http://wiki.debian.net) Works fine from Western Australia. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: KDE vs GNOME

2005-08-23 Thread Katipo
Leonardo Sá wrote: I really need a good looking desktop without taking up that much resources... No you don't. You need the applications you require installed over a base system. These bring all dependencies with them. You don't require a full Gnome or KDE desktop. Just use Fluxbox, or the

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-08 Thread Katipo
Doofus wrote: Katipo wrote: Doofus wrote: Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for paypal or ebay coming up at all in message headers

Re: OT - Unwanted mail

2005-08-07 Thread Katipo
Doofus wrote: Well, whilst I appreciate we can filter at our end with procmail or delete directly from our imap servers (although not from this here windows box), my point is that I can't see any reason for paypal or ebay coming up at all in message headers or bodies on a debian linux

Re: Adding fonts to Gnome.....

2005-08-01 Thread Katipo
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Re: Screen Size

2005-07-31 Thread Katipo
David R. Litwin wrote: Hello David, I know it isn't the Monitor because I screwed up a bit when re-installing. It asks the default size and I gave one that was once size too big. Good quality CRTs will handle this, but I must have missed a previous post with this detail. I found the

Re: xorg-x11 6.8.2.dfsg.1-4 Packages Not Found

2005-07-28 Thread Katipo
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Re: Programming in C with debian

2005-07-27 Thread Katipo
Martin Kenneth Lopez wrote: Thanks for the answer I will test the ide's and emacs too... Now to make open source software thanks again everybody Martin Kenneth Don't forget vim. http://packages.debian.org/testing/editors/vim And http://packages.debian.org/unstable/editors/vim-doc

Re: Updates to unstable

2005-07-26 Thread Katipo
[KS] wrote: Two main servers of debian.org are being relocated to HP while decision of their new hosts gets finalized. These server are very essential for DDs to upload new packages as one of them hosts the database. That might be whey we aren't seeing any updates since a few days. I read[1]

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

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
William Ballard wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:17:47AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: On Tue, 2004-12-28 at 09:22 -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: --snip-- The difference is this: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. I have read

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

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 12:44:21PM +1100, Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 04:00:22PM -0500, William Ballard wrote: I read the Koran after 9/11 and found some bits very hostile to Christianity and Jews. The basic plot is: God used to like Jews, now he doesn't

Re: [Way off topic] the Quran

2004-12-28 Thread Katipo
Sam Watkins wrote: On Tue, Dec 28, 2004 at 09:22:30AM -0500, Roberto Sanchez wrote: The difference is this: 1. Muslims who commit terrorist acts do so in *compliance* with the teachings of Mohammed and Islam. 2. Christians who commit terrorist acts are in direct opposition to the Bible and

Re: {advocay] Linspire machine

2004-12-25 Thread Katipo
stan wrote: I bought a machine with Linspire preloaded on it today. Nice machien, and cheaper than I could build it. A bit short on RAM, and the CD is a reader only (no CD writer or DVD). But great value for the $299. Reading through the manual that comes with it, I find no information as to

Re: best IRC client for Debian

2004-12-21 Thread Katipo
Peter Nuttall wrote: That is too much info, examining the AOL page, it will not let you have 1963 but will let you have 1973, so my advice would be to knock twenty years off your age and go from there. Known as the target audience. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: changing email address for list

2004-12-10 Thread Katipo
Eric Gaumer wrote: It will be down for nearly 30 days You need a new computor science dept. Should I just unsubscribe and resubscribe with a new address Probably best. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: I don't want games!!!

2004-12-07 Thread Katipo
Ian R. Meinzen wrote: I am currently running sarge with both KDE and Gnome installed. I'd like to remove the games from my system (*WAY* too much temptation for someone who is already far enough behind), but I noticed that the kde and gnome-desktop-environment packages depend on the games

Re: Vendors supporting Linux (Debian)...

2004-11-18 Thread Katipo
Mark Maas wrote: Are there any vendors out there who have specificly supported Linux in general or Debian in special even? Are there any server brands? Hewlett-Packard. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: when sarge will be released?

2004-11-08 Thread Katipo
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 08 November 2004 05:08 pm, Vijaya S wrote: sorry my doubt is i have sarge cds i already have woody on the machine so how do i go about First of all, don't change your apt.sources list entry to 'testing' or when

Java Variants.

2004-10-31 Thread Katipo
Hello, I've been trying out a number of editors for doc writing: conglomerate, mlview - for xml, quanta for html, and mucking round with other bits and pieces, some work to some degree. In the end I've installed this:- http://www.jedit.org/ which isn't strictly a debian package, and being java

Re: nv vs. nvidia

2004-10-28 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi Debian! Anybody knows what the differences are between the nv Xfree86 driver (Sarge version) and the Nvidia closed source driver (I use 6111)? I have used both and see little

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-23 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these kept back packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-23 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Oct 17, 2004, at 5:51 AM, Nate Bargmann wrote: * Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Oct 16 21:56 -0500]: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these kept back packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring

System recovery with Knoppix

2004-10-17 Thread Katipo
Thought that this link might be of some use. It deals with system recovery employing a knoppix disc. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-knopx.html?ca=dgr-lnxw01-obg-SysRecover Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: aptitude: packages have been kept back?

2004-10-16 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can anyone suggest how else to learn more about aptitude's problem with these kept back packages? Thanks! Which packages are you referring to exactly? Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: basic newbie help

2004-10-12 Thread Katipo
Jason D. Berg wrote: Huy T. wrote: Hey all I'm looking for a new operating system to use as a primary OS instead of Windows XP. I noticed that there is extensive documentation located at tldp.org. Could anyone share any sites with me for expediting a newer user to getting up and setup running

Re: Postgresql upgrade!!!!

2004-10-05 Thread Katipo
Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 10:44:48 -0700 (PDT), D S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody knows how to upgrade postgresql on Debian manually or by apt-get? The debian security web site has only the old 7.2 version. I tried to load it form other http sources but it can't find

Re: New address

2004-08-24 Thread Katipo
Nicos Gollan wrote: On Tue, 24 Aug 2004 14:25:05 + Tal Amir [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: and the reason debian-user needs to know this is.?? Hey, maybe he wanted us all to send him confirmation? ;-) Probably does. He'll have a lot of addresses for his spam box then, won't he?

Re: All these open ports

2004-08-22 Thread Katipo
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If a port is open, and associated with a program which isn't from a debian package and you don't believe you put it there yourself - its time to consider the possibility your machine has been compromised. Okay... that gives me an opening to try this again. snip In

Re: Rant about installer features (Re: Progeny)

2004-08-14 Thread Katipo
Carl Fink wrote: While your description is exaggerated, what's wrong with an installer that detects the hardware for me, so I don't have to manually set dozens or hundreds of things? You seem to be implying that's bad. What's wrong with an installer that lets me resize NTFS partitions? What's

Re: What did I do wrong? (Filesystem recovery with ReiserFS)

2004-08-13 Thread Katipo
Marc Wilson wrote: On Thu, Aug 12, 2004 at 11:23:28AM -0400, James Herschel wrote: What should I do next time? Not use reiserfs. What's wrong with reiserfs? I've been running it for three years without a hiccup. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: crack attempt?

2004-08-10 Thread Katipo
Philippe Marzouk wrote: On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 02:33:20AM -0500, Will Trillich wrote: aha -- i think i actually attracted a script kiddie! [...] - End forwarded message - the fact that each attempt is a few seconds from the previous one (and that there were only eight tries)

Re: Debian GnuCash packages orphaned

2004-08-08 Thread Katipo
Paul Scott wrote: I just noticed that Debian packages for GnuCash: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/03/msg00714.html and GnuCash-doc: http://lists.debian.org/debian-wnpp/2004/04/msg00121.html have been orphaned for some time. I will consider doing what it takes to maintain those

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: On Sun, Aug 08, 2004 at 10:05:51PM +0200, Patrick Donker wrote: I hear alot of fuzz about 'the new installer'... Whats so special about it? The only real difference from the older boot-floppies is autodetection of hardware, which

Re: Whats with this new Debian installer?

2004-08-08 Thread Katipo
Joey Hess wrote: Carl Fink wrote: The only real difference from the older boot-floppies is autodetection of hardware, which almost works some of the time. It works for about 95% of our users based on installation reports. I expect that 90% of our users don't bother to file reports -- I've not

Re: How popular is Debian (popularity contest)

2004-08-08 Thread Katipo
Paul Scott wrote: A message was just posted to Debian development with the subject: Please participate in popularity-contest If you are not using popularity-contest it would help the developers know your priorities if more of you would install and use it. Paul Scott I always have. I look on it

Re: none

2004-07-30 Thread Katipo
Matt Perry wrote: Paul Johnson writes: Eric Haii Lee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hmm, smells like spam. How many Eric's have the login angela? I don't know. How many Theo's have the login felicity? Well, Theo Van Dinter of the SpamAssassin development team does. So we've ruled out that

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-27 Thread Katipo
Nate Bargmann wrote: http://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/biographiescurrent.pdfhttp://www.supremecourtus.gov/about/biographiescurrent.pdf* Jacob S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2004 Jul 26 06:08 -0500]: Last I heard there was still at least one judge on the Supreme Court that was appointed by Reagan. And

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment

2004-07-27 Thread Katipo
Karsten M. Self wrote: Katipo writes: I believe that all present Federal judges were installed by Dubya's daddy? After the previous incumbents had appeared reluctant to favourably legislate on his preferred jurisprudential policies. You might want to read the US Constitution some

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 Monique Y. Mudama [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind so much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I

Re: OT: Judicial election/appointment (was Re: Is Linux Unix?)

2004-07-25 Thread Katipo
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 08:57:54AM -0600, s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Incoming from Paul Johnson: s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Actually, being schools, they're probably getting a huge discount. Still a lot of money, I know. The important

Re: bittorent on dialup

2004-07-25 Thread Katipo
Paul Johnson wrote: csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: A number of media files I want to download are available only on bittorrent format. I know about the advantages of bittorrent for broadband users with underutilized bandwidth. But I'm on dialup. My bandwidth gets saturated with a simple wget

Re: sarge gnome does not show anything after login on fresh installs

2004-07-23 Thread Katipo
John Smith wrote: To all those other s*ckers, like me, who install, like me, sarge as from today from scratch with gdm version 2.4.4.7-3. Symptoms: gnome does not display anything after logging in through gdm-login except for a blue screen and a mouse pointer. This is a hint about what is

Re: Good Linux backup program

2004-06-25 Thread Katipo
Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra wrote: Em Fri, 25 Jun 2004 17:40:09 +0200, Andrew Ingram escreveu: anyone on here has any recommendations for backup programs for my Debian box. Bacula, Amanda. Amanda breaks when employed in conjunction with some applications, e.g.,

Re: Firestarter, ports access

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
John Summerfield wrote: s. keeling wrote: The best thing you can do is make sure that you're only running what you need to run, and that whatever's running answers only those you want it to answer. What you can do, to assist greatly with this, is install Bastille, and then run

Re: Apt/sources.list changes.

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
Adam Aube wrote: Katipo wrote: Have just changed entries in a sources list from testing to unstable. During updating, error messages occur on the 'security', 'contrib.,' and 'non-free', entries, the rest updating satisfactorily. Sid doesn't have security updates, but it does have contrib

Re: Unidentified subject!

2004-06-22 Thread Katipo
audie macapal wrote: It is true that Devian/Linux OS and softwares cannot be infected by computer virus? Not 100% correct, no. In two years of using Debian/Debian-based programmes I have not seen a virus that affects Linux. I have heard of, I believe, two that were rather benign and caused

Apt/sources.list changes.

2004-06-20 Thread Katipo
Hello, Have just changed entries in a sources list from testing to unstable. During updating, error messages occur on the 'security', 'contrib.,' and 'non-free', entries, the rest updating satisfactorily. I'm assuming that these list entries are not applicable to a sid classification. Would that

Re: Apt/sources.list changes.

2004-06-20 Thread Katipo
Katipo wrote: Hello, Have just changed entries in a sources list from testing to unstable. During updating, error messages occur on the 'security', 'contrib.,' and 'non-free', entries, the rest updating satisfactorily. I'm assuming that these list entries are not applicable to a sid

Re: Window Managers

2004-06-18 Thread Katipo
Keith O'Connell wrote: Hi, There was a thread in this list last week where people were asked if the preferred KDE or Gnome, and the majority of people who posted a reply basicaly said neither. They all said they went with a window manager and no desktop and their machines were the better for

Re: Sarge install - where are ext3 and reiserfs?

2004-06-17 Thread Katipo
Juan Nin wrote: Hi, Yesterday morning I downloaded a Sarge unofficial ISO from ftp://ftp.fsn.hu/pub/CDROM-Images/debian-unofficial/sarge/ I haven't install it yet, but I booted my pc with it so as to see how the new debian-installer was I liked it, but saw something strange... Download it from

Re: Better file manager

2004-06-14 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, Is the file manager offered by KDE the best available for Debian GNU/Linux? As I mentioned before, it takes a long time to load up. Hello again, Jack. It totally depends on your needs. What do you call a 'good' file manager? Do you need one that has all the

Re: Commercial-grade application software

2004-06-14 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I have now a working Linux system with an acceptable GUI and a broadband link for communication, all with freely available software. But without application software, they don't mean much. I'm looking for good application software in the areas of hardware and

Re: Cannot re-config xfree86

2004-06-12 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, I am able to run my desired settings by manually editing the XF86Config-4 file, selecting i810 controller, color depth of 24. The quality of the display has improved appreciably. I am selecting some warnings, error and information fr the log. Attaching the whole file

Re: Which Debian version?

2004-06-11 Thread Katipo
bing yu wrote: which sarge release is better. i have heard the sarge-beta4 has a lot of bugs and some of my peers can not finish their installing. thank you. Perhaps they should be newbies like me. I've installed Sarge with the Beta 4 installer on two separate drives, and I haven't had any

Re: OT wordprocessing anyone?

2004-06-11 Thread Katipo
Johann Spies wrote: On Fri, Jun 11, 2004 at 08:03:00AM -0400, richard lyons wrote: What would really work for me is Lyx together with a Latex class editor based on the same interface. You didn't really specify exactly what you were doing, but the package 'diploma' might be of some

Re: Best Window Manager for the Job

2004-06-11 Thread Katipo
James W. Thompson, II writes: I am working on building a web browsing kiosk, no other functionality with Debian. I am planning to use FireFox and was wondering about the best Window Manager for the job. In order to be as compatible with your predominantly menu orientated users as

Re: Newbie firewall for Sarge

2004-06-11 Thread Katipo
John Fleming wrote: Anyway, I think I will keep working on getting Firestarter going. What if I'm using KDE and open a terminal -window- and then start firestarter - Will that make the GUI appear?? As long as you call it up as root, yes. Regards, David. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to get better quality display

2004-06-10 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Hi folks, Sorry to have left out some details. My monitor is a HP Ultra VGA 1280 and my Intel chipset is 865G. I have upgraded xfree86 to 4.3.0. Don't see any improvement in display quality though. Now I can select i810 for controller. But even when I select res of 1024x768 and

Re: Backup system!

2004-06-07 Thread Katipo
Vijaya wrote: Hi all, Could anyone suggest a good backup software or a method to backup data from Linux and Windows systems automatically... You would probably require two separate procedures. I can recommend the backup2l package for Debian. Very comprehensive as regards backup/reinstall

Re: How to have better quality display?

2004-06-06 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Things are back to normal after I do an online-upgrade of kdm. I'm looking into the frills now. I am using Intel on-board Extreme Graphics. In xserver-xfree86 config, the selections are Vesa for controller and 800x600 for res. This does not give a good quality display. I'm

Re: How to have better quality display?

2004-06-06 Thread Katipo
jack kinnon wrote: Things are back to normal after I do an online-upgrade of kdm. I'm looking into the frills now. I am using Intel on-board Extreme Graphics. In xserver-xfree86 config, the selections are Vesa for controller and 800x600 for res. This does not give a good quality display. I'm

Re: scsi under sarge

2004-05-29 Thread Katipo
steef van duin wrote: ...it does not seem to be possible to download the man page on grub for unstable (sarge) so i repeat my question: i want to use scsi-emulation under unstable. sg and scsi emulation modules loaded automatically. i am using kernel 2.4. like to work from the

Re: scsi under sarge

2004-05-29 Thread Katipo
steef van duin wrote: hi david, down here what I did before, but cdrecord does not react on dev=1,0,0 (the aopen com4824 is the burner), so it seems i am stuck any further suggestions? thanks in advance, regards, steef [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cdrecord dev=ATAPI -scanbus Cdrecord-Clone 2.01a27

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
David P James wrote: On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: David P James wrote: On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Not everybody has the same buying power. A few pennies might not be much for someone living in the Western

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
Kirk Strauser wrote: At 2004-05-24T12:50:01Z, Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a number of personal acquaintances from Somalia. One is the eldest son of the ex-prime minister. Would you tell him to quit sending me email? I am *not* going to give him my bank account information

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
Shri Shrikumar wrote: On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 14:34, David P James wrote: The reasons for that is a whole other issue, but it's safe to conclude that free email access isn't going to solve their destitution (because if it would, it would already have happened or at least be underway).

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-24 Thread Katipo
David P James wrote: On Mon 24 May 2004 08:50, Katipo wrote: David P James wrote: On Sun 23 May 2004 18:56, Katipo wrote: David P James wrote: No system is ever going to be completely accessible to the destitute, So let's make sure they stay where they belong

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-23 Thread Katipo
David P James wrote: On Sat 22 May 2004 14:07, John L Fjellstad wrote: David P James [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Now suppose you could demand a payment whenever someone sent you an email. It would only need to be a few pennies in all probability. Not everybody has the same buying

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Mark Ferlatte wrote: richard lyons said on Thu, May 20, 2004 at 05:59:23PM -0400: On Wednesday 19 May 2004 17:05, Bojan Baros wrote: Link: http://antispam.yahoo.com/domainkeys So, what's everyone take on this? Another software patent. Any really good idea that is to become the new

Re: aptitude trap: 'hold' directives not honored.

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Karsten M. Self wrote: on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:55:27PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: on Fri, May 21, 2004 at 12:46:59PM -0700, Karsten M. Self ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Turns out to be a two year old bug. This colors my opinion of aptitude very negatively:

Re: [OT] Yahoo's Antispam proposal

2004-05-21 Thread Katipo
Mark Ferlatte wrote: Katipo said on Sat, May 22, 2004 at 08:43:58AM +0800: Mark Ferlatte wrote: Uh, it is open source, and copyleft: http://domainkeys.sourceforge.net/ The only reference to possible patent issues is the general if we have a patent on it, you get a royalty-free license

Re: Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-20 Thread Katipo
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? Hope this helps:- http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Regards, David. -- To

Re: Sarge bootdisk

2004-05-20 Thread Katipo
john gennard wrote: Katipo wrote: john gennard wrote: steel, I did nothing to 'avoid' the option, quite simply it was not made available to me. I'm not sure whether the DVD contains beta4 - the write up merely says taken the latest Debian DVD build made with the jigdo tool At the end

Re: [OT] Debian Users: Please boycott Paypal

2004-05-20 Thread Katipo
Dave Howorth wrote: In my personal experience, Paypal has a long history of not delivering for non-US people, including not accepting accounts at all, mandating transfers into US dollars, unhelpful customer service attitudes etc. Don't know what they're like now because I long ago took the

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