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

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: [snip lengthy discussion about university web pages that are inaccessible to iceweasel] My personal experience with sites like that (ie. those that don't work with iceweasel) is that 1) their html-code

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mace, Nathan wrote: I didn't know about logcheck, I think it will do exactly what I need. However I can't get it to send email either. It appears your mailer is not configured properly. If you don't know how to configure your mailer properly, the

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mace, Nathan wrote: I re-configured Exim and posted the settings I selected. The settings for Exim don't seem to be the problem. I followed the steps you mention below, the mail never gets delivered. When I check the Exim logs there is always

Re: Sending Email from script

2007-07-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mace, Nathan wrote: The exim log reports the following: 2007-07-19 09:14:10 1IBVpa-0002I8-2H = [EMAIL PROTECTED] U=nathan P=local S=415 2007-07-19 09:14:10 1IBVpa-0002I8-2H llserv.physik.blm.tu-muenchen.de [141.40.131.45] Connection refused

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 Email from script Mace, Nathan wrote

[OT] Re: Help buying Economic Printer

2007-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 ispmarin wrote: I am looking for a printer with very low per page cost (catridges, tonners etc) and not very expensive to buy. I dont care if it is laser or deskjet. Performance is not a issue (it can be slow), and the quality of the page dont

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

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew J. Barr wrote: kqemu allows code to be executed directly and natively on the bare-metal processor under certain conditions. This takes QEMU's dynamic translation engine out of the picture and allows for near-native

Re: RTF - proprietary or open?

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: Andrew J. Barr wrote: Mike McCarty [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: SQL is also theirs... Whatever gave you that idea? IBM created SQL before Microsoft existed! It has been an ISO standard since 1987.

Re: Purge leaves some files

2007-06-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Torok Balint wrote: Helo! Thank you everyone for the help I received. I have tried to install/purge the same applications with aptitude on another computer and all went well. I conclude that the problem came into existance becouse apt-get did

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 v1.4.6

unison vs krusader WAS Re: Comparing files in two directories

2007-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ilias Paraponiaris wrote: UNISON I use unison (ssh / static IP) to synchronize my laptop with my desktop (i.e. two not-local directories). The only issues are i) that the modified date is not preserved and ii) that it is too slow (I had unison

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

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello, Is there any way to force aptitude to ask for confirmation when install or remove package. Maybe even better just run aptitude as ordinary user (from CLI). Whenever you want to commit something it will also ask you

Re: Grateful for the floppy install!

2007-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gabriel Parrondo wrote: And in case you don't have any floppy handy, you can use www.goodbye-microsoft.com or www.goodbye-windows.com . Well, this applies only, if you have that other OS preinstalled. However, debian can also be installed via usb

Re: Which hardware for saving backups?

2007-06-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Scott Gifford wrote: Mitja Podreka [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] I've read a lot about backup software and already decided about which one to use. I would like you to ask about advice about hardware. Is external USB disc suitable for this?

Re: partition table type

2007-06-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 jeffry s wrote: i am also wondering what all those partition type mean. can anyone point any documentation about the difference of amiga, bsd, dvh, gpt, mac, msdos, pc98, s390, sun, loop? It's just a different format of how the start of your

Re: can you recommend any open source presentation tool?

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Micha Feigin wrote: The downside with the latex option is videos open in an external window and for better or worse you have less support for transitions (usually better because they tend to distract the crowd) and exact positioning of text and

Re: Packages wedged in sarge - etch upgrade ( and apt-get vs. aptitude)

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bill Moseley wrote: On Sat, Jun 02, 2007 at 11:54:04AM -0700, Bill Moseley wrote: [snip a long description of what didn't go smoothly on an upgrade from sarge to etch] You didn't read the release notes (at least the most relevant sections) [1], did

Re: backup script modification help

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 07:15:49AM -0400, Haines Brown wrote: I use cron to do a periodic full backup to an external USB drive that I've named mirror. The script used is: find / -print | egrep -v ^/media/mirror|^/proc |

Re: Etch / Samba server weirdness

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Lueck wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: No offense, but that is not a very useful bug report. If you really want to help out, you need to also send the following as a follow-up to the initial bug report: - your related configuration

Re: identity of author of a submission

2007-06-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Easthope wrote: Readers, Why are some of my submissions listed under peasthope while others are under Easthope? Because some have From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and others From: Easthope [EMAIL PROTECTED] It looks like you are using different mail

Re: how to revert my system to a particular date...

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Zhengquan Zhang mailing list wrote: Today after sid upgrade, I found that my collins cobuild dictionary under wine is unable to load.. I want to revert my system to the day before yesterday. I tried to reinstall the dictionary and reinstalled wine

Re: slurping a file

2007-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi, I want to download an file that consists of many pieces that are referred to by the main index.html. One way is to do it manually, that takes days and is prone to errors. Is there a slurp application that walks

Re: How do I listen to radio?

2007-05-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, all I want to do is listen to radio 2 (sad I know). I am nable to find any way of doing this with out using RealPlayer, which is very hard to do as unable to find one that I can down load and

Re: New debian user question about remote instalation

2007-05-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jaime Ventura wrote: Hello. I'm using fedora for a long time, but now I will use debian. I wounder if there any feature like redhat's kickstart for debian. The first page on google for 'kickstart for debian' [1] returns about four tools that would

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 10:49:51PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/23/07 20:17, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 07:05:23PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: It would be very nice if there was a universal

Re: Is there a Using Debian GNU/Linux sticker?

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Linas Žvirblis wrote: [snip] Of course, certain types of glue on certain surfaces tend to leave ugly sticky stains, but they can usually be removed with alcohol. But use it only as a last resort, and be very careful - alcohol can melt certain

[OT] Laptop Burnt

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi There, A while ago, I burnt my lovely Debian laptop, its a Olidata laptop which I purchased from Ebay. I open every parts and found out a small cable connecting between motherboard and LCD monitor has been melt. The

'mark' buttons of non-kde applications in kde

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I seem to have messed up my config a little. A few days ago I changed my font selections (appearence) in control centre. Now my non-kde applications don't 'mark' the selected button any more. The attached screen shot shows that 'print' is

Re: debian-multimedia bug reports?

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Pasotto wrote: Today I encountered a fatal error when running ffmpeg. When I ran reportbug it tells me that my version is newer than the debian version, probably because reportbug is not taking debian-multimedia into account. Should I go

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 10:41:18AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: No. I figure a CD is good for at least a year. Every year, I pull the two netinst cds from the bank, take an SHA hash

Re: 'mark' buttons of non-kde applications in kde

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 14:42:41 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dear all, I seem to have messed up my config a little. A few days ago I changed my font

Re: Is there a Using Debian GNU/Linux sticker?

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Kenward Vaughan wrote: Actually, longer chain alcohols are much more likely to soften many (if not most) plastics than shorter chain ones. Differences that people may see between ethanol and e.g. propanol can be influenced strongly by the

Re: debian-multimedia bug reports?

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: [snip] True. However, it is possible (and recommended) for people who produce non-official packages to put an address that reportbug can use. In that way, people can use reportbug on your package and the bug report will

Re: Install which Linux? (or avoiding dirty birds)

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Gayle Lee Fairless wrote: I just installed Windows XP Professional on an IBM ThinkPad 390 with a Pentium MMX (233 MHZ) and a 60 GB harddrive. (I have partioned it in anticipation of also installing Linux.) Knoppix 3.7 boots on the machine.

[SOLVED] Re: 'mark' buttons of non-kde applications in kde

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2007 16:31:29 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] From 16:18:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $GTK2_RC_FILES /johannes2/.gtkrc-2.0 I delete that file and now the buttons get this nice frame

Re: [semi-OT] Data archiving (was Re: Query on adding a USB hdd)

2007-05-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: On 05/25/07 09:04, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: [snip] True. However, for a small data set (under 1 GB) the need for three copies means three hard drives. Using a hard drive and rewriting over

Re: ask for suggestion: which filesystem suits for both Linux and Mac OSx

2007-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: Ken Hu wrote: Dear All: I am a linux and OSx user and I really need to know which filesystem really can work on both Linux and Mac OSx I've found an open source project which tries to make Mac able to read ext2

Re: Is there a Using Debian GNU/Linux sticker?

2007-05-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anthony Campbell wrote: On 23 May 2007, Patrick Wiseman wrote: Hi: I've recently installed Lenny on a Toshiba Portege M100, which has this irritating sticker on it: Designed for Microsoft Windows XP. I'm reluctant to remove the

Re: Query on adding a USB hdd

2007-05-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mike McCarty wrote: The purpose of encryption is to prevent sharing of information. Using it on a disc which is intended to be used on multiple machines or OS seems, umm, odd. For portable/removable media, the appropriate security seems to me to

checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 After some security updates on etch, checkrestart complains about processes that should be restarted. However, these particular packages haven't been upgraded at all. Even a reboot doesn't make those go away. Something wrong? Johannes llserv:~#

Re: checkrestart

2007-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Liam O'Toole wrote: [...] Maybe. I use the command lsof | grep 'path inode' to identify such processes. For example, after this morning's update in etch, it yields: ~# lsof | grep 'path inode' gnome-cup 4794 otoolel mem REG

Re: [OT] Best of UNIX/Linux Books that you can't stop reading

2007-05-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chaim Keren Tzion wrote: I've used this on-line book which can also be purchased as a hard copy if you like. http://rute.2038bug.com/index.html.gz ... and which can also be installed for offline use: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ aptitude show rutebook

Re: Network connections breaking after bootup

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tim Johnson wrote: Etch was installed yesterday via netinst. Network appeared to configure properly - software installation from mirror went without a problem The problem (sort of) goes like this: I can boot the machine, and ping any nodes on

Re: video overlay on external display with Radeon Mobility M6 LY

2007-05-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 martin f krafft wrote: Hi, I am trying to hook a Sony Vaio running Debian lenny with a Radeon Mobility M6 LY to a projector to demonstrate some animations, using the xv extension. The basic device section in xorg.conf, as autodetected, is:

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

2007-05-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wesley J. Landaker wrote: On Sunday 13 May 2007 18:35:38 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: To recap, you have something like this: - backup to external hard drive - ~75 GB in /home - can be stored unencrypted and uncompressed (I would recommend

Re: Best Debian packages

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Deboo ^ wrote: Is there a list of best (most used) packages in debian? aptitude install popularity-contest man popularity-contest Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux)

Re: getting a pdf document to print

2007-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Mathias Brodala wrote: Hi Andy. andy, 10.05.2007 18:46: I have received a multipage pdf document that has been locked so it cannot be printed. I would like to be able to print this document so that I can read it on the road. Any

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: [snip] Maybe it's true that you thought that, but besides that your statement is plainly wrong. Most Europeans *are* opposed to the US involvement in Iraq, because it is neither right legally nor morally. Their number is Because

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Tue, 08 May 2007 22:07:52 +0200 Joe Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Curt Howland wrote: [snip] The Democrats have held a majority in Congress for 182 days. I stopped holding

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Thu, May 10, 2007 at 10:06:09AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: The UN. Please read my reply to Roberto. Irrespective of what these or those politicians claim, the text of the Charter of the UN is simple: no war

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Amy Templeton wrote: [large snip] Also, OpenOffice, nice as it might be for people who are into pointing and clicking at things, is not a long-term solution. What if MS changes their format yet again? Another possibility is that they might change

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Wed, 09 May 2007 16:14:44 -0400 Amy Templeton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The whole mission is a textbook example of how it probably is impossible

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: On Thu, 10 May 2007 10:06:09 +0200 Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: [snip] Maybe it's true that you thought that, but besides that your statement

Re: Affecting Institutional Change (Yeah Right)

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: Johannes Wiedersich writes: So the reverse engineering of that code legally would have to be done in, say Germany. Any reverse engineering and decompiling required to allow interoperability with other computer programs

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Celejar wrote: [snip] You concede that we are freer WRT guns, but you argue that in a greater sense you're freer, since the victims stay alive. But by that sort of sophistry, you can call lots of things freedom; the 'McCarthyism' that Joe and

Re: getting a pdf document to print

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 andy wrote: Hi all I have received a multipage pdf document that has been locked so it cannot be printed. I would like to be able to print this document so that I can read it on the road. Any ideas for by-passing the lock? Ask them for the

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Joe Hart wrote: [snip] I say Germany is less free than The Netherlands. I can do things like post on the internet how one can download libdvdcss2 so they can play CDs. If I lived in Germany I would be breaking the law by doing that, because in

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lubos Vrbka wrote: Not to mention that the idea is idiotic - punish everyone because some people steal. Sheesh. i think this is on par with the fact that we have (here in czech republic, i'm not sure about other countries) to pay a fee for every

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:39:06PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: That type of law is one reason. Iraq and general foreign policy is another. See, I thought the main reason that many Europeans were opposed to US involvement in

Re: [ in /usr/bin Question

2007-05-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Bob McGowan wrote: bdeferme wrote: Tom Grove [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all...I am new to this Debian thing :-) I used it in the Woody days but moved over to the FreeBSD world for the last few years. I recently installed Testing (Lenny)

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 04:25:34PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 11:39:06PM +0200, Joe Hart wrote: That type of law is one reason. Iraq and general foreign policy

Re: [OT] The record industry, RIAA and US law

2007-05-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael Marsh wrote: On 5/8/07, Jostein Elvaker Haande [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm left speechless, honestly... http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20070507-record-shops-used-cds-ihre-papieren-bitte.html RIAA crap aside, it's true that CDs

Re: (solved on my own) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, May 08, 2007 at 06:02:41AM -0700, Serena Cantor wrote: aptitude search \!~i~sdoc only lists 4 packages. surely main of sarge has far more than that. I've got many replies, none solved my question. Thanks

Re: (solved on my own) Re: how to use dpkg to list some packages

2007-05-08 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Serena Cantor wrote: aptitude search \!~i~sdoc only lists 4 packages. surely main of sarge has far more than that. on my etch system it lists 876, as you asked this are the 'that can be installed', ie. the ones that are available minus the ones

For KDE: Re: how to hide the mouse pointer

2007-05-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russell L. Harris wrote: * Tyler Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [070503 08:21]: I was wondering if it would be possible to configure the mouse pointer to disappear when not in use. I know I can just move it out of the way into a corner somewhere, not a

Re: Dangers of stable in sources.list

2007-05-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jan Sneep wrote: [snip] just a guess, but maybe so that no matter when you install, that install disk will get you moving into stable. so you could use a really old installer and automatically move right up to stable with the next dist-upgrade.

Re: General questions...

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Lo I've a few burning needs, so if anyone knows the answers - let me know! :D 1) I need a graphical way of searching text files for a string - and getting it to replace it (makes for easy re-configuring of

Re: Setting up a Dell 1815 Laser Printer that is shared from an XP Box

2007-04-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Eric A. Bonney wrote: I was wondering if anyone has had any success at setting up a Dell 1815 Laser Printer? I did a quick search of the archives and could not come up with anything and I wasn't able to locate any drivers by doing a google

Re: apt-get install synaptic / sources.list

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jochen Schulz wrote: [snip] You might want to take a look at the Debian Reference to get an overview of Debian-related tools and concepts: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/reference/reference or you could install it to your system (so you can read it in the absence of web access :-) :

Re: sysinfo -ram

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How can I find out the speed of my RAM, and the interface that it uses? I figured there would be a terminal command along the lines of: sysinfo -ram try 'dmidecode' Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: I can't find this network cable!

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Björn Keil wrote: Joe Hart schrieb: Noland Oakley wrote: Please help, I have been looking everywhere online but I cannot find a wireless network cable, where can I locate one? Oxymoron! Not quite. There are wireless cables:

Re: How to change Iceweasel reported browser

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dennis G. Wicks wrote: Thanks! That did the trick. And I didn't even have to reboot! :-D [snipped] But nontheless you shouldn't top-post [1] on this list. You could switch to bottom-posting and trimming [2] without reboot and even without

Re: Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Patrick Wiseman wrote: Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your Preferences (currently

Re: Error message when opening The Gimp

2007-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Patrick Wiseman wrote: Why do I always get this message when I open The Gimp? Unable to open a test swap file. To avoid data loss please check the location and permissions of the swap directory defined in your

Re: Versioned /etc ?

2007-04-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hallo Jeronimo, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: So, I was trying to figure out a way to get automatic versioning for all files in /etc, and I wonder if someone tried that already. I would like to: 1. Not have to add files to a list when I add them to etc (like, I don't want to have to csv

Re: Newbie help how to enlarge root partition

2007-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John Fleming wrote: I'm the guy that recently dd'd hda (40GB) to hdb (160GB) and then put the larger drive in the first position, making it now the new hda. I knew I would then be using only 40GB of the 160GB HDD. I thought it would be easy to enlarge the 40GB root partition, but this newbie

Re: hosed etch upgrade

2007-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hi Graham, sorry for your troubles. Graham Seaman wrote: Given the mess I've now reached, decided the easiest thing is to do a full install of etch from scratch and restore data from backup... please ignore previous message... Graham Graham Seaman wrote: Hi, I had a system which had

Re: Help with NTFS FAT32

2007-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Please don't send confirmation requests to thousands of users of mailing lists! This will put you in suspicion of being a spammer fishing for valid e-mail addresses. Thanks, Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: When USB Harddisk connected, nothing happens

2007-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hello Lars, Lars de Bruin wrote: When i connect my Maxtor OneTouch 500GB III EXT3 , dmesg says there is a new device connected: Apr 21 21:31:12 localhost kernel: usb 5-5: new high speed USB device using address 2 What happens then is a mistry for me: 1. When i run top: id = 100% load 2.

Re: Irresponsible user stories!

2007-04-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Celejar wrote: I don't think that protecting Windows machines with firewalls and shutting down services is particularly difficult. But maybe more difficult than aptitude install your favorite firewall ;-) The point in this particular case is, that this computer lab apparently does not apply

Re: my experiences trying to install Etch

2007-04-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
D. Hugh Redelmeier wrote: I was trying to install the Debian for the first time and ran into several issues. Welcome! I would send this to installlation-reports but I seem to need a running Debian system for that. No, you don't. There is a program called 'reportbug' that will help you to

Re: web alternative to knockd for a secure sshd server?

2007-04-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Nick Demou wrote: Any other idea of simple measures that will keep as many attackers away from the one and only service that is listening to the Internet? Different approach, but the same goal: aptitude install fail2ban bans IPs that cause multiple authentication errors Monitors log files

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Randy Patterson wrote: On Wednesday 18 April 2007 17:51, Ron Johnson wrote: On 04/18/07 16:29, Randy Patterson wrote: Ah, so what you *really* want is a website synching app, correct? Well, yes, more or less. I have always used FTP in the past but now that you have sort of raise the

Re: I can't reboot system

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Sarawuth Buaruang wrote: I can reboot system when I use Ubuntu. But I can't reboot system by Redhat,Fedora and Debian (When I use mainboard Asus P4S800D-X). Which kernel are you using for ubuntu? If it is more recent than the debian one this problem might be solved by upgrading to

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Randy Patterson wrote: I don't really have a preference for GUI or CLI as long as they can be configured on a per-site basis so that I don't have to spend a lot of time typing or clicking. I am perfectly happy with a CLI that can take it's input from a script so that I can do something

Re: windows download

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: Well, comparing the two sites, the http://goodbye-microsoft.com is simpler to follow, but http://www.goodbye-windows.com gives a lot more detail in what the debian.exe will do. My question was targeted along the lines do their different debian.exe's differ? or Will they install

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
P Kapat wrote: Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite satisfied. No warranties 8-) The man pages will help to understand the options, you should verify and adopt them to your situation. I tried to translate

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ken Irving wrote: On Thu, Apr 19, 2007 at 06:58:27PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: P Kapat wrote: Can you provide your script? I was looking for some thing very similar. I have been fiddling around with Keep but not quite satisfied. No warranties 8-) The man pages will help

Re: windows download

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Joe Hart wrote: Personally, I don't know why they both need to exist, but that's beside the point. What is the point is that one no longer needs to download and burn a CD if they want to convert from Windows to Debian. The more there exist

Re: windows download

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: But I'd have no problem with a site like that and I don't have a problem if someone says goodbye to debian. Err, I meant to write: I don't have a problem if someone says goodbye to debian, except if it is one of our excellent developers, bug fixers, release managers

Re: windows download

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: [snip] Thinking more about it, I actually like the idea of a site like this, sponsored by micro$oft: They would develop a deb-package with software in it to pack a microsoft-installer to ext3, reiserfs, xfs etc. The installer would have

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jim Hyslop wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: There's [...] no need for Symantec anti-virus products. I'm curious why you say that. I'm fairly new to Linux, but I understand it is more robust and secure than MS Windows. Still, it's not totally secure - nothing made by humans could be. So, do you

Re: windows download

2007-04-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Joe Hart wrote: Tim Casey wrote: will a cd downloaded and burned on a windows machine boot? If you mean a debian-install cd that you downloaded and burned using windows, yet it should work. You could just go to http://www.goodbye-windows.com and bypass the burning altogether though.

Re: Good Debian/Linux FTP Client program ???

2007-04-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: On Wed, 2007-04-18 at 20:46 +0200, Mathias Brodala wrote: [0] http://filezilla-project.org/ The development model for FileZilla sucks compared to most other GUI FTP programs. It does a lot of screwy things. I can't properly transfer stuff to or from many standard ftp

Re: Backup: optical disk, and RAID

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: I need to backup a partition on my hard drive. Currently, I am trying to get CDRW-Taper to work. Is that the best, or does anyone recommend anything else? There is no 'best' for all cases. It depends on your needs. For a single computer mainly used by one person at

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge repository? Good luck, Christian (the site owner) already removed it. No backups.

Re: Debian Etch - CLARIFIED

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Steven Maddox (Architect) wrote: Hi folks, Angry mob here (if I was more than one person)... It's very nice of you to lecture me on what is LAMP and all the different packages that theres are - but I already 'get' all of that! Hi Steven, angry reader here. Your subject doesn't describe

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 15:39 +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Greg Folkert wrote: On Tue, 2007-04-17 at 09:48 +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: Dear all, It seems debian-multimedia for sarge has been removed after Etch was officially released. Where can I find the old sarge

Re: Linux/Debian documentation suggestion

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Glenn Moeller-Holst wrote: Hi Glenn, please don't cross post. This Linux/Debian documentation suggestion, regards Linux and applications commands. It is proposed that the kernel and applications packets (.deb, .rpm) includes (or has the possibilty to include) documentation about the

Re: where can I find the sarge repository of debian-multimedia?

2007-04-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Liam O'Toole wrote: Beware of upgrades, though. When lenny goes through a major transition (as it surely will), those packages are likely to break when used in etch. IIUC from Index of /debian/debian-multimedia/pool/main/a/acroread Icon Name Last modified Size [DIR]

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