Re: German characters in English locale

2008-03-09 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:09:19PM +0100, Peter Robinson wrote: > Hi all, > > I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts > using latex. The typical > > \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst???tzung > \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Win

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:01:50PM -0400, "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Every time I see that kind of message, I just pick the "real" base > > package that I want. > > So does this mean that those metapa

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread hce
On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/09/08 21:22, hce wrote: > > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [snip] > > >> > >> Is this a Ximeta NDAS drive? Do you have the correct driver? > >> http://code

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 10, 2008 at 01:48:16AM +, Tim Channon wrote: > Mitchell Laks wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Question 1: >> >> On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. >> I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. >> I am running sid. >> >> Which of t

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 21:22, hce wrote: > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] >> >> Is this a Ximeta NDAS drive? Do you have the correct driver? >> http://code.ximeta.com/trac-ndas/wiki >> http://code.ximeta.com/trac-ndas/wiki/HowToBuil

Re: Wireless stopped working...

2008-03-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
laura eznarriaga wrote: > Then, it stopped working. It says connected, but there's no internet. I > have made no changes to the wireless, no changes to the Ubuntu install, > as far as I know. > > Any idea why it would spontaneously quit working? > > I'm using WEP shared encryption. Not t

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 11:40:57 Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. > > The meta-package will always depend on the most

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread hce
On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/09/08 18:49, hce wrote: > > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> > >> On 03/09/08 17:38, hce wrot

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Andrius wrote: > > One more question. How to megre several pdf files to one file using > command mode please? > pdftk is what you are after. Sample command looks like pdftk in1.pdf in2.pdf cat output out1.pdf For more info, take a look at the pdftk's man page. It can do much more than simply

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 18:49, hce wrote: > On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> >> On 03/09/08 17:38, hce wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > What is the maximum partition size for an external HDD

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error mes

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 17:01, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 03/09/08 13:40, Mitchell Laks wrote: > >>> I use apt not aptitude ( :( ). I am used to it. >>> When I try to do >>> apt-get install linux

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach?

2008-03-09 Thread Raquel
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 16:37:41 -0700 Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Did anyone else notice that spamassassin buried this message > > > for the mere mention of the site "mail-to-web.com"? (that's > > > not the string that was used, but I don't want to fall into a > > > spam

Re: Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-09 Thread Tim Channon
Mitchell Laks wrote: Hi, Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Which of these kernels is appropriate? linux-image-2.6-24-1-486 linux-image-2.6-24-1-686 lin

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sunday 09 March 2008 05:53:50 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:37:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD > > > kernel. To me, this wo

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Mike Bird wrote: On Sun March 9 2008 08:59:45 postid wrote: Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or a software problem? ext2? ext3? ... If ext2, I'd suggest adding a journal. --Mike Bird ext3 -- To UNSUBSCRIB

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:37:38PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > I'd be very interested in Debian, with aptitude, etc, with the OpenBSD > > kernel. To me, this would be the best of both worlds. > > Debian, being the universal op

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 28 February 2008 03:09:48 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 10:30:23PM -0800, debian azul wrote: > > Debian does not need a friendly mascot. That is ridiculous. Debian is > > well known because it is great work not because its appearance is nice or > > cool. There are

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thursday 06 March 2008 03:25:25 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Or, was there a pig in Toy Story? Does Pixar use Debian on its boxes > and would they lend us non-exclusive rights to use the image? Yup, and there was even a Debian version named after him. "Hamm." -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: Debian Install from DVD

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 06:03:27PM -0400, Alan McConnell wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > > > I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD > > > Debian etch set. Howe

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread Jeff D
hce wrote: On 3/10/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: > On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: >> > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid >> > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 08:44:57 pm Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Wednesday 27 February 2008, Rich Healey wrote: > ... > > > Many of my windows using mates are at least familiar with Tux, even > > though many have only ever used linux at my place (and then only > > using firefox to check email, har

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 03 March 2008 03:07:27 am Richard Lyons wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:44:14PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > [...] > > > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/calimero.jpg > > http://fixxxer.cc/images/mascot/little_pinguin.jpg > > Excellent for breaking into the primary school market!

Re: software index is broken

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 08:50:26PM +0100, laura eznarriaga wrote: > Software index is broken > - > "Software index is broken > > It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package > manager "Synap

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tuesday 04 March 2008 09:08:13 am Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 11:48:18PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > It's very disturbing that you know so much lolcode. > > He probably wrote the debian-installer. > > It lol when it sees my old boxes. > > "Whahaha! you're still usin

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread hce
On 3/10/08, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > hce wrote: > > On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > >> > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > >> > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 03:59:45PM +, postid wrote: > For the second time in a month I got an error message > indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. > > I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load > my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on > boot) a

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 01 March 2008 11:44:02 pm Chris Bannister wrote: > http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg No me gusta! -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part.

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wednesday 27 February 2008 06:06:37 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 09:41:24PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > - Forwarded message from Sam Hocevar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - > > > >I also would like to spend some Debian money on a contest, similar to > > the FreeBSD

Re: Width of line

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 March 2008 03:39:33 pm Andrius wrote: > Look at that. It is a signature for one politics forum. Looks cool, is it? It features a BUAF that doesn't get preserved when viewed in a variable-width font. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digital

Re: Width of line

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Saturday 08 March 2008 02:46:30 pm Andrius wrote: > 78 was too big. After 72 looks OK. 78 doesn't leave enough for the next person to reply, 72 is the rule of thumb to stay under 80 after quoting. > Is 5 rows really netiquette? 4, actually. The McQuarry Limit. http://catb.org/~esr/jargon/h

Re: MIDI Score Reader/Editor that WORKS??

2008-03-09 Thread Robin
On 09/03/2008, Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 09/03/2008, laura eznarriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > * > > * > > -- > > Ok, I'm getting really frustrated. I have a midi score I want to read > > and print, and I CANNOT find a program that just F*cki

Re: comments about Debian based Xandros

2008-03-09 Thread Kevin Mark
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:47:44PM +0100, Simon Jolle sjolle wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi Debian Users > > Anybody have experience with Xandros products? According Wikipedia its > based on Debian. > > Are all Debian packages available? Is there Debian compatibi

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread hce
On 3/10/08, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 03/09/08 17:38, hce wrote: > > Hi, > > > > What is the maximum partition size for an external HDD? I tried to use > > > The location of the drive is irrelevant. > > > > one partition

Re: MIDI Score Reader/Editor that WORKS??

2008-03-09 Thread Robin
On 09/03/2008, laura eznarriaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > * > * > -- > Ok, I'm getting really frustrated. I have a midi score I want to read and > print, and I CANNOT find a program that just F*cking WORKS. I have tried GNU > Denemo, and it crashes when I load a sc

Re: Advice about server solution.

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 07:33:00PM +0200, Markus Viitam?ki wrote: > Hello all debian users, I am in a little need of help. Some weeks back I > got this "task" to plan a server for shell-accounts. And now I have started > searching for solutions, and I have found some. For example > www.debian-ha

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:52:50PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/09/08 13:40, Mitchell Laks wrote: > > I use apt not aptitude ( :( ). I am used to it. > > When I try to do > > apt-get install linux-image-2.6 it tell me that it is a virtual package > > provided by (the long list of packages).

Re: maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 17:38, hce wrote: > Hi, > > What is the maximum partition size for an external HDD? I tried to use The location of the drive is irrelevant. > one partition for a 250 G external HDD for a backup, the partition was Bigger than 250GB, that

Re: Failure to load sbp2

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 17:10, C. Bronson H. Crothers wrote: > It seems my MAC G3 "blue and white", 512k RAM, will not mount my iPod > under stable etch. > [snip] > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ modprobe sbp2 > bash: modprobe: command not found modprobe is a privileged b

Re: Wireless not working afte update

2008-03-09 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 laura eznarriaga wrote: | * | * | | First question: | Is it always bad to update Ubuntu? | | I have an Acer with an Atheros wifi | Wifi was working using madwifi before update

Which stock linux-image kernel for 32 bit debian on amd athlon64 processor?

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, Question 1: On one machine I am running a 32 bit debian install on a amd64 bit machine. I run 64 bit on another machine, and this one is an older install. I am running sid. Which of these kernels is appropriate? linux-image-2.6-24-1-486 linux-image-2.6-24-1-686 linux-image-2.6-24-1-k7 I

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread Jeff D
hce wrote: On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process

comments about Debian based Xandros

2008-03-09 Thread Simon Jolle sjolle
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Debian Users Anybody have experience with Xandros products? According Wikipedia its based on Debian. Are all Debian packages available? Is there Debian compatibility (or they implement their own things)? If no, what are the differences? How is the

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Sun March 9 2008 08:59:45 postid wrote: > Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA > loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or > a software problem? ext2? ext3? ... If ext2, I'd suggest adding a journal. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

maximum partition size

2008-03-09 Thread hce
Hi, What is the maximum partition size for an external HDD? I tried to use one partition for a 250 G external HDD for a backup, the partition was ok, but then the format process was stuck which caused my debian box freeze. I cannot even turn my debian box off. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Failure to load sbp2

2008-03-09 Thread C. Bronson H. Crothers
It seems my MAC G3 "blue and white", 512k RAM, will not mount my iPod under stable etch. Here is some command line torture/thrashing I have worked through: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ tail /var/log/messages Mar 9 17:41:02 localhost kernel: pcilynx0: SelfID process finished (phyid 1, root) Mar 9 17:41:

Re: For a single session in RMAIL in EMACS what already existing ...

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (Subject lines are not designed for the complete first paragraph of your post.) On 03/09/08 16:54, Don Saklad wrote: > Thank you folks! > > Filtering RMAIL spam messages with spammassassin headers. > For a single session in RMAIL in EMACS, emphasis,

Re: What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 10:59, postid wrote: > Greetings: [snip] > > Any ideas as to what causes such problems? Is it that PCMCIA > loading problem, my hard drive dying, an OS problem or > a software problem? Inattentive parents? Republican budget cuts? Sex, d

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:27:59PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL > > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> Doug > >> The mind boggles i

Re: Debian Install from DVD

2008-03-09 Thread Alan McConnell
On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 08:55:41PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Mar 07, 2008 at 02:34:35PM -0500, Alan McConnell wrote: > > I want to upgrade from sarge to etch, and have purchased a 3 DVD > > Debian etch set. However my DVD player/reader is external, attached > > to a usb port, and I

What causes bad inodes?

2008-03-09 Thread postid
Greetings: For the second time in a month I got an error message indicating bad inodes and had to fsck manually. I've had bad inodes before not long after a failure to load my PCMCIA modem (which resulted in endless error messages on boot) and before I knew alt sysrq-r -s -e -i -u -b and had sh

For a single session in RMAIL in EMACS what already existing emacs commands are there to filter all the email in RMAIL with spamassassin headers indicating spam to a separate file that can be checked

2008-03-09 Thread Don Saklad
Thank you folks! Filtering RMAIL spam messages with spammassassin headers. For a single session in RMAIL in EMACS, emphasis, for a single session, what already existing emacs commands are there to filter all the email in RMAIL with spamassassin headers indicating spam to a separate file that can b

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread hce
On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk > > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stoppe

Re: Exim4 - local mail deliveries

2008-03-09 Thread Felix Karpfen
On Sun, 09 Mar 2008 00:04:51 +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 09:48:16PM +, Felix Karpfen wrote: > >> logcheck.conf offers a choice of where to send notifications. I had >> set it to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". It looks as though I would >> have spared myself a lot of headac

i can't make the file

2008-03-09 Thread can comert
I have a debian(lenny) version on asus f3sv laptop computer when i tried to install wireless device dirvers i had to make them but when i write make i get these output Linux debian 2.6.22-3-amd64 #1 SMP debian:/home/tilki/iwlwifi-1.2.25# make Kernel Makefile not found at '/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-a

Re: i have a problem

2008-03-09 Thread Thilo Six
laura eznarriaga wrote the following on 09.03.2008 20:48 > Hi All, > > I have just made a fresh install of ubuntu 7.10 on my computer. > Wifi connection is working great through the Network Manager panel > applet but I must start it manually each time I open a session. > > I've checked System ->

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 02:40:57PM -0400, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. > > Th

Bluetooth SE W580i to Dell 8600

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- Hello. I'm wondering about how I can connect my cell to Ubuntu? My comp have internal Bluetooth HW, and it's working, but when I try to connect to my phone this comes up "«obex://[00:1b:59:bb:3d:53]» er

Wireless stopped working...

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- My Dell Latitude C610 with an Atheros AR5212/5213 mini-PCI card (according to Hardware information) has been connecting to my wireless network for a good month. Then, it stopped working. It says connected

Printer issue

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- I am getting this error from the cups web admin page for my system... Unable to connect to CIFS host, will retry in 60 seconds... This is an HP Laser Jet 1020 printer that my linux system is trying to u

Wireless not working afte update

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- First question: Is it always bad to update Ubuntu? I have an Acer with an Atheros wifi Wifi was working using madwifi before update When I try to follow the instructions on this page: http://wiki.eeeuse

software index is broken

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
Software index is broken - "Software index is broken It is impossible to install or remove any software. Please use the package manager "Synaptic" or run "sudo apt-get install -f" in a terminal to fix this issue at firs

MIDI Score Reader/Editor that WORKS??

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- Ok, I'm getting really frustrated. I have a midi score I want to read and print, and I CANNOT find a program that just F*cking WORKS. I have tried GNU Denemo, and it crashes when I load a score. Rosegarden i

i have a problem

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
Hi All, I have just made a fresh install of ubuntu 7.10 on my computer. Wifi connection is working great through the Network Manager panel applet but I must start it manually each time I open a session. I've checked System -> Preferences -> Session -> Startup Programs and "Network manager"

HOWTO: Install the ATI driver on ANY stable version of Ubuntu

2008-03-09 Thread laura eznarriaga
- If you want to install ATI's proprietary driver you can follow this guide: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI - Enviado desde Correo Yahoo! El correo favori

Re: consoliate mail archives with duplicate messages

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Monday 18 February 2008 10:43:46 am Russell L. Harris wrote: > Is there an archiving utility or other reasonably simple approach > whereby I can process these mail files to (1) considate them into a > single file or archive and (2) eliminate duplicate messages? KMail can do both, albeit slowly,

Re: diff nv vs nvidia

2008-03-09 Thread Wei Chen
On 3/10/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset. > > Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a > picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the > debian-packaged nVidia driver. I no

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 13:52 Sun 09 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote: > Every time I see that kind of message, I just pick the "real" base > package that I want. > I agree Ron, I would like to select it myself also. However, I kind of thought that when you do apt-get dist-upgrade against security and there is a major k

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 18:37 Sun 09 Mar , Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Do you actually have packages from contrib / non-free? > > If not, remove those sources and save a few seconds on each update. If > you do, you better have non-free updates as well. > Tzafrir, Thank you. You have sharp eyes. On this, hopefully s

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 13:40, Mitchell Laks wrote: > On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only >> have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. >> The meta-pack

Re: German characters in English locale

2008-03-09 Thread Jörg Becker
On Sunday 09 March 2008 19:09, Peter Robinson wrote: > I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts > using latex. The typical > > \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung > \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Windows > \usepackage[T1]{font

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Mitchell Laks
On 13:57 Sun 09 Mar , Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Do you have the linus-image-2.6 meta-package installed? If you only > have an actual linux-image deb installed, it will never be upgraded. > The meta-package will always depend on the most recent version and will > be updated at the time that the

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Unrelated comment: On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a minimal install debian machine as a firewall and I would > like to keep it secure and up to date. > > I included > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free > deb http:/

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Brad Rogers
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:44:33 -0400 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Douglas, > soldering with circuit-board cleaner, which presumably is safe for the > newly-soldered caps. Not always. Some components are soldered to PCBs after flow soldering and de-fluxing, because either t

diff nv vs nvidia

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I have an Asus EN7300GT silent that uses the nVidia chipset. Where possible, I try to go with free drivers. I had noticed a picture-quality improvment when watching DVDs if I use the debian-packaged nVidia driver. I notice a huge performance improvement using kpdf in that the rende

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Rob Sims
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:44:33PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:05:34PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > >> I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used > > >> in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit > > >> grimey ins

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Kevin Buhr
"Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used in > what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit grimey > inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I should clean > that off so the dust doesn't act

German characters in English locale

2008-03-09 Thread Peter Robinson
Hi all, I like to have my environment in English but need to write German texts using latex. The typical \usepackage[ngerman]{babel} % deutsche Sprachunterst�tzung \usepackage[ansinew]{inputenc} % Zeichencodierung Windows \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} does not work. If I type a German character s

Advice about server solution.

2008-03-09 Thread Markus Viitamäki
Hello all debian users, I am in a little need of help. Some weeks back I got this "task" to plan a server for shell-accounts. And now I have started searching for solutions, and I have found some. For example www.debian-hardened.org. But they've stopped their development so I got no use of that

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 01:08:00PM -0400, Mitchell Laks wrote: > I am running a minimal install debian machine as a firewall and I > would like to keep it secure and up to date. > > I included > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free deb > http://security.debian.org etch/upd

upgrade to Lenny breaks amarok and mplayer

2008-03-09 Thread BartlebyScrivener
Using kernel 2.6.22-3-k7 after upgrading from etch to lenny. I installed new nvidia drivers because nvidia-glx is no longer in testing. Now when I start amarokapp or mplayer, I get segmentation fault. Anybody else? Thanks RD -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: What use is gstreamer?

2008-03-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Sunday 09 March 2008 17:50, Keith Richie wrote: > On Sun, Mar 9, 2008 at 11:59 AM, David Fox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/8/08, Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Looks like you're missing gstreamer-bad, ugly, lame, and ffmpeg. The > > > > > > gstreamer-ffmpeg from debian is m

Re: logs out user unexpectedly

2008-03-09 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Sun March 9 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/09/08 07:01, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > we have 2 users on our system, and every 10 minutes my wife gets logged > > out, or it restarts NVIDIA and puts her back at the login screen for me. > > syslog shows this: > > kdm[4568]: X server for display :

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 12:10:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 03/09/08 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Doug > > The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board > > with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover). > > Larry > > He's probably referri

Re: Mistaken partition and format process

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:32:25PM +1100, hce wrote: > I am partitioning and formating an external HDD. I made a stupid > mistake, I called "mkfs.ext3 /dev/md0" before calling "fdisk > /dev/md0". Now it seems that the process stopped at following last > line "Writing inode tables: 14/1864": /dev

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 04:18:32PM +, Jamie White wrote: > If you can get you hand on a compressor, that does the job damn well! Actually, I have a compressor that puts out 10-15 psi breathing-quality air. I didn't think that stright air would get off tobacco tar. I did some research on circ

Re: ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-09 Thread David Fox
On 3/9/08, Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Try > > ffmpeg -i file.vob -vn -acodec vorbis -ac 2 -ab 160k out.ogg Oddly enough, I had a VOB lying around here, so I tried it (it's ST Enterprise episode(s) so it's mostly speech with some music). > ffmpeg doesn't support multichannel vorbi

Re: Grub questions

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 05:51:03PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > Thank you for the tutorial link. I think that I can take it from > there. Why didn't google get me there?... There's also grub-doc as a debian package. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsub

Re: Fwd: ogg quality problem with ffmpeg

2008-03-09 Thread asm4
Keith Richie wrote: -- Forwarded message -- From: Keith Richie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ... Try ffmpeg -i file.vob -vn -acodec vorbis -ac 2 -ab 160k out.ogg ffmpeg doesn't support multichannel vorbis encoding so the -ac 2 is needed. You can replace -ab with -aq if you want. -

make problem

2008-03-09 Thread can comert
same problem accours when i tried to make the firmware [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/iwlwifi$ make Kernel Makefile not found at '/lib/modules/2.6.22-3-amd64/source' chmod: `compatible/*''e erişilemedi: Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok /bin/sh: line 2: compatible/kversion: Böyle bir dosya ya da dizin yok Mak

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:05:34PM -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> I have a couple of new-to-me old computers. They've been well used > >> in what looks like a normal office environment and they're a bit > >> grimey inside; not just dust that blows away. I figure that I > >> should clean tha

Re: netselect with proxy

2008-03-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
It looks to me like netselect (or the actual underlying program-e.g. traceroute) could not get to the destination at all-hence the maximum hop count and max times. Try a traceroute to one of the sites and see what you get. Larry Original Message: - From: T o n g [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Liberation Fonts on Debian Etch

2008-03-09 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Chris Bannister: > Ron Johnson: > > Amit Uttamchandani: > > > My question is, how do I go about installing [the Liberation > > > fonts] and using it exclusively? > > > > They are at debian-multimedia.org as ttf-liberation. > > Not for Etch there's not. > ># apt-cache search ttf-liberation >

Re: [OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 11:58, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> was heard to say: >> Doug >> The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board >> with tobacco. You m

Re: logs out user unexpectedly

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 07:01, Paul Cartwright wrote: > we have 2 users on our system, and every 10 minutes my wife gets logged out, > or it restarts NVIDIA and puts her back at the login screen for me. > syslog shows this: > kdm[4568]: X server for display :0

Re: Security update of etch did not update my Kernel. Still vulnerable. Why???

2008-03-09 Thread Graham
On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 13:08:00 -0400 Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I am running a minimal install debian machine as a firewall and I > would like to keep it secure and up to date. > > I included > > deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ etch main non-free > deb http://securi

Re: [OT] Laptop with Linux preinstalled

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 09:02, Klein Moebius wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008-03-09 06:24:00 -0500]: > > >> Halon works pretty well. If you ignore the side-effects. > > If you can get any, nowadays... I'm sure some subsidiary of the People's

[OT] spamassassin overreach? [Was: Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?]

2008-03-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 09, 2008 at 11:46:01AM -0400, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Doug > The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board > with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover). > Larry Did anyone else notice that spamassas

Re: [OT] how to clean grime off old computer MB?

2008-03-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/09/08 10:46, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Doug > The mind boggles imagining a scenario involving covering a mother board > with tobacco. You might also try Acetone (finger polish remover). > Larry He's probably referring to tobacco *smoke* residu

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