On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 11:01:06AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Nano Nano wrote that the installation CD is not an image. I use the 7
Debian CD's, the first two which I listed, of which any one is an
installation CD (although I always install from #1). To me they appear
to be images. So
On Sun, Jan 11, 2004 at 07:09:23PM -0500, alex wrote:
Nano Nano wrote:
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image.
How simple it would
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:15:43PM -0900, Greg Madden wrote:
Lately the Non-US mirror I used has been not responding, its the Berkley
CS one. Maybe Non-US is not longer relevnt :)
I just use this:
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main contrib
deb-src
Gentile domanda sounds like something your dominatrix would ask you do
do...
Hey the place to go is italian too!
http://xoomer.virgilio.it/flavio.stanchina/debian/fglrx-installer.html
On Fri, Jan 09, 2004 at 08:49:33PM +0100, FPC Informatica wrote:
ciao, ho un iBook (anno 2003) e volevo
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breaks. I
On Sat, Jan 10, 2004 at 09:46:47AM -0500, alex wrote:
[snip]
A downloaded ISO is an image.
The installation CD is not an image
The installation CD is a duplicate of the contents of the image.
There used to be CD images which were not ISOs, but they are not current
anymore.
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I have Gaim set to go autoaway after 2 minutes of inactivity,
and my xscreensaver to go on after 3 minutes (I just like it like that).
I also have a camera and the motion package installed, so I trigger an
action like create a .jpg whenever anything moves in front of the
camera.
I'd like to
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 05:25:27PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 08, 2004 at 10:21:49AM -0700, Monique Y. Herman wrote:
Oh! Canadian! And here the whole time I've been thinking, California
needs its own dialect? Well, yeah, I guess they probably do.
That's rather insulting to
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:25:46AM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
What a strange loop I've landed in. I started out trying to make
en_CA locale work. dpkg-reconfigure locales everybody said, but
What features of en_CA distinguish it from en_US?
Is the currency symbol $ ?? Sort order different?
When I install a package with dpkg -i (say one I made myself with
dh_make, or one from make-kpkg), the next time I run aptitude,
it is selected for automatic removal.
I highlight it, hit i, and from then on it stays on my system.
I like how apt aggressively removes packages with no dependencies,
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 03:06:18PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote:
This was very useful information Derrick. The text mode support for querying,
updating, and particularly installing packages with apt-* and dpkg is indeed far
superior to rpm. It was very easy to install postfix-tls (of course
Greg F. recently said he adds all console users to the groups:
audio, video, floppy, cdrom.
I'll probably add my users to audio, for sure.
I'm trying to decide if I should me to the other groups:
I use my webcam safely without being a member of the video group.
My non-cdrom users can mount cds
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
My non-cdrom users can mount cds but cannot rip or burn them.
Correction: not true. I forgot I chmod a+rw /dev/cdrom before that
works.
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 02:24:01PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
I don't know, no, no, and yes. US does mo/day/yr, we do day/mo/yr
(when we're not doing -mm-dd (iso). Are spelling dictionaries
affected by locale? Dunno.
Oi, the date format is endlessly confusing if you're American and you
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 11:08:01PM +, Colin Watson wrote:
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 12:22:12PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
So is there a way to tell what behavior depends on being a member of
what groups, by querying the package database or something?
It's not really a package database
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 08:15:27PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
The server has all sorts of fancy bells and whistles like e1000 cards and aic79xx
scsi. Since I'm installing woody, I'd like to stick with a Debian kernel, but sadly
no stable kernels have aic79xx in them already. Lots of
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 08:10:44AM +0100, Jan Minar wrote:
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 07:28:31PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
[snip]
rm `grep -li Processing completed correctly *` 2/dev/null
This is ugly, Paul: It'd suppress not only this message, but other
messages which would possibly be
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 11:26:51PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
err on second thought I can see why xargs is better here
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On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 09:43:28PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
Incoming from Craig Tinson:
guys.. regex patterns are a *complete* mystery so am hoping someone can
help with one..
I have to find all entries in a file which match the following:
(pg. 2)
Which tool? I believe perl's
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:06:43AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Hi, can you explain what debootstrap? rootstrap ?? and chroot ?? are? I am
writing from a WinShit machine ppl send a link no man what ever. My BillMachine
is illiterate to that.
ed.
The first sentence you wrote
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:17:19AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
This is exactly I wanted to avoid. Since I am writing this from a windows
machine, why my debian machine is dead, I have to google I guess. I am trying to
increase my knowledge.
Oh. I don't know a lot, maybe somebody
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 06:43:23PM +0100, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
On Mon, 05 Jan 2004 the mental interface of
Rick Weinbender told:
I have a basic question.
Is there a method using ls from the command line to
have it display only directories.
I've looked thru the help (ls --help),
Just read on slashdot 2.4.24 is out to fix a local root exploit in
2.4.23.
http://isec.pl/vulnerabilities/isec-0013-mremap.txt
and slashdot
It sounds ominously close to the whatsits that caused all the hoopla
last month; be advised.
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I have to run alsamixer as root, or I get:
alsamixer: function snd_ctl_open failed for default: Permission denied
One of the scripts I run after I install alsa-modules is:
#/usr/share/alsa-base/snddevices
#chmod a+rw /dev/dsp /dev/mixer /dev/midi /dev/sequencer /dev/audio
I can run aplay and
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:35:26PM -0600, Michael Martinell wrote:
[snip]
I tried the following: grep -li Processing completed correctly *
This gave me the list of logs that were complete. How can I send the
results of this to the rm command. The redirection that I tried did not
seem to
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 02:27:11AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
so I have to do it by hand at the moment. But shouldn't I be able to
automate it with somthing like:
ls locate charter | grep -i font
?
nothing I try works -- but I can't believe it's impossible! any
hints?
I use backticks:
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 03:36:36AM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
[snip]
locate charter| grep -i font | while read line; do
ls -l $line;
done
Invoking 'ls' in a loop is semantically different from invoking it once,
although you can compensate for it. I prefer backticks because you can
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 01:10:51AM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
it looks messier) and you can't use the sort options of less, for
i meant sort options of ls
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 07:12:59AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
On Fri, 02 Jan 2004 18:58:05 -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:06:31PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
Given the current security climate, it's quite possible that
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 10:01:31AM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
[snip]
There are always people (often good, well-meaning people) in every country
and government who seek greater control over their citizens, because they
honestly believe that they know best how people should behave and run
their
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:18:45PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
[snip]
You do not need to remove civil liberties to fight terrorism. Less
freedom does not equal more secure.
Okay, what's the plan?
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 02:53:16PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
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With regard to foul language in posts, I think that the net effect is
probably that it demeans the poster more than it offends the reader.
Probably.
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On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 01:04:21PM -0800, Alvin Oga wrote:
Antonio == Antonio Rodriguez [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Antonio What would be the best route to establish an encrypted or
Antonio secure nfs session? I would like to be able to mount a faraway
Antonio (debian) machine with
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 05:13:00PM -0500, Balbuena, Alexander wrote:
However, who is our friend at FreeFlixTix of San Francisco ?
We cannot help but wonder who he or she might be !
_
Author: Julia Leonardo SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] at HQ-IRM-001
I'm dumb and lazy: I want a chroot'd woody so I can identify
build-depends for my own debian package (basically a GTK 2 app).
I don't want to create a separate partition: I just want to do it on
some spare space on an existing partition.
(1) What is an authoritative source that tells me how to
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 09:38:01PM -0600, Joseph A. Nagy, Jr. wrote:
Russ Schneider wrote:
When you do an ls on Debian, you see something like the following:
file1 file2 file3 dir1
dir2 file4
etc.
When you do the same on Mandrake, you get
file1 file2 file3 dir1/
dir2/ file4
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:54:25AM -0500, Sam Rosenfeld wrote:
The question is: Given my current state, is it reasonable to try to
fix each of my problems separately, or would it be more sensible to
keep only the critical data and start over with a new installation?
When I was learning last
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:38:27AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
On Friday 02 January 2004 10:18 am, Nano Nano wrote:
Now I have my install scripted: boot from Woody, install, upgrade to SID
from local partial mirror, run scripts. I wipe the disk or reinstall
when anything gets the least bit
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 11:24:41AM -0700, Nate Duehr wrote:
On Friday 02 January 2004 11:06 am, Nano Nano wrote:
I've got all my dotfiles saved, so after I wipe, I have to do *zero*
customization. In other contexts I would make other decisions.
Not trying to be argumentative here, just
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 06:58:05PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote:
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 02:06:31PM -0500, Paul Morgan wrote:
Given the current security climate, it's quite possible that your last
remark has caused your mail to end up in the inbox of some spook who might
also read your sig and
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 10:56:04PM -0500, charlie derr wrote:
Governments don't have as much power to fuck my life up as corporations.
Perhaps true in some situations, but from my point of view (as a usian),
it's getting harder and harder to tell the two apart.
Not me. The assholes I hate
On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 09:29:32PM -0700, s. keeling wrote:
That is just so full of s**t, I'm not sure where to begin. Name a
corporation that has the power to toss you into Gitmo for an
unspecified period. All a corporation can do is throw lawyers at
you. Big deal.
Equifax
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what's holding up x 4.3 from going into sid?
There's some xv-enhancements for my old CT chip I need.
I did it manually once. I don't feel like messing with experimental.
Should I just do it manually? Is it going to be a long time?
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On Fri, Jan 02, 2004 at 12:44:27PM +0800, Katipo wrote:
[snip]
I don't know if this relates at all, but the head of the Knoppix effort
is very shortly going to be working with the Debian development team to
get Knoppix' hardware recognition into the Debian programme.
Gee, that's not obviously
On Thu, Jan 01, 2004 at 11:22:49PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote:
Hi Nano Nano (are you from Mork's planet?),
I'm using 4.3 from experminatal. Are you aware that 'expermintal' is not
a complete distro like stable/testing/unstable. So you only get the
package you need and when you update, your X
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:47:53AM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
[snip]
Changing amver=1.7 to amver=1.4, in proj, allowed proj to finish
without error. ./configure fails with
Package atk was not found in the pkg-config search path
No Joy. :-(
Here's all things pkg-config is looking for:
atk
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 02:29:31PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
As I have no to plans to 'Gnome this, or any, of my boxen I will have to
pass. Just thought I would see what you had produced. Good Luck!!
NP, I'll put it on freshmeat. Thanks for being the guinea pig. One of
my 20 tries this
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card
This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one of three
things: either (1) the sender intended to ask debian-user this question;
(2) the sender is on a shared computer and
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:22:55PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote:
On Wed, 2003-12-31 at 18:27, Nano Nano wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 06:49:48PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I need to upgrade my Gallant TV Tuner card
This kind of randomness happens a lot. I figure it's one of three
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 08:35:36PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
On Wed, Dec 31, 2003 at 10:22:55PM -0600, Craig Jackson wrote:
[forgot to snip on that other one!]
received not a single response, yet I've seen embecilic posts turn into
long threads. Sometimes makes me wonder what the real
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:23:26PM -0500 or thereabouts, Bob Billson wrote:
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 01:15:54PM -0500, Paul Morgan penned:
[I don't have the original post -- not sure who quoted what]
I need to create some small databses in postgress (christmas card list,
household
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 05:08:54PM -0700, Paul E Condon wrote:
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:50:04PM -0800, Nano Nano wrote:
[snip]
http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/pim.png
[snip]
http://home.comcast.net/~40101.nospam/x-0.1.tar.bz2
I spent a few dozen sec.s looking at this. I
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:57:51PM -0500, Wayne Topa wrote:
Nano Nano([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said:
Question to all: I literally specify that you need automake 1.7 and
autoconf 2.50: is that wise?
I wondered about. I am running testing and have automake 1.4-p6-2,
which
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