Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. I managed to setup my (external/USB) Apple keyboard with a Swiss-German

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my Apple PowerBook G4. I

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to debian-user and debian-powerpc). I successfully installed Debian 4.0 / Etch on my

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command

Re: The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread gray
The welfare system is too lenient. There are a number of people who refuse to work because they actually take a pay cut by getting a job. Something wrong there. The welfare benefit should be less than the minimum hourly wage. Can't blame anyone there, hell would you choose to not work for

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 06:42:26PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: There are also problems here: Netherlands? There are too many political parties, so in order to have a working government, coalitions must be formed, and in the

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:43 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 23:55, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] the fs. But I suppose that in this modern world everything is disposable, including memory sticks. They are, in a way: Amazon has 512MB Kingston sticks for US$2.59. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA

Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-16 Thread NickDG
On May 15, 9:10 pm, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 May 2007 08:01:32 -0700 NickDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded the system but I'm not out of the woods yet: networking works only partly. The plot thickens... This morning when I came back in the office I tried again and

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:36:57PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: It could be argued that it defaults to putting the cursor at the top so to enable easy snipping of unnecessary text. If it defaulted to bottom posting then even less snipping would occur. :-( No, in the default setup it is very

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:42:19PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Something wrong there. The welfare benefit should be less than the minimum hourly wage. Can't blame anyone there, hell would you choose to not work for more money or working for less? Are you sure you have that right? AFAIU

Re: GDM default locale--can't set

2007-05-16 Thread Mumia W..
On 05/16/2007 12:44 AM, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:07:39AM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: I can't seem to set the default locale to en_US.UTF8 for GDM. When I change the settings at the GDM window, it offers to make my new locale the default. I always say Yes to this prompt,

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:49, pedxing wrote: [snip] Ideally, I would be able to turn the buffering off. It might take konq longer to complete the copy, but at least when it said that the copy was complete, the copy would be complete and the unmount

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread pedxing
On May 16, 9:40 am, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 23:55, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] the fs. But I suppose that in this modern world everything is disposable, including memory sticks. They are, in a way: Amazon has 512MB

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 5/16/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (cut) What you *could* do is add an entry to root's crontab which runs sync(1) every 15 or 30 seconds. That would *mitigate* the usb stick timeouts, but would sync *all* drives, not just your

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to gmane.linux.debian.user:

Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:09AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07 19:51, Eric d'Alibut

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Atis
[snip] Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) If you miss it, why don't you request for it. So far, all my feature requests have been implemented. Regards, Atis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I posted this to

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:40, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:17:20AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10 May, Joe Hart wrote: ... I really just wish that Christians would adhere to the lessons that they so firmly believe in. But alas,

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 03:15, Atis wrote: [snip] Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . (Web gmail is *not* a proper MUA.) If you miss it, why don't you request for it. I don't use gmail, so don't have any standing with Them. So far, all my

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 03:09, Nelson Castillo wrote: On 5/16/07, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (cut) What you *could* do is add an entry to root's crontab which runs sync(1) every 15 or 30 seconds.

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 02:49, pedxing wrote: On May 16, 9:40 am, Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] They are, in a way: Amazon has 512MB Kingston sticks for US$2.59. But flash-based mp3 players aren't quite so cheap or disposable... MP3 players

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:41, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 06:09:36AM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: By definition, the natural man is *not* a spritiual man, and hence not bron again, and hence not a Christian. So if you are not a

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
If you read the contents of the link I provided, you'd see why sync-mounting a vfat device might be a very bad idea. Thanks a lot, I missed it. -- http://arhuaco.org http://emQbit.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Good, evil and religion [WAS] Re: A way to compile 3rd party modules into deb system?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:39, Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 03:09:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Sure, but the Hindus aren't doing it in the name of God, Allah, Shiva or whatever. Hinduism has other problems but claiming an exclusive

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Joe Hart wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question (I

Re: The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gray wrote: The welfare system is too lenient. There are a number of people who refuse to work because they actually take a pay cut by getting a job. Something wrong there. The welfare benefit should be less than the minimum hourly wage. Can't

sid + gnome + automount

2007-05-16 Thread fabio natali
hi all of you! since yesterday i'm facing problems with automounting. i use gnome and my debian version is sid. when i plug my usb hd nothing happens on my desktop. :-( i tried to restart dbus. i tried to purge and then reinstall hal. i even tried to log on as root to see if it could be a

[OT] Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:13:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 08:05:15PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:56:09AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/08/07

again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG A70DAF536070D3A1

Re: xmms segfaults

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Bruno Buys wrote: Xmms segfaults with no apparent reason. I apt-get --purge removed it, then reinstalled, but the error remains. Is someone having these same problems? [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xmms Segmentation fault You've probably found a bug in XMMS, please visit http://bugs.xmms.org and

Re: Strange aptitude problem

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 22:12:10 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: I've uploaded a version of aptitude to experimental that should fix this problem. I'd appreciate it if people who are hitting this bug could download it and let me know whether it works for them. The new version works for me. I

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Johnson wrote: Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared to configure properly - software installation from mirror went without a problem The problem (sort of) goes like this: I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes on

chroot and random numbers?

2007-05-16 Thread Raphael
Hi Users! I use debian testing and installed a chroot environment in /var/etch... Ok, now, when I boot my system, there it show a lot of messages with random numbers at the end. Eg like this: /var/etch-386-aioqmvasw-8932nds983-34ref893 and lot more of this... and I have the feeling, they grow

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:43:32PM -0700, DavidDutch1964 wrote: I love debian. I guess we all do here. Recently, thoguh, I had to switch to

Re: Bug???

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:14:34AM +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: Hello! I've had some problem with testing ver. of debian: he don't founding hdd. I heard that some people have this problem too. I don't know is anybody who reported about this bug so i'm writing. Thx PS sorry for my english:P

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Michael Pobega
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG error: http://ftp2.de.debian.org unstable

Re: [OT] Re: Command line wave player

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 10:13:08 +0200, Joe Hart wrote: Chris Bannister wrote: [snip] We need a list ethicist who is not out to lunch :-) Fine. I nominate you then. I don't want to be the ethicist anyway. ;) Only the

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Ivan Glushkov
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) Reading

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:51:09 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:31:32AM +0100, Liam O'Toole wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 17:56:56 -0400 Michael Pobega [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...]

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? dd

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Marty
Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for win2k's installation. So I should clear mbr. which linux command should I use? It's not a linux command, but a DOS command, fdisk /mbr (or something

LVM and RAID

2007-05-16 Thread Bruno Costacurta
Hello, I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. Is there any order or procedure to respect when installing both together ? Some HOWTO or README somewhere about this ? Thanks for any info. Bye, Bruno -- PGP key ID: 0x2e604d51 Key :

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Michael V. De Palatis
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 06:42:06AM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, cothrige [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them

Re: again update problem

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 13:19:00 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Michael Pobega wrote: On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:20:44AM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: Hi, trying to update, I get bad signature from debian repository: Fetched 79.8kB in 2s (31.1kB/s) Reading package lists... Done W: GPG

Re: strange ? characters all over the screen in aptitude, mc and other ncurses programs

2007-05-16 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Chris Bannister) said: [...] Everything about locales on Sven Mascheck's new site: http://www.un-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ The URL above should be: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/ The little tester utility is at: http://www.in-ulm.de/~mascheck/locale/checklocale.c

have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. - -K - -- | .''`. == Debian GNU/Linux == | my web site: | | : :' : The Universal

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-16 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nelson Castillo wrote: I am going to try a new card unless someone here tells me that no partition is normal for a CompactFlash card (8 mb). Maybe you have a file system in the raw device, with no partition table? That's what fdisk shows.

Gaim with corrector of orthography in pt-BR in system en-US

2007-05-16 Thread João Schmutz
How I make to change my corrector of orthography of the Gaim for pt-BR being been that my system is in en-US, and cannot change my system of en-US for pt-BR, somebody knows as to make this? -- Att Debian User João Schmutz Geek by nature, linux by choice

Re: install with dmraid

2007-05-16 Thread axs203dd
So, then create two partitions on each of your two disks. Install Linux across two of them using Linux software RAID and install windows across the other two using Windows software RAID. You cannot install windows on a software raided partition. Win Installer cannot detect the LVM.

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. $ wajig search liberation $ What's a liberation font? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give

Re: Problems getting pics from Minolta

2007-05-16 Thread Nelson Castillo
What does mount /dev/sda /mnt/something do? It seems to mount OK. Then you have no partitions, I think. About one year ago I formatted a pen drive (mp3 player also) with mkfs.vfat and the mp3 player would not work. I did something like mkfs.vfat /dev/sdX After a lot of tries I thought I

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Matthias Brennwald (bwm)
Dear all 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) because I want to use the keys on my keyboard in the way they are labelled (I'm really bad in remembering

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:55:52AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:43 +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: On 5/16/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-05-15 at 23:37 -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: I am installing Win2k, which will co-exist with sarge I believe sarge install lilo at mbr, this cause trouble for

Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Eric A. Bonney
How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I would like to have the normal icons showing. Thanks, Eric -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Eric. Eric A. Bonney, 16.05.2007 15:56: How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I would like to have the normal icons

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 08:45 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all I'm a complete newbie, and I'm not sure which mailing list is the best to post my question

Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-16 Thread NickDG
On May 16, 9:40 am, NickDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 9:10 pm, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 15 May 2007 08:01:32 -0700 NickDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded the system but I'm not out of the woods yet: networking works only partly. The plot thickens... This

Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread cothrige
* Deboo ^ ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: You could try putting something like this in your .Xdefaults: xterm*font: 10x20 Every xterm opened will then use that font. That is how I have set my fonts, but I don't switch them around or anything, so it may not work so well for you. Thanks.

Re: Adding icons to firefox or thunderbird

2007-05-16 Thread Joe Hart
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: How do I assign the icons to firefox and/or thunderbird? I have them installed an running just fine, but whenever I put an icon on my desktop or in a panel I get either nothing or a little gear icon for them. I would like

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 08:04:42AM -0400, Marty wrote: A better alternative may be to first set up lilo to boot Debian from another device or partition. Then when you install NT/2k you can still boot Debian, and you also have the option of using the BIOS boot menu (typically started by

Re: how to clear mbr

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:43:53PM +0530, Deboo ^ wrote: I have found that W2K doesn't wipe out the grub menu tho XP does. And That's not my experience. I *always* had to restore grub after reinstalling W2k. Maybe your grub wasn't in the MBR? installing W2K over grub shouldn't cause a

Re: Gaim with corrector of orthography in pt-BR in system en-US

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 09:49:57AM -0300, João Schmutz wrote: How I make to change my corrector of orthography of the Gaim for pt-BR being been that my system is in en-US, and cannot change my system of en-US for pt-BR, somebody knows as to make this? You can try something like: LANG=pt_BR

Compiling for lib32 under amd64

2007-05-16 Thread Tom Vajzovic
Hi all How do I compile a program for i386 on Debian amd64 to run under Debian amd64 and link it to libraries in /lib32 and /usr/lib32 ? Going beyond that, is it possible have some modules of a program compiled for amd64, linked to /lib64/libc-n.n.so and others, and some compiled for i386 and

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 03:10:10AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Also it is preferable to snip the sig and any disclaimers etc. Proper MUAs auto-snip everything under the -- . Interesting, I don't find this option in mutt (though I bet vim could do this). But I couldn't use it anyway as I am

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:31:35PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I havn't followed this thread, so maybe someone spotted this already: You have 'allow-hotplug eth0' and 'iface etho'. It seems the OP is copying by hand so these are just transcript errors. Regards, Andrei -- If you

Re: Get wirless working

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/15/07 17:09, Didier Raboud wrote: [snip] Everything is true, but never forget : Debian is ROCK-solid. Such cannot be said about Ubuntu... Not everyone wants ROCK-solid but trailing edge features. I'll take cutting edge

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. $ wajig search liberation $ What's a liberation font? - -- Ron

[etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread jakub
hi all! Can some one explain to me how /etc/apt/preferences file works? In order to improve the performance of my etch box i downloaded src packages of few programs and recompiled them (the debian way) useing my own cflags. Now after instalation of those recompiled packages I have a problem to

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 10:26, Jonathan Kaye wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/16/07 07:47, Kevin Mark wrote: Has anyone installed the liberation fonts? Any comments on them. I seem to like the fine, more detailed look. $ wajig search liberation $ What's

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:19:36AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. :) We have a new meaning for ASAP: As Soon As Packaged (for Debian) :) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 17:18:32 +0200, jakub AT ifmpan DOT poznan DOT pl wrote: hi all! Can some one explain to me how /etc/apt/preferences file works? In order to improve the performance of my etch box i downloaded src packages of few programs and recompiled them (the debian way) useing my

Upgrade of kernel fails due to lack of space

2007-05-16 Thread Uwe Heinz Rudi Dippel
I know, you can always scold me for not enough space. But this is an old box with a small hard disk: df -h FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hda7 133M 93M 33M 74% / tmpfs 126M 0 126M 0% /lib/init/rw udev 10M 60K

Re: Re: Bug???

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 14:00 +0200, piter_p_92 wrote: Wiadomość Oryginalna Od: Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Do: DebianUser List debian-user@lists.debian.org Kopia do: piter_p_92 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Data: 16 maja 2007 7:47 Temat: Re: Bug??? On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 07:14 +0200,

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Jakub Narojczyk
Florian Kulzer napisał(a): You are missing the blank lines to separate the records: $ man apt_preferences | awk '/Effect/,/^$/' The Effect of APT Preferences The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to control the assignment of priorities. The file consists of

[Solved] Re: xterm fonts

2007-05-16 Thread Deboo ^
On 5/16/07, Michael V. De Palatis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You should run xrdb -load ~/.Xdefaults to reload the file. However, some intricacies can be involved if the program name launched from the menu is not `xterm`. Thanks for this. It worked but the only thing I played a bit with

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: Hi, I am trying to hook a Sony Vaio running Debian lenny with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY to a projector to demonstrate some animations, using the xv extension. The basic device section in xorg.conf, as autodetected, is:

Re: disappearing files

2007-05-16 Thread Collin Monahan
--- Karl E. Jorgensen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Why!? That's really crossing the river to fetch water - or whatever the English expression is... Why not: # mount -oremount,rw /usr # apt-get install whatever # cp /home/fred/bin/somecommand /usr/local/bin # mount

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-16 Thread Amy Templeton
Sorry to revive this after a while of no response, but I've only just now found time *to* respond. John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Amy writes: By decoders I mean things like antiword that remove all the nasty binary blobs and leave the ASCII text. Format converters. Sure. Does the

Re: reinstall /etc/cups/cupsd.conf

2007-05-16 Thread Ralph Katz
On 05/15/2007 05:36 PM, Seb wrote: On Tue, 15 May 2007 22:30:26 +0100, Liam O'Toole [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Haven't seen that one before. Any clues in /var/log/cups/error_log? - ---^^^! Nada; just after getting the error:

Re: have 'liberated' your fonts yet?

2007-05-16 Thread Jonathan Kaye
Ron Johnson wrote: snip Thanks. ASA they are packaged for Debian, I'll install them. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Hi Ron, Actually, you can get a tarball with the .ttf files here: https://www.redhat.com/promo/fonts/ Then install them with your favourite font installer. I did

how to disable XEmacs font-lock-mode?

2007-05-16 Thread Russell L. Harris
How can I disable font-lock-mode in Emacs (actually XEmacs)? It appears that, upon seeing the first line of a Perl script: #!/usr/bin/perl Emacs sets font-lock-mode. But I do not wish to use font-lock mode when working with Perl scripts. I am editing a number of short Perl scripts, and I

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2007-05-16 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 07:09:37PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I should have known about xvattr then, in order to at least have the movie show up on the right display. How did you use xvattr to switch the display? For i810 you need to set the XV_PIPE attribute. Maybe it's the same for

Re: Preventing delayed USB writes

2007-05-16 Thread Bob McGowan
Brendan wrote: On Tuesday 15 May 2007, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/15/07 15:52, pedxing wrote: I would like to configure things so that, for instance, when I (ok, actually my wife) use konqueror to copy songs to my mp3 player, when the copy dialog says 100%, I can immediately unmount the device

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 00:36, Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 09:46:21AM -0400, Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 5/10/07, Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rick Thomas wrote in Article [EMAIL PROTECTED] posted to

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2007-05-16 Thread Lasagra.com
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Re: creating a debian/etch over a xubuntu installation

2007-05-16 Thread mess-mate
Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Tue, May 15, 2007 at 12:54:51AM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | Kevin Mark [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 05:24:40PM +0200, mess-mate wrote: | | Hi list, | | i've a machine with xubuntu installed. | | The machine have ONLY a hd

Re: [etch] apt_preferences issues

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 18:46:48 +0200, Jakub Narojczyk wrote: Florian Kulzer napisał(a): You are missing the blank lines to separate the records: $ man apt_preferences | awk '/Effect/,/^$/' The Effect of APT Preferences The APT preferences file allows the system administrator to

Re: HAL crashes with dbus

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:32:17 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Florian Kulzer schrieb: On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 22:20:58 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, May 13, 2007 at 13:44:10 +0200, Kristian Lampen wrote: Hi, I use the recent sid installation, kernel 2.6.18

bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Jay Wilton
Hello, I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. file /bin/bzip2 /bin/bzip2: empty I reinstall with a: apt-get install --reinstall bzip2 and it still happens but not every time. I

Re: dpkg-reconfigure of xserver-xorg creates problem for users!

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 01:55:35 +, Bruce M. Ward wrote: Thanks to those who responded. Unfortunately, on this machine I'm restricted to using web-mail so can't continue the thread ... Michael - problem user is in same groups (and more) as new user. Which groups are those? Maybe the

Re: Typing an '@' symbol on an Apple keyboard

2007-05-16 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 14:48:53 +0200, Matthias Brennwald (bwm) wrote: Dear all 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) because I want to use the keys on

Re: Problems after mixing Sarge and Etch

2007-05-16 Thread Celejar
On 16 May 2007 00:09:39 -0700 NickDG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On May 15, 9:10 pm, Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip] Is DNS working ('cat /etc/resolv.conf')? moria:~# cat /etc/resolv.conf # Dynamic resolv.conf(5) file for glibc resolver(3) generated by resolvconf(8) # DO NOT

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Greg Folkert
On Wed, 2007-05-16 at 12:09 -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: Hello, I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. file /bin/bzip2 /bin/bzip2: empty I reinstall with a: apt-get install

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 05/16/07 14:09, Jay Wilton wrote: Hello, I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. file /bin/bzip2 /bin/bzip2: empty An ls

Re: Delete garbage in /var

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 05:43:16PM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: Do you have logrotate installed? apt-cache show logrotate That should be 'apt-cache policy logrotate' ^^ Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sánchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto

Re: bzip2 gzip binaries empty after usage

2007-05-16 Thread Karl E. Jorgensen
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 12:09:56PM -0700, Jay Wilton wrote: I have a new build of debian etch 4.0. When I try to unpack a tar.bz2 file it fails silently. ala tar jxvf example.tar.bz2 , just fails with no error. As in a non-zero exit code? Or just deafening silence? file /bin/bzip2

Re: LVM and RAID

2007-05-16 Thread Roberto C . Sánchez
On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 02:29:10PM +0200, Bruno Costacurta wrote: Hello, I intend to install LVM and RAID-1 on a two disks system. Is there any order or procedure to respect when installing both together ? Some HOWTO or README somewhere about this ? Thanks for any info. Is this a system

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