computer is always right...

2007-03-05 Thread pinniped
Well, at least in this case the computer is correct. The east coast of Australia is UTC+10:00 for eastern standard time and UTC+11:00 for DST. The computer is correct - when it it 16:50, 6 Mar 2007 UTC, Australian EDST is 3:50 7 Mar 2007. Hmm... then again... is that really saying "EST" -

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 03:36:52 GMT "s. keeling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > No problem with state health insurance, as long as it competes > > *directly* with private ones. > > I'd have no problem with that, assuming I can opt out of paying into > you

Tzconfig......... xfce4

2007-03-05 Thread M-L
Since the upgrade yesterday using xfce4 desktop manager. Reboot this morning... My timezone shows as Australia/Melbourne and yet is wrong:- Your default time zone is set to 'Australia/Melbourne'. Local time is now: Wed Mar 7 03:50:53 EST 2007. Universal Time is now: Tue Mar 6 16:50:53 UTC

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Methinks you're looking at things backwards. Er, wha now? > Hitler used the existing > The same goes for Indians in North America. I said nothing about those so how you pull those outta yer nether parts is beyond me. I was thinking more of the institutionaliz

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
cga2000 wrote: > .. with all due respect, so is "works with zsh." Which wasn't the entirety of my response. I prefaced it with "I know this most likely is not the answer you're looking for" and added I was answering more for completeness of the archives that it is in fact possible in zsh in c

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 08:42, Freddy Freeloader wrote: On that point I will agree with you. The way we treat/ed the Indians is abominable. So does this mean that you *do* agree that we conquered other people's lands?

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/05/07 04:29, Mitja Podreka wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve their own lives. Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like sayi

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings [Was:a dumb query? pls humor me]

2007-03-05 Thread Freddy Freeloader
Steve Lamb wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: treatment of them was born out of racism, not the fact that we are an imperialistic society, because racism comes from human nature, not politics. I dunno, most examples of modern day racism comes from politics. Methinks you're looki

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:23:59PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > FTR, works here in bog standard bash running in aterm. > > *sigh* My point is that if the OP is unable to do what they want telling > him *you* can do it without specifying what options might be neede

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:23:59PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > FTR, works here in bog standard bash running in aterm. > > *sigh* My point is that if the OP is unable to do what they want telling > him *you* can do it without specifying what options might be nee

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:22:45PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 > > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. > > My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an > active internet connection. My install was via: > > apt-

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Kent West
Dave Walker wrote: > Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 > > I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. > > My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an > active internet connection. My install was via: > > apt-get install x-window-system (from cd's) > >

Re: OT: Politics and other actually Debian related ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 21:57, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > The problem is, you can't get the government out of the way.  It's > either work with the government we have, or go with some kind of > anarchy. Wahoo! I couldn't agr

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > No problem with state health insurance, as long as it competes > *directly* with private ones. I'd have no problem with that, assuming I can opt out of paying into your system, and none of my taxes go to pay for your system. Why is it I can't buy private

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 03/05/07 03:06, Paul Johnson wrote: > >> s. keeling wrote: > >>> Uh huh. Move to Canada. Need a hip replacemnt? Six to eighteen > >> > >> The guy on the street doesn't need a hip replacement or a cat scan. A > > > > How do *you* k

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 05 March 2007 21:57, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > As would the Canadians, invaded in 1776 and 1812 unsuccessfully, > > 1812 was a success.  They just couldn't hold Washington for more > than a day because a hurrican

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread s. keeling
Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > s. keeling wrote: > > > Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Steve Lamb wrote: > >> > >> > Paul Johnson wrote: > >> >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but neither > >> >> is any other economic and political model combination. > >> >

Re: No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:22:45PM -0600, Dave Walker wrote: > > I think the command to remove x should be: > > apt-get --purge remove x-window-system , then to run > > apt-get install x-window-system (from the net) > I don't think that will accomplish what you want. The --p

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote: > > So the Standard Oil Trust was a good thing, and we should welcome > > it's return? During the time Standard Oil was in operation, the price of kerosine dropped some 90%. When the company started, all petroleum that wasn't ker

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 06:29:17PM -0800, Marc Shapiro wrote: > > 2) I never said a word about WWI or WWII. My comments we primarily > aimed at the "W" wars. The ones in which the U.S. unilaterally invaded > another country. Not wars which involved major portions of the world > that we were

No Mouse in X

2007-03-05 Thread Dave Walker
Running Sarge 3.1 with kernel 2.4.27-2-386 I have been having problems configuring my mouse in X. My initial install was from the Sarge 3.1 cd's prior to my having an active internet connection. My install was via: apt-get install x-window-system (from cd's) I am considering removing x and re

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread hendrik
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:36:09AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > It's a little disingenious to hide behind the success of World War II to > whitewash over the utter failure of every military action since. Not *every* military action ... Are you foirgetting the invasion of Grenada? -- hendrik

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:31:40PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > Ummm, many of the overseas military bases are in place at the > > *invitation* of the host governments. > > OK, then the host country should be providing revenue equal to expenses > incurred on behalf

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:21:54PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > I'd feel a lot better about the American military protecting Americans if > they were actually stationed where they can defend Americans. How many > soldiers are stationed in Rammstein? How many hours is it to a military > base of

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:14:23PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > No, I didn't. It was an utter failure. It took them how long to rescue > folks from the Superdome? And then the cleanup from the Superdome was so > bad, demolition looked like it would be faster and easier for a time. I > have a

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Marc Shapiro
Freddy Freeloader wrote: Marc Shapiro wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward socialism the more our c

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:54:37AM -0500, Curt Howland wrote: >> >> The US doesn't protect anyone. If the US were actually interested in >> defense, rather than empire, the military bases overseas would be >> closed, rather than manned in 170 countries, of which, what,

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

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Folkert
On Mon, 2007-02-26 at 22:42 -0500, 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 summary, its 11,000

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 09:36, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to > say: >> Freddy Freeloader wrote: >> > [the United States] have never gone to war to expand our borders >> > >> >> The Native Americans might disagree with you > > As would the Canadians, in

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Kevin Mark
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 08:19:29PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:53:42 -0800 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: >

Re: sound recording

2007-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On 2007-03-05, BALLABIO GERARDO <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (please Cc: me, I'm not subscribed) > > Hi all, > > I'm trying to convert some old analog music recordings to CD format, > using my PC running Sarge. I've found some directions in a howto, buyed > a cable and plugged one side into the hea

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/05/07 03:06, Paul Johnson wrote: >> s. keeling wrote: >> >>> Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Steve Lamb wrote: > Paul Johnson wrote: >> Totalitarianism and socialism aren't mutually exclusive, but

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:07:27AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: >> >> So I guess the trick to getting the US to help you is make sure you >> aren't a US taxpayer and move someplace disaster prone. >> > What a crock. If anything, the US government helps US citizens *far

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Curt Howland wrote: > On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, "Roberto C. Sanchez" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for >> interfering too much in people's daily lives and sitting idly by >> (or providing only token participation) while th

Re: debian-user-digest Digest V2007 #681

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > В Пнд, 05/03/2007 в 14:27 -0600, Mike McCarty пишет: > > What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating > > backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b > > may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option >

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 20:19:29 -0500 Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Frank McCormick wrote: > > Funny but I get the exact same error everytime I run aptitude > > update - but the second time I run it I get no error. And yes > > debian-archive-keyring is on my machine. Weird. > > http.us

Re: xorg stops putting monitor on standby after ~2 days

2007-03-05 Thread jason . public
On 3/2/07, Jörg-Volker Peetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: jason.public wrote: > I'm having a problem with xorg not putting the monitor on standby > after 2-3 days. If I restart X, the monitor will go on standby after > ~5 minutes, but then it will stop going on standby after X uptime is > over 2-3

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > FTR, works here in bog standard bash running in aterm. *sigh* My point is that if the OP is unable to do what they want telling him *you* can do it without specifying what options might be needed to bring them in line with your configuration. Barring that askin

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Joey Hess
Frank McCormick wrote: > On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:53:42 -0800 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > > > > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s > > > (11.3kB/s)

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew J. Barr
On Tue, 2007-03-06 at 00:08 +, Hans du Plooy wrote: > On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works > > like on > > Windows systems, though. > > I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Frank McCormick
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 11:53:42 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:03:02PM +0100, Jonas Geiregat wrote: > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s > > (11.3kB/s) Reading package lists... Done > > W: GP

Re: Is this a DoS attack?

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Anthony Campbell wrote: Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if data were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do not show You might try watching for the next time this happens, and run tcpdump. Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){pr

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:14:44PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:4

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 5, 6:10 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hello

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread cga2000
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 03:36:35PM EST, Franck Joncourt wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:04:05AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > >> Hello: > > >

Re: IMAP Mail server question

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 22:43 +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > There is one(?) caveat though. Don't create your Maildir directory by > hand. USE the maildirmake program and then create your mailboxes using > the -f switch of maildirmake. Believe me, it can save you lots of grief. > Otherwise courier-i

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Hans du Plooy
On Mon, 2007-03-05 at 21:55 +0100, Mathias Brodala wrote: > You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like > on > Windows systems, though. I've ran it through crossover office - not through vanilla wine though. It does work, but there are limitations. For one thing

Re: Lock down user account in Debian/Gnome

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 09:20:22AM +1000, Greg Vickers wrote: > Hi all, > > I am building a couple of PCs which will be used for public Internet > access in a small library. These PCs will also be on the same physical > network as the 'office' PCs. Obviously I'd like these PCs to have > serious

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Tue, Mar 06, 2007 at 02:56:48AM +0530, Siju George wrote: > yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? > > restoring from backup then :-( > Yep. A recent backup is your only hope, unless you want to spend thousands of dollars on a data recovery service, which may or may not

Running aptitude with a dpkg process still hanging around. Is it possible?

2007-03-05 Thread Jeff Stevens
After I exited an 'aptitude remove' that froze, dpkg has been left in an odd state. It's parent is init so I can't 'kill -9' it however it has a lock file which prevents me from running aptitude again. I manually removed /var/lib/dpkg/lock and ran aptitude. Aptitude currently appears frozen -- j

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:54:56PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Is it really a return? Tell me Paul, since in your previous message you > touted "testing into the proper grade level" one would presume you're > educated. Tell me what's the difference between profit and profit margin? > Furthe

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:20:28AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Mitja Podreka wrote: > > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve > >> their own lives. > >> > > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying > > that ric

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:19:32AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: > >> The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian > >> governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Madden
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 15:11:09 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > > Wackojacko wrote: > > > > Well, that's not quite the goal. It doesn't address the MacroVision. > >

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Roberto C. Sanchez
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:18:06AM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > > It depends on the country it's practiced whether this is a bad thing. The > US would be highly compatible as all power of the government flows from the > citizen to the government, not the other way around. Democratic socialism >

Re: any experiences with knujon

2007-03-05 Thread Michael Pobega
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 05:14:09PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Recently I came across http://www.knujon.com/ which claims that it is > successful in shutting down spam websites. Has anyone already tried it? > Does it work as effectively as they claim it to be? Is it safe to register > wit

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 11:20:54PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > cga2000 wrote: > > .. and as everybody will no doubt have noticed, ss/tt is one keystroke > > less than ss/*t* (not to mention the fact that the '*' is shifted and a > > little harder to reach). > > Ok, and now to point out the othe

Zorp Can't Open policy.boot

2007-03-05 Thread Matt Miller
Under etch I can't seem to get zorp instances to start. I see the following in syslog: Error opening policy.boot file; file='${prefix}/share/zorp/policy.boot' That error is repeated for each instance I'm trying to start. Now, I don't know what ${prefix} is set to, but I'm thinking that it must b

Lock down user account in Debian/Gnome

2007-03-05 Thread Greg Vickers
Hi all, I am building a couple of PCs which will be used for public Internet access in a small library. These PCs will also be on the same physical network as the 'office' PCs. Obviously I'd like these PCs to have seriously restricted access to the local network, what I'd like to know is can

Re: OT: Politics and other non-Debian ramblings

2007-03-05 Thread Curt Howland
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I said: > > I wonder if the Germans would suggest West Berlin, as well as the > > continued military occupation of Japan. Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> replied: > How can you possibly claim that the occupation of West Berlin or > Japan is an example of

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:27:34PM -0600, Mike McCarty wrote: > Wackojacko wrote: > > Well, that's not quite the goal. It doesn't address the MacroVision. > Part of the impetus is to remove MV so she (actually I) don't have to > recable. A full copy with MV removed would be ideal, but just the > m

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 01:47:05PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello everyone, > > > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided

Re: Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:29:16PM -0800, Steve Lamb wrote: > Zoho Vignochi wrote: > > Also if I maximize a window, the edge of that window disappears a little > > as well. The amount is very small and so does not affect the working of > > the scrollbar but is still noticeable. Is this normal? > >

Re: sparse matrix computation package

2007-03-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Micha Feigin wrote: > I am trying to find a package for performing sparse matrix computations. > All I could find under debian is superlu and libufsparse. Both of which > seem to only solve sparse linear systems but not perform sparse > matrix-vector computations (I need to implement so iterative

Video Tutorials

2007-03-05 Thread Martin Kenneth Lopez
Hello everyone, I been working with video tutorials on Linux mostly in spanish about several subject for example, distributions installations... and more, now I make eight video tutorials about multimedia on Linux how to use qemu, xvidcap, lives on linux so anyone can make their own video tut

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Виталий Ищенко wrote: В Пнд, 05/03/2007 в 14:27 -0600, Mike McCarty пишет: What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option to modify the content at all. Is this

Re: Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Zoho Vignochi wrote: > Also if I maximize a window, the edge of that window disappears a little > as well. The amount is very small and so does not affect the working of > the scrollbar but is still noticeable. Is this normal? I believe so, yes. A normal mouse pointer points up and left. The

Re: Is this a DoS attack?

2007-03-05 Thread Cybe R. Wizard
Matthew K Poer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Sun, 2007-03-04 at 17:07 +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > Earlier today my router showed long periods of flickering, as if > > data were coming in or going out. I am the only user. Log files do > > not show anything wrong, nor does chkrootkit, and To

sparse matrix computation package

2007-03-05 Thread Micha Feigin
I am trying to find a package for performing sparse matrix computations. All I could find under debian is superlu and libufsparse. Both of which seem to only solve sparse linear systems but not perform sparse matrix-vector computations (I need to implement so iterative and multigrid methods for blo

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Wackojacko wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: No, I don't mean DVDShrink. My girlfriend downloaded one (cost $25 USD) and I was trying to run it under Wine. It seems to run, but I hit some snags with permissions (all files on the DVD are owned by root:root). I thought that, rather than fool with Wine e

Re: Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Land Haj wrote: Hi! I'm still trying to get used to having raid-1 on my new etch installation. I have a very simple question: When I reboot or turn off my computer, the system always has trouble umounting the raid devices. It says they are busy (in red, warning letters). But the shutdown co

Re: ANSI art with xterm

2007-03-05 Thread Jeremy Cyrus
Does anyone have any information for me on this problem please? On 3/2/07, Jeremy Cyrus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thus spake Jan Willem Stumpel on Wed, May 10, 2006 at 05:06:20PM +0200 or thereabouts: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2006-05-10 13:36]: > cga2000 wrote: > > > Not AFAIK. But xterm basically

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Виталий Ищенко
В Пнд, 05/03/2007 в 14:27 -0600, Mike McCarty пишет: > What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating > backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b > may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option > to modify the content at all. Is this correct? > > Mik

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Mar 5, 4:20 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everyone, > > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network

any experiences with knujon

2007-03-05 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Recently I came across http://www.knujon.com/ which claims that it is successful in shutting down spam websites. Has anyone already tried it? Does it work as effectively as they claim it to be? Is it safe to register with them? Since mailing lists such as debian-www etc., are contaminated by spam

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Wackojacko
Mike McCarty wrote: Mathias Brodala wrote: You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like on Windows systems, though. No, I don't mean DVDShrink. My girlfriend downloaded one (cost $25 USD) and I was trying to run it under Wine. It seems to run, but I hit some

Mouse can disappear from screen

2007-03-05 Thread Zoho Vignochi
Hello, I am not sure if this is the default behaviour or not but my mouse can move off the right-hand side as well as the bottom of the screen. The left-hand side and top are like a "hard-edge" where if you try to move off screen the mouse stays up against the edge. However on the other two sides

Re: apt-get update success but with errors

2007-03-05 Thread Jochen Schulz
Jonas Geiregat: > Hello, > > At the end of the 'apt-get update' I get the follow output: > > Fetched 74.6kB in 6s (11.3kB/s) > > Reading package lists... Done > W: GPG error: http://http.us.debian.org testing Relea

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 12:39:42 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional > pa

Raid shuts down uncleanly?

2007-03-05 Thread Land Haj
Hi! I'm still trying to get used to having raid-1 on my new etch installation. I have a very simple question: When I reboot or turn off my computer, the system always has trouble umounting the raid devices. It says they are busy (in red, warning letters). But the shutdown completes anyway. Th

Re: undelete from XFS

2007-03-05 Thread Siju George
yes the sad fact is there is no undelete for XFS! - is it so? restoring from backup then :-( Thankyou so much :-) --Siju On 3/6/07, Siju George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I just rm -rf some stuff from XFS filesystem :-( is there any way to undelete? Thankyou so much kindRegards Siju

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On 5 Mar 2007 12:39:42 -0800 "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian > 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD > (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed add

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Mathias Brodala wrote: You mean DVDShrink and you can run it through WINE. Not sure if it works like on Windows systems, though. No, I don't mean DVDShrink. My girlfriend downloaded one (cost $25 USD) and I was trying to run it under Wine. It seems to run, but I hit some snags with permissions

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Mathias Brodala wrote: Hello Bob. Bob McGowan, 01.03.2007 20:53: I'm trying to set up bridged networking for a Qemu guest system. The doc I have says I need to do a 'chmod 666 /dev/net/tun' to be able to do this. And, I see the permissions on it are: crw--- 1 root root 10, 200 2007-02-27

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:36:09 -0800 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > It's a little disingenious to hide behind the success of World War II to > whitewash over the utter failure of every military action since. "Every" US military action since WWII has been a "utter failure" ? The f

Re: Qemu and tun/tab usage - /dev/net/tun permissions

2007-03-05 Thread Bob McGowan
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 09:37:13AM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 12:15:57AM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Thu, Mar 01, 2007 at 04:10:11PM -0800, Bob McGowan wrote: On my system, the file /etc/udev/rules.d/020_p

Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-05 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hello everyone, I'm a long time RH/Fedora sysadmin/user and have decided to use Debian 3.1r5 on my server at home. I downloaded the bootable Network CD (180MB) and then via the config after boot I installed additional packages. Everything is working fine and I installed vim 6.3 (current stable v

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > That's patently false. Socialism is an economic model, not a political one. It's a political one. As has been told to you repeatedly economic freedom is personal freedom. When you tell people what they can and cannot do with their possessions then you are restricting t

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007 08:54:37 -0500 Curt Howland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Monday 05 March 2007 02:22, "Roberto C. Sanchez" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > > See, and I have been losing respect for the rest of world for > > interf

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Steve Lamb
Paul Johnson wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: >>> The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian >>> governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities. >> The terms socialism and communi

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hello Mike. Mike McCarty, 05.03.2007 21:47: > I've seen a tool (for Win...) which claims to be able to put > a DVD onto a CD, which can then be played on a DVD player. > It claims that it does additional compression, and removes > the menu and "additional material" (I suppose the director > commen

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > When will you socialists learn to understand that the extremely high > taxes and all the government programs you have are all forms of > control? It depends on the country it's practiced whether this is a bad thing. The US would be highly compatible as all power of the

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 11:02:26AM +0100, Mitja Podreka wrote: >> The terms socialism and communism were vandalised by the authoritarian >> governments and individuals, in order to legitimate their authorities. > > The terms socialism and communism where not vandalized

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Marc Shapiro wrote: >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>> On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 07:04:13PM -0800, Freddy Freeloader wrote: >>> >>> If we do go socialistic this nation will have abandoned what made it great. I hope you do notice that the further we move toward so

Re: DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option to modify the content at all. Is this correct? Sorry to reply to myself, but I left out anot

Re: a dumb query? pls humor me

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Johnson
Mitja Podreka wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> Or... they could get off their butts, get an education and improve >> their own lives. >> > Saying that poor people are poor because they are lazy is like saying > that rich people are rich because they are hard working. I've found the opposite tend

Re: Wrong MB for Linux ???

2007-03-05 Thread Joe
Thomas H. George wrote: On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 04:32:12PM +, Joe wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Without research I purchased the ECS KA3 MVP motherboard AMD Athlon 64 AM2 combo from NewEgg. This seems like a very nice MB in many respects but I have encountered two problems. First, Sta

Re: vim like completion in bash?

2007-03-05 Thread Franck Joncourt
On Mon, Mar 05, 2007 at 02:04:05AM -0500, cga2000 wrote: > On Sun, Mar 04, 2007 at 06:54:45PM EST, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Wayne Topa wrote: > > > zhengquan zhang([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > >> Hello: > > >> I can :e *doc* in vim, pressing tab and it can help me find the document

DVD ripping/copying/demacroing/deregionalizing

2007-03-05 Thread Mike McCarty
What is the preferred toolchain to use on Debian for creating backup copies of DVDs (movie, not data)? It appears that K3b may be able to make exact copies of DVDs without any option to modify the content at all. Is this correct? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,

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