Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:47:19AM +, Chris Lale wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Given the choice of Americans or Brits answer these questions. Torch is the shortened form of electric torch (provides continuous light, not flashes). I don't know. When I

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Paul Johnson
Niels Rasmussen wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: IRC? Thanks, I'm out of here, bye! Good luck getting good answers out of them without babysitting the channel for hours at a time. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 16:11, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 08:16:06PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: That explains one of the reasons that public transportation is much better here, although in New York City, public

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 15:55, Paul Johnson wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 10:38:41AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: Arnt Karlsen wrote: ..aye, but how many of us on the western side could know for sure before Russia Left the SU? Or

Re: Dosemu

2007-02-26 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 19 Feb 2007 20:42:48 -0900 Greg Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have found a solution, of sorts, as to why Dosemu does not run on 2.6.12 + kernels, basically anything after Debian Sarge. It seems that   2.6.12 Hmm. I'm running 2.6.18 now (self-compiled) and dosemu works, as far as

Re: Installing Debian

2007-02-26 Thread Mike McCarty
Thomas A. Blair Sr. wrote: I am having trouble install Debian on my laptop. I have a Sony Vaio PCG-K25. I am using Windows XP Pro. I can install other Linux OS such as Suse and RedHat. When I get to the Select the Language my computer keyboard and mouse pad will not respond. I am trying to

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:27:42PM -0500, John - wrote: On (26/02/07 19:57), Joey Hess wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Some folks around here consider myself, Ron, Paul, Andrew and some of the others to be experts. I don't think any of us is in any danger of quitting the list.

Re: Download cd-iso images

2007-02-26 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:57:44 -0500 Curt Howland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jigdo has never worked for me. Odd, that. I don't use it a whole lot, but it has worked for me the couple of times I've downloaded etch DVD disk #1 images. I usually, but not always, get appreciable throughput (have a DSL

growisofs: how to write iso files

2007-02-26 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all, The manual of growisofs says the following line can write a iso file to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso when I ran such command, there's error mesage mkisofs doesn't recognize = option, aborting. Which one's problem, growisofs or mkisofs? I use Debian etch,

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 20:38, Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:23:13AM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 10:08, Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:34:12AM -0600 or

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:30:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The answer is to make more wind farms. Winds usually blow during the day, and that's when electricity demand is highest. Thus, (enough) wind farms would help smooth out the need for peak loads from nuke- or non-renewable

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:08:37AM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Excellent examination of early Christianity and the lack of corroborating historical record of Jesus: http://www.thegodmovie.com/index.php Hi Steve: Looks quite interesting ! It is available in it's entirety

Re: Repository

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:16:24PM -0800, Baz wrote: Hello. I need help getting into my source.list to delete some lines. How do I change the permissions? I've tried Synaptic, but the lines I need to delete aren't there. Sebastian If changing the permissions is what you want to do, you

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:38 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of useless desert flooded with salt water and seeded with a certain algae Oops, just went through the TOME summary, its 11,000 square miles. Or about: 0.310959514% of the 3,537,438

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Ron Johnson wrote: The answer is to make more wind farms. Winds usually blow during the day, and that's when electricity demand is highest. Thus, (enough) wind farms would help smooth out the need for peak loads from nuke- or non-renewable generating plants. The irony is that there are

Re: Repository

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:56PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 02:16:24PM -0800, Baz wrote: Hello. I need help getting into my source.list to delete some lines. How do I change the permissions? I've tried Synaptic, but the lines I need to delete aren't there.

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Stephen wrote: Really ? I took a quick look and couldn't find anything over 5 minute trailers for it. Would you have an URL handy ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMiAwe6TAYM will get you to part 2. I think there's 6 parts and all should be in the play list associated with that URL. --

Re: growisofs: how to write iso files

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Feb 27, 2007 at 11:20:00AM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, The manual of growisofs says the following line can write a iso file to a DVD: growisofs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/dvd=image.iso when I ran such command, there's error mesage mkisofs doesn't recognize = option, aborting.

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread Andrew Myers
When you're on the digest that is not an option. Please consider us. :-( Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's getting a little difficult to find the ON topic posts. Mike Three words: filter, filter, filter. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:30:12PM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 20:38, Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:23:13AM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:52:17PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The answer is to make more wind farms. Winds usually blow during the day, and that's when electricity demand is highest. Thus, (enough) wind farms would help smooth out the need for peak loads

OT: sponge-burning with solar-powered microwave ovens [was:: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)]

2007-02-26 Thread Kent West
Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:23:13AM -0600 or thereabouts, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/07 10:08, Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:34:12AM -0600 or thereabouts, Kent West wrote: I'm expecting solar power to become practical in the next three years or

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Kent West
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:47:14PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Alists.debian.org+roberto%40connexer.com This is just a big time guess, 2130 is the number. Mine was a guess too. I just counted all of my mails to

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Stephen
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 08:02:54PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Stephen wrote: Really ? I took a quick look and couldn't find anything over 5 minute trailers for it. Would you have an URL handy ? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMiAwe6TAYM will get you to part 2. I think

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 21:33, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 09:30:12PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The answer is to make more wind farms. Winds usually blow during the day, and that's when electricity demand is highest. Thus, (enough)

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 22:16, Stephen wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:52:17PM -0800 or thereabouts, Steve Lamb wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: The answer is to make more wind farms. Winds usually blow during the day, and that's when electricity demand is

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 21:42, Greg Folkert wrote: On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 17:38 -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Algae based Bio-Diesel. 110,000 square miles of useless desert flooded with salt water and seeded with a certain algae Oops, just went through the TOME

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Excellent point. We hasn't thought of that. On 02/26/07 21:57, Andrew Myers wrote: When you're on the digest that is not an option. Please consider us. :-( Cybe R. Wizard [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: It's getting a little difficult to find the

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:55:04PM -0500, Stephen wrote: FWIW I was raised in a born again fundamentalist Christian family. None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to live. FWIW, there is a big difference between being raised in a born again family and being

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: I hate gmane (or maybe just it's web interface). Try it with NNTP at news.gmane.org. Its indistinguishable from mailing lists/newsgroups, at least in Sylpheed-claws. Cybe R. Wizard -- When Windows are opened the bugs come in. Winduhs -- To

Archiver Cron Jobs

2007-02-26 Thread Michael Pobega
I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with them pretty recently. I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of all of my folders in ~/mail. The way I have my mail set up is one folder per box, for example my folders are: ~/mail/inbox

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:03, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 11:55:04PM -0500, Stephen wrote: FWIW I was raised in a born again fundamentalist Christian family. None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to live.

Re: Archiver Cron Jobs

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:13, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm pretty new to cron jobs, and I've just started playing around with them pretty recently. I'd like to be able to create a cron job that does a weekly archive of all of my folders in ~/mail. The way I

updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-26 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to some hijacked web site called http://firefox/ which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open http://ads1.revenue.net/load/227700/index.html?0_R_NUM=9563354... how to get rid of this

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-26 Thread David E. Fox
On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:15:22 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need something that will detect when I plug in my camera, and import any photos, and that's what gthumb does. I really like digikam. YMMV. --

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW I was raised in a born again fundamentalist Christian family. None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to live. FWIW, there is a big difference between being raised in a born again family and being born again

Re: updated iceweasel firefox now hijacked from homepage to ads!

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:28, Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, With my latest upgrade on sid to iceweasel 2.0.0.2+dfg-1. i now have my firefox opening up to some hijacked web site called http://firefox/ which is a advertising site and it tries to popup open

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:37, David E. Fox wrote: On Mon, 26 Feb 2007 09:15:22 -0600 Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I need something that will detect when I plug in my camera, and import any photos, and that's what gthumb does. I really like

Re: REALLY OT: News Flash

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/26/07 23:38, Tyler MacDonald wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: FWIW I was raised in a born again fundamentalist Christian family. None of the siblings remained in the faith. It was an intolerant way to live. FWIW, there is a big

Re: mysql server won't start,

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Sun, Feb 25, 2007 at 01:32:25PM -0800, tom arnall wrote: On Sunday 11 February 2007 21:57, Andy Smith wrote: How did it go with the changing ownership of files that I recommended? still no luck. to wit: debian:/var/log# chown -Rc mysql:adm /var/log/mysql debian:/var/log#

Re: Number of OT Posts

2007-02-26 Thread John L Fjellstad
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I hate gmane (or maybe just it's web interface). d-u is dual-ported to news:linux.debian.user. That's what I'd use. People actually use gmane over the web interface? Just subscribe to it as you would any other newsgroup by adding news.gmane.org as a

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Sorry, for the Off-Topic ness of this post. I guess we are being admonished for far too much of this. It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads that constitute a large proportion of the mails to this list,

Re: Bio-Based Fuels (OT: a dumb query? pls humor me)

2007-02-26 Thread Greg Folkert
On Tue, 2007-02-27 at 06:08 +, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:42:22PM -0500, Greg Folkert wrote: Sorry, for the Off-Topic ness of this post. I guess we are being admonished for far too much of this. It's interesting that in the relatively few wildly off-topic threads

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:36:59 -0500 John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (24 and 25/02/07) mainly the same four or five folks wrote: Quite a lot of off-topic opinionated political nonsense. Agreed; far too much of it, by the same

Re: A Republican!!!!!! (was Re: OT: sponge burning!)

2007-02-26 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: And dense. Ur/Pl/Coal/LNG/gasoline/diesel have very high energy/mass ratios Solar power stations in space! Never cloudy or dark, light has little mass and high energy, conversion to microwave for beaming to earth receiving stations is easily doable now,

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Andy Smith
On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:58:35PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Some folks around here consider myself, Ron, Paul, Andrew and some of the others to be experts. I don't think any of us is in any

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 02/27/07 00:30, Andy Smith wrote: On Mon, Feb 26, 2007 at 10:24:40AM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 25 Feb 2007 18:36:59 -0500 John - [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On (24 and 25/02/07) mainly the same four or five folks wrote: [snip] No we

Re: OT

2007-02-26 Thread Steve Lamb
Andy Smith wrote: Given how easy it would be for these people to display some self-restraint and a modicum of respect, I really hope they do, before other measures become necessary. That sounds ominous... What other measures would that be, exactly? You going to jello someone's car? --

OT Posts - My apologies!

2007-02-26 Thread Julian De Marchi
I have found my out spoken opinion of OT threads to be quiet mistaken. After having the time to read the non god related ones, they actually do by time in between REAL threads. They have also proven to be quite interesting to read, and I have now realized that they help the Debian Users grow as a

Re: Please help to make a server accesible from the internet

2007-02-26 Thread Jordi
Hi thanks for replying My only device is a router. Thomson Speedtouch 530v6. I have not any other device, nor modem. I have set the Xubuntu PC to work with static ip using these values: ip: 192.168.0.129 subnet mask: 255.255.255.0 gateway: 192.168.0.1 then do a ping: ping -c3 www.google.com

Subtle but annoying X startup problem

2007-02-26 Thread Bob Cox
I have used Linux for several years, but always in CLI only mode. I have a Debian box running mail and webservers and also a couple of NSLU2 'slugs' running Armeb Debian. And they're all fine. Recently, however,I installed Etch with the default desktop settings, on a PC of reasonably modern

RE: Please help to make a server accesible from the internet

2007-02-26 Thread Julian De Marchi
The other Windows PC remains configured to use DHCP. Is there something wrong until this step? No, all is fine so far. Better yet, try to ping your windoze internal IP address. After this, I forwaded the ports 80 and 443 to the Xubuntu PC. When I type mi static ip (85.etc I think I better

How to print on an HP Color Laserjet 2600n (ZJSream protocol)

2007-02-26 Thread Mirto Silvio Busico
Hi all. I need to print on an HP Color Laserjet 2600n Searching for this model showed that this strange print shoud be a winpriter using the ZIStram protocol. I tried different drivers (the hp 2600n, the 2 generic zjstream drivers) with no luck. On this site http://foo2hp.rkkda.com/ it is

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