Re: Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 NN_il_Confusionario wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: >> I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long >> story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) > > I would NOT remove skype

Re: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Haines Brown wrote: > This a common error message, but a search on line didn't resolve it. > > I'm running debian etch. I installed an application, gmfsk, deb, which > went fine. But when I go to run it, I get, as either root or user: > > gmfsk: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block [SOLVED]

2008-04-06 Thread andy
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 14:37, andy wrote: andy wrote: Hello I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch

Re: Suspend not working

2008-04-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 18:41:48 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] > Bob, Frank's sig fails for me too... Ok, thanks. At least it is not 'my setup' then.. > Frank, Bob's works fine for me but w

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-06 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 07/04/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 04/04/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Just move all the $HOME stuff out of the way, and see what happens. If > > > you see that something importa

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 21:48:18 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest >

Re: Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:47:44AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote: > I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long > story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) I would NOT remove skype from the dpkg database /var/lib/dpkg/status I would use equivs (or manual editing

Re: searching pdf files from a specific page onwards

2008-04-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Sorry, I'm at my VT520 now so can't try it, but I think in the menu's > there's a search dialog with check boxes as opposed to just the search > bar in thumbnails. If so, you can add that to the toolbar. > Thanks for the reply. What version of kpdf are you running? I

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:19:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > >> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my > >> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my ca

Re: Display Resolution-Frequency (Debian vs Windows)

2008-04-06 Thread Bob
Sanjaya Vitharana wrote: Hi All, Just trying to move my home desktop to Debian from Windows. As initial stage I'm trying with dual boot until I get used to Debian. But the problem is with "gdm" Display Properties. I can't get expected quality for 1024 x 768 resolution as my Windows did. For

Re: how to upgrade to a 64-bit mobo?

2008-04-06 Thread KS
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > > Millions(?) must have done this but googling left doubts. > > I'm thinking of upgrading my EP-8VTAI 32-bit mobo to an ASUS M2N-SLI > which is 64-bit. > > I now run one Sid system that is pure i386. > > What is best? > > 1. install the ASUS M2N-SLI into a new

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 20:48, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> >> so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and r

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space > > > (we

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 20:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Not really, since I didn't become a teenager until the mid-70s. >> > > I thought you were an old fart. You're my age. I was born in 66.

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my >> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn. > > Ye

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > > assured that

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 19:18, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a > header referred to as "Face". Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see > is a whole screen of ascii chars. > > Just as there's a neti

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:18:07 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a > header referred to as "Face". Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see > is a whole screen of ascii chars. You should tell mutt to hide that header for you, then.

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 18:30, Anton Pussep wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/06/08 16:31, Anton Pussep wrote: >>> Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 13:43, Anton Pussep wrote: > I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The > came

Re: [VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread David Fox
On Sun, Apr 6, 2008 at 6:48 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I remember my 386. It was an IBM PS/2 model 70-A21. It came with the > then-unherd of 120MB hard drive, MCA bus, and I put 4 MB ram into it, My first Linux box was very similar. SLS it ran, 120 meg (and very flaky S

Re: What are these folders in home?

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 04/04/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Just move all the $HOME stuff out of the way, and see what happens. If > > you see that something important is gone, file movement is > > reversible :). > > Important stuff like

Re: searching pdf files from a specific page onwards

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:28:20PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > I currently use kpdf for viewing pdf files. I have tried other pdf viewers > (acroread, xpdf etc.,) some time back and settled on to kpdf as it sucked > less. Is there any pdf viewer out there which has the following feature?

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-06 Thread Butch Kemper
At 11:17 AM 4/6/2008, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would be hda. I rec

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space > > (well, actually black-space) does help. > > you can use "mono" inplace of colo

[VERY OT while waiting for Lenny?] reminiscing on old computers

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest > assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due > out? That always b

Remove package from apt's db

2008-04-06 Thread Rich Healey
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I've installed skype, had to force it to ignore dependencies (long story.. anyway, i do have qt4's libs, and skype does work) But now apt won't upgrade, it complains about skype's missing libs. Can i remove skype from apt's db without removing it? --

error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5

2008-04-06 Thread Haines Brown
This a common error message, but a search on line didn't resolve it. I'm running debian etch. I installed an application, gmfsk, deb, which went fine. But when I go to run it, I get, as either root or user: gmfsk: error while loading shared libraries: libstdc++.so.5: cannot open shared object

Re: Suspend not working

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:48 +0100 > Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > > > I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first tim

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your > > > responses wit

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:28:16AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > > > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:06:09PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > > > On Sat, Apr

searching pdf files from a specific page onwards

2008-04-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
I currently use kpdf for viewing pdf files. I have tried other pdf viewers (acroread, xpdf etc.,) some time back and settled on to kpdf as it sucked less. Is there any pdf viewer out there which has the following feature? Say I have a document of 400 pages. Now I search for a word and say there is

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Great OT thread. Yes, no flaming. > > Last time it was like this, Etch was almost ready... so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants and rest assured that lenny will be out any time. When's the next utnubu due o

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:08:23PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > Not really, since I didn't become a teenager until the mid-70s. > > > > I thought you were an old fart. You're my age. I was born in 66. > > Oh, wait a minut

Re: face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:18:07PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a > header referred to as "Face". Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see > is a whole screen of ascii chars. > > Just as there's a netiquette rule about the nu

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:16:02AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: > is there any way to do this with mail, maybe if it was a header I could > then wget the report as spam link. Don't really want to open a browser > to do this [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 03:59:45PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Not really, since I didn't become a teenager until the mid-70s. > I thought you were an old fart. You're my age. I was born in 66. Oh, wait a minute... Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 10:46:25AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > In practice, any decent public key system will use large enough primes > that this is a "Got a supercomputer or a botnet and a good bit of time?" > case which makes brute-forcing an md5 password file look easy, but I > like to be c

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Great OT thread. Yes, no flaming. Last time it was like this, Etch was almost ready... I'm trying to remember the last real Etch problem (as opposed to Lenny or Sid questions) other than those where the answer was to remove network-manager :) Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my > crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my cane and ear horn. Yeah, when you were a student, you did the same thing with a carrier pidgeon, carrying a role of punch

Re: your mail

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:40:48PM +0530, sini kumar wrote: > > Hi all I'm from U.A.E i would like to use GNU LINUX in my laptop > Compaq presario F700 ,processer is Mobile AMD Sempronm(tm)Processor > 3600+ 2.00Ghz,,1Gb ram , system type is 32bit operating system. so > how can i install and wher

Re: Debian Won't Install

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:47:12AM -0700, Bryan wrote: > I downloaded the latest Debin relese(4.0) from Bittorent and burned it > to DVD but for some reason it will not boot from the CD. I don't > think it is the CD becuase it boots on two other machines I have. The > weird thing is this same ma

Re: How do I get aptitude to unhold???

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:43:05PM -0500, Dennis G. Wicks wrote: > Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it! > > I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I > had a buggy apt-get and aptitude and now I want to > upgrade and I can't get them unheld. Where is that list > at? Is

face headers on mail to the list

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Something I've notice latey, is that people sending to the list have a header referred to as "Face". Since I use mutt on my VT520, all I see is a whole screen of ascii chars. Just as there's a netiquette rule about the number of lines in a .sig, what is netiquette re sending to a list where many

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Of course, Quoting the spam when you complain about spam just confuses the spam filter so that it will think such mail is legitimate. I understand the issue about not wanting to limit posters to the list of subscribers. However, perhaps there should be a whitelist or somthing to which non-subs

Re: spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!)

2008-04-06 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
steve wrote: > Ill just add > his address to a filter, his address changes constantly, I have 10 > emails from him in my inbox just from the last 24 hours, each from a > different address, but the same mail;. pain in the $#% he is. This is not the correct method. Most of the times (99/100) the

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thierry Chatelet wrote: | | Go there: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/ find the message and click on | the button "Report as spam" on the top right of the page. | Thierry | | Done! I dont read the list mail there, so I never knew about it, tha

Re: Xen in Etch, basic setup

2008-04-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Steve Lamb wrote: The really funky thing is the last time I set the machine for bridge networking, just a few minutes ago, xenbr1 got eth1's IP and there was a xenbr1:2 which got eth1:1's IP. I figured with funky results like the one above I should get a tar-ball of the same version f

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Steve Lamb
Thierry Chatelet wrote: well to the list on the net and mark it as a spam. There is no moderator on this list. You are incorrect. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Centro Alternativo Dragonfly, no nos borres por favor...

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Re: Suspend not working

2008-04-06 Thread Frank McCormick
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:48 +0100 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first time ever > > I tried suspending the computer from the GDM menu...but nothing > >

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Anton Pussep
Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 16:31, Anton Pussep wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 13:43, Anton Pussep wrote: I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The camera is a Canon A580, that supports PTP via USB very well. I can access the camera as root, but not as a loca

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 02:18:18 pm John C. Ellingboe wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: > >>And the 1933 /King Kong/, the B&W /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo > >>daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s > >>thru mid 70s

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 12:10:38AM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Monday 07 April 2008 00:04:34 Alex Samad wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: > > > > can the moderator please remove this idiot

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Monday 07 April 2008 00:04:34 Alex Samad wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: > > > can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been > > > getting this junk no less than ten times a

Re: Zeichensatz Textkonsole

2008-04-06 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 23:09:41 +0200, Bernd Kloss wrote: > Etch > > Hallo, Liste, > >  bei der Installation von Rechnern über fai ist etwas falsch gelaufen. > > Die Tastatur auf der Textkonsole hat den amerikanischen Zeichensatz und die > Backspace-Taste (korrekte Bezeichnung?) funktioniert n

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Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:56AM -0500, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: > > can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been > > getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. > [snip] > > (And, in an at

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 16:31, Anton Pussep wrote: > Thanks for your reply: > > Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/06/08 13:43, Anton Pussep wrote: >>> I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The >>> camera is a Canon A580, that supports PTP via U

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread John C. Ellingboe
Paul Johnson wrote: On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: And the 1933 /King Kong/, the B&W /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s thru mid 70s like /The Shaggy Dog/, /Flubber/, /The World's Strongest Man/, /Escape Fr

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Anton Pussep
Thanks for your reply: Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/06/08 13:43, Anton Pussep wrote: I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The camera is a Canon A580, that supports PTP via USB very well. I can access the camera as root, but not as a local user. Using the gphoto manual (

Zeichensatz Textkonsole

2008-04-06 Thread Bernd Kloss
Etch Hallo, Liste,  bei der Installation von Rechnern über fai ist etwas falsch gelaufen. Die Tastatur auf der Textkonsole hat den amerikanischen Zeichensatz und die Backspace-Taste (korrekte Bezeichnung?) funktioniert nicht. locale liefert überall de_DE.UTF-8 In der xorg.conf ist pc104 und us

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 15:56, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: > >> And the 1933 /King Kong/, the B&W /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo >> daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s >> thru mid 70

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 15:51, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/06/08 02:20, Nate Duehr wrote: >> >> [snip] >> >>> What a deal! I bet ALL of the "concerned parents" will be sending BOTH >>> the difference in th

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block [SOLVED]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 14:37, andy wrote: > andy wrote: >> Hello >> >> I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an >> Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution >> 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. >> [

Re: PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 13:43, Anton Pussep wrote: > Hi everybody, > > I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The > camera is a Canon A580, that supports PTP via USB very well. I can > access the camera as root, but not as a local user. >

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 15:53, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2008 08:18:32 am Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/06/08 10:06, Brad Rogers wrote: >>> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:56:32 -0500 >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Ron, >>> /The

Re: Using colours in mutt (was Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again)

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to find your > > responses with no whitespace around them... > > Someting like: > > color quoted blue

Re: business card install - kernel

2008-04-06 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 04:31:28AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > If I'm using the business card CD install, I get to a page that says, > "Install the base system" and lists about 30 different kernels. I > can't find any web page or documentation that explains the difference > between each one.

Re: Spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS blah blah)

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 15:09, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>> can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been >>> getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. >>>

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 09:02:41 am Ron Johnson wrote: > And the 1933 /King Kong/, the B&W /Secret Garden/ (which my 8yo > daughter likes), and the live action Disney movies from the late 50s > thru mid 70s like /The Shaggy Dog/, /Flubber/, /The World's > Strongest Man/, /Escape From Witch Mountai

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 08:18:32 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 10:06, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 09:56:32 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Ron, > > > >> /The Prisoner/, Patrick McGoohan. Google makes this kind of thing > >> too easy. > > > > I di

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-06 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 06 April 2008 05:03:13 am Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 02:20, Nate Duehr wrote: > > [snip] > > > What a deal! I bet ALL of the "concerned parents" will be sending BOTH > > the difference in their original taxes in 2006 and their rebate checks > > straight to the education system. (R

Re: Suspend not working

2008-04-06 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first time ever I > tried suspending the computer from the GDM menu...but nothing happened. I > have auto login enabled so a few seconds later I was logged back in. Is

Re: Spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS blah blah)

2008-04-06 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sun Apr 06, 2008 at 11:05:15 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been > > getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. > > ~ Thank you. > > Tbird/Icedove has a spam filter. Are you using it? A client-side

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:56:10 -0500 > Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Dave, > > > > younger. It was just weird. > > > > Yes, it was. Wasn't that the point? > > To a degree, yes. In the end, if that's all it is, then it's > unfulfill

Re: PDL::IO::Dicom is not packaged in pdl package how to add it in? dh-make-perl not working??

2008-04-06 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 12:08:28PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I am working with medical images with PDL and perl. > I notice that the list of modules in > dpkg -L pdl Hi M, I think you best bet is to contact the debian-med subproject. I would expect them to be happy to package (ITP) it

Re: Evolution: Inserting image into signature block [SOLVED]

2008-04-06 Thread andy
andy wrote: Hello I am needing some assistance please on inserting images into an Evolution outgoing email signature block. This concerns Evolution 2.6.3. running on a GNU/Linux Debian Etch platform. At present, I have constructed a signature block with the following components: an image (d

PTP camera, setting rights does not work

2008-04-06 Thread Anton Pussep
Hi everybody, I experience difficulties to access my PTP camera as non-root. The camera is a Canon A580, that supports PTP via USB very well. I can access the camera as root, but not as a local user. Using the gphoto manual (http://www.gphoto.org/doc/manual/permissions-usb.html) I tried to m

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:11:37 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, > Since it's obvious that pre-teen don't get /The Prisoner/, next time > I guess I'd better not give such broad examples of changing taste. :-) OTOH, ti was the obvious choice, given the genesis of this sub-thr

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 11:20, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:40:09 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ron, > >> Preferences change... My children *love* the same movies and > > True, but The Prisoner was not really aimed at

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 10:56:10 -0500 Dave Sherohman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Dave, > > younger. It was just weird. > Yes, it was. Wasn't that the point? To a degree, yes. In the end, if that's all it is, then it's unfulfilling. Patrick McGoohan always maintains there's more to it than t

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:40:09 -0500 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Ron, > Preferences change... My children *love* the same movies and True, but The Prisoner was not really aimed at a young (i.e. pre-teen) audience. > cartoons that I liked when I was young, but now they just bore

Vmware 6.0.3 and usb drivers

2008-04-06 Thread Josep M.
Hello. I installed vmware workstation 6.0.3 in a etch host and complains me every time about that i must upgrade the usb drivers of my etch for have good performance abd stability, and with my 4gb usb pen drive is giving me a lot of problems if i use usb2, i had to put some parameters in the .vmx

Re: Spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS blah blah)

2008-04-06 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: | On 04/06/08 10:57, steve wrote: |> can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been |> getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. |> ~ Thank you. | | Tbird/Icedove has a spam filt

Re: Disk Drive Order Changes - Again

2008-04-06 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Butch Kemper wrote: Back in February, I asked a question about problems I was having with the hard disks sequence flip-flopping when I would boot: disk #1 would be hda and disk #2 would be hdc; or disk #1 would be hde and disk #2 would be hda. I receive answers about using labels with the par

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Sherohman wrote: | On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: |> can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been |> getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. | | Debian-user is an ope

PDL::IO::Dicom is not packaged in pdl package how to add it in? dh-make-perl not working??

2008-04-06 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, I am working with medical images with PDL and perl. I notice that the list of modules in dpkg -L pdl /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/HDF /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/HDF/SD.pm /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/HDF/VS.pm /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/Dumper.pm /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/FastRaw.pm /usr/lib/perl5/PDL/IO/Misc.pm /usr/l

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Sunday 06 April 2008 17:57:30 steve wrote: > Mohammed Ali wrote: > | You're invited to: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE > | READ AND REPLY!! > | By your host: Mohammed Ali > | > | Date: Sunday April 6, 2008 > | Time: 12:00 pm -

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 11:57:30AM -0400, steve wrote: > can the moderator please remove this idiot from the list?? Ive been > getting this junk no less than ten times a day for lord knows how long. Debian-user is an open list which can be posted to by anyone, whether a list member or not. The s

Spam filters (was Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS blah blah)

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 10:57, steve wrote: > Mohammed Ali wrote: > | > | You're invited to: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU > PLEASE > | READ AND REPLY!! > | By your host: Mohammed Ali > | > | Date: Sunday April 6, 2008 >

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 10:44, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 04/06/08 10:31, Brad Rogers wrote: >>> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:18:32 -0500 >>> Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> Hello Ron, >>> I watched it as a

Re: sun-java6 dependencies

2008-04-06 Thread Frank
On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 17:41:27 +0200 Benjamí Villoslada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Someone with sun-java6 packages dependencies problems too? > > Installed i my Debian Sid: > > sun-java6-bin 6-04-2 > sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 > sun-java6-plugin 6-04-2 > > In order to install this I've added this

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-06 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mohammed Ali wrote: | | You're invited to:IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE | READ AND REPLY!! | By your host: Mohammed Ali | | Date: Sunday April 6, 2008 | Time: 12:00 pm - 1

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 04:31:28PM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote: > Frankly, I don't know what I saw in it when I was > younger. It was just weird. Yes, it was. Wasn't that the point? -- News aggregation meets world domination. Can you see the fnews? http://seethefnews.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: server security :: user accounts, ssh, passphrases, etc.

2008-04-06 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 02:43:58AM +0200, s. keeling wrote: > Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On 3-Apr-08, at 1:23 PM, Dave Sherohman wrote: > > > Unless they take the time to successfully factor the > > > public key, > > > > Can you expand on that sentence? I'm not sure what you meant by

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Sunday 06 April 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 04/06/08 10:31, Brad Rogers wrote: > > On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:18:32 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello Ron, > > > >> I watched it as a teenager (because PBS didn't run it in the late > >> 60s, and I wouldn't have cared, ev

sun-java6 dependencies

2008-04-06 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
Hi, Someone with sun-java6 packages dependencies problems too? Installed i my Debian Sid: sun-java6-bin 6-04-2 sun-java6-jre 6-04-2 sun-java6-plugin 6-04-2 In order to install this I've added this repository: deb http://snapshot.debian.net/archive pool sun-java6 And every dist-upgrade I recei

Re: Fwd: Re: [Somewhat More OT] Closed source software Was [Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]]

2008-04-06 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 04/06/08 10:31, Brad Rogers wrote: > On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:18:32 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Ron, > >> I watched it as a teenager (because PBS didn't run it in the late >> 60s, and I wouldn't have cared, even if they

Re: backup script changes permissions

2008-04-06 Thread Owen Townend
On 07/04/2008, Haines Brown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Noah Slater <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Why don't you use a prebuilt package such as backup2l? > > > Noah, I might just do that. I've spent a lot of time struggling with the > backup script, which only offered the advantage of having

Re: How do I get aptitude to unhold???

2008-04-06 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 07:43:05PM -0500, "Dennis G. Wicks" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Yeah, it should be simple, but it isn't doing it! > > I have a whole bunch of packages held from back when I had a buggy > apt-get and aptitude and now I want to upgrade and I can't get them > unh

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