Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Cameron L. Spitzer
[This message has also been posted to linux.debian.user.] In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mark Grieveson wrote: >> I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format >> OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole >> lot of noise and eventually gave me t

python-scipy weirdness

2006-10-30 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, when trying to install python-scipy and some other things on my up-to-date etch box, i encounter the following: python-scipy-core recommends python-scipy --\ The following actions will resolve this dependency: -> Cancel the installation of python-scipy-core -> Keep python-scipy at

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Lars Staun Knudsen
celejar wrote: > My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / > rendering pages, and even things like displaying the prefs screen) and > frequently (generally whenever it's doing anything interesting, as > above) raises cpu usage to 100%, I got a 1.6 GHz Intel Dothan and 1 GB

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Damon L. Chesser
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 20:24:16 +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 09:54, Florian Kulzer va escriure: (Your old custom-built nvidia package provides "nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774", therefore it cannot satisfy the dependency of the new module.)

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Zoran Kolic
> nforce4 sli chipset. Would be nice to know the exact chip for ethernet. There could be part of problem. > onboard my broadband modem but the install didn't manage to have the > configuration detected. So at the next step, i configured it manually. This could be the culprit. > I noticed i coul

Re: Upgrade to Apache2

2006-10-30 Thread Glennie Vignarajah
Le Sunday 29 October 2006 17:55, Daniel D Jones(Daniel D Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) a écrit: Hi, > > The first issue is discussed in bug 392701. I have websvn > installed and am getting an error on AuthUserFile. I have both > authz_host.load and authz_user.load linked in my mods-enabled > dire

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Rodrigo Paes
On 10/31/06, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/31/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Worst case was when one entry stated 'tbird' for 'thunderbird'. How this could work is that typing on the keyboard wouldn't be

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:07 +0100, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:12 +0200, Ali Jawad wrote: > > I wish I could do that..but honestly the server are remotely located > > with modest internet connections and i do not want to use the limited > > bandwidth Ive got with monitoring..a

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 10/30/06, Tim Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became Usenet) by just a few years. I remember this well because I was one of the lucky few to receive a Usenet feed from Univ of MD (which I piped promptly into my BBS, heavily modified WWIV).

Re: Terminal trouble

2006-10-30 Thread Dmitri Minaev
On 10/31/06, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In another thread in which I was seeking a better way to handle unicode in my terminals (my current preference mrxvt does not support it) rxvt-unicode was suggested as a possible alternative. xterm from Sarge (xterm-4.3.0.dfsg.1-14sarge1) with $T

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/31/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sound like a brilliant idea. I just don't have an idea how it would be > implemented, except that there should be provision for names of real > binaries, instead of names of debian binaries, e

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/30/06, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: what about * pim [possibly korganizer - not completely happy with it but no alternatives yet] In such a case, take it to 'misc utilities'. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

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2006-10-30 Thread Κουτσομπίνας Γιώργος
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Re: FF vs. Seamonkey prompt for passwords

2006-10-30 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/30/06, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Seamonkey promts fills in a userid/password or prompts you with a list of possible userids. FF you have to fill in the userid first. Can Seamonkey's behavior be emulated in FF? Thanks H Unfortunately, I can't answer your question

Re: installing java

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Hi, On Sid I tried both j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin j2re-1.4.2-rc1-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/JDK-1.4.2/i386/ They both fail. How do you install java in Sid? Thanks H Follow the instructions at http://www.debiantutorials.org/content/view/68/13

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I did try to use superformat. It seemed to do the low level format OK, but then it got to running mformat and the drive just made a whole lot of noise and eventually gave me the following error: This is exactly what happens with me as well. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PRO

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-reco

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] fsck! On boot it dies... yet drive okay?!?

2006-10-30 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 06:11:40 +0100 "Michael Bonert" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On booting my Debian system I get something like: > - > [sbin/fsck.ext3 (1) -- /mnt/mdk] fsck.ext3 -a -C0 /dev/hda11 > /dev/hda11: clean, 5765/130048 files, 1425960/2596497 blocks OK, so ext3 sees /dev/hda11 and

why X insist on using vesa driver?

2006-10-30 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all,I have two computers installed Debian sarge.  One uses ATI readon 9000 and the other uses nvidia.  I uses dpkg-reconfigre xserver-xfree86 to configure X, then I found in XF86Config-4 vesa is used:Section "Device"     Identifier  "Generic Video Card"    Driver  "vesa"   

Re: Dimension 4300

2006-10-30 Thread KS
Raquel wrote: > I just inherited a Dell Dimension 4300 with another OS on it. I > want to install Sarge. Does anyone have experience with this > particular Dell? Should Sarge install okay. Should I throw it into > the river? Any "gotchas"? > I have a Dell 4500 and have been running Debian Si

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:51:31PM +0100, Nicolas Pillot wrote: > Hello ! Hi Nicolas, dns issue? > :00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0057 (rev a3) > > I noticed it booted in runlevel 2 but an "init 3" gave me the same results. in Debian, runlevel 2,3,4,5 are the same. Its

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:40AM -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:36:41AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > > Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I'd there's a higher probability of creating new geeks if existing > > > geeks reproduce. > > > > What is this "reproduce" of which you speak? Is

Re: Strange: Files served from Apache 2.2.3-2 have 0 Byte

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:33:38AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > > I've encountered a very strange problem after a re-install of my > server with the new Debian Apache2 2.2.3-2 from testing > (prefork type because of PHP5). > > The first problem was that libapr1 did not work with my

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Douglas Tutty wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:43:29PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text but collumns, tables, images, the works. Is there a way to conve

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:43:29PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > >that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text > >but collumns, tables, images, the works. > > > >Is there a way to convert them t

Re: Console screen energy saving time control

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 08:24:24PM -0500, T wrote: > On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:28:05 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > >> I'm wondering how I can configure my console screen energy saving time. > >> ie, when my PC is left with tty screens. > >> > > man setterm > > /usr/bin/setterm > > Thanks, I tried

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Arthur Marsh wrote: HXC wrote, On 27/10/06 19:10: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a p

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Douglas Tutty wrote: I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional option is OpenOffice. However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text but collumns, tables, images, the works

Re: Console screen energy saving time control

2006-10-30 Thread T
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 19:28:05 -0500, Douglas Tutty wrote: >> I'm wondering how I can configure my console screen energy saving time. >> ie, when my PC is left with tty screens. >> > man setterm > /usr/bin/setterm Thanks, I tried setterm -powerdown 1 but nothing happened, even after 2 minutes.

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-30 Thread Arthur Marsh
HXC wrote, On 27/10/06 19:10: I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. Anyone knows such a program? Doing l

Re: postgresql database file names

2006-10-30 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 12:34:36AM -0500, Tony Heal wrote: > For those who care. Here is how you determine the disk space used for each > postgresql db. > Neat. Thanks for the info. Regards, -Roberto -- Roberto C. Sanchez http://people.connexer.com/~roberto http://www.connexer.com -- To UN

Re: Re: * Files under mount point '/proc' will be hidden.

2006-10-30 Thread Peter Easthope
Both of my problems originated from "cp -r"ing most of the filesystem from a working system to the new system created with cdebootstrap. Bad idea! At Tue, 24 Oct 2006 08:38:14 -0700, Bob McGowan wrote McG> I can't help with the eth* question ;( A configuration cache file had been copied from th

Re: Console screen energy saving time control

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 06:40:46PM -0500, T wrote: > Hi, > > I know how to control the screen energy saving time under X, but > I'm wondering how I can configure my console screen energy saving time. > ie, when my PC is left with tty screens. > man setterm /usr/bin/setterm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:52:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/30/06 12:51, Douglas Tutty wrote: > > I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional > > option is OpenOffice. > > > > However, to just read properly .d

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 07:51:31PM +0100, Nicolas Pillot wrote: > > I come to ask a question about my networking experience with debian. I > installed a basic debian system with the i386 network install of the > 3.1r3 image. My hardware is an asustek a8n sli motherboard, with an > nforce4 sli chip

What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread David Jardine
My apologies if this messes up the threading - I've just cannibalised another person's message because I no longer have the original request to reply to. Here are my favourites: audio editor [ ] audio player [ ] cd-ripper [ ] Desktop Environment [ fvwm ] DBMS [ ] development [ ] disc burner [ ]

Re: reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/30/06 12:51, Douglas Tutty wrote: > I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional > option is OpenOffice. > > However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking > that its the only format around, wha

Re: flashplugin-nonfree: Flash Player 9 beta

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Jochen Schulz wrote: Bart Martens: Users of Debian "testing" are invited try flashplugin-nonfree version 9.0.21.55.1 from "experimental". This version installs Flash Player 9 beta [1]. On unstable this appears to work fine. I installed the package from experimental, searched google f

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Jason Dunsmore
On 10/30/06, celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox > takes more memory than Opera does. > -- > Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / renderi

reading MS word files

2006-10-30 Thread Douglas Tutty
I understand that to __edit__ MS word files, the only fully functional option is OpenOffice. However, to just read properly .doc files that people email me thinking that its the only format around, what works? I need not just the text but collumns, tables, images, the works. Is there a way to co

Terminal trouble

2006-10-30 Thread cothrige
In another thread in which I was seeking a better way to handle unicode in my terminals (my current preference mrxvt does not support it) rxvt-unicode was suggested as a possible alternative. However, now I am dealing with an even more aggravating situation, and that is the alternate screen where

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Miles Bader
"Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Sound like a brilliant idea. I just don't have an idea how it would be > implemented, except that there should be provision for names of real > binaries, instead of names of debian binaries, e.g. one should be able > to mention a love for top ins

Re: installing java

2006-10-30 Thread Paul Dwerryhouse
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 05:16:10PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > How do you install java in Sid? apt-get install sun-java5-plugin sun-java5-bin apt-get install sun-java5-jdk # If you want the JDK You'll need the non-free repository in your sources.list file. Cheers, Paul -- Paul Dwerry

Dimension 4300

2006-10-30 Thread Raquel
I just inherited a Dell Dimension 4300 with another OS on it. I want to install Sarge. Does anyone have experience with this particular Dell? Should Sarge install okay. Should I throw it into the river? Any "gotchas"? -- Raquel I m

installing java

2006-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, On Sid I tried both j2re-1.4.2-03-linux-i586.bin j2re-1.4.2-rc1-linux-i586-gcc3.2.bin from ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/languages/java/linux/JDK-1.4.2/i386/ They both fail. How do you install java in Sid? Thanks H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: udev

2006-10-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Florian Kulzer on 30/10/06 22:34, wrote: On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 22:17:27 +, Adam Hardy wrote: Hi I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious hassle with it when etch was testing. Etch is still testing. I'm still on et

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread José Alburquerque
David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:33:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 13:37, David Jardine wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:07:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:00AM -0600,

re: reboot looses configurations

2006-10-30 Thread Bill
On Sun, 2006-29-10 at 06:26 -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: > hmmm, have you tried chattr +i on a list of the offending files once all > configurations are set correctly? There's a trick I'll do on my next > debian installation in which you get the lcap utility aptitude install > lcap and you set c

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Miles Bader
cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hmmm. Now that I think about it, I don't recall seeing any sources. > It probably is not free, and I will retract that one and just leave > nethack. Too bad though, as I enjoy ADOM a bit more. Yeah, adom was cool. There are some nice alternatives though, e

Re: udev

2006-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 22:17:27 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Hi > > I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious > hassle with it when etch was testing. Etch is still testing. > I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread David Jardine
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 03:33:23PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/29/06 13:37, David Jardine wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:07:40AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 04:42:00AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >>>

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread cothrige
* Bruno Delalleau ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > I would strongly suggest that you use rxvt-unicode, as it has tabs > (using a perl extension) which is what you are requesting. > > Bruno > Okay, I am installing it right now. I will see how it goes. Many thanks, Patrick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

udev

2006-10-30 Thread Adam Hardy
Hi I pinned udev to version 0.079.1 a while back after suffering some serious hassle with it when etch was testing. I'm still on etch - and synaptic claims that this is still the latest version available. Must be wrong, surely? Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
> On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:00:35 -0600 > cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And new items: * (games) [ ] * (news) [ pan ] > > > > I think that would be the final list, after more consideration. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 23:12 +0200, Ali Jawad wrote: > I wish I could do that..but honestly the server are remotely located > with modest internet connections and i do not want to use the limited > bandwidth Ive got with monitoring..and I would prefer not to run an X > server on the system unless ab

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 12:00:35 -0600 cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Tshepang Lekhonkhobe ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >* file manager [ Real Geeks Don't Use File Managers ] > > > > Many mentioned that Bash is their favourite File Ma

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Sun, 29 Oct 2006 16:38:01 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 10/27/06, Rodrigo Paes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * misc utilities [ sudo, grep, lsof, top, wget, meld, ssh ] > > Nice that you pointed out meld, a graphical diff. I once saw such a > utility on Windows

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Marc Shapiro
Marc Wilson wrote: On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 07:08:53PM -0600, Kent West wrote: sudo fdformat -n /dev/.static/dev/fd0u1440 I have to wonder how you came up with that, vs reading the man page for fdformat(8). That tells you to use setfdprm(8) to set the parameters of the generic device

Re: inode spike issue.

2006-10-30 Thread Anthony Tippett
I figured out what was doing it.It was the /etc/cron.daily/find script which is installed to update the updatedb database.I wouldn't think this would slow the system down but I've sure noticed a difference. Is there a command that will give inode stats.. for example open inodes, inode table size.Sh

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 20:24:16 +0100, Benjamí Villoslada wrote: > El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 09:54, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > > (Your > > old custom-built nvidia package provides "nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774", > > therefore it cannot satisfy the dependency of the new module.) The > > linux-image-

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Robert S
was there an error message? Also, did you had a look on [1]? Here it is - I'm running sendmail/procmail: sm-mta[16571]: k9U8TvTo016569: timeout waiting for input from local during Draining Input I suspect that the fact that its running on an ageing AMD K6 500MHz might have something to do with

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 13:18 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > Dave Ewart wrote: > >On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > > > > > >>I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine > >>that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me > >>that I

Re: upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 09:27:24 -0800, tom arnall wrote: > I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if I > run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving: > > gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: > u

Re: Monitor sarge server(s) from win box

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 14:28 +0200, Ali Jawad wrote: > I would like to know how I could possibly monitor my linux server > "remote" from my windows box..Ive found this article to install gkrellmd > on my server "no X installed on it I only access it through ssh" and use > a windows port for the appl

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 14:58 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > Sound juicer plays cds fine. > > Debugging showed this: > (14:51:12) [0x815b3d8] [rb_plugins_engine_load] rb-plugins-engine.c:108: > Loading > plugin: /usr/lib/rhythmbox/plugins/audiocd.rb-plugin > (14:51:12) [0x815b3d8] [rb_plugins_engine_l

Re: rhythmbox missing files

2006-10-30 Thread Sven Arvidsson
On Sun, 2006-10-29 at 15:09 +, Adam Hardy wrote: > OK, so my album is called St Dominic's Preview by Van Morrison. And there's > another called His Band and the Street Choir. > > What's the plugin searching with? The artist and the album tags, I guess. > Just > in case it was something stup

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread edwardsa
Dave Ewart wrote: On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This would be useful

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Nicolas Pillot wrote: 2006/10/30, Russell L. Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: A quick and inexpensive work-around is simply to purchase a network card which is supported and is recognized automatically by Etch Ok. I'll unplug the one from my good ol' P75 sarge server, and finish the install cleanly.

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread celejar
On 10/30/06, Edward Guldemond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed My Firefox (1.5 on Sid) is really, really slow (startup, getting / rendering pages, and even things like displaying the prefs scr

Re: Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread Dave Ewart
On Monday, 30.10.2006 at 11:06 -0700, edwardsa wrote: > I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine > that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me > that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This > would be useful because I have

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread Bruno Delalleau
On Sun, Oct 29, 2006 at 08:55:43PM -0600, cothrige wrote : > * Angelina Carlton ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > [snip] > > At the moment mrxvt does not support utf-8 but perhaps it will in the > > near future? If so, you might find rxvt-unicode an adequate interim > > replacement. I would think this

Re: nvidia problems (Sid dist-upgrade)

2006-10-30 Thread Benjamí Villoslada
El Dilluns 30 Octubre 2006 09:54, Florian Kulzer va escriure: > (Your > old custom-built nvidia package provides "nvidia-kernel-1.0.8774", > therefore it cannot satisfy the dependency of the new module.) The > linux-image-* package is installed because the nvidia-kernel-* package > depends on it.

Re: Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Russell L. Harris
Nicolas Pillot wrote: The rest of the install went smooth, up to the apt-source selection. Choosing any server in the list made the installation program hang up to timeout. So i cancelled the package selection and finished the install in order to examine what i thought was a networking problem.

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:29:56PM -0500, Matthew Krauss wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: > > > [snip] > >>What I would try to isolate the problem is: > >> > >>1. Reboot in to single user mode. > >>2. Log in as root. > >>3. Try s

Re: Slow Firefox

2006-10-30 Thread Edward Guldemond
How much RAM do you have in your system? In my expreience, Firefox takes more memory than Opera does. -- Ed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread anthony
What's the result of  "df -h"? I'm using 94% of the disk. I have deleted some stuff. I triedchmod -R 775 /home/anthonyand this allowed me to access files in my directory and some of my personal settings e.g. pal (calendar) I could start X but not fluxbox.  What should the permissions be for all th

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 01:29:48PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Kevin Mark <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > >> Hi, > >> A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > >> winners in tha

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread John Hasler
George Borisov writes: > On my IMAP server at home I have a set of scripts that harvest a > particular folder in the account and feed all messages to sa-learn. If a > spam slips through then I just move it into that folder and forget about > it. I do something similar. I also have my script copy

Networking down but seems ok... ?!

2006-10-30 Thread Nicolas Pillot
Hello ! I come to ask a question about my networking experience with debian. I installed a basic debian system with the i386 network install of the 3.1r3 image. My hardware is an asustek a8n sli motherboard, with an nforce4 sli chipset. Before the install, i chose linux26, because using the stan

Re: The crippled resurrection of said etch.

2006-10-30 Thread Matthew Krauss
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 10:25:37AM -0400, Matthew Krauss wrote: [snip] What I would try to isolate the problem is: 1. Reboot in to single user mode. 2. Log in as root. 3. Try starting X alone: $ X 2>&1 | less 3a. If X starts, you may kill it with ctrl-alt-back

FF vs. Seamonkey prompt for passwords

2006-10-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, Seamonkey promts fills in a userid/password or prompts you with a list of possible userids. FF you have to fill in the userid first. Can Seamonkey's behavior be emulated in FF? Thanks H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Debian and Ubuntu sharing apt-cacher?

2006-10-30 Thread edwardsa
I have some ubuntu machines living inside of a debian firewall machine that point to an apt-cacher archive on that machine. It looks to me that I could have the same archive serve both distributions. This would be useful because I have two other debian machines on the same network. It looks as

Re: xterm, mutt, emacs -nw, and utf-8

2006-10-30 Thread Thomas Dickey
Anders Lennartsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thomas Dickey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Presumably you're using the options for telling xterm to use UTF-8 encoding >> as well. But I don't see any details of that here, so it could be a problem. > For xterm I use the default settings for sid|e

upgraded my debian testing system and now have font problems

2006-10-30 Thread tom arnall
I upgraded my system recently and now have font problems. For example, if I run gaim as non-root, it takes a password and then disappears, leaving: gaim: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/libpangocairo-1.0.so.0: undefined symbol: cairo_scaled_font_get_f In /usr/lib I find:

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Oct 30, 2006 at 10:52:43AM -0600, Kent West wrote: > anthony wrote: > >one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony > >(i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same > >directory > > Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partiti

Re: OT: FidoNet [Was Community hostility [Was Recent spam increase]]

2006-10-30 Thread Tim Post
On Mon, 2006-10-30 at 07:52 -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: > I am not 100% certain, but I believe Usenet predates FidoNet, if you want > to talk about message boards and their equivalents. Blogging, however, is a > different animal. > Not quite, but close. FidoNET pre-dates BitNET (which became U

Re: yikes

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (xserver-xorg-video-ati). Now, for some reason, I've got a plug icon > letting me know that my computer is running on ac power. Hmm. > > Mark And isn't it? :))) Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread hendrik
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 08:12:46PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > * audio editor [ ] > * audio player [ ] > * cd-ripper [ ] > * Desktop Environment [ icewm ] > * DBMS [ ] > * development [ Modula 3, Eiffel, Algol 68, various homebrew notations compiled to C ] > * disc burner [ K3b ]

Re: laptop display (CORRECTION!)

2006-10-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Mark Grieveson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hello. I just installed Debian Etch on an old laptop (IBM Thinkpad > 770). It works okay, but the image is half the screen size. It's a > centred box within the larger screen. How do I make it full size? I > tried "dpkg-reconfigu

Re: argh! linux and floppies

2006-10-30 Thread Mark Grieveson
I've been following this thread with interest, since I was the one who initially expressed his exasperation over Linux coughing up floppies like so much sour milk. Anyway, I finally did find a floppy that was actually mounted by my system (of course, later, my computer rejected it as not worth

Re: Dumb question about unicode

2006-10-30 Thread cothrige
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: [snip] > > > That should at least ease the ulgly-line-problem a little. > > That's twice in two days I've seen ugly spelled as ulgly, and I don't > recall ever having seen it spelled this way before? Is a cosmic > spelling change starting to take e

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Kent West
anthony wrote: one other clue is that I cannot save text files logged in as anthony (i get a no space left on device error) but I can as root in the same directory Ah, then perhaps you're out of drive space on that partition. (*nix leaves a small buffer available for root to write to, which n

Re: Classic Gnubie accident

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 10/29/06 15:57, Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Ron Johnson: > >> On 10/29/06 15:21, anthony wrote: > [snip] > >> And then purge xdm, gdm, kdm and log in like a Real Geek. > > > > Real geeks may still have t

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/29/06 10:08, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > On 10/29/06, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> * shell [ bash ] > > Not such a valid entry, unless many entries go for other shells. If > so,

Re: mutt and maildir question (after recent thread)

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Matus UHLAR - fantomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 29.10.06 15:54, Kevin Mark wrote: > > I just took the plunge to try maildir. I use mutt and had to add a few > > things to my .mutt/muttrc but it seems I'm missing some info. When I > > used mbox, I could move a mail from mbox A to mbox B by u

Re: Is there a way of updating spamassassin rules?

2006-10-30 Thread Raquel
On Mon, 30 Oct 2006 22:10:00 +1100 "Robert S" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run sarge at work and gentoo at home. On my gentoo box there is > an "sa-update" script which updates spamassassin rules, without > requiring that spamassassin is completely updated. Is there an > equivalent script that

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
true. out of three available word processors in sarge (oowriter, koffice, abiword) only oowriter reads and writes properly MS Word's more advanced formattings - shadowed backgrounds, etc. As most people are using MS, oowriter seems quite raisonable choice. regards Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Please trim replies.

2006-10-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There are a few good guides online which talk about "commonly > accepted" etiquette for posting to mailing lists. Heres the > first one that I read through: > > http://www.enabling.org/ia/celiac/netiquett.html > > I hope nobody takes offense

Odp: Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-30 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
> >>  * DBMS [ gnumerica ] >  > Where can I find this? > OK, I meant functionality not real DBMS ;) > Small database for office use - sums, filtering etc. Gnumerica is excellent > here. > Did you misspell gnumeric? I can't find gnumerica in Debian. You're right. Should be - "gnumeric" > "hugin"

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-30 Thread George Borisov
Peter Teunissen wrote: > > > OTH, I just looked at some of my recent image spam and when I substract > the bayes score from the final score, most of it would still be tagged > as spam (I use a threshold of 5). True, but those messages that get through tend to have almost no score assigned to t

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