Dennis G. Wicks wrote:
No big mystery there. Session follows
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a
Linux dgwicks 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP Mon Mar 26 17:17:36 UTC 2007 i686
GNU/Linux
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ scribus-ng --help
Floating point exception
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$
That's strange. On my Debian
Kevin Mark wrote:
On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 07:45:17AM +0800, Sun.Botu wrote:
Hello,every body
My laptop's soundcard is AC 97 and when I play music in Ubuntu or Debian,the
quality is to bad.
Any software or driver can solve?
I attach my desktop to my stereo amplifier which has real
Pete Clarke wrote:
cholet:~# aptitude dist-upgrade
Reading Package Lists... Done
Building Dependency Tree
Reading extended state information
Initializing package states... Done
Some packages had unmet dependencies. This may mean that you have
requested an impossible situation or if you
charles norwood wrote:
I did the upgrade from sarge to etch, following the release notes. All
went well. This was a massive change. Thanks to those who made such a
complex process manageable by normal users.
Me too!!!
Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
Thanks to all!
Many thanks to our release managers and all developers for spending the
past 21 months preparing and releasing Etch!
Etch is a great OS and a great distribution -- to me it's the best
software I ever had. I would switch to something better than debian, but
I know that such a move
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Sorry for reposting; I meant to forward this to the developers at
debian-devel.
Johannes
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I know, sooner or later I will have to migrate from my present teTeX to
TeX live (currently running etch). Both are available for etch. I'm a
happy user of teTeX, not missing any features and just wondering of when
is the best time to migrate: now, later or should I wait for an
automatic
Thilo Six wrote:
http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2007/04/msg6.html
From there, I get:
the Debian TeX Task force is currently preparing an upload of TeX Live
2007 to unstable.
Doesn't concern etch. Having both available on etch, when should *I*
upgrade?
Alain SECOND wrote:
Thanks, Debian-marketing
2 hours wasted for that!!!
the basic user is stupid; the admnistrator thinks for him !!!
By default, PLEASE peace to the normal user!!
KDE has the right tools, debian brokes them. For what?
What exactly is broken? Are there any
Kushal Kumaran wrote:
On 4/5/07, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
You'll lose the permission bits and owner/group, etc. (Maybe even
filename case, but I'm not sure). Use tar if all you have is fat32.
seconded.
If it's of importance also check the maximum file size of your
Michael Pobega wrote:
Also might want to note that you WILL lose filename case, FAT32 only
allows for lowercase characters in filenames.
That would only be the filename of the tar-file, so it doesn't really
mater.
Johannes
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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)
NAME
ntfsclone - Efficiently clone, image, restore or rescue an NTFS
It's part of the ntfsprogs
Michael Fothergill wrote:
Dear Debianists,
I created a flow chart in Open Office 2.0. It is a .odg file. I
Uhhh. It's called OpenOffice.org I was told by one of the maintainers,
who was really annoyed of me calling it like that.
What is the best way to proceed here?
Without knowing your
Greg Folkert wrote:
Then also ask him to pay for MSWindows and MSOffice for you, so you can
cater to his wishes.
Uhh, shudder, recently, for the first time in years I was forced to
use MSOffice to collaborate on a document. It was the most horrible
experience in years to try to cope with the
Michael Fothergill wrote:
The file will need to be edited...
So open OO.o, select New Presentation, copy/paste your drawing into that
new presentation, save it as .ppt.
Just tried it, it works with my .odg
HTH,
Johannes
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Hallo list!
Before upgrading from sarge to etch, I would like to uninstall all those
packages that were installed from backports.org. I know that
apt-cache policy packagename
will show if packagename is from sarge-backports, but would like to
make sure that I catch all of those.
Thanks for
Wei Chen wrote:
So it is that based on Debian, people create Ubuntu. Also based on
Debian, there is Backports.
No. Ubuntu is based on debian, but not debian, ie. compatibility between
packages from ubuntu and debian is less than 100%. Packages from
backports are *for* debian, so apart from
Stephane Durieux wrote:
But I would like to know if bacula, amanda or
rdiff-backup are able to do it.
They are all available for debian. You might ask the netware user list,
if they are available there.
Johannes
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Liam O'Toole wrote:
Don't they all have a -bpo suffix on the version number? Try this:
dpkg -l | grep bpo
Unfortunately, some version numbers don't fit into the output format of
dpkg -l and are truncated; notably firefox. So this might work, if I
would remember of how to reformat
Thanks!
Andrei Popescu wrote:
/usr/share/doc/aptitude/README:
Search Patterns
[...]
~Oorigin
Matches package versions whose origin matches the regular
expression origin. For instance, ``!~Odebian'' will find any
unofficial packages on your system (packages not from
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
On Wed, Apr 04, 2007 at 11:52:22AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Hallo list!
Before upgrading from sarge to etch, I would like to uninstall all those
packages that were installed from backports.org. I know that
apt-cache policy packagename
will show
Mathias Brodala wrote:
Hello Johannes.
Johannes Wiedersich, 04.04.2007 17:40:
Liam O'Toole wrote:
Don't they all have a -bpo suffix on the version number? Try this:
dpkg -l | grep bpo
Unfortunately, some version numbers don't fit into the output format of
dpkg -l and are truncated
S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
On 4/4/07, Greg Folkert [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Wed, 2007-04-04 at 21:14 +0600, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote:
My system now runing on reiserfs partation, i want to make it ext3
without reinstalling debian. any idea ?
You have to have a spare partition large
Mathias Brodala wrote:
I don't know how I should set COLUMNS and your second option works on
etch, but not on sarge.
$ COLUMS=200 dpkg -l whatever
COLUMNS=200 dpkg -l|grep bpo
works, thanks!
Johannes
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Roberto C. Sánchez wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:43:30PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote:
If I had immediately followed with some outrageous claim that Windows is
better and has fewer security holes because insert some stupid reason,
*THEN* you could accuse me of spreading FUD.
Windows *is*
Listas Locatel wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich escribió:
Windows *is* better, since it has more users than any other OS, and
those simply can't be wrong. The same applies to M$ office.
??? think you that windows is better ??
No. In continuation to Roberto's irony, I just 'quote' what I
Joe Hart wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Roberto C. S�nchez wrote:
On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:43:30PM -0400, Jim Hyslop wrote:
If I had immediately followed with some outrageous claim that Windows is
better and has fewer security holes because insert some stupid reason,
*THEN* you could
Frank Miles wrote:
I changed how I was backing up my system, and now need to write larger
files
to my Panasonic LF-D521 DVD-RAM (backup drive). Unfortunately it chokes a
bit over 1GB, reporting that the file size is too large. 'umount'ing takes
a really long time as well.
The disk[s]
Frank McCormick wrote:
On Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:14:14 -0400
Well another 'minor' problem has arisen, probably connected to the
fact kde-desktop is no longer on my machine. Now Aptitude wants to
remove all the files I just installed avahi-daemon and its dependecies,
plus dhcp3-client I
Frank McCormick wrote:
On Fri, 23 Mar 2007 09:17:14 +0100
Johannes Wiedersich [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Looks like
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=411123
Well, maybe, but KDE was installed using Aptitude, removed with
Aptitude and Aptitude was used to re-install
Joey Hess wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Security support for etch started around the freeze, IIRC.
Testing has had security support for several years now.
http://secure-testing-master.debian.net/
Thanks for proving me wrong. I was unaware of testing's security
repositories.
Searching
Frank McCormick wrote:
I guess I still don't completely understand the Debian system. Why
would I not get security patches running testing...which I think is
really Etch now ?
Security support for etch started around the freeze, IIRC.
I guess it is just too much work for the security team
Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box.
Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0
GB large. (This was a recording of an opera production, so it is
difficult / impossible to predict suitable breaks in order to record
smaller chunks.)
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Scheduling an audio recording with sound-recorder failed on my etch box.
Only about the first 3 hours were recorded, resulting in a file just 2.0
GB large.
PS: The resulting .wav file does not play / import with aplay,
play-sample, audacity, xmms -- kplayer
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I record KUSC operas with mplayer. Evidently you have broadband, and I
do not.
I have... at work. This was a recording from a FM tuner via my usb sound
card...
But I just recorded 5 hours = 2.2GB without a problem. But I
have ext2. mplayer is used with pure
Eric Dantan Rzewnicki wrote:
On Mon, Mar 19, 2007 at 10:54:03AM +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Is this a bug in sound recorder?
regular wav files have a 2GB limit.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wav#Limitations
So it's a 'bug' or better a design flaw of the wav format. I should have
known
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
Default User wrote:
How do I configure the Sarge system to use the new card (I really don't
want to reinstall from scratch . . .) ?
As root, try
dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xfree86
Very likely, you would like to read the header of
/etc/X11/XF86Config-4
and
Raffaele Morelli wrote:
2007/3/15, Ken Heard [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
You miss alsa* packages, they are the only thing you need.
Just have a look to discover output to investigate if your laptop ships a
somewhat strange soundcard model.
you should also add the user to the group audio (and video
The debian default of my sarge installations is that the ext3-FS are
fsck'ed about every 30 mounts or 180 days (whatever comes first).
I assume that debian's installation defaults are reasonable. However one
of the computers is a server with thousands of files changed in /home
each day; the other
Celejar wrote:
The default groups to which new users are added (when created with
'adduser --add-extra-groups') is specified in '/etc/adduser.conf' by
the line beginning 'EXTRA_GROUPS'; the default does include 'audio'. On
my Sid system, the (non-root) user that I created during install
Joe Hart wrote:
As for acroread goes, it has turned into a huge package. The version in
my apt-cache shows 7.0.9, which is not the newest version, and it's a
whopping 22911748 bytes. I imagine that 8.0 is even bigger.
While KPDF may not be as feature rich, it does the job, and weighs in at
Florian Kulzer wrote:
It is furthermore possible to write custom plug-ins which impose
additional restrictions. For example, we once got a reprint-PDF for an
article that we had published in a scientific journal. This PDF required
a plug-in so that it could contact the publisher's server to
Joe Hart wrote:
My position comes from the fact that companies try to push their
proprietary formats down our throats. PDF is a perfect example of a
file type that I have disliked since I moved to Europe where the paper
format is different than the US. With PDF files, one cannot change the
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/13/07 01:16, Joe Hart wrote:
[snip]
Since you know so much about PDF files, let me ask you another
question. Does PDF have DRM capabilities built in?
They can be password encrypted. Don't know about anything else.
Arguably the worst feature, however, may be the
Mike McCarty wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
[snip]
PayPal does not ever send e-mail to its members (customers? whatever).
When I get these (about once a week or so) I forward them with full
headers to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or [EMAIL PROTECTED], I forget which.
I get them from Wells Fargo, Bank of
semgogo sem wrote:
yes, I can log in locally at the terminal as a normal user and then su
- root successfully.
following the rest of this thread, I think your keyboard is differently
configured for the computer and for the computer from where you ssh from.
HTH,
Johannes
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Freddy Freeloader wrote:
shut ur mouth.
Ummm I do have a question though. Just who, and where, are you
referring to when you say, send us the message?
Sorry for jumping in. I guess it's the one with the 'shut ur mouth'. I
can't find it in the thread.
Johannes
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Marco De Vitis wrote:
I need to copy much data from a Sarge machine to an Etch one on
the same LAN, preserving all permissions and ACLs.
Why aren't you trying rsync?
From man rsync:
-A, --acls preserve ACLs (implies -p) [non-standard]
HTH,
Johannes
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Ron Johnson wrote:
On 03/09/07 00:45, Paul Johnson wrote:
[snip]
And you spend the rest of your life paying it off in the US. Everybody
needs healthcare, it's better to cover everyone and strive to make it
efficient. It's in everyone's best interest to live in a healthy society
with
Andrés Roldán wrote:
I'd thank any Debian user that will be
willing to create a DFSG-compliant image to merge it with the LILO
package for Etch.
While you're at it, the CD artwork on
http://www.de.debian.org/CD/artwork/
looks a bit outdated as well, with most CD cover pictures featuring
Masatran, R. Deepak wrote:
1. How to shut down? Simply unplugging the USB cable, after unmounting, is
wrong, is it not?
No. Unmount, unplug. This is not child's play (like some other OS).
5. About encrypted partitions, and LVM: Are they readable, and writable from
Microsoft Windows?
Ask
Florian Kulzer wrote:
On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:53:34 -0600, Russell L. Harris wrote:
* On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 01:01:15PM -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
What I would like to do is make a booklet, that is to say letter
sheets folded in the middle to make 5.5x8.5 pages.
Can someone point me to
John Hasler wrote:
(Aside: ``non-DE''? I thought the EU has so far staved off the
software-patent idiocy.)
_Similar_ reasons. Germany, for example, has a licensing law for games
(unless it has been repealed recently).
Germany has a licensing law for free software games? I never thought
Michael Kerwin wrote:
I have built a Pentium core duo computer and can get debian to boot from the
cd if it is an ide parallel drive but when I try it with a 750GB SATA drive
it get to the point where it will try to boot from the cd rom and it can't.
I saw that someone had a problem with this
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Chris Bannister wrote:
Oh come on. At the company we just left, we generated 2-3 proposals a
month, each at
25 pages or so, using Word. There are lots of reasons to dislike Word,
but get real, it's usable
and it works.
Just looking at the number of word documents
Kent West wrote:
(Off-Topic because this is really a LaTeX question rather than a Debian
question.)
Verse 1
A
I wanna make you smile
Bm
Whenever you're sad
C#m
Carry you around
D
When your arthritis is bad
A E
All I wanna do is
D
ciol wrote:
Hello, I'm a bit confused about debian.
I believe that its main characteristics are: quality, freefom *and* 100%
voluntary. So I wonder with Dunc Tank and the fact that Joey Schulze
wants to be paid, if debian will not loose its identity. Isn't it
possible that release managers
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
On Thu, Feb 15, 2007 at 02:04:41PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/15/07 12:51, Siju George wrote:
I am considering XFS. The System is Debian Sarge for amd64.
Why? Sarge on that is definitely not supported. You should
definitely go with Etch.
Why would Sarge not
Tuani Panggabean wrote:
plase help me install printer debian-sarge.
speck printer Hp laser-jet 1320
posision printer : ipaddress 192.168.10.9)
thanks
If you really need help on this you should consider taking some of the
advice from
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
and try
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An
update to your howto.
For those who do not know, Greg is talking about
http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/debian_choosing_distribution.html
Nice page. One small
Miles Fidelman wrote:
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Outside of high academia the publishing industry, most people don't
care how ugly their printed documents look.
I think there are an awful lot of us in business, non-profits, and
government who'd contest this.
Not to mention those
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 09:54 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
Also, Kamaraju, I believe I sent an e-mail to your gmail account. An
update to your howto.
For those who do not know, Greg is talking about
http
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Michael S. Peek wrote:
Here's my bug:
Oh yeah, you know what, it occurred to me that it may have something to
do with the remote machine being a solaris box not running CUPS. Maybe
that'll ring a few bells with a guru out there somewhere.
So maybe it is just a
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 18:48 +0100, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
RC bugs in stable right now is O (zero)
RC == Release Critical (or so I've been told)
Since Stable is already released... well you draw the conclusion.
Just search bugs.debian.org to convince yourself
Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200
Micha Feigin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
lyx is good for big documents, or when you already have a class to use.
If you are doing something small (one or two pages) and atypical it
might be faster to just use abiword.
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/12/07 11:49, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Joe Hart wrote:
Andrei Popescu wrote:
On Sun, 11 Feb 2007 18:41:55 +0200 Micha Feigin
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[snip]
I might be a bit of a purist, but I would say that even for one
page of a document you will be better
Jude DaShiell wrote:
If you buy a computer and you have any doubt at all in your mind as
to the legality of the copy of windows that is already on the
machine's hard drive, erase entire hard drive and install Debian on
machine.
So, what? We are on a debian user list and not on a legal
Bernard wrote:
Thanks in advance for any useful input
I think your question has been answered in more than one way,
demonstrating the flexibility of debian.
One more suggestion/advice: I like to use aptitude just as it is. Just
run 'aptitude' without arguments. You will get a nice visual
Torquil Macdonald Sørensen wrote:
Hello,
Does anyone know how to disable the Navigation Pane by default in
acroread7? It's on the left side, and has Bookmarks, Pages, and
Attachments tabs. It comes back every time I start acroread, and I
can't find any options to disable it by default in
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:54 +, J.A. de Vries wrote:
On 2007-02-04 @ 08:45:38 (week 05) Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
NUT. Powerchute for Linux is CRAP. Unless they had de-windows-ified
it.
What's NUT?
Sorry. Found it.
Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
Greg Folkert wrote:
On Sun, 2007-02-04 at 22:54 +, J.A. de Vries wrote:
On 2007-02-04 @ 08:45:38 (week 05) Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
NUT. Powerchute for Linux is CRAP. Unless they had de-windows-ified
it.
What's NUT
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
On Thu, Feb 01, 2007 at 01:12:20PM -0500, Rick Reynolds wrote:
It's probably worth getting a
larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual
boot option just so you can verify that any problems you're having are
not hardware related. But
Ron Johnson wrote:
On 02/01/07 07:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
debian wrote:
[snip]
i vpnc- Cisco-compatible VPN client
there are different vpn clients for debian and I'm a happy user of vpnc
on Etch. Read the documentation on how to set it up.
Interesting.
I
First the good news: after some repairs, the system appears to be
'clean' again, running as usual.
The box has three hard disks: /dev/hda with the root partition and
/dev/hdb and /dev/hdd with a raid1 for data.
/---
athene:~# mount
/dev/hda1 on / type ext3 (rw,errors=remount-ro)
proc on /proc
Douglas Allan Tutty wrote:
Personally, I run something like samhain, not so much to check for
intrusion as to monitor data integrity.
I wonder if the failed /dev/hdb took out the controller (ide0) and so /dev/hda
got corrupted.
No idea how to figure that out.
Its too bad that your system
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
These messages look similar -- but not identical -- to the ones I had
while installing an etch system -- and eventually I came to suspect the
file-system-damage bug in the Debian 2.6.18-3 kernel (sometimes
because of a race condition a buffer is not written to hard
Stefan Monnier wrote:
Actually, I'm surprised at how most linux-laptop vendors offer mostly
laptops with 2 buttons only, given that X11 has traditionally been used
with 3-button mice, and so many applications make use of all 3.
My Thinkpads actually have 5, though two are just 'duplicates' of
debian wrote:
Hello,
i have a laptop with debian, kernel 2.6.19.2.
Everything works fine.
On our windoze computers, we use secureclient for VPN but how can i use
VPN on my linux client ?
Is there an alternative for secureclient ?
I don't know about secureclient. As you can see from
][ wrote:
On Wed, 24 Jan 2007 23:07:43 -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
Is there any way to tell rsync to backup all the . files under my home but
no any . directories? E.g., .profile in, but .gconf/ .gnome/ etc out?
Don't use the recursive option?
unfortunately that's not an option. I
Tyler MacDonald wrote:
Have you put a password on your bootloader (GRUB, etc) to restrict changing
the boot parameters?
Otherwise, you can simply edit the boot parameters, and add something like
S init=/bin/bash to the end to drop yourself right into a root shell on
boot.
The same applies
Bryce wrote:
Citing a website for which you yourself are the technical contact is
hardly authoritative. Top-posting is plenty readable for these
shorter threads. Welcome to the 21st Century!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top-posting#Top-posting
I guess, you didn't read what you quote. The
Nigel Henry wrote:
It might be worth asking on the alsa-user list. A while back with someone
having problems with a sound card problem on a laptop, I suggested a USB one,
but the reply was that USB ones need a bit of extra work to get them going.
Either look on the archives or post to the
I can't get audacity to work with my usb sound card. I retried on a
fresh install of debian etch. According to information from the
alsa-user mailing list, audacity should work with /dev/dsp. My usb sound
card is /dev/dsp, but still it doesn't work.
aplayer and arecord work fine with both the
Hi all!
I have some trouble making my usb sound card work as I would like. My
laptop also has a built-in sound card that works ok, but has _very_
_limited_ input sound quality.
What is the proper way to set up and configure sound/alsa on debian etch?
According to the fine manual [1] there's a
kevin bailey wrote:
Something I've never known how to do?!?!
Say I've installed Etch (which looks as good as Ubuntu BTW) on to a PC - and
I then need to install a new graphics card and a DVD burner.
Now I take it that during installation the hardware was detected and the
various modules
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote:
I can run smartctl on a SATA disk:
smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sda
but when I run it on a USB disk:
smartctl -d ata -A -v 194,unknown /dev/sdb
I get:
Smartctl: Device Read Identity Failed (not an ATA/ATAPI device)
But it *is* an ATA disk.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Is there a chance that we will get scilab in etch ?
We work quite a lot with it and it would be much nicer to install a .deb
then to install it from source...
Scilab is not free software [1] and therefore cannot be included in
debian proper, ever. Unless they change
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Scilab is not free software [1] and therefore cannot be included in
debian proper, ever. Unless they change their license.
Ah, I see. Ok, but it once was in sarge, if I remember correctly and it is
in unstable now (http://packages.qa.debian.org/s/scilab.html). Have
Kevin Mark wrote:
or removed. The obvious case being m68k -- aka the orginal macs -- not
being in Etch. In the upcoming release cycle -- lenny, I'd love to see
m68k and other arch. still be here but they have an uphill battle no
matter what distro you pick.
I don't really know, but past
Plugging my usb sound card, killing artsd, restarting alsa everything
seems to work fine (aplay, arecord), but when I start audacity, I get
the following error box:
/---
Error initioalizing audio
There was an error initializing the audio i/o layer.
You will not be able to play or record
Not related to debian-security. Forwarded to debian-user. Removed french
part that is not appropriate to either debian-security nor debian-user.
Please take care to send messages to the appropriate mailing lists!
Thanks, Johannes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good Morning,
I would like give the
Troy Bull wrote:
I am totally new to debian. I recently downloaded and installed 3.1r4 I
noticed that is seems very old.
NO, that's plainly not true. Stable sarge was released 1 1/2 years ago.
That's not very old. If you are comparing to other distros you should
compare the enterprise
Sven Arvidsson wrote:
libdvdcss2 isn't really non-free, neither is quite a lot of the other
stuff Marillat maintains.
Silly laws and regulations in some parts of the world prevent these
packages from being part of the main archives.
Regulations prevent distribution = non-free
If you
Lubos Vrbka wrote:
I guess it's just a problem of configuration and/or ppd-stuff.
it seems so. we installed ppds for HPLJ4100 and HPLJ2300 from
linuxprinting.org (standard postscript, no hplip - we had that up till
now) and the settings can be changed from individual users, i.e., duplex
can
Douglas Tutty wrote:
The idea is that a format with built-in error-correcting would scatter
the redundancy around the disk so that if a few blocks are bad, the data
can still be retreived.
Point taken.
Even raid1 doesn't accomplish this. With raid1 and two disks, if both
disks have bad
Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
if the chance of a disk failure is (say) 1% in the time alloted, then
the chance of having a failure with disks is 2%. THe change of any one
particular disk failing is still 1%, it the odds of A failure in the
system as a whole that goes up. So with more disks
Baz wrote:
Hello. Will someone please recommend a reference book (or website) about
fundamental to mid-level command language (Unix/Linux/Debian)? Thanks.
Sebastian
Please don't cross post!
aptitude install rutebook
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Javier Viegas wrote:
Hi everyone, i have Debian Sarge 3.1 installed as a file server, and i
need
to add another hard disk, as i already have the 4 ide ports bussy i can use
sata ones to add a big sata hd, the problem is that sarge 3.1 doesn´t
support sata controlers. I have an Asus mother
Douglas Tutty wrote:
I'm going to be backing up to a portable ruggedized hard drive.
Currently, my backups end up in tar.bz2 format.
It would be nice if there was some redundancy in the data stream to
handle blocks that go bad while the drive is in storage (e.g. archive).
How is this
Mauro Condarelli wrote:
Hi All, I Jut bought a new PC (Aldi/Medion-8818). It runs fine with
its preinstalled Windows Media Edition. I tried a couple of recent
Linux live-CDs (Knoppix 5.0 latest Ubuntu, both debian-based) and
both failed to fully recognize my hardware. Most notably the SATA
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