Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > Joe Hart wrote: >> What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one is >> supposed to only use tools to edit them? > > There is no such suppostion. Reference: OP > Does any utility exist in Etch for [re]co

Re: audiocd utility in gnome?

>> Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's >> audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? >> If not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it. > What does audiocd:/ do? I'm guessing it plays audio CDs. If so, > then you run Foot->"Sound & Video

Re: Wine

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Guillermo Garron wrote: > On 3/15/07, José Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) >> the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im >> interested >> basicly in some windows gam

Re: How to write such sudoers?

On 3/18/07, Andy Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:36:50PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: >I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and >NOPASSWD for some exceptional commands, like nmap. I write the entity >is lists bellow, but it seems not w

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > Marty wrote: >> A. Ben Hmeda wrote: >>> I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has >>> slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I >>> have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Fi

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 11:15:11AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > * Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-07 > > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > > > > > Why not install t

Re: How to write such sudoers?

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:36:50PM +0800, Jeff Zhang wrote: >I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and >NOPASSWD for some exceptional commands, like nmap. I write the entity >is lists bellow, but it seems not work. >test ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin

Re: microphone

* H.S. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070317 23:49]: > Mark Grieveson wrote: > . >>> I listened to a podcast recently (The Linux Action Show) and they >>> were discussing this issue. It turns out that they use another >>> recording device, then use audacity to mix the their recording and >>> create the fini

Re: Nothing works

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:39:51AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: > On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > > > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions didn't > > work. I got the error: "no package xserver-xorg" or something like this. I > > didn't

Re: Nothing works

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:33:21AM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > By the way, the command you gave me to reconfigure my X resolutions didn't > work. I got the error: "no package xserver-xorg" or something like this. I > didn't find a xorg.conf file in /etc/X11, but the configuration file: > XF

Re: Linux User Group?

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 10:55:05AM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Is there any good world-wide Linux User Group? I use Debian, but it would be > better to keep Linux issues not specific to Debian outside this list > . Is it possible to create a list > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? > A LUG and a mailin

Re: Nothing works

Teilhard Knight wrote: Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most anno

Re: Linux User Group?

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > Is there any good world-wide Linux User Group? I use Debian, but it would > be better to keep Linux issues not specific to Debian outside this list > . Is it possible to create a list > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? > Please take a look at comp.os.linux.* newsgroups. You can

Re: Suggestions about the Debian install process

* Roberto C. Sanchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2007-03-07 > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 10:34:17PM +0530, Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > > Background: Installing Debian Testing with DVD 1 on a workstation. > > > > Why not install the following software by default? > > > Because Debian has a very minimal base

Linux User Group?

Is there any good world-wide Linux User Group? I use Debian, but it would be better to keep Linux issues not specific to Debian outside this list . Is it possible to create a list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>? -- Masatran, R. Deepak pgp9reI5TmLFF.pgp Description:

Re: Shred Iterations

Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no > point in overwriting more than once. Is not > > sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda > > sufficient? Not if you *REALLY* want to get rid of something.. the

Shred Iterations

Why does shred have multiple iterations (25) as the default option? I see no point in overwriting more than once. Is not sudo shred --iterations=1 --verbose /dev/sda sufficient? -- Masatran, R. Deepak pgpAfHNay75mA.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: microphone

Mark Grieveson wrote: . I listened to a podcast recently (The Linux Action Show) and they were discussing this issue. It turns out that they use another recording device, then use audacity to mix the their recording and create the finished podcast. They say if they try to use audacity to do

How to write such sudoers?

I want the user can execute commands through sudo with PASSWD and NOPASSWD for some exceptional commands, like nmap. I write the entity is lists bellow, but it seems not work. test ALL = PASSWD: ALL, NOPASSWD: /usr/bin/nmap

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

andy wrote: Hi all A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in whether or not the BIOS will recognise the USB stick at boot, and

Strange problem with iceweasel, google, and nytimes

I use iceweasel for web browsing. A few weeks ago I noticed that I could no longer scroll up and down in nytimes web pages using the up and down arrow keys. I tried lots of things, and finally found a correlation: The problem starts after I visit www.google.com . (For a long time, it _always_ hap

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand. Interesting trend. I suppose eventually we'll see the elimination of alsaconf, printconf, installation scripts for the OS, etc. We'll have to "do it by hand." Perhaps, in the futu

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

Marty wrote: A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. My machine AMDSMP is dual boot w2k/ubuntu 6.06.1

Re: [little ot] official 64bit ooo

On 3/17/07, Tomasz Kaźmierczak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... Searching the web doesn't give any clear answers and I'm just curious how many issues are there to resolve and how many problems one can still encounter when using the 64 bit version. I've been using 64bit OpenOffice since it was av

Uninstall (nearly) everything installed after spacific date

Hi, How can I do this, the way I'd like it to work is cat /var/log/dpkg.log > ./list but filtering by date so it only includes packages installed after a certain time (grep sed?) vi ./list to delete lines for packages you want to keep (running kernel, less, hddtemp, whatever...) pass the ./l

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

* Michael Lueck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070317 17:35]: > A friend recently got BellSouth DSL with 5 Static IP addresses. The router > is a Netopia 3347. > > We are seeing web pages that state that BellSouth's DSL requires PPPoE > installed in Linux verses being configured in the Netopia device. Th

Re: Installing Debian from a memory stick

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 02:45:13AM +, andy wrote: > Hi all > > A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a > laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB > memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in > whether or no

Installing Debian from a memory stick

Hi all A few weeks' back I asked for some ideas re: installing Debian on a laptop with a dodgy CD-R/W. I was wondering if I could do so using a USB memory stick and if anyone has tried this. My primary concern is in whether or not the BIOS will recognise the USB stick at boot, and how I might

Re: vmware guest OS installs

Scott Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: Scott Reese wrote: Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest

Re: aptitude badness and corrupted caches

Thanks all, my old Cache-Limit size is too small, cat /etc/apt/apt.conf APT::Cache-Limit "1250"; after I resize it to 300M, the error is gone. On 8/10/06, Michael Ott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Todd! > I'm getting the following errors: > > E: The package lists or status file coul

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

A. Ben Hmeda wrote: I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. My machine AMDSMP is dual boot w2k/ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (2xAthlon

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

John Hasler wrote: Michael Lueck writes: The first half (pppoe in the modem) I am fine with. This connects to a Debian Linux based firewall, thus no need for DHCP... Just put the Netopia in bridge mode and run PPPoE on the Linux firewall/router. Been there, tried that. Happen to know how to

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

Michael Lueck writes: > The first half (pppoe in the modem) I am fine with. This connects to a > Debian Linux based firewall, thus no need for DHCP... Just put the Netopia in bridge mode and run PPPoE on the Linux firewall/router. The software in the Netopia is crap anyway. -- John Hasler --

Re: OT: Linux Interview Questions

Atis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [snip] > > > >00 06 * * * [ `date -d tomorrow +%d` -eq '01' ] && /the/script > > > > > > > >for 6:00 AM on the last day of each month > > > > when you have multiple commands on a line with && between them, it > > Damn, so this is just a cheat, as the actual command i

Re: Debian's progress inspite of events (was Re: Dunk-Tank and the DD strike)

On Wed, Mar 14, 2007 at 05:45:21PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: > Greg Folkert wrote: > > Hosting companies disallowing Debian as an available > > distro > > I don't remember this happening either. I *do* recall a lot of users > switching to and installing sarge before i

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Michael Lueck wrote: We can indeed "surf" reverting back to the default settings. Indeed, default settings include the PPPoE end point being the Netopia. However, by default it NAT's the connection which makes the fact they include 5 static IP's basically useless. No, o

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

Richard A Nelson wrote: When I had BellSouth service, I completely ignored their instructions (and required windows only install CD) and set my netopia up for PPPoE - and it just worked. We can indeed "surf" reverting back to the default settings. Indeed, default settings include the PPPoE en

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

Joe Hart wrote: > What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one is > supposed to only use tools to edit them? There is no such suppostion. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: BellSouth DSL with Static IP

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007, Michael Lueck wrote: We are seeing web pages that state that BellSouth's DSL requires PPPoE installed in Linux verses being configured in the Netopia device. When I had BellSouth service, I completely ignored their instructions (and required windows only install CD) and se

Re: mozilla-vlc plugin keeps crashing iceweasel

On 3/17/07, Vasil Benov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi all, My system is Debian Etch, Nvidia GeForce4 MX 440 (if this is of any relevance), I use the Gnome desktop environment. I think this might be a bug either in the mozilla-vlc plugin or (not very likely) in the iceweasel. If there is no any

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

Nigel Henry wrote: > After posting I realised that I always put a full stop after my name, and > have never had any problems with missing letters. Perhaps someones put the > hex on the letter h, and it doesn't appear as a final letter in someones > name. > > Just for fun I'll put my full name he

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 23:53, Nigel Henry wrote: > [snip] > > After posting I realised that I always put a full stop after my name, and > have never had any problems with missing letters. Perhaps someones put the > hex on the letter h, and it doesn't appear as a final letter in someones > name.

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 12:06:20AM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > > Ok.My name turned up correct. I'll change my name to Smith now. This will be > interesting. > > Nigel Smith > > using Kmail on FC2 ^^ I know you were having trouble with emacs and all. But don't you consider it

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 23:53, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 23:35, Thomas Jollans wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:38, Nigel Henry wrote: > > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:50, Tyler Smith wrote: > > > > On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > (

Re: import cyrus-spool into lurker

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 09:51:28PM +0100, Wolf Wiegand wrote: > Hi, > > I've sent the same question to debian-user-german, but no answers so > far. > > I want to import my mailing list archives into lurker¹. Unfortunately, > lurker does not support direct imports from a cyrus-spool: > > # lurker

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 10:05:25PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > What is the point of having all info stored in plain text files if one > > is supposed to only use tools to edit them? They might as well be > > binary. Or is it perhaps so other tools can easily read them? > > I still would like to h

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 23:35, Thomas Jollans wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:38, Nigel Henry wrote: > > On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:50, Tyler Smith wrote: > > > On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signat

Re: audiocd utility in gnome?

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:19, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's > audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? If > not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it. I don't know what audiocd:/ does, but I know that gri

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 22:38, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:50, Tyler Smith wrote: > > On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signature > > > for that= to=20 be removed by whatever is removing th

BellSouth DSL with Static IP

A friend recently got BellSouth DSL with 5 Static IP addresses. The router is a Netopia 3347. We are seeing web pages that state that BellSouth's DSL requires PPPoE installed in Linux verses being configured in the Netopia device. Does anyone have a clue how to configure the Debian Sarge PPPoE

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 13:38:22 -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > I actually had tried installing it anyway but no go: > > # aptitude install php5 > Reading Package Lists... Done > Building Dependency Tree > Reading extended state information > Initializing package states... Done > Reading task descrip

Vanilla kernel and third party driver difficulties

Hi guys, I'm running etch, and for the sake of my notebook's ACPI, I'm running the the latest 2.6.21-rc4 kernel. There are some third party drivers that I need, and since 2.6.21-rc3 module-assistant fails to compile any of them, and I get the same error accross the board: /usr/src/modules/rt2x00

Re: SMTP and ports 25 and 1025.

On 16.03.07 09:13, Easthope wrote: > I am trying to understand how SMTP uses ports. > Ultimately I want it to work through a SSH tunnel. > > Normally SMTP uses port 25 but in some cases it uses 1025. in what cases? there is port 587 designed and reserved for message submission via SMTP. > Accord

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 21:50, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signature > > for that= to=20 be removed by whatever is removing them. > > Ok, I've added a new line, let's see if I'm a Smith

Re: Ubuntu: Installing php server: exact sources.list for philippines

On 3/16/07, cec canonigo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i got some error that says: Failed to fetch http://ph.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/dists/dapper-updates/multiverse/binary-i386/Packages.gz Cannot initiate the connection to 3128:80 (0.0.12.56). - connect (22 Invalid argument) Reading package list

Re: audiocd utility in gnome?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 14:19, Mark Grieveson wrote: > Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's > audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? If > not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it. What does audiocd:/

Re: OT: sponge burning!

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 15:03, mc3393 wrote: > Roberto C. Sanchez ha scritto: > >> That would be the militias who are sending people into crowded public >> places to blow themselves up. You see, they have not the courage to >> attack the coalition forces directl

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On 2007-03-17, Thomas Jollans <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (just wildly guessing) try appending a line feed to your signature > for that= to=20 be removed by whatever is removing them. > Ok, I've added a new line, let's see if I'm a Smith again... -- Regards, Tyler Smit -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

import cyrus-spool into lurker

Hi, I've sent the same question to debian-user-german, but no answers so far. I want to import my mailing list archives into lurker¹. Unfortunately, lurker does not support direct imports from a cyrus-spool: # lurker-index -l debian-devel-announce -i /var/spool/cyurs/.../d-d-a does not produce

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

I actually had tried installing it anyway but no go: # aptitude install php5 Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree Reading extended state information Initializing package states... Done Reading task descriptions... Done No candidate version found for php5 No packages will be inst

Re: missing the last letter in my posts

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:48, Tyler Smith wrote: > Hi, > > My name is Tyler Smith, as noted in my signature. I was wondering why > people were often referring to me as Tyler Smit, or previously as > Tyle. Then I realised that my signature was getting truncated by one > letter. I'm using slrn, wi

Re: OT: sponge burning!

Roberto C. Sanchez ha scritto: >That would be the militias who are sending people into crowded public >places to blow themselves up. You see, they have not the courage to >attack the coalition forces directly. > while the militias "voluntary for food" have the courage to bomb old people, women

missing the last letter in my posts

Hi, My name is Tyler Smith, as noted in my signature. I was wondering why people were often referring to me as Tyler Smit, or previously as Tyle. Then I realised that my signature was getting truncated by one letter. I'm using slrn, with my messages edited in emacs. Anyone know what's happening?

Re: A silly question about tar

On 2007-03-17, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Within that directory I issued: > > $ls -1 | xargs -L 1 tar -xf > > and ended up with a test subdirectory containing all nine files. > Ok, I tried that out. The key seems to be the arguments to xarg, either "-L 1" as you sugge

Re: Wine

On 3/15/07, José Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi, i've been reading about wine (cedega and cxOffice also) the question is, which of those packages is better, and why (im interested basicly in some windows games) also, id like to know the difference between wine from debian and wine from wi

Re: Very slow network - Ubuntu

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:31, A. Ben Hmeda wrote: > I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. Why don't you ask there ? debian mailing lists have nothing to do with ubuntu support. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTE

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

On Saturday 17 March 2007 20:44, Kelly Jones wrote: > shows that all PHP5 packages are "virtual"-- they're only used to > satisfy dependencies. I'd just install the virtual packages and see whether it works. They might have dependencies on the actual PHP which mortals are unable to find. Thomas

Re: microphone

On 2007-03-17T13:07:04-0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I'll try audacity, and look into getting a pre-amp for the line-in of > the sound card. We switched from a cheap condenser microphone plugged into the sound card to a PreSonus TubePRE ($100) plus a Studio Projects C3 condenser microphone and saw

Re: How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:44:34PM -0700, Kelly Jones wrote: > > shows that all PHP5 packages are "virtual"-- they're only used to > satisfy dependencies. > > Can I install PHP5 using aptitude, or do I have to download it and > install it the "hard way" (untar it, "sh configure && make && make >

Very slow network - Ubuntu

I have searched ubuntu forums to no avail. My network connection has slowed down considerably since I installed Ubuntu Dapper (6.06.1 LTS) I have disabled ipv6 in /etc/aliases and Firefox, still slow by about 50%. My machine AMDSMP is dual boot w2k/ubuntu 6.06.1 LTS (2xAthlon 2000+ 512 RAM), netw

Re: Nothing works

> Hello: > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit > machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find > essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask > for your help one issue at a time. > The first, and most annoying thing

Re: vote for Debian on Dell computers

Roberto C. Sanchez ha scritto: >OK. I mistook your statement to mean that HP had started offering >Debian on "consumer" equipment. > actualy it seems they are only offering cofee break to some plip developer :-) > I was aware that they support it on >servers (heck, even Dell lets you pick

Re: emacs hogs the cpu

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 18:06:33 GMT Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-03-17, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am using emacs-snapshot and after running for a while it starts hogging > > the cpu at around 50%. Any way to know what it's doing, and how to stop it? > > > > Tha

How to install PHP5 using aptitude?

I tried to install PHP5 (both as an Apache module and as a standalone), but this command: # aptitude search php5 v libapache-mod-php5 - v libapache2-mod-php5 - v php5- v php5-cgi- v php5-cli

audiocd utility in gnome?

Hello. I'm wondering if there is a similar utility to konqueror's audiocd:/ utility in gnome? Does nautilus have a similar utility? If not, I'll just install konqueror, and use it. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL P

make-kpkg makes HUGE kernel packages??

Indeed it was the debug causing the issue. After disabling all DEBUG lines in the .config the kernel is now of the correct size. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: vmware guest OS installs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Scott Reese wrote: > Freddy Freeloader wrote: > Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS >>>

Printer vanishing act

I have an HP PSC 1610 printer / scanner. The printer was connected by USB to another machine on my home network, and I could print to it happily from my own box. That machine went down, so I connected the printer by USB to my own box. Installed the printer by using the CUPS browser interface and

Re: tar vs

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 03:11:22PM -0300, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: > Pardon me if I say something stupid, but I don't know why tar cannot just > 1)run the .tar.rz file through

Re: A silly question about tar

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 01:23:02PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > On 2007-03-17, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I have, and unfortunately it doesn't work. The result is the same as > the original problem with the regular * expansion: > > tyler:tar-> find ./ -name '*.tar.gz' |

Re: Nothing works

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 12:01:11PM -0600, Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello: > > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit ^^ Sarge was never officially released for amd64. So, you are using an unoffic

Re: perl cpan cc: command not found

Jeff Chimene wrote: Hi, While running cpan certain modules don't get built. sh: cc: command not found I know this isn't true: ls /usr/bin/gcc -lat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 22 2006 /usr/bin/gcc -> /etc/alternatives/gcc I'm wondering if the debian-alternatives system is interfering h

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 06:46:10PM +0100, Joe Hart wrote: > > I agree with you, but I can tell you why that is so. Most companies > don't trust things that come for volunteer organizations. The attitude > of many people is "it's worth what you pay for it", which means that > free software has no

Re: emacs hogs the cpu

On 2007-03-17, Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am using emacs-snapshot and after running for a while it starts hogging the > cpu at around 50%. Any way to know what it's doing, and how to stop it? > > Thanks What are you doing with emacs? I find I only ever have problems when I'm worki

Re: A silly question about tar

On 2007-03-17, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> I have, and unfortunately it doesn't work. The result is the same as >> the original problem with the regular * expansion: >> >> tyler:tar-> find ./ -name '*.tar.gz' | xargs echo >> ../one.tar.

Re: perl cpan cc: command not found

On Sat, Mar 17, 2007 at 10:37:47AM -0700, Jeff Chimene wrote: > Hi, > > While running cpan certain modules don't get built. >sh: cc: command not found > > I know this isn't true: > > ls /usr/bin/gcc -lat > lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 22 2006 /usr/bin/gcc -> /etc/alternatives/gcc > > I'm

Re: Nothing works

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Teilhard Knight wrote: > Hello: > > I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit > machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find > essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for >

Nothing works

Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that t

Re: tar vs

On 3/17/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on com

Re: Sound on Linux?

On Saturday 17 March 2007 11:12, Ken Heard wrote: > "Another factor may or may not be relevant. Two days ago I compiled > from source and installed dosemu-1.3.4. The installation was successful > in that it is allowing me to use my beloved dos based applications. > However, the last message retu

Re: tar vs

On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 13:26:40 -0400 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 19:16:04 +0200 > Micha Feigin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sat, 17 Mar 2007 12:08:08 -0400 > > Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Nothing works

Hello: I am new to Linux and I recently installed Debian Sarge for my 64 bit machine. After the installation, and choosing KDE as my GUI, I find essentially that nothing works in the distro. I have decided to ask for your help one issue at a time. The first, and most annoying thing is that th

Re: vmware guest OS installs

Scott Reese wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Freddy Freeloader wrote: Hi All, I have run across something in vmware-server that has me buffaloed. It installs fine, but when I attempt to install Win2K server as a guest OS things go wrong in a fairly strange way. It's as

Re: A silly question about tar

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: > On Sat, 2007-03-17 at 14:34 +0100, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] (script can be found in the previous message) >> Another handy little script. I just love this list. It's a lot easier >> to type x *.zip or x *.rar than it is to right

Re: Running Debian with kernel from other distro....

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Greg Folkert wrote: [snip] > > There isn't any thing I've installed I haven't been able to get working > with a "current" Debian kernel. Of course, I use Sid for everything, > everything I personally manage and have responsibility for and close > prox

Re: tar vs

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:33, Jorge Peixoto de Morais Neto wrote: >> >> - tar has been around forever >> - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar >>becoming more common even on commercial Unices) > > Tar is easily available even on W

Re: Yahoo Quote not working

Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:03, Marc Shapiro wrote: I know that this is not a 'Debian' question, but does anyone know if Yahoo has changed something that would affect the workings of yahooquote? It was working on Thursday, but not yesterda

perl cpan cc: command not found

Hi, While running cpan certain modules don't get built. sh: cc: command not found I know this isn't true: ls /usr/bin/gcc -lat lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 21 May 22 2006 /usr/bin/gcc -> /etc/alternatives/gcc I'm wondering if the debian-alternatives system is interfering here? I've tried ali

Re: emacs hogs the cpu

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/17/07 12:24, Micha Feigin wrote: > I am using emacs-snapshot and after running for a while it starts hogging the > cpu at around 50%. Any way to know what it's doing, Emacs is a jealous OS, and doesn't like Linux trying to usurp it's power. >

Re: tar vs

- tar has been around forever - tar is standard on pretty much every *nix system (which GNU tar becoming more common even on commercial Unices) Tar is easily available even on Windows. Good programs like 7-zip and many, many others, can handle tar well. - gzip provides better compression th

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