Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread William Ballard
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where a large number of identically configured systems used ghost (or similar tool) to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were booted, i.e. at

Re: What would I do without partimage?

2005-12-14 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
William Ballard wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 10:22:55PM -0500, Marty wrote: *What prompts this remark is an industrial application I heard about, where a large number of identically configured systems used ghost (or similar tool) to reinstall a pristine copy of XP each time the systems were

Re: Galeon / Firefox print issues, very large fonts, unusable

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Tue, Dec 13, 2005 at 01:32:15PM -0800, Karsten M. Self wrote: In related news, Linus says Just use KDE: http://mail.gnome.org/archives/usability/2005-December/msg00022.html My gods, when will Jeff Waugh ever actually start paying attention and realize that whatever part of Havoc he's

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Marc Wilson
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 11:00:04PM +0200, David Baron wrote: Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which must have udev). Until 2.6.14 is demonstrably working with udev, I do not want to get rid of 2.6.11 (which uses devfs and current hotplug). Can udev be

Re: Realplayer and ALSA

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 17:47:39 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --- Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 14 Dec 2005 09:29:09 -0600 Jacob S [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 13 Dec 2005 23:20:18 -0800 (PST) Robert Kopp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have made

Re: apt-get install tries to REMOVE my kernel

2005-12-14 Thread Mark Fletcher
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: astrid jurgensen wrote: I recently tried to download and install software using apt-get install. The process was aborted because apt-get install tried to remove the kernel. See details below: apt-get install –no-remove xcdroast 13 upgraded, 13 newly installed, 2

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread David Zelinsky
David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which must have udev). When I upgraded from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14 I also installed udev along the way -- I don't remember why. But I later removed udev because some device files

Re: openoffice hangs with 2.6 kernel

2005-12-14 Thread David Zelinsky
Jan Schledermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently upgraded my kernel from 2.4 to 2.6.14, and now openoffice freezes whenever I try to open a document, or to start a new one. When I boot into the old 2.4 kernel, it works fine. Any suggestions? I

RE: RAR under linux: any alternative?

2005-12-14 Thread Seth Goodman
From: Carl Fink [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 7:21 PM On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 02:34:31PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: IIRC one of the algorithms that can be used in zip is lzw which is (or was) patented. The patent expired in 2003.

REQUEST: Good backup software for DVDs

2005-12-14 Thread Brad Sims
I have used Mondorescue and like it but the time involved ~12hrs for 180GB is just too much, I would like to be able to insert the first disk of foo, have it be able to repartition/format the drives as needed but take less time to run than mondo currently does. As I understand it Mondo is

Re: Changing over to udev

2005-12-14 Thread Jacob S
On 14 Dec 2005 22:41:27 -0500 David Zelinsky [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Baron [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Udev on Sid requires 2.6.12 or newer kernels. I have 2.6.11 and 2.6.14 (which must have udev). When I upgraded from 2.4 kernel to 2.6.14 I also installed udev along the way -- I

moving across tabs in firefox

2005-12-14 Thread kamaraju kusumanchi
Is there any way to circulate around the tabs (ie go the next/previous tab) in firefox? I am using debian unstable (up to date), kde, 2.6.14-2-686-smp kernel. I have read http://www.mozilla.org/support/firefox/keyboard and they only list alt+i to go to the ith tab. But if there is some key

Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)

2005-12-14 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hi I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I click a link to a movie on my page. This will be run from the server, logged in as my default account (it'll be a home theatre system) The php command I'm

Re: Launch an X Windows app from Apache (PHP or Perl)

2005-12-14 Thread Arafangion
man xhost, and set the DISPLAY variable. I assume that this is a local apache. On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I click a

Re: Athlon AMD 64 3000+

2005-12-14 Thread Ron Johnson
On Thu, 2005-12-15 at 02:05 -0100, p wrote: On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 09:46:08PM -0500, Aaron Stromas wrote: Greetings, Which Debian image should I install for AMD Athlon 64 system? TIA, -a // i believe i used the amd-64 port: http://www.debian.org/ports/amd64/ And of course

Re: [OT] good laptops

2005-12-14 Thread Joe Mc Cool
On Wed, Dec 14, 2005 at 01:47:36PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: I just got a 1.6 GHz IBM ThinkPad A31 for $500 at budcom.com (Budget Computers, SW 114th Ave and OR-10 and OR-217, Beaverton, Oregon). That's a much nicer machine, everything on it works, and I've even heard good things about

Re: how to use makefile to work with psnup

2005-12-14 Thread H.S.
Michael Marsh wrote: On 12/14/05, H. S. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am trying to make a makefile to convert PDFs in a directory to 4-up PDFs using psnup but I am not able to. Off hand, I'd probably use something like: BEGIN MAKEFILE SRCS := $(filter-out %-4up.pdf,$(wildcard

good easy antivirus

2005-12-14 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
Hi, I'll need some recomandations/pointers/howto implement this. I'm running debian 2.6 stable with postfix/Courier-IMAP/Courier-POP3 and mail delivery to ~/Mailbox It is both windoze and linux clients that get their mail from here. On linux its primary pine as mailclient and windoze clients

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