On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 12:41:00 +1000, James Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Hi,
I have been searching for a good personal information manager that
will run on GNU/Linux, unsecessfully.
What I am looking for is something that works mostly like franklin
planner for windows...
I need a good
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 12:03:12 +1000, Jude DaShiell
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I want to be able to run X with debian. Older monitor died and had an
ati card with it that does work the new monitor. The new monitor is an
Gateway ev910 crt which was also known as a sony trinitron with single
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 11:56:57 +1000, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
The lexmark printers appear to be better designed for recycling and are
cheaper - albit at marginally worse print quality. (Both printers
are very poor quality, s
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 10:15:24 +1000, B.Hoffmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Thanks everybody for the feedback. I'll be going for a Brother, they
seem to bundle DEBs and other format linux drivers on their cd, should
be supported.
Just why is the HL-2070N $136,- on newegg and £144 on dabs here? A
On Sun, 17 Sep 2006 07:51:43 +1000, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
Is there any way to objectively measure stability among debian
flavours? I mean, does anybody know of a webpage or project or something
to build statistics on bug reports? I'm asking this because every now
and then w
On Fri, 08 Sep 2006 21:31:35 +1000, Albert Dengg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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On Fri, Sep 08, 2006 at 01:20:35PM +0200, Jordi Carrillo wrote:
I'm using Debian testing and I was thinking about switching to
unstable. Is
Debian unstable, stable enough
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 22:40 +0300, Margiolas Christos wrote:
>
>
> but the winmodem driver is not open source software so it's against
> to the debian policy
> Christos
Ubuntu is also particularly pedantic in this regard.
You may be able to use the Ubuntu kernel packages on the deb
On Thu, 2006-08-17 at 09:59 +0200, Mirto Silvio Busico wrote:
> First of all thanks to all who replied.
> Now I try to reply to all messages.
I was hoping that you'd found the solution, and the two attachments were
kernel patches!
I also have this problem (Though I do not know if I have the exact
H S Rai wrote:
> What is the way to go back to stable version, if mess has been created
> using apt-get for unstable and experimental vesrsion?
>
With assistance from dpkg --get-selections > selections && vim
selections && dpkg --set-selections < selections; I would reinstall
debian entirely.
--
Owen Heisler wrote:
>
> This all seems to be about questions in the installer, but all the
> installer really does (at least for me) is set up a minimal Debian
> system. I think the tasksel that the installer uses (that's it, right?)
> is so simple that it is useless, but I don't want to use it a
On Thu, 29 Jun 2006, Rodolfo Medina wrote:
Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
I'm new with Debian, I've only been using it for a few weeks now.
MandrakeLinux would immediately recognize and set up my
Epson Stylus C20UX printer, whereas Debian Sarge does not
seem to see it.
I could no
On Mon, 26 Jun 2006, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote:
Hi!
I am running sarge and I need to install a Lexmark E230 printer. I've
downloaded the file 'print-drivers-linux-glibc2-x86.deb' from the
Lexmark site. After installed I ran the script
/usr/local/lexmark/setup.lexprint, but still I am unable t
On Sunday 18 June 2006 14:37, Joseph Smidt wrote:
> Is there a way I could download all the daily uploads for Unstable onto a
> memory stick, take that memory stick home and update my computer from my
> memory stick? I have a very complicated computer situation right now and
> it would be easiest
On Thursday 15 June 2006 09:41, Tom Allison wrote:
> After running with Perl for some 7+ years I decided I would see what else
> is out there and my pick was to go from Perl directly to Ruby, passing
> Python entirely.
>
> And so it's been an interesting adventure so far.
>
> But I have two questio
Marc Wilson wrote:
>On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 03:14:52AM +0400, ??? ?? wrote:
>
>
>>If you want *nix then try lynx =)
>>
>>
>
>Thank you, but I'm already using links2 in GUI mode and quite happy with
>it. I use lynx as well when it's appropriate but why anyone would
>voluntarily use f
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
> Could anybody offer any advice on the best route to get the drive
> mounted ext3 on Sarge? Or, if indeed, I could just use the back-up
> drive formatted UFS?
The usb drive will appear as something like /dev/sda, and is likely to
already have a partition table th
Arvind Marathe wrote:
>Hi all,
>I am new to linux and debian and recently installed debian-3.1 using DVD
>from a friend. But it seems a lot of libraries or dependencies are
>missing. I cannot open any molecular viewing packages like pymol and had
>problem installing other packages. Whenever I try
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>Dirk wrote:
>
>
>>Where do I find an example proxy code in C, with less than 100 lines and
>>no dependencies?
>>
>>
Here's an int proxy:
// .c file
int f;
void setTheInt(int foo) {
f = foo;
}
int getTheInt() {
return f;
}
// .h file
void setTheInt(int foo)
George Borisov wrote:
>Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>Which other e-mail clients, other than Evolution, can I access
>>MS-exchange accounts with? I tried and failed with Thunderbird.
>>
>>
>
>I use Thunderbird with our Exchange through IMAP. Depends if your server
>has it enabled.
>
Haines Brown wrote:
>Thanks,
>
>Liam informed me correctly that the .asp file could be viewed in a
>plain text viewer. Indeed, it turned out to be a html file, and so I
>could view it most easily on a browser.
>
>I want to apologize for not having tried the obvious step to open it
>in a plain tex
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>I've tried 'locate' and guessing. What *are* the proper options to specify
>for
>g++ so that it will access the include files and linbraries and such for
>WxWidgets 2.6?
>
>As far as I know, I have the proper packages installed. Could anyone tell me
>for sure whethe
Kilian wrote:
> Marco wrote:
>
>> Hi everybody!
>> I have installed Debian Etch on my laptop.
>> I have installed the "linux-source-2.6.15" package,
>> and I have exctracted it with the command:
>> # tar -jxf /usr/src/linux-source-2.6.15.tar.bz2
>>
>> I have also installed the "linux-headers-2.6.1
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> My installation is such a mess that I've decided to start from
> scratch. Problem is I don't know where I went wrong. Did I download
> the right CD's?
>
> Thank you all again.
>
> Benjamin
The CD's you have will install Debian.
I recommend you use Stable's
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Arafangion wrote:
>
>>Benjamin Sher wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>Dear friends:
>>>
>>>Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so
>>>I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them i
Benjamin Sher wrote:
> Dear friends:
>
> Decided to give the latest stable version of Debian 3.1Rc2 a chance so
> I downloaded the first two CD's and burned them in Nero. Everything
> went flawlessly. Literally. I was delighted. That is, until I booted
> up to the new Debian and was I in for a sho
Adam D wrote:
>I have set up a new smtp server and would like to move my learned spamassassin
>mail to the new server so I don't have to start all over from scratch and
>loose all the work. I do't know if the learned mail is kept in /var/lib or
>just the /etc/spamassissn?
>
>-Thanks
>adam
>
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> On 5/13/06, Arafangion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> What happens if the data changes during your sync? This is why people
>> are looking at using LVM snapshots - during which rsync'ing would be a
>> good idea
>>
>
>
Martin J. Hillyer wrote:
>On Fri, May 12, 2006 at 10:35:26PM -0400, Dov Oxenberg wrote:
>
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Please pardon me if I appear amateurish but I am new to Linux (long time
>> Windows user) and am trying to get Debian installed and running.
>>
>> Today I tried using the suggested
Jiann-Ming Su wrote:
> On 5/12/06, Grant Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>
>> I would use the snapshot functionality to create a snapshot of a live
>> system, and then backup the system using the snapshot instead of the
>> actual system.
>>
>
> I have no experience with the LVM snapshots. I'
Grant Thomas wrote:
> My main issue is using snapshots to backup a system implementing LVM2.
>
> The LVM howto, section 3.8, states that any filesystem that is to have
> a snapshot taken of it should be in a consistent state. I do maintain
> databases that reside on the testing server, and I a
Steve Lamb wrote:
>Ron Johnson wrote:
>
>
>>Even sub-folders?
>>
>>
>
>Not sure, never had a server that did subfolders so never really cared.
>OTOH I did care that I tried prior to Thunderbird seemed capable of storing
>sent mail on the server. Seemed dumb to me to force local folders
>>"Jon Dowland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
>>news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>
>>>With a stable install (sarge) lilo should not be installed in the first
>>>place, let alone upgraded.
>>>
Why not?
Lilo is more capable than grub with respect to partition formats and
afaik, is the only way
Matt Zagrabelny wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-05-08 at 16:42 -0400, H.S. wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>This may be slightly OT.
>>
>>I want to replace a blinking text phrase with something that is
>>acceptabel by web standards; I understand that the blink that is not a
>>standard.
>>
>>
>
>how about using cs
IraqiGeek wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I want to defragment my debian partition (the entire system is
> installed in one partition). Googling around, I found references to
> the unstable and oldstable defrag packages, however, when searching
> through aptitude, and through apt-cache I couldn't find any pa
Magnus Therning wrote:
>On Wed, May 03, 2006 at 10:45:24AM +0200, listrcv wrote:
>
>
>>Magnus Therning wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>top/sub1/sub2
>>>top/Sub1/sub2
>>>...
>>>Is there some way (other than mounting a case insensitive file system,
>>>such as FAT) to merge these directories?
>>>
>>>
Surachai Locharoen wrote:
>On อ., 2006-05-02 at 19:28 +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
>
>
>>On Tue, May 02, 2006 at 23:52:41 +0700, Surachai Locharoen wrote:
>>
>>
>>>I install gnome 2.14. When I insert usbdisk or cdrom, there is no
>>>automount action take place. I can mount mannually from com
Matt Johnson wrote:
>- Original Message
>From: Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
>Sent: Friday, 28 April, 2006 9:39:58 PM
>
>
>
>>"Read my lips" is a metaphor, I do believe.
>>The literal meaning is "pay close attention to what I say",
>>so it is certain
Hard drives can only contain 4 partitions.
Many people have wanted more than four partitions, so an "extended"
partition is made out of one of these four partitions, which can then
contain how many partitions you like.
Partitions with a number greater than 5 live in this "extended" partition.
fd
Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>Hi.
>
>I'm newbie with Debian, so please bear with my inexperience.
>In my Sarge stable, when I do:
>
> # apt-get build-dep emacs21
>
>I get the following output:
>
> Building Dependency Tree... Done
> E: You must put some 'source' URIs in your sources.list
>
>. The debian-e
Digby Tarvin wrote:
>I have just about sorted out Debian on my laptop to the point where I
>am ready to do a final permanent install, so I now need to decide on
>a good final partitioning scheme.
>
>I want to be able to run two unix/linux systems side by side, so I want to
>keep shareable partitio
Doofus wrote:
Steve Lamb wrote:
chris roddy wrote:
so, just switch to mepis and unsubscribe from debian-user already. your
show has gotten tiresome.
Might I suggest a filter? Or maybe just pressing delete? I find it
mildly ironic that people who flock to a distribution supposedl
Hugo Jackson wrote:
On Sun, Mar 26, 2006 at 07:18:48PM -0500, Hugo Jackson wrote:
Hi Kevin,
Thanks for the help.
Hi Hugo,
first, list ettique is to always keep your post on list so that everyone
can see the info and potentially help. Unless its something
personal/off-topic.
My apologie
Kchula-Rrit wrote:
I would like to set-up a "library computer" at home, sort of like Wikipedia
for my own use. Does anyone have suggestions for a program that's easy to
set-up and use?
Kchula-Rrit.
If you like wikipedia so much, why don't you install your own wiki, and
use that?
(Inc
On Thursday 22 December 2005 15:13, CaT wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 20, 2005 at 10:31:56PM +1100, Arafangion wrote:
> > Personally, I feel that if one says that they are willing to _pay_, the
> > test should not recommend Debian, but rather the commercial
> > distributions, that
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Please advise on removing AOL art from my computer
Thank you
A rasor blade should suffice.
Just be careful not to scratch the screen too badly.
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On Wednesday 21 December 2005 01:53, Clive Menzies wrote:
> Well, you don't need X; use lynx as a browser and use cups and if you're
> serving windows clients, samba.
I have a suspicion that windows no-longer requires samba for IPP printing, but
have yet to confirm this.
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On Wednesday 21 December 2005 08:40, MrVanes wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a couple of debian systems acting as media PC's that I want to make
> as silent and economic as possible. One of the challenges is making the HD
> spin (and stay) down when I don't use it for more than an hour or so.
You could tr
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 12:25, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Aaron's right; list communications should be conducted in understandable
> > language; but on the other hand, I think that whereas it's okay to scold
> > the offender slightly, we should not knee-jerk react by marking his
On Wednesday 21 December 2005 10:26, Roberto Sanchez wrote:
> Also, if you roll your own kernel and are using Sid or Etch, make sure
> that the version of gcc has not changed since compiling your kernel.
> VMware's make script doesn't like that sort of thing.
I'm sure that that wouldn't be a prob
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 15:01, CaT wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 19, 2005 at 09:31:55PM -0600, Kent West wrote:
> > It suggested Kubuntu and Mepis for me; it said Debian failed to have my
> > preferred desktop environment (KDE). What?!! (I'm using KDE on Debian
> > right this moment.) Oh well.
>
> I did
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 23:01, Alvin Oga wrote:
> automated backup is worthless for that precise reason about corrupted main
> systems and there's hundreds of reasons/problems that causes the
> main system or backup system to have bad data rendering either or both
> worthless
>
> backups shoul
On Tuesday 20 December 2005 22:57, Piero Piutti wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I am experiencing a very annoying problem with my HP NX9010 notebook:
> following the failure of the hard disk, I decided to refurbish it and
> upgraded it with a new hd and also replaced the original 256MB PC2700
> CL 2.5 Hynix Sodim
On Thursday 15 December 2005 22:51, Björn Lindström wrote:
> On my home network I mount a couple of shares from a Windows system on
> my Debian system using smbfs.
>
> However, as soon as the Windows system is turned off (which is often,
> the user turns it off every night) and then on again, smbfs
On Friday 16 December 2005 00:50, Mitja Podreka wrote:
> Jan Stavel wrote:
> > pretty good howto you would appreciate to read:
> >
> > https://alioth.debian.org/docman/view.php/30192/21/debian-amd64-howto.htm
> >l
>
> I've read the upper how-to and I would like to join the debate with a
> question.
On Friday 16 December 2005 04:43, Joe Mc Cool wrote:
> How come ? Surely the text in the pdf file is not ascii ? Surely
> even the text is stored as a "graphic" in the pdf file ?
Actually, iirc, it's a form of encapsulated ps (Postscript), a reverse polish
programming language.
The text can the
On Thursday 15 December 2005 21:25, Andrei Popescu wrote:
> (Re)reading these now puts them in a totaly different light... Is there
> still any chance for a standard across distros? Diversity is good, but
> sometimes...
To what end? What do you want to gain from diversity, and how does a slightl
man xhost, and set the DISPLAY variable. I assume that this is a local
apache.
On Thursday 15 December 2005 16:49, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hi
> I'm setting up an automated movie player system on my Ubuntu box and
> what I want to be able to do is run an application (totem) when a I
> click a
On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:55, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
Please use text email.
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On Thursday 15 December 2005 13:25, William Ballard wrote:
> I literally would be unable to use Microsoft Windows if I couldn't stay
> mostly booted in Debian and manage that godawfulness with partimage.
>
> Every time I boot into it I restore a clean partimage of XP, let it puke
> all over itself,
On Tuesday 13 December 2005 21:35, Richard Lyons wrote:
> How I hate full partitions. They always happen when you have been too
> busy to check (obviously). Has nobody written a daemon to check
> periodically and pop up an alert when any partition gets over a
> configurable threshold?
A cronjob,
On Monday 12 December 2005 23:01, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> My mail no longer vanished overnight.
> The big clue to the problem came when someone changed my root password.
> I presume someone had broken into my system and had been deleting
> the administrator's mail (mine) to evade discovery. At
On Monday 12 December 2005 23:17, Lazo Igor wrote:
> Hello,
> I saw following question on our local/national linux
> support site without satisfying answer:
> Why last stable kernel is so old (May) if there were
> some serious security issues discovered later:
> http://secunia.com/product/2719/#ad
On Thursday 08 December 2005 11:31, Andrey Andreev wrote:
> Arafangion wrote:
> > On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:43, Andrey S Andreev wrote:
> >>I think (g)vi(m) should have made the list with 10 votes , as, at least
> >>in Debian vi and vim refer to the same thin
On Wednesday 07 December 2005 21:43, Andrey S Andreev wrote:
> I think (g)vi(m) should have made the list with 10 votes , as, at least
> in Debian vi and vim refer to the same thing, and gvim is still mostly
> just vim.
>
> Regards,
>
> Andro
Careful when you say this to those who use vi or vim a
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 23:17, Duncan Anderson wrote:
> If you want to use a text based browser why don't you use "links" which
> can handle frames and background downloads. I like lynx, but it's a
> little bit limiting in terms of what websites one can access.
>
> cheers
> Duncan
lynx can do
On Tuesday 06 December 2005 04:35, Mike McCarty wrote:
> Kent West wrote:
> > Mike McCarty wrote:
> >>Kent West wrote:
>
> [that ASCII is 8 bits]
ASCII *is* 7-bits.
To quote from: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascii
"ASCII is, strictly, a seven-bit code, meaning that it uses the bit patterns
repre
On Sunday 04 December 2005 23:54, Vegard L. Rekaa wrote:
> Hello list,
> I have three movies, all in the .mov format at approx. 1400Mb each. I wish
> to burn these out to a CD-R, meaning I need to split them, into 700Mb
> pieces. Avidemux was not able to open these since they are not
> .avi-forma
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:55 am, Frank Gevaerts wrote:
> On Sat, Dec 03, 2005 at 09:50:28AM +1100, Arafangion wrote:
> > This leads to an interesting question - are there any tools that can
> > reveal "lost" files - those who no-longer have an entry in the fs, but
> >
ing the entry available.
>
> Em Sáb, 2005-12-03 às 09:50 +1100, Arafangion escreveu:
> > On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:42 am, René Seindal wrote:
> > > Roberto C. Sanchez wrote (03-12-2005 00:34):
> >
> >
> >
> > > > That is because, although auth.log is g
On Sat, 3 Dec 2005 10:42 am, René Seindal wrote:
> Roberto C. Sanchez wrote (03-12-2005 00:34):
> > That is because, although auth.log is gone, any file descriptors that
> > were open to it are still available. Thus, until all the file
> > descriptors have also been released, the file still "exis
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005 08:59 am, Alexandru Cabuz wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been using Debian testing on my laptop for a while now, and
> networking-wise everything went smooth until today it all of a sudden
> refused to connect to the DNS server and therefore refused to connect to
> anything else unle
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