Re: Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Sat, Jan 21, 2006 at 01:36:26AM -0500, Chinook wrote: > P4 with Debian Etch (testing), kernel 2.6.12-1-686, > Gnome desktop and USB attached printer and scanner > > PMac G5 running OS X Tiger (10.4.4) > .. > >

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-20 Thread salahuddin pasha
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 http://www.us.debian.org/CD/faq/#record-unix On 1/21/06, David E. Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:46:42 -0500 > Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Take a look at cdrecord (man page). I'm using Gnome, but use Terminal >

Sharing Linux printer with Mac

2006-01-20 Thread Chinook
P4 with Debian Etch (testing), kernel 2.6.12-1-686, Gnome desktop and USB attached printer and scanner PMac G5 running OS X Tiger (10.4.4) .. I've got my AppleTalk/zeroconf LAN setup working for file sharing -

Re: Cfdisk doesnt work. Unable to Install Etch

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Donnellan
I've sent this to -user. andrew On 1/21/06, PunkSC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Yesterday i downloaded the Etch installation Binary-1 and today i am trying > to install, but when i try to "automatically partition hard drives" i got an > error saying the step failed. I tried ALT+F2 and tried to ru

gam-server - eating up CPU

2006-01-20 Thread David E. Fox
Currently using etch - updates applied through 1/10 I'm having an issue with gam-server (I think it has something to do with file alteration monitor, right???) using up nearly 100% of CPU at times, i.e., it's at the top of 'top'. :( Right now it's using nearly 88% of the CPU. Little else is runni

Re: What is gaim upto on my system?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 20 January 2006 15:03, [KS] wrote: > Yes, Gaim is becoming a pain. Even after killing all the gaim processess > (560 of them), I restarted and checked after about 5mintues and there > were 4 processes again :( That happens with multithreaded programs. > Is it a bug or Gaim's normal beh

Re: Change Subcription

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:15, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: > I am now getting emails in non-digest AND digest format - I only want > the digest - how can this be fixed? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe -- Paul Johnson Email and IM (XMPP & Google Talk):

Re: Debian Etch DVD download help

2006-01-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 16 Jan 2006 10:45:40 -0800 Marc Shapiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That's real interesting. Just for chuckles and grins, I tried it here, > using Firefox and Mozilla Suite, with these results: Perhaps you and the OP are using the wrong ftp mirrors? I am a bit confused on how the hung

Re: What is gaim upto on my system?

2006-01-20 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 18:03:52 -0500 "[KS]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Friday 20 January 2006 07:02, [KS] wrote: > > > > > >>I had noticed a few days back that gaim had around 5 or 6 processes > >>and was surprised. I kill

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 3 Jan 2006 19:12:05 -0600 Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As you explore Konquerer, you'll find it to be an amazing tool. Load > an audio CD and then hit F9 to show the sidebar. Toward the bottom I've always thought that was a wonderful feature to have too :). --

Re: Burning CDs from ISO image - possible?

2006-01-20 Thread David E. Fox
On Tue, 03 Jan 2006 17:46:42 -0500 Chinook <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Take a look at cdrecord (man page). I'm using Gnome, but use Terminal > for most things. I have also created a bootable system image on DVD Another data point - I found at least in my experience that growisofs is much sim

Can`t build modules for VMWARE Workstation

2006-01-20 Thread Roman Makurin
Hi All! Now I`m using kernel 2.6.15 with ck patchset. I create kernel packages with following command: $ fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version .c3po.1 --config=menuconfig \ kernel_image and for modules packages: $ MODULE_LOC=~/tmp/modules fakeroot make-kpkg --append-to-version .c3po.1 \ m

Re: jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

2006-01-20 Thread H.S.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > First of all, if you had any packages installed that had a dependancy > on jackd, then they'd be listed in the "will be REMOVED" list as well; > the fact that you don't means you're OK, in principle, unless you've > installed something from outside the Debian packaging s

mobile hard drive partitioning: optimization

2006-01-20 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello List, I am on the edge to use my brand new mobile hard drive (80 GB): I am wondering if I may partition it, and how ? Is there any documentation about this naive issue ? Thanks, Jerome -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

2006-01-20 Thread Martin OConnor
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 23:00 -0500, H.S. wrote: > I am in the process of upgrading selected packages in my Testing > machine, running 2.6.12 kernel. For the time being, I am not touching > kde (since it wants to remove k3b). But if I try to upgrade alsa > packages, jackd is to be uninstalled: > > $

Re: jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

2006-01-20 Thread cmetzler
H.S. wrote: > > I am in the process of upgrading selected packages in my Testing > machine, running 2.6.12 kernel. For the time being, I am not touching > kde (since it wants to remove k3b). But if I try to upgrade alsa > packages, jackd is to be uninstalled: > > $> sudo apt-get -s install alsap

jackd to be uninstall, do I need it?

2006-01-20 Thread H.S.
I am in the process of upgrading selected packages in my Testing machine, running 2.6.12 kernel. For the time being, I am not touching kde (since it wants to remove k3b). But if I try to upgrade alsa packages, jackd is to be uninstalled: $> sudo apt-get -s install alsaplayer-alsa Reading package

Re: Support for usb digital cameras in sarge 2.6.8-2-386 kernel

2006-01-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 06:43:01PM -0800, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > When I switched from Knoppix to Debian when Sarge went stable, I lost > the ability to use my usb digital camera (neither usb-uhci or usb-ohci > modules were installed). Several months ago I asked and someone said > I have to recompile

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread James Strandboge
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 16:35 -0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > Hello, > > On one of the debian systems I manage I installed sarge before it was moved > to stable by referening testing in my sources.list. I completely forgot > about this and recently issued an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. The

Change Subcription

2006-01-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
I really hate asking the list this, as I get annoyed when a list gets tons of "unsubscribe" emails, however I have recently attempted to change my subscription. I want to receive my emails in digest format. I was receiving emails in the 'normal' format (ie, non-digest). What I did was I unsu

Re: Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Allan Wind
On 2006-01-20T16:35:44-0800, Bill MacAllister wrote: > I would like to revert to the stable tree at this point. Downgrades are not supported, so you are on your own. > What will happen if I just modify the sources.list and issue an > apt-get update; apt-get upgrade at this point? Possible nothin

Re: Support for usb digital cameras in sarge 2.6.8-2-386 kernel

2006-01-20 Thread Martin OConnor
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 18:43 -0800, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > When I switched from Knoppix to Debian when Sarge went stable, I lost > the ability to use my usb digital camera (neither usb-uhci or usb-ohci > modules were installed). Several months ago I asked and someone said > I have to recompile the ke

Support for usb digital cameras in sarge 2.6.8-2-386 kernel

2006-01-20 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
When I switched from Knoppix to Debian when Sarge went stable, I lost the ability to use my usb digital camera (neither usb-uhci or usb-ohci modules were installed). Several months ago I asked and someone said I have to recompile the kernel. I couldn't believe that everyone using Sarge had to rec

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 10:30:45PM +0100, Klaus Pieper wrote: > > >Look in log files for what system messages when you plugged in the memory. > >One of > >them may tell you what device ID the system assigned to the memory. On my > >machine > > usb-storage: device found at 8 > usb-storage: waiti

Fwd: Most directories locked read-only: how to unlock them?

2006-01-20 Thread Fred OGrady
Sorry Miquel,  I send my reply to the wrong person and not to the list.Hi Ken, I am a newbee but this helped me recover data from a hard drive in which some idiot superuser deleted the /proc directory and root was no longer recognized as a valid user. I used knoppix, as you did, but could only mo

Debian Downgrade question

2006-01-20 Thread Bill MacAllister
Hello, On one of the debian systems I manage I installed sarge before it was moved to stable by referening testing in my sources.list. I completely forgot about this and recently issued an apt-get update; apt-get upgrade. The system continues to work, but has trouble booting now. I would li

Re: device discovery question before doing a motherboard upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 21:36:56 + Floris Bruynooghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [ Cc'd since I don't know if you're subscribed to the list, no > Mail-Followup-To: header ] > > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:02:57PM -0600, water modem wrote: > > I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google

Synaptic shows kernel 2.6.14 as obsolete. Why?

2006-01-20 Thread Edward C. Jones
I have a PC with an AMD64 +3500 cpu chip. I use up-to-date debian unstable, "i386" distribution. I have two "vmlinuz"s: "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-1-386" and "/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2-386". The installed packages are "linux-image-2.6.12-1-386", version 2.6.12-10 and "linux-image-2.6.14-4-386" version

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:43 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:19 -0500 > Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 1/20/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > > But I'm almost sure you'll have to reboot for the changes to take effect :( We can dream. S

RE: Multiple Installes

2006-01-20 Thread Daniel Brady
Hi I'm planning to install multiple identical systems i.e the same hardware, partitions, packages etc. I've just come across fai, will this suit the purpose adequately? Thanks Daniel -Original Message- From: news [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Andreas Janssen Sent: 20 January 200

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 13:50:19 -0500 Aaron Stromas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 1/20/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > hi folks, > > > > I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my > > debian boxes I just added a line like: > > > > 192.168.2.111 ourhome

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
Yes, using the debian-user mailing list. Evo does a great job of following email threads. On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 02:07 +0300, Виталий Ищенко wrote: > But your message was send from Evolution ;) > > Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:54:14 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:4

Re: Multiple Installes

2006-01-20 Thread Andreas Janssen
Hello Daniel Brady (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > Is there an opensource tool to allow multiple installs of a standard > Debian system (Sarge) What exactly do you want? To clone a system (e.g. using dd, partimage or cp)? To do automated installation (e.g. using fai)? To install several debian sy

Re: Safe to upgrade Perl in Sarge?

2006-01-20 Thread Mike
Maurits van Rees wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: There's a security upgrade for perl in sarge, but I'm not sure if it's safe to install it: $ apt-listbugs list perl Reading package fields... Done Reading package status... Done Retrieving bug reports...

Re: What is gaim upto on my system?

2006-01-20 Thread [KS]
Paul Johnson wrote: > On Friday 20 January 2006 07:02, [KS] wrote: > > >>I had noticed a few days back that gaim had around 5 or 6 processes and >>was surprised. I killed those and started it again. But 560 seems to be >>way too much. Has anyone noticed this? Any reasons as to why this is >>happe

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Виталий Ищенко
But your message was send from Evolution ;) Fri, 20 Jan 2006 16:54:14 -0600, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:46 +0300, Виталий Ищенко wrote: > > Evolution is good, but i cant read mailing lists in it, because > > i loose thread :) > > I've found that sylpheed has the a

Multiple Installes

2006-01-20 Thread Daniel Brady
Hi Is there an opensource tool to allow multiple installs of a standard Debian system (Sarge) Thanks in advance Daniel -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.14.21/235 - Release Date: 19/01/2006 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Sat, 2006-01-21 at 01:46 +0300, Виталий Ищенко wrote: > Evolution is good, but i cant read mailing lists in it, because > i loose thread :) > I've found that sylpheed has the ability of displayng thread in > tree view so i switched to it Ah. I use (imperfect) Pan for reading news. -- ---

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Виталий Ищенко
Evolution is good, but i cant read mailing lists in it, because i loose thread :) I've found that sylpheed has the ability of displayng thread in tree view so i switched to it the only thing i miss - is a filter rule, which can react on email addresses which are in my address book (such filter

Re: Sarge sec update: sudo_1.6.8p7-1.3_i386.deb probs

2006-01-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:02:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I just did a security upgrade with Sarge and got installed sudo_1.6.8p7-1.3_i386.deb. But when I use sudo to get to synaptic I get: (synaptic:25937): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: When I the

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Look in log files for what system messages when you plugged in the memory. One of them may tell you what device ID the system assigned to the memory. On my machine usb-storage: device found at 8 usb-storage: waiting for device to settle before scanning Vendor: Generic Model: USB Flash Di

Re: Sieve client

2006-01-20 Thread Peter Teunissen
On 20-jan-2006, at 16:33, Josep Serrano wrote: Hello Do you know of a good sieve client app for cyrus? I know Kmail has some short sieve functionality (vacation message). Here I am thinking of a more complex filtering / alerts / etc. Thanks, Josep SERRANO. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Cron and at behavior in X

2006-01-20 Thread ke6isf
Using Sarge, current updates. Based on conversations I've had on the IRC channel, I know that entering a line into crontab such as 'x-app:0.0' will fire off an X application without returning an error that it can't find a display, or similarly if I set DISPLAY=:0.0 at the top of the crontab. Am I

Re: device discovery question before doing a motherboard upgrade.

2006-01-20 Thread Floris Bruynooghe
[ Cc'd since I don't know if you're subscribed to the list, no Mail-Followup-To: header ] On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:02:57PM -0600, water modem wrote: > I have given up searching the Debian sites and Google and usenet groups > for the answer to a simple question. This question should really go t

Re: Sarge sec update: sudo_1.6.8p7-1.3_i386.deb probs

2006-01-20 Thread gcrimp
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 08:02:33AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > I just did a security upgrade with Sarge and got installed > sudo_1.6.8p7-1.3_i386.deb. But when I use sudo to get to synaptic I get: > > (synaptic:25937): Gtk-WARNING **: cannot open display: > > When I then reinstalled

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Steve Block
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:54:21PM -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: On 1/20/06, Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: =?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail > online web interface > > 1) queues -

Re: one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...

2006-01-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Michel Laurent wrote: Bonjour, Nous sommes à la recherche d'unités centrales multi-utilisateurs fonctionnant sous linux comme vous l'avez décrit dans votre documents. C'est à dire : sur une unité centrale, pouvoir connecter plusieurs postes de travail (plusieurs écrans, plusieurs claviers et

Re: marillat

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 11:48 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:43:51 -0500 > Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > What every happened to marillat? > > ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat has been a favorite add on site, but not > > anymore... > > from my sources.list

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 14:54 -0600, Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas wrote: > On 1/20/06, Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > =?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > > > Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail > > > online web interface > > > >

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul E Condon
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:11:37PM -0500, Jay Zach wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Klaus Pieper wrote: > >> > >> host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 > >> > > > > etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 > > dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found > > >

LI2.6.151686 Wont Boot After Modem Driver Inatall Attempts

2006-01-20 Thread Leonard Chatagnier
I've attempted to install hcfpcimodem-1.08full.deb and hcfpcimodem-1.08full.tar.gz without any success. On the last attempt with the .tar.gz file the drivers apparently loaded successfully but got an error message saying "modem not found(or recognized) and afterwards the boot process stalls sho

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Maybe he's asking about labels? That's kind of the gmail feature I wouldn't find in any email client. It would be sort of email directories as under any email client plus soft links between them? Any ways, if someone knows about such thing I would like to know as well, :) Something like virt

Re: Bug in translation of aptitude

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Paolo Pantaleo wrote: I found a bug in aptitude italian translation: the help (called with "?") is not displayed. So I would like to fire a bug, I looked around and it seems that the bug must be fired aptitude for package, is it right? Is there a place where all translation bugs must be sent in

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/20/06, Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > =?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail > > online web interface > > > > 1) queues -- vital ;) Very handy feature > > I can't think of any Gmail feature

autofs timeouts no longer working?

2006-01-20 Thread Stephen Benoit
Hello, everyone. I have been using autofs since Debian Potato. Among other things, I use it to automount my cd/dvd drive and release/unmount it after 15 idle seconds. When I switched from Debian Woody to Sarge, the automount processes never expired the unused mount again. I have tried 3 differe

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
You might already know about this. But I will say it anyway. There are various alternatives for matlab and maple in Debian Linux. You can use octave instead of matlab. It is probably not a 100% replacement but it is reasonably good. Instead of maple, you can use maxima inside texmacs. All the t

Re: GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Adam Fabian
=?KOI8-R?B?98nUwczJyiDp3cXOy88=?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail > online web interface > > 1) queues -- vital ;) Very handy feature I can't think of any Gmail feature called a queue, and I'm quite familiar with it. > 2) shortkuts

Re: cordless mice with USB connected base units

2006-01-20 Thread Glenn English
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 10:59 -0900, Britton Kerin wrote: > Do cordless non-bluetooth mice need weird drivers? > Can I take a USB only cordless mouse with a base > charger unit, plug it into some kind of USB_to_ps2 > adaptor plug, plug that into the connector where > my PS2 mouse currently lives, an

Re: No nautilus window pops up when media inserted

2006-01-20 Thread Heinrich Rebehn
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Hello, This is not my area of expertise, but just in case: A) Are you sure the disk is being mounted? Try the command 'mount' (no quotes) to make sure. Yes, the USB stick is mounted. B) Check /etc/fstab and make sure you have permissions to read the disk as a normal u

Re: one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 20:19:18 +0100 (CET) Michel Laurent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Bonjour, > > Nous sommes à la recherche d'unités centrales multi-utilisateurs > fonctionnant sous linux comme vous l'avez décrit dans votre documents. C'est > à dire : sur une unité centrale, pouvoir conne

Re: Safe to upgrade Perl in Sarge?

2006-01-20 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:53:05PM +0100, Roel Schroeven wrote: > There's a security upgrade for perl in sarge, but I'm not sure if it's > safe to install it: > > $ apt-listbugs list perl > Reading package fields... Done > Reading package status... Done > Retrieving bug reports... Done > grave bu

Re: New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-20 Thread Chinook
Roseland, Winton wrote: I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year. I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used. I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM. I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Knopp

Re: cordless mice with USB connected base units

2006-01-20 Thread Michael Marsh
On 1/20/06, Britton Kerin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do cordless non-bluetooth mice need weird drivers? > Can I take a USB only cordless mouse with a base > charger unit, plug it into some kind of USB_to_ps2 > adaptor plug, plug that into the connector where > my PS2 mouse currently lives, and ju

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 08:03:56 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > roberto escribe: > >> is there anyone who has already did it and what has been his/her > >> experience? > > > > apt-cache show qemu > > > > Altough you'd better download the latest

Re: No nautilus window pops up when media inserted

2006-01-20 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, This is not my area of expertise, but just in case: A) Are you sure the disk is being mounted? Try the command 'mount' (no quotes) to make sure. B) Check /etc/fstab and make sure you have permissions to read the disk as a normal user. Just some ideas! -- Leonid Grinberg [EMAIL PROTECTED

cordless mice with USB connected base units

2006-01-20 Thread Britton Kerin
Do cordless non-bluetooth mice need weird drivers? Can I take a USB only cordless mouse with a base charger unit, plug it into some kind of USB_to_ps2 adaptor plug, plug that into the connector where my PS2 mouse currently lives, and just be happy? I'm thinking about buying a cordless mouse, but

Re: one machine - multiple users, monitors, keyboards, mice ...

2006-01-20 Thread Michel Laurent
Bonjour,   Nous sommes à la recherche d'unités centrales multi-utilisateurs fonctionnant sous linux comme vous l'avez décrit dans votre documents. C'est à dire : sur une unité centrale, pouvoir connecter plusieurs postes de travail (plusieurs écrans, plusieurs claviers et plusieurs souris) permet

Re: marillat

2006-01-20 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 05:43:51 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What every happened to marillat? > ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat has been a favorite add on site, but not > anymore... from my sources.list deb ftp://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/ sid main works just fine as of yeste

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Jay Zach
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Klaus Pieper wrote: >> >> host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 >> > > etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 > dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found > > It doesn't work, because Linux never assigned /dev/sdb to the scsi address th

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
On 1/20/06, Marty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Matt Price wrote: > > hi folks, > > > > I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my > > debian boxes I just added a line like: > > > > 192.168.2.111 ourhome > > > > to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a win

Bug in translation of aptitude

2006-01-20 Thread Paolo Pantaleo
Hi, I found a bug in aptitude italian translation: the help (called with "?") is not displayed. So I would like to fire a bug, I looked around and it seems that the bug must be fired aptitude for package, is it right? Is there a place where all translation bugs must be sent instead? Thnx PAolo -

Re: alternative to packages.debian.org

2006-01-20 Thread Виталий Ищенко
google: "$package site:packages.debian.org" 2006/1/19, Andreas Janssen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello > > icmp (<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: > > > is there packages.debian.org alternative anywhere ? > > apt-cache and apt-file, if you add stable, testing and unstable to your > sources.list. > > best r

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Aaron Stromas
On 1/20/06, Matt Price <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi folks,I've set up a little internal web server on our home network.  On mydebian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111   ourhometo /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing.  But my wife has a windows xplaptop & I have no idea how to do the same

Re: OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Marty
Matt Price wrote: hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop & I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've prett

OT: windoze equivalent of /etc/hosts

2006-01-20 Thread Matt Price
hi folks, I've set up a little internal web server on our home network. On my debian boxes I just added a line like: 192.168.2.111 ourhome to /etc/hosts to facilitate browsing. But my wife has a windows xp laptop & I have no idea how to do the same thing there (I've pretty well never used wi

New Install Gnome Resolution Difficulties

2006-01-20 Thread Roseland, Winton
I have had KDE running on Debian and then Knoppix for a little over a year.  I used 1024x768 and 1280x1024 screen resolutions but I am not sure how many bits of color I used.  I have an ATI 3D Rage IIC AGP with 8MB of RAM.  I used the Debian netinst CD to replace my Knoppix version. I was a

RE: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Tony Heal
Mike The explanation for Debian is the file system reserves some space (5% by default) for root's use in case the partition gets filled. If your partitions were formatted using mkfs then you can man mkfs and look at the -m option. It will give a very brief explanation of what is happening Tony

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 etch:~# dd if=/dev/sdb of=mbr bs=1k count=1 dd: opening `/dev/sdb': No medium found -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Samba PDC, LDAP

2006-01-20 Thread Pete Clarke
Hi all, I have the LDAP server providing single-password logons. What I also have is a problem with new machines (Sarge based samba boxes) living alongside the PDC (sarge samba box). I can create a machine account on the PDC for the new samba server, and join the domain from the new box. When I

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Linas Zvirblis
Tony Heal wrote: OK below is what I have. I have another question now. If the 'reserved' space is for root, why does root need space on all partitions for? For example why would I need to reserve space for the root user on /home, /tmp, /opt, /tmp. I can see this as being need for /var and /root,

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Lubos Vrbka
that is what i supposed to be... i think the only real cons' of VMware with respect to competitors is... of course the price but that's another matter, you know if you have the virtual machine set up you actually don't need the vmware anymore, vmware player is enough and is for free... regard

Re: Building deb package frome installed files

2006-01-20 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Stephen Cormier wrote: On Tuesday 17 January 2006 14:05, Виталий Ищенко wrote: I have installed package i.e. apt-get install openoffice.org-core -t unstable then i've deleted file openoffice.org-core_2.0.1-1_i386.deb And now i want to build back this package with files, which have been installed

Re: permissions - is this the best approach?

2006-01-20 Thread Chinook
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Almut Behrens wrote: As to the permissions, setting the appropriate umask would be an important prerequisite. However, it doesn't _enforce_ that files in fact do end up with the required permissions (it's only a mask after all). IOW, if someone copies a file that's n

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread roberto
On 1/20/06, Dave Carrigan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:24:19PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > > > > apt-cache show qemu > > qemu is not at the state where you can do practical work on the emulated > machine. If you just need a simple way to do a one-shot windows

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
david cuthbertson wrote: Hi, Mounting /dev/hda2 or /dev/hda6 to backup my hard-drive fails. /dev/hda7 mounts OK. Running fdisk I get: Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes

Re: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Lubos Vrbka wrote: If you look at the output of df -h you will see that the size of the partition is 219GB there is only 168MB in this partition yet there is only 208GB left. This is a new server and that partition has only had things added to it, nothing has ever been removed. By my calculat

Re: aptitude and my DVD drive

2006-01-20 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri, 20 Jan 2006 00:14:20 -0600 Adam Fabian <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I added a few DVDs to my sources.list using apt-cdrom. I tried adding > some new packages with aptitude, and it wanted me to "insert the > following disc into drive "/cdrom/". I inserted the appropriate disc > into the d

Re: marillat

2006-01-20 Thread Ron Johnson
On Fri, 2006-01-20 at 12:22 +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > Tom Allison escribe: > > What every happened to marillat? > > ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat has been a favorite add on site, but not > > anymore... > > > > Anyone know what happened to it? > > > > > > Google for `debian maril

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Dave Carrigan
On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 02:24:19PM +0100, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > roberto escribe: > > is there anyone who has already did it and what has been his/her > > experience? > > apt-cache show qemu qemu is not at the state where you can do practical work on the emulated machine. If you just n

Re: partition problems

2006-01-20 Thread Klaus Pieper
Command (m for help): p Disk /dev/hda: 20.4 GB, 20490559488 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 39703 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 13564 6836224+ 7 HPFS/NTFS /dev/hda2

Re: USB stick broken?

2006-01-20 Thread J.J. Kiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Klaus, you may try this (AS ROOT!): host# dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/sdb bs=1K count=1 This overwrites the first 1024 bytes of the disk, where the Master Boot Record resides. It should be possible to repartition it, so then you may try: host# fdisk

RE: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Tony Heal
OK below is what I have. I have another question now. If the 'reserved' space is for root, why does root need space on all partitions for? For example why would I need to reserve space for the root user on /home, /tmp, /opt, /tmp. I can see this as being need for /var and /root, but what use is t

Re: mysql database location

2006-01-20 Thread J.J. Kiers
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, The mysql databases are stored in the /var/lib/mysql directory. Each directory down under it is a database, so /var/lib/mysql/mysql is the mysql database (that administrative one...) Regards, JJK david robert wrote: > Hi Guys, > > I have

RE: File system overhead

2006-01-20 Thread Tony Heal
Yes I was logged in as root. Tony Heal Pace Systems Group, Inc. 800-624-5999 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Lubos Vrbka [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, January 20, 2006 1:42 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: File system overhead

GMail like offline email client

2006-01-20 Thread Виталий Ищенко
Are there any any email clients with similar features as in gmail online web interface 1) queues -- vital ;) Very handy feature 2) shortkuts -- not vital, but good feature... I saw some kind of queues in sylpheed, but haven't tried it yet Maybe there are some kind of addons to Thunderbird... The

Re: What is gaim upto on my system?

2006-01-20 Thread Paul Johnson
On Friday 20 January 2006 07:02, [KS] wrote: > I had noticed a few days back that gaim had around 5 or 6 processes and > was surprised. I killed those and started it again. But 560 seems to be > way too much. Has anyone noticed this? Any reasons as to why this is > happenning? Gaim is an infamous

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Graham Smith
I wrote the page below a couple of months ago. I haven't got round to configuring the accelerator yet though which is why there aren't any instructions for that yet. Installing Windows XP under Debian with QEMU http://www.crazysquirrel.com/computing/debian/xp-under-debian-with-qemu.jspx Hope th

Re: IMAP Server Requirement

2006-01-20 Thread Ropetin
Clive Menzies wrote: Please let me know what these are so I can correct them :) I don't remember off the top of my head, but I'm going to take another box from bare metal upwards so as I'm going through the steps I'll document the issues I come across. My immediate thought is: How did th

mysql database location

2006-01-20 Thread david robert
Hi Guys,   I have installed mysql server from debian package and everything is working now i need to take a backup of databases.I want to know the location where it will store all databases.I guss it is in /var/lib/mysql/mysql or any other location   Thanks for your help To help you stay safe

Re: virtual machine

2006-01-20 Thread Javier-Elias Vasquez-Vivas
On 1/20/06, kamaraju kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > roberto wrote: > > >hi all > >i need actually to use math software like matlab and maple whose linux > >version are not available to me > > > You might already know about this. But I will say it anyway. There are > various alternatives fo

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