compiz on Debian Sid: jerking video replay

2008-03-13 Thread Johannes Rohr
untu's. Has anyone made similar experience and maybe even a suggestion on where to look for solutions? Thanks in advance, Johannes -- http://www.infoe.de/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [Solved!] Re: lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Enter 'x-www-browser' into the second box that opens. For what it's worth Etch's icedove 1.5.0.14pre (20080208) contains: network.protocol-handler.app.https default string x-www-browser It seems to me this has disappeared

[Solved!] Re: lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Florian Kulzer wrote on 2008-03-11 11:24: > On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 11:00:27 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 03/11/08 03:34, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>>> On my newly installed lenny, ice

Re: lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/11/08 03:34, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On my newly installed lenny, icedove opens links with epiphany instead of my prefered iceweasel: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# ll /etc/alternatives/ |grep x-www-browser lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root

lenny: how to use iceweasel, ie. x-www-browser from icedove?

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
www-browser.1.gz -> /usr/share/man/man1/iceweasel.1.gz How to fix this? Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
whose contents can be copied to the clipboard. Useful for pasting small parts of text to other applications. For full pages/documents try pdftotext. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHz/fBC1NzPRl9qEURApBBAJ9gcQsDSN2vbaHvqA2hUsn95RblGg

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
old driver (maybe with a knoppix cd or similar that was known to work before). I recently had similar problems when my display started to flicker whenever a projector was attached to the notebook. I guess in my case it is a problem with dying hardware, since the problem is independent of the OS that

Re: good network

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
o avoid these kind of problems, I disabled IPv6 in iceweasel: In about:config set network.dns.disableIPv6 true > Of course my ISP is not using IPV6 so I suppose it wouldn't really > affect me if I disable the service. I don't know how to disable IPv6 globally. HTH, Johannes

Re: what is where in the iso-images

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
on a single cd/dvd is a better choice for you. > Can someone give me a hint? Buy a cd set. There are some excellent books on debian, which have cd/dvd sets included. They are cheaper than most ordinary operating systems and give a wealth of information and advice. > Filename of CD image cont

Re: [OT] Goodbye Debian

2008-03-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yuriy Kuznetsov wrote: > This link appeared on gmail page. Kind of Micro$oft about Micro$oft > propaganda. Nice one ;o) > > http://www.microsoft.com/ireland/getthefacts/default.mspx And I knew for sure: that airline went bankrupt... -BEGIN PGP SI

Re: New User

2008-02-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
elp the developers by testing new software, than you should consider upgrading to lenny or sid. My 2 ct, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHuxaCC1NzPRl9qEURAvPLAJ0aGTVGeIejBLM3q1k4z0NPI+eGpQCeLAkL /FP3sV/UCoPbCod/bJZhU7w= =yUw5 -END PGP SIGNAT

Re: Disk logical backup tools

2008-02-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
is works to restore for VMware. HTH, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Getting logrotate to rename to YYYY-MM-DD

2008-01-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
me. Am > I missing something really obvious? "man logrotate" is your friend: / dateext Archive old versions of log files adding a daily extension like MMDD instead of simply adding a number. \------

sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
i", the symlink gets replaced by the saved file and the linked file is not changed. Is this normal behaviour? Is there a way to tell sed to edit the link's target instead? Thanks! Johannes /-- Example: 17:45:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp/test$ ln -s atest alink 17:45:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-21 Thread Johannes Graumann
That seems to be one level lower than I'm looking for: checking for true upstream updates. What I want is looking for updates of the source-package *.deb) ... Joh Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Johannes Graumann wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Is there any mechanism to be notified by

How to keep a locally compiled *.deb up to date?

2007-12-17 Thread Johannes Graumann
Hi, Is there any mechanism to be notified by aptitude or the likes if a source package downloaded with 'apt-get source' has been upgraded by the maintainer and needs rebuilding? Thanks for chipping away on my ignorance, Joh -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: [OT] Re: How do you make your life secure (software based)?

2007-11-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ou want to be secure, use a secure OS with a secure configuration and you will hopefully ban both police and criminals from using and misusing your computer. Just my 0.02 € Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHTbDnC1NzPRl9qEURArKqAJ0Tq1FeXs4

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
27;t that called Idove nowadays? ;-) Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHS+FtC1NzPRl9qEURAiB8AJ47nGUi/flzUyTfW2KrS7Q9KJc/iwCePLCv jr+pnbqXCnj4zkKZAz2Ndtc= =A1p/ -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
> likely) IMHO it's not only getting more and more bloated, it's the fact that it will report back your reading/printing/viewing practices behind your back to some servers. It's too restrictive as well... I prefer kpdf, which integrates better into my kde than xpdf or evince. H

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
o check their model numbers). They are all supported by the same proprietary driver which is not difficult to set up and has a simpler (ie. better) user interface than their windows counterpart. HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHRCfDC1NzPRl9qE

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ve this problem? If you just configure it once, say for eth0, it will simply ignore all the traffic on eth2 (IIUC), if you happen to later use eth2 without reconfiguration of firestarter. I guess one could write a script to automate this, but you should be aware of the problem. Johannes -BEGI

Re: Could not find nfs package

2007-11-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
e from the dark side or welcome to the bright side It's us who are bright, and 'they' are dark, after all. -- At least according to a very simplified theory ;-) Don't frighten new users! Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHMFDPC1

Re: "Waiting for root file system..." hang solved

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ckages. Is this still the case? Did you follow the upgrade instructions? Johannes NB: Unfortunately, I could not find any recent installation / upgrade instructions for lenny. The development version [1] still claims to be about the upgrade from sarge to etch and always refers to etch and never to

Re: [solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
etc/papersize and always use "letter". ) > > Is there a bug report in this? http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=256011 > Is this expected/documented behavior? Probably not. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

[solved] Re: ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
nse: all printers on a system typically offer the same paper size -- ignore /etc/papersize and always use "letter". ) Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHIEwdC1NzPRl9qEURAhQ4AJ9U6haoHI75Y/uc/ULP/Nm4hc7tPgCfeTJq dmx17392rgzQ1UXh4zizuao= =MrW1

ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I can't find any hints on page settings in ps2pdf's documentation or how to force it or how it gets the idea of seemingly arbitrarily changing the page size. Thanks, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHIEVtC1NzPRl9q

Re: Update failure

2007-10-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
18-5-amd64/kernel/sound/pci/emu10k1/snd- > emu10k1.ko': No space left on device > dpkg-deb: subprocess paste killed by signal (Broken pipe) HTH, good luck, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHGJQMC1NzPRl9qEURAhdWAJ4oITHHk/I0SVMk6xm+lPh2AA33w

xserver fails to start with amd64-kernel on i386

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
eless. Attached is the beginning of the diff of Xorg.0.logs with both kernels on i386. I also attached the tail of the offending Xorg.0.log Thanks, Johannes ===diff -u - --- Xorg.0.log-amd64-i386 2007-10-18 17:08:16.0 +0200 +++ Xorg.0.log-686-i386 2007-

Re: etch installer fails to recognize existing lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Some time ago I installed etch's amd64 on my workstation (mostly lvm on > raid1). > > Now I would like to install i386 as well as a dual boot. Unfortunately, > the installer seems to miss my lvm.

Re: etch installer fails to recognize existing lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ome hassle, I expect I could solve those problems. What are the advantages of staying with plain 64-bit instead of a userland-32 system with 64-bit kernel? Why should I bother? Thanks, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHF3AEC1NzPRl9qEURAqM9AJ9rLlyeFxEaT

etch installer fails to recognize existing lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ssly so far. Thanks, Johannes mybox:~# fdisk -l Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 2500 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/sda1 1 6 4816

Re: Update failure

2007-10-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ty1 or else. (It could be that update-manager still locks some file for aptitude.) What is the exact output of aptitude / dpkg? Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHFedGC1NzPRl9qEURAsYoAJ4iOeOVAGB36ppWR0LEU/CX8PnJNQCdGhH3 mzpxNJqwUIg+eak3ekUMx0I= =g

Re: Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-5-amd64-2.6.18.dfsg.1-13etch4-amd64.deb failed in > buffer-write(fd)(10.ret=1)" > > How should I respond to this error? It could be that update-manager doesn't handle the "you have to boot soon" prompt of the kernel upgrade correctly. Try to log in as root and run

Re: texmaker bug?

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
exmaker, which is also available for the users of other OSes. > Recommended. Particularly for those who don't want to learn vim-latexsuite. Agreed. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHD75OC1NzPRl9qEURAg18AJ9akB3Ok5tfyTveKwlvjWdIGNP7iACc

Re: password protect file befor emailing

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
pdftk file.pdf output file-pw.pdf user_pw topsecret allow AllFeatures file.pdf is the unencrypted file, file-pw.pdf is encrypted with the password 'topsecret'. Without 'allow AllFeatures' your poor Windows user won't be able to print or copy paste it. See man pdftk

Re: Cannot read DVD

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Try $ mount -t udf /dev/hdc /media/cdrom0 HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHDx9QC1NzPRl9qEURAj6SAJ0fu/hpm2I2Ku4lVXjCDp0CHA3WsgCdEWAe W5EN7J+mDfd3+BhXD0HE3kc= =vJek -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PR

Re: gnome alarm clock / egg timer?

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> I haven't used it, but the following app (on a sid box) sounds >>>> like it fits >>>> the criteria: >>>> >>>> $ apt-c

postscript viewer that can "measure" distances?

2007-10-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
x27;t find out how to use gv or kghostview to accomplish that and GSview [1] is not in debian [2]. [1] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/gsview/get48.htm [2] http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=gsview&searchon=all&suite=all§ion=all Thanks, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

2007-09-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael C wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> I am not sure if I understand correctly: What are your objections >> against debian's way of security fixes? > > Let's take the example of Seamonkey/Iceape. Offic

Re: Missing files in locatedb

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
util's locate This locate can index all files on your system, but only files and directories which the invoking user has access to will be displayed. Note: If your computer is not up 24/7 you should consider installing anacron since the database is only updated once a night. \-

Re: Missing files in locatedb

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Munoz wrote: > Hello. Today I found a very strange problem. Some files seem to be > missing from locatedb database. [snip] > I don't understand. Does any? Try running 'updatedb' as root manually and check if this hel

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ble' system, but require a more recent version of one or a few packages take them from backports. If icedove and firefox/iceweasel are your only concern, I would stick to stable (+ backports, but only if that it is really important to you). HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Versi

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 09/27/07 01:58, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Steve Lamb wrote: >> [snip] >>> To my mind the fact that I said it would be nice to have versioning that >>> worked with OOo, Freemind and Writ

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Benjamin A'Lee wrote: > On Wed, Sep 26, 2007 at 04:16:06PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> (Unfortunately the way from word to LaTeX is not nearly that efficient >> if not impossible.) > > Not at all. IIRC, Abiword can

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
that you find it amusing that other people can't read your mind. It amazing how efficient technology is nowadays in carrying your ideas quickly over the Atlantic; all you have to do is this: type them into an e-mail. Don't expect that they float without this little effort. ;-) Johannes

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Please read them with a grain of salt and don't take them as personal as you appear to take them. Thanks, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+0+mC1NzPRl9qEURAqFfAJ9snmZOx0yKFvLKKGI3B/R1HIknKQCdHm6l ATNE+HGG8ZLD7y7QKa/xGn0= =sXxz -END PGP

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> If there is a problem than this: you don't just take the advice, you >> claim that the advice is *unsuitable* to your problem, which it is not. > > Johannes, who are yo

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
icle", it's not a "report", and it's certainly not a "book"... Just put the 'reliminary veriage' into a style file of your own, jw.sty, and your letter becomes: == \documentclass{article} \usepackage{jw} \begin{document} Text to go here

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Your suggestion, no. Johannes' constant harping, yes. Especially when he > starts engaging in strawman fallacies, ignoring things I am saying and > flipping arguments my mixing unrelated things together. Sorry

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
r not realizing from the beginning that your vim-fu is so strong. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+oHJC1NzPRl9qEURAiTPAJ9pEuvp9ajdOOmT7fvr0hoXHtB/qACfc2CV ExERAuwdYCTO90POebBwJ0s= =PLMA -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [E

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> True. But my personal experience includes quite a bit of work with word, >> OOo *and* LaTeX. > > Happy for you. Let me know when you turn into me so your personal > experi

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > OOo -> Save As .doc > LaTex -> Export to HTML, find an HTML to .doc converter, hope all the > formatting goes through (which it won't). No: LaTeX -> Export to HTML; o

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> I hope I didn't state that you are wrong, that's not my intention. > > By refuting my personal opinion so emphatically even if you haven't said > the word the se

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rsion control -- opposed to OOo. Johannes NB: Why don't *I* like to write texts in WYSIWYG? - - the fonts I use for the editor are optimized for (my) readability on my screen at my resolution; the fonts I use for the printout are optimized for the printout - - the printed text is black and whit

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> Of course you are free to use whatever seems suitable to you. But don't >> take it personal, when people advise you to do otherwise. > > It is personal when I state qu

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
; In another hour searching with Google, I came across only one potential > solution. I havn't yet tried with HeVeA output, but OOo is quite capable of handling html code. It can also export to .doc Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG+lyKC1NzP

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX (Was: Tool for document management)

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rdiff' different versions. I don't think that it is practical to accomplish the same with either OOo or M$ Office. The latter has some kind of 'versioning' system, where different authors/revisions get different colours, but it is nothing like as efficient as Latex together with a

Re: Bug-Reporting

2007-09-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
che auch nach relevanten Fehlermeldungen. Falls du englisch verstehst hilft dir hier vermutlich [2] weiter. [2] http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html Hoffe, dies hilft, Johannes > > ich hab an meinem Notebook einen Fehler und kann den nicht zuordnen. > > Nach willkür

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ile), unless there is an important reason. If the important reason is a single program, try backports or installing that one package from testing first. I've been running testing for some hardware reasons for years, it's not a big deal, but I am saving a few hours each week since etc

Re: Mounting an ext2 filesystem at mount point with specific uid, gid

2007-09-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
1, > and other filesystems should have a fs_passno of 2. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG873HC1NzPRl9qEURAueIAJ9ueRtVAk0E0flBHARM4bTpfBAZzQCfXY2O LRg8ViKOYRdHHhBAZKn9TUA= =ny0g -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: choice

2007-09-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
plainly not true. Two release managers were paid for one month each last year (causing controversy). They were paid by money from debian's project leader and they are no longer paid. I can't see any indication that they are or ever were following commercial interests of any kind. Just

Re: Is it a BUG????

2007-09-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
re I and many others cherish. It is certainly not a bug. HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3r44C1NzPRl9qEURAks0AJ9mEI8jMnSIhqe/7dbZy6xk4JttfQCeKqAA 9S2UO9oZGjgB+GRKo19esWs= =fMKR -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Is it a BUG????

2007-09-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
file system to ignore the time stamp. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3l7FC1NzPRl9qEURAtoZAJ9mb/mgAxvQCddFVC/VFgTIP4ol4QCdFEOL Tn8mYtogkWcYJ0YVfy6iLyc= =CmBp -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: browser confusions

2007-09-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
irefox/iceweasel is less secure than iceape? Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3RFfC1NzPRl9qEURAuSVAJ9TJjfGNfGvxPnHY7sAiU2PqQjJdACdEATy 4/PdjHgnDjw6UfdSlhfbi9M= =KlpD -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a s

Re: Welcome to SI Network - Your Career, Your Country.

2007-09-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
l) of the IP, that sent the spam out. In this particular case, the IP is 72.52.77.20 and it appears to come from Bangalore, India.] Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG3CvbC1NzPRl9qEURAjvRAJ0Uz6aq5fpBXmlkVkJNRoqbvkp0iwCfapem p+kiXrbRhhdR3tjTgQCHXOU= =asWC -

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
c. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now, I >> am not interested in installing a calendar server of any sorts). >> > By the way, if I knew exactly which files hold calendar data, I wouldn't > mind an rsync option. Try unison[-gtk]. It avoids the hassle to remember whi

Re: Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Don't know if this would work, though. (It can't hurt, I guess ;-) Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2ErAC1NzPRl9qEURAuHXAJ9ZSJwrijMUJvTHBUXXVy1L5ztNJQCfZR5i GvTiUVf525XXgpIfEGFpJfg= =D5jh -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRI

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 17:23:20 +0200 > Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> kde is by no means perfect. The last time I tried gnome, however, it >> was far worse. > >> J

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
get a child panel as follows: just right-click somewhere on the (little??) free space of your panel. Then "add new panel -> external task bar". HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2DYqC1NzPRl9qEURAkayAJ9fSkaRYfuzKo7uXmt6sFotIJvCIAC

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
(kprinter for kde). YMMV, just MHO, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2DJoC1NzPRl9qEURAlF2AJ9u2J4e/OkAXY7Yt74W01Ej1F7qVQCbBKqw eggPKX2IplKAfaN3gWWTEZs= =axvm -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subje

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
doubt check the full headers of emails (and there are probably ways to forge those, too.) Johannes PS: Thanks for spotting this, Florian! -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG2ByoC1NzPRl9qEURAr7eAJ4tNcjioIrQNB9Muzl4GUzbrLd9HQCfSQSX fnGKpSEcqJwWKf9Hd4Kg2uQ= =H

Re: New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
figuration you'd have to restart the xserver with '/etc/init.d/kdm restart' or gdm, or whatever your X display manager is. You do have xserver-xorg installed, don't you? Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFG19NmC1NzPRl9qEURAtt7AJ4u

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
iles have some very > strange characters in them, but they don't seem to show up when I cat the > file. Try the 'strings' command for removing non-printable characters. (Package: binutils) HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE---

[OT] revision control: git vs mercurial as replacement for bzr

2007-08-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
#x27;bzr merge|pull' to synchronize all files). I am slightly leaning towards mercurial, because it is available for potential collaborators with MS's OS. Most of all however, I want the tool that is powerful and efficient (both usage, time and space). Thanks for your opinions! Johanne

Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
't help that much because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to the command given above? Thanks a lot in advance, Jo

Re: Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
t's exactly what I need. It also shows that I have to investigate the grep command a little bit further ... Thanks a lot. Johannes -- Johannes Tax [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Search for string in files

2007-08-25 Thread Johannes Tax
't help that much because I don't know in which file the string was found. Maybe there's a tool that makes it possible to find a string in a bunch of files and also to list in which file the string was found? Or any modification to the command given above? Thanks a lot in advance, Jo

Re: Where is the etch R1

2007-08-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 V A R G U X wrote: > http://times.debian.net/1161-etch-r1 Thanks. Any ideas, why it hasn't been announced via the main web site and 'debian-announce', as has been the custom before? Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version:

Re: Where is the etch R1

2007-08-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
bian's front page still shows '4.0 released' and '3.1 updated' nothing of '4.1 updated'. Nothing on 'debian-announce' either... Just curious. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGxWdTC1NzPRl9qEURAgJVAJ4nqe

Re: Using deborphan

2007-08-16 Thread Johannes Tax
Hello, On [Thu, 16.08.2007 08:19], Csányi Pál wrote: > I try: > sudo deborphan | aptitude purge dpkg --purge `deborphan` executed as root will do the job. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
his computer was running WinXP. Try installing and using xserver-xorg-video-intel. It is only available for lenny/testing and sid, unfortunately [1]. (I didn't succeed in running i810 on etch with the displays wide display resolution.) Googleing for "i810 debian", "i810 etch",

Re: [OT] Mathematics and the uselessness of numbers (was Re: Help buying Economic Printer)

2007-08-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
o give the stddev, because 'above' and 'below' would be the same value. The fact that 'above' and 'below' are generally different values, is a direct hint that 1) does not apply. This is probably one of the reasons why meteorologists give mean temperatures in

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
rect. Can you do a > > ping exchange.server > > where exchange.server is the part after the "@" of the e-mail-address? > > Johannes > > > Pinging "ucwv.edu" returns the ip address of the dns/domain controller. > Not the exchange server. I tried sen

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mace, Nathan wrote: >> -Original Message- >> From: Johannes Wiedersich [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Sent: Thursday, July 19, 2007 1:40 PM >> To: Mace, Nathan; debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: Sending

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
erver entry, so our mail server (and your exim4 as well) decides it is a spam server and refuses to connect to it. Note that your connection looks ok up to when our mail server tries to lookup your 'return address' and then refuses to accept your mail (because it is invalid). Johannes --

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
; that matters). I wouldn't think it should, SMTP is SMTP. On CLI try: /-- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Test from my debian box Just a test . \-- And check what this gives with regard to your logs. I will report, if it arrives ok. Johannes

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
its destination. Check /var/log/exim4/ for whatever happens to your mail. No program will be able to send any mail, as long as mail is not properly configured on your system. HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGn2DYC1NzPRl9qEURArz2AJ0Sk

[OT] Re: More fun (not!) with JRE

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
lly in a manner that is accessible with java turned off). It works better on paper than in praxi, but it's the right step. HTH, Johannes [1] http://validator.w3.org/ -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGnzDZC1NzPRl9qEURAiQWAJ9sAw8UlwLKBTlcTEeW3fIiqodamwCeIjR7 Ug

[OT] Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
a rebranded Ricoh) Less than .3 Eurocent / page. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGk2pxC1NzPRl9qEURAqpsAJsGoMOmH7AUXD5pdcszrdvc/q0JtwCeMpHl tY5B39b56f2qewDz0ox6vLQ= =taV4 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Say NO to the Microsoft Office format as an ISO standard

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Manon Metten wrote: > Please sign the petition here: http://www.noooxml.org/petition. > (Cookies have to be enabled for this site.) JavaScript has to be enabled for wikidot.com as well. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG

Re: Purge leaves some files

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
at package by aptitude purge repeat until the directory disappears. HTH, Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGgQVyC1NzPRl9qEURAj8pAJ0VVpXUkyHN7HG0mm+GRrIKGZUDewCdHKso x8m6/O6zS5kv42G5GYoGcJI= =yt7W -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, em

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
es me, IBM created SQL in the '60s. > > But that wasn't his point. I don't know when SQL was created, > and wasn't making that claim. However, his claim seemed to > be that MicroSoft doesn't predate 1987, which is absurd. No. He said that IBM created SQL befor

[Now really OT]Re: OT: QEMU Package faster

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mpile. So, why don't you just use debian after all? It seems you've been on this list long enough to dare to ditch your fedora for the universal OS. :-D Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGgL3qC1NzPRl9qEURAuzaAJ92FNzf5O+e+1reSuMI4ApYo5LkAACdF

unison vs krusader WAS Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ctories). Krusader > handles dates properly and works fine. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGcUAWC1NzPRl9qEURAochAJ9rUUEPHjvp1sOpiVnJ3KfQiIiv2gCfYaAE MSW4TMApwozQegf7vVsdxuU= =vbSw -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ome servers, you will probably already have thought about omitting those drives and using an USB memory stick for installing and (when necessary) for recovering the system. This is also useful for small systems which have no room for unnecessary drives. \- Johannes -BEGIN PG

Re: Force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install our remove package

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
also ask you for your root password. So this way you are more failsafe and follow the principle of using root as little as possible. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGb+WaC1NzPRl9qEURAtD2AJ0YwiZpaNoe3reOH7XK4Li/0Y+YWwCcDFDT GZfLTFR4sL4+APlHeyMnm

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
hardware on that computer. That's one of the reasons, why one should have more than just *1* backup. Doing backups over Ethernet, using a spare computer as a backup server has the advantage that it is more easy to diagnose hardware problems (is it the usb card of the computer or the usb hard

Re: partition table type

2007-06-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ult, if you have an other OS on the same hard disk that doesn't understand the default msdos. You should check the documentation of all your other OSes to find a partition type that is supported by all of them. It's good to know that debian also supports obscure stuff :-) Johannes -B

Re: identity of author of a submission

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
It looks like you are using different mail clients and they are configured differently. > Is this being fixed? I guess this can only be fixed by yourself. Johannes PS: Look at the full headers of your mails in your sent-folder and/or as received from the list. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- V

Re: Etch / Samba server weirdness

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
u have *not* posted the actual configuration files, the actual commands, the actual error messages, the actual logs. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFGZES2C1NzPRl9qEURAnQ1AJ47iT+q5A5nHUmzNXVcx3+PGeJ6HgCfZLHG q6+1neUGc/pBvfjl4vbd6zA= =RhWa -END PGP

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