Re: TR: How to verify package integrity after they have been downloaded?

2008-04-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rich Healey wrote on 2008-04-08 08:51: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [Redirecting to debian-user, because this has nothing to do with debian-security] [snip] The mail I am now replying to has the following lines within the header: ... and yet

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian McKee wrote on 2008-04-07 22:07: On 7-Apr-08, at 3:05 PM, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I believe the technique you're looking for is greylisting. I know the concept of greylisting. Are you sure, that we do want greylinsting on debian? Do we

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote on 2008-04-07 02:40: Of course, Quoting the spam when you complain about spam just confuses the spam filter so that it will think such mail is legitimate. I understand the issue about not wanting to limit posters to

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote on 2008-04-07 14:31: I understand the issue about not wanting to limit posters to the list of subscribers. However, perhaps there should be a whitelist or somthing to which non-subscribers can post with the same

Re: IMPORTANT BUSINESS TRANSACTION FOR YOU PLEASE READ AND REPLY!!!!!!

2008-04-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Sherohman wrote on 2008-04-07 17:44: On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:43:56PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: IIUC, you propose that there is a special way for non-subscribers to post, that locks out spammers at the same time? How should that work

Re: [Totally OT] Re: Hmmm. A question. Was [Re: Debian is losing its users]

2008-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hal Vaughan wrote on 2008-04-04 02:38: According to St. IGNUcious himself (aka RMS), at a talk I saw him give last Thursday, Debian isn't a true GNU/Linux distro because it includes non-free software. I'm not saying I agree with him on this,

Re: [OT] Need old Packages.gz and Release Files

2008-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michelle Konzack wrote on 2008-04-03 15:35: Hello, I have had an accident on my Debian-Archiv-Server and unfortunatly the files Packages.gz, Packages.bz2, Sources.gz, Sources.bz2 and Release from the directories

Re: how to add ifconfig option to /etc/network/interfaces

2008-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serena Cantor wrote on 2008-04-04 12:59: I want to add command below to /etc/network/interfaces: ifconfig eth1:0 192.168.1.100 Below is my /etc/network/interfaces file: auto lo iface lo inet loopback auto eth0 iface eth0 inet dhcp

Re: How to create a local mirror from CD

2008-04-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abdelkader belahcene wrote on 2008-04-03 14:31: Hi, I tried to find a simple document which explain how to create a local mirror, but I can't, all I found are complicated or not complete enough!!?? My goal is simple: I want to create a local

Re: can I customise the installation with netinstall

2008-04-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yes you can. abdelkader belahcene wrote on 2008-04-03 15:10: I want to use the netinstall CD to install from my local repository which contains the official CD1, Can I redirect the URL to my local site and not to the official, is there a possible

icedove: pdf-attachment as Content-Type: app_lication/x-ms_down_load

2008-03-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallo debian expertise! I just got an email automatically returned from an 'connntent checccker' (deliberate misspelling to get the mail through debian's tough spam filters): banned name: application/x-msdownload In fact I just sent a pdf

Re: gnuplot: plotting each point in different color

2008-03-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote on 2008-03-27 23:31: Well, I had already read that portion (in the online documentation though). But from gnuplot's documentation it appears that one should have read *all* the relevant documentation also to understand any portion of

Re: exim4 hanging on startup

2008-03-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jörg-Volker Peetz wrote: Same problem discussed on linux.debian.user.laptop: http://lists.debian.org/debian-laptop/2008/03/msg00062.html I have the same problem on a laptop, even though exim4 is configured only to Keep number of DNS queries minimal

Re: gnuplot: plotting each point in different color

2008-03-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: Hi, I have tried Gnuplot mailing list and the newsgroup but didn't get the help I was looking for. So here my try there. Given a data file: # 3cols.dat # 0.28460.1857 1 0.82830.1330 2

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 02:51: On 03/25/2008 08:22 PM, David Fox wrote: Recently I'm getting a bounce message on every post to debian-user. I figure some of you who post a lot more than I do can see what is going on. I just got one again:

Re: Adobe acroread upgrade breaks links, and a FIX

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote on 2008-03-24 13:12: Patrick Wiseman: rm /etc/alternatives/acroread ln -s /usr/lib/Adobe/Reader8/bin/acroread-en /etc/alternatives/acroread The proper way to handle the symlinks in /etc/alternatives is to use

Re: curious -anyone else seeing this?

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote on 2008-03-26 12:55: I'm just a user. I meant that I configured my mailreader to ignore such messages. But yes, someone (not I) should inform sculpture.cz of the problem. It's probably futile though; if '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' bounces,

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 07:43: The search volume for Debian has been continuously decreasing in the recent years, as shown in the search trend statistics of one of the most famous search engines. This indicates that Debian is losing its users,

Re: Debian is losing its users

2008-03-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wei Chen wrote on 2008-03-26 14:28: Oh. Sorry. This page: http://www.google.com/trends?q=debian - From this [1] it would appear, that debian is presently outperforming suse and fedora, but all three are strongly outperformed by ubuntu [2]. Since

Re: Poor man's encrypted e-mail

2008-03-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul Johnson wrote on 2008-03-20 04:49: On Wednesday 19 March 2008 02:05:49 am Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Unfortunately some of my friends can't use encrypted e-mail at work or for other reasons. On the other hand almost anyone who can read e-mail

Poor man's encrypted e-mail

2008-03-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Unfortunately some of my friends can't use encrypted e-mail at work or for other reasons. On the other hand almost anyone who can read e-mail can also open encrypted pdf files. So why not send encrypted pdfs instead? To avoid the manual steps, I

Re: RAID suggestions?

2008-03-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: And that detailed care makes all the difference in the world! Now limp along with a drive failure, add a controller that needs updating and perform the update. Suddenly you find the meta data is unstable and you can not

Re: best package for windows Vista

2008-03-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [redirected from debian-devel] Jonathan Smith wrote on 2008-03-19 17:53: To whom this may concern, I want to load the Debian Linux OS on my Windows Vista Home Premium. This is the wrong list to ask this kind of question. Try debian-user

Re: add user as group member

2008-03-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote on 2008-03-14 07:14: i know this question sound so stupid. after gooogling. i end up with useradd, groupadd, usermod, userdel, groupmod, groupdel, groups. i do not be able to determine how to add a user to particular group in

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

2008-03-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
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 18 2008-02-23 22:40 x-www-browser - /usr/bin/iceweasel lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 34 2008-02-23 22:40

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

[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, icedove opens links with epiphany instead

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 for lenny's. Johannes

Re: How to extract text from PDF?

2008-03-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Andrius, Andrius wrote on 2008-03-06 00:20: technical question: is it possible to extract text from PDF? From PDF to txt. There have already been some useful suggestions. One more: on kpdf, the right mouse button selects a rectangle whose

Re: what is where in the iso-images

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi there, I've spent hours on choosing, downloading and installing debian onto a network-separeted box today. (I used the german debian homepage since that is my native language.) The Debian-Website is embarassing!

Re: LCD screen flickering

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nickel Cobalt wrote: Hi, everyone I used a toshiba laptop on debian/stable, and everything was OK! Now I am using debian/sid for some reasons, but some character in some fields on LCD screen is flickering, after a long time running debian, it

Re: good network

2008-03-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 stephane lepain wrote: Hi Guys, I read a couple of post on ipv6 and most mentioned a point about IPv6 being the main factor for sluggish connection. So my question is that would it be good network practice to disable IPV6 on Debian testing? and

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

Re: New User

2008-02-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrius wrote: Is it really good idea to move to Lenny from Etch? If you want a stable system without constantly evolving software, stay with etch. If you think that etch is missing *a lot of* bleeding edge software and if you would like to help

Re: Disk logical backup tools

2008-02-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On Thursday 05 April 2007 06:24, - Tong - wrote: Hi, Is there any tools that can backup disk partitions logically, for both Linux Windoze partitions? from man ntfsclone: NTFSCLONE(8) NTFSCLONE(8) NAME ntfsclone - Efficiently clone,

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

2008-01-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Debian Luser wrote: I'm trying to make a Debian system rotate its logfiles so that each previous day's logs have -MM-DD appended to the name (just before snip I have checked the list archives, but found nothing that helps me. Am I missing

sed -i turns link into file

2008-01-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I encountered something rather odd and in my eyes disturbing: if I edit a symlinked file with an ordinary editor (nano, kate, ...) the editor edits the file instead and leaves the symlink intact. If I 'edit' the same symlink via sed -i, the symlink

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

2007-11-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jochen Schulz wrote: What Jörg Ziercke wants is to break into computers of suspects, log their activity and search their hard drives while the owner is using it. That way they wouldn't have to break encryption, they would just circumvent it.

Re: Adobe Reader 8

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: IMHO, acroread is getting more and more bloated with each release. I prefer to use evince or xpdf most of the times and only try acroread when all else fails (which is rather rare and the converse is much more likely)

Re: spam2

2007-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 11/26/07 16:24, steef wrote: m. forget my previous message; sorry. others got too a load of spam. try to make some filters. Doesn't Tbird have a spam filter? Isn't that called Idove nowadays? ;-) Johannes

Re: Laptop Firewalling

2007-11-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amit Uttamchandani wrote: I have a laptop that I use at home, on campus, and various other places. The firewall solution I use is called firestarter. The simplest way to get it up and running is sudo aptitude install firestarter. It is a front-end

Re: recommend a flatbed scanner

2007-11-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Folks, I'm looking for a decent USB flatbed scanner for use with my Lenny box -- and I don't want to spend much, $20-30 on eBay would be ideal. I would use it to scan photo prints and text documents. Any suggestions

Re: Could not find nfs package

2007-11-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Nov 05, 2007 at 02:17:10PM +1100, hce wrote: I am from FC where installation of packages are different to Debian. welcome to the dark side should read: welcome from the dark side or welcome to the

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

2007-11-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Cameron L. Spitzer wrote: [snip upgrade instructions] Thanks for posting your experience! I am sure it will be useful to others. You could have a debate about whether this is an installer bug, a kernel package bug, a udev bug, or operator error.

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

2007-10-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: /=== mybox:/etc# cat /etc/papersize a4 \=== That was my hunch. Great that it worked out ;-) Thanks! ;-) Funny though, that dvips obeys the document specific paper size, while

ps2pdf resizes page size to wrong format

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello all, I have two etch machines with practically very similar configuration. Due to some mechanism that is rather mysterious to me, if I convert the very same ps-file the page size is changed on one of the two machines, while the same command

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

2007-10-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kevin Mark wrote: I'd try to investigate every file in /etc that deals with pdf or ps or the reverse depends of ps2pdf. Maybe there is some value that is different. Also are the reverse depends the same versions? Thanks! It turned out to be

Re: Update failure

2007-10-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Jerrard wrote: On Thu, 2007-10-18 at 18:37 -0400, Richard Carter wrote: snip Hi Richard, what is the output from the command: df -h Perhaps / is full not /var? or /boot? At least something is full according to Unpacking replacement

etch installer fails to recognize existing lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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. Manual partitioning offers as 'exsiting' space only the

Re: etch installer fails to recognize existing lvm

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: I think that the problem is that the LVM setup can't be shared from different dual-boots. Before we try to answer the question you asked, perhaps we should ask why you need an i386 dual-boot instead of an i386 chroot?

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. I just discovered

xserver fails to start with amd64-kernel on i386

2007-10-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, when I boot etch's 2.6.18-5-amd64 kernel on my freshly installed i386 system, the xserver fails to start. The very same xorg.conf works with both the 2.6.18-5-686 kernel and when I boot the same hardware with the amd64 install. I am cueless.

Re: Update failure

2007-10-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard, Richard Carter wrote: Thanks for the suggestion. I tried it but got a similar error. This time is said Sub process /usr/bin/dpkg returned and error code (1) Try to log out as ordinary user. Log in as root into tty1 or else. (It could be

Re: Update failure

2007-10-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Carter wrote: I tried to use the update manager in kde to update linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd84, which is already running on my system. The update failed with the message /var/cache/apt/archives/linux-

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-cache search timer ... timer-applet - timer applet - a countdown timer applet for the GNOME panel

Re: Cannot read DVD

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [NB: Please do not cross-post] Dimitrios Eftaxiopoulos wrote: I use Debian Lenny, on an i386 laptop. I try to mount a dvd and I get [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo mount /dev/hdc -t iso9660 /media/cdrom0 Why don't you $ mount -t iso9660 /dev/hdc

Re: password protect file befor emailing

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 BartlebyScrivener wrote: I want to send a longish pdf file to an unsophisticated Windows user. If possible I would like to password protect it. Is there a way to password protect files on Etch? $ aptitude install pdftk # pdftk file.pdf output

Re: texmaker bug?

2007-10-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Richard Lyons wrote: On Wed, Oct 10, 2007 at 04:48:57PM -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: [...] I didn't even know what texmaker was until today. It's surprisingly unknown: people are always complaining about learning latex, but with texmaker you

postscript viewer that can measure distances?

2007-10-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 gsview is a postscript viewer that has the capability of showing distances (in mm or points etc.) in a ps-file. (Click on two points in your file and it will report their distance). Is there something with similar capabilities in Debian? I couldn't

Re: Missing files in locatedb

2007-09-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Victor Munoz wrote: It worked. All missing files are there now. At first, this was a mystery, but now I understand why. updatedb is not run as root, but as 'nobody', as set in /etc/updatedb.conf, so the sequence $ . /etc/updatedb.conf;

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. Officially EOL'd as of May, the 1.0.x branch's

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-27 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 you to judge the suitability of any

Re: OT: Choice of OOo and LaTeX

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steve Lamb wrote: Acknowledging the other person's position and cluing them in that the advice is for the broader audience of the list means the OP can clearly see it isn't directly solely at them and let it slide. Otherwise the perception is

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

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 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 Writer's Cafe/Storylines implied that OOo, Freemind and Writer's Cafe/Storylines were not on the table for

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 both import DOC and export LaTeX

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 Writer's Cafe/Storylines implied that OOo

Re: Lenny vs. Etch + Backports

2007-09-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael C wrote: Hi, After returning to Linux last year as my main desktop OS, I've been wanting to migrate to Debian. However, put off by the prospect of having to use backported security fixes on officially retired development branches such

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 helps. Johannes -BEGIN

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: David Brodbeck wrote: As long as you realize it probably won't look the same to the other person, unless they have the same Word version, the same operating system, and the same fonts. It will look similar enough. ... or

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

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell L. Harris wrote: So now the problem becomes how to convert the HTML produced by HeVeA into RTF or another format which M$ Word can read -- preferably within the Debian environment, and preferably with open-source software. In another hour

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 quite emphatically that I do not feel

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: The ultimate irony is that the end result of all this evangelical blather for LaTeX has resulted in people suggesting extremely convoluted methods of achieving a simple requirement in OOo. Convert LaTeX to HTML and then from

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 sentiment is clear. - From my personal

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; open html in OOo - Save as .doc

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 experience matches mine. I'll

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: Yeah, and vim is a WYSIWYG editor. Now you're arguing just to be a prick. No, it's you who is arguing just to be a prick. I told you before, that from your previous e-mail I got the impression that you don't like to type

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 again, I never

Re: Tool for document management

2007-09-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Brodbeck wrote: On Sep 25, 2007, at 7:17 PM, John Hasler wrote: David Brodbeck writes: TeX is awesome for writing books and scientific papers. If you're writing a letter to Grandma, though, OpenOffice is better suited. Now _that_

Re: Bug-Reporting

2007-09-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [redirect to debian-user-german. Request for asking smart questions.] Ralph Rupprich wrote: Hallo liebe Leute, Hallo Ralph, wir haben auf der englischsprachigen Debian-user-Mailingliste deinen Eintrag gefunden, der sich dort nicht zuordnen lässt,

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

2007-09-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I'm using debian 4.0r1. I have an ext2 partition at /dev/hda1 and want to mount it at /home/storage/store. The /etc/fstab record I use is as follows: /dev/hda1 /home/storage/storeext2 defaults 0 4

Re: Upgrading from Etch to Lenny

2007-09-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Thu, Sep 20, 2007 at 04:28:09PM -0400, Gregory O'Neal wrote: I am new to linux. I have been running Etch for a month or so now on my Gateway Desktop. I am considering moving up to testing. This brings up the

Re: choice

2007-09-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 steef wrote: dvd+rw-tools: .allways success. just curious after all the things schily writes on his website about wodim ao. am a kind of practical. found out that schily's latest beta of cdrecord on my machine gives unsurmountable problems:

Re: Is it a BUG????

2007-09-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramesh j wrote: Hi all, This is Ramesh, I am using Debian 4.0 etch. Recent days i have experienced some problem on booting Debian in my PC. Problem Description: - 1. My BIOS battery is getting down so my system date

Re: Is it a BUG????

2007-09-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ramesh j wrote: This issue is not in windows. It boots properly after entering it shows the system date is wrong. But in Debian it takes long time to boot because of check disk. would u think it is a problem and it should be fixed in the upcoming

Re: browser confusions

2007-09-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mumia W.. wrote: [snip] Iceape and Firefox are split-offs from Mozilla. So long as you update your system regularly, Iceape will be the most secure. firefox is rebranded as iceweasel on debian. How do you come to the conclusion that

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

2007-09-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Sep 02, 2007 at 01:54:52PM -0500, ArcticFox wrote: Uh, what the heck is this crap? I hope I'm not going to start getting spam through this list now Yup, it's spam. Someone needs to get the list off this

Re: New installation - cannot increase the screen resolution

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chan Lee wrote: Hi, I just installed Debian using DVD set from CheapBytes into a new HP Pavilion Slimline s3020n desktop. It has Nvidia GeForce 6150LE graphics adaptor driving 1280x1024 resolution. Thrying to increase the

Re: I LOVE DEBIAN!

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rolando Pereira wrote: (And if he had nothing to do, how come my email went to his mailbox directly?) ... because someone sent an email with his forged from-address: Excerpts of the source of the 'original' email [snip] Received: from

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mark Grieveson wrote: Perhaps it's time to try gnome. kde is by no means perfect. The last time I tried gnome, however, it was far worse. Just one example: I still hate that all or most of the gnome applications I use (firefox and OO.o are the

Re: kde panels !

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick wrote: have the typical kde panel below to launch my apps, and applets, virtual desktop HOWEVER, its getting crowded... I would like to do the following IF Possible is there a way to add a new panel, and have it display only Open

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. Just one example: I still hate that all or most

Re: Locale won't set

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Haines Brown wrote: I'm runing debian etch, and things worked until recently when I tried to reconfigure locales. Somehow I found myself in a position where I can't reconfigure locales, and snooping online suggests there's no simple solution.

Re: lightning data in sync between two Icedove installations

2007-08-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 H.S. wrote: H.S. wrote: Hello, I am using Thunderbird's (Icedove) calendar extension, Lightning, on my home computer and at my univ computer. I want to keep Lightning data on both computer in sync. Any idea how to go about doing this? (for now,

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

2007-08-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [I don't want to start a flame; just to investigate which application is best for my particular purpose. No offence intended to anyone.] I currently use bzr for revision control of mainly text (eg. LaTeX) documents and simple 'scripts' to analyse

Re: Editing a text file with sed

2007-08-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: [snip] I appreciate the answer, I didn't even know about the fmt command until now. It does seem to work in the example, but not on the real file(s) that I am working with. Something makes me think that these files have some

Re: Where is the etch R1

2007-08-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 abdelkader belahcene wrote: Hi, The first release of etch 4.0R1 was announced, but I can't find the images it the servers. I can't find, where it was announced. It just hit me during a regular 'aptitude update'. Debian's front page still shows

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: GnuPG v1.4.6

Re: No luck reconfiguring resolution options.

2007-08-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 kaldrenon wrote: On Aug 12, 10:50 pm, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [snip example from xorg.conf] [snip] I'm using the driver i810 - an Intel driver for the Intel chip driving the graphics in my (*sigh*) Dell laptop. I tried replacing it

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

2007-08-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 [snip] Because people (even, apparently, smart people like you) seem to fixate on that average number and think that because that's the average, that's what the temperature is supposed to be, weather sites should *not* post average, but

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mace, Nathan wrote: As far as I understand it, yes. It even receives the error message from our mail server at this side of the atlantic... Other possibility would be that your nameserver or resolver set-up is incorrect. Can you do a ping

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