Re: exim4

2007-01-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 11 January 2007 11:50, Micha Feigin wrote: > You're mixing two levels of handling here. > > Exim is a mail transfers agent. It handles only the smtp protocol (and > encripted friends). It basically acts as the post office. It recieves your > envelope and delivers it to the specified mai

Re: bash_completion puts 3500 lines of code in environment

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 19:15, Jasper wrote: > over 3000 more lines of code. Just out of curiousity, Why is that bad? How does it matter anyway? Sorry if it is obvious. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/

Re: Error installing linux-sound-base on testing

2007-01-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 10 January 2007 12:31, Ismael Valladolid Torres wrote: > While installing alsa-utils which depends on linux-sound-base on a > fresh testing install: > > Setting up linux-sound-base (1.0.13-3) ... The same version exists in both testing, unstable according to http://packages.debian.org

Re: etch images

2007-01-09 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 09 January 2007 06:57, Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > Hi list! > > what is the difference between the images of etch in the links > (10-Nov-2006) > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/etch_di_rc1/i386/iso-cd/ > and (weekly snapshot) > http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/weekly-builds/i386/iso-

Re: How to tell if a Linux machine is a zombie?

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 08 January 2007 14:13, Russell L. Harris wrote: > So, before I preach about the dangers of spyware and zombies to my > buddies using Window$, how can I be certain that my own Debian machine > has not been compromised and has not become a zombie? Is there a > simple test which I can run

Re: [OT: of interest only to new Gmail users] Re: test message

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 04:27, Andrei Popescu wrote: > I think this gmail quirk should go to Raju's FAQ: > > Q: I posted from my gmail account, but I don't receive my own posts. > But I receive other posts and even answers to my own posts. > > A: gmail will discard your own posts because they co

Re: Etch stable - when?

2007-01-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 08 January 2007 06:21, Angela Gavazzi wrote: > Does anybody here know something more new than the informations from the > debian site? > I usually keep track of debian-devel-announce mailing list for this kind of things. Subscription/unsubscription info for debian-devel-announce mailing

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 07 January 2007 02:13, David Hart wrote: ** msg snipped ** Thanks for the explanation on memory management David. > > > Besides being memory hungry, KDE applications spit out all sorts of > > errors both on the konsole terminal and in .xsession-errors. Wonder if > > etch has been tested

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 06 January 2007 19:52, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > > In fact, I never figured out how they manage to consume all that memory. > It must be they are working hard on it. :D > I have 1Gb ram and Etch still uses swap space (for god knows what). $free -m total used

Re: How to cool my cpu temperature?

2007-01-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 05 January 2007 09:57, Marko Randjelovic wrote: > surachai locharoen wrote: > > it has sound "woe woe weo" > > > > -- > > Than fan of your CPU is not working well. Just to make sure, if you > don't have windows, try Knoppix or some other CD bootable distro. If it > is the same, you should

Re: MODERATOR - NEWS GROUP

2007-01-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 04 January 2007 11:30, Douglas Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jan 04, 2007 at 09:32:01AM +, Jon Dowland wrote: > > On Wed, Jan 03, 2007 at 11:06:54PM +, Gary Roach wrote: > > > Check out a couple of not so on topic entries. > > It seems to me that much of this spam includes graphic imag

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 03 January 2007 10:21, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2007-01-02 at 14:02 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I really miss one feature from all these applications. I would like to > > have two terminals open side by side. All the input goes to one terminal, > >

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 23:24, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 09:05:06PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:01, Stephen wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kamaraju > > &g

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 16:01, Stephen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 02, 2007 at 01:56:33PM -0500 or thereabouts, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:40, Stephen wrote: > > > Any ideas on how to install Debian on this laptop ? The installer > > >

Re: new to debian but having installation problems

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 01 January 2007 02:24, Mike Myers wrote: > On 1/1/07, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > m-a update > > m-a prepare > > m-a a-i nvidia > > > > modconf > > -> select and load the nvidia module > > > >

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 01 January 2007 05:51, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > I do not use KDE, but found this interesting. > > http://nomis80.org/ > > From the description: > QuadKonsole is a program which embeds 4 Konsoles (other numbers can be > specified on the command-line). This way you save screen real es

Re: Installation fails on Toshiba 410CDT

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 02 January 2007 13:40, Stephen wrote: > Any ideas on how to install Debian on this laptop ? The installer > mentions using some other methods, but since this baby isn't networked, > I can't do a netinstall. :( If it has a floppy drive, you can use floppies to install Debian. However, f

apt-listbugs not working

2007-01-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
For some reason apt-listbugs is not working on Debian Etch (testing). Is it a temporary error or something that needs a bug report to be filed? $sudo apt-get install kmail Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree... Done The following extra packages will be installed: libpng12-0

Re: multi-gnome-terminal alternative

2006-12-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 31 December 2006 13:24, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Is there any good alternative, patches or workarounds ? > I use konsole all the time. It does not have all the features that multi-gnome-terminal has. For example multi-gnome-terminal has facilities to split the screen horizontally and ve

Re: new to debian but having installation problems

2006-12-31 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 31 December 2006 12:24, Mike Myers wrote: > > Thanks for the tips! I downloaded the etch cd and it detected my card and > installed fine. The only issue now is getting the nvidia driver installed. > The 'nv' driver doesn't work with my widescreen display at all. It looks > like to do t

Re: debian wiki manual how-to

2006-12-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 28 December 2006 08:38, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Although I like the organization, I don't find the title very revealing: > it is a HOWTO of *what*? Manual? > The title was confusing to me as well. When I read "manual how-to", my first thoughts were --- as opposed to what "automati

Re: specifying gcc arguments

2006-12-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 27 December 2006 14:00, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > When manually building applications in Debian (kernel, other packages) > using utilities (make-kpkg, others) is there any configuration file I can > specify my optimizations for, so that every time I do a build, I don't have >

Re: Blurriness problem

2006-12-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 26 December 2006 15:51, David Shultz wrote: > I've installed Penguin-Racer and I'm enjoying it. One little problem > though. When I move a little faster all the pictures gets blurry. It's > really annoying. I'm using debian sarge r4. Is there any way to find out > what's causing it and t

Re: problem linking gdchart

2006-12-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 24 December 2006 23:00, Paul Scott wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > On Sunday 24 December 2006 20:45, Paul Scott wrote: > >> I just installed gfortran on my sid system a few days ago to try to > >> build a program for a friend which needs recursion. It

Re: 2 weeks as a Debian user: a report back

2006-12-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 24 December 2006 21:38, Baz wrote: > > I wanted to file an installation report, but I didn't know how. Please > explain... > > Sebastian Complete instructions on filing an installation-report are given at http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/en.i386/ch05s03.html#submit-bug -- Kamaraj

Re: problem linking gdchart

2006-12-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 24 December 2006 20:45, Paul Scott wrote: > I just installed gfortran on my sid system a few days ago to try to > build a program for a friend which needs recursion. It uses gsl and > gdcharts. I can't seem to get gfortran to link to these libraries. > > gfortran -o demostemp -lgdc *.o

Re: 2 weeks as a Debian user: a report back

2006-12-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 24 December 2006 15:28, andy wrote: > > I don't know if any Debian developers read these lists Not all, but some do. Some even post solutions to some of the user's problems. Since you did not mention it, I might as well ask. Have you filed an installation-report? If not please do as th

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 22 December 2006 17:09, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I heard lvm can be used to have partitions whose sizes can be changed over > time in non-destructive way as far as the data is concerned. > Thanks for all the previous replies. Another small question. I currently have Window

Re: lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 22 December 2006 17:09, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I heard lvm can be used to have partitions whose sizes can be changed over > time in non-destructive way as far as the data is concerned. > Another basic question regarding the use of lvm. If I have traditionally pa

Re: specifying an autoconf version

2006-12-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 23 December 2006 08:51, Sven Arvidsson wrote: > On Tue, 2006-12-19 at 23:39 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Now I want to compile some software on this system which requires > > autoconf > 2.50. So I would like to use autoconf 2.53 instead of the > > de

unable to boot from USB drive

2006-12-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using Dell Inspiron E1505. Currently it has Windows XP and I wanted to install Debian Etch on it using the USB drive method. I downloaded boot.img.gz from http://ftp.nl.debian.org/debian/dists/testing/main/installer-i386/rc1/images/hd-media/boot.img.gz and gunzipped it on a debian Etch ma

lvm vs traditional partitioning

2006-12-22 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I heard lvm can be used to have partitions whose sizes can be changed over time in non-destructive way as far as the data is concerned. 1) Does anyone use this or is it still in an experimental state? 2) Are there any good websites which compare lvm against traditional partitioning? Like what a

Re: changing alt-tab behavior in fullscreen mode

2006-12-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 21 December 2006 01:10, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > Server : Debian, Etch, vncserver 3.3.7-13 > Client : Windows, Xp, vncviewer 3.3.7 > > When I access the vnc session in fulscreen mode on the windows machine, the > alt-tab is not being sent to the Debian machine. P

Re: changing alt-tab behavior in fullscreen mode

2006-12-21 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 21 December 2006 05:14, Liam O'Toole wrote: > On Thu, 21 Dec 2006 01:10:55 -0500 > > Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Server : Debian, Etch, vncserver 3.3.7-13 > > Client : Windows, Xp, vncviewer 3.3.7 > > > > When I acc

changing alt-tab behavior in fullscreen mode

2006-12-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Server : Debian, Etch, vncserver 3.3.7-13 Client : Windows, Xp, vncviewer 3.3.7 When I access the vnc session in fulscreen mode on the windows machine, the alt-tab is not being sent to the Debian machine. Pressing alt-tab just switches the windows on the Windows machine. How can I make alt-tab s

specifying an autoconf version

2006-12-19 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
This seems to be a simple question but I could not find a proper way to do this. I am trying to install software on a old computer with gcc-2.9, two versions of autoconf 2.13, 2.53. The defaults point to 2.13 which is installed in /usr/bin .The 2.53 version is installed in some arbitrary locati

preserving vnc sessions across reboots

2006-12-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi Is it possible to preserve vnc sessions across reboots? I am currently using Etch $dpkg -l vnc\* | grep ^ii ii vnc-common 3.3.7-13 Virtual network computing server software ii vnc-java 3.3.3r2-7 VNC java applet and command line program ii vncserver 3.3.7-13

Re: large rendering

2006-12-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 07 December 2006 23:31, Mark Grieveson wrote: > When using KDE, sometimes the rendering of the desktop will become too > large, making things unusable, and requiring a reboot to fix. This > occurs, usually, when I open a fullscreen game such as defendguin or > supertux. In particular,

Re: copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 25 November 2006 08:44, Ottavio Caruso wrote: > Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. One partition is > > ext3, the > > > other is fat32 > > Curiosity, why use ext3 on a flash drive? Have you tried to co

plotting a 2-D grid

2006-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Let's say I have 16 points defined by (0,0), (1, 0), (4,0), (6,0) (0,1), (1, 1), (4,1), (6,1) (0,4), (1, 4), (4,4), (6,4) (0,6), (1, 6), (4,6), (6,6) I would like to show the grid as -- | | | | -- | | | | -- | | | | -- That is all the points are intercon

copying files between ext3 and fat32 is slow

2006-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I have a usb drive which contains two partitions. One partition is ext3, the other is fat32. I used the fat32 to copy the files from windows XP and the speed is around 10MBps. When I moved this data from fat32 to ext3, I noticed that the speed is around 300KBps. I am wondering why is it so slow

Re: Weird Upgrade procedure - Debian Testing.

2006-11-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:55, Amit Joshi wrote: > Also, do all of you do a daily upgrade of your "Debian Testing" to stay > uptodate and avoid bulk upgrades? No, I don't regularly update my testing machine. I have a list of favorite packages (like vim, konsole, firefox, texmacs etc.,) writ

Re: nxclient stopped working

2006-11-18 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 18 November 2006 03:52, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Thu, Nov 16, 2006 at 06:07:09PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Hi I have two machines say A, B. Previously I was able to access > > machine A from machine B using nxclient. But recently it stopped > > Try

nxclient stopped working

2006-11-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi I have two machines say A, B. Previously I was able to access machine A from machine B using nxclient. But recently it stopped working and I have been trying to find out the reason behind this. So far there is no luck! Here are the configuration details. Both machine A, B run Debian Etch (

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 20:48, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 08:28:27PM -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > So your sample line in /etc/fstab will look like > > /dev/sda1 /home/user/partition autouser,auto,exec 0 > > 0 >

Re: Mount ext2/ext3 as specific user at system start?

2006-11-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 15 November 2006 19:52, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I seem to be hitting dead ends and I'm beginning to think this isn't as > easy as I first thought. > > I am putting together a box for unattended operation. I want to mount > an ext3 partition into the main user's home directory, I want t

Re: configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 13 November 2006 12:46, Jeetu Golani wrote: > Hi, > > I have gmail running on kmailhave been using it for quite sometime. > Just checked my config and I have encryption set to SSL and Authentication > method as Plain. The rest of your config seems alright. > > Hope it works out for yo

configuring gmail's SMTP server in kmail

2006-11-13 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi Did any succeed in configuring gmail SMTP server with kmail? I am using Etch/testing kmail 1.9.5 I did Settings -> Configure Kmail -> Accounts -> Sending and used the following settings. Host : smtp.gmail.com Port : 465 However I am confused about the "security" tab where it asks encryption

Re: Trouble browsing secure web sites (scotiaonline.com)

2006-11-12 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 12 November 2006 19:53, Alan Ianson wrote: > Suggestions? Please! :) Which browser are you using? If it is firefox, try disabling the extensions and see if it works. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- T

Re: apt-get upgrade vs apt-get dist-upgrade

2006-11-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 11 November 2006 22:30, T wrote: > > So where can I find the fabulous manual? > > Manual page of apt: > How about using google? The first hit given by http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=manual+page+of+apt-get&btnG=Google+Search is the manual page of apt-get http://www.annodex.net

Re: How to make Firefox to show unicode text?

2006-11-09 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 09 November 2006 03:53, Shrini wrote: > Friends. > > I use Debian etch testing. > > I installed Firefox 2. > > It does not show any unicode tamil sites well. > It show only boses. > > How to make firefox to show unicode? FWIW, I went to http://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%AE%E0%AF%81%

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 17:19, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > On Mon, 6 Nov 2006 10:10:34 -0500, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > > On Monday 06 November 2006 10:02, Greg Folkert wrote: > >> Couple of lists I am on, the matter of factly answers are

Re: yahoo mail and firefox

2006-11-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 12:16, T wrote: > Hi, > > Do you use yahoo mail, its web interface, regularly? > Do you use firefox for that? > Have you notice any problems? > > I access my yahoo mail web interface using firefox almost every day. But I > bumped into problem from time to time. Sometim

Re: Trend Micro Interscan VirusWall 6 on Debian Sarge

2006-11-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 08 November 2006 06:13, Mathias Tauber wrote: > > <... > Error > Unable to process request. Insufficient disk space. Increase available disk > space and try again. > > > > On the hard drive we have about 20gb free space, so this shouldn't be the > problem (the installer itself chec

konqueror remembers only the last filled form data

2006-11-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Using Debian Etch, KDE 3.5.5 Say I go to gmail.google.com and enter a username and password. konqueror asks whether to remember the password or not. I choose yes. Now I log out of the account and go to gmail.google.com again. Now enter a different username and password. konqueror again asks wheth

Re: manual software installation

2006-11-07 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 07 November 2006 15:36, ChadDavis wrote: > If I want to install software that isn't in a package, what is the > Debian compatible method. I mean, where do I put the executables, > where do I put the installation itself, etc. To be specific, I'm > installing tomcat. > > If someone can t

Re: what's up with all the attitude

2006-11-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 06 November 2006 10:02, Greg Folkert wrote: > > Couple of lists I am on, the matter of factly answers are all RTFM with > exact locations and nothing else. If that is the case, the developers need to rewrite the manual in a way which is understood by others. The content is probably OK

archives are not threaded across months

2006-11-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all I was browsing the d-u archives recently and found a weird behavior. Say I go to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg03693.html In the bottom of this page where it says "Next by thread", the link points to http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2006/10/msg03708.html . Once I go

Re: gcc version used to compile the kernel

2006-10-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 28 October 2006 22:01, Elimar Riesebieter wrote: > On Sat, 28 Oct 2006 the mental interface of > > Kamaraju Kusumanchi told: > > Hi all > > How can I find the gcc version that was used to compile the kernel? I > > am running debian testing (etch) with

gcc version used to compile the kernel

2006-10-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
Hi all How can I find the gcc version that was used to compile the kernel? I am running debian testing (etch) with $uname -a Linux kusumanchi 2.6.17-2-686 #1 SMP Wed Sep 13 16:34:10 UTC 2006 i686 GNU/Linux Why I need this: I am trying to install madwifi drivers to get the wireless work

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 16:58, HXC wrote: > That is a very extensive list, thanks a lot! I especially like the > konqueror option :-). Do you happen to know a way to view the Debian > specific readme's in /usr/share/doc/? > Since all the README files are just text files without special formattin

Re: [Offtopic] Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 13:58, Pollywog wrote: > On Friday 27 October 2006 15:18, celejar wrote: > > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by > > > the amount of traf

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 11:18, celejar wrote: > On 10/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > There is a loophole in the above argument. Some of the ISPs charge by the > > amount of traffic an individual user uses. If a spammer uses a zombie > > o

Re: Recent spam increase

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 07:51, Chris Walters wrote: > Unfortunately, I think the only answer to spam is a class action lawsuit > - or an International one against the people who are getting rich off > these messages. I'll bet that most legitimate Internet Service/Access > Providers would join a

Re: Good reader for /usr/share/doc/ and/or man pages ?

2006-10-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 27 October 2006 05:40, HXC wrote: > I am searching for a reader that 'automatically' reads /usr/share/doc/ > and/or man pages. It would be especially great it such a program would list > the available (Debian) readme's available in the /usr/share/doc directory. > Anyone knows such a prog

Re: What's your favourite FLOSS?

2006-10-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 26 October 2006 14:12, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > A year ago, I asked debian-user about favourite applications. The big > winners in that thread were GIMP, Firefox, K3b, gThumb, and > Thunderbird. I would like to start it again, and I would like those > who are get bored by thi

Re: How to cut/crop a part of a PDF file

2006-10-26 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 26 October 2006 13:02, Wayne Topa wrote: > apt-cache search pdf > wajig search pdf both of them do the same thing and give exactly the same results. There is no need to use them both. raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://www.people.cornell.edu/pages/kk288/ http://malayamaarutham.b

Re: Dirty spam

2006-10-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 19 October 2006 20:21, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > The list admins periodically train > spamassasin on lists.d.o with those messages which are reported as spam. > Last time I heard/read, I dont think the reported spams are being used currently. They are just being collected hoping tha

Re: md5sum lots of files

2006-10-20 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 20 October 2006 11:07, Grok Mogger wrote: > Thanks, I thought something like that was probably doable, but > my bash skills are not at the point where I could have figured > it out on my own. Just want to clarify something here. find, xargs, sort, grep etc., are not specific to bash. T

Re: nvidia-glx and nvidia-kernel-source packages not in debian etch/testing

2006-10-16 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 15 October 2006 21:39, Marc Wilson wrote: > On Sun, Oct 15, 2006 at 07:08:15PM -0500, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > So what gives? How can a package NOT exist, but show up as being > > upgradeable? > > Because the packages file lists it, but the mirror is incompletely > updated. Use anot

Re: how to play .wmv files on Debian..???

2006-10-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 15 October 2006 09:47, Brad Brock wrote: > I have several movie files from my previous operating > system (Windows). I want to play those files on > Debian. What package should I install? > > Thanks. > There are a lot of programs out there which can play .wmv files. My suggestion is to

Re: Debian Weekly News?

2006-10-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 13 October 2006 20:40, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Sat, Oct 14, 2006 at 01:30:12AM +0100, Wulfy wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > >I've considered taking over writing DWN again (if you're confused, I'm > > >the other Joey who originally started it in '99). However, it's not > > >clear to

Re: How to change gnome's defaut WM?

2006-10-06 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 06 October 2006 03:43, Deephay wrote: > Greetings, > > Today I did some experiment with AIGLX/compiz on my box successfully, > so I want to change my defaut WM to compiz instead of metacity, I > edited the /usr/share/gnome/default-wm but it does not work. I checked > the gnome website and

Re: Quick basic config question

2006-10-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 18:07, Curt Howland wrote: > Hi. Trying to run up-to-date Sid. > > When installing _this_ time, I changed to ask only for package install > questions of "high" importance or more to be asked. Before this I have > always had "medium" selected. > try sudo dpkg-reconfigur

Re: Computer keeps hanging

2006-10-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 02 October 2006 15:24, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Hi! > > I am having problems with my machine, it keeps hanging. First I thought > it was the graphics card, an ATI card using the ATI driver. I upgraded > from Sarge to Etch, then switched to an Nvidia card, both with the > Nvidia and ATI dri

Re: spamcop

2006-09-30 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 30 September 2006 12:02, Andrew Vaughan wrote: > My phrasing evidently wasn't clear. AIUI the problem isn't misdirected > confirmation emails. The problem is that some spam makes it through debian > filters. List subscribers then report that that spam to spamcop. Spamcop > then blam

Re: spamcop

2006-09-28 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 16:15, David Dyer-Bennet wrote: > On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:21, John Kelly wrote: > > > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > > > murphy.

Re: spamcop

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 27 September 2006 11:57, Michael Marsh wrote: > On 9/27/06, Kamaraju Kusumanchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If murphy is sending spamtraps, it deserves to be listed. period. > > Um, murphy sends confirmation email to any address registered through > the web

Re: good personal information manager

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 23 September 2006 22:41, James Richardson wrote: > Hi, > I have been searching for a good personal information manager that > will run on GNU/Linux, unsecessfully. > > What I am looking for is something that works mostly like franklin > planner for windows... > > I need a good todo list

Re: Knoppix/Debian HD Install problem

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 21 September 2006 11:25, John Graves wrote: > I took what appears to be an unwise shortcut and installed Knoppix on > the harddrive of a spare laptop. It now appears that some portion of > what is installed is in german. Is there an easy way to either fix my > installation or reinstal

Re: debian forum

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Thursday 21 September 2006 15:17, S. M. Ibrahim (Lavlu) wrote: > today at the time of searching http://debian.org get a link > http://forums.debian.net > > but, there number of registed user is too few "We have *7054* registered > users" > > why debian not making a official forum for debian-user

Re: spamcop

2006-09-27 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 20 September 2006 08:21, John Kelly wrote: > For the second time in the past few days, spamcop has listed > murphy.debian.org. That's it. I'm done with spamcop! If murphy is sending spamtraps, it deserves to be listed. period. If it is not spamcop, there are tons of other DNSBLs wh

Re: How to list all the non-free packages installed

2006-09-11 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 11 September 2006 10:51, Stefan Monnier wrote: > Every once in a while I need to install a non-free package, so my system > does have some non-free packages installed. What command can I use to find > out what packages are those (so I can remove them or replace them with free > alternati

Re: debian unstable, stable enough?

2006-09-08 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 08 September 2006 17:32, Jordi Carrillo wrote: > You say you reinstalled from zero twice. What's the best way to get into > unstable? Installing the stable version and then doing a dist-upgrade or > installing unstable right-away, I mean when debian installation asks you > which sources t

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-05 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Tuesday 05 September 2006 09:23, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Tue, 05 Sep 2006 04:45:50 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > I think that's what he's running. > > Thanks, Ron, for the clarification. Why the hell would I take all this > pleading and yelling on me if I were running Sid or Testing ?? > > Uwe M

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 04 September 2006 21:16, Uwe Dippel wrote: > On Mon, 04 Sep 2006 17:08:11 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > Other than filing bugs in BTS and using apt-listbugs, you can also put > > information about serious breakages etc., in > > http://wiki.debian.org/Statu

Re: dependencies problem - open office/adesklets

2006-09-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 04 September 2006 06:50, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > Aloha, > > Here's the situation. I want openoffice from testing or unstable, it > wants to remove adesklets and I can't install adeskleds because of deps. > > What to do? Force it? Seems like this bug is already reported http://bugs.debia

Re: Thunderbird does not show attachments any longer

2006-09-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 04 September 2006 13:33, Uwe Dippel wrote: > > What is not good, though, is the lack of information; somehow. I googled > intensely; read all archives, lists. Nothing. Didn't think of a bug > report. Invested > 1 hour. No solution. Wrote to the list; had some good > hints (meaning: more

Re: dependencies problem - open office/adesklets

2006-09-04 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 04 September 2006 06:50, Dimitar Vukman wrote: > Aloha, > > Here's the situation. I want openoffice from testing or unstable, it > wants to remove adesklets and I can't install adeskleds because of deps. > > What to do? Force it? > What is this adesklets software that you are talking abo

Re: difference between octave2.1 and octave2.9?

2006-09-03 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Sunday 03 September 2006 09:38, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > I'm interested in knowing the differences between these two. If > octave2.9, which is supposedly superior to 2.1, is stable, why do we > still have both in the archive? There are still some things that work with octave 2.1 but

Re: pdftex on Debian...

2006-09-01 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 01 September 2006 19:21, Nelson Castillo wrote: > On 9/1/06, Redefined Horizons <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I searched the Debian package repository for a "pdftex" package but > > couldn't find one. I need to convert a tex file to pdf. Does Debian > > have a package with a utility that

Re: [OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

2006-08-30 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Wednesday 30 August 2006 12:19, T wrote: > On Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:14:33 -0400, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > > The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many > > > > #ifdef > > #endif > > > > constructs which are preprocessed by cpp (The C prepr

[OT] automatically write enabled macros of the makefile into a file

2006-08-30 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I have a very large code written in fortran 90. The fact that it is written in fortran 90 has nothing to do with the question. I just mentioned it just in case there is a fortran 90 specific solution. The code comes with a makefile. The code contains many #ifdef #endif constructs which are p

Re: firefox do not show image on some site

2006-08-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 25 August 2006 19:34, Jerome BENOIT wrote: > Hello List, > > since a while when I navigate on ebay or amazon, > images does not show up > --- on other site it is Ok. > > Any idea ? > Just a wild guess. Do you have any extensions (like adblock) installed? What happens when you run firefo

Re: diffing two files in konqueror

2006-08-25 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Friday 25 August 2006 12:14, Casey T. Deccio wrote: > gvimdiff file{1,2}.txt > gvimdiff /usr/share/examples/example{1,2}.txt Wow! Simply superb! raju -- http://kamaraju.googlepages.com/cornell-bazaar http://groups.google.com/group/cornell-bazaar/about -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

diffing two files in konqueror

2006-08-24 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I frequently do gvimdiff file1.txt file2.txt What is the most efficient way of doing this from konqueror? Is it possible? I ask because, selecting two files is more easy than typing two complete file names (even with tab and bash completion) at the CLI. Any related ideas/suggestions are also w

warnings from kbuildsycoca

2006-08-23 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
My ~/.xsession-errors is full of warnings from kbuildsycoca Some of the warnings are pasted below. Is there any fix available? thanks raju * warnings from kbuildsycoca kbuildsycoca: WARNING: '/usr/share/applications/glabels.desktop' specifies undef

Re: Highlighting and annotating PDFs?

2006-08-15 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Saturday 12 August 2006 15:14, martin f krafft wrote: > I am in need of a way to annotate PDF documents, and to highlight > text therein. I cannot find a single tool to do this. Does anyone > know what I could use? > > Or is Adobe Acrobat Standard (which is not available for Linux), the > only w

Re: Problem on first boot

2006-08-14 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
On Monday 14 August 2006 21:24, Eric O wrote: > After installing debian etch, the first boot doesn't start up X11. It comes > up with an error saying there are no screens. I have an ATi X1600 Pro which > does work in Ubuntu and other distros. I would like to use debian over > ubuntu, but as of righ

kpdf find backwards is not clickable

2006-08-10 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
While reading a pdf file with kpdf, I am not able to search backwards. When I do Edit -> Find, then only the "Case sensitive" option is clickable. Rest of the options are greyed out. Is this a bug or is there any work around? $ kpdf --version Qt: 3.3.6 KDE: 3.5.4 KPDF: 0.5.3 packages are mixed

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