Stefan Monnier [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
As you all know, Debian Etch released with Iceweasel instead of
Firefox. This is totally okay, but some applications (like X-Chat or
Gaim/Pidgin) still uses firefox %u command instead of iceweasel %u for
Never had this problem. The only problem I bumped
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 08/24/07 11:16, David Brodbeck wrote:
Also, is there any good reason to have a separate /boot on a modern
system? I always thought /boot was just a kludge to get around old
BIOSes that couldn't load anything that wasn't on the first part of the
I
Manu Hack [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 8/24/07, Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I would still like to know whether your system hangs if you try to
switch to a terminal without shutting down gdm.
If I have a graphical login prompt and press CTRL + ALT + Back I can
go to a text mode
Mark Neidorff [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Recently I've set up a Debian Etch box which I'm nearly ready to
bring up full time (currently using a different distribution...been
a linux user for over 10 years).
Fourteen here. :-)
Here's an example of what this message is about: I've been reading
Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hello. I'm using Debian Etch. My machine does not completely shutdown
-- I'm required to manually press the button (it's like being back in
Check /var/log/messages for anything mentioning ACPI. The kernel may
have decided your mboard is too old and has
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Where except on the local machine can I find Debian man pages?
http://manpages.debian.net/
is not very informative I'm afraid...
FWIW, I've always considered a *nix box which doesn't have manpages
installed, a clumsily installed *nix box.
Newbie:
ss11223 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Aug 10, 10:30 am, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set
the tab width to something reasonable like 4.
E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
Per olof Ljungmark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Where except on the local machine can I find Debian man pages?
http://manpages.debian.net/
is not very informative I'm afraid...
[snip]
And, if the online manpages does not work, why link
Orestes leal [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Hi folks, 2 weeks ago I began to learn C, my advances are very
good, my question it's that, The topic sounds funny but it's mostly
serious,
QUESTION: Studying C 'every day' 4 hours with good understanding,
writing at least 10 programs to test this
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Just remember to tell you editor to inserts spaces as tab and set
the tab width to something reasonable like 4.
E, yuck! It's code like that which makes me happy for emacs:
C-x h# mark entire buffer
M-x untabify # replace
Eric d'Alibut [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm sure anyone with responsibility for spam filtering has seen
messages, many of them, which meet the following criteria:
HTML formatted
empty body
one attachment, which is a pdf file
Is there a spamassassin test which would score such messages
Glennie Vignarajah [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Le Wednesday 08 August 2007, Aikins, Ronald (Ron) (CIV) disait:
The default settings for vi have been changed. Display looks weird
in terms of colors, etc. Can't figure what vi/vim file needs
changing. I have backups of course of all pre-upgrade
graham [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Aug 06, 2007 at 05:02:07PM +0100, graham wrote:
Yet another cups problem (the one program which makes me feel like I do
when running windows - like putting a foot through the computer).
So why run cups? Use LPRng and
Vincent Lefevre [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 2007-08-06 15:13:10 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
because breakage due to python occurs too frequently), it is important
I still don't have any evidence that python breaks frequently.
This is based on personal experience. Unfortunately I haven't kept
Michael Fothergill [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
From: Tommi Asiala [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Michael Fothergill wrote:
I suggest you should try this new thing called Searching the web. It
can give you nice links to web pages such as:
http://wiki.debian.org/PDFViewers
Don't suspect, read the web
Brad Rogers [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 28 Jul 2007 15:57:11 -0500
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Do you actually _need_ acroread? Xpdf isn't good enough?
IIRC, Xpdf doesn't have the ability to do form filling. With acroread,
you can fill out forms (they have to be set up to
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 07/28/07 13:46, Michael Fothergill wrote:
I was wrong. As Jesus said in the Bible O, ye of little faith. I
Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic.
You spelt $DEITY wrong. I spell it Murphy.
--
Any technology
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 7/28/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yeshua didn't speak English. But that's a way different topic.
You spelt $DEITY wrong. I spell it Murphy.
*starts popcorn in the microwave*
Uhhh ...
That means
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
That means Your comment contains negative information value, and I'm
going for a walk? As in, So, what do you think about goldfish?
No. It means A flamewar is about to start and I am going to sit back, eat
popcorn, and watch the show
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
David Brodbeck wrote:
To me it always smacked a little of me-too-ism, too ... the GNU
folks felt Linux wasn't GNU-ish enough, so they had to go write their
own kernel.
The GNU Hurd has existed long before Linux existed. Hurd has been in
development
Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
does anybody here have any xprint config experience? My old
workstation is getting a bit bloated, xprint is up the creek and I
can't print to file / PS / PDF.
I can't see anything visibly wrong with the configuration. I tried
deinstalling and reinstalling,
Kees de Koster [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I'm running Debian Testing on a server, after the update on last Friday
I get from logcheck the error 'Jul 7 06:58:00 minidragon lpd:
cron.daily found errors, run checkpc for details.'
If I run checkpc I get the message 'Warning - lp: cannot stat lp
Steve Kleene [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, 23 Jun 2007 17:13:55, I wrote
Is there a way to make the iceweasel window consistently pop up at the same
position every time?
On Sun, 24 Jun 2007 20:18:09 +0100, Liam O'Toole replied:
That's been a bug in firefox/iceweasel for as long as I
Incoming from j j:
See /etc/default/rcS
rcS is supposed to check /etc/localtime or
/usr/share/zoneinfo/US/Eastern. I dont have those files. Can I
generate those files with a text editor?
Weird. No, those come in (or are created by?) the tzdata package.
aptitude update aptitude
L.V.Gandhi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
--=_Part_150443_25730719.1182692831198
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: inline
T24gNi8yMy8wNywgR2FicmllbCBQYXJyb25kbyA8Zy5wYXJyb25kb0BnbWFpbC5jb20+IHdyb3Rl
j j [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
The time on my desktop is set to UTC. I'll like to read it EST. Is there
See /etc/default/rcS
Please don't post html to mailing lists.
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux
Marcelo Chiapparini [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I need to shrink my /home partition (/home has its own partition in the
system). It is formatted in xfs, so shrink is not supported. In order to
shrink it I am planning to use gparted in the following way:
1 - To do a backup of all files in the
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 07:56:01PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
It is not stupid at all. The problem is that I do not know the model of
this monitor. All it says on the LCD panel is that it is a Dell monitor.
Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 17:34:43 -0700
Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 06:49:41PM -0500, Jacob S wrote:
Good thought, but acpi=off did not make any (noticeable)
difference. It still hung during boot with an
Jhair Tocancipa Triana [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
pol writes:
I would like to display running processes together with their time elapsed
since they were launched (real time, not the time spent by the cpu) and
sort them with time.
ps -eo pid,comm,args,etime
Wow. :-) Nothing he couldn't
Simon [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK.. So i was in my /root/ directory and put just one too many .s in
By /root/, do you mean root's $HOME (~root), or do you mean root
of the filesystem, /?
the line... Now i have a lot of files that i own!!
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is
Bob Proulx [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
Ben wrote:
I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master
Russell L. Harris [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Over the past few weeks, all the tasks on my desktop machine (Debian
Etch, Gnome desktop, typically booted twice daily) have been getting
ever more sluggish.
Others have suggested disabling pango if you've no need for foreign
language support. export
Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I was wondering if there's a Debian specific tool that could facilitate
managing thousands of machines via APT. I'm aware that many people would
recommend a sync option, where 1 machine serves as the master, and the
others sync off of that. Perhaps that is the
Incoming from Daniel Burrows:
On Fri, Jun 15, 2007 at 06:20:36PM +, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]
was heard to say:
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those packages
installed (I don't use a desktop environment) but apt
Jan Willem Stumpel [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
So, in other words, Debian sans CUPS isn't possible. You may
not have to actually run it, but you have to have it installed.
That's ridiculous. This is viral software.
True. Unfortunately this virus has already spread widely.. At
least 144
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/15/07 11:20, s. keeling wrote:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get
foomatic-gui is a very high-level python GNOME app. You don't have
any GNOME
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
Well, I guess my system must be broken in some way, though I fail to
understand why it works so well if it's broken. At least apt-get doesn't
try to blow away lprng:
There is still something odd here. I don't have most of those
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling writes:
There is no Gnome or KDE on this thing, yet xscreensaver works just as it
always has.
And why wouldn't it? It doesn't depend on any Gnome or KDE stuff.
That's what I'm saying. It doesn't need them. I also see there's an
xscreensaver
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 01:29:49AM +, s. keeling wrote:
Good for you, I'm glad for you; and irrelevant. Yes, CUPS works.
What if you don't want to use CUPS? Have you not seen all the posts
Then don't use it.
Sigh. My point is, that's far easier said than
Anthony Campbell [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 14 Jun 2007, CaT wrote:
Then don't use it.
I gave up on CUPS a long time ago. I did have it working but the results
Previous to this non-DE install, I did a full Etch install just to see
what it was like. I had CUPS working. It printed one
JWS [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
S. Keeling wrote:
So, perhaps ca. two thousand, six hundred, and ninety five files
which have nothing to do with my printer? At least they're all
Astonishing. I've never understood the reason for having CUPS at
I've never liked it from the first time I saw
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, Jun 14, 2007 at 17:21:50 +, s. keeling wrote:
Damned near
everything drags in CUPS. I already had lprng installed, and
foomatic-* wanted to remove it and install CUPS. Should I just
Is it really that bad as far as CUPS is concerned? I
Larry Irwin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I've got about 300 servers out there using lprng.
My 1st run-in with cups gave me some surprises.
1) Removing cups generally removes X, desktop, etc...
That's one of the best reasons I can think of for not installing it in
the first place.
So! If you want
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
OK, I see, libgtk2.0-0 might be difficult to avoid on a desktop system
and it depends on libcupsys2 in Lenny and Sid. However, the foomatic-*
packages do not seem to depend on any CUPS packages. foomatic-filters
and foomatic-filters-ppds both recommend
yong lee [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am not a Linux expert. I hope someone would kindly help me or
give me some suggestions to fix the problem.
I just installed a pre-made/customized Linux 2.6.x kernel. I
converted its installation package from the .rpm format to a .deb
format using alien
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/14/07 16:19, s. keeling wrote:
[copious output snipped]
I rest my case.
User-Agent: slrn/0.9.8.1pl1 (Debian)
No wonder it wanted to pull in 145 packages: you're a text mode
octogenarian! You're probably also running NetBSD on a VAX 11/785
John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
s. keeling wrote:
(0) heretic /home/keeling_ aptitude -s install foomatic-gui
...
The following packages will be automatically REMOVED:
lprng
toncho/~ sudo apt-get -s install foomatic-gui
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd be
no web browser it could be configured with? Or can you confure CUPS
with w3m? :-P
It's
CaT [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2007 at 10:36:57PM +, s. keeling wrote:
This is on Etch with Desktop Environment de-selected on install (no
Gnome or KDE :-). Perhaps my mistake was in installing xserver-xorg
before printer configuration. Surely then, it would notice there'd
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Jun 12, 2007 at 04:15:02PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
Recent Lenny update:
Mutt now shows Autoview using /usr/bin/elinks The default browser is
set to lynx! I assume an update of shared-mime-info(?) has changed this
but It was previously set
Chris Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I am trying to run the [following] in woody using cron so my cron
2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * /path to macro
I assume this is in /etc/crontab, yes? You need to tell cron who to
run it by:
2,12,22,32,42,52 * * * * root /path to macro
#!/bin/sh
Santanu Chatterjee [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Can you tell me how do I use Bitstream-Vera-Sans-Mono
font with a2ps, enscript, etc.?
Not exactly, but I use the -f switch on enscript passing it
Courier7. Try playing with xlsfonts | grep -i bitstream or
something.
--
Any technology distinguishable
Wei Chen [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 6/6/07, Douglas Allan Tutty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 01:24:32PM +0800, Wei Chen wrote:
Things could be easy for English speaking people, since UTF-8 is fully
compatible with ASCII. However, for people that do not speak English,
walter [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 2007-06-06 at 10:06 +0200, walter wrote:
I've
lost a lot of time and plastic trying to download your dvds, cds. All
corrupt. It seems you or somebody else don't want people know about
What were the problems you experienced ?
I can download ubuntu
Serena Cantor [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 06/03/2007 12:37 AM, Serena Cantor wrote:
I'm in mainland China. The government block some Web sites and some Web
pages.
I believe the software is called either Tor or Torfree.
Great! It's tor. It works! Now I can see all pages blocked by
Charles Blair [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
After logging in on a gnome window, I often go to Accessories
and root terminal. I have several shell variable setting and
some other small tasks at the beginning. When I first set the
system up, I had a file that did these things for me. However,
I
BartlebyScrivener [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On May 31, 4:00 pm, Carl Fink [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Anyone else seeing absurdly slow responsiveness from iceweasel,
Not that slow. But it's definitely much slower than running Firefox on
XP. It's a shame. On the other hand it might inspire me to
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Well, can someone tell me if I have to delete the
/var/cache/apt/archives to do a clean install or is it that it
will be cleaned too when issuing the apt-get install clean ?
(0) heretic.spots.ab.ca /home/keeling_ aptitude search clean
p bibclean
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 5/24/07, Thomas Dickey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I was trying some bigger fonts to use with xterm but adding them and
then starting xterm would make xterm size very large, more than the
screen size. So I edited
Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
I see your point about offensiveness, but I'll point out that the OT
thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt
attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs,
ridiculing (often wittily) political or religious
Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, May 21, 2007 at 04:31:12PM +, s. keeling wrote:
Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
thread I started (Good, evil, etc) was a response to a sig that I felt
attacked religion unfairly. Many people use quite provocative sigs,
ridiculing
Gnu_Raiz [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please avoid this kind of technical suggestions in this thread:
* it is still the same unacceptable since you can buy ear plugs, I
can yell whenever I want attitude. See my previous messages
I think it's a valid solution
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 5/19/07, s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Go read /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm. Here's some of the stuff in my
.Xresources which over-ride the system defn's:
XTerm*geometry:90x43
[snip]
Trying this, I lost the fluxbox menu
Deboo ^ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 5/18/07, Michelle Konzack [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
mkdir ~/.Xresource
ln -s /etc/X11/app-defaults/XTerm ~/.Xresources/XTerm-system
Also, how do you specify xterm options like bg and fg in these files
or the .Xdefaults file? I set it in the
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Fri, May 18, 2007 at 11:07:22AM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv
Mike Bird [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Saturday 19 May 2007 08:02, M. Fioretti wrote:
This is why I'm posting also this reply to the moderators. I really
hope they put a stop to this, this time.
Excellent reasoning and presentation Marco. I hope the listmasters
will finally fix this
M. Fioretti [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Personally, I had already decided that, from now on, any off topic
rambling by the people we have already mentioned will cause an
immediate reply, both on the list and to the moderators, requesting,
with links to this thread, that they are banned from
Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 10:15:01PM +0200, M. Fioretti wrote:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 14:34:50 PM -0400, Greg Folkert
([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
That changes many thing. First off BANNING is not the answer. It
will be seen a a bad thing by the
Roberto C Sánchez [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, May 19, 2007 at 02:29:48PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Deboo ^ wrote:
I already made an alias to less to use less -q. That works if I use
less manually but just not in man.
I'll try what Greg said above.
If you set PAGER=3D'less -q'
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, May 17, 2007 at 09:06:41PM EDT, s. keeling wrote:
BTW, on many systems these days, .Xdefaults is deprecated and
.Xresources is used instead. ymmv.
Interesting. .Xdefaults still works on debian etch. Did you deprecate
it in what is it .. lenny
cga2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 05:38:57PM EDT, Deboo ^ wrote:
I installed a minimal X sysetm with fluxbox and xterm and two
other terminal emulators: eterm and mrxvt. But all three of them
give very small fonts. WIth xterm, I was able to get a reasonable
font with
Florian Kulzer [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 14:48:53 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote:
thanks for your replies so far. It looks like I'll have (i) to look harder
to find the correct key combination or (ii) tweak the configuration my
keyboard setup. I prefer (ii)
s. keeling [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote:
machines though. OSF/1 wasn't originally available for non-Ultra
s/Ultra/Alpha/
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(*)http://www.spots.ab.ca
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 05/11/07 19:36, s. keeling wrote:
machines though. OSF/1 wasn't originally available for non-Ultra
processors.
Ultras? UltraSPARCS?
I may have used the wrong name. What's the ca. '96 DEC processor line
for workstations/small servers?
--
Any
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, but competent OSs have batch queues for running such jobs. Why
Unix has never had such a capability is beyond my understanding.
man batch: at, batch, atq, atrm - queue, examine or delete jobs for
later execution.
(NO!! cron is *not* an adequate
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 05/11/07 12:49, s. keeling wrote:
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Yes, but competent OSs have batch queues for running such jobs. Why
Unix has never had such a capability is beyond my understanding.
man batch: at, batch, atq, atrm - queue, examine
Andrew J. Barr [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michael Pobega wrote:
Oh, and the point of this mail is that I too fall into the Young
group, seeing as I'm seventeen. While most of my friends have spent half
the day boasting about how AOL has a new layout, I've been trying to get
a LUG set up in my
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 06:26:46AM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
But then again, each generation has it's faults. Just look at the 60s!
Hey, watch it, bub; the '60s were the ideal time what with all the
James D. Freels [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Essentially flawless ! I have upgraded two i386 and one amd64 machines
from sarge to etch. Except for configuration files that I changed
myself, it was clean and straight forward. I am VERY impressed. =20
--
James D. Freels, Ph.D.
[EMAIL
David E. Fox [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, 11 Apr 2007 12:08:06 +0200
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You really should be specific to which version you're running. If
you're running Sarge, you won't be getting many updates, if you're
A related observation/question. I have been
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:56:14PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 10:51:23PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
On Wed, Apr 11, 2007 at 08:32:33AM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
Joe Hart writes:
if you're running Etch you won't be
Chris Bannister [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sat, Mar 31, 2007 at 01:45:13PM -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would be kept [OOTL]
(out of this list)
I said this once before and got shot down, but here
Andrew M.A. Cater [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
[much generally good info snipped]
that virtually everybody who posts to the list is also subscribed to the
list, so that you don't normally need to cc. them.
Not true. Anyone or anything can post to the list. Agreed that
additional Cc:'s (unless
Ted Hilts [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Chris Lale wrote:
David E. Fox wrote:
[...]
Normally, one should just reply-to list, and it's considered bad form
to mail the poster directly, unless asked to do so.
In Thunderbird (Icedove), either
click on Reply All, change
Andrei Popescu [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Shareef.Bassiouny [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Dear Moderator
i dont uderstand this refusal ; kindly clarify
I'm not the moderator, but I can try to clarify. It looks to me like
you were trying to post to debian-user through google groups. AFAIK
this
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Michael Pobega wrote:
It would surely cut down on the number of RTFM and STFW responses, which
I have to say don't appear as often as I expected they would.
Actually, I have yet to see anyone on the list tell anyone to RTFM and
STFW. I see that
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Is there any program available for linux (preferably packaged for
debian), that would allow me to examine the contents of berkely
database files? (I think that they are version 3)
Version 3?!? Perhaps I'm comparing apples and oranges (BDB vs. Btree?)[0],
but
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On 03/30/07 09:02, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
The order in question is this:
http://www.kron.com/global/story.asp?s=1962000ClientType=Printable
Changing subject...
Text of Bush's Order on Treatment of Detainees
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ann kok [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
for the spam to inside, what is the command to easy to
identify the huge mail to send to the server
Just as an example, procmail:
:0 B
* 102400
{
LOG=Too big ---
:0:
/dev/null
}
Which says, if the body of the message is greater than
Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
A couple weeks ago I had a problem while using slrn, with an error
wriitng to file after I tried to exit. The input/output error messages
I got suggested a hard drive problem, but that came to nothing. The
whole thing was discussed in another thread here.
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
John C wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 20:45 -0500, John C wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sat, 2007-03-31 at 13:45 -0700, Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Matus UHLAR - fantomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Actually, I would prefer if [OT] messages would
Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Sun, 2007-04-01 at 14:04 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
I wouldn't. I am itching for Etch to go stable so I can really help the
brunt that will come. The brunt of questions that will FINALLY be there.
All of this crap is filler for the
Michael M. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Like I said, it's the when it's ready attitude taken to the extreme --
to the exclusion of providing users any kind of predictablility or
expectations of timeliness -- that I don't like.
Go elsewhere, please! Debian's job, from day one, has been to
produce
Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
framebuffer is not a device in that respect. /dev/fb* is reffering to a
floppy drive.
You likely mean /dev/fd* is referring to floppy drives, which is just
confusing the issue. :-)
--
Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.
(*)
Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:40:06PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 08:05:07PM -0400, Michael Pobega wrote:
I've been searching for browsers for a while, and I've found a few
that I like:
Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Ken Heard wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to
gmane.linux.debian.user:
I would certainly like to see such and identification capability in
Iceweasel. What are the possibilities?
Why not treat the problem, not the symptoms, and insist on only
Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Paul Johnson wrote:
Why not treat the problem, not the symptoms, and insist on only visiting
websites that respect your choice of software in the first place, and/or
let companies that don't know why you won't be doing business with them
again or anytime in
Sven Arvidsson [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
On Thu, 2007-03-22 at 02:54 +, s. keeling wrote:
When I give a demo to my friend, I want the desktop environment to use my
friend's language.
Then determine the locale your friend understands, set your locale to
that value, logout, then log
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