Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Crean wrote: Because it's easy to forget that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. Uh-huh. I am talking about the whole. superior anti-aliasing because files have been tweaked, *eyes the message he's writing* Looks Anti-aliased to me. careful choice of desktop theme

Changing date format in /usr/bin/last

2004-11-15 Thread Ralph Aichinger
Hello! I had the problem today that I wanted to get some information out of my wtmp file about system usage, and I needed logins categorized by year. In Debian, last gives output like ralphpts/1monk Mon Nov 15 14:32 still logged in ralphpts/0monk

Re: xlibmesa-mach64-dri

2004-11-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:57:39 +0200, Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:04:37 +0100, [...] Michael Daenzer's trunk is very old. The link there is pointing to a new place Maybe is mature. =) deb http://www.nixnuts.net/files/ ./ deb-src

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc is saying if you mix you'll end up with 2 out of date lists of what has/hasn't been inst-ed) I say choose one and

Re: Debian and spam

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:37, Mark Janssen wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 09:26 -0500, Michael Marsh wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:09:26 +, Chris Lale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: According to Google, rehash is a Linux/Unix command; but I cannot find it on my system. Perhaps it has been

Re: Changing date format in /usr/bin/last

2004-11-15 Thread Laurent CARON
Ralph Aichinger wrote: Hello! I had the problem today that I wanted to get some information out of my wtmp file about system usage, and I needed logins categorized by year. In Debian, last gives output like ralphpts/1monk Mon Nov 15 14:32 still logged in ralphpts/0

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 13:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. I have installed icewm here on my Debian Sarge. [...] I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. -- richard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Erik Jakobsen
Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 13:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. I have installed icewm here on my Debian Sarge. [...] I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Hi Richard. Nice to get you in here. It seems to be a nice tool, and I have just

Getting apt-get to download Packages.bz2 instead of Packages.gz

2004-11-15 Thread Micha Feigin
Is it possible to do that? All I found was a flame full tread that the only sugestion it contained didn't work: Default { Packages::Compress . bzip2 } still downloads the 3MB Packages.gz instead of the 2MB Packages.bz2 Thanks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Java

2004-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages. Too bad they don't have enough sense to put

Re: clock speed too fast when power plugged in

2004-11-15 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi Richard Have you tried booting up unplugged and seeing if that solves it? That is the best workaround I have at the moment... David On Fri, 12 Nov 2004 13:14:48 +1300, Richard Hector [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 11:28:17AM +, David Hugh-Jones wrote: Hi, I

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Derek \The Monkey\ Wueppelmann
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:12, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Roberto Sanchez
Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. Should not be difficult. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I personally use the Sun JRE, which includes gcc2 and gcc3

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:12 -0500, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with

Re: People have missed the main reason (was Re: why debian)

2004-11-15 Thread Joey Hess
Chris Metzler wrote: With every Debian install, you get a pony! Where are my 30 ponies a day[1] being stored? Just curious.. -- see shy jo [1] http://people.debian.org/~joeyh/d-i/test-logs.html signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread housetier
I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages. Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out there. How do I get java working? in sid is a package called java-package that will make a .deb out of sun's .bin. I have used it and got java 1.5 working (in firefox as

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Richard Lyons
On Monday 15 November 2004 15:10, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Richard Lyons wrote: On Monday 15 November 2004 13:48, Erik Jakobsen wrote: Erik Jakobsen wrote: Hi. I have installed icewm here on my Debian Sarge. [...] I hope you enjoy it as much as I do. Hi

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
William Ballard wrote: Mark Crean wrote: Debian must be fantastic as a server OS (though I've never had trouble in three and a half years with SuSE for httpd, ftp, mail, so far) but it seems too rough on the desktop, lacking in polish and with the Debian system of commands in many ways

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 14:19, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] All I have to do to install the latest 2.6 kernel is: apt-get install kernel-image-2.6-686 kernel-headers-2.6-686 This packages depend on the latest versions (currently kernel-{image

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
housetier wrote: I also am not sure what I'm supposed to do with Sun's packages. Too bad they don't have enough sense to put deb's out there. How do I get java working? in sid is a package called java-package that will make a .deb out of sun's .bin. I have used it and got java 1.5 working (in

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Jon Dowland
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or something). If a user installs using the new d-i, opts for manual package configuration,

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Adam
--- Jon Dowland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or something). If a user installs using

Re: Newbie question: DHCP set up

2004-11-15 Thread sleepless
Folks, Many many thanks! A very big duh from me. I was relying on doing the change from the console when exploring the menus in the GUI, I see Network Settings... I changed them to Automatic and just to be on the safe side did # /etc/init.d/networking restart. Many thanks again. I hope as I

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
Alex Malinovich wrote: This was actually just discussed about a week ago on this list. The best solution (IMO) is to build a deb package of Sun's actual distribution and go from there. There's a pretty complete writeup of the process available at http://serios.net/content/debian/java.php The short

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Mark Crean
Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] Just my 2 cents, but trying to make everything relative won't do. There are plenty of standards by which things can be judged (whether anti-aliasing, interface design or meringues smothered in strawberry sauce) though whether someone likes them or not is merely a

Re: Playing ogg files

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 09:51:55 -0500, Jason Rennie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 08:11:56PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: I think it might be more of a driver issue. Try playing some .wav's or .mp3's with another program and see what that does. Do you have alsa or OSS? You

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Johnson
--- Mark Crean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] Still, as I've just wiped off Debian in favour of SuSe 9.2, at least for the time being, I've no longer a place here so am signing off. I enjoyed using SuSE. Great system... But I wonder what you'll do when SuSE 9.3 (or

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure about French, but English is read top-down. http://ursine.dyndns.org/Top_Posting Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have similar configuration data files: What does happen to the infected email ? Just like the site describes, exim

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Bram Mertens
Hi On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also must change the video driver from nv to nvidia in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Done and done, and I restarted X as well. I started nvidia-settings and it brings up a

Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that the question that I am asking for, does not have to do with this list, but I dare to ask this question here because I am sure that here are a lot of good programming and scientisitics guys and may be one of you can help me. I am programming a

Re: moving installation to a different computer without reinstalling

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jason Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Question: Is there any known gotchas to upgrading all the hardware without reinstalling the system? Your kernel absolutely must be able to support the hardware on your new filesystem. Otherwise, it's

Re: installing nvidia drivers - kernel-headers problem

2004-11-15 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Bram Mertens ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:34, Andreas Janssen wrote: [...] Make sure, that the nvidia-glx package is installed as well. You also must change the video driver from nv to nvidia in /etc/X11/XF86Config-4. Done and done, and I restarted X as well.

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Bojan Baros
Sergio Basurto Juarez said: First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that the question that I am asking for, does not have to do with this list, but I dare to ask this question here because I am sure that here are a lot of good programming and scientisitics guys and may be one of you

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Alexandru Cabuz
Just my 2 cents, but trying to make everything relative won't do. There are plenty of standards by which things can be judged (whether anti-aliasing, interface design or meringues smothered in strawberry sauce) though whether someone likes them or not is merely a question of taste. Some

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-15 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Paul Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure about French, but English is read top-down. http://ursine.dyndns.org/Top_Posting Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have similar configuration data files: What does happen to the infected email ? Just like the

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Bojan Baros [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sergio Basurto Juarez said: First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that the question that I am asking for, does not have to do with this list, but I dare to ask this question here because I am sure that here are a lot of good

OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Zagrabelny
And this is my favorite. Trying to mount a USB key. There is no usb key device, like there is one for cdrom. It gets mapped to a scsi device (for some reason), the first one, because I don't actually have another scsi on my computer. /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. Terrific. Except on my new

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude (or maybe its a cut-down fork or something). If a user installs

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc is saying if you mix you'll end up with 2 out of date lists of what

[gknab@asamnet.de: autofs: /etc/init.d/autofs now writes pidfiles

2004-11-15 Thread Günter Knab
Hi there! May be my solution is useful for others ... gk - Forwarded message to Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Envelope-to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Sieve: cmu-sieve 2.0 From: GXnter Knab [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Bug Tracking System [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: autofs:

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Marc Wilson wrote: Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my normal tools is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using dselect? dpkg I can see when installing third party

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote: William Ballard wrote: I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for a friend of mine who is about as computer illiterate as anyone I've ever

Re: Java

2004-11-15 Thread Tom Allison
Derek The Monkey Wueppelmann wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:12, Tom Allison wrote: I'm trying to get Java running with the firefox browser. I can't seem to find anything under the blackdown packages that will actually work. Seems there are some gcc version problems. I also am not sure what I'm

Re: cd burning problem

2004-11-15 Thread Joris Huizer
Alan Chandler wrote: On Sunday 14 November 2004 15:13, Joris Huizer wrote: I tried kernel 2.6.8 and it worked fine -- but I got myself into a cd burning problem. The first time under kernel 2.6.8 , cdrecord did work, but because of too much business in the computer (other programs running, and

Re: ctrl-a in firefox

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Simon Huggins wrote: On Sat, Nov 13, 2004 at 02:26:13PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Create a file named .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory that reads gtk-key-theme-name = Emacs Worked for me, anyway. thanks or the tip. after writing the email I found this on the web,

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 11:37:58PM +, Brian Nelson wrote: On Sun, Nov 14, 2004 at 10:33:32PM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: It ignores the status file in favor of its own re-implementation of it. That's not really a problem, other than #137771, which I assume will be fixed some day. Fixed

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 11:29 -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my normal tools is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:34PM +, Chris Lale wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using aptitude over apt-get. If I'm not mistaken, d-i uses aptitude

module system documentation

2004-11-15 Thread Christian Convey
Hey guys, Can anyone recommend a good intro to how the OVERALL scheme of modules works in 2.6 under Debian Sarge? I.e., I'm trying to understand: - the roles and proper use of all of the module-related files under /etc - the mod-related programs - how and when modules get automatically loaded

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:25 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that the question that I am asking for, does not have to do with this list, but I dare to ask this question here because I am sure that here are a lot of good programming and

Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:49:33AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: And no, most of what it can do, you can do from the command line or the ncurses interface. s/or the ncurses interface// That's what I get for not re-reading before saving. sigh -- Marc Wilson | Paranoids are people, too; they

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wim De Smet
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:26:07 -0800, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 10:25 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: First of all, I want to leave clear that I know that the question that I am asking for, does not have to do with this list, but I dare to ask this question here because I am sure

automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I am going off to a conference where I will have to print a copy of my talk from my laptop (aging i386 debian/sid) to a friend's printer (no idea what the printer model is no way to find out, attached to a mac running os X). I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Alex Malinovich
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 21:04 +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: --snip-- I tried it with dselect, but the first thing dselect did was select a bunch of packages I didn't want. Does dselect have yet another status list? In any case, I had the same behaviour (about). Somebody should patch this one day.

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Steve Lamb
Wim De Smet wrote: This is true, but if you only use aptitude it's a minor problem (eg. you can probably not even set a package on hold without the curses interface). [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~} aptitude --help aptitude 0.2.15.8 Usage: aptitude [-S fname] [-u|-i] aptitude [options] action ...

Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Schrock
Hello, I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid 320-2 that I am trying to install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images are not able to recognize the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am unable to install debian on it. Through Google I found the Dell web pages that show some

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Niels L Ellegaard
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 10:52:22 -0800 (PST) Sergio Basurto Juarez [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To find a key k in an array v with indexes from 0 to n-1, begin with x0 = 0, x1 = n-1, and i = 1. Compute the next position with xi+1 = xi - (v[xi]-k) * (xi - xi-1)/(v[xi] - v[xi-1]). If this lies outside

firefox printouts have added space after special characters, why?

2004-11-15 Thread andrej hocevar
Hello, I don't know how to solve this annoying problem: when viewing pages with certain characters, such as s or z with carons, they look fine. But when I print them, those characters are added some space on the right (for at least another character's width). Does anyone know how to solve it?

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:04:34PM +0100, Wim De Smet wrote: This is true, but if you only use aptitude it's a minor problem (eg. you can probably not even set a package on hold without the curses interface). Oh? Try reading aptitude's man page. The question isn't whether aptitude is

Re: Icwem

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Storey
Glad the problem was solved, but another neat trick for getting bigger fonts in your application menus is to start X like this: startx -- -dpi 100 I like it so much that I even made this an alias in my .bashrc and .bash_profile: alias startx='startx -- -dpi 100' You don't have to use a

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip drives, floppy

Sendmail Help..

2004-11-15 Thread Sven Göran
Hello, I need some help with sendmail.. I am trying to make it write out some type of information in the message to who the message is for. I thought I could use the for [EMAIL PROTECTED] part in the message.. But it seems that it ignores to write this out if there is more then one recipient.

Re: Sendmail Help..

2004-11-15 Thread Martin Mewes
Hi Sven, Sven Göran [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote : I need some help with sendmail.. I am trying to make it write out some type of information in the message to who the message is for. I thought I could use the for [EMAIL PROTECTED] part in the message.. There is no for part in SMTP afaik. There

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Matt Price
Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: I would like to be able to just plug in the printer on my USB port print; I don't have any other reliable way of getting data into the printer (no cd-burner, mac's have no disk drives). Macs have disk drives. Zip

Re: Debain woody install with a Megaraid 320-2

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Brian Schrock [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have a Supermicro server with an LSI Megaraid 320-2 that I am trying to install Debian Woody on. The standard boot images are not able to recognize the Megaraid SCSI controller so I am unable to install debian on it.

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Chris Lale
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 20:04, Wim De Smet wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 11:26:07 -0800, Marc Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What *dpkg* does is the standard. If aptitude doesn't honor it, it's broken. If aptitude is

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Ron Johnson
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:48 -0500, Matt Price wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:51:28PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: [snip] ... so... maybe my problem is solved. but is there any possiblity at all of a package that scans (usb| parport) tries to match the printers it

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Chris Lale wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 15:44, Freddy Freeloader wrote: William Ballard wrote: I'd have to say that anyone who says this distro isn't user friendly enough for just about anyone to use is wrong. I built a Debian box for a friend of mine who is about as computer

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:52:19AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 07:21:34PM +, Chris Lale wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 16:00, Jon Dowland wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:21:54 + (GMT), Thomas Adam [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can see no advantages to using

change of hostname and fqdn

2004-11-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
What configuration files need to be changed when performing a change of hostname and fqdn in a basically setup debian box? Problem: I am planning to get a debian dedicated hosting service, they make a basic woody installation, but probably they will call it debian following the default name. For

Scrolling chirps while playing sound!

2004-11-15 Thread Adam Funk
Whenever I'm playing sound files (using xmms, grip and other applications), the computer adds very short interruptions to the sound when lines scroll on any visible application. So if I have something spewing a lot of output to an xterm, it chirps a lot if the whole xterm is visible; not at all

Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of Sarge testing on an AMD based PC. I can provide more

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread H. S.
Apparently, _Walt L. Williams_, on 15/11/04 16:48,typed: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently downloaded version of

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Nelson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:26:07AM -0800, Marc Wilson wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 11:14:54AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, is the consensus to stick with 'apt'? Or at least to choose one and stick with that and not to mix apt and aptitude (it sounds to me as though Marc is saying

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Antonio Rodriguez
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to read my USB flash key (drive)? Under SuSE, the system saw the device as a SCSI device and worked quite well. I am using a very recently

Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Reich
Dear all, I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9.3 also showed and that leads to the conclusion that something could be wrong with

Re: apt .v. aptitude (was Re: how to remove exim4 without removing mysql-server?)

2004-11-15 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Lamb([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Marc Wilson wrote: Try it... put a package on hold with the normal tools (dpkg, dselect), then Hrm, works fine here. Of course it helps to note that my normal tools is aptitude. If one is using aptitude why would one be using

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Eric Gaumer
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:09 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: First of all thanks for the note, I think I will use a Hashing Table as some one suggest here, becuase in this case seems to be more suitable for the problem, why am so worry about speed, is becuase is a web application in php,

Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Brian Pack
On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 17:51 +, Matt Johnson wrote: --- Mark Crean [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: [snip] Still, as I've just wiped off Debian in favour of SuSe 9.2, at least for the time being, I've no longer a place here so am signing off. I enjoyed using

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Andrea Vettorello
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:10 +0100, Marc Reich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear all, I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9.3

linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread Friedemann Schorer
HI :-) Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas, although I followed the instrutions in

Re: advice on updating kernel image

2004-11-15 Thread Randall Smith
Justin Guerin wrote: On Wednesday 10 November 2004 11:20, Randall Smith wrote: Hi, I need some advice on updating my kernel. I currently have kernel 2.4.25-1 installed from the initial sarge installation and would like to upgrade to the current kernel version (2.4.27). The machine is a DELL

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:46:10PM +0100, Marc Reich wrote: munmap(0xb1829000, 65456) = 0 open(/usr/share/fonts/truetype/ssee1257.fon, O_RDONLY) = 45 When did something with a .fon extension become a TrueType font? -- Marc Wilson | Delta: We never make the same mistake

Re: Search Algorithm

2004-11-15 Thread Sergio Basurto Juarez
--- Eric Gaumer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2004-11-15 at 12:09 -0800, Sergio Basurto Juarez wrote: First of all thanks for the note, I think I will use a Hashing Table as some one suggest here, becuase in this case seems to be more suitable for the problem, why am so worry

Re: exim4-daemon-heavy, fetctmail and infected emails

2004-11-15 Thread Paul Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jerome BENOIT [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have similar configuration data files: What does happen to the infected email ? Just like the site describes, exim rejects it with a 5xx. Ok ! so what does fetchmail do with thsi infected mail ? That

Re: automatic printer recognition

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Wilson
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:48:33PM -0500, Matt Price wrote: Marc Wilson wrote: Ah, you run CUPS. As long as the Mac is running OS X 10.3.something, tell the Mac to share its printer(s). Your copy of CUPS on your laptop will pick up the shared printers from the Mac. this assumes that we're

Re: linux-wlan-ng on kernel 2.6?

2004-11-15 Thread David Goodenough
On Monday 15 November 2004 22:14, Friedemann Schorer wrote: HI :-) Recently I bought me an USB WLAN device which was reported to work under Linux - now I found out that it contains a prism2 chipset and needs linux-wlan-ng to work properly. OK, I thought and installed linux-wlan-ng-doc. Alas,

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. On Monday November 15 2004 2:56 pm, Antonio Rodriguez wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 02:48:05PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: Hopefully this will be a simple question. How can I configure my debian system to

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Marc Reich
Andrea, thank you for your fast reply. Andrea Vettorello wrote: On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 22:46:10 +0100, Marc Reich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Have you tried what is suggested in the Debian Firefox documentation? Practically, if you used a previous version, try moving out your ~/.mozilla/firefox

Re: OT usb-mass-storage WAS Re: why debian

2004-11-15 Thread Stephen Patterson
On Mon, 15 Nov 2004 20:10:08 +0100, Matt Zagrabelny wrote: ide: primary master = /dev/hdascsi: 1st scsi drive = /dev/sda ide: primary slave= /dev/hdbscsi: 2nd scsi drive = /dev/sdb ide: secondary master = /dev/hdcscsi: 3rd scsi drive = /dev/sdc ide: secondary slave =

Re: DHCP on two interfaces

2004-11-15 Thread Rob Sims
On Saturday 13 November 2004 05:49 am, Viktor Rosenfeld wrote: I have to local interfaces, eth0 (192.168.1.1) and wlan0 (192.168.2.1). There's also an isdn interface (ippp0) connected to the outside world. I want DHCP to serve IPs and stuff on the two local interfaces. The problem now is

Re: boot failure

2004-11-15 Thread Dan Davison
On Sun, 14 Nov 2004, Kent West wrote: Dan Davison wrote: Any help with the following would be much appreciated: I was attempting to update a kernel from 2.2.20 to 2.6.8 and it seems now that neither of the kernel links in the lilo menu will boot. Both exit with the same kernel panic

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Jeremy Turner
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. Try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html It worked great for me. Jeremy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Walt L. Williams
Oh Cool!! I don't recall seeing this howto before. I supose I should have looked here before I aksed the group. (I supose some saying Ya Aha, see!) On Monday November 15 2004 5:47 pm, Jeremy Turner wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: The 2.6.8 kernel. At

bootup question

2004-11-15 Thread Kevin Mark
Hi Folks, I am using sid, 2.6.8, and Windowmaker. I am trying to find out where wmaker stores its startup configs -- the icon prefs, the programs it starts, the preferncs for the windows -- window size, placement, maximize. Does anyone know about this? Also, where can I read about the files that

Re: Firefox 1.0-2 crashes

2004-11-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 10:46:10PM +0100, Marc Reich wrote: I'm running debian testing and just installed mozilla-firefox-1.0-2 from the unstable branch. The problem now is that firefox reproducibly crashes when reading some sites - this is a behaviour version 0.9.3 also

Re: Flash key question.

2004-11-15 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 06:47:25PM -0600, Jeremy Turner wrote: On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 03:56:12PM -0700, Walt L. Williams wrote: The 2.6.8 kernel. At least I thing its the .8 edition of the 2.6 version. Try http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Flash-Memory-HOWTO/linux-2.6.html Or

Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/PACDUN
Hi all, I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use it with my Debian box. I have noticed there is a firewall built in as well as NAT and a few other bits and pieces. Google search revealed there

Re: Firewall on DSL router - good enough?

2004-11-15 Thread Robert Vangel
Davor_Balder/FOAMS/PACBRANDS/[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have recently acquired a router/dsl modem with built-in firewall (according to manufacturers technical documentation) and am planning to use it with my Debian box. I have noticed there is a firewall built in as well as NAT and a few

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