Re: Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Eckhard Kosin wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Eckhard Kosin wrote: But if I try to recursively copy directories to the udf-formatted dvd-ram: cp -r /some/dir /media/cdrecord than after a few seconds the system freezes totally - only a power

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 03:58:43PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Seemed worth trying, but "apt-file find kprinter" returns nothing. kprinter is part of the kdeprint packag

Re: Recursive copy to udf-formatted dvd-ram freezes system

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Eckhard Kosin wrote: Hi, I formatted a dvd-ram with udf: mkudffs --media-type=dvdram /dev/scd0 Than after mounting the dvd-ram I can copy files to it and a diff shows that the copied files are okay. To ensure that the files have really been written I switched the writer off and on and mounted

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 10:18:21AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Printing from Acroread is a pain. In particular it seems to do a really bad job at outodetecting our network printers. It also never seems to remember my previous settings. I've had best results by man

Re: Printing from Acrobat

2006-07-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: On Tue, Jul 25, 2006 at 01:47:03AM -0400, Carl Fink wrote: I'm using Etch, with up-to-date CUPS. I can print fine from most applications (e.g. OpenOffice.org, Firefox) but not from Adobe Acrobat Reader (v7 from the Marillat collection). In fact, I can print a Social Security f

Re: Backup

2006-07-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jan Dinger wrote: Hallo, Ich möchte ein backup machen: 1/woche Fullbackup 6/woche inkrementel Different approach: I've been using rdiff-backup. With rdiff-backup you'll get one 'exact' copy of the present state of your files and directories. In a separate folder rdiff-backup keeps diffs of t

OT: Free Software WAS: Re: Odp: Re: Hugin on debian "sarge"

2006-07-20 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Zbigniew Wiech wrote: Hi, It's not a problem of desktop and GUI. I could really live with blackscreen and "./configure/make/make install" instead of "setup.exe". If only "./configure..." was more-less equally reliable as "setup.exe". Well there is only one or two supported Versions of M$, but

Re: Why?

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: On Fri, Jul 14, 2006 at 10:40:07AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Paul E Condon wrote: But some posters to this thread seem to be unaware that selecting "Desk top" during install of Debian causes -both- kde -and- gnome to be installed. So, I believe almost al

Re: ssh in debian

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Christopher Nelson wrote: On Sun, Jul 16, 2006 at 11:33:34PM +0200, mattias jonsson wrote: how to activate ssh in debian? i run colinux debian Client or server? (I'm assuming here that colinux lets linux talk to the host's networking, I don't how to set it up if it doesn't) The client should

Re: [Etch] Text disappearing in Gnome

2006-07-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is happening in different places : - desktop icons : I open an application that is hiding the icon, then when I close the application part of the icon text disappeared. After I move the mouse over the missing text it is visible again. - firefox : On some site there i

Re: Why?

2006-07-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: But some posters to this thread seem to be unaware that selecting "Desk top" during install of Debian causes -both- kde -and- gnome to be installed. So, I believe almost all of those newbies about whom we are genuinely concerned already have both on their computer. And -both

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Indraveni wrote: I think I dint give proper information to you. Actually we are wowrking for a debian based distro and for this we want to create an autorunning CD. That is, for Windows, after installation if we some other features to be installed so we just insert the installable CD, it will ju

Re: How to create autorunning CD?

2006-07-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Indraveni wrote: Hi, I want to know how to create an autorunning CD in Linux especially debian Linux. As soon as I insert the CD it opens up in a browser in my system but along with this i also want a script to run automatically or some html page should open.. Like in windows we create this usi

Re: Package question

2006-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Aurélien Morelle wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Aurélien Morelle wrote: you could alternatively try dpkg -S msgfmt What output does this yield? It yields this output : gettext: /usr/lib/gettext/msgfmt.net.exe gettext: /usr/bin/msgfmt gettext: /usr/share/man/man1/msgfmt.1.gz but it

Re: Package question

2006-07-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Aurélien Morelle wrote: Hi, I've done "apt-file update" and then "apt-file search msgfmt" returns nothing. It makes me think it comes not from a package... strange. It does not work for me on a completely unstable (upgraded and > dist-upgraded daily) i386/i686 system. More, I have gettext

Re: sound and tv card

2006-07-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Felipe Leon wrote: Now, when I open KMix or so I have 2 options for cards: the SB live 5.1 and the "Conexant CX8811". If I choose the conexant I get no sound at all. I've never had much luck using kmix myself. Just a guess: try to install alsa and use alsamixer (from the command line) to conf

Re: apt-get setup?

2006-07-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lorenzo Bettini wrote: is this option disappeared? man apt-setup is that what you mean? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: xpdf -fullscreen (maybe not Debian specific)

2006-07-07 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hubert Chan wrote: On Fri, 7 Jul 2006 09:50:38 +0900, Nick Hastings <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: Hi all, I may be imagining it, but I thought that at one stage `xpdf -fullsreen foo.pdf' would launch xpdf with no buttons or scrollbars etc. The current version in unstable (1.00-3.8) includes all the

Re: problem upgrading the kernel

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Serban Udrea wrote: Now to my problem. I have a little server with Debian 3.1 Sarge. A few days ago I received from debian-security the message regarding problems with the 2.4.27 kernel: DSA 1097-1 New Kernel 2.4.27 packages fix several vulnerabilities. Since I have this kernel version installe

Re: Installing on a small root partition

2006-07-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Anil Gupte wrote: BlankNeed help and advice. This system happens to be in a place where there are frequent power losses. So, my plan is to have a small root partition (say about 100MB), and make it a read-only partition. This way, there will be no corruption on constant reboots. The apps, logs

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ZeroUno wrote: The problem is that, when searching for info about a server machine offered by the reseller, I'm a bit scared to find out that only binary downloads for a restricted range of operating systems are available... this happened with an IBM machine, and now I'm looking for an Intel s

Re: Debian server support

2006-06-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Goran wrote: Hello, my personal view is that all this stuff ("someOS-compatible") is crap. Just look for good & qualitative parts for the server and that's it. My actual recommendation for server with several responsibilities in small companies is an Vanerpool enabled Intel-machine for using with

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rodney D. Myers wrote: On Mon, 26 Jun 2006 16:38:33 -0700 "Martin Paraskevov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? - martin dpkg -l | grep Better: dpkg -l Johannes -- To UNS

Re: Replying to list

2006-06-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lynn Kilroy wrote: I am going to be a little nasty on this one, fellas, by breaking all your perfectly held and highly valued netiquette. I recommend you just stick to M$ Outlook. At some 250 Euros/US$ per licence for Outlook and XP-Pro it is a bargain and it seems to contain all the features

Re: Xorg Configuration in Etch

2006-06-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
T wrote: where can I find the xorgcfg and/or xorgconfig in Etch? What is really missing is a piece of documentation of how to set up xorg in debian. As said in my recent post, my dist-upgrade from sarge to etch went fine, except that I don't know how to tweak my x-configuration. I also don'

Re: Replying to list

2006-06-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: Competent MUAs (like Mutt/elm and Evolution) have a Reply-to-List command. I wouldn't call Thunderbird incompetent, but your point is well taken. Tbird is lacking in specific competence. Being able to import mbox files is another aggravating area of incompetence. I would

Documentation for xorg in etch?

2006-06-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I've recently upgraded from sarge to etch. Everything worked more or less painlessly. However I would like to tweek my xorg configuration a bit [1]. Where can I find the documentation on how to do it? /usr/share/doc/xserver-xorg-* doesn't contain sufficient information. Is /etc/X11/xorg.conf

Re: System configuration profile manager

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Thank for the hint. SCPM can manage printing and video too I wonder if is there anything more similar. I'm not using those tools too heavily, but some of them (laptop-net, IIRC) support scripts to run, when a network is 'entered' or 'left'. You can easily script somet

Re: Dapper Drake verdict: It sucks

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: On Wednesday 14 June 2006 03:04, Brent Clark wrote: Sorry, couldnt resist http://www.tectonic.co.za/view.php?id=1026 After reading this sentence in the above article "Once again I should have probably read the manual, but I figured I've done this before." I th

Re: price of the 3 debian cds much more expensive than what it is told on the website

2006-06-14 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ubuntu and Kubuntu are not Debian; while based on Debian, they really are different distributions, with different goals. The main differences are the fact that Ubuntu (and its sisters kubuntu and edubuntu) have strict 6-month release cycles, while Debian does not; and the fact that the default Ub

Re: System configuration profile manager

2006-06-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Roberto Bernetti wrote: Hi all I'm moving, for my laptop, from SuSE 9.2 to Debian. Welcome aboard! One of the packages I appreciated was System configuration profile manager I used to switch configuration from my different office or at home. Is there anything similar in Debian? $ apt-cac

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: > Do you know what would be the best way to make sure I don't miss any > of those updates? If I backport e.g. mysql from unstable/testing, > will I be able to rely on security announcements to debian-security, > or do I need to check for new vulnerabilities upstream? J

Re: [backports & security]

2006-06-01 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Felix C. Stegerman wrote: Hi, I'm about to install sarge on a (production) server of my own, and would rather like to have the latest versions of: * mysql (5.0) * vim (7.0) * the Linux kernel (2.6.16) [ppc] Since these are not in sarge, I'm considering using backported versions from backp

howto customize printing from adobe reader 7.0.5

2006-05-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I'm using cups and kprinter for printing on debian sarge. Apparently adobe reader is completely unaware of this. Every time I want to print something I have to manually select A4 instead of letter etc. and have to tell it to use kprinter instead of lpr. Other applications successfully detect a

Re: how to add CD-write support to sarge

2006-05-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Serena Cantor wrote: I use sarge's default kernel, I read CD-Write howto, but can't get it work. I have a IDE-CDROM. how to use it thru scsi emulation? I add a line to menu.lst, append hdb=ide-scsi I load some modules (ide-scsi... ) it just does not work Normally the installer should set i

Re: Which is the most stable of Debian releases?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Hi, It's well-known that Debian releases are rock-solid. But I've been wondering if there's been a comparison between various releases as regards stability. It would be nice if there's some commentary from long-time Debian users (say those who experienced it pre-Woody)

Re: Comparison of aptitude hold and pinning?

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Adam Funk wrote: I recently used the `aptitude hold` command. It seems to be doing what I expected but I'm curious -- what are the differences between this and pinning a package in /etc/apt/preferences, and where does aptitude hold store the information? (`grep -r PACKAGENAME /etc/apt/` turns u

Re: Installation

2006-05-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N A wrote: Is it possible to install Debian as a dual-boot on an Intel Celeron system using only the existing windows partition and a removable hard drive ~250MiB? If so, how would one do so? Unfortunately: NO. from the installation manual: http://www.de.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/apcs0

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Quoting Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On this boot with knoppix, the /dev/hda was detected and mounted, but with plenty of room. df [EMAIL PROTECTED] df hda* Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/root

Re: Failed to boot, wants to acces harddisk via knoppix

2006-05-22 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i guess this should be considered a "bad answer" from the system: # mount /dev/hda9/ /mnt/drive mount: /dev/hda9 is not a valid block device hinting towards a very damaged HD! What does dmesg say about finding any HD? My dmesg tells me hda: SAMSUNG Serial number, type

bug resolved, but still in stable?

2006-05-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Within the bug tracking system, a bug is marked 'resolved' even if it is not resolved in debian stable. Wouldn't it be more in line of 'We will not hide problems', if there was an additional tag, about when a bug is finally resolved in stable? I filed a bug a while ago [1]: an editor crashes w

Re: Need help getting quotas to work

2006-05-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hex Star wrote: Hi, I have a server running Suse 10, stock kernel 2.6.13-15-smp and cPanel version 10.8.2-RELEASE 83 , I can't seem to get quotas to work. I've tried enabling quotas in whm and doing /scripts/fixquotas but it always returns this error: Old group file(s) not found, won't subtract

Re: thunderbird: howto copy mail headers

2006-05-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Martin Hermanowski wrote: On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 10:43:01AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: `CTRL+U, CTRL+A, CTRL+C' might be what you are looking for. Thanks! That does it. I'm rather sure that it used to work without the CTRL+U in previous versions of Mozilla-Mail/T

thunderbird: howto copy mail headers

2006-05-18 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I have recently turned too stupid to be able to select and copy the headers from emails in order to paste them elsewhere. With the mouse I can select only a single line of header information at a time, but I would like to copy the whole message: all headers plus body text. Is this still possib

Re: Best way to boot between debian and suse?

2006-05-17 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Digby Tarvin wrote: There should be no problem sharing /home provided you are careful about a few minor things - principally: Well, and you should be sure that all your distributions always have the same versions of some of the programs you use. It's not always obvious, that different version

Re: Another Newbie Troubles with Debian

2006-05-15 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Dov Oxenberg wrote: Hello, First off I would like to say thanks to all of you for being so kind in welcoming me to the list, and for your willingness to be of assistance. I am having a similar issue to the user who posted earlier this morning saying he was unable to load the KDE or GNOME and susp

Re: How to restore corrupted initscripts?

2006-05-12 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John O'Hagan wrote: Hi, When shutting down my etch laptop of late, it stops just short of power-off with a message along the lines of "No more processes in this runlevel". I then have to power-off manually. I looked in /etc/init.d and noticed that the "halt" script was no longer a script, b

howto autosave email attachments?

2006-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
We have a shiny new printer/copier/scanner. It sends scanned pages as email attachments. Instead of manually selecting individual email adresses on the cumbersome telephone-like local keyboard, it would be handy to mail all of them to the same e-mail address and have the attachments automatical

OT: German was Yelp zeigt keine XML-Dateien

2006-05-11 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Matthias Pfeifer wrote: Hallo liebe NG, Folgendes Problem: Ich benutze "unseren" (Sind wir nicht alle eine große Gemeinde?) Ja, wir sind eine große Gemeinde, eine sehr große Gemeinde. Du hast deine Mail an den englischsprachigen Teil der Gemeinde geschickt. Yes, we are a big community, a v

Re: Cups + HP PSC1410 + Windows XP

2006-05-10 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron wrote: Hi, I installed the HP PSC1400 drivers on Linux such that I can print to a Windows machine which is connected to a HP PSC1410 printer. I am using cups. This is in my log: 10/May/2006:14:09:54 +0200] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb (PID 5794) for job 199. E [10/May/2006:14:

Re: Social Contract

2006-05-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
All your assumptions about me and the licence in question are plainly wrong. I don't know how you come around knowing about my licence, European and German law and apparently everything else better than anyone else on the list (and probalby on earth.) Mike McCarty wrote: Johannes Wiede

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, because I suddenly didn't have a licence for a certain program any more and all work that was done with that program was mo

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: Steve Lamb wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I once couldn't read or view my old work after switching employer, because I suddenly didn't have a licence for a certain program any more and all work that was done with that program was mo

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-28 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: "Social contract" machts nichts here. In fact, for me, the "social contract" aspect of all Linux distros is a drawback to them. I don't want to "change the social order" or "be the downfall of capitalism", or "kill MicroSoft" or any of the other "social goals" so often associa

Re: Social Contract

2006-04-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: Chris Lale wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Apr 22, 2006 at 05:15:06PM -0500, Kent West wrote: Include my name in the list of "people for whom social contract is the #1 point" also. When Debian ceases to be Free, then Debian ceases to retain my loyalty. Ad

Sunset Announcement for Fx/Tb 1.0.x and Mozilla Suite 1.7.x -- what does it mean to sarge?

2006-04-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
mozilla developer center announced 'sunset' for mozilla 1.7.x and Firefox 1.0.x etc. ie. these won't be supported by mozilla any more. http://developer.mozilla.org/devnews/index.php/2006/04/12/sunset-announcement-for-fxtb-10x-and-mozilla-suite-17x/ What does this mean for mozilla, firefox and th

Re: OT: Comparison of filesystems

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Apr 25, 2006 at 01:57:30AM -0700, Alvin Oga wrote: While we're on the subject of file systems ... Are there any useful runours about the long-awaited landing of reiser4 at Debian? While we are at it: reiser4 was one of the main reasons, why I switched from sus

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for those ridiculous site where you have pale blue text on a white background, etc. Thanks. I'd like to try this but so far as I know I'

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Anthony Campbell wrote: Try using the Read Easily add-on. If a site is difficult to read you just press Shft-Ctrl-Z and it becomes plain text. I use this a lot for those ridiculous site where you have pale blue text on a white background, etc. Thanks, I will definitely try it. I well remember

Re: Firefox question about pop-up menus

2006-04-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Paul E Condon wrote: First: I don't have to use Firefox. If there is another browser that solves my problem, please suggest it. I'm willing to try something new. My problem: When I go to some web sites (more recently it seems) and click on a hot-link, it brings up a menu that I am supposed to se

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: Could it be because there are less number of desktop users using Linux than windows? No. There were viruses in Windows at a time when there were less windows users than there are linux users today and when most M$-users (at that time including myself) were still ru

Re: CUPS with Samba and Debian

2006-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Raleigh Guevarra wrote: Any1 here knows how to setup cups with samba and debian and print to a printer from a windows client pc? google: howto debian windows printing First hit is what you'd want to read :-) http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-mini/Debian-and-Windows-Shared-Printing.html Johannes

Re: package proxying

2006-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lukas Ruf wrote: Dear all, is there a toolset that allows for package being proxied/cached on a second host? The reason for my question: a set of computers is connected to a server that runs 7*24h. Instead of having all the computers download the packages individually, the server should fetch a

Re: good anti-virus software to use?

2006-04-21 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
lmyho wrote: Yes it's a workstation, to be some kind of app server, but not mail server. But why a workstation doesn't need anti-virus stuff? Doesn't the Internet connection unsafe? Actually, I should asy, I want to find anti-spyware/adware/virus stuff, just to make the workstation safe when c

Re: Color printers (was Re: Printer for linux?)

2006-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hal Vaughan wrote: that. I do know a friend of mine looked (a photo professor) at figures and said that the ink in any photo printer was more expensive per ounce than the most expensive Parisian perfumes. He also told me it costs more per photo to use a home printer to print them than it does

Re: New Member and one answer...

2006-04-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Ott wrote: I have an Athlon 2800, Can I install debian 3.1 i386? Why not? I am sure that it runs Maybe after installation you would want to install kernel-image-2.6.8-3-k7, an kernel specially optimized for Athlon processors. For the installation itself it's good to use standard

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: A related question is how to do it without taking the machine down uncleanly or fiddling an arcane file somewhere. I've thought about perhaps doing... To my understanding it's not a good idea to do a fsck to a mounted filesystem. If your question is 'how to _force_ a fsck w

Re: tex broken

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David Wainberg wrote: I hope someone can help. Recently, I have been unable to compile tex/latex documents. When I try, [tex|latex] tells me it can't find the file I'm trying to compile: snip $ latex template.tex This is pdfeTeX, Version 3.141592-1.21a-2.2 (Web2C 7.5.4) en

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Rogério Brito wrote: Except that the kernel can have bugs that may corrupt the data-structures laid on disk. Almost all data goes cached before going onto the disk. Your memory mal malfunction also independently of your disk. These are just *some* of a long list of reasons to check your disks w

Re: How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thanks for your answers! Ali Milis wrote: Johannes Wiedersich wrote: 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). 180 days is reasonable for new disks. Perhaps you would like to lower it when your

Re: Upgrading from Sarge to Etch -- HowTo?

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
George Borisov wrote: You have a point, but the way I look at it one "testing" branch is as good as the other. On machines where I want to avoid this I use "stable". Nothing against your practise. As I can see from your post, you know what you are doing. It's just to make sure OP is knowing,

Re: Upgrading from Sarge to Etch -- HowTo?

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
George Borisov wrote: Søren Christensen wrote: Change /etc/apt/sources.list to point to etch instead of sarge and update, upgrade anything else? I would create an /etc/apt/preferences file like this: --- Package: * Pin: release a=stable Pin-Priority: 650 Package: * Pin: release a=testing

Re: Printing on an MS printing network at work...?

2006-04-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Xeno Campanoli wrote: Say, where I work we have what appears to be a print network set up for MS stuff, and my default configurations don't seem to allow me to say, print the same web page I can in FF on XP. Is there some trick to this? Perhaps is there a setup program? I'm using Ubuntu and

Re: Re: I recieve spam "Debian security."

2006-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
That's what we call the petsupermaket spammer. It seems to be replying to most people who post on debian-devel, debian-user and sometimes some of our other lists. We haven't been able to match a subscriber to this, and it's not happening all the time. If anyone can find something that makes is c

Re: טכנאי מחשבים בחינם

2006-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
The computer is broken? With viruses? Slow? Wow, now the spam can finally get appreciated by everyone! Good to know that once we run out of English spam there are volunteers who will enrich the list with translations! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubsc

Re: Making Emergency bootable CD on Debian 3.1 2.4.27 kernel

2006-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Pabla,Balbir [Ontario] wrote: 1. On Dell PowereEdge 2800 server (no floppy) on this system, I would like to make emergency bootable CD so that I can bring up the machine using OLD kernel in case there is problem in booting using new compiled kernel( I have to recompile the kernel using HIGHME

How often should I fsck my ext3 partition?

2006-04-04 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
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 ot

installation problems alongside windows 98 was 'help'

2006-03-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hello, I have recently downloaded the businesscard image for the stable release of the debian OS. Can I use this version along with Windows 98 or would you recommend installing debian by itself. There should be no problems running Debian and Windows 98 from the same hard disk on the same com

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Britton Kerin wrote: I would like to buy my non-linux girlfriend a ready to use laptop with: wireless scan, falling back to CAT5 DHCP open office CD ROM that automounts SD card reader that automounts working sound card reasonable memory and disk working video acceleration

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N.Pauli wrote: Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial

Re: CUPS - utterly puzzled

2006-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
N.Pauli wrote: Dear All, Until I installed Etch and a 2.6.12 kernel I had a perfectly good printing setup on Sarge with a 2.4.x kernel. I remember using the Gnome CUPS tool and finding drivers for my Brother printer as well as an HP printer both of which are network printers. During my trial

Re: Resize raid? RAID Reconfig Tool?

2006-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Jan Johansson wrote: Is "RAID Reconfiguration Tool" ( http://unthought.net/raidreconf/ ) still the only way to reconfigure an array? I just thought since the page is from 2001 maybe there is a new way? I would like to add another 200GB disk and go from RAID-1 -> RAID-5 We use mdadm to adminis

Re: Deny spam with Exim4

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Casey T. Deccio wrote: I am getting a lot of spam on my exim4 mailserver, much of which is logged with "no host name found for IP address ..." and "no IP address found for host ...". The acl_check_rcpt acl is mostly set with the debian defaults. Not exactly what you asked, but maybe quite clos

Re: image view software

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Matt Zagrabelny wrote: I like gqview :) second that. third! Nice software. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Why do I bother?

2006-02-16 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
John Halton wrote: Not odd at all. Installing Windows XP is a nightmare - well, to be fair, the actual "base install" is OK-ish, but dumps you in a very basic setup with no network, no sound and a 640x480 VGA display. You then have to install multiple drivers in a specified order with a reboot be

Re: Modifying the title of a Firefox window?

2006-02-13 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Erwin Rennert wrote: that sounds like fun ... but OTOH, that's what user accounts are for. Why don't you use your own account and make it accessible on your wife's desktop with the help of tightvnc or something similar? Short of that the obvious solution seems to be that you use mozilla-suite

Re: rsync and chown

2006-02-09 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Edward Speyer wrote: Hi! I'm stuck trying to find a nice way to allow rsync / rdiff-backup enough permissions to keep ownership information intact at the backup-receiving end. I /could/ run as root on the backup-reciever, but it'd be nice if there was a less sledge-hammer approach to the chown

Re: alternative Re: Is my system compromised

2006-02-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Alvin Oga wrote: for fun ... and i'm sure this is nothing new to the Thanks for the funny post. Unfortunateley, it doesn't relate to the subject line. Maybe you should have started a new thread: "how can I in future make sure that my machine is not compromised." This doesn't help to answer

Re: Problem with time setup

2006-02-02 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Michael Przysucha wrote: Hello, I have a problem with my time setup. My timezone is set to "Europ/Berlin" but my clock is 2 hours ahead. Date returns: Do Feb 2 10:55:27 CET 2006, exact 2 hours ahead compared to the other servers which syncronize to a ntp-server. The system itself syncronizes

Re: wrong RE: Not a Debian question, but you guys know this stuff...

2006-01-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Kent West wrote: At the risk of seriously offending the atheists on this list and getting flamed, I'd suggest the world would be a better place if we'd listen to Leviticus 19:14: "Do not curse the deaf or put a stumbling block in front of the blind." This was originally written for the Jews on

Re: empty /boot directory

2006-01-31 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Eddy Haaksma wrote: This morning I rebooted my Debian-server. After a while Grub responded during te boot-process with: Error 15 file not found. To my surprise the whole boot directory appears to be empty, except for the /boot/grub directory. The server is a HP Proliant 360 with a smartarr

Re: An email for you contains VIRUSES

2006-01-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
steef wrote: I am quite sure that debian-devel-announce@lists.debian.org didn't send any malicious code to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Probably someone has sent a message with a faked reply address. It is no use to send such mails as your replies to thousands of users on an international mailing list.

Re: Hardware RAID, software RAID, 3ware 9550SX, level 1 vs. level 5

2006-01-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
David Gaudine wrote: I have to set up a system that is totally reliable w.r.t. data integrity. That is, if a disk (or anything else) fails, it's OK if the system is down for a few hours, but when it comes back up it has to be exactly as it was, i.e. I can't restore from the previous day's back

Re: An email for you contains VIRUSES

2006-01-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
ed reply address. It is no use to send such mails as your replies to thousands of users on an international mailing list. Best regards, Johannes Wiedersich On behalf of the users on http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/01/thrd7.html#03007 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

mozilla privacy: block connections to third-party pages

2006-01-26 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I configured Mozilla to block all images from third-party sites (Accept images that come from the originating server only). I disabled java as well as javascript. Nevertheless, when I load this page https://www.cortalconsors.de My browser establishes a connection to 62.26.220.3, [EMAIL PR

Re: Mozilla: howto block java for certain servers was: howto *really* 'accept images that come from the originating server only'?

2006-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I investigated further and found out that 'block images' of Mozilla seems to work ok. (Sorry for my mistake; this is a huge html-page to sort through...). Johannes Wiedersich wrote: NB: I set the firewall on my sarge box to block all outgoing connections to the relevant servers now

tool to convert html to latex

2006-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Any ideas? I found gnuhtml2latex (on debian sarge), but that one has as mayor drawbacks: - poor/wrong rendering of spcial characters (eg. umlauts) - supports only latex 2.09 I have a rather long html document (many pages), that looks just awfull as html. Transition via html2text would requir

Re: How do you stop "auto-selection" in KDE? (SOLVED!)

2006-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Scott wrote: Wulfy wrote: Peripherals --> Mouse... did the same thing myself :) ^ LOL www.angrykeyboarder.com © 2006 angrykeyboarder™ & Elmer Fudd. All Wights Wesewved ROFLOL Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Mozilla: howto *really* 'accept images that come from the originating server only'?

2006-01-25 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I have set up Mozilla to 'only accept images that come from the originating server'. (Preferences --> privacy --> images). The images of third-party servers per se are blocked (ie. not shown). However, whenever Mozilla finds a link to an external image within a page, Mozilla still sends a requ

Re: kodak ls743 digital camera

2006-01-23 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kodak ls743 works out of the box with gphoto2. Which version of gphoto2? Out of which box? sarge, etch, sid? all of them? Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

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