Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Xplicit Language wrote: i was wondering, if i remove or completely remove something from synaptic is that uninstalling the program or just deleteing the package, and if it does only remove the package, how do i uninstall things like a older version of wine? this help page says that it is best to

Re: three questions about debian

2006-04-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: Miles Bader wrote: Doofus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: How mature is wine these days? The last time I looked at it (admittedly a long time ago) it was still a windows 3.1 emulator (when 32 bit windows had long been released). It wasn't particularly stable eithe

Re: Thought on receiving two answers...

2006-04-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Manaen Schlabach wrote: On 4/19/06, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Problem already solved. The Debian list guidelines already make it clear that it is not acceptable to CC someone privately if you are posting to the list, and all quality

Re: debian as a sever OS

2006-04-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Deephay wrote: Thx All. I just want to know that how harmful it will be if I run testing on the server. Now I basically decided to use the stable disto as the server's OS. BTW: If anyone have some comments still, they are appreciated. Deephay In my opinion, a server has very well defined task

Re: Everything 2 PDF

2006-04-12 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Mirco Piccin wrote: } Jerome wrote: }}the aim is to convert TO PDF, right ? Of Course! That has gotta be the most unusual quoting style I've ever seen. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT: Suspicious File found by chkrootkit

2006-04-09 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Rick Friedman wrote: I run chkrootkit daily. Today it has found a file it calls, "suspicious". The file is a zero byte, hidden file. The path is /usr/lib/xulrunner/.autoreg After seeing this warning, I also ran rkhunter (rootkit hunter). The report from rkhunter comes up clean. It does not fl

Re: Is there a prgram that decompile swf (flash movie) to fla (flash source) on debian?

2006-04-09 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Ron Johnson wrote: On Sun, 2006-04-09 at 16:24 +1000, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: Surachai Locharoen wrote: Today, my boss request me to translate company website to Japanese language. The web site is almost flash movie which I can't edit. I search Internet and found

Re: Is there a prgram that decompile swf (flash movie) to fla (flash source) on debian?

2006-04-08 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Surachai Locharoen wrote: Today, my boss request me to translate company website to Japanese language. The web site is almost flash movie which I can't edit. I search Internet and found that there is swf decompiler on windows. However I don't like to boot on window. Could anybody know the prog

Re: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition?

2006-04-08 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Clive Menzies wrote: On (08/04/06 19:38), Masatran (Deepak), R. wrote: Why should "/boot" be on a separate partition (rather than on the "/" partition)? I have installed Debian 3.1 with a separate "/boot" partition. I intend installing Ubuntu 5.10 . Should I share the "/boot" partition betw

Re: execute a program using C

2006-04-05 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering that if there is way to execute a compiled program using C (either system calls / library calls)? Thx a lot! Deephay see "apropos execute", and take your pick. You probably want to use system, though. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

Re: apt-get install elinks

2006-04-04 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
kamaraju kusumanchi wrote: Jeroen Brandwijk wrote: wiske:~# apt-get install elinks Reading Package Lists... Done Building Dependency Tree... Done Some packages could not be installed. This may mean that you have requested an impossible situation or if you are using the unstable distribution th

Re: Can I host a svn repository on apache-1.3?

2006-04-03 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Jim MacBaine wrote: On 4/3/06, Roel Schroeven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Ah, does that mean that Confixx doesn't support Apache2? That's good to know. Confixx _does_ support Apache2. But the upgrade procedure from apache-1.2 to apache-2.0 is not trivial on a server with half a dozen

Re: email servers

2006-03-30 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
ChadDavis wrote: Hello. I'm pretty unfamiliar with email servers. I need to install a server in my local network to use for development of another application. I just need a mail server available for the application. I read some of the online documentation and became a bit confused about

Re: Installing Sarge on an HP NetServer LH4

2006-03-30 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Mario de Frutos Dieguez wrote: I have the same problem. What problem? This is why it is good practise to provide at least *some* context. Why can we install in a HP Netserver LH4 the 2.6.x kernel? Hmm? Didn't know that, sounds good though. Where can i download woody-vanilla distro?

Re: command to display system load?

2006-03-28 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Deephay wrote: Greetings all, I am wondering that which command can display some information about the system load like this: 07:17:25 up 9:07, 6 users, load average: 0.42, 0.41, 0.30 (I got this when I tried to overwrite a file with vim) thx! Deephay You can run any program from wit

Re: Copress a directory

2006-03-23 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Rocky Ou wrote: Hey, Can anyone tell me how to compress a directory so that I could SCP it to remote server more quikly? I tried gzip -cf directoryName it does not work, And then I tried tar -vf DirectoryNme no rerult as well. I may blind but I could not find solution in gzip --help as well.

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Micha Feigin wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 15:46:15 -0600 Mark Petersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 03:32 PM 3/20/2006, you wrote: I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It ... ... I have an extra hard disk so I thought to use that. The new one is

Re: backing up a drive

2006-03-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Micha Feigin wrote: I want to make an exact backup of a hard drive (copy one drive to another). It contains a program who's copy protection checks changes to the system so unless I can restore it exactly the program will stop running (it's a veterinary clinic software so I don't think that there

Re: distribution upgrade question

2006-03-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Magnus Therning wrote: On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 04:39:01AM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote: Where is the list of installed packages kept on these systems, if I can store a list I can make a script out of it and more quickly return to where I was if a cd reinstall is necessary using that script to

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-13 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Kent West wrote: dillo is a light-weight browser, but I don't believe it has support for Java, Flash, etc (but you'd really need more RAM for that anyway). I don't think dillo even has support for frames. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tro

Re: Suggestion for a low memory system

2006-03-12 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Kumar Appaiah wrote: Dear Users, I would like your suggestion of a Sarge install on a low memory system. The system actually has a 750 Mhz P-III, and 56 MB RAM (+ 8 MB VRAM, I hear). Now, I would like to install Sarge on to that machine for internet browsing and word processing. I would like you

Re: Environment Variables for sudo

2006-03-06 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Timothy Cowlishaw wrote: Hi All, am having a bit of a problem with setting environment variables on my web server. I need to set the following, for all users, including root. this works fine for normal users (and for root when using su, which i had disabled), but apparently not for root

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-04 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
steef wrote: Michael M. wrote: Paul Johnson wrote: On Thursday 02 March 2006 01:20, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have Linux, and even says this on their website. NOTE: Servers != Desktop. I have not seen _any_

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Alvin Oga wrote: dell cuts corners by: a) making a custom motherboard b) making a custom power supply c) making custom cables and pcb to hold things together d) making custom firmware to assure you're stuck into their modus operandi e) charging you for 3yr warranty for their proprietory hardw

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-02 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Andrew Cady wrote: (If you're thinking that just because Dell can't switch to Linux they have no power, consider that they *could* start shipping PCs with Firefox, or servers optionally with Linux, or PCs without OSes). I am very certain that Dell does sell servers that optionally have L

Re: ready to use debian or ubuntu laptop reccomendations?

2006-03-01 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
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 (at le

Re: libsdl and qemu for linux

2006-02-28 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
roberto wrote: On 2/28/06, Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: roberto wrote: this seems to be in contrast to what bellard says in his page: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/faq.html

Re: libsdl and qemu for linux

2006-02-28 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
roberto wrote: this seems to be in contrast to what bellard says in his page: http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/faq.html Can I use a real disk, floppy or CDROM in QEMU ? Yes, at least with Linux. For the floppy, use /de

Re: libsdl and qemu for linux

2006-02-27 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
roberto wrote: roberto:~# qemu -snapshot -boot c -hda /dev/hda2 ... warning: could not open /dev/net/tun: no virtual network emulation Could not initialize SDL - exiting roberto:~# i've correctly installed libsdl1.2-dev and i do not understand the problem with SDL. I am not interestend at all

Re: satellite tracking predict

2006-02-22 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
roberto wrote: Hi, i have to port an open-source software for satellite tracking developed in C for linux and also available in debian named "predict": www.qsl.net/kd2bd/predict.html for a motherboard with the following features: - 16 bit processor ("predict" has been developed for 32bit machin

Re: [SOLVED] Re: usb stick not aumounting and no icon on desktop

2006-02-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
H.S. wrote: I upgraded the kernel from 2.6.12 to 2.6.15 and the USB icons now appear on the desktop and get automounted as well. All is well, but only with the new kernel 2.6.15. That's good to know. I also had the same problem, but only with some usb drives (most worked well) - perhap

Re: Looking for a comment editor

2006-02-08 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Magnus Therning wrote: I was aware of literate programming, and it's a great idea but unfortunately not a solution that _I_ could introduce. I don't write the code, I only read it. Basically I'd like a tool that does the _opposite_ of *WEB. Whereas *WEB takes a single file and from it extracts

Re: High availability interner connection

2006-02-06 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Laurent CARON wrote: Hi, I'm trying to get high availability internet connection for the LAN of my company. I basically have two servers connected to the internet. Each server has 2 dedicated internet connections hooked to 2 different providers. So far, I managed to get the servers to rou

Re: Should I have both apache and apache2 packages installed

2006-02-01 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Kumar Appaiah wrote: You should have ONLY one of those installed. I woul choose the newer Apache 2 over the older one. There are several very good reasons why one might have both installed. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [E

Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Leonard Chatagnier wrote: --- Star King of the Grape Trees <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I'm running 2.6.15-1-686 with testing/some experimental Ok, there's your problem. experimental is... well, experimental. Mixed

Re: Apt Gone Mad?-Or Is It Me?-Expert Help Needed

2006-01-30 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Debian User Leonard Chatagnier wrote: I'm running 2.6.15-1-686 with testing/some experimental Ok, there's your problem. experimental is... well, experimental. Mixed systems are also extremely discouraged, and those who run a mixed system generally already know how to deal with whatever i

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

2006-01-29 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Tyson Varosyan wrote: At the risk of having my hand slapped I will ask, since I bet there are quite a few Apache users on this board. I am trying to set up Multiple Daemons for my websites and through reading the instructions, I find a curious passage, "Create a separate httpd installation for

Re: No luck getting Gallery to work on Sarge..Anyone able to??

2006-01-28 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
John W. Foster wrote: I have gallery installed from sarge, php4 and apache2 along with all the required, and suggested apps installed. So far I have not been able to get gallery to work. All are installed pretty much out of the box and php4 seems to work, both as command line or as cgi since t

Re: tool to convert html to latex

2006-01-25 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: 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. Transiti

Re: Installing Linux Kernel and RT Linux

2006-01-24 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Eduardo wrote: Hello I'm new to Linux and working and reading a lot to understand it. I have downloaded the Kernel but haven't got a clue how to install it in a computer that will use only the Kernel and the RT Linux... Any help please Eduardo I would begin by installing and learning a di

Re: change subscription

2006-01-21 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
On Friday 20 January 2006 19:15, Star King of the Grape Trees wrote: I am now getting emails in non-digest AND digest format - I only want the digest - how can this be fixed? Send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the subject unsubscribe It is not as simple as that. Wouldn&#

Change Subcription

2006-01-20 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
I really hate asking the list this, as I get annoyed when a list gets tons of "unsubscribe" emails, however I have recently attempted to change my subscription. I want to receive my emails in digest format. I was receiving emails in the 'normal' format (ie, non-digest). What I did was I unsu

Re: KDE Freezes and exits

2006-01-17 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
ALWAYS use a subject! El Virolo wrote: Hi all, I recently reinstalled Debian Sid on my Athlon XP machine, with KDE 3.5. The problem is I can't launch KDE : it freezes and gets back to KDM as soon as it starts displaying "initializing hardware" ... Is there a log file I can have a look at ? Is

Re: Kickstart floppy Debian

2006-01-16 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
TAC Forums wrote: Hi All, Our company needs to install Debian 3.1 across several computers which are not connected to each other and reside on separate locations. But, the configuration of each of these PC's need to be the same. FAI , which is a tool to install several machines automatically,

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Tim Connors wrote: Nope -- heaps of people have done this before you. Did you pick this technique up from someone else? It'd be nice if the technique would kindly stop propogating :) Well, I believe I got this from some "advanced" bash guide, or a man page or two. I don't think there

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Ron Johnson wrote: On Mon, 2006-01-16 at 08:40 +1100, Tim Connors wrote: Why on earth would you want to put ls in backticks? I wonder who originated this rather redundant and fragile (what happens when a filename has any form of whitespace?) construct? That would be me. If you'r

Re: Is it possible to balance download speed and upload speed in ADSL connection

2006-01-15 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
I recommend you get SDSL. They are often advertised as "ADSL", but that is an incorrect name. They have a defining characteristic that the upload speed is the same as the download speed. The maximum connection I can get with my ISP on SDSL is 512kbps/512kbps, compared with 1.5Mbps/256kbps, f

Re: how to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg?

2006-01-14 Thread Star King of the Grape Trees
Serena Cantor wrote: I 100 bmp files. I installed gimp and imagemagik, but can't find the way to convert 100 bmp files to jpeg in batch fashion. Do you know the command? Thanks! I can't be bothered to consult the man page, but it will be something like: for $f in `ls *.bmp`; do convert $f -