Re: Q: List Policy

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >and certainly >not gmail. I found it in my gmail settings: Settings -> Accounts Tab -> Reply-to Address (Optional) -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < >[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> http://woozle.org/~neale/papers/reply-to-still-harmful.html>le.org/%7Eneale/papers/reply-to-

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Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/16/08 01:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': As does Mutt, and probably Evolution. But not Tbird, and certainly not gmail. Don't know about KMail. I can vouch that KMail does. It might be a bit

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >As does Mutt, and probably Evolution. But not Tbird, and certainly >not gmail. Don't know about KMail. I can vouch that KMail does. It might be a bit hard to find, but it's there. (Configure KMail.

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/16/08 00:38, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:33:43 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The most common MUAs (and all webmail) don't allow Reply-to to be set to anything other than what the application thinks it should be. Do you mean that MUAs don't allow the sender

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/16/08 00:43, Rob Starling wrote: [snip] a third line with that URL certainly wouldn't make my inbox any more bloated. who are the admins who could do that? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hitler!!! -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 09:19:58PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > Besides: > > http://www.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct > When replying to messages on the mailing list, do not send > a carbon copy (CC) to the original poster unless they > explicitly request to be copied. might it

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/16/08 00:30, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 21:13, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 00:33:43 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > The most common MUAs (and all webmail) don't allow Reply-to to be > set to anything other than what the application thinks it should be. Do you mean that MUAs don't allow the sender to set a custom Reply-to? Sylphee

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/15/08 22:26, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Q: List Policy

Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 21:13, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct?

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 07:11:23AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 11/14/08 06:46, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > >On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 12:25:27PM +0100, Fran?ois Cerbelle wrote: > > [snip] > > >>You should try "bc". I'm sure that you can type in everything y

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:26 PM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < > [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote >> about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >> >On Sat, Nov 15,

how to select default audio device in KDE

Hello, Running Debian Testing, if I plug in a pair of USB headphones (which are detected fine), how do I tell me KDE session (ver 3.5.9) to use that device as default audio output device instead of the speaker connected to the audio card output? The USB headset is detected as Microsoft LX3000: $>

Re: /srv and /selinux

On Sun, 16 Nov 2008 04:33:09 + (UTC) T o n g <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I found there are two empty directories in my /, /srv and /selinux. > > What are they for? Who creates/owns them? Is it ok to remove them? $ dpkg -S /selinux libselinux1: /selinux Try the same for /srv. > To

Re: Need Help Config'ing a Broadcomm Wireless NIC

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 20:23:07 -0600 Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm running Debian Sid and have a Linksys WMP54GS. > > I've never really understood networking, and definitely not wireless > networking. > > I've been trying half a week to get this card working, but the how-to's > I've

/srv and /selinux

Hi, I found there are two empty directories in my /, /srv and /selinux. What are they for? Who creates/owns them? Is it ok to remove them? thanks -- Tong (remove underscore(s) to reply) http://xpt.sourceforge.net/techdocs/ http://xpt.sourceforge.net/tools/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 11:09 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Q: List Policy': > >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > >> On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd S

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/15/08 21:21, Patrick Wiseman wrote: On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless t

Re: Q: List Policy

On Saturday 15 November 2008, "Patrick Wiseman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >>> I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the >

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

On Saturday 15 November 2008, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': >* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 15 18:49 -0600]: >> On Saturday 15 November 2008, Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote >> >> about 'Re: Icedove and Iceweas

Re: Q: List Policy

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >> I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian >> mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. >> Is that correct

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/15/08 21:13, Mark Allums wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct? Yup. I only ask bec

Re: Q: List Policy

Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct? Yup. I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs rec

Need Help Config'ing a Broadcomm Wireless NIC

I'm running Debian Sid and have a Linksys WMP54GS. I've never really understood networking, and definitely not wireless networking. I've been trying half a week to get this card working, but the how-to's I've been finding simply don't explain things sufficiently for me to find my own way, an

Re: [ANNOUNCE] aptitude 0.5.0 released

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 09:04:29PM +0100, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I am not sure if I will permanently switch to the GTK frontend - I am so > much faster navigating the curses interface - but I am very impressed > with the GTK frontend nonetheless. The overview with t

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 15 18:49 -0600]: > On Saturday 15 November 2008, Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': > >debian's default desktop is gome, so the default config is gnomish. > > Debian doesn't have a default d

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

On Saturday 15 November 2008, Johannes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': >debian's default desktop is gome, so the default config is gnomish. Debian doesn't have a default desktop. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. ,= ,-_-. =. [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: udev causing data loss?

On Saturday 15 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: udev causing data loss?': >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:13:15PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> so the USB disk that you left in the system might be assigned a name >> before your SCSI bus. Any of your two SCSI buses and

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

* Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 15 08:04 -0600]: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:21:59 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > * Rob Starling [2008 Nov 15 03:10 -0600]: > > [...] > > > > try naming them something interesting so you're not competing > > > with the auto-generated numbered ones.

multicast arp

Hi Folks This is my first posting to the list so smack me if i muck up :). I am trying to assign an multicast mac address. My environment is: (cat /proc/version) Debian Linux version 2.4.27-3-386 ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) (gcc version 3.3.5 (Debian 1:3.3.5-13)) #1 Thu Sep 14 08:44:58 UTC 2006 Thi

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

"M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > On Saturday 15 November 2008, "M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > > about 'Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': > >> Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a > >> URL in Icedove? Icedove bri

Re: Firewall Utilities

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 13:59:43 -0500 Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > I noticed that there are a number of iptable management utilities in the > debian arsenal of cool stuff. > > First - I have no interest in installation of a GUI front end on my > firewall. It's a headless box and

Re: power-efficiency & non-x86 desktop systems

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 11:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/14/08 21:22, D G Teed wrote: > [snip] > >> >> You can build a desktop from an Intel Atom based motherboard >> and CPU. 40 Watts maximum for the CPU and mainboard. >> With a high efficiency power supply, I'm measuring

Re: eeepc

Ok, thanks I'll have a look... So if I buy the latest one in the shops here in Australia, am I likely to face problems? Thanks, Danny On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:01:52PM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I am considerin

Re: Cannot install flashplayer-plugin

2008/11/16 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:06:08 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > > Installing other packages will result in the same fashion > > > > debguy:~# aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla > > [...] > > > Get:1 http://ftp.tw.debian.org le

Re: Cannot install flashplayer-plugin

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 06:06:08 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: > Installing other packages will result in the same fashion > > debguy:~# aptitude install flashplayer-mozilla [...] > Get:1 http://ftp.tw.debian.org lenny/main flashplayer-mozilla Hmm, based on your sources.list, I would have expe

Re: eeepc

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I am considering a eeepc, and need wireless. How is wireless support > with lenny on the latest eeepc? And what is the process of configuring > wireless? > > Thanks, > > Danny > > I'm on an Eee PC 900 now, and I can say

Re: eeepc

> > with lenny on the latest eeepc? And what is the process of configuring > > wireless? > > I do not have one but this site may help you. > > Please check types of eeepc first... > > http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEeePC/Models Thanks! I'll go and have a look. Cheers, Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

tôba wrote: > On Fri, 14 Nov 2008 16:31:13 + > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to >> have the cvs version. >> >> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the >> old one? > > If it has the "m

Re: install debian

Srinivasa Ramanujam wrote: > hi, > > i've downloaded four debian iso installers from debian http website, and > wrote them in four dvd's. however, the installation got completed with the > first dvd itself, and i couldn't install the softwares which are written in > second and rest dvd's as debian

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

M.Lewis wrote: > > Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a > URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. IIRC as root do: # update-alternatives --config x-www-browser I don't know how to do that on a per-user basis. > Where can you change the default m

Re: Memory known only 1G

Lingling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > My computer have 2 GB of ram, but why my Debin Etch detect only 1 GB ? > May be somebody have experience like this.. You need a kernel with highmem enabled, probably a 686 instead of a 386. There was some discussion of this a ways back, google gave me this:

Re: How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

On 11/15/08 15:08, Daryl Styrk wrote: [snip] If you are using gnome, you can have a look at System>Preferences>Removeable Drives and Media. Interesting. What's the difference between: Mount removable driives when hot-plugged and Mount removable media when inserted? -- Ron Johnson, Jr

Memory known only 1G

My computer have 2 GB of ram, but why my Debin Etch detect only 1 GB ? May be somebody have experience like this.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Q: List Policy

On 11/15/08 13:43, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct? Yup. I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I really,

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Re: Unappending boot options in Lilo?

> Damn, all of my computers sitting in front of me have floppies! They > are all pre-millennium as well except for my 2 month old acer laptop So you have a 2 month old Acer laptop with a floppy? > If it ain't broke why fix (or replace) it? I don't think it's relevant: floppies have always been b

Re: How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

Rick Thomas wrote: > How can I prevent a USB thumb-drive from auto-mount-ing every time I log > in. I'd like it to require a manual operation to get it mounted. For > reasons that I won't go into here, it lives nearly all the time inserted > in a USB slot on the CPU. But for most login sessions

Re: udev causing data loss?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lee wrote: > Well, that means there is no way of telling which disk is which other > than uuid maybe. But who says which uuid is to be which partition? The UUID is written on the disk when the partition is created. It's supposed to be a universally u

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Q: List Policy

I was fairly sure that the policy for this list, and most of the Debian mailing lists was to NOT CC the poster in replies unless they requested it. Is that correct? I only ask because I've been getting a lot of CCs recently and I really, really don't want them. I check the list every time I c

Re: udev causing data loss?

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 01:13:15PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > >Are you saying that there is no way to > >tell which disk is which one from the device names? > > Depends. Stuff in /dev/disk/by-uuid has never lead me astray. > However /dev/sd* nodes are named in the order the device

Re: How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

On Saturday 15 November 2008, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?': >Is there any way to have it only be mounted when I manually issue a >"mount" command? Is it listed in /etc/fstab? If so, add the "noau

Re: mdadm device assembly (was: udev causing data loss?)

also sprach Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.11.15.2020 +0100]: > Are mdadm's UUIDs not the same as udev's? mdadm in lenny has udev rules to create links under /dev/disks, if that's what you mean. But the kernel does not (yet) generate udev events when md arrays are added or remove

Re: udev causing data loss?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 lee wrote: > That is what I would expect. Are you saying that there is no way to > tell which disk is which one from the device names? That's what I'm saying ("/dev/hd*" still means something, but "/dev/sd*" doesn't), but I've been wrong before. Not

How to keep gnome from automatically mounting USB thumb-drive every time I log in?

How can I prevent a USB thumb-drive from auto-mount-ing every time I log in. I'd like it to require a manual operation to get it mounted. For reasons that I won't go into here, it lives nearly all the time inserted in a USB slot on the CPU. But for most login sessions I do not need to us

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Saturday 15 November 2008, "M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. Not sure. I don't have ic

Re: mdadm device assembly (was: udev causing data loss?)

On Saturday 15 November 2008, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'mdadm device assembly (was: udev causing data loss?)': >also sprach ghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.11.15.1842 +0100]: >> mdadm, I noticed yesterday, seems to be able to figure things out >> and build its RAID arrays fro

Re: udev causing data loss?

On Saturday 15 November 2008, lee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: udev causing data loss?': >On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:42:52AM -0700, ghe wrote: >> At the time of my misadventure, I was still expecting sda to be the >> lowest ID on the lowest SCSI bus -- there were no SATAs at the time, >> n

Re: Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

On Saturday 15 November 2008, "M.Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}': >Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a >URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. Not sure. I don't have icedove installed. Have you trie

Re: mdadm device assembly

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: > mdadm does work which udev could/should be doing. I am not too much > of a udev friend, and we must not depend on it Right on, Bubba (I'm an old hippie from Texas :-) > but prepare for > mdadm and udev to cooperate much clos

Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship

2008/11/15 Dean Sutherland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:40:02 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> 2008/11/15 Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: >> >> Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left >> >

Re: udev causing data loss?

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:42:52AM -0700, ghe wrote: > At the time of my misadventure, I was still expecting sda to be the > lowest ID on the lowest SCSI bus -- there were no SATAs at the time, not > around here anyway. That is what I would expect. Are you saying that there is no way to tell whic

Icedove and Iceweasel defaults {KDE}

Where can you change the default browser that comes up when clicking a URL in Icedove? Icedove brings up Konqueror currently. Where can you change the default mailer that comes up when clicking a mail-to: link (or File | Send Link) in Iceweasel? Iceweasel currently brings up Evolution. I'v

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

On Saturday 15 November 2008, Nate Bargmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please': >* Rob Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 15 03:10 -0600]: >> On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:08:51PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: >> > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum

mdadm device assembly (was: udev causing data loss?)

also sprach ghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008.11.15.1842 +0100]: > mdadm, I noticed yesterday, seems to be able to figure things out > and build its RAID arrays from the correct disks, even when the > /dev names are have changed since the arrays were defined. Bears > looking into -- I suspect UUIDs, bu

Re: eeepc

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 10:12:03PM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > I am considering a eeepc, and need wireless. How is wireless support > with lenny on the latest eeepc? And what is the process of configuring > wireless? I do not have one but this site may help you. Please check types of e

Re: udev causing data loss?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote: > If that is your only example, then you should change your vote to: > > | particularly hated; massive nuisance causing data loss and grief: > | the modern Linux kernel!!! (asynchronous device discovery) > > Here is a sim

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I have just installed 'Lifelines' (a genealogy software) on both desktop and laptop, one under Sarge, the other under Etch. In both cases, v 3.0.50 that was proposed. However, this version has a bug and, in the genealogical mailing list, I have been advised to install v 3.0.61 instead. This new

Re: Re: how to change date of system

Hi, "Just curious, what is the reason for setting BIOS time to GMT instead of localtime? It is simpler using localtime when I have wake on RTC alarm enabled." There at list 2 reasons, when the battery becomes old, The time and the date become incorrect and then that depends on initial instaleu

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

Mark Allums wrote: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: MS's memory tester is pretty terrible IMO, but the memtests are a little It flags errors faster than memtest in the opinion of some of our lab techs. Probably memtest is too conservative in what

Re: inline pgp not working in evolution (when using base64 encoding?)

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:18:17 +0200, subscriptions ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Hi all, > > I use PGP at home and at work using Evolution 2.22.3.1 (both Debian > Lenny, appears identical setup). When clicking the email in Evolution at > work, it prompts for a password. However at home, Ev

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: MS's memory tester is pretty terrible IMO, but the memtests are a little It flags errors faster than memtest in the opinion of some of our lab techs. Probably memtest is too conservative in what it does to the platform

Re: udev causing data loss?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 18:42:54 -0700, ghe wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:01:26 -0700, ghe wrote: > > > > [...] > > > >> particularly hated; massive nuisance causing data loss and grief: > >> > >>UDEV!!! (not the idea; the implementation) > > > > How does udev

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 07:21:59 -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Rob Starling [2008 Nov 15 03:10 -0600]: [...] > > try naming them something interesting so you're not competing > > with the auto-generated numbered ones. (you didn't remove the > > existing rules, did you?) > > > > "tty_dongleA"

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> Do you mean that you did what I want to do, i.e. installed the cvs version >> *after* the source package, and in your experience all went well? If you >> experience

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the >>> cvs version. >>> >>> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old >>> one? Or maybe simply insta

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Nick Syrotiuk wrote: > Well, it looks like I may have an intermittent problem. Yesterday I > removed 2 Gb of memory (2 sticks, 1 Gb each) leaving 2 Gb in the box but > I still had problems. It might be your PSU. > Today, I booted the machine and I no longer had APT depen

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008, Mark Allums wrote: > Memtest86+ is a GPL'd memory testing suite that should work with > anything in the i386-amd64 family. Yeah, but it's not actually that good at testing memory. >>> Do you have a reference for that? I do. We never trust memtest negatives unles

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

Hi everyone, Well, it looks like I may have an intermittent problem. Yesterday I removed 2 Gb of memory (2 sticks, 1 Gb each) leaving 2 Gb in the box but I still had problems. Today, I booted the machine and I no longer had APT dependency issues. In fact, I can now install packages with eas

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

* Rob Starling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 15 03:10 -0600]: > On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:08:51PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="6", ATTRS{devnum}=="3", > > DRIVERS=="pl2303", NAME="ttyUSB0" > > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="7", ATTRS{devnum}

Re: udev causing data loss?

* Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 14 20:40 -0600]: > On Friday 14 November 2008, ghe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: udev > causing data loss?': > >Florian Kulzer wrote: > >The names of internal disks change without notice. This, IMHO, is an > >extremely lame idea. I know

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:31:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the >> cvs version. >> >> Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old >> one? Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will ove

Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages

Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Friday 14 November 2008, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Lenny, apt(titude), dependency issues, seg faults and corrupted .DEB packages': On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 05:10:35PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say:

Re: Midi player & volume control

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 11:49:19 +0100, pch wrote: > Hi, > I check a few midi player available in debian repository and only one > work - xmms-midi (xmms plugin). But it play one midi file and can't > work correctly. What can I do to play midi music? > > How can I change volume master & PCM from con

Re: bittorrent client with server/client relationship

On Sat, 15 Nov 2008 17:40:02 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > 2008/11/15 Brian Marshall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 12:31:34PM +1000, Adrian Levi wrote: > >> Is there such a client that has a server backend that can be left > >> running on one box left running 24h and a gui loaded

chrony and DST

Hello, I use chrony to keep the clock of my Debian Sid in sync. When we switched off DST, a few weeks ago, chrony sent me an e-mail telling me that it was trying to apply an offset of about 3600 seconds, i.e. one hour. Is this behaviour normal? I don't recall seeing anything similar with n

eeepc

Hi, I am considering a eeepc, and need wireless. How is wireless support with lenny on the latest eeepc? And what is the process of configuring wireless? Thanks, Danny -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Midi player & volume control

Hi, I check a few midi player available in debian repository and only one work - xmms-midi (xmms plugin). But it play one midi file and can't work correctly. What can I do to play midi music? How can I change volume master & PCM from console? Thank, Pawe? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: How to uninstall a tar.gz package?

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 04:31:13PM +, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I have auctex 11.84 installed via tar.gz package, and want now to have the cvs > version. > > Can anybody please suggest all the steps so to completely remove the old one? > Or maybe simply installing the cvs version will override t

inline pgp not working in evolution (when using base64 encoding?)

Hi all, I use PGP at home and at work using Evolution 2.22.3.1 (both Debian Lenny, appears identical setup). When clicking the email in Evolution at work, it prompts for a password. However at home, Evolution does not prompt for a password. The Evolution program at home *does* prompt for a passw

Re: could not get sound working on Lenny KDE4

Finally, got it working. KMix muted it by default. 2008/11/15 Umarzuki Mochlis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > 2008/11/14 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >> [ Please don't top post. ] >> >> On Sat, Nov 15, 2008 at 05:37:48 +0800, Umarzuki Mochlis wrote: >> > 2008/11/9 Florian

Re: Stic device naming with udev, help please

On Fri, Nov 14, 2008 at 08:08:51PM -0600, Nate Bargmann wrote: > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="6", ATTRS{devnum}=="3", > DRIVERS=="pl2303", NAME="ttyUSB0" > SUBSYSTEMS=="usb-serial", ATTRS{busnum}=="7", ATTRS{devnum}=="5", > DRIVERS=="pl2303", NAME="ttyUSB1" try naming them something