On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 08:41:02PM -0400, Nick Lidakis wrote:
> Kelly Jones wrote:
>> I often do "aptitude install package" to install a package.
>>
>> Cow can I get a list of all the packages I've installed this way?
>>
>> Looking at /var/cache/apt/archives seems like a kludge?
>>
> dpkg -l | les
On Fri, May 30, 2008 at 10:57:27AM +1000, Tony Maher wrote:
> Hello Andrew,
>
> yes i think it is a (minor) bug but being new to debian was unsure
> about correct place to report bug.
I'm not sure about backport bugs, but probably the place to report it
is in the debian bug tracking system. It's
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:13:07AM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an
> AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site
> does not seem to exist.
>
> Any suggestion?
just for the record, I just installed a
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 09:13:07AM -0600, Robert Jerrard wrote:
> Can anyone tell me where to get a java plugin for Debian testing on an
> AMD64? I thought www.blackdown.org was the place to get it but that site
> does not seem to exist.
so far as I know there is no java plugin for 64 bit systems.
On Thu, May 29, 2008 at 02:35:29AM +, Walt L. Williams wrote:
...
>
> I kind of got the impression while working to load these that Debian
> offer these Sun Java packages so they can say they offer them but
> try to discourage people from using what they consider propietory
> software by
On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 01:23:27PM -0400, David A. Parker wrote:
> Cantilevered elastics work wonders.
As does a firm dis-belief in gravity.
>>>
>>> One view of National Geographic will disabuse you of that notion...
>>
>> that's the whole point of firm dis-belief! National Geographic is
On Tue, May 27, 2008 at 08:14:17PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 27 May 2008 08:07:45 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> ...
>
> > Come on, all geeks know nothing is bug free. The bugs just haven't
>
> And you call y
like the
Microsoft Knowledge Database does for Windows issues. I'm afraid I'm
unfamiliar with a "Microsoft error db", if that's something different,
so can't really address your question.
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n a floppy drive. Anyway the
solution i found after some searching was to use grub-install /dev/hda
instead of using the grub cli. Anyway grub-install worked just fine :)
Thank you for your time.
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On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 04:57:39PM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
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>
> Owen Townend wrote:
> > On 25/05/2008, Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> On Sun, 25 May 2008 03:11:05 +1000 Owen Townen wrote:
> >> > On 24/05/2008, Chris Bannister <[E
On Sun, May 25, 2008 at 03:12:44PM -0500, Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso wrote:
> On 25/05/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Now as to whether misappropriating that source code is a crime is
> > beyond my knowledge. debian-legal would probably know.
>
> I'm starting to think it is, beca
On Sat, May 24, 2008 at 02:14:08PM -0400, Bec Dridan wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have just installed Debian on my new MacBook. After getting a basic
> working testing system, I tried to dist-upgrade to unstable and now it
> won't boot. It runs LILO, boots a 2.6.25-2-686 kernel and then can't
> mount the ro
Adam Hardy wrote:
Kent West on 23/05/08 13:38, wrote:
From http://www.faqs.org/faqs/x-faq/part2/section-19.html:
o) The keypad arrow keys move the pointer
o) The keypad '5' key behaves like the 'default' pointer button
o) The keypad '0' key locks the de
Adam Hardy wrote:
Kent West on 23/05/08 04:46, wrote:
Kent West wrote:
You can activate/deactivate mouse-keys with Shift-NumLock (you
should hear a speaker beep). Now your number-pad should function as
a mouse-controller.
That makes my day!
Is it possible to fake a mouse-click?
From http
Kent West wrote:
Michelle Konzack on 21/05/08 22:11, wrote:
It is already there... You can control the Mouse with the
Number-KeyPad and it works from scratch in Sarge and up.
You can activate/deactivate mouse-keys with Shift-NumLock (you should
hear a speaker beep). Now your number-pad
it).
But, (and here's probably where your problem is), the feature has to be
activated.
You can activate/deactivate mouse-keys with Shift-NumLock (you should
hear a speaker beep). Now your number-pad should function as a
mouse-controller.
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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 04:17:00AM -0700, Bill wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-19-05 at 21:55 -0500, Mark Allums wrote:
> > ACPI will be replaced, but it's APM (and Plug-and-Play) that is
> > deprecated in favor of ACPI. It is widely needed by billions of
> > motherboards, and won't be eliminated entirely
mkinitramfs-kpgk" exist? What are the perms on the file?
Is the volume on which that file sits mounted read/write?
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On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 07:57:30AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:49:17AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:14:04AM -0700, Bill wrote:
> > > Hi folks,
> >
> > > Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom
> &
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:06:55PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 09:41:11AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > the benefit to Andrei's method (which I use as well **) is that you
> > don't have to change windows or wait for a browser
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 02:48:29PM -0400, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote:
>
> I have a debian system installed and want to dist
> upgrade it, BUT I want apt--get dist-upgrade to upgrade
> only the installed debs and not to download everything
> under the sun!
dist-upgrade will only upgrade those packages tha
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 01:14:04AM -0700, Bill wrote:
> Hi folks,
> Begin: Running /scripts/init-bottom
> mount: mounting /dev on /root/dev failed: Invalid argument
> Done.
> run-init: making initramfs contents: Directory not empty
> kernel-panic: not syncing : attempted to kill init!
I would foc
On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 08:05:08PM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote:
> I have a 15" monitor at home running at 1024x768. I find that for most
> apps, very little screen estate is left for the actual stuff and most of
> it is eaten up by the menubars, toolbars, and othe gui elements. I have
> my
On Sun, May 11, 2008 at 03:42:26PM +1000, hce wrote:
> On 5/10/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On Sat, May 10, 2008 at 08:57:20PM +1000, hce wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > In FC6, it automatically launches the browser when I open an HTML
> > > email in mutt. I've just learned be
Kent West wrote:
... I downloaded the 4.0.r3.13 netinstaller ISO and burned it to CD,
and then booted from it.
... the boot process hangs fairly early in the process
Jerome BENOIT wrote:
you may want to visit the mactel site:
www.mactel-linux.org/wiki/Main_Page
and more specific ones
So I reconfigured my new MacBook (MacBook4.1, Intel Core 2 Duo, 2.4GHz,
4GB RAM) to dual-boot between OS/X and Ubuntu (keep reading; this isn't
about Ubuntu) using rEfit. I chose Ubuntu because it was easy, and I
just wanted to get a feel for how well Linux would run on the MacBook.
It worked
On Tue, Apr 29, 2008 at 04:01:22PM +, Zoho Vignochi wrote:
> Hello:
>
> I have one of the famous Eeepc's and I performed a hardware hack in order
> to expand internal drive storage space. So I have the internal ssd card (/
> dev/sda) 4 GB and a usb stick soldered to one of the usb ports and h
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 02:30:13PM -0700, Bajji sw wrote:
> I guess I know now, I should not have dist-upgraded
> yesterday.
>
> I run mythtv on Debian 4.0 with mysql. I went from a
> single system to
> enabling access on my lan. The problem seems to be
> that the ip address
> of this server syste
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 09:04:32PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/27/08 18:56, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:08:33PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> >> I have installed wine. How to make jre to work in wine. I couldn't
> >> instal
On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 08:08:33PM +0530, L.V.Gandhi wrote:
> I have installed wine. How to make jre to work in wine. I couldn't
> install windows version of jre in wine.
maybe I missed part of this thread, but why?
java is multiplatform, you don't need to install a jre in wine. Just
run the lin
On Fri, Apr 25, 2008 at 06:13:29PM +0100, andy wrote:
> Hello
>
> I tried to run a java-based programme on a Lenny machine. This is what
> happened:
>
> $ java jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar
you need to specify that you are trying to run a /jar file. try:
java -jar jgraphpad-6.0.4.1-gpl.jar
> Excep
On Thu, Apr 24, 2008 at 10:18:48PM +0200, Chris wrote:
> On Thursday 24 April 2008, Bob McGowan wrote:
> > Chris wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > I want to run a script to rsync local files to a NAS mounted to
> > > /mnt/music. Sometimes the NAS is not running, and I want to prevent the
> > > script
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 03:32:30PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Wed, 23 Apr 2008 20:25:47 +1000, Adrian Levi wrote:
> >
> > I can't understand why Emacs would depend on one package manager over
> > another. Unless I'm missing the bleeding obvious.
>
> Well, it *is* emacs. Maybe it has an oper
Pete Kay wrote:
After I installed scim-pinyin, I rebooted the server and I can't bring
up Debian X-window anymore. It does request for the username and
password, but then it just hangs there in the screen, and does not go
to the main window.
I can reboot to get to command prompt. Can anyon
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 05:24:17PM +0200, Thierry Chatelet wrote:
> Is it possible to install the above, eitherone, on a sid machine. I need it
> fot my HP H470 printer.
umm... google?
according to http://hplip.sourceforge.net/downloads.html
the automatic installer is known to work for all deb
On Fri, Apr 18, 2008 at 08:06:04AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu April 17 2008, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy
> > > linux on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat (
&
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 10:18:06AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> I formatted a 2 Gb USB stick and installed a bootable version of puppy linux
> on it. It can be read by even a windows PC, it is formatted vfat ( I think).
> When I insert that stick into my Debian Etch computer, the computer rebo
On Thu, Apr 17, 2008 at 11:33:36AM -0400, Frank wrote:
>
>
> Running Sid/Lenny -- after recent updates, CD burning on my machine has
> stopped working.
> Normaly I use Gnomebaker...I have reinstalled it and wodim but that was
> not a solution.
>
> The script burn-cd gives me this:
>
> [EMAIL PR
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 08:29:42PM +0100, Michael C wrote:
> Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Michael C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>>
>>> Sorry Andrew --- I didn't make myself nearly clear enough --- is the
>>> Lenny d-i *net* install CD able to provide for a KDE
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:23:11PM -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote:
> 1) Is there any way to check the life of a battery on a Dell Inspiron 6400
> E1505? I am using Debian Etch.
what do you mena by life of the battery? If you mean it's operational
life, like before it wears out and doesn't hold
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 01:51:48PM +0100, Michael C wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does the current build of the Lenny d-i allow users to specify a
> KDE-only desktop installation?
the lenny beta1 release includes a kde version of cd 1:
http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/lenny_di_beta1/i386/iso-cd/debian-testin
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:30:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:48:36AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > and one more thought. Could it be possible to write a video driver
> > that is essentially a dummy? A blind user does need X to ac
On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 10:55:57AM +0100, michael wrote:
>
> On 16 Apr 2008, at 02:37, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 12:32:26PM -0500, Sam Leon wrote:
>>> Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /,
>>> reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalli
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:57:48PM -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 16, 2008 at 12:38:46AM +0900, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was
> heard to say:
...
> > You need to tell in NEWS file that local scripts need to add "~n" before
> > serch string to make it act as before under the new v
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:02:13PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-15 18:35 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > excellent description. MY wife, whose box is running mostly-up-to-date
> > sid, is annoyed because every few months some program changes it's
>
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:27:15PM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-15 18:43 +0200, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:45:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> >> It is true that sid users should generally check out for grave bugs and
&g
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 03:44:27PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/15/08 12:32, Sam Leon wrote:
> > Could one easily upgrade to an amd64 system just by formating /,
> > reinstalling with the proper arch, and then reinstalling all the apps
> > that were installed and hopefully all the conf files i
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 07:39:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:13:07PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > > On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > >> Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all
we really need to conflate this thread with the sidux one...
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 08:45:47AM +0200, Sven Joachim wrote:
> On 2008-04-15 01:47 +0200, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>
> > On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:20:00PM +0200, David wrote:
> >
> >> comix - The version in Testing had security prob
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:03:52AM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Tue, 15 Apr 2008 12:47:08 +0200
> Rico Secada <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > The unstable isn't really unstable per say, but it just breaks from time
> > to time because so many changes are added daily. From time to time t
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 08:34:30PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 03:09:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > Contrast that with sid, bug fixes happen fast. It seems, in my limited
> > experience, that serious bugs that get caught in sid rap
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:16:19AM +1000, Rich Healey wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
...
> >
> > I personally wouldn't run a testing system for regular use. I would
> > run sid or stable (with backports as needed). Of course, YMMV.
> >
...
> Interesting
On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 09:46:26AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote:
> Joey Hess wrote:
Both of you, thanks!
> > Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> In your opinion, am I right in my assessment that testing is more
> >> likely to be in an unusable state for lon
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 06:25:11PM -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > The crucial bit that many miss is that new packages don't move into
> > testing unless they've sat in unstable with no new bug reports for 10
> > days (I think).
&g
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 02:04:39PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> On 14-Apr-08, at 9:58 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
>> Perhaps debian should have an accessible install CD in addition to all
>> the different DTE install CDs. E.g. one where sound works on most
>> boxes
>> and comes up with voice prom
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:29:19PM +0100, Michael C wrote:
> Haines Brown wrote:
>> Michael,
>>
>> I wanted to put Debian on a new Thinkpad X61s, and to achieve that with
>> minimal pain, I went with sidux. I created a USB-stick to install it,
>> and it went as smooth as can be. I'm using the machi
On Sun, Apr 13, 2008 at 12:50:14AM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 12:13:29 -0500, Kent West wrote:
> > Florian Kulzer wrote:
> >> Is this the right room for an argument?
> >>
> >
> > HA-H!
> >
> > I loved Flying
On Sat, Apr 12, 2008 at 02:25:49PM -0500, Cybe R. Wizard wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
>
> [...]
>
> > only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a
> > comin'
...
>
> Andrew, since it's OT time,
Florian Kulzer wrote:
Is this the right room for an argument?
HA-H!
I loved Flying Circus!
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On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 08:18:33PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
...
>
> As for everyone else why are we having this crap discussion
AGAIN.
only a matter of time. real traffic is down, OT is up... flame wars a
comin'
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On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:45:39AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/10/08 11:32, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> [snip]
> >>> I h
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 04:01:43PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/11/08 15:19, Paul Johnson wrote:
>
> > Just because
> > he's
> > dead now doesn't mean he didn't have good ideas that worked wonders,
> > contrary
> > to what Rush
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 02:41:00PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/11/08 13:02, Kevin Mark wrote:
> [snip]
> > Thunderbird is a brand of cheap alcohol mostly drunk by winos --bums. It
>
> Shame on you for insinuating such a mean thing about the Differently
> Drinking
the soberly impaired?
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 09:58:29AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Tue, April 8, 2008 3:19 pm, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > well, that's just plain frustrating. It's got me worried because my
> > xen setup is working great in etch... might have to leave it there for
&
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:39:43PM -0600, ChadDavis wrote:
> When the kernel is uncompressing, I get an
>
> invalid compressed format (err=1)
>
> ---System halted
>
> It seems that others have had this problem due to media issues. I've tried
> to reburn the image and that still doesn'
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 11:41:37AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/10/08 11:28, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
> > ..
> >
> >> Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and t
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:17:06AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/09/08 23:14, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [snip]
> >
> > I have a 1965 International Harvester (aka Cornbinder) Metro-Mite
> > delivery truck. It's so cool. Geared so low in first, you could pull
&
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 10:16:15AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote:
..
> Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log
> doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them
> as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 07:39:48AM -0400, Paul Cartwright wrote:
> On Thu April 10 2008, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > Well I tried... you bunch of hair splitting ninnies!!
>
> leave my hair out of this!
>
> >
> > I'm bald, you insensitive clod!
> >
> > > there, now we can flame away ;-)
> >
> > Nah.
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 06:56:10AM -0400, mike wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote:
>>
>>> I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing
>>> debian on a Dell 530 Intel Core
Curt Howland wrote:
Now, the boot messages scroll off so fast I can't read them, and the log
doesn't pick up all of them. Some times I really miss being able to read them
as they went by, especially when I see something "Gee, that doesn't look
right..." and poof it's gone.
This is why I don't
On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 08:58:34AM +0800, Telaman Consultancies wrote:
> I note this has a Ubuntu download:
>
> http://www.les-stooges.org/pascal/pencil/index.php?id=Home
>
> ...but not found in Debian.
> Might be an interesting addition for some.
it has a debian/ directory in the source tree an
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:24:40PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I installed firestarter on Debian Etch. From my understanding it is pretty
> much a front end to the ipstarter firewall. Everything has been going great
> except for one minor annoyance...
...
>
> Anyways, as so
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 12:27:30PM -0500, John Hasler wrote:
> Ron Johnson writes:
> > That's an invalid invocation of Godwin's Law.
>
> Bsides, Godwin never promised that a thread would _end_ when Hitler was
> mentioned: just that he eventually would be.
Well I tried... you bunch of hair splitti
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:53:08PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote:
> On Wednesday 09 April 2008 06:25:01 pm Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 02:58:14AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> > > Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > > > If before we were kettle and pot, now that duct tape is
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:41:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/09/08 20:28, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 10, 2008 at 03:14:05AM +0200, s. keeling wrote:
> >> Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> > >
> >>> Still doesn't help on my white-on-black VT520. A bit of white-space
>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 10:41:37PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/08/08 22:39, David Fox wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 7:35 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >> For a 3 month, 400-post OT mega-thread?
> >
> > Well, it may get off to a slow start, then. I didn't see any mention
>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:28:40PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:23:07PM -0400, Brian McKee wrote:
> > >>>slot "wore out" (don't ask me how, because I don't know). At the
> > >>>end, I had to keep a rubberband pulling that daughter board at just
> > >>>the right angle,
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:48:00AM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/09/08 06:43, Bob Cox wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 06:37:30 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> >
> >> ling isgs?
> >>
> >> That must be some sort of typo, but I'll be damned if I can figure
> >> it out!
>
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 08:01:37AM -0700, Dan Turk wrote:
> I need to get advice / help on how to best go about installing debian on a
> Dell 530 Intel Core 2 Quad-core machine for which the debian installer does
> not recognize the Intel 82562V-2 Network Interface Card.
>
> A couple questi
Apparently I had some mail in the queue on my laptop...
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 09:44:15AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> On Sun, April 6, 2008 11:09 am, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> >> auto eth1
> >> iface eth1 inet static
> >> address 192.168.1.21
>
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 08:25:31AM -0400, William Thompson wrote:
> I forgot to mention that I'm not on the list, Keep me in the CC.
>
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:08:20PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:36:53PM -0400, William Thompson wrote
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:07:35PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/06/08 13:23, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 06:33:47PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >
> >> And of course the poor, ignorant and boorish aren't reading this
>
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:17:53AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> so far as I know, having shorewall turned off in
>> /etc/defaults/shorewall completely prevents it from running. So you
>> would be left with bog standard iptables setup -- wide
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 06:51:07PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
>
> On Apr 5, 2008, at 3:25 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
>> I have seen direct evidence of the problem inherent in reply-to
>> munging. We had a student reply to an email thinking she was replying
>>
On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 06:33:47PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> And of course the poor, ignorant and boorish aren't reading this
> list. Why? They're drinking cheap beer and procreating like rabbits.
Hey! I'm almost poor, ignorant of many things, and often boorish, but
I'll *never* drink cheap
On Tue, Apr 08, 2008 at 11:04:51AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 02:54:26PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> [..]
> Regarding:
> > http://www.unicom.com/pw/reply-to-harmful.html
>
> > yeah, it's tough. It was also a simply avoided mi
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 01:36:53PM -0400, William Thompson wrote:
> I have 2 PCs with a 915 chipset. One wants to use 1280x768 resolution and
> the other wants 1152x864 resolution. I haven't setup a new system in a
> while with X and I'm running into some problems/differences.
>
> I like to have
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:04:21PM -0600, Nate Duehr wrote:
> I get a warning from the Debian listservers once in a while that my
> server is bouncing messages and that:
maybe don't bounce them. either REJECT them at smtp time or simply
blackhole them.
if you're bouncing them, you've already go
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 10:44:33PM +0200, Andreas Rönnquist wrote:
>
> Running Xfce4-taskmanager on my Lenny (amd64) box, it doubles the one or two
> top items, adding more and more items while running. It seems to be visibly
> only, I don't see any strangeness in htop.
>
> Does anybody else se
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 03:56:17PM -0500, Jude DaShiell wrote:
> gcj could be causing problems undercover. I read over on the
> gnome-accessibility list that for accessibility at least the applications
> that do accessibility were all tuned to the sun java packages and not
> gcj. If all else f
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 08:03:34AM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:49PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 11:43:56AM +0100, Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Sun, 6 Apr 2008 18:11:04 -0700
> Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hello Andrew,
>
> > seriously, though, it's silly vanity. That said, if you can get a
> > reasonable like
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:46:15PM -0700, Amit Uttamchandani wrote:
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> Since we're off topic and talking about low end machine. I don't know if any
> of you guys have heard of this new linux distro on the block called slitaz.
>
> http://www.slitaz.org/en/
hey that's cool. I love little distros
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:19:24PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> On 04/06/08 19:11, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 08:04:04PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> >
> >> Totally ACK! This is the kind of situation that inflames my
> >> crotchetiness gland and impels me to pull out my ca
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:50:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:37:14PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >
> > > Still doesn't help on my white-on-black
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 09:48:18PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 06:18:51PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 08:23:20PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> >
> > so now we can twiddle our thumbs, go on random OT rants
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 10:56:11PM +0300, Dotan Cohen wrote:
> On 04/04/2008, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Just move all the $HOME stuff out of the way, and see what happens. If
> > you see that something important is gone, file movement is
> > reversible :).
>
> Important stuff like
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 07:17:12PM -0400, Frank McCormick wrote:
> On Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:48 +0100
> Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 15:09:22 -0400, Frank ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
> > wrote:
> >
> > > I am running Sid using IceWm, not Gnome. Today for the first tim
On Sun, Apr 06, 2008 at 01:54:24PM -0400, Douglas A. Tutty wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 07, 2008 at 02:44:44AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 03:40:48PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>
> > > Fair enough. just a thought. BTW, it's darn hard to
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