Re: dumb question about Adobe Acrobat....

2007-07-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-29-07 at 15:12 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: On 07/29/2007 02:20 PM, Kelly Clowers wrote: The next version of Evince, due this fall, will also support form filling. Can anyone point me to example of PDFs that have fillable forms? I just want to play with the various

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:15, andy wrote: Dear all Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use for a desktop machine. The font package I have right now seems to really screw with the legibility of Xmms and even Iceweasel. I'd like to make use of fonts that are

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use for a desktop machine. I have only installed one font package and have no experience with any others. msttcorefonts It is

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use for a desktop machine. I have only installed one font package

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the debian way. There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 14:38, David Fox wrote: I'm browsing howto's at the moment and attempting to get the nvidia drivers (the non-free ones) the debian way. There doesn't seem to be an avalable version of nvidia-kernel-source for my particular kernel (I was running 2.6.18-4-k7, but I just

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 16:35, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2007-07-28 15:10:31 -0700, Alan Ianson wrote: I might suggest that you install the 2.6.22 kernel from unstable. I had problems building the kernel module for k7 because of a GPL-only export that isn't an issue with 2.6.22 kernels

Re: lenny: getting non-free nvidia drivers issue

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 15:45, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Difficulty with nvidia is the main reason that I'm sticking with Etch. Are you running an amd64 there? I have had no trouble on the amd64 with the nvidia drivers. There a couple issues that I know of for the i386 but amd64 has been

Re: A question of fonts

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 16:18, andy wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 14:28, andy wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sat July 28 2007 12:30, Glen Pfeiffer wrote: On 07/28/2007 12:20 PM, andy wrote: Can I have a few recommendations please for the best fonts package to use

Re: Where is Lame in Sarge?

2007-07-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 28 2007 17:29, 2g wrote: at their site only deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org sid main is recommended for unstable even though they have deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main and deb http://www.debian-multimedia.org testing main maybe i should just try but

Re: searching for graphical torrent client

2007-07-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 27 2007 03:07, Giorgos D. Pallas wrote: I tried google but can't seem to find something that both looks decent *and* is available for debian (testing) as a binary. For example I tried qtorrent, but it is so minimal that I don't like it... When I need a torrent app I have always

Debian Etch - Intel965 - Modulo Marvell

2007-07-25 Thread Alan Córdoba
Hola gente, tengo un problem, ya tube buscando en la web, pero no consegui mucho y decidi recurrir a ustedes, les comento, hasta hace 2 semanas taba re re re feliz con Mi Debian funcionando en mi antigua pc, cambia la maquina y me compre un Core2Duo ... bien.. la mother es una MSI, que no me

Re: Debian 4.0 on AMD64 and SATA with multi-arch DVD

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 11:37, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I just installed Debian 4.0, on an AMD64 computer that has a SATA hard drive, from the multi-architecture DVD. I used expert at the first prompt, since amd64-expert was giving errors. I chose the 2.6-amd64 kernel during installation.

Re: Network Interfaces

2007-07-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 22 2007 14:10, Telly Williams wrote: Hi, What concept am I missing? If I have my laptop connected to the computer through an ethernet, if I switch it to a USB port, how do I have the OS pick it up? It seems that I have to have the computer installed with whatever

Re: Filling /var

2007-07-21 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 21 2007 12:16, John K Masters wrote: Just had a bit of a wake-up call. Am running SID on my laptop and getting several updates per day. Today after updating the update process did not end properly as the /var partition had filled to 100%. In fact this totally stuffed my whole

Re: ETCH iso-with security updates

2007-07-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 18 2007 06:54, L.V.Gandhi wrote: From where can I get latest etch ISO image with latest security updates? I haven't seen any updates to the etch iso's yet. They are updated periodically, maybe once or twice a year. It's only been three months since etch was released so I think

Re: Aptitude losing focus

2007-07-18 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 18 2007 07:16, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hello: I know others have reported this, but aptitude (on my testing system) keeps losing the keyboard. As someone else said, the keystrokes are going to the terminal from which it was started. One suggestion was to remove libc6-i686. Is

Re: wodim records at 4x with a 32x capable recorder

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 03:18, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: No matter if I run it as root or as normal user, and no matter which speed parameter I set to wodim, when recording a CD-RW it is always defaulting to 4x, even altough my recorder reports being able to do CD-RW at 32x. I always get 4x

Re: nfs client does not mount server-shares automatically on boot

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 08:38, randhir phagura wrote: Hi, I am new to Debian; using etch. I have installed nfs on server and clients. It is functional manually but does not mount the shares automatically from /etc/fstab. I have modified /etc/init.d/mountall.sh to mount nfs by changing the

Re: undeleteable file

2007-07-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 17 2007 19:52, Frank McCormick wrote: On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 22:36:19 -0400 Frank McCormick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 12:32:47 +1000 Julian De Marchi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Frank McCormick wrote: The leanup from a mini HD crash this week ( I suspect

Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 02:22, andy wrote: Hi all Just a little puzzled: I sent off two posts last night ~21h00 BST and so far (~10h20) have not seen them appear on the list, although someone has replied to one of them, so they must be getting through. Is the server a little slow or is it local

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install CD (well, 13 July, at least) still runs 2.6.18. Is there any way to check, before downloading, what version of the kernel the install CD runs? What install disk

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install CD (well, 13 July, at least) still runs 2.6.18. Is there any way to check, before

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 07:53, koffiejunkie wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: On Sun July 15 2007 04:38, koffiejunkie wrote: Hi guys, I noticed that even though 2.6.21 is now in the Lenny repos, the install CD (well, 13 July, at least) still runs 2.6.18. Is there any way to check, before

Re: Is the Debian-user server slow or ... ?

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 13:31, Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 12:04:25PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: Email isn't always synchronous and is rarely instant; it's possible that replies get delivered before the original message. I run mailing lists myself and over the past few decades have

Re: Lenny Install CD kernel version.

2007-07-15 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 15 2007 14:10, koffiejunkie wrote: I'm not really concerned with which kernel the installer installs. I need the install CD itself to run the 2.6.21 kernel. I just tried today's (15 July) businesscard ISO, booted of it with the following command: expertgui vga=0x342 I wonder

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 11:04, Saul Mena Avila wrote: Hi. I've been running Debian etch for 1 month or so and I noticed yesterday that when pressing CTRL + ALT + F1-F6, there aren't the usual psuedoterminals. I don't get error messages but Is this normal? No, those terminals should (I'm sure they

Re: how to shift from stable to testing

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 12:17, Goudar Vishwanathappa Manu wrote: hello Now i am using Debian Etch and I am interested in going to testing. What should I do? Does adding the testing repo in sources.list and updating will work? Yes, change your stable/etch lines in /etc/sources.list to testing or

Re: Root partition full

2007-07-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 14 2007 18:36, Max Hyre wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Check /var. Especially, /var/tmp, /var/cache. Also look at /var/archives. /var/cache/archives? Since I moved from etch to unstable, something's been putting (multi-hundred)-megabyte files there each day.

Re: What Can I Play With an Radeon X1300 All in Wonder PCIe 256Megs GDDR3

2007-07-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu July 12 2007 10:10, Orestes leal wrote: Hi, Folks, Mi Question it's, With this card and the fglrx driver to the latest update, and 512 megs of ram Can I I play Doom3, or similars in ETCH? I assume yes. My desktop has an nvidia card I can play doom and the like. I have an ati card in

Re: Building fglrx on Lenny

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 11 2007 04:32, koffiejunkie wrote: I just noticed that kernel 2.6.21 is available in Lenny. Finally - my CPU fan will work correctly! So I have one problem, building the fglrx module fails with this message: Building modules, stage 2. MODPOST 1 modules FATAL: modpost:

Re: lenny: dri stopped working (nvidia)

2007-07-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 11 2007 20:57, David Fox wrote: It is worth a try; if that doesn't work then you can also try to run the nvidia installer script again. When I was still using the nvidia installer I had to run it again whenever xserver-xorg-core was upgraded. I finally got around to trying this

Re: aptitude hanging

2007-07-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 9 2007 07:54, Daniel Burrows wrote: Several people have reported that their problems go away if they remove libc6-i686. I don't know why this should be, but I'd be interested to know if you see the same behavior. It worked in my case. I ran aptitude and removed libc6-i686 and

Re: Openoffice.org spell checking

2007-07-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 9 2007 07:11, Mark Grieveson wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: I can't seem to get spell checking working in Openoffice. It used to work in sarge's ooo 1.3 (I think). Looking through aptitude I only see a few foreign languages under hunspell so I don't think that will work for me

Re: need good file explorer

2007-07-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 8 2007 11:59, Zach wrote: On 7/8/07, Jonathan Kaye [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Zach, Krusader? Dolphin? gnome midnight commander (really mean and lean)? Cheers, Krusader sounds like KDE app, I run GNOME and eschew KDE apps since they tend to be bloated and require many

Openoffice.org spell checking

2007-07-08 Thread Alan Ianson
I can't seem to get spell checking working in Openoffice. It used to work in sarge's ooo 1.3 (I think). Looking through aptitude I only see a few foreign languages under hunspell so I don't think that will work for me. How can I get English (Canada) or (USA) working with Ooo 2+? -- To

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 11:19:55 pm Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all worked fine. A few days later, I

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 07:54:21 am Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: Check your locale settings. I think that starting with Etch, the default locale is set to a UTF8 locale. That means that every application has to treat everything as unicode. AIUI, that makes things slower. This is espcially

Re: nvidia-kernel package: compilation failure with 2.6.21

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 05:00:06 am Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Jim McCloskey wrote: Hello. I did a recent install of Debian etch on a system with an nVidia graphics controller. I used module-assistant to install the nvidia kernel module, and under kernel 2.6.18 from the install, that all

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I know that, just like mutual funds, past performance does not guarantee future performance, but what has the experience been like for non-developers over the past couple of months? Do people think that Lenny is ready for a desktop

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 08:02:35 pm David Fox wrote: In a nutshell you need to get the installer from the nvidia website and copy nvidia_drv.so into /usr/lib/xorg/modules/drivers. But I get this from the Xorg.0.log: (EE) NVIDIA(0): Failed to initialize the GLX module; please check in your X

Re: lenny: what do I need to get amarok to play mp3s?

2007-07-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat July 7 2007 09:18:53 pm David Fox wrote: Subject line pretty much describes the situation. I've even purged and reinstalled amarok, but this still brings up an error when I try to play an mp3 file. It should just play. It could be sound is muted in your mixer settings. I always use

Re: lenny comfortable yet?

2007-07-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri July 6 2007 07:19:20 pm Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: I ran Etch for about 6 months before it became stable since my new box required it. I'm runing amd64. I've always considered myself a stable man, but it never seems to work out that way.. ;) One of the main reasons for buying a new

Re: Sarge install image (kernel 2.4)

2007-07-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed July 4 2007 01:28, Gudjon I. Gudjonsson wrote: Hi Could anyone please point out where to find Sarge install images? I only had a quick look but I couldn't find any sarge install images. They must exist somewhere but I'm not sure where. I tried to install it with debootstrap

Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 3 2007 05:41:44 am 2g wrote: have started going CUI with Debian(stable) in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process i love this font so much so would love to have it in Debian too does somebody know what this font is called in

Re: installing a font for VT

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue July 3 2007 07:30:08 am Alan Ianson wrote: On Tue July 3 2007 05:41:44 am 2g wrote: have started going CUI with Debian(stable) in Slackware it gave me a chance to choose sc.fnt.gz as my VT's font at the insallation process i love this font so much so would love to have it in Debian

Re: aptitude initialising package status takes _really_ long

2007-07-03 Thread Alan Ianson
at the start of aptitude and after every action you have took, aptitude has to initialise its package status. This is the same step as loading cache. Yesterday I have updated aptitude to . Since then this step takes _really_ long. Lets say 40s. I am on sid. There is no output it any loggs

Re: dsc.py: Automated warnings for Debian security updates

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun July 1 2007 11:22:40 pm Adam Hupp wrote: (Sorry if you see this twice, but I never saw the first copy come through) Hello, I'm announcing a program I've written for notifying the administrator about necessary security updates on a Debian box. It's called Debian Security Check

Re: Packages who requires restart computer

2007-07-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon July 2 2007 09:25:50 am Josep wrote: Hello. I use etch and would like know what packages will require a full restart of the computer, if there is any tool for do this automatically, and if not, I will do an script for do this myself. The kernel. When the kernel is updated you need to

entering data into a pdf file

2007-06-30 Thread Alan Ianson
Hello List! I need to enter data into a pdf file and print it. I can view the pdf using evince but I can't seem to enter any data into the fields. How can I do this? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: entering data into a pdf file

2007-06-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat June 30 2007 11:06:48 am Wackojacko wrote: Andrew Gray wrote: Alan Ianson wrote: Hello List! I need to enter data into a pdf file and print it. I can view the pdf using evince but I can't seem to enter any data into the fields. How can I do this? I remember from my

[OT] Site da Caixa, Conectividade Social + SQUID

2007-06-29 Thread Alan Romão
desabilitar uma máquina só da minha rede para não passar pelo squid? Abraços a Todos e muito obrigado Alan - Original Message - From: Sávio Ramos [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user-portuguese@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, May 22, 2007 4:29 PM Subject: Re: [OT] Site da Caixa

Re: Kernel Header Information

2007-06-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu June 28 2007 14:39, Nirmal Govindaraju wrote: Hi, I am a new Linux user and I have the Debian distribution (2.6.18-4-686) installed via the internet using a few floppy disks to perform the initial boot up. I am now trying to install a VPN client on my computer and during the

Re: The Perfect Linux gaming Box

2007-06-27 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2007-27-06 at 12:34 -0400, Orestes leal wrote: Hi Folks, I want that some of the members of the group comments something about hard core gaming boxes under Linux, what kind of configuration I need to play *ALL* Titles and *ALL* forms of games, 3d games like Doom3, etc in linux with

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Signed for good. :)

Re: testing if Ubuntu deb file for ASCEND works in Debian....

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 13:54 +, Michael Fothergill wrote: Sorry, this was meant fort the list.. :) Dear Debianists, I have been working with an engineering modelling program called ASCEND. You can get it from sourceforge and it has a wikipedia page. See:

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon, 2007-25-06 at 10:18 -0400, Celejar wrote: I'm using Abiword, which recommends using RTF for document exchange with non-Abi users. I'm trying to understand whether RTF is an open standard. Wikipedia [0] claims that it's proprietary. This article [1] points out that it has the same

Re: time zone

2007-06-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, 2007-24-06 at 19:59 +, j j wrote: Hello The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there something as simple as dpkg-reconfigure timezone ? I think tzconfig will setup your time zone. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Friday 22 June 2007 10:32, Manon Metten wrote: Hi, This urgent request was posted on [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]by Hagar de l'Est [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Is not exactly Debian, but I think also of great importance for all of us. It is important. But alas, we'll likely have to live

Re: Audio control problem

2007-06-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun June 17 2007 07:09, Barry Samuels wrote: I am running 32-bit Debian Testing with a 2.6.20.1 kernel. I am using Alsa modules from that kernel. I don't have any other Alsa packages installed except alsamixergui. I have an Asus P5W DH Deluxe mainboard which has a Realtek ALC882M chipset

'apt-get update' GPG error

2007-05-27 Thread alan bonard
Hi, when using 'apt-get update' I keep getting Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://www.mclean.net.nz stable Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY 1AF1A20A4CC00851 W: GPG error: http://www.debian-multimedia.org

Setting up to multiple files to be shared using bittorrent

2007-05-26 Thread Alan Chandler
correctly? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Duplicate menu item

2007-05-17 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in 'Appearance'. How can I remove one of them? Regards, Alan

Re: Duplicate menu item

2007-05-17 Thread Alan Haggai Alavi
Greg Folkert wrote: On Fri, 2007-05-18 at 08:14 +0530, Alan Haggai Alavi wrote: Hi, I installed the package for 'GTK Styles and Fonts' in KDE. I installed it via Automatix2. But I happened to install it twice. Now, in my Control Center, I am having two menu options named 'GTK Styles

Flash seems to have not work in Konqueror

2007-05-05 Thread Alan Chandler
. Is anyone else, with a recent update to Sid experiencing similar problems. (Prior to this - ie over the last two or three days youtube videos would frequently completely freeze konqueror - it was necessary to close the window and then get kwin to forcefully terminate konqueror.) -- Alan

Re: what's with epiphany?

2007-05-03 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2007-02-05 at 22:50 -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: Man, I'm getting a bit annoyed with Epiphany. Very frequently, when I visit http://www.thestar.com, and click a news link, it crashes. What is up with that? After the initial crash, it's usually fine, but the constant first crash when

Re: Which apt/sources.list to use

2007-05-02 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu, 2007-03-05 at 08:58 +0800, Rudi Starcevic wrote: Do you think I can just manually add these and all will be fine? Yes, that's the way I do it. Find a mirror that is close so you get good transfer rates at http://debian.org/mirrors deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian stable main

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 06:57, Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Lo I've a few burning needs, so if anyone knows the answers - let me know! :D 1) I need a graphical way of searching text files for a string - and getting it to replace it (makes for easy re-configuring of files after a path

Re: Etch back to Sarge

2007-04-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Monday 30 April 2007 16:41, bigoperm wrote: I need to downgrade from Etch back to Sarge. The only resource I have is the original Sarge install CD. How can I use this CD to reinstall Sarge (over Etch) without using any data? There is no (official) downgrade path, only upgrade. My

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Scott Gifford wrote: Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but... Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] OK, I think its the latest kernel and some interaction with my motherboard. I just booted a hand compiled 2.6.19 (originally done when Debian

Re: how to make a symlink

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:06, somethin2cool wrote: man mount No (for goodness sake, you people are supposed to be smart), Says who!? ;) I asked what I wanted to know. I can start the program fine. Hence having been using it for the last few days? This group is more annoying than

Re: wireless - is it possible?

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 13:23, Default User wrote: So far, two wireless adapters have been mentioned as working with Etch, (assembly required): Netgear WG511U V2 pcmcia card Netgear WG511T pcmcia card Is anyone out there using any other currently available wireless adapters with Etch? I

Re: windows download

2007-04-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 29 April 2007 19:26, Tim Casey wrote: how do you get into grub to add another hard drive to the boot list or do ineed to add lilo or something? Ps the drive is a seperate drive with windows on it /boot/grub/menu.lst is where your grub config is, lots of comments in there. Don't mess

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-27 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 27 Apr 2007, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 21:39:41 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Scott Gifford wrote: Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but... Alan Chandler writes: [...] OK, I think its the latest kernel and some

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Scott Gifford wrote: Sorry to jump in on an old discussion, but... Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] OK, I think its the latest kernel and some interaction with my motherboard. I just booted a hand compiled 2.6.19 (originally done when Debian

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 Apr 2007, Bob McGowan wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I recent update to debian sid

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-26 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 26 Apr 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 09:53:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 Apr 2007, Bob McGowan wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 08:06:17PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-26 Thread Alan Greenberger
On 2007-04-25, Jeronimo Pellegrini [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi. So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. I would like to: 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, I don't

Re: Narzedzie pod konsole

2007-04-24 Thread Alan Krasiński
Dnia wtorek, 24 kwietnia 2007 11:18, Albert Czarnecki napisał: Witam Szukam jakiegos narzedzia pod konsole ktore by mi generowalo hashe md5/sha1/sha256/sha512 z podanego ciagu znaku Co do md5 to chyba md5sum - compute and check MD5 message digest

Udev persistent net rules - how do they work?

2007-04-21 Thread Alan Chandler
in its comments says it is storing the created interfaces so that they stay the same across reboots. But I can't figure out how its supposed to work. Can someone explain what it is doing, and if so how I can tell if this is the cause of my problem. Thanks. -- Alan Chandler http

Re: Udev persistent net rules - how do they work?

2007-04-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Sat, 21 Apr 2007 09:58:31 +0100 Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] When interfaces apparently appear out of nowhere, I suspect hotplug/udev, and in /etc/udev there is a script called persistent-net-generator.rules which

Re: Udev persistent net rules - how do they work?

2007-04-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: For a while now, I have been running a server with two ethernet cards in. In /etc/networks/interfaces I defined the basic interface as eth0 and eth1, but in order to create some additional psuedo ip addresses on my lan I created eth1:0, eth1:1

[SOLVED] Re: Udev persistent net rules - how do they work?

2007-04-21 Thread Alan Chandler
On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote: For a while now, I have been running a server with two ethernet cards in. In /etc/networks/interfaces I defined the basic interface as eth0 and eth1, but in order to create some additional psuedo

audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Alan Chandler
I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When I run audacity, most of the text is fine, but where there are numbers they are all shown as 0. Anyone else experiencing this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: audacity number fonts

2007-04-20 Thread Alan Chandler
On Friday 20 April 2007 19:27, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:47:19PM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: I recent update to debian sid has had a strange side effect. When I run audacity, most of the text is fine, but where there are numbers they are all shown as 0

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Chandler
. This doesn't work either. I am a bit of a loss to whats wrong. I have /dev/pts directory, but its seems unable to create anything in it. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-19 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 23:18, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 22:30 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:13, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:48 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote: ls -l /dev

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just upgraded my Debian Sid system, and now when I try and start konsole (in KDE) it fails saying it is unable to open a PTY. Is this a udev problem or something else? I presume by the deafening silence that this isn't a problem

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
Joe Hart writes: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just upgraded my Debian Sid system, and now when I try and start konsole (in KDE) it fails saying it is unable to open a PTY. Is this a udev

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:12 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just upgraded my Debian Sid system, and now when I try and start konsole (in KDE) it fails saying it is unable to open

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:13, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 21:48 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:12 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote: I've just

Re: Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-17 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 17 April 2007 22:02, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Tue, Apr 17, 2007 at 21:48:13 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Tuesday 17 April 2007 14:07, Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 07:12 +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: On Monday 16 April 2007 22:29, Alan Chandler wrote: I've

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 15 April 2007 16:20, Alan Chandler wrote: Firstly the case of direct downloading from my gateway. This is a summary of a three protocol exchanges using wireshark youtube-me http continuation seq 189688 next seq 191136 youtube-me http continuation seq 191136 next seq 192584 me

Whats happened to my psuedo ttys

2007-04-16 Thread Alan Chandler
I've just upgraded my Debian Sid system, and now when I try and start konsole (in KDE) it fails saying it is unable to open a PTY. Is this a udev problem or something else? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-15 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 15 April 2007 02:03, Mike Bird wrote: On Saturday 14 April 2007 15:02, Alan Chandler wrote: The problem I have is this. I have a linux desktop (machine D) siting on a LAN in my home. This is connected to a linux firewall/nat router (machine S) with two ethernet cards. One

Network Performance Issues.

2007-04-14 Thread Alan Chandler
here give me some clues as to what to do. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Communications throughput problem

2007-04-13 Thread Alan Chandler
7KBytes/sec. When I try the same directly on the gateway/firewall I get 10 times the bandwidth. What could be limiting the flow of information -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

A couple questions about gnome.

2007-04-01 Thread Alan Ianson
When I select an odt (openoffice) file from gnome's Places - Recent Documents menu an error window opens and says could not find a sutable application. How can I configure gnome to use openoffice for .odt and other openoffice file formats? I had another question too, but I have forgotten what it

Re: Stale jigdo files

2007-03-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri March 30 2007 21:04, Clayborne Arevalo wrote: Please BCC me as I'm not subscribed to the list. I'm trying to download the DVD installer images for AMD64 via jigdo using the templates available at cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc2/amd64/jigdo-cd/ I just built those DVD's for i386

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-29 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu March 29 2007 06:55, Paul Walsh wrote: Passed to me by a colleague: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6506027.stm *grin* My laptop has had linux on it for a couple of years already. If Dell can deliver a laptop/desktop with compatible hardware this will be a good thing. I've

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