Trying to run kwiki on apache...

2005-11-13 Thread Dennis Carr
Running Sarge with Apache 1.3 latest. Just installed kwiki at http://chez-vrolet.net/octawiki/cgi-bin, however I get a 403 when attempting to load the freshly installed kwiki. Currently, root owns everything, and this same problem is manifest if I set owner to www-data. Setup for this directory

Re: Re: PCI modem suggestions

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Crock
I have used many Linux distros going back to the mid 90's Red hat, SuSE, and a few FreeBSD tests as well and for me the use of external modems was for the most part a necessity. Multitech (Mt5600series) was one of the best and still is, also I used external Supra data/fax Modems and the USR v

[Solved] Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-13 Thread David R. Litwin
I could not start KDE from normal user; only root. Logging in via console under normal user, I tried to cd to /etc/X11. It would not let me. So, I changed the permissions via chmod 755 X11 (while in /etc) then fired it up and it worked. Yay. Thank you kindly to all that helped. You inspired me. (My

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread Mario Frasca
mikepolniak wrote: Check /dev for lp0. You may have to link your lp0 -> /dev/usb/lp0 , but no, the problem is that /dev/usb/lp0 does not exist, not /dev/lp0. well, I tried but the behaviour was the same... kruiskruid:/dev# ls -l lp* lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 2005-11-14 07:36 lp0 -> /

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread Mario Frasca
David Goodenough wrote: On Sunday 13 November 2005 20:28, Mario Frasca wrote: well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and the only cause I can think of is a dist-upgrade. I had a problem not unlike this. For some reason the permissions on the /dev/usb/lp* devices were

Problem with hard drive

2005-11-13 Thread steven . damer
I've recently installed Debian, and mostly it's been great, but recently I've run into trouble with my hard drive. It started out when the hard drive was under heavy load - my mouse pointer was still responsive, but otherwise the computer locked up. When I rebooted, it repeatedly printed the foll

Re: Can't Start KDE from Normal User; Only from Root

2005-11-13 Thread David R. Litwin
> # ls -ld /tmp/.ICE-unix/> drwxrwxrwt 2 root root 4096 2005-11-13 23:04 /tmp/.ICE-unix/ >> There is a difference in the last thing. Note after the root you have> 1024 and I 4096. Could this be doing it?Probably not. But to make sure, just delete the file, and let it berecreated the next time you t

Re: unsubsrib

2005-11-13 Thread Kent West
Steve Lamb wrote: >I can count. It's called an hyperboolic approximation for humerous intent >because I didn't feel like having an exact number. :P > > I've told you a million times, don't exaggerate. -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Mark Crean wrote: > I also run SuSE and have done for a few years now. It is normally every > bit as stable as Debian Stable and security updates are often faster as > well. This of course feeds into the misconception of Stable. It's like "free software" where people had to constantly say "Fr

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Jon Dowland wrote: > I think quite a lot of people are very happy to use stable on desktop > systems. Most people who aren't are not typical desktop users > themselves, but geeks or enthusiasts who want new-fangled stuff. For > day-to-day office tasks and the like, a rock-solid base, where the > la

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Scott wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: >>Scott wrote: >>>And then OpenOffice.0rg 3, Firefox 2.0, GIMP 3.0, GNOME 2.16, and KDE >>>4.0 will be released within the following month discouraging many from >>>sticking with Debian stable >>You still misunderstand. The point is there is no one stand

Re: unsubsrib

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Gene Heskett wrote: > And its preventing you from seeing the unsubscribe instructions > appended to every message comeing through these servers. You choice if > you want to look like you just got off the bus. Actually it is my choice to not see instructions I have seen appended to every messa

Re: web-based http password/group manager

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Lamb
Alvin Oga wrote: > On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Hamish Moffatt wrote: >>Can anyone recommend a good web-based (CGI, PHP etc) manager for HTTP >>password/group files? >>Specifically I need to maintain a list of users, and assign the users to >>one or more groups. > vi ... takes about 5 seconds bring up t

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 09:46:06PM -0800, Steve Mazurek wrote: > I've used FC2, Mandrake (both of which I like very much) and Debian Sarge. > Currently I am using Xandros, which is Debian-based. I'm not using Sarge > right now because there are a lot of packages included and it's hard for me > to

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread Steve Mazurek
I've used FC2, Mandrake (both of which I like very much) and Debian Sarge.  Currently I am using Xandros, which is Debian-based.  I'm not using Sarge right now because there are a lot of packages included and it's hard for me to determine which I need or don't need.  If i install too many,  I'll pr

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2005-11-13 Thread cashlist
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Debian Raid Crash Repair

2005-11-13 Thread Siju George
hi, I had a mirror o sarge with 2 disks. One of them failed now. I had given an option for 1 spare disk while configuring Raid. Could some one please tell me what I should do to Place a new disk and recreate the mirror?? Should I manually partition the new disk or is there a command that I can run

Browser stopped displaying European characters

2005-11-13 Thread Haines Brown
[I apoligize if this message is duplicated. I've not been able to gate the newsgroup, and inadvertangly sent a message to it rather than through the list, which I'm doing now]. I'm running Galeon and Firefox browsers under debian/sarge. I believe they were displaying European accented characters (

Re: Sarge and Burning with TEAC DW-552G - Solution (Sort of)

2005-11-13 Thread Clint Harshaw
I backed up my data and using a spare hard drive, I installed Etch from the new installer, and then upgraded to Sid. I removed udev and all its related files using apt-get because of errors that were coming up on apt-get. After removing udev, I did: apt-get update && apt-get upgrade -y && apt-

Re: dpkg-reconfigure clamav doesnot work

2005-11-13 Thread Siju George
On 11/14/05, Seeker5528 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:07:33 +0530 > Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > dpkg-reconfigure doesn't seem to work with clamav. > > > > What should I do to reconfigure the clamav package seetings?? > > Synaptic shows me that clam

problems with e2fsprogs - conflicts/pre-depeds loop

2005-11-13 Thread Raj Kombiyil
Fellow uber-debianers,I have a problem with e2fsprogs. (Trying to install uni2ascii for example, which depends on e2fsprogs) My environment: Debian gnu/linux testing/unstable, Kernel version 2.4.27(home brewed), libc6 2.3.2.ds1-22, sysvinit 2.84-2woody1 my sources.list = #security deb ht

lost interupt

2005-11-13 Thread Joe Zien
I installed knoppix 4.0 from a dvd that was included with Linux Format issue 73 on my drive /dev/hdb16 and it went well. When I 1st booted with grub, I get message "give password for maintenance" or enter ctrl d for normal startup. I enter ctrl d and kno 4.0 starts up normally. The next day, I s

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread John Hasler
James Vahn writes: > Smoke and mirrors. These are an interesting read: Old news. All this has been covered extensively on Groklaw. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Debian Sarge and loopback filesystem root

2005-11-13 Thread Kevin Veroneau
Hello, I have a question that has been bugging me about the Debian Sarge Kernel and INITRD. I noticed when taking apart the INITRD to insert the correct code for a loopback filesystem root, the INITRD is so full with other such code, I don't know where to insert the code from the HOWTO. W

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-13 Thread Carl Johnson
gustavo halperin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hello > > I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf > and many xterminals. The problem is that after many days without > restart the system the memory grow a little more any day and after > aprox. 20 days I have all my 775M

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread James Vahn
John Hassler wrote: > Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: >> I read it carefully and being, how shall one say, not business oriented >> 8-p, what does it mean? > > It means that the company that now calls itself "SCO" is an entirely > different company from the 1980s Unix company by that name. Smoke and mirr

Re: grammar checkers

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005 02:38:02 -0500 Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > A function of computers is to help people to communicate, and become > empowered. Some computer users are recent immigrants, for whom English > is not their first language. Some computer users did not have a > chance

Re: dpkg-reconfigure clamav doesnot work

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Fri, 11 Nov 2005 12:07:33 +0530 Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > dpkg-reconfigure doesn't seem to work with clamav. > > What should I do to reconfigure the clamav package seetings?? Synaptic shows me that clamav-base and clamav-freshclam use debconf so I would try both of tho

Re: grammar checkers

2005-11-13 Thread Heimdall Midgard
On 2005/11/13, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Grieveson wrote: > > > It was very good. It would not only point out > > grammar errors, but gave thorough explanations as > > well (for example: "This sentence is in the > > /passive voice, /ie, 'The ball was thrown by John'. > > Consi

Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Heimdall Midgard
2005/11/14, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Adam Hardy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking > > for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox > > before I download it. [...] > apt-cache sh

Re: mplayer windows size

2005-11-13 Thread Jeremy Hiestand
Add the following line to ~/.mplayer/config xy=640 This will scale EVERY movie to 640x[properly scaled y value]. To do this only for movie.avi, create the file movie.avi.conf in your ~/.mplayer/ directory and add the above line. This may only work when using the xv video option. On 11/12/0

Re: FYI: no video overlay support on recent Nvidia chips.

2005-11-13 Thread Bruno Hertz
khurram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Is there a workaround for this issue or has it been fixed? It still > exists in Ubuntu breezy at least. > > Thx. Not that I know of, but I didn't follow this issue recently. AFAIK, it's related to chip design, so it probably can't be fixed. Except, maybe,

Nvidia failing on module-assistance (rivafb sanity check)

2005-11-13 Thread Cal Paterson
I'm trying to compile/install the non-free nvidia drivers through module-assistant, but it bombs through a sanity-check complaining of "rivafb" being installed, and that this can cause problems once the drivers are installed. I've asked a few people, and sent some stuff around, and found out that

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Alvin Oga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > u forgot, didn't know (?) to do: > xrdb -merge ~/.Xresources > ( it's buried in the docs too ) Nope, did that. Still doesn't see any change. Interesting enough, if I do xrdb ~/.Xresources, I do get a color change but then everything else cha

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread John L Fjellstad
Grant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Try putting them into ~/.Xdefaults > > I had to logout and back in for it to apply, but after that it was there > everytime :) Tried, didn't work. I'm running Sid, though with Xorg. Don't know if that makes a difference. -- John L. Fjellstad web: http://www.

Re: Wallpaper

2005-11-13 Thread j Mak
Hi Ken Thanks for the link. J. Mak --- Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.glatozen.org/wallpaper/debian.php > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 11:16:27AM -0700, Paul Scott wrote: > Carl Fink wrote: > >Why use a distro if you're going to have to manually install things anyway? > > > That might make sense if we were just installing an OS but everyone > certainly has different needs in applications. That's why I s

unsubscribe

2005-11-13 Thread deb
unsubscribe -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Brockway
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Carl Fink wrote: BTW, I think Sarge is more than just "usable" for desktops right now. What I fear as a long-time Debian user is that it'll have plenty of time to BECOME obsolete, because Etch won't be released until 2010 or something. If Etch goes frozen by June of next

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread mikepolniak
On 21:28 Sun 13 Nov , Mario Frasca wrote: > it seems quite stupid, I'm using to linux since 1993 more or less, but > all these modern graphic or automatic fluffs don't help me much... > > well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and > the only cause I can think of is

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread John Hasler
Hugo Vanwoerkom writes: > I read it carefully and being, how shall one say, not business oriented > 8-p, what does it mean? It means that the company that now calls itself "SCO" is an entirely different company from the 1980s Unix company by that name. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: Sound on Opliplex GX150

2005-11-13 Thread mulvihill
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > alsaconf did everything for me @ the same machine Not for me I'm afraid. It looks like I really do have a hw problem. But thanks anyway. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread David Goodenough
On Sunday 13 November 2005 20:28, Mario Frasca wrote: > it seems quite stupid, I'm using to linux since 1993 more or less, but > all these modern graphic or automatic fluffs don't help me much... > > well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and > the only cause I can think

Re: New Survey About SCO - Enter to Win

2005-11-13 Thread steef
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: *Whether you are a current SCO customer or not, we request your feedback.* We want to learn how you use SCO UNIX (or have used it in the past). /We only ask 5 easy questions, so it will take only a few minutes to complete./ Also, as our way of saying "Thank You",

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John Hasler wrote: I wrote, in part: SCO changed its name to Tarantella and was recently acquired by Sun. Seth Goodman writes: So does that mean an end to their BS legal actions? Read carefully. 1) Caldera purchased certain assets ("the Unix business") from Santa Cruz Operation (als

usb printer disappeared (dist-upgrade?)

2005-11-13 Thread Mario Frasca
it seems quite stupid, I'm using to linux since 1993 more or less, but all these modern graphic or automatic fluffs don't help me much... well, the problem is that I cannot print any more. cups did work and the only cause I can think of is a dist-upgrade. my printer is an epson stylus c46, c

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-13 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
gustavo halperin wrote: Hello I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf and many xterminals. The problem is that after many days without restart the system the memory grow a little more any day and after aprox. 20 days I have all my 775MB occupied by the system and e

Annoying Gnome problem

2005-11-13 Thread Nordbo
Hi, For some time now I have been bothered by a problem when running Gnome as my display manager. Whenever I try to do "su -" from a console I get the following 5 warnings: - [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ su - Password: configuration erro

Re: [Fwd: Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread steef
Hugh Lawson wrote: steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: i used 10 years ago wp5.1. never found a better Get dosemu working, find your old wp5.1 install floppies, and you can use wp5.1 under Linux. See: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html thanx! steef -- steef van du

re: debian lynx

2005-11-13 Thread Jude DaShiell
Problem solved, I forgot to put a check mark in the save options to disk checkbox. Once that got done all worked as it had earlier this year. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wallpaper

2005-11-13 Thread Maxim Vexler
On 11/13/05, Ken Wahl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://www.glatozen.org/wallpaper/debian.php > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > The following jpg was once posted on this list. What I did was simply reco

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Bruce Hohl
--- Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:09:10PM +, Antony > Gelberg wrote: > > > Version 1 has perfectly adequate support for > > linking to databases. > > Where you presumably mean "barely usable support if > you're already a database expert"? At least that's

Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Glenn English
On Sun, 2005-11-13 at 19:15 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Unfortunately the only blacklisting that murx does is to allow you to > build up your own blacklist - I want to use or connect to a public or > commercial blacklist database, such as the possibly mythical one I have > heard of (see above).

Re: FYI: no video overlay support on recent Nvidia chips.

2005-11-13 Thread khurram
Is there a workaround for this issue or has it been fixed? It still exists in Ubuntu breezy at least. Thx. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:36:05AM -0700, Scott wrote: > Marc Wilson wrote: > > if normal Debian practices are being followed, security fixes > >are backported to stable, rather than new and untested versions being > >packaged for stable. > > Now that you mention it, Ubuntu used to do this the

Re: Is Debian ready for the desktop?

2005-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 07:50:09PM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Caldera did not merge with SCO. They purchased some assets from SCO > > (including the SCO trademark) and then changed their name to The SCO Group. > > SCO changed its name to Tarante

Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Clive Menzies
On (13/11/05 19:15), Adam Hardy wrote: > >Adam Hardy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >>I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking > >>for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox > >>before I download it. > >> > >>I'm using a

Re: Ram memory after many days

2005-11-13 Thread Ticiano Diniz
Hi, I think that's nothing wrong. It's just the way Linux manages memory. Linux uses available memory as cache so if you need that information again you can get it faster. That memory is still available to other programs as needed. Ticciano Hello I commonly use the next applications: M

Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Adam Hardy
Wayne Topa on 13/11/05 18:44, wrote: Adam Hardy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox before I download it. I'm using a PDA alot and the primiti

Ram memory after many days

2005-11-13 Thread gustavo halperin
Hello I commonly use the next applications: Mozilla, gnu-emacs, gv, xpdf and many xterminals. The problem is that after many days without restart the system the memory grow a little more any day and after aprox. 20 days I have all my 775MB occupied by the system and even if I close all the ap

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2005-11-12 at 16:50 -0700, Scott wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > > > > >>3- OpenOffice 2 was recently added to Debian Unstable. > >>Is it likely that OpenOffice 2 will be added to > >>Debian Stable. If so when? > >> > >> > > > > No. Stable does not get new packages, other than bug/securit

Re: spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Wayne Topa
Adam Hardy([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking > for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox > before I download it. > > I'm using a PDA alot and the primitive software on it doesn't inclu

Kazkoks www.Intymas.com atsirado..

2005-11-13 Thread Informacija
  Kažkoks www.Intymas.com atsirado..   Gal kas nors paaiškins kas čia per saitas???   * Geriau nesilankyt jei nėra 18..

Re: [Fwd: Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread Hugh Lawson
steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > i used 10 years ago wp5.1. never found a better Get dosemu working, find your old wp5.1 install floppies, and you can use wp5.1 under Linux. See: http://www.columbia.edu/~em36/wpdos/linux.html -- Hugh Lawson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

spam blacklist pop3 solution

2005-11-13 Thread Adam Hardy
I googled for this extensively and come up with nothing - I'm looking for a hard-core spam blacklist to remove the spam from my POP3 mailbox before I download it. I'm using a PDA alot and the primitive software on it doesn't include any filtering, nor does my provider who runs the mailserver o

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Paul Scott
Carl Fink wrote: On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:09:10PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: In the time that you spent composing that post, you could have searched the list archives and learnt how to install it. I doubt you could have created any impressive documents in that time. Why use a dis

Re: Wallpaper

2005-11-13 Thread Ken Wahl
http://www.glatozen.org/wallpaper/debian.php -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Wallpaper

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
j Mak wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to retrieve the Debian usplash (black > with the red swirl on the left) from the installation > cd because I want to use it as a wallpaper, but I > cannot find it. Could anyone tell me where is it > located, I mean in what folder. I don't believe it's in any f

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Michael Marsh
On 11/13/05, Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Brockway wrote: > > It's normal for the Debian security team to backport changes into the > > existing code base in Debian. Thus I expect the Firefox 1.04 to be the > > vanilla source 1.04 plus backported security fixes. This is a _good_ > >

Where to download Debian 1.2?

2005-11-13 Thread Manou J.M. Eifes
Hello, Does anyone know where I can download a full version of Debian 1.2 or getting an ISO-image of a cd that contains Debian 1.2? Or could someone send me a copy of the Infomagic CD-ROM (december 1996), that contains Debian 1.2 or an ftp-server that holds the CD-ROM as an ISO-image. I need

Re: downloading from web

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
BingYU wrote: > Download all do the job > neat and easy to use > Thank you! You're welcome. It's one of my faves. -- Scott www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2005 angrykeyboarder & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Antony Gelberg wrote: > Scott wrote: > >>How about some more noise. >> >>The full and correct URL please? >> >>Is this perhaps what you meant?: http://www.debian.org/doc/ > > > http://www.debian.org/releases > Thanks! I'd actually seen that before but had forgotten where. :-) It's nice to rev

Re: [Fwd: Re: can't remove dir]

2005-11-13 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Paul Johnson wrote: kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Please keep replies on the list and also please bottom post to messages. I am forwarding your email to the list. Bottom posting isn't always the answer, and if you're going to lecture someone about bad quoting style, you might want to fo

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Antony Gelberg wrote: > > Help yourself out by reading the debian-security-announce list. That one I subbed to when I noticed it was there. >Also > available on Usenet as linux.debian.announce.security (yes, the words > are swapped which is confusing). Also read follow-ups and other > discussi

Re: Re: ftp fails first time when using apt-get

2005-11-13 Thread surachai
Hi I have the same problem. I can use nslookup, host or dig to resolve name. but I cannot use apt-get to resolve name at the first time. However If I use nslookup, host, or dig. apt-get can resolve that name. it like a cache on system. FYI -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
BTW, I think Sarge is more than just "usable" for desktops right now. What I fear as a long-time Debian user is that it'll have plenty of time to BECOME obsolete, because Etch won't be released until 2010 or something. If Etch goes frozen by June of next year, the stable-only policy makes perfect

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 01:09:10PM +, Antony Gelberg wrote: > Version 1 has perfectly adequate support for linking to databases. Where you presumably mean "barely usable support if you're already a database expert"? At least that's what *I* have. > In the time that you spent composing tha

Re: Many packages missing from testing

2005-11-13 Thread C. Hurschler
On Sunday 13 November 2005 02:49, loos wrote: > Em Sáb, 2005-11-12 às 14:47 +0100, Christof Hurschler escreveu: > > On Saturday 12 November 2005 01:21, Johan Kullstam wrote: > > > Exactly. I was using "testing" for a while and got tired of losing > > > when a package broke and wouldn't get fixed f

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Thomas Jollans
Scott wrote: >Kent West wrote: > > >> >> >>>3- OpenOffice 2 was recently added to Debian Unstable. >>>Is it likely that OpenOffice 2 will be added to >>>Debian Stable. If so when? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>No. Stable does not get new packages, other than bug/security fixes and >>the like. >>

Re: Many packages missing from testing

2005-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Thu, Nov 10, 2005 at 11:37:49PM -0700, Scott wrote: _please_ trim your quotes. :) -- Jon Dowland http://jon.dowland.name/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Window manager/desktop environment that's not RAM-intensive

2005-11-13 Thread Tom Allison
Robert Waldner wrote: Hi! I'm currently converting the SOs laptop to Debian. Problem is that it's rather underpowered in terms of RAM - 128 MB and no chance of upgrading. WMaker uses ~4MB of RAM, less than emacs under X. Very fast, lean, and with a nice number of features. Technically it is

[Fwd: Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread steef
Original Message Subject:Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie Resent-Date:Sat, 12 Nov 2005 20:40:36 -0600 (CST) Resent-From:debian-user@lists.debian.org Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2005 21:22:44 -0500 From: Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Debian

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sun, Nov 13, 2005 at 02:42:25AM -0700, Scott wrote: > Robert Brockway wrote: > > It's normal for the Debian security team to backport changes into > > the existing code base in Debian. Thus I expect the Firefox 1.04 to > > be the vanilla source 1.04 plus backported security fixes. This is > >

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Jon Dowland
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:50:50PM -0700, Scott wrote: > Kent West wrote: > > No. Stable does not get new packages, other than bug/security fixes > > and the like. > > And that my friends, is Debian's biggest flaw when it comes to the > desktop user. It's also why I'll never run stable I think q

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Mark Crean
Scott wrote: [snip] What Debian (or SOMEBODY please) needs is a new "stable" release at least once a year with security updates, bugfixes AND *major* software package (i.e 1.5 to 2.0, 3.6-4.0) updates to that release as the next release is being simultaneously developed. Wait, there is one I c

Re:

2005-11-13 Thread Clint Harshaw
ericradt wrote: hi i am set 'emacs.geometry:69x31' in .Xresources for emacs when i open some file some word more a row so that i can't see some word in one row thank you I'm not sure that I understand your question, but it sounds like you're having trouble with the size of emacs when it o

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Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Andreas Rippl wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > > ~/.Xresources file: > > XTerm*Background: black > > XTerm*Foreground: white > > > > But it has no effect. Anyone

Re: [Fwd: Re: can't remove dir]

2005-11-13 Thread Paul Johnson
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: > Please keep replies on the list and also please bottom post to messages. I > am forwarding your email to the list. Bottom posting isn't always the answer, and if you're going to lecture someone about bad quoting style, you might want to follow good practice yourself.

Version numbers and backporting [was Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie]

2005-11-13 Thread Robert Brockway
[Discussion on Debian version numbers and backporting] On Sun, 13 Nov 2005, Scott wrote: Perhaps, but it's also confusing to anyone coming to Debian from another Linux distro. Let's just hope they *properly* update the user agent string.. I say, that approach is fine, but why not show the ri

Re: changin XTerm colors

2005-11-13 Thread Andreas Rippl
On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:58:23AM -0800, John L Fjellstad wrote: > I tried to change the XTerm colors by putting these lines in my > ~/.Xresources file: > XTerm*Background: black > XTerm*Foreground: white > > But it has no effect. Anyone know what the problem is? According to > XTerm manual, th

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 04:55:36PM -0700, Scott wrote: > >>Marc Wilson wrote: >> >>>OpenOffice.org 2 will never be added to Debian stable. Instead, the next >>>time there is a stable release (Etch), OpenOffice.org 2 will be included. >> >>And then OpenOffice.0rg 3, Firefox 2.

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Steve Lamb wrote: > Scott wrote: > >>And then OpenOffice.0rg 3, Firefox 2.0, GIMP 3.0, GNOME 2.16, and KDE >>4.0 will be released within the following month discouraging many from >>sticking with Debian stable > > > You still misunderstand. The point is there is no one standing there wi

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Robert Brockway wrote: > On Sat, 12 Nov 2005, Scott wrote: > >> I was absolutely blown away by this: >> >> The latest official Debian Sarge package for Firefox is for v 1.04! >> http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mozilla-firefox/ >> >> I'm rather surprised to see this. Why? >> >> Fire

Re: A few general questions from a Debian newbie

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sat, Nov 12, 2005 at 08:33:00PM -0700, Scott wrote: > >>The latest official Debian Sarge package for Firefox is for v 1.04! >>http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/m/mozilla-firefox/ > if normal Debian practices are being followed, > security fixes are backporte

Re: aic7xxx driver floppy for sarge

2005-11-13 Thread Seeker5528
On Wed, 9 Nov 2005 16:31:10 -0800 David Kirchner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This may sound like a stupid question, answered in some FAQ somewhere, > but I just can't find it. Does anyone know which Sarge floppy image > contains the aic7xxx SCSI driver? > From here: http://http.us

Re: Strange problem of /dev/cdrom disappearing under sid

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Dang, what did you do right? I had virtually the same problem a few days ago, posted about it and it took a day to get a (albeit very friendly) response! :-) I'm still trying to work on the problem though. I've not found a solution. Alexis Sukrieh wrote: > Hello, > > I'm experiencing a really

Re: unsubsrib

2005-11-13 Thread Scott
Gene Heskett wrote: > On Saturday 12 November 2005 14:35, Steve Lamb wrote: > >>Gene Heskett wrote: >> Y'know, I didn't see your signature and certainly don't consider >>Thunderbird broken. Of course it is because I installed the Quote >>Colors extension and have signatures hidden. I call that

Re: wiki package recommendation

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- noc ops <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hi, > > can anyone recommend a wiki package (stable) and willing share their > experience. > > any pointers will be appreciated. > > > regards, > /virendra > I tried a few a while ago. I was looking for something fairly small and simple. Easy to ins

Re: Tools to manipulate PDFs

2005-11-13 Thread John M. Gabriele
--- Jochen Schulz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Christian Christmann: > > > > are there any tools that allow one to > > split, merge and append PDFs? > > apt-cache show pdfjam > > Needs tetex. > > J. > -- I like pdftk. ---John _

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