Re: What does support mean? (Re: Exim4 with a Goddady account)

2009-01-31 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 31, 2009 11:13:13 am Jeff Chimene wrote: > What was the solution? > > I'm interested in getting Exim4 to talk to a smarthost provider. TBird > seems to have no problem, but Exim4 provokes an unexpected error. Did you run "dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config"? I use a smarthost here with no

Re: From x86 to x86-64

2009-01-30 Thread Alan Ianson
On January 30, 2009 06:11:54 am tinkywinky wrote: > Hello, > > I've installed x86 version of Lenny, but I have 64-bit processor. I'd like > to change to use 64-bit version of debian. Is that possible without having > to reinstall? I think you are best off to reinstall. "dpkg --get-selections" and

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat January 24 2009 01:34:04 am Lisi Reisz wrote: > On Friday 23 January 2009 21:22:40 Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri January 23 2009 01:08:49 pm Countable Infinity wrote: > > > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > > > > On Fri January 23 2009

Re: Joining Two Videos

2009-01-24 Thread Alan Chandler
s doesn't happen - and then you can concatenate. I believe (but advise you to try check it out via googling) that mpeg2 is OK. You can convert formats with ffmpeg. The alternative is to fire up Cinelerra, import both clips, and then render a new video from it. I think that is wh

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri January 23 2009 01:08:49 pm Countable Infinity wrote: > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Fri January 23 2009 12:42:30 pm Countable Infinity wrote: > >> When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed > >> libxfce4mcs-manage

Re: 'who am i' command does not produce output in 'mrxvt'

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri January 23 2009 12:56:49 pm Countable Infinity wrote: > No,I am looking for the command 'who' with two arguments. The command > 'whoami' prints only the user name. However, I want the tty and the > time stamp too. As per the man page of 'who': > > "If ARG1 ARG2 given, -m presumed: 'am i'

Re: How to remove automatically installed packages when nothing depends on them?

2009-01-23 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri January 23 2009 12:42:30 pm Countable Infinity wrote: > When I installed xfce4-terminal, it automatically installed > libxfce4mcs-manager3, libxfce4util4, etc. But now if I do: > > aptitude purge xfce4-terminal > > it does not remove these libs that were installed automatically. > > Is there

Re: laptop lenny + TV

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Ianson
> Experimenting, i downloded slax iso, burned it, and copied back to my > HD; then i added NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-173.14.12, burned the .iso again, > and it is working correctly! > > With Lenny, it can not be installed because no one version of gcc is > coincident with the drivers, or the link is miss

Re: I seem to have messed up aptitude. Can't get back original behavior.

2009-01-22 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu January 22 2009 01:33:53 pm A. F. Cano wrote: > Hello, > > I mistyped a command. I intended to type "dpkg -S gdb" to find what > package contains the debugger in question and instead I typed "aptitude -S > gdb" > > >From then on, aptitude starts but claims I only have 44 packages > > instal

Re: essential packages getting deleted when switching to testing libc6

2009-01-14 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi I am using Debian Lenny beta 2 and I have just en staled synaddsubefx and things went t swimmingly but there is no "Audio" the sound blaster platinum card woks fine except when I try to play "zynAddsubefx" aney body have an idea why I have no Audio ??.thanks in advance. On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at

Re: Corrupt data - RAID sata_sil 3114 chip

2009-01-03 Thread Alan Cox
ar to be an SI problem as far as I can tell. There are some incompatibilities between certain silicon image chips and Nvidia chipsets needing BIOS workarounds according to the errata docs. Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe

Re: Wondering why you have IMAP problems - file ownership requirements changed

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
atever veresion of > courier-base I was using back then eventually migrated into etch.) I don't know - they have been that way for at least 6 years and probably longer -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with

Wondering why you have IMAP problems - file ownership requirements changed

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
ed all the Maildir files to user owner and group and it all started working. The reason I raise it here is that there is no warning about this that I could find anywhere despite extensive google searching. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian

Re: Strange behaviour of aptitude

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
On Tuesday 16 Dec 2008, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:18:17AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > > On Tuesday 2008 December 16 02:59:01 Alan Chandler wrote: > > >Now, when I run aptitude interactively (over ssh from another >

Strange behaviour of aptitude

2008-12-16 Thread Alan Chandler
nce - which it would do if it had just been killed off) Anyone else seeing this? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: Software For Book Writing

2008-11-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun November 9 2008 12:24:23 pm Robert Caruso wrote: > Would someone please help me. I own a large corporation and was somehow > joined to this list not by my own doing. I have ceaselessly attempted to > unsuscribe about 50 times and it is not working. I get over 50 e-mails a > day from this

Re: Switching from Etch to Lenny - help me assess the risk.

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri November 7 2008 08:15:53 am Ramasubramanian Ramesh wrote: > All, > > I run Etch+backports at my home gateway/file server. Lately, I find > that many packages are too old in Etch for my needs. I am thinking of > switching to Lenny. While Lenny is not as stable as Etch, I am not sure > how m

Re: Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-07 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 6 2008 11:50:07 pm Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-11-07 04:56 +0100, Alan Ianson wrote: > > I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I noticed) I > > have no sound in the unreal games (ut-goty, ut2003 and ut2004). I haven't > > chan

Re: Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu November 6 2008 09:01:51 pm lee wrote: > On Thu, 6 Nov 2008 19:56:42 -0800 > > Alan Ianson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi All, > > > > I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I > > noticed) I have no sound in the unre

Sound in the Unreal games

2008-11-06 Thread Alan Ianson
Hi All, I'm running lenny amd64 and for the past couple weeks (that I noticed) I have no sound in the unreal games (ut-goty, ut2003 and ut2004). I haven't changed anything that I am aware of. I see this in ~/.xsession-errors but I don't know what it means. "open /dev/[sound/]dsp: No such file

Re: owner permissions

2008-11-04 Thread Alan Hutchinson
regards Florian. On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 11:33 AM, Florian Kulzer < [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> wrote: > On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 10:32:00 -0800, Alan Hutchinson wrote: > > Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner > > permiss

Re: nmap package obsoleted?

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi there I am trying to down load and install ndiswrapper but be four I can do that I have to get "owner permissions" so that I can modify etc\apt\sources.list file,how can I get owner permissions without all the rocket science,thanks in advance. > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECT

owner permissions

2008-11-03 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi I am using Debian-lenny beta 2 ,and I don't no how to get "owner permissions" so that I can download ndiswrapper and install it,I have bean reading the "Gconf help" files but sadly that was not much help, and also the reason that I am sending you this email is I cant or don't seam to be getting

not getting eney mail

2008-10-21 Thread Alan Hutchinson
Hi there I don't seam to be getting Anny mail in my GMAIL in box, and I am not quite to shour in which way to approach this problem,if you could pleas get back to me on this problem, I am using Debian Lenny beta 2 and I have some quite complex O/S problems that I need to remedy,and I cant do that w

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-07 Thread alan hutchinson
Hi Florian I also have bean trying to install "ndiswrapper" as well, and just like you it is proving to be problematic ,I even tryed doing it the windows way by downloading "ndiswrapper" on to the Debian desktop,but synaptic package manager just does not show it on the interface,So I tryed foll

Re: Need help installing ndiswrapper

2008-10-06 Thread alan hutchinson
I also am having difficulty installing ndiswrapper I don't no where to start,I thought that by useing synaptic package manager it would be a breeze but evidently not I am useing Debian Lenny beta 2 i386 with kernel 2.624 1686 also I am trying to install network everywhere 2.4 GHz wireless usb adapt

Re: ssh and X display forwarding

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 01 Sep 2008, Håkon Alstadheim wrote: > Jochen Schulz wrote: > > Alan Chandler: > >> I ssh into my server, but when I get there the DISPLAY variable is > >> not set up, meaning I can't run graphical programs. > > > > What command line are you u

ssh and X display forwarding

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Chandler
c/ssh/sshd_config on the server also allows X11Forwarding I have run xhost during start up, so the server is an allowed connector to my display. What else to make it work - and how do I find out (ie which logs should I look at) why it isn't -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfam

Re: Does anyone know where to find mod_auth_form

2008-09-01 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 01 Sep 2008, gary turner wrote: > Alan Chandler wrote: > > I quite like the idea of making my web site use the facilities > > described for mod_auth_form (see apache2 manual). > > > > But I can't find where to get this module from. There doesn't &g

Does anyone know where to find mod_auth_form

2008-08-31 Thread Alan Chandler
It needs mod_session. I can't find that either -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-25 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 09:14:10PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Mon, Jun 23, 2008 at 03:00:52PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 08:54:55PM -0700, Daniel Burrows > wrote: > > > > In the real wo

git-core 1.1.5.6-1 (i386) not making it to sid

2008-06-24 Thread Alan Chandler
should have gone into sid last Thursday. Why do I not see it from within aptitude. Am I misreading this page -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-23 Thread Alan Mackenzie
to lenny when it comes out rather than etch. I've tried out a few other distributions (including ubuntu), but didn't like them much. I even tried out FreeBSD, but it became obvious I'd have a lot to unlearn and relearn there. So, I'll probably be sticking with Debian,

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Eduardo! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 01:40:55PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Alan Mackenzie escreveu: > >My /etc/apt/source.list now looks like this: > ># > >#deb ftp://ftp.de.debian.org/debian

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, again! On Fri, Jun 20, 2008 at 10:48:02AM +, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > To know what is going on with your system, we would need to see your > > /etc/apt/sources.list and /etc/apt/preferences files. > #/etc/a

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi, Daniel! On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:57:45PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 07:22:24PM +0000, Alan Mackenzie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > #Broken: 12 Will free 16.7MB of disk space DL Size: 6215kB > > . Using the aptitude c

Re: Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-20 Thread Alan Mackenzie
Hi again, On Thu, Jun 19, 2008 at 08:47:35PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > On 06/19/2008 02:22 PM, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > >Hi, debian! > >My system: Debian Sarge, with little alteration other than a kernel > >upgrade (to 2.6.8). > >I currently have aptitude 0.2.15.9 co

Total confusion with aptitude. Help, please!

2008-06-19 Thread Alan Mackenzie
database on my system? Is there perhaps a less flexible, easier to use package manager? aptitude is about as complicated as mutt, but because I only use aptitude at most a few times a year, I'm never going to get to grips properly with it. Thanks in advance for the help! -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Preferred applications: IDE, text-editor, music player.

2008-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
the visualisation tool for that is gtk. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2008-06-18 01:39 +0200, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded > > iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of > > some facilities on my web site. >

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 06/17/08 18:39, Alan Chandler wrote: > > I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded > > iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of > > some facilities on my web site. > > &g

Re: Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-18 Thread Alan Chandler
On Wednesday 18 Jun 2008, Robin wrote: > 2008/6/18 Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded > > iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of > > some facilities on my web site. > &

Iceweasel upgrade - can I go back?

2008-06-17 Thread Alan Chandler
I am running Sid, and in the past couple of days it upgraded iceweasel. Now I can't run firebird - essential for development of some facilities on my web site. Can I easily undo that upgrade? If so how -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [

Google

2008-06-09 Thread Alan
*Prezados Senhores, Boa Tarde!* Não sei como funciona o site de vocês, mas ao entrar no google e digitar ALAN BRUNO CARVALHO, aparece meu nome em um arquivo .doc. Este arquivo era um currículo meu e meu amigo copiou o mesmo e fez o currículo em cima do meu, aliás, exatamente igual ao meu

Re: Where do you run ssh-keygen, server or client.

2008-06-09 Thread Alan Chandler
lso define a local name for a remote machine and non standard key files - I regularly SSH into a server I am responsible for on the other side of the world (melindasbackups.com), and you then put an entry in ~/.ssh/config I access a host with ssh mb This is what is in my config file Host mb HostNam

Default X resolution

2008-05-19 Thread Alan Ianson
Is it possible to get x to use 1024x768 by default that way xfree86 used to do? I would still like other resolutions available so I can use them when I need them but most of the time 1024x768 does what I want. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trou

Re: Assumed bug in Debian Sid: monitor cannot be reconfigured with dpkg-reconfigure

2008-05-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon May 19 2008 07:58:01 am Preston Boyington wrote: > Uwe Bugla wrote: > > I am running the latest Debian Lenny / Sid combination and wanted to > > adjust a workstation to another monitor. > > > > Traditionallly that works by the following command: > > dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg. > > > > If

Is our video support going backwards?

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Chandler
I try and load it into my ipod with gtkpod, and its refusing to load it saying it can't handle the file type. I certainly used to be able to. Has something changed recently -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: sandisk mp3 player mount

2008-05-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat May 17 2008 08:21:53 am seeds wrote: > how can i mount a sandisk mp3 player in debian lenny? A friend of mine bought an mp3 player (some generic brand) that didn't automount for unknown reasons. I mounted it manually but adding an entry in /etc/fstab like below and it mounts fine that way

Re: how to get a printer to work??

2008-05-14 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed May 14 2008 01:01:28 pm charliesdad wrote: > I have etch. After 4 months I still can't get the printer to work. It is > a HP DeskJet 722C. I have installed pnm2ppa from disk 9. I use gnome and > had it print a test page. The printer started, printed one funny > character and hung. I went to

Re: Can't play any youtube videos

2008-05-12 Thread Alan Chandler
steps. 1. Switched over to non-free and carefully removed all the other stuff. Youtube was still telling me to install a later version of flash. 2. Did an aptitude update. Now it works in Firefox and Konqueror. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: Can't play any youtube videos

2008-05-11 Thread Alan Chandler
On Sunday 11 May 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 08:54:06AM +0100, Alan Chandler wrote: > > Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox > > (which could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been > > a bit dodgy) can&

Can't play any youtube videos

2008-05-11 Thread Alan Chandler
Something seems to have happened overnight and now both firefox (which could play them before) and konqueror (which has always been a bit dodgy) can't play youtube videos. Am I unique? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] w

Re: decoding

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 04:31:52 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > Someone sent me an email which **appears* to be base64 encoded? > > > here's the first few lines: > > --Boundary_(ID_lsgMnwyfMlYdcpjna13q/Q) > Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > Content-language: > Content-transfer-encoding: base64 > > U

Re: Debian-User To UseNet Reliability?

2008-05-09 Thread Alan Ianson
On Fri May 9 2008 06:51:16 am Doug Mitton wrote: > Hi all; > > I have been following Debian User for a long time now, via the UseNet > group. Lately I have replied to an issue or 2 (via the mailing list) but > not all responses seem to make it to the UseNet. I haven't used usenet newsgroups in a

Re: framebuffer + nvidia

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu May 8 2008 03:11:40 pm Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > recently got a new laptop, with a nvidia gpu. I have installed the > nvidia driver for X. But I also like using the vt's as well. > > How do I drive them in a high mode the 80x40 and can I use frame buffers > at the same time as using the nv

Re: Intel 965 xorg driver has done something funny

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Chandler
On Thursday 08 May 2008, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote: > On 08/05/2008, Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Now, when I start up my computer, the screen looks really strange. > > All the text is either a black or white rectangle for each letter, > > and ico

Re: Can't see characters in xserver-xorg

2008-05-08 Thread Alan Chandler
ong too - in particular what it looks like is that transparency doesn't work and the result is either black or white. Using kdm, the central area kdm puts up is white with an enormous black border - so whilst all the text is actually white blobs that is what makes me think it

Intel 965 xorg driver has done something funny

2008-05-07 Thread Alan Chandler
they too seem to be rectangular in shape. I thought for a while that my fonts had not been installed, but the more I think about what has happened is as though all transparency has been lost. Is anyone else experiencing any thing similar or is it just me? -- Alan (via webmail - means I am away

Re: exim4 config for Lenny?

2008-05-05 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon May 5 2008 10:24:35 am Paul Cartwright wrote: > I was having problems with sound, so I decided to upgrade to lenny. > I am now on > $ uname -a > 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Sun Feb 10 20:20:49 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux > > > I might go to 2.6.24-1 soon, but with 22-3 I got my NVIDIA drivers to > inst

Re: openoffice (is it broken?)

2008-05-01 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu May 1 2008 02:52:30 am Daniel Dalton wrote: > Does anyone know if OO is broken in debian lenny? On my testing box, I > installed or upgraded something that broke pidgin and firefox and it looks > to be openoffice. OO and pigeon work fine on my lenny box. I use iceweasel 2.0.0.14 rather tha

Re: grub probe not working

2008-04-07 Thread Alan Chandler
On Monday 07 Apr 2008, Alan Chandler wrote: > I have a system where two SATA drives are acting as software raid for > the operating system. > > Aptitude is trying to upgrade my kernel, and calling update-grub. > This seems to sucessfully work out that /dev/sda1 is the boot >

grub probe not working

2008-04-07 Thread Alan Chandler
with these or something. How can I find out why grub is complaining -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Iceweasel javascript toLocaleString - getting date wrong.

2008-03-28 Thread Alan Chandler
=tryjsref_tolocalestring (my windows machines done't tell you the time zone at all). Is this a Debian problem, or a Firefox problem? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble?

Re: Alsa Problems with new Etch

2008-03-28 Thread alan
ery evening and reboot in the morning. After reboot this morning the sound worked fine. It remains to thank everyone here who helped me in my various problems. This is a great E-list, full of sage and sharing experts! Best wishes to all, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http

Re: Alsa Problems with new Etch

2008-03-27 Thread alan
me a couple of questions with obvious answers; didn't seem to do much. (Strange. But Wow!) Many thanks to Andrew Sackville-West for his perspicacious and on-the-money help! Best wishes to all, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intell

Alsa Problems with new Etch

2008-03-27 Thread alan
ce of information and possible help. Best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Impeachment proceedings should be started immediately. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-24 Thread alan
actions > neccessary. I don't need to now, but just for scientific experiment I'll do this, and see what happens. Thanks for your E-mail. Alan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
; that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was >> way beyond my meager capabilities. > > But how did you burn the DVDs? I didn't. "I bought 'em at a shop". At CheapBytes, a nice on-line store for Linux and BSD ware. Best wish

Re: Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
Although I had grabbed a netinstall.iso and a boot.img, my research led me to the conviction that burning those to a CD which was then also to be bootable was way beyond my meager capabilities. > If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. > (Albert Eins

Upgrade from Sarge to Etch Satisfactorily Completed

2008-03-23 Thread alan
ublic acknowledgement to Florian Kulzer. Best wishes to all, Alan, a certified Etcher -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "The intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy." Impeachment proceedings should be started immediately. -- To UNSUBSCR

Re: Merging all 30+ Debian CD's -- vs DVDs

2008-03-21 Thread Alan McConnell
? at one point the upgrade process did seem to know about my DVD apparatus. And it knows about the DVDs. But it can't make the connection, it seems. Any suggestions as to how to fix this problem will be very gratefully received! Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan

Re: KDE hangs

2008-03-19 Thread Alan McConnell
the issues of starting KDE. With the issues separated, you will be able to resolve your KDE problems more easily, I am sure. If you need help with .xinitrc, let us know. I have a nice one, but so do many others. Very best wishes, Alan -- Alan McConnell

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 > >

Debian Install from DVD

2008-03-07 Thread Alan McConnell
or on my machine, and then do a minimal install and get the rest of the stuff from the DVDs on my external DVD reader? Or can someone suggest a different path to this goal? TIA for anticipated help, Alan -- Alan McConnell : http://patriot.net/users/alan "He lies. He spies. He w

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 07:03:31 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > OK _ ran alsaconf and it went fine. I was already in the audio group (I > remembered that one . . . ) and then I ran alsamixer and the channels are > unmuted but still no sound . . . > > What next? What commands should I execute to get

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:55:27 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/28/08 19:39, Alan Ianson wrote: > >> On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > >>> Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > >

Re: My own emails

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 05:19:38 pm Rich Healey wrote: > Is it possible to have the daemon that runs this list send my emails to > me as well? the solaris list does this and it makes life much easier, i > can't find anythign to make iit do this, but i';m guessing it's possible. It does get sent to

Re: I'm BACK!!!

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 02:25:18 pm Doug MacFarlane wrote: > 3. Windows emulation. My parents will visit in 2.5 weeks and will want > Pretty Good Solitaire because it has a game called Thirteen Packs in it > that is an old family favorite. Pysol might do the trick. There are quite a few solitai

Re: No more AMD-K7 kernels?

2008-02-28 Thread Alan Ianson
On Thu February 28 2008 10:29:54 am Curt Howland wrote: > I've looked through the debian-kernel and debian-user archives, and I > don't find a discussion of this. > > Does anyone know why the -k7 precompiled kernel was dropped? Two of my > machines are Athalons. I've been wondering about this to.

Re: GRUB 2 error

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect. Can anybody enlighten me? Lilo has always worked well for me. I find grub easier to use when booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the ke

Re: Custom Kernels and 2.6.24

2008-02-27 Thread Alan Ianson
Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 20:56:05 +0530 Kushal Kumaran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 13:25:24 + Matthew Macdonald-Wallace <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi All, A while back there was an announcement that debian would be "updating" to kernel 2.6.2

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
> Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > > > >> why debian? > >> why centos? > >> > > > > Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with > > debian (what I know,

Re: debian vs centos as server

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Wed, 2008-02-27 at 08:46 +0800, hhding wrote: > why debian? > why centos? Both are good I think. I don't know centos well myself so I stick with debian (what I know, to some degree anyway). > It seems same to me, and current we run debian as server. > But managers want run centos instead. Di

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. Disregard my last reply, I misunderstood. If y

Re: Force Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 hardware

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 11:54 AM, Masatran, R. Deepak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How can I force the Debian multi-arch DVD to install I386 software on AMD64 > hardware? I searched the help screens from F1 to F10, but could not locate > the option. You need tp prepend "amd64-" to your boot comm

Re: etch to lenny upgrade incomplete

2008-02-26 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 1:50 PM, Rick Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting. > > I'm trying to install Lenny from scratch and the install hangs at > "setting up ssl-cert". > > I'm doing this on a PowerMac G4. Is yours also on a Mac? Ive noticed this on amd64 and i386 also. I grabbed

Re: PRINTER ON FIRE, HELP!!

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:06:14 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Thx Ron, now if only I could get stupid OpenOffice to print... Hmm... OpenOffice has been printing for me for years. Have you configured your printer? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe".

Re: debian multimedia gpg key changed location

2008-02-24 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 24 2008 10:59:52 am Jude DaShiell wrote: > I just remembered to download the debian-keyring package and should have > done that earlier. It seems to have a pgp key in it for debian multimedia > too. debian-multimedia-keyring is the one you need for the debian-multimedia.org multi

Re: Upgrade to 3.1 and next to 4.0.Two questions: security checks and disk space.

2008-02-20 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 16 2008 09:44:12 am alexandre suzuki wrote: > I want to upgrade to the latest Sarge r7 and then > upgrade to Debian 4.0r2 and I am not sure about > two things: > > 1) I installed apt_0.5.28.6 and aptitude_0.2.15.9-2 > (from Sarge r7) and I don´t know if they do the > security ch

Re: unable to burn debian ISO

2008-02-19 Thread Alan Ianson
On Tue February 19 2008 03:04:25 pm Claude Marinier wrote: > Greetings, > > I have successfully burned three ISO image files onto CD for the stable > SPARC distribution but cannot burn CD1. I have made four attempts each time > downloading from a different mirror. I burned 3 amd64 and three i386 d

Re: Sound Juicer and Amarok collection failure on Etch

2008-02-17 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sunday 17 February 2008 18:15, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 05:41:15PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > > Recently, I discovered that CDs ripped using Sound Juicer no longer > > register properly in Amarok. This used to work fine, but now when I > > The problem is that sound-jui

Re: Password problems

2008-02-16 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sat February 16 2008 02:59:31 pm Frank McCormick wrote: > I changed my password using passwd...and now some apps want the old > password...others want the new one! > > For example when I do sudo aptitude update in a terminal sudo will only > accept the new password...however if I run Synaptic...

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-13 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 13, 2008 1:42 AM, michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 2008-02-12 at 15:27 -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: > > On Feb 12, 2008 1:49 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > Yes, but for me for example it would be very useful if I could add notes > > > to > > > papers I download

Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 12, 2008 12:06 PM, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Alan Ianson wrote: > > > On Mon February 11 2008 01:34:09 pm Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Alan Ianson wrote: > >> > On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: >

Does Firebug work in iceweazel?

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Chandler
ow to work it correctly. Has anyone used it? -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: reliable editting of any PDF file

2008-02-12 Thread Alan Ianson
On Feb 12, 2008 6:04 AM, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > > On 12-Feb-08, at 8:49 AM, michael wrote: > > > I'm struggling to find software to edit a PDF file. Firstly, I'm > > wary of > > using a graphics editor to do the job and pdfedit [

Re: Can print from KPDF but not Acrobat

2008-02-11 Thread Alan Ianson
On Mon February 11 2008 01:34:09 pm Peter Robinson wrote: > Alan Ianson wrote: > > On Sun February 10 2008 08:27:11 am Peter Robinson wrote: > >> Hi all, > >> > >> I don't seem to have set up printing correctly...I am running a testing > >> sys

Re: Video card suggestion

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 03:45:31 pm KS wrote: > Hi all, > > I am planning on assembling an AMD based system. I noticed that most of > the motherboards that I am looking at (socket AM2 or AM2+) do not > onboard video card. That isn't a problem as I will put a dedicated video > card in there. But I'm

Re: GNOME faint printing problem.

2008-02-10 Thread Alan Ianson
On Sun February 10 2008 08:58:15 am Matt Gracie wrote: > I'm running Debian sid on an ia32 computer, with everything up to date, > and printing via CUPS to an HP Laserjet 4m. When I print from GNOME > applications, like evince or epiphany, the output is too faint to read. > But if I print the same

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