Re: Grub-install problems was Re: terminal prompts

2012-04-08 Thread Frank McCormick
On 12-04-08 12:09 PM, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Frank McCormickdebianl...@videotron.ca wrote: I mounted sda2, and tried to ChRoot into it. I couldn't...I kept getting an error message unable to run /bin/zsh Perhaps because it's /usr/bin/zsh? I don't know...I didn't master

Double quotes, single quotes

2012-04-08 Thread Dr Beco
Dear deb users, I can't seem to find the correct combination of quotes to run this command: $vi +r ! find . -name 'error*' -printf '%f\n' themain.c Is there a way to achieve this (using bash)? Thanks! Beco -- Dr. Beco A.I. research, Cognitive Scientist and Philosopher Linux Counter #201942

Re: [OT] Re: Free as in speech hardware ebook reader

2012-04-08 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 19:21:22 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: On 04/07/2012 07:45 PM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:12:45 +0300, Panayiotis Karabassis wrote: Having a bad track record of not taking care of dead tree books, I am looking to buy an electronic book reader. (...)

Installing and setup drupal6 on Debian Squeeze

2012-04-08 Thread Csanyi Pal
Hi, I just installed drupal6 on my Debian GNU/Linux Squeeze system on my headless Power PC. At installation I choosed to automatically create MySQL database 'drupal6'. After successfully(?) installation I edited file: sudo nano /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default [snip] Alias /drupal6

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
Lisi wrote: On Sunday 08 April 2012 17:15:49 PMA wrote: P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at the top of the message (like the two at top here). They're what I have to fight, as they

Re: skype?

2012-04-08 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120408 17:39]: ... though we would love to find another multi-platform, easy to install voip program, preferably open source, to replace it. I also need such a package. It appears to me that Ekiga (formerly gnomemeeting) is a good

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 18:12, Chris Bannister wrote: ... The mail client should do all that for you. Verifying PGP/MIME signature = ? ditto. I use the mutt email client and so don't know off hand but do any of these help:

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Mika Suomalainen
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08.04.2012 21:13, Mika Suomalainen wrote: ... I know that email clients can do it automatically, but there are rare cases when it's necessary to verify signatures manually. Oh, and people who want to make the issue that PGP/MIME support is

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread keith mckenzie
Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters, no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to normal. :) -- Sent from Free Open Source Software Debian

Re: [OT] Posting styles (was: printer Kyocera FSC-5100DN)

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 02:18:48PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: A bottom posting style does not mean all the stuff goes to the bottom Yes it does! That is what bottom

Re: skype?

2012-04-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 17:53:02 +, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Scott Ferguson scott.ferguson.debian.u...@gmail.com [120408 17:39]: ... though we would love to find another multi-platform, easy to install voip program, preferably open source, to replace it. I also need such a package.

Sid upgrade: slow tabs in Chrome.

2012-04-08 Thread hvw59601
Hi, Running Sid and just did a dist-upgrade. Use google-chrome-beta as browser and after the upgrade the tabs are slow: when you click one with mouse or kbd, there is a slight hesitation before the page is selected that wasn't there before. Anyone notice the same? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, keith mckenzie fat...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters, no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to

Re: upgrade to Wheezy fails with aptitude

2012-04-08 Thread Nicolas Bercher
On 21/03/2012 11:01, Pierre Frenkiel wrote: hi, I wanted to upgrade from Squeeze to Wheezy, and as I saw in several places that aptitude should be preferred to apt-get, I first tried with it. I started with only 1 line in sources.list: deb http://ftp.fr.debian.org/debian/ wheezy main contrib

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Brian
On Fri 30 Mar 2012 at 18:53:09 +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: There are many kinds of people, so everyone has different opinion about top/bottom posting :) And where better to express these opinions but on a technically oriented list like debian-user. Nine days and 120+ posts later the end is

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 12:55:11AM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 09/04/12 00:18, � wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 15:47:51 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 02:58:24PM +, Camaleón wrote: A bottom posting style does not mean all the stuff goes to the bottom

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian mailing list? So IOW you started all this, but now the people discussing it have bad manners?

please test wajig in VCS

2012-04-08 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
Hi, Can anyone here using wajig test the version in VCS. If you find issues, please report back at wa...@googlegroups.com. setup: $ wajig install devscripts $ hg clone https://wajig.googlecode.com/hg $ cd wajig build + install: $ debuild -us -uc -b $ sudo debi I want to make sure it's solid

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 07:28:56PM +0100, keith mckenzie wrote: Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters, no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Brian
On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian mailing list? So IOW you started

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Paul E Condon
On 20120407_143810, Robert Holtzman wrote: On Sat, Apr 07, 2012 at 09:21:44AM -0500, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Richard rich...@g8jvm.com wrote: On Sat, 7 Apr 2012 14:02:12 +0300 Mika Suomalainen mika.henrik.mai...@hotmail.com wrote: The other thing Mika, apart from that

configure Icedove for GPG/MIME?

2012-04-08 Thread Chris Bannister
On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 09:13:40PM +0300, Mika Suomalainen wrote: On 08.04.2012 18:12, Chris Bannister wrote: ... The mail client should do all that for you. Verifying PGP/MIME signature = ? ditto. I use the mutt email client and so don't know off hand but do any of these

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Wayne Topa wrote: Mika Suomalainen wrote: Do you think that it would be better if people spoofed my email and sent offensive messages to the list and noone had any way to check did I really sent those messages? Who would want to spoof YOUR Mail. I have been on this list for 19 years

Re: Double quotes, single quotes

2012-04-08 Thread Bob Proulx
Dr Beco wrote: I can't seem to find the correct combination of quotes to run this command: $vi +r ! find . -name 'error*' -printf '%f\n' themain.c Is there a way to achieve this (using bash)? The problem you are hitting is that vim is expanding the % itself and isn't passing it to bash nor

Re: Aptitude update - http://dl.google.com?

2012-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 16:15:02 +, Camaleón wrote: On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 17:25:30 +0200, Csanyi Pal wrote: on my Debian GNU/Linux wheezy/sid system when I update with aptitude I see lines: Ign http://dl.google.com stable InRelease Get: 35 http://dl.google.com stable Release.gpg [198 B]

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Indulekha
In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: On Sun 08 Apr 2012 at 16:33:42 -0500, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Walter Hurry
On Sun, 08 Apr 2012 14:11:23 -0500, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, keith mckenzie fat...@hotmail.co.uk wrote: Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters, no

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Wayne Topa
On 04/08/2012 02:28 PM, keith mckenzie wrote: Decided the easiest way to stop the annoyance of 'Mika Suomalainen', is to send his messages straight to 'trash'. No more half page fulls of meaningless numbers/letters, no more requests for confirmation; life has returned to normal. :) +1

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread PMA
For the record on this issue, here is my opinion. 1) A reply should be entered immediately below the text to which it specifically responds; 2) a signature, of whatever kind, should be no longer than needed to verify sender identity. I will not defend these assertions, and hope to say

(solved) Re: Double quotes, single quotes

2012-04-08 Thread Dr Beco
Dr Beco wrote: $vi +r ! find . -name 'error*' -printf '%f\n' themain.c Bob wrote: The problem you are hitting is that vim is expanding the % itself and isn't passing it to bash nor on to find.  It isn't related to quoting. It is related to vi's percent expansion.  Use something other

Re: [OT] Posting styles (PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:32, Joey Hess wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote (remainder of your trolling ignored): as this will habituate people to expect your mail to be signed, Nope. Wishful thinking at best. True story: Last weekend, I sent a friend an email to get him come help me move a couch. For

Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:40, Gary Roach wrote: On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Scott Ferguson wrote: On 08/04/12 09:41, Gary Roach wrote: snipped There seems to be some confusion here. I still have win2k on the machine. No confusion here (so far). Hence my request. I suspected you still had W2K

Re: [OT] Posting styles (now PGP)

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 01:55, Chris Bannister wrote: [I've posted my reply on d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org] On Sun, Apr 08, 2012 at 11:46:11PM +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: (...) Interested parties ... please head to d-community-offto...@lists.alioth.debian.org

Re: [OT] Re: ATA/IDE hard drive problem

2012-04-08 Thread Gary Roach
On 01/-10/-28163 11:59 AM, Camaleón wrote: On Sat, 07 Apr 2012 16:41:08 -0700, Gary Roach wrote: I have an older computer that is still completely serviceable that I am switching over to Linux from win2k. The system has had a glitch for a long time in that it fails to boot the first time I

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
Hopefully ending this thread, and providing reading material for others with similar queries and concerns. On 09/04/12 02:15, PMA wrote: Scott Ferguson wrote: snipped P.S. I may as well add here, that it would help me -- in opening a Debian list email -- *not* to see blank lines at

Re: [OT] Posting styles

2012-04-08 Thread Scott Ferguson
On 09/04/12 07:33, Indulekha wrote: In linux.debian.user, Brian a...@cityscape.co.uk wrote: I posted about a printer problem. Over 120 responses are on another topic. Is that bad manners or just the way people behave on a Debian mailing list? :-D So IOW you started all this, but now the

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