Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 03:56:43AM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: * Once you've brought up wpa_supplicant on your wireless interface, the driver does not know how to go back. If you kill wpa_supplicant (like when you suspend and go somewhere else and want to connect to another WEP

Re: Alsa - no sound: I need to repeatedly run alsaconf every time I reboot computer

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 02:06:24PM -0500, Mitchell Laks wrote: ... then even if I simply kill kde, and then startx again - still no sound! So I dont even have to reboot, simply ending kde kills sound and then i need to reinstall via alsaconf. very upsetting! do you have artsd running?

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:36:41PM +0100, Jochen Schulz wrote: Dotan Cohen: As a thunderbird user, what am I missing by not using mutt? ... - Easy fast usage via SSH I run imap on my mail server with the idea that I can get mail from anywhere and that's great. But I find, using mutt,

Re: What am I missing without mutt?

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 06:25:08PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Sun, 3 Feb 2008 11:33:55 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So for me, the easy fast ssh access to mail is the #1 thing about mutt. Can't one just tunnel any MUA through ssh, with something like 'ssh -L 110

Re: Buying debian compatible laptop.

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 09:28:17PM +0200, Joona Kiiski wrote: Hello everyone, I've been using debian a couple of years (still a newbie for most of you hackers, though), but never installed it in laptop. Soon I'm buying a new laptop and want to make sure it works smoothly with debian. I

urxvt [was Re: GTK+ E-mail App on par with Mutt?]

2008-02-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 07:31:29PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/03/08 11:08, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Feb 03, 2008 at 10:05:43AM -0500, Michael Pobega wrote: I'm finally taking the plunge from full CLI to using an X server, and in place of Mutt I've been using Evolution; But

Re: Thinkpad T61 Power Management

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 06:43:12PM -0800, Thierry San Juan wrote: I installed Debian Sid on a new Thinkpad T61, and running into some issues in regard to power management: I am running kernel 2.6.24-1-amd64. ... 2. When running on battery, the Gnome Power Manager applet is unable to read

Re: Xorg problems dpkg-reconfigure

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:16:05AM -0500, Der Engel wrote: Hello, I'm running sid and didn't chose to install a desktop enviroment during install, I now want to install Xorg to run fluxbox. I install xorg using aptitude, when trying to do 'dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg' the wizard

Re: Switching from ipw3945 to iwl3945 driver]

2008-02-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Feb 02, 2008 at 10:13:56PM +, Jurij Smakov wrote: Hi, If you do not own any hardware with Intel PRO/Wireless 3945ABG wifi cards, you can stop reading now. The 2.6.24 kernel has recently hit unstable, and it contains a new shiny iwl3945 driver which should replace the old

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-02-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Feb 01, 2008 at 09:26:59AM +0100, Dan H. wrote: ... Yes, I figured that. But it ain't easy. There's simply no way I can think of to make grub install itself on that disk. I have no idea which (hdx,y) to use. /dev/sda is flatly refused as it is not a BIOS disk. Why can't grub simply

Re: Blu Ray LG GGW-H20L crashes Linux [Solved]

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 06:37:03AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/31/08 01:38, Christoph Anton Mitterer wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-30 at 20:13 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: The only solution is to take out that excess RAM and send it to me!

Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

2008-01-31 Thread Kent West
Kent West wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/ Password: mount error 2 = No such file or directory Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual

Re: smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

2008-01-31 Thread Kent West
Michael Marsh wrote: On Jan 31, 2008 12:14 AM, Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the machine having the 2.6.22 kernel, I can not. Here's the error: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ smbmount //faculty/web netShares/web/ Password: mount error 2 = No such file or directory Refer to the mount.cifs(8

Re: Setting up Debian on a mobile disk

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 04:47:20PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 03:56:10PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: like the subject says, I want to set up a Debian system on a bootable external USB hard disk Followup: I've discovered debootstrap and have used it to set up a system on that

Re: keyword filtering or bayes, WAS- Re: PUPPIES FOR SALE

2008-01-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 31, 2008 at 01:29:32PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: I'm not sure that original post was as much spam as inappropriate or a troll.. I agree. It was mostly just inappropriate. And it lacked a lot of the key signs of spam so even a well trained spam filter would likely have missed

Re: [OT] XMonad (was: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen)

2008-01-30 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 30, 2008 at 04:46:03PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: Quoth Tzafrir Cohen: http://packages.qa.debian.org/xmonad It shows that the package has not mingrated to Lenny yet as it depends on haskell-x11-extras. That, in turn, has an RC bug that the maintainer won't bother

smbmount issues (related to CIFS?)

2008-01-30 Thread Kent West
I have two Debian boxes: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ uname -a Linux westek 2.6.22-3-686 #1 SMP Mon Nov 12 08:32:57 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ which smbmount /usr/bin/smbmount [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -lh /usr/bin/smbmount lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 17 2008-01-28 17:03 /usr/bin/smbmount -

Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote: Hi, I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm trying to get my keyboard shortcuts to work properly under Xfce, and I can't figure out what is going on. I created a new theme and added some keyboard

Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 06:34:03PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:18:15 -0800 Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote: Hi, I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm trying

Re: Question about - The following packages have been kept back:

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 08:08:58PM +0100, Robert Cates wrote: Hi all, I've got a general question concerning apt-get - what would be the reason(s) for the below message when I upgrade my packages? That message mean that a newer version of the package is available but for some reason it

Re: keyboard shortcuts and X / WM / DE

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 11:21:30PM -0500, Celejar wrote: On Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:28:21 + Adam Hardy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Celejar on 29/01/08 01:02, wrote: I've been struggling for quite some time, and I'm quite baffled. I'm trying to get my keyboard shortcuts to work properly

Re: sid/xinerama: how to start app on specific screen

2008-01-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 29, 2008 at 05:49:24PM +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: ... I'm running XMonad and that's all this is pretty easy, just one line in the config. But as this is really very specific to your WM I'm afraid there's no way of handling all this in a generic way. Hey Aleks, I'm

Re: print a sample of all fonts?

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:46:57PM +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 21:53:56 +, i'll teach you to turn away. wrote: is there a way to have gimp or whatever print a sample of each font on the system without manually writing them all out? tia. Both answers so far seems to me

Re: upgrading X in sid

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:29:18AM -0500, charlie derr wrote: I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working fine for the past year an a half. This weekend I upgraded (which included both X and kde) in unstable/sid and now I find that my X session is being

Re: upgrading X in sid

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 03:04:32PM -0500, charlie derr wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 09:29:18AM -0500, charlie derr wrote: I have a laptop with a native resolution of 1900x1200 which has been working fine for the past year an a half. This weekend I upgraded

Re: Cannot update kernel

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 28, 2008 at 08:02:51PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: On Debian Etch on a white box AMD machine with 1GB RAM, I cannot update the system. This is what I get: myhome:/home/zeev# apt-get update ... Hit http://ftp.de.debian.org etch/non-free Packages Fetched 6861kB in 1m33s (73.1kB/s)

Re: Pulseaudio to replace ESD in lenny?

2008-01-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:32:38PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Jan 26, 2008 8:03 PM, Bill Wohler [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RH 8 has switched to pulseaudio, SUSE is considering it. I was wondering what was on the mind of the Debian developers. Are they considering switching to it at some

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 02:23:10PM +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 14:59:35 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: Instead of complaining pointlessly, maybe you could have said something like: . . . Sorry about my attitude, I was very disappointed that I carefully wrote the OP

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 05:04:50AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse

Re: Cable Modem setup

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 07:03:52AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Most, if not all, cable modems are easily configured for use with Linux So please check me if what I think is right: 1. The box has an (presently unused) ethernet port and lspci shows it: 00:12.0 Ethernet controller: VIA

Re: exim question

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 10:25:35AM +0100, Daniel Haude wrote: Hello, Due a to an error in my /etc/exim4/passwd.client, quite a bit of mail was refused by the remote SMTP relay host. I now fixed it but can't find the messages any more. Does exim dump them? I still have them in my sent-mail

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:05:38PM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst several months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1 but it was not recognized as a block device when I tried to mount it. well, if the

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-26 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: The space bar as a keyer would be fine as a straight-key (just the single up-down paddle you see in the movies about the Old West), but I was thinking more along the lines of emulating a paddle (two side-ways keys mounted back

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 12:32:00PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 11:22:05AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Mmm; I wonder if it could be done with the mouse buttons instead of the keyboard, or if the same problem exists there what does xev use

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 04:48:18PM +, T o n g wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:47:15 -0900, Ken Irving wrote: I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. source ~/.bashrc Guess that I am having bad lucks now, having two people replied without even reading my

Re: Exim question

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 02:58:11PM -0500, Gregory Seidman wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:48:22PM +0100, Dan H. wrote: Hello, When the fetchmail demon starts running, it often gets large amounts of mail in one bunch an tries to shove it into exim for local delivery. However, exim

Re: [OT] Using aliases or functions in bash script

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
to demonstrate more appropriate responses below: On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 09:40:12PM +, T o n g wrote: On Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:32:57 -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I'm wondering if you have read my OP or not. Read it again pls. Ken said: source ~/.bashrc Guess that I am

Re: Accessing a TV adapter via my network

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 26, 2008 at 05:19:10PM +, Barry Samuels wrote: I would like to get a Hauppauge WinTV Nova T 500 adapter which I understand works with Linux. Unless they've changed recently, this card should work. It has onboard mpeg2 compression which means that you can capture on it with a

Re: Symple method to transfer some packages from Desktop system to laptop Debian Etch system?

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 01:12:39AM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: ... I have a Desktop Debian GNU/Linux Etch with network connection, and a laptop with installed only Debian GNU/Linux from netinstall.iso, but laptop has not network connection. Is it a method how to copy some more debian

Re: How to get the life time of a given disk ?

2008-01-26 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 27, 2008 at 03:28:26AM +0200, Jabka Atu wrote: Hello,.. I would like to get the life time of hard disk (how much he worked in hours or speens or whatever) i tried using hdparam but it didn't show this info. try smartctl smartctl -a /dev/hdb SMART Attributes Data

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-24 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: Too bad; I think a lot of the hams would have enjoyed writing a simple little program to turn their PCs into a Morse keyer. I am no radio hammmer (?) no morse code since I was a boyscout 60 years ago. But I would think that one would rather use let's

Re: /var/archive

2008-01-23 Thread Kent West
Tony van der Hoff wrote: On 23 Jan at 18:15 Gerard Robin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote sudo apt-get clean Done that - works a treat! What is the object of the archive, though? When you download .debs, this is the default location where they are stored for subsequent installation.

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-22 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and right-shift keys, or the and keys. For one key, a short dit audio tone would be generated, and for the other key, a longer dah audio tone would

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-19 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Kent West wrote: All I want to do is to detect two keys, say the left- and right-shift keys, or the and keys. For one key, a short dit audio tone would be generated, and for the other key, a longer dah audio tone would be generated. I need to bypass the keyboard

Re: Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new userquestion: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 19, 2008 at 02:35:25PM +0100, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: ... But sometimes bugs in applications can cause a complete freeze of X, incl. keyboard and mouse. It happens to me about once a year, unfortunately also yesterday evening. In such a case there is nothing you can do but pull

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? no to either /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a group reply to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

2008-01-18 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Mr Shunz wrote: ... If with Verizon's SMTP works, to me is just a sign that gmail simply blocks your ip. This is highly likely if you're trying to run a mail server from within a dynamic ip block. And more and more big providers are doing this because

OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Hey folks! Apologies for the very off-topic post; I've been googling for the answer off-and-on for two days unsuccessfully, so I've finally decided to turn to the smartest group of people around. I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

2008-01-18 Thread Kent West
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:30:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 03:59:35PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: Back to my first problem, debconf doesn't reconfigure itself after the purge. Here is the sequence of events, pvalex:~# debconf-show pvrfs * pvrfs/partition: /dev/hda2 pvalex:~# apt-get --purge remove pvrfs Reading package

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: Hello! I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During the install I know I can create md RAID devices from the partition tables I set up identically on the

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 04:21:12PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: Hi Andrew, Thanks for your answer. I had been playing with the debconf configuration changing priority values, to no avail. The current configuration is: debconf-apt-progress/info: debconf-apt-progress/preparing: *

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: Hello! I am planning on installing a new Etch server. What I would like is to use 3xSATA2 disks to create a RAID5 array. During

Re: Etch install with RAID 5

2008-01-17 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 11:57:39PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum wrote: On Jan 17, 2008 11:33 PM, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 10:48:25PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Jan 17, 2008 at 02:55:41PM -0500, Patrick Zaloum

Re: Help with debconf

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 03:50:42PM +, Alex Gonzalez wrote: Hi, Is it possible to force debconf to forget about a package configuration on removal, or to always ask the configuration questions on install? I'm sure there is a way to do the second, and there is a debconf-doc package you

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 16, 2008 at 10:57:51AM +0100, Ulrich Schweitzer wrote: On Tuesday 15 January 2008 05:34:28 Andrew Sackville-West wrote: I always hated that STOP AHEAD thing. I always figured if you are close enough to the words that it mattered which one you drove over first, you aren't

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-16 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
: On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: ... It's been quite a while, and we can't quote the whole movie. and apparently, one can recover from being turned into a newt. ;) Only if 'es not dead yet. Or been eaten by a swallow

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Two. No, seven! Arg. You made me lose count! -- Kent -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Advice: Hardware vs. Software RAID5

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 06:24:52AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm looking for general advice/tips/admonitions of doom. I'm getting ready to build a file server and I want to have some data redundancy. I've ordered four 350G SATA drives and I plan to put them into some kind of RAID 5

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:58:09AM -0600, Kent West wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head of a pin. Two. No, seven! Arg. You made me lose count! oh come on. Everyone

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:24:52AM +, I.E.Broadbent wrote: blimey ... what's next folks, arguing Gulliver-style about which end of the egg to open? oh please. Don't start that old flame-war again! Everyone knows it's the small end. ... Can we kill this OT subject now please?

Re: [OT] Stop Ahead (was top posting)

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 03:36:26PM +1100, Alex Samad wrote: On Mon, Jan 14, 2008 at 08:34:28PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: There's probably a reason I'm not a traffic engineer. my thoughts as well ;-) A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: debian-user help idea

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:55:56AM +0100, Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi there, I would like to say some of my very humble opinions. 1. We should concentrate our efforts on Wiki pages, cause they seem to me unmaintaned and outdated :/... and on other ONLINE resources as well I don't disagree with

Re: From linux software raid to none software raid?

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Paul Csanyi wrote: Hello! I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1. I am using for this two sata drives. Is it possyble to turn this system to non software raid? Doing so I wish to get the first sata drive to use

Re: From linux software raid to none software raid?

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 05:23:53PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: 2008/1/15, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 01:37:28PM +0100, Benjamin Schmidt wrote: Paul Csanyi wrote: I have installed Debian Etch with software raid 1. I am using for this two sata

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 04:57:15PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/15/08 16:46, Alex Samad wrote: On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 07:28:15AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: Exotic mathematics without a grounding in reality is medieval philosophy trying to determine how many angels can dance on the head

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-15 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 09:23:39PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/15/08 19:24, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On 01/15/08 17:05, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: The problem, the oft-overlooked side comment made by one of the peasants. Small rocks float. So though she may

Re: capacitor plague; was Re: Debian on IBM NetVista Type 6578-RAU

2008-01-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 13, 2008 at 09:33:01PM -0500, KS wrote: Henry Luciano wrote: *sigh*, multiple times. The hardest thing is removing the old caps and desoldering the holes, but all in all it's not that bad. Keep the iron hot enough to melt the solder but not hot enough to damage the trace.

Re: ifconfig don't list interfaces

2008-01-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
2008/1/13, Osamu Aoki [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Osamu gave a suggestion about how to get more useable output by changing the language to english. This would make it easier for this list to help. He(she?) also asked a couple of relevant questions that could point to a solution to the problem On Sun,

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 11:44:57AM +0900, Peter F Bradshaw wrote: Ok. Fine. Until you guys grow up this list is going to /dev/null. If people don't stop complaining and leaving this list, then I'm going to complain and leave! A signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: [OT] top posting

2008-01-14 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 15, 2008 at 02:06:33PM +1000, Julian De Marchi wrote: snip Only if the lines are also reversed, kind of like how STOP AHEAD is painted on pavement with the word STOP first, then AHEAD after so you pass over the first word in the statement before the second. Well put! :-)

Re: links in icedove/thunderbird stopped working

2008-01-12 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: On 01/12/08 00:18, Reid Priedhorsky wrote: Hi all, I run testing - I read email in icedove/thunderbird and browse the web with iceweasel/firefox. Lately (past few days) links have stopped working in icedove. Before, I'd click a web link and the page would come up in

Re: Etch: emacs or emac21?

2008-01-10 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 10, 2008 at 04:58:38PM +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Hi, Debian users. In Sarge there was only the package `emacs21'. Now in Etch we have also `emacs', but the difference between the two is not clear to me. What should I install in order to use the Emacs editor, `emacs' or

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: On Tuesday 08 January 2008 16:09, Joel Roberts wrote: I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of spam e-mails weekly to pursue this

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:21:08AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote: Hi list I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a Buffalo

Re: startx from terminal or telnet

2008-01-09 Thread Kent West
hagit wrote: Hi, I have a very strange phenomenon. I connect to my box with telnet, SSH is generally preferred to telnet nowadays for security reasons. change to super user (root) and run It's generally recommended to not run X as root. (It's generally not recommended to run anything

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:31:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: Nigel Henry writes: I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works fine

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-07 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 10:04:15AM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: also sprach Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2008.01.06.2351 +0100]: OP is building a deprecated (I think that's the term) array. degraded, actually. I new it was something like that. Thanks madduck A signature.asc

Re: gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 10:59:29PM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote: Hello. I need help with gnucash 1.8.10 in Sarge. I have a gnucash file (written with the same gnucash on the same system) containing one year of data. And I can't open it. Gnucash says 'Segmentation fault'. you really need

Re: mdadm problem creating device

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 03:38:29PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Jan 06, 2008 at 02:53:57PM -0500, S Scharf wrote: I installed a new disk and am trying to create a one disk raid 1 on it (and will add the second disk later) but when I run mdadm I get the followng: $ sudo

Re: gnucash in Sarge crashes when opening file; started after recent security updates

2008-01-06 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 12:34:24AM +0100, Tomasz Szpakowicz wrote: Thanks for your answer. But no scheduled transactions. I know I won't get much help with such an old version. That's why I asked on debian-users if someone has similar problems. Security updates where the only changes to

Re: Hacking the OLPC XO

2008-01-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jan 05, 2008 at 10:29:55PM -0500, phillinux wrote: Did anyone here work on the OLPC XO project??? I'm a teacher who would be interested in adapting the XO for secondary school students. I would need to get a lightweight version of open office running on that machine. Is the XO GUI

Re: Kernel issues due to identical network cards

2008-01-04 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 11:06:31PM +0100, David MAGNY wrote: Hello, I am upgrading a firewall from Sarge to Etch. On this machine, I have 3 network cards. 2 networks cards are identical. It is PCI network cards and it is SMC1233A-TX. On Sarge, everything worked well. The issue is

Re: Waiting for root file system problem

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 06:24:07AM -0500, dave N wrote: dave N [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi: I've installed Etch r1 and the only real thing I've done to the system is updated the system, though during the update it updated the kernel to the same kernel that was installed during the

Re: character encoding

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Jan 03, 2008 at 01:50:59PM +1300, Chris Bannister wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:08:24PM -0800, Kelly Clowers wrote: On Dec 31, 2007 1:41 PM, ChadDavis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: When I run 'ls' on a given directory, some of the file names show a question mark in the place of

Re: DVD driver

2008-01-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 05:08:14PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: On Jan 2, 2008 4:09 PM, hce [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think there *is* a DVD driver, per se. There's the UDF fs driver, though. You might mean that. To be hornest, I am not clear how the DVD system works. Is the DVD

Re: cannot log in with gdm after lenny upgrade

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 02, 2008 at 12:58:22AM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 09:49:43 -0800, Daniel Burrows wrote: On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 03:58:03AM +, Hendrik Boom [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: /etc/gdm/Xsession: Beginning session startup ... Setting 1M through

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:08:20PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: ... Hardware has scarcity which software lacks. There's no economic reason to sell software. Programmers should sell their service since trying to sell the product is, by

Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2008-01-01 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 10:52:16PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 05:08:20PM -0500, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Tuesday 01 January 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: ... Hardware has scarcity which software lacks

Re: Iceweasel or Konqueror + Kdm/Xorg turned into a cpu hog?

2007-12-31 Thread Kent West
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Lesley Binks wrote: Hi I have etch installed, regularly updated and running the KDE desktop environment. Using either Konqueror or Iceweasel, I find that Xorg goes into overdrive when I access this page: http://www.fasthosts.co.uk/login - reporting 92% usage on an

Re: [Wildly OT] Re: Galeon R.I.P?

2007-12-31 Thread Kent West
Ron Johnson wrote: It's a Very Big Universe, and I'm not hubristic (is that a word?) enough to make such a claim. For the Jesus-followers out there, he put it this way for the know-it-alls, which agrees with Ron's take on matters: /If you were blind, Jesus told them, you wouldn't have sin. ^

Re: Where did 'locate' go?

2007-12-31 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Dec 31, 2007 at 04:57:17PM -0500, Mark Grieveson wrote: On Mon, 31 Dec 2007 17:07:51 + (UTC) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, all: On a recently updated testing system, I went to use 'locate' to find something, and it's not found. Is my system somehow hosed or did

Re: [OT] RIP Netscape

2007-12-29 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Dec 29, 2007 at 06:53:08AM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,140903-c,netscape/article.html yeah, it's kinda sad, but at the same time, my memory of Netscape is always kind of unpleasant. I remember struggling to get it to work properly and convince others

Re: How to start X as a user?

2007-12-28 Thread Kent West
Dan H wrote: back in the olden days I used to be able to log in on a text console and then use startx to start an X session. I just tried that (without X running of course) but was rebuffed with the message that I wasn't authorized to start X. How does this work (on etch) From

Re: Vá : Using wdm how to pass -- -logverbose 6 to startx?

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 05:05:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: 2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Your Xorg.0.log looks fine to me. So what exactly happens when you type startx? maybe you don't have a window manager selected? How have you selected your window manager

Re: Vá : Using wdm how to pass -- -logverbose 6 to startx?

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 07:02:46PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: 2007/12/28, Andrew Sackville-West [EMAIL PROTECTED]: WHat window manager do you want to use? I want to use Window Maker. What is the output of (as root): update-alternatives --config x-window-manager There is only 1

Re: compatibility problems

2007-12-28 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 04:05:58PM -0800, Don Harwood wrote: ...snip confusing quoting... yes i am a total newbie to the linux world, the reason i chose debian is because the cnc system is debian, after doing some minor research into it i decided to keep it simple {yeah right} i will make

Re: mkinitrd.yaird failed to create initrd image

2007-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 05:19:45PM +0100, Paul van Gelder wrote: Hi, I tried to install linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 and get this as output: Setting up linux-image-2.6.18-5-amd64 (2.6.18.dfsg.1-17) ... Hmm. The package shipped with a symbolic link /lib/modules/2.6.18-5-amd64/source

Re: Aptitude installation

2007-12-27 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Dec 27, 2007 at 01:06:52PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 08:40:53 -0800 Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/27/07, Daniel Burrows [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This may or may not be related to your problem, but you would probably be better off using

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