Re: rerunning autodetect

2006-05-01 Thread Christopher Nelson
'/sbin/ifconfig' without the eth0 appended to it. What is the output of a 'lspci |grep Ethernet'? That should tell you if the new box' ethernet controller is recognised by the system. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: [OT] Recipe for killing a Debian threads that won't die [Was: Re: [OT] Recipe for a Debian thread that won't die]

2006-04-30 Thread Christopher Nelson
cooking right. Always a good idea. Also should backup mail until you know your rule is working correctly. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Pardon me, but do you know what it means to be TRULY ONE with your BOOTH

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
systems besides that I put money in and file for a refund the beginning of the next year, so take my thoughts for what you will... -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- If you want to see card tricks, you have to expect

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 09:43:35PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:02:30PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Mumia W wrote: [somebody] wrote: And public schools are doing such a fine job of educating, too! Yes

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:09:01PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: That's your right, but unless you can *gaurantee* that I can, for no cost, send my children to a 100% secular school with decent teaching, there is no way I can support abolishing public schools

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:41:47PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: The same reason you should pay taxes for roads you don't drive on--because at all stages of life having an educated workforce benifits you, just as it benifits you for people (eg utility companies

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 10:16:04PM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 29 April 2006 21:43, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: That's your right, but unless you can *gaurantee* that I can, for no cost, send my children

Re: OT: Politics [Was:Social Contract]

2006-04-29 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 11:23:57PM -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 29, 2006 at 07:41:47PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: You're also pricing against a limited market. If the market were more open then prices would fall as more would enter the market

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:53:25PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: So you are most definately Right Wing, as the DFSG, which support personal rights; changing the way 'traditional software' is developed; and is not business-associated; scares and irks you so greatly

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
and Left Wing were fairly ubiquitous terms, and Wikipedia does agree that they have jumped cultural and language barriers while mostly retaining their meaning. I don't have access to a more authoritative source, but it seems reasonable enough. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 12:32:11PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: Okay. The DFSG are more supportive of developer's rights. Again, not true. How exactly is a developer who releases under a non-DSFG license somehow lower on the totem pole of rights? Both protect

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
free software is okay: http://www.fsf.org/licensing/essays/selling.html -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Frankly, Scarlett, I don't have a fix. -- Rhett Buggler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 28, 2006 at 01:40:44PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: With Free software, you have the right to modify, pass along code, fork, distribute, and feed upstream. The only restriction on those rights is that with GPL and similiar you grant them to others

Re: etch and several problems

2006-04-28 Thread Christopher Nelson
which config file caused the problem, so it will be harder to fix if it comes along again. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You tread upon my patience. -- William Shakespeare, Henry IV

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Christopher Nelson
; and is not business-associated; scares and irks you so greatly. And, according to Wikipedia, the original Right Wingers weren't Socialists, but rather Monarchists. Take that for what you will. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 10:28:09PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 27, 2006 at 09:47:38PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: Mumia W wrote: snip That's it! You've quite certainly identified yourself as a member of the Right Wing. You associate all attempts

Re: Gnome/KDE resources

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
--at least that's how I start docker and gkrellm, I don't know if gnome-panel and kdesktop require anything else. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I thought YOU silenced the guard! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: [Fwd: Re: Debian SSH server configuration]

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
marginally secure? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Sorry never means having your say to love. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: fetchmail (package) for testing

2006-04-26 Thread Christopher Nelson
hopefully filter down to testing soon. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A free society is one where it is safe to be unpopular. -- Adlai Stevenson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Handling apt-get, apt-cdrom, sources.list, cdroms.list

2006-04-25 Thread Christopher Nelson
packages yourself you need the sources. It might be a good idea to pull packages from the security archives anyway, to keep vulnerabilities patched up, at least if you plan to use that net at all. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: GNOME meta-package broken in Testing ?

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
that package. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http://www.debian.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: linux-image package /boot/config file not re-usable for a compilation of linux-source package

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Q: What is printed on the bottom of beer bottles in Minnesota? A: Open other end. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
of the same kernel version. Anybody know about grub in this context? If you installed with grub, it sets post-install hooks to run update-grub, which does all the work for you. Not sure how to set that up if you switched from lilo to grub after install phase. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL

Re: debootstrap fetching nonexistant packages

2006-04-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
-karlsruhe.de ... Then I think Joey Hess is right (he certainly has the credentials to know better than I ;) and that it's probably the version of debootstrap. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A grammarian's life is always

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
!) -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- What fools these mortals be. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 09:28:43AM +0100, Doofus wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. I was referring to my only

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 10:52:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: Did you buy it knowing you were going to use it under linux? If so, it's you problem. If not, the answer's simple--don't give them any more money and tell us, so we don't give them money until

Re: still learning, need a think i should?....for gnome components.

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
are you trying to upgrade to unstable? Or simply install some unstable packages on a stable system? It makes a difference in how you go about the next step. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Absence makes the heart

Re: would someone shed me light on how to remove a debian pakcage?

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
an 'apt-get desktop-base' for example won't install anything else by default. This 'internal fact sheet' you mentioned elsewhere I can't find anywhere in debian, so I'm just going to say: it'll work better if you don't mix Xandros and Debian! -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: afraid to upgrade libc6 and libc6-dev

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
check packages.debian.org to see if it's the version in stable or not. PS. It wants to upgrade perl too, and I've also put those packages on hold. Again if it's the stable version, it should be good to install. You can check on packages.debian.org -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Firestarter: how to auto start it?

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
the passwd. Leaving out NOPASSWD allows you an extra little bit of security, and every bit counts. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. -- P

Re: kernel 2.4.32 loading problem

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
-kpkg'? I don't think you can build an initrd of the image if you didn't (but I could be wrong). Try that and see if it works. note: I'm not a kernel expert so I could very well be wrong. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debootstrap fetching nonexistant packages

2006-04-23 Thread Christopher Nelson
couldn't however run base-config, but that's a different problem. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Ten persons who speak make more noise than ten thousand who are silent. -- Napoleon I

Re: Installation DVDs - Questions

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
/sources.list' and add sources for the mirrors etc. you want. 'man sources.list' will give you a good example of how it should look. Here's an example line from mine: deb http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/ unstable main non-free contrib -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
want your software vendor to be in bed with your hardware vendor, it's either Windows or a Mac or other proprietary system. Sorry. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- List each check separately by bank number

Re: debian installer and automatic partition option

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
to manually edit the partition table. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
to be done easily. What more do you want? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Did YOU find a DIGITAL WATCH in YOUR box of VELVEETA? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
to bring it up again? I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. If you bring it up and I have knowledge, I'll try and answer it. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Keep cool

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
with wine? As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine windows binary name'. Not all windows programs work under wine, and some require tinkering. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Natural

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sun, Apr 23, 2006 at 12:56:27AM +0100, Doofus wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 03:00:54PM -0700, Xplicit Language wrote: also is anyone familiar with wine? As a user. What's your question? If it's generally how to use it, 'wine windows binary name

Re: Supported Video Cards under Free Software

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
they're afraid someone will reverse-engineer their board from that info and turn around a cheaper model that does the exact same thing. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- It is the business of the future

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 07:31:56PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: I have no idea what post you're talking about since you didn't quote it. I was referring to my only other post to this thread, namely [EMAIL PROTECTED]. Okay, after some searching I found it (at: http

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-21 Thread Christopher Nelson
quickly. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Earth -- mother of the most beautiful women in the universe. -- Apollo, Who Mourns for Adonais? stardate 3468.1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: debian installer and automatic partition option

2006-04-21 Thread Christopher Nelson
... I think that someone have wanted to do the installation process more easy but... Could you help me? What debian installer are you using? sarge? testing? if testing what date? cd or dvd or floppies? or the experimental gui installer? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: distributions: UBUNTU vs DEBIAN

2006-04-21 Thread Christopher Nelson
with defaults. And, of course, why there's UBUNTU and KUBUNTU. Waiting for XUBUNTU myself. ;) Assuming you're talking XFCE, there is one: https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Xubuntu Not sure of it's 'doneness' though, may be alpha quality, I haven't looked at Ubuntu in awhile. -- Christopher Nelson

Re: Thanks! Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-21 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 21, 2006 at 02:21:14PM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: On 2006-04-21, Christopher Nelson penned: Do keep in mind though, that you can still get infected via insecure things you add on, like PHP scripts you find online and put on your webpage. Doesn't happen often

Re: please help

2006-04-21 Thread Christopher Nelson
saves mails in a format reachable by fetchmail. Let's start by seeing which inbox you meant. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The means-and-ends moralists, or non-doers, always end up on their ends without any means

Re: grub-install in chroot not respected? [solved]

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 08:39:14PM +0200, Philippe De Ryck wrote: On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 18:03 -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:21:20PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: snip this appeared to have worked, as did subsequent 'grub-install's

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
how often, what is checked, etc). This being debian, there are of course other options, which I'm sure will be pointed out in due time. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Excusing bad programming is a shooting offence

Re: updating with aptitude

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
with some brokenness. Note: there will be discussion on what's the best flavour of debian to run, once you make your choice, it's hard to go back, so consider the pros and cons. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Give

Re: Problems compiling (any) modules [solved]

2006-04-20 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:25:56PM -0700, Christopher Nelson wrote: However, I need the madwifi module to have network access, so I installed linux-headers-2.6.16-1-k7 (yes, I do have a k7, so it's not that). I ran a 'make-kpkg debian' in the /usr/src/linux-headers-2.6.16-1-k7 directory

grub-install in chroot not respected?

2006-04-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
. Pertinent info: Debian unstable grub 0.97-7.1 linux-2.6.17-rc1 from kernel.org Any pointers would be greatly appreciated! TIA, -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Come, muse, let us sing of rats! -- From

Re: grub-install in chroot not respected? [solved]

2006-04-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 11:21:20PM +0100, Wackojacko wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: snip this appeared to have worked, as did subsequent 'grub-install's, but when I rebooted, I was back in my debian setup on hdb, not the one on hda. Just a guess but you probably have grub installed

Problems compiling (any) modules

2006-04-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
how to solve this problem. TIA, -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Why can't we ever attempt to solve a problem in this country without having a 'War' on it? -- Rich Thomson, talk.politics.misc -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: apt-update errors

2006-04-19 Thread Christopher Nelson
/debian-marillat/faq.html -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- james abuse me. I'm so lame I sent a bug report to debian-devel-changes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: Sound configuration and mount to usb device

2006-04-18 Thread Christopher Nelson
fine tested by plug in a usb keyboard. Others have suggested how to work with that. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument. -- Larry

Re: No fonts in Flash Player

2006-04-18 Thread Christopher Nelson
not sure if it'll work, because I don't have flashplayer-mozilla installed so can't test flash since the xorg update, but I used to have it and needed 'gsfonts-x11' in order to see fonts. Maybe that's old advice though. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: packages: apache, gd, mysql...

2006-04-17 Thread Christopher Nelson
knowledgable can help you, -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Contents may settle during shipment. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: weird behavior getting source from a package

2006-04-17 Thread Christopher Nelson
is the source package using which ospics binary package is made. So how can I get the source of that package with apt-get ? (ospics) As he said (though perhaps indirectly), you already have it. It's included in the muttprint source. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Today's disaster with xorg update

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
/X11/fonts/75dpi/:unscaled FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/CID FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/100dpi FontPath/usr/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi EndSection And I have a working X right now. Hope that helps someone, -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL

Re: packages: apache, gd, mysql...

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
for security updates. I mean every day. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- The opulence of the front office door varies inversely with the fundamental solvency of the firm. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: Xorg upgrade: Getting twm not kde

2006-04-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
(I can't remember if there if one in twm) -- but it won't exit cleanly, so be aware of that. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- When some people discover the truth, they just can't understand why everybody isn't eager

Re: SCSI emulation of USB camera

2006-04-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
to the computer. *** Error (-2: 'Bad parameters') *** Regarding the Could not find USB device, run it as root. And if that works, add yourself to the 'camera' group rather than continuing to run it as root everytime you want it. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Best Video Card

2006-04-15 Thread Christopher Nelson
3d acceleration on an ATI Radeon 9200 or below, IIRC. I don't know about nVidia. do they really have that much to lose by doing so? I wouldn't think so... -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Rocky's Lemma

Re: Cameras.

2006-04-14 Thread Christopher Nelson
fewer options than some probably more professional models. It's a 5.0 megapixel camera. I'm sure later models in the DX series would be very similar. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- We don't need no education, we

Re: unstable XORG upgrade ..

2006-04-14 Thread Christopher Nelson
. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- A man's house is his castle. -- Sir Edward Coke -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Xorg upgrade troubles - OT

2006-04-13 Thread Christopher Nelson
use KDE... Nor do I (GNOME either, for that matter ;) -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- You are a very redundant person, that's what kind of person you are. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: udev vs. usbmgr

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher Nelson
hotplug used to do. I'm using udev quite happily in debian unstable with kernel 2.6.17-rc1 and have used it since 2.6.15 when I installed this box. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- It is Mr. Mellon's credo

Re: What are the best aptitude dist-upgrade options to use with Debian Sid

2006-04-11 Thread Christopher Nelson
is good to know, but here I would use the 'hold' mechanism on libtasn1-2 and libtasn1-2-bin, the two packages that were updated to cause the problem. I'm not sure what aptitude's method for holding packages is (I use dselect) though the man page should be enlightening. -- Christopher Nelson

Re: cd drive config

2006-04-09 Thread Christopher Nelson
in your /etc/fstab -- /dev/hdc is instead (as you said). You should make sure you want /dev/hdc then issue a 'ln -s /dev/hdc /dev/cdrom'. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I've never been drunk, but often I've been

Re: cdrecord + udev

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Fri, Apr 07, 2006 at 04:11:28AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Christopher Nelson wrote: On Thu, Apr 06, 2006 at 05:29:16PM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: snip Just a thought: have you tried using the device name, eg. dev=/dev/device ? I did, and that produces a message from cdrecord

Re: lists.debian.org vs google groups

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
, the graphical mail clients don't cut it, and/or they just plain love the interface for slrn/favourite newsreader and so much prefer to read the list via gmane or other mail-to-news gateway. I'd imagine you'd lose several dedicated readers if you cut off that access. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL

Re: Is it possible to simply copy the kernel from one machine to another and use it?

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
(unless I'm mistaken in how generic the distribution kernels are--I build my own). -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- I have a hard time being attracted to anyone who can beat me up. -- John McGrath, Atlanta

Re: cdrecord + udev

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
= parameter and the user never knows about it. That's a very real possibility. I use cdrecord when I record .iso's--about all I record--and only use the frontends to create an occasional audio CD, and I can say that they require far less knowledge of your hardware. -- Christopher Nelson

Re: Upgrading Debian 3.1 kernel from 2.4.27-2-686-smp to 2.6.8-3-686-smp, but had complications with 2.6.x kernel at Debian installer

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
own kernel (apt-cache search kernel-package). -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Military secrets are the most fleeting of all. -- Spock, The Enterprise Incident, stardate 5027.4 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Question

2006-04-07 Thread Christopher Nelson
. If everything is configured properly, then you should see gnome up and running. And if you want to log into GNOME by default rather than the console, 'apt-get install gdm' should set that up for you. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: cdrecord + udev

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
is the SATA drive. Where is the CDrom drive? I can mount it and look at things on the CD. Anybody with udev know the answer? Just a thought: have you tried using the device name, eg. dev=/dev/device ? -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: downgrading a package

2006-04-06 Thread Christopher Nelson
upgrade via synaptic you should be able to put the package on 'hold' in some manner to keep it from being upgraded. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Generated by Signify v1.14. For this and more, visit http

Re: wpasupplicant_0.4.8-1 problem

2006-04-05 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 04:33:59PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 4/4/06, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Just out of curiosity, have you connected to an open access point? Or at tried? That part looks like it whould work. The only different thing I have in my network block

Re: Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-05 Thread Christopher Nelson
? If I understand correctly, to use a text string, you enclose it in double-quotes (). I don't have control over my wireless setup or I'd give it a shot for you. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- Why did the Roman

Re: wpasupplicant_0.4.8-1 problem

2006-04-04 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 12:53:15PM -0700, L.V.Gandhi wrote: On 4/3/06, Christopher Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: try making that wpa_conf a wpa-conf instead and try again. At least, that's how I have it in my /etc/networking/interfaces I'm using wpa_supplicant.conf and wep right now

Re: ipod nano gtkpod

2006-04-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
plug the ipod in, I open gtkpod and click 'read' it works. Give it some time, too--I've thought it was crashed when it was still working. Especially if it's not on an USB 2 port. any help directions appreciated Hope that gave you an idea. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: wpasupplicant_0.4.8-1 problem

2006-04-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
as shown above. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- In real love you want the other person's good. In romantic love you want the other person. -- Margaret Anderson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wireless roaming/configuration

2006-04-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
key_mgmt=NONE auth_alg=SHARED wep_key0= wep_tx_keyidx=0 } If you're using unstable's, there's more that's involved in getting /etc/wpa_supplicant read -- /usr/share/doc/wpasupplicant/README.modes explains it, or ask. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Using Ubuntu when I'm used to Debian.

2006-04-03 Thread Christopher Nelson
. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- All diplomacy is a continuation of war by other means. -- Chou En Lai -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Unable to write reliably CD-RW's!

2006-04-01 Thread Christopher Nelson
for this is unintentional and unsupported). -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- It is necessary to have purpose. -- Alice #1, I, Mudd, stardate 4513.3 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: ...the public key is not available

2006-04-01 Thread Christopher Nelson
isn't an official debian mirror. There are directions on how to get the key recognized by apt on the page here: http://ftp.nerim.net/debian-marillat/faq.html -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- QOTD: I'm just

Re: Deleting partition icons from Gnome desktop

2006-03-24 Thread Christopher Nelson
to the Trash only gives me a dialog telling me that the volume in question can only be unmounted by root. As you found out, dragging a volume to the trash tries to unmount it. -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: useless totem

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
On Wed, Mar 22, 2006 at 09:20:08PM +, B.Hoffmann wrote: On Wed, 2006-03-22 at 13:05 -0800, Christopher Nelson wrote: Are you using totem-gstreamer? If so, that could be part of the problem. I've found gstreamer supports fewer types out-of-the-box than does the alternative, totem

Re: How to install a downloaded printer driver?

2006-03-22 Thread Christopher Nelson
) and issue '/etc/init.d/cupsys start' and see if it works correctly. If you have no jobs queued, I'm not sure where to go. HTH, good luck, -- Christopher Nelson -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- He keeps differentiating, flying off

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1998-03-16 Thread Christopher Nelson
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