Re: Recommend an email program for the debian-user-digest?

2006-07-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 20 July 2006 23:22, H.S. wrote: DJ Hackenbruch wrote: I personally find browsing newsgroups (with their threaded options) much more convenient than reading emails. The only client I have seen that threads emails is mutt. kmail, thunderbird also have threading options. Infact

Re: gnuplot not working properly inside nxclient

2006-07-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 11:40, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Hi all Using Debian Sid, NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0-141, G N U P L O T Version 4.0 patchlevel 0, NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-45-SVN. Inside the nxclient program, I open a konsole and run gnuplot. At the prompt of gnuplot if I run

Re: Why?

2006-07-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 10 July 2006 23:13, Mark Fletcher wrote: --- S Clement [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am new to Debian - within the last two weeks - and two things puzzle me. Why do you seem to prefer gnome over kde? I have examined both and kde seems to me to be easier to use. There must be

Re: Update and Package manager unresponsive

2006-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 08 July 2006 09:20, Stephen Fahey wrote: E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13 Permission denied) E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root? You cannot run two simulataneous processes both of which will upgrade packages on

Re: Broken applications: Could we be honest?

2006-07-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 08 July 2006 12:09, Art Edwards wrote: I have been writing to the list about two applications that are so broken on the AMD64 distribution that they render the box pretty useless. I'm sure one could say that two measly applications are no big deal. However, if you do scientific

Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Conside the following example The dependencies on privoxy are given by $apt-cache depends privoxy privoxy Depends: libc6 Depends: libpcre3 Depends: logrotate Depends: adduser Recommends: doc-base Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:10, Alec Berryman wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi on 2006-07-06 13:07:41 -0400: Now whenever I am upgrading privoxy, I would like apt-get (or aptitude or whatever other software) to check if there any newer versions of the dependencies and update those as well

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: apt-get install privoxy ?? This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade the privoxy no matter whether it requires it or not. Perhaps privoxy is not such a good

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:23, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 01:18:45PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Nope. apt-get upgrade or dist-upgrade wants to upgrade a slew of other packages besides what I want. I dont want to upgrade the entire system. I just want to upgrade

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 14:15, Stephen R Laniel wrote: above command | xargs -i apt-get install '{}' The -i option is not documented in the xargs man page. The -I is documented but I do not know whether they are the same. Anyway I changed the xargs command to -n1. So now the command looks

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Consider the following example The dependencies on privoxy are given by $apt-cache depends privoxy privoxy Depends: libc6 Depends: libpcre3 Depends: logrotate Depends: adduser Recommends: doc-base Now whenever I am

Re: Update all the packages that depend on a particular package

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:23, Ron Johnson wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Thursday 06 July 2006 13:27, Wackojacko wrote: apt-get install privoxy ?? This will upgrade the dependencies only if privoxy requires so. But I want to upgrade the dependencies whenever I upgrade

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 16:58, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: 1. Please be a man (or a woman or whatever gender you choose) and actually post from a real email address with a real name. and get spammed like crazy :-) My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to subscribe to

Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:26, Stephen R Laniel wrote: On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 05:31:10PM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: My personal experience is that if you use a real email address to subscribe to d-u, you are doomed. Only if your spam-catching software is bad. I make no attempt

Re: Using real email addresses to mailing lists (was Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?)

2006-07-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 06 July 2006 17:36, Stephen R Laniel wrote: See also Karsten Self on challenge/response systems: http://kmself.home.netcom.com/Rants/challenge-response.html I think you are referring to me using a C-R system. Let me just start out by saying that, I am not completely in favor of

slow memory leak when running gvim

2006-07-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Initially I have $free -m total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 1011806204 0 67458 -/+ buffers/cache:280730 Swap: 953 0953 Open 10 gvim windows $gvim; gvim; gvim;

Re: impressed with etch

2006-07-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 03 July 2006 21:45, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 07:16:43PM +0100, B.Hoffmann wrote: I'll wait for when it's stable, but it's highly likely that I'll replace the Breezy Badger on two machines when it's come up to it's end of support early next year and go back

Re: Which desktop for an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB?

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 27 June 2006 05:01, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le mardi 27 juin 2006 à 10:42 +0200, Arnau a écrit : Hi all, I have an old thinkpad pentium II with 128MB of RAM and I'd like to install a desktop. I have been using KDE on that machine and although it's usable, now I'd like to

OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
The online bluebottle forum ( http://forums.bluebottle.com/ ) requires me to register for a bluebottle address before posting anything. However, I do not want to register with their service without knowing answers to some questions. Can we subscribe to mailing lists like debian-user using

Re: Is apt-file working in Testing ?

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 13:24, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: Hello, Today I tried to use apt-file, I made a apt-file update, I got no output of the command. And when I try to make a search I get no answer. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ apt-file search stdio.h [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ Have you tried

Re: OT : need advice on bluebottle

2006-06-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 28 June 2006 16:58, Kevin Mark wrote: Hi raju, I think since you are getting lots of spam with the google BETA gmail service, you should give them 'a few words' of what is lacking in their service as a beta tester. We have the BTS, and our users. Google should know what its

Re: Broken packages in Debian Sid

2006-06-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 25 June 2006 08:43, Wasyl wrote: Hi, When i want to install a package often i see such result: [~] % sudo apt-get install rhythmbox [~] % sudo apt-get install gstreamer0.10-plugins-good Both packages can be installed and removed fine. Cannot reproduce your problem. Using Debian

cron and kmessage

2006-06-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
My actual problem is that I want to display a message at specific times (every 0th, 30th minute of hour) on the user's screen. I thought I can do this with cron and kmessage. I edited the crontab entry as 0,30 * * * *kdialog --msgbox test message But then it does not display the dialog on

gnuplot not working properly inside nxclient

2006-06-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all Using Debian Sid, NXCLIENT - Version 1.5.0-141, G N U P L O T Version 4.0 patchlevel 0, NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-45-SVN. Inside the nxclient program, I open a konsole and run gnuplot. At the prompt of gnuplot if I run test I am getting the following errors gnuplot: unable to parse

Re: Replying to list

2006-06-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 09:20, Thibaut Paumard wrote: Le mercredi 21 juin 2006 à 13:55 +0100, Peter Hillier-Brook a écrit : If it's not an FAQ, why doesn't this list use the Reply-to field in the address headers? A couple of times recently I've hit Reply and sent a response to the

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 21 June 2006 20:55, T wrote: What is the recommended way to configure Xorg under Debian Etch then? Does dpkg-reconfigure xorg solve your problem? raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 08:16, Stephan Seitz wrote: Hi! The twiki package in Debian is 20040902-3, which is quite old. The current version fixing several security issues is 4.0.2. One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of twiki. You can use reportbug program to

Re: Newer twiki package?

2006-06-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 20 June 2006 12:17, Stephan Seitz wrote: On Tue, Jun 20, 2006 at 10:41:52AM -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: One solution is to file a wishlist bug asking for a new version of twiki. You can use reportbug program to report bugs. There is already one sent 111 days ago without

OT: does reporting to spamcop do any good?

2006-06-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Has anyone on the list used spamcop ( http://www.spamcop.net/ ) to report spam? It takes sometime to report the spam. Is it worth investing that much time? What are your experiences? Are there any better alternatives? thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar

difference between .xinitrc and .xsession files

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Is there any document/wiki which explains the file name conventions of the various .[xX]* files in Debian system? In particular I am looking for the differences between .xinitrc, .xsession files. thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar

Re: Beginner help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 10:59, Mike Hill wrote: I am a very new beginner to Debian. If this is not the right place to ask, then perhaps others can direct me. I installed Sarge, and seem to have Gnome Desktop running. I have a few questions. 1.I need to add a user, but when I do, they

Re: Beginner Help

2006-06-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 15 June 2006 11:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: Note: press enter after each command.(I know this is obvious, but just in case you are *really* a beginner) Also, you may have to reboot after installing kde and kdm, I can't remember. I hope this works for you. Please dont post

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 After reading this sentence in the above article Once again I should have probably read the manual, but I figured I've done this before. I think there is no need to give any

upgrade only if installed

2006-06-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I would like to upgrade a package only if it is installed. If the package is not already installed, I would not want it to be installed. Is this possible? Currently when I use apt-get install packagename apt-get does not distinguish between whether the package has already been installed or

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 13 June 2006 10:28, Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, for s/w which has no other analog. Kino and GoogleEarth being two examples of Qt apps which I use on my GNOME system. I did not know that google earth is available for Linux. I just now checked

Re: GNOME new file selection dialogs

2006-06-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 09 June 2006 09:23, Carl Fink wrote: You aren't PERMITTED to type a directory path in, even if you know it? Just start typing the file name. You can also use ctrl-l. I don't have a lot of good alternatives to FireFox for browsers. (Konqueror is okay, but I've become dependent on

Re: Tor

2006-06-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 10 June 2006 23:34, Jiann-Ming Su wrote: On 6/10/06, Katipo [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, Anybody had any personal experience of this project, or the individuals involved with it? http://tor.eff.org/ Just wondering about integrity. Grateful for any information.

Re: secure-testing.debian.net down?

2006-06-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 12 June 2006 02:28, Andrew Schulman wrote: sigh Thanks. I wish there were a better way of distributing notice of these sorts of changes. debian-devel-announce? Try subscribing to debian-news mailing list. More info can be found at http://lists.debian.org/debian-news/ For

Re: Slow Dell M70

2006-06-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 07 June 2006 17:52, oscar wrote: Hello, I have installed Debian in a Dell Precision M70 (Centrino 1.86 GHz, 1 GB RAM). I have used a kernel 2.6.16.9 customized in order to allow SATA disks during boot. I am working with the xorg.conf of

choosewm does not give kwin as an option

2006-06-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I installed choosewm and made it the default session manager via sudo update-alternatives --config x-session-manager But when I login and do startx, there is no kwin option. The options that it is giving are ctwm, ion3, pwm3, ratpoison, twm. How can I go into KDE through choosewm's menu?

Re: source code editor

2006-06-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 01 June 2006 07:37, Angel L. Mateo wrote: El jue, 01-06-2006 a las 10:12 +0200, Ivan Glushkov escribió: Hi all, I would like to know which is the best lightest editor for source code editing, which supports syntax highlighting. Currently when I want to edit fast some C/C++

security support for testing distribution

2006-05-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am trying to understand how the security support works for testing distribution. According to http://www.debian.org/security/faq.en.html#testing-security security support migrates from unstable to testing for any package. However, there is a separate testing security repository according

Re: non-free nvidia driver on etch?

2006-05-30 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 30 May 2006 16:03, Owen Heisler wrote: Arrgh When will I finally start remembering to change the recipient when I reply to a message?! Why don't Debian lists change the Reply-To? Use an email client which knows how to handle mailing lists. I for one shifted from thunderbird to

Re: ratpoison install error

2006-05-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On 5/29/06, Zach [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm running Debian testing release and got this error when installing ratpoison: Setting up ratpoison (1.4.0-beta4-10) ... error in control file: `Index' value missing for format `info' at /usr/sbin/install-docs line 709,

Re: Is www.debian.org/users still relevant?

2006-05-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 29 May 2006 06:57, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, I was looking at www.debian.org/users and wondered if these users are still using Debian or if it's more of a historical tale. No. This list is being actively maintained. You can add yourself to the list (if applicable) by sending

Re: Gnome instead of KDE dialog in Firefox

2006-05-29 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 29 May 2006 17:08, Magnus Therning wrote: On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 03:41:39PM -0500, Kent West wrote: I'm running KDE, and when I save something from Firefox (an .iso, .wav file, etc), the Save dialog box looks decidedly Gnome-ish rather than KDE-ish. This Save dialog doesn't have a

Re: How to find right video card driver

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 May 2006 14:58, Joseph Smidt wrote: I am trying to figure out how to configure my xorg.conf file. Is there anywhere that shows the whole list of drivers that xorg recognises? Also how do you use lspci info to decide which driver is best? Thanks. What is your video card? If you

logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I recently started using ion window manager. It is cool. But I could not find out how to log out of the window manager. There is no logout option in any of the menus. It is not discussed in 'man ion'. Google did not help. Is Ctrl-Alt-Backspace the only way to log out of this (otherwise nice)

Re: logging out of ion window manager

2006-05-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 28 May 2006 20:20, Joey Hess wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: I recently started using ion window manager. It is cool. But I could not find out how to log out of the window manager. There is no logout option in any of the menus. It is not discussed in 'man ion'. Google did

window placement in kde

2006-05-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Currently whenever a new window is opened, kde decides where to place the new window. Instead of that, is it possible to give the control of placement of new window to the mouse, then move the mouse to the required position, place the window by left clicking on it? If KDE's window manager

Re: nxclient stopped working after xorg upgrade

2006-05-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 00:05, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: After upgrading sid machine to the latest xorg, nxclient stopped working. Before the xorg upgrade nxclient used to work fine. Upgrading the nxlibs package did the trick. Now nxclient is working properly. For someone reading

Re: Why are my posts so delayed??

2006-05-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 25 May 2006 06:36, Digby Tarvin wrote: Just curious, Can anyone tell me why there seems to be a delay of about 12 hours between posting a message and seeing it appear on the list? It makes it really hard to contribute to a thread if the discussion is long over by the time my

Re: Which is the most stable desktop?

2006-05-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 10:56, Joseph Smidt wrote: Which desktop is the most stable: gnome, kde, xfce, blackbox etc... ? KDE, icewm are reasonably stable. Have not tried others so cannot comment on them. In general, if you are using stable releases, all the destop environments or window

Re: Can I safely remove gconf and gconf2?

2006-05-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 17:18, Marc Shapiro wrote: I do NOT run gnome (or KDE), I use fvwm. I am trying to clean up my system and eliminate unnecessary packages. I have previously removed quite a few gnome applications, but some things remain. I note that gconfd-2 is running when I run

Re: 2 Hard Drive installed: What Next?

2006-05-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 24 May 2006 12:07, Richard wrote: Q .What format option are a good standard ext3 or fat32 ? this second drive is for mp3, and doc's, archive emails...etc If you are planning to share this partition with windows and Linux then use fat32. If this partition is to be used

nxclient stopped working after xorg upgrade

2006-05-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I installed freenx from deb http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/unstable/ sid nx deb-src http://debian.tu-bs.de/project/kanotix/unstable/ sid nx $nxserver --version NXSERVER - Version 1.4.0-45-SVN OS (GPL) Usage: nxserver option --passwd: Change password After upgrading sid machine to the

mixing aptitude and synaptic

2006-05-21 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is it OK to mix aptitude and synaptic? I know that it is not good to mix apt-get and aptitude. But what about using synaptic sometimes and aptitude sometimes? any suggestions?Please CC me on the replies as I am not subscribe to d-u. thanksraju

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 22 April 2006 14:14, Steve Lamb wrote: Monique Y. Mudama wrote: Well, debian is pretty obvious about its purpose. It's a link right from the front page. Maybe people should be choosing other distros if they don't like bullet item number one of the social contract. Debian

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 21 April 2006 04:19, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Also linux viruses occur only very seldom -- probably because of linux's different security approach. Could it be because there are less number of desktop users using Linux than windows? raju --

Re: Question about building a Debian package

2006-04-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 21 April 2006 17:35, lmyho wrote: Assuming I can get the same version of source files from 1) downloading the source from its website, 2) apt-get source from the debian achieve, and to use dpkg-buildpackage to build the binary package myself for use. My question is: for the built

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 21 April 2006 09:53, Chris Lale wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: 6) Have something up and running in no time for a desktop Ubuntu wins over debian any moment. I don't follow this. Install just one package (KDE or Gnome) and you have an instant, fully functional desktop

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 20 April 2006 05:19, Attila Horvath wrote: Dear Debians, I instaled UBUNTU only recently on my laptop to give it a test drive. What is the difference between UBUNTU and DEBIAN installations/distributions? Both are excellent distributions. Both have its advantages and their own

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 20 April 2006 14:00, Peter Colton wrote: On Thursday 20 April 2006 16:29, Jeff wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 20 April 2006 02:19, Attila Horvath wrote: Dear Debians, I instaled UBUNTU only recently on my laptop to give it a test drive. What is the

Re: Acroread, where are you my Acroread?

2006-04-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 17 April 2006 01:49, Matthew R. Dempsky wrote: On Sun, Apr 16, 2006 at 10:19:39PM -0700, Rob Blomquist wrote: I am trying to install this lovely non-OS reader for my PDFs, and I hear their is one apt-gettable, but I know not where it lay. I have as my sources, stable main, updates

Re: Vim packages lack help file

2006-04-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 17 April 2006 10:35, Anthony Campbell wrote: All the vim packages I've tried (vim, vim-gtk, vim-full) don't install a help file. There does not seem to be any separate package which supplies this. Is this a bug? $apt-cache search vim documentation jvim-doc - Documentation for jvim

Re: weird behavior getting source from a package

2006-04-17 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 17 April 2006 14:31, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: Why I am getting the source of another package ? Is this a repository problem ? apt-get problem ? or what ? This is not a problem. A single source package can be used to make multiple binary packages. muttprint package is the

Re: fluent like software

2006-04-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 16 April 2006 13:24, belahcene abdelkader wrote: hi, The fluent software is to expensive for our small institute, I am looking software which is around it, not necessary having all that properies. Assuming you are talking about fluent - the CFD flow modeling software, have you tried

Re: Hardware Wiki

2006-04-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 15 April 2006 04:15, Metrics wrote: Hi all, Is there a wiki somewhere where I can put my experiences installing Debian on my laptop, similar to the Gentoo wiki? I know of wiki.debian.org, but it doesn't seem to have an appropriate area. How about http://www.linux-on-laptops.com/

Re: New user config questions

2006-04-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 15 April 2006 17:56, Randy wrote: My main two starter questions are: 1. How can I change the video driver information and/or settings? I can only set it for 800 x 600 right now and it can do more. I don't know how to change what card it thinks is there and/or the driver for it.

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles

2006-04-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 13 April 2006 07:36, ?á?ek Kry?tof wrote: I agree, but only partially. look - STABLE is too outdated for desktop, TESTING is often broken more than unstable (mainly missing dependancies or completely missing apps (e.g. K3b was absent from testing for many months!)). SID appears to

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 23:47, Ron Johnson wrote: With a u, you mean, of course... No, the *right* way. Slow learners *and* bad spellers. Sheesh... No wonder your empire fell apart. Hi Ron Johnson That is very rude to say on a public mailing list. I agree that everyone is entitled to

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color? IS THERE A MODERATOR FOR THIS LIST???

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 05:18, tom arnall wrote: what is a 'top-poster'? Question 5 Avoid top posting and delete unnecessary stuff in the previous email in http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/du-guidelines.html answers your question. raju --

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 12 April 2006 18:10, Michael M. wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.ht ml Excellent FAQ I think. Thanks! You might want to update #17: Currently Debian does not offer any security updates to testing

Re: Experimenting with Debian

2006-04-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 11:31, Toby Satchell wrote: Hi, I am setting up a dual boot with debian and want to experiment with it as a desktop. I am wondering which would be the best version to go for, Stable, Testing , Unstable. I run Stable at the moment with for a server, but wondering if

Re: Why do people in the UK put a u in the word color?

2006-04-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 17:40, Ron Johnson wrote: .us = 300,000,000 .uk + .ca + .au + .nz = 60,600,000 + 33,000,000 + 20,200,000 + 4,100,000 = 117,900,000 We win... India uses colour (follows British way when it comes to spelling). Population of India is around 1,000,000,000. raju

thunderbird - kmail

2006-04-10 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi I am considering shifting from thunderbird to kmail . I have tried kmail but could not figure out couple of things. I am wondering if kmail has support for the following things? 1) Reply to list support In thunderbird, It is either Reply or Reply to All. Does kmail do a better job

Re: thunderbird - kmail

2006-04-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 10 April 2006 14:36, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi I am considering shifting from thunderbird to kmail . I have tried kmail but could not figure out couple of things. I am wondering if kmail has support for the following things? Thanks Frank. I finally made the move and am

Re: thunderbird - kmail

2006-04-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 11 April 2006 00:23, Michael M. wrote: Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Wow! Kmail's mailing list support is more than what I dreamed of. There is reply to list feature. Filtering based on mailing lists is a breeze. Out of curiosity, how is it easier to filter on mailing lists in Kmail

edit text files as root

2006-04-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
According to http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#rootedit , In Ubuntu one can edit the text files as root using the Edit as Root option. But I could not find this option in Debian unstable KDE 3.5.2 . How can I achieve this behavior in Debian as well? thanks raju --

Re: edit text files as root

2006-04-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
David Clymer wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: According to http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#rootedit , In Ubuntu one can edit the text files as root using the Edit as Root option. But I could not find this option in Debian unstable KDE

Re: edit text files as root

2006-04-09 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 18:01 -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: According to http://kudos.berlios.de/kf/kisimlar/tipsntrix.html#rootedit , In Ubuntu one can edit the text files as root using the Edit as Root option. But I could not find this option in Debian unstable KDE

Re: X Problem with Etch

2006-04-08 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Clyde Wilson wrote: I've just installed Etch and I can't get X up. Under Sarge I used VESA for my driver and that worked fine. The Etch installer doesn't seem to give me a choice. I changed /etc/X11/xorg.conf by hand to vesa but X will not recognize this. Any suggestions would be

Re: Question

2006-04-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm very new to Linux. I've installed Debian on my PowerPC, and I'd like to use the Gnome interface. I installed Gnome, but I can't figure out how to use it. I still see the black and white Debian console. I've searched through my directories trying to find

not able to install kio-locate

2006-04-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I downloaded kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb from http://arminstraub.de/browse.php?page=programs_kiolocatelang=en . But I am unable to install it on Debian Sid running kde 3.5.2. The exact errors are $sudo dpkg -i kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb Selecting previously deselected package kio-locate.

Re: not able to install kio-locate

2006-04-07 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Stephen Cormier wrote: On Saturday 08 April 2006 00:18, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I downloaded kio-locate_0.4.5-1_i386.deb from http://arminstraub.de/browse.php?page=programs_kiolocatelang=en . But I am unable to install it on Debian Sid running kde 3.5.2. The exact errors are $sudo dpkg

Re: Problem Network and installation of Debian ETCH beta2 for AMD64/EM64T (testing)

2006-04-06 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
2) Don't be sent to a shell at the end of the installation, but to the GUI (Gnome, KDE, etc) ? Please see http://www.debian-administration.org/articles/324 raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: How to config x server?

2006-04-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul de Baat wrote: How can I config the x server? Which distribution are you running - Sarge/Etch/Sid? Which X server are you running - XFree86/Xorg? What is your video card? Most likely the command you are looking for is dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86 raju

Re: How to config x server?

2006-04-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Paul de Baat wrote: How can I config the x server? Which distribution are you running - Sarge/Etch/Sid? Which X server are you running - XFree86/Xorg? What is your video card? Most likely the command you are looking for is dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg dpkg

get pdf info from command line

2006-04-05 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
From command line, Is there any way to find the number of pages a pdf file has? Using Sid, KDE 3.5.2 thanks raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: apt-get install elinks

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Jeroen Brandwijk wrote: wiske:~# apt-get install elinks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution that some required packages

Re: kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Luis Finotti wrote: Hi, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hal Vaughan wrote: Every time someone suggests something that makes an install easier or an easier config method, there is always hostility in this group and elsewhere. Do you have some examples? I do not agree with this at all. What is easier for you might not actually be the correct thing

Re: filename prefixes while transfering images from memory cards

2006-04-04 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
H.S. wrote: Hi, In gtkam, and maybe also in digikam, when we connect a camera and download images to the hard disk, we can specify the destination folder and also filename prefixes (along with dates IIRC) and get appropriate image file names, e.g. 20060404_funpicnic.jpg. This is very helpful in

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Bruno Buys wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Hi all IMHO debian lists are the sources of a lot of spam these days. Over the past few years that I have been using Debian, the list masters were not able to eradicate the spam problem on these lists. I agree that they have been doing

Re: nvidia - what is preferred installation route

2006-04-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
michael wrote: I was wondering whether there's a preferred installation method for drivers for nVidia graphics card (just got a GeForce FX 5200) for my IA32 box? eg is http://tinyplanet.ca/~lsorense/debian/debian-nvidia-dri-howto.txt still current/best or perhaps nVidia's own info

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
John Hasler wrote: raju writes: Is there anything that can be done with lists.debian.org that cannot be done through google groups? Is there anything that can be done with google groups that cannot be done through lists.debian.org? Can be done - no. Will be done - yes. 1) In

forward newsgroup messages to mailing lists

2006-04-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all My actual problem is to forward the messages that appear in news groups http://groups.google.com/group/cornell.marketplace/ http://groups.google.com/group/ithaca.marketplace/ http://groups.google.com/group/ithaca.general/ etc., to a mailing list

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-03 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Pascal Hakim wrote: On Mon, Apr 03, 2006 at 10:21:47AM -0400, kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: John Hasler wrote: raju writes: Is there anything that can be done with lists.debian.org that cannot be done through google groups? Is there anything that can be done

lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-02 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Hi all IMHO debian lists are the sources of a lot of spam these days. Over the past few years that I have been using Debian, the list masters were not able to eradicate the spam problem on these lists. I agree that they have been doing a great job in filtering out spam. But If I look into

kudos to authors of kompose

2006-04-01 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
I just discovered this great little program called kompose which is a task manager for KDE. It just made my day! If you are a KDE user and usually open a lot of windows while working, kompose is just for you. Good bye Alt+Tab, Welcome Win+Tab :-) hth raju --

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