Re: debian-multimedia bug reports?

2007-05-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, May 25, 2007 at 03:16:05PM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Rick Pasotto wrote: Today I encountered a fatal error when running ffmpeg. When I ran reportbug it tells me that my version is newer than the debian version, probably

Re: Question about Mutt

2007-05-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
' moves to the previous entry You can also just type in the message number to jump to. Press '?' to see all the key bindings. -- It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him. -- J. R. R. Tolkien Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net

OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: OT - Dilbert on the ethics of e-mail etiquette

2007-05-07 Thread Rick Thomas
On May 7, 2007, at 3:55 PM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Mon, May 07, 2007 at 15:28:14 -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: http://www.dilbert.com/comics/dilbert/archive/dilbert-20070507.html You could have made this even funnier if you had posted it using a debianhelp.org account ;) What makes you

Remote Application but local Data, how to accomplish!?

2007-04-15 Thread Rick Rocker
. Please, please, help me because you will then help to get start an advertising campaign for free software. I thank you very much in advance regards Rick - Yahoo! Clever - Der einfachste Weg, Fragen zu stellen und Wissenswertes mit Anderen zu teilen.

Re: Remote Application but local Data, how to accomplish!?

2007-04-15 Thread Rick Rocker
Greg Folkert wrote: sshfs. Look it up. Use it, love it. It is very very very nice as a userland tool, once installed. Excuse me, if I not understand your answer but how does sshfs accomplish that a user starts a remote app and accesses local data/documents , please ? I looked it up - as you

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 14, 2007, at 6:39 AM, Steve Langasek wrote: On Fri, Apr 13, 2007 at 11:21:56PM -0400, Rick Thomas wrote: Anybody know what the problem is here? Or how to fix it? W: GPG error: http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because

Re: etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Apr 14, 2007, at 12:50 AM, Kushal Kumaran wrote: On 4/14/07, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anybody know what the problem is here? Or how to fix it? W: GPG error: http://volatile.debian.org etch/volatile Release: The following signatures couldn't be verified because the public key

Re: fsck fails!

2007-04-13 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:55:52PM -0400, Edward J. Shornock wrote: Rick Pasotto wrote: I have /home on a logical volume and recently expanded it. This morning I started getting file system errors so I logged out, unmounted /home and ran e2fsk on it. All seemed to be going normally but now

etch/volatile -- public key is not available: NO_PUBKEY EC61E0B0BBE55AB3

2007-04-13 Thread Rick Thomas
these problems Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

fsck fails!

2007-04-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
forced. -- How do I fix it? I am uptodate on etch and the version string from e2fsck is: e2fsck 1.40-WIP (14-Nov-2006) Using EXT2FS Library version 1.40-WIP, 14-Nov-2006 -- Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: checking if my system is compromised

2007-04-07 Thread Rick Pasotto
of everyone else. --Frederic Bastiat Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Woohooo! Dell + Linux

2007-03-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 30, 2007, at 3:23 AM, Paul Walsh wrote: (do manufacturers have to pay M$ to allow them to pre-install Windows?). Yes. But it's actually worse than that. They pay MicroSoft based on their total sales numbers. Not just the number of machines they happen to install Windows on.

partitions do not end on cylinder boundaries

2007-03-29 Thread Rick Dooling
Hello, I had Windows XP on a ThinkPad T40. I used partition magic 8 to create a 20 gig empty partition at the end of logical drive E before installing Debian Etch. Installation went fine. I can boot to both Windows XP and Debian. Everything appears to work fine, but I get horrible warnings if I

What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
, and nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power. -- Friedrich Hayek (1899-1992) Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:27:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:59:22AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: This showed up for the first time today: mnr kernel: [drm:via_verify_command_stream] *ERROR* Invalid / Unimplemented DMA HEADER command. 0x44357b40 'uname

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:21:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:19 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:27:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 10:59:22AM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: This showed up for the first time today

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 09:24:57PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 20:56 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:21:54PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 18:19 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 05:27:32PM -0400, Kevin Mark

Re: What is this kernel error?

2007-03-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 11:23:15PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-25 at 23:12 -0400, Kevin Mark wrote: On Sun, Mar 25, 2007 at 08:56:21PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: snip My machine (desktop) was last booted 7 days ago. I rebooted because of the new kernel. That's why I

kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
. Is this a known problem with this kernel? -- And if you give us any more trouble, I shall visit you in the small hours and put a bat up your nightdress. -- Basil Fawlty Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot [SOLVED]

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
=) nad puts there /dev/hd... Hope this helps Regards, Vasil On 3/18/07, Rick Pasotto [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I upgraded my system today (etch) and when I rebooted this new kernel complained about running out of compressed data and that I needed to specify a correct root= parameter

Re: kernel 2.6.18-4-k7 won't boot [SOLVED]

2007-03-18 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sun, Mar 18, 2007 at 09:04:11PM -0400, Greg Folkert wrote: On Sun, 2007-03-18 at 13:11 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: /boot was full! (too many previous kernels still lying around). Evidently apt-get only wrote *part* of the initrd file because the file system filled up but I saw

Re: What do I use to reconfigure the network /after/ initial install on Etch?

2007-03-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Mar 15, 2007, at 10:59 AM, Mark Grieveson wrote: None that I am aware of. You have to do it by hand. Interesting trend. I suppose eventually we'll see the elimination of alsaconf, printconf, installation scripts for the OS, etc. We'll have to do it by hand. Perhaps, in the

Re: Bug#389881: RC-ness of this bug

2007-03-15 Thread Rick Thomas
is currently *assumed* to be present and making them all use the new file. A library is probably needed that does the deciding of which format to use. Are there POSIX/LSB/etc ramifications? just a thought, Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble

Re: NTPDate Broken? (SOLVED)

2007-03-11 Thread Rick Thomas
/ntpdate files, and mention all three as trusted in your firewall DMZ. That should prevent this from happening to you again. If one of the servers goes down for a while, the other two will still be there. Rick PS: Of course, this same thing works for other countries as well. For example

Re: tzdata package for Sarge - Daylight Savings Change

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
Sun Nov 4 06:00:00 2007 UTC = Sun Nov 4 01:00:00 2007 EST isdst=0 gmtoff=-18000 $ Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Lock down user account in Debian/Gnome

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
access to the local network, what I'd like to know is can anyone recommend a resource to me on locking down public access Debian-based Linux computers? It would seem to me that your best bet would be to spend $50 for a firewall. I'm told Linksys makes one that can run Debian Linux. Rick

Re: DST and woody

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
, You can simply copy the contents of the /usr/share/zoneinfo directory from an up-to-date Sarge or Etch machine to your Woody machine. Then do the same for /etc/localtime. Don't forget to do a backup of your Woody machine before you try it! Enjoy! Rick PS: Remind the boss that Woody isn't

Re: bootlog starting late

2007-03-07 Thread Rick Thomas
changing S05bootlogd to (say) S02boologd ? What happened when you did? Does anybody know enough about the early boot process to say definitively what would break if this were done? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Installing vim 7.0

2007-03-06 Thread Rick Thomas
: Which kernel are you running on that box? It's trying to delete the 2.4 kernel. This is OK if you're actually running the 2.6 kernel. Sarge can use either. Still, your best bet may be to check backports as mentioned in another message in this thread. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Bug#411637: dpkg-reconfigure enscript should allow to set papersize

2007-02-20 Thread Rick Thomas
Package: enscript Version: 1.6.4-11 Severity: wishlist Tags: l10n enscript currently defaults to A4 size paper regardless of locale. It would be nice if there were a way (possibly via dpkg-reconfigure) to set it to whatever the local standard is (Letter in the US, for example). This is

Re: executing ntpdate on boot - seems it doesn't work

2007-02-17 Thread Rick Thomas
where it's got a serious application is on machines with intermittent network connections. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: backup/restore

2007-02-15 Thread Rick Thomas
-installing and reconfiguring again. Don't know about that. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Release of Stable Etch

2007-02-14 Thread Rick Thomas
On Feb 14, 2007, at 1:40 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: had to research the second one. Didn't know it was out there, Hi Andrew, Where did you go to research the package names? If it were better known, there might be more useful bug reports... Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Rick Reynolds
getting a laptop without paying for Windows when you order from EmperorLinux (unless things have changed). But on the plus side I was able to make my paid-for Window$ license work for me in a VMWare virtual machine that I can fire up on this laptop if I really need to. Thanks, Rick Reynolds

Re: Laptop Recommendations?

2007-02-01 Thread Rick Reynolds
Curt Howland wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Thursday 01 February 2007 13:52, Rick Reynolds [EMAIL PROTECTED] was heard to say: It's probably worth getting a larger hard drive and keeping a Dell-supported OS on there as a dual boot option just so you can verify

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-28 Thread Rick Thomas
it's starting transient thing (fairly recently added) and thus get the parameters right if it can talk to the Internet servers. And it does no (serious) harm if you're disconnected from the Internet when the cron runs. Worth a try! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-27 Thread Rick Thomas
and jump the clock to the correct time every time a network interface is brought up. You should probably not run ntp at the same time -- in this mode, the two will fight about who controls the system clock. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: NTP dynamic servers?

2007-01-23 Thread Rick Thomas
that this advice gets posted to a wiki and used by lots of folks. So, some assembly required is the price of life in the real world. Hope this helps! Rick

Re: kdm changing fonts?

2007-01-22 Thread Rick Thomas
inch across. Looked at another way, the actual dots are bigger than the software thinks they are, so the characters appear larger. By claiming to have more dpi than you do, you will make your displayed characters on the screen appear unnaturally large. Does that help? Rick

Re: chroot question

2007-01-21 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 20, 2007, at 5:55 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: can you symlink from inside to outside the chroot? Fraid not. The kernel evaluates the symlink's destination in the environment it came from. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: chroot question

2007-01-20 Thread Rick Thomas
have to have two pipes (I think.) I haven't tried it myself, but it should work. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ifconfig reports weird IP addr

2007-01-15 Thread Rick Reynolds
with the udev renaming. So what's going on here? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a merrier world. -- Thorin Oakenshield -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: The Lost Sheep and Networking

2007-01-15 Thread Rick Reynolds
you can run it under Debian if you'd like. Respond back to the list (or me personally) if you'd like the source code. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Text on printed pages truncated

2007-01-09 Thread Rick Reynolds
issue, it's just the Linux machines that have this goofy offset problem. I wish I could tell you I've found a solution... :( Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Machines should work. People should think. -- Richard Hamming -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: no background screen activity in GDE or KDE @debian

2007-01-06 Thread Rick Thomas
* interesting to know if the workaround helps! Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Etch becoming slower than Sarge?

2007-01-04 Thread Rick Thomas
for a RAM upgrade. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

etch laptop system logs me out during inactivity (X crash?)

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Reynolds
etch system is pretty current, and 'X -version' reports version 7.1.1. I'm also running kernel 2.6.17. Anyone else seeing this? Anyone found the problem? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- He who breaks a thing to find out what it is, has left the path of wisdom. -- Gandalf -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: Re:

2006-12-30 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 30, 2006, at 8:11 PM, Paul Mackerras wrote: Rick Thomas writes: However, after rebooting following the install, and logging in to gnome, it seems to be repeatedly trying to start/re-start something having to do with the appearance of the desktop. Things are very slow (as if a process

Re: Can't startx after xorg update

2006-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
, but not where they are located. I bet you had a symlink there from the xf86 upgrade that was finally removed. either link it back or change xorg.conf to look in the right spot. Is this a generic bug in the sarge - etch upgrade process? Has anybody else seen it? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email

Re: Problems with GNOME on Beige G3

2006-12-29 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 29, 2006, at 1:47 PM, Yavor Doganov wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: The computer in question is an OldWorld PowerMac Apple Macintosh, Beige G3 tower. This problem only happens on this machine. It does not occur on my G4 test box. I have a Beige G3 Gossamer, not a tower, but it's

[no subject]

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
again. Anybody got a clue? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

What's the difference between a display manager and a window manager?

2006-12-28 Thread Rick Thomas
some examples of each and explain their features/advantages/disadvantages? And how does any of this differ from plain old X11? Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Modified Config Files

2006-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
made to a system. I wouldn't mind if it took some time to run. It just needs to be accurate and complete. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Old Laptop - Did a Net Install But Afterwards No NIC

2006-12-17 Thread Rick Thomas
), and it will allow you to activate the NIC. If so, file a bug report against package network-manager. If not, I don't know what's wrong. Rick On Dec 11, 2006, at 4:56 AM, Scarletdown wrote: I just attempted an install of etch on an old Toshiba Satellite 425CDT. I used a set of install floppies because

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-06 Thread Rick Thomas
of its synchronization procedure. If you get this message all the time then you should send an email to the maintainer of the MIT mirror to make him/her aware of the problem. Thanks Florian! This helps. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-05 Thread Rick Thomas
On Dec 2, 2006, at 6:12 PM, Rick Thomas wrote: Does anybody know why I'm getting this message when I do aptitude update W: GPG error: http://mirrors.usc.edu etch Release: The following signatures were invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006) [EMAIL

Re: signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-03 Thread Rick Thomas
for that. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ On Dec 2, 2006, at 8:04 PM, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Have you tried installing: http://packages.debian.org/unstable/misc/debian-archive-keyring HTH -M On 12/2/06, Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Does anybody know why I'm getting this message when I do

signature invalid: BADSIG 010908312D230C5F Debian Archive Automatic Signing Key (2006)

2006-12-02 Thread Rick Thomas
the same message, but from debian.lcs.mit.edu, instead of mirrors.usc.edu. Both sites are in my sources.list file. Thanks! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Try again: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-27 Thread Rick Thomas
Is anybody else having similar problems? Is anybody else *not* having these problems? On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:34, Rick Thomas wrote: For the last few days, I've had great difficulty downloading from cdimage.debian.org (mostly daily installer images for testing). Bandwidth is highly

Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-22 Thread Rick Thomas
on this side of the Atlantic that carries the daily and weekly installer builds? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Is cdimage.debian.org having trouble?

2006-11-22 Thread Rick Thomas
On Nov 23, 2006, at 2:01 AM, Amit Joshi wrote: On Thursday 23 November 2006 01:34, Rick Thomas wrote: For the last few days, I've had great difficulty downloading from cdimage.debian.org (mostly daily installer images for testing). Bandwidth is highly erratic and overall very slow. I'm

Re: vmware on debian etch

2006-11-17 Thread Rick Reynolds
Hmm... I've been using vmware workstation for over a year in testing (was sarge, then etch -- I think, not sure of the release dates). The standard installation scripts they provided have worked for me each time. Never played with server, though... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released in 1996

mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
, defending the rights of those whom we regard as fundamentally wrong. -- James Davison Hunter Carl Bowman 1994 _Before the Shooting Begins_ Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should reinstall 4.1 to fix

Re: mysql upgrade broke server

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 05:43:53PM -0500, Kevin Mark wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 04:39:23PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: I just tried to upgrade mysql-server which replaces 4.1 with 5.0. The upgrade aborts because there are supposedly MyISAM files and so I should reinstall 4.1 to fix them

Re: mysql upgrade broke server [solved!]

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Sat, Nov 11, 2006 at 12:25:39AM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 17:54:10 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 11:20:50PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 16:39:23 -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: If you still need a real 4.1 package

Re: mysql upgrade broke server [solved!]

2006-11-10 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 07:01:26PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: On Fri, Nov 10, 2006 at 06:57:28PM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: dpkg -i --force all mysql-common-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_all.deb dpkg -i --force all mysql-client-4.1_4.1.11a-4sarge7_i386.deb dpkg -i --force all mysql-server

Re: sony sucks

2006-11-06 Thread Rick Reynolds
to see them go. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Build a man a fire, and he'll be warm for a day. Set a man on fire, and he'll be warm for the rest of his life. -- Terry Pratchett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: painful accidental Xorg upgrade

2006-11-03 Thread Rick Reynolds
settings as xorg moves up in version number. The amount of things that are automatic now is much larger than when I was running XFree86. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- There are many shades of 12. -- Glenn Beck Jim McCloskey wrote: * Justin Piszcz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | did you add

Re: Odd dhcpcd behaviour

2006-11-01 Thread Rick Thomas
your interface is failing to come up, but next time it does, try this: ifdown eth0 sleep 5 ifup eth0 Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: System/Bios Time

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Thomas
-- particularly at system shutdown time. Ntpdate does not do that. Enjoy! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for ftp and http access

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Thomas
-netinst.iso.zsync 292 KB 10/25/06 3:53:00 AM Note the difference in dates of the .iso files... Something strange is happening. Is it a Halloween prank? Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Fwd: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for ftp and http access

2006-10-25 Thread Rick Thomas
Rick Thomas wrote: From: Rick Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: October 25, 2006 8:44:01 PM EDT To: Installer Debian debian-boot@lists.debian.org, debian- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: cdimage.debian.org presents different faces for ftp and http access Pointing my browser at http

hp-info no longer works

2006-10-21 Thread Rick Pasotto
: Inrecognized URI: usb://HP/Officejet%206200%20series?serial=CN51RDE0MB0453 How do I re-register my printer? It prints fine (via CUPS). -- Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self. -- Cyril Connolly Rick Pasotto[EMAIL

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-17 Thread Rick Thomas
'yes' to the question regarding bitmap fonts. That worked. Great! Thanks a lot! S.H. Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a crafted bitmap available. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: NTP weirdness

2006-10-17 Thread Rick Thomas
control options. Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: In search of Helvetica

2006-10-17 Thread Rick Thomas
On Oct 17, 2006, at 1:37 PM, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: Rick Thomas wrote: Note that bitmap fonts are disabled for a reason. They will look *seriously ugly* at point sizes for which they do not have a crafted bitmap available. I use them as menu font, editor font and such, they look perfect

xine and subtitles

2006-10-05 Thread Rick Pasotto
by a little sophistry on the words 'general welfare', [they claim] a right to do not only the acts to effect that which are specifically enumerated and permitted, but whatsoever they shall think or pretend will be for the general welfare. -- Thomas Jefferson Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Thank you for your email.

2006-09-30 Thread rick
Thank you for your email. Rick Vidallon VISIONEFX website: http://www.visionefx.net email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] mobile: 757.619.6456 office: 757.963.1787 instant messenger: msn: [EMAIL PROTECTED] aol: rickvida

Re: NTP Daemon

2006-09-29 Thread Rick Thomas
with intermittent internet connectivity. If you want to know more about the details, and there are *lots* of fascinating details, add the ntp-doc package. Enjoy! Rick [*] the ntpdate program (and the -g option to etch's ntpd daemon) does a one-time adjustment of the system clock, usually

Re: Spam and spam filtering, a problem new to me

2006-09-25 Thread Rick Friedman
up below the penny-stock gif? Rick -- Rick's Law: What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. PGP Key Id: 9E1125E0 signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part

Re: Debian Love

2006-09-23 Thread rick . thomas
* distribution that lets me do what I need to do with minimal fuss and bother. Best wishes to all the Debian developers, past, present, and future! Rick -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Starting up network interfaces conditionally

2006-09-11 Thread Rick Reynolds
something similar. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening at once. -- Woody Allen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

can .zsync files be added to weekly DVD image directories?

2006-09-03 Thread Rick Thomas
image directories? Thanks! Rick (*) The main thing that makes it easier is that you don't have to mount the previous CD/DVD images to use zsync, the way you do with jigdo. So the whole process can be done without resorting to root. As a side note, I find the zsync documentation easier

Re: Diskless Debian

2006-08-30 Thread Rick Reynolds
Casey Tucker wrote: Rick Reynolds wrote: I'm doing nearly the same thing: WRT54GS router, but I'm running the DD-WRT distro on it. It has the ability to do what you're talking about, namely mount an NFS partition at boot time and then read firewalling rules from a file

Re: MP3 resampling

2006-08-27 Thread Rick Reynolds
this via mp3info -- use it to query the tags on the original mp3, then assign them to the new one. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Released in 1996, Microsoft Visual Basic 6.0 cemented the product as the first choice of buggy front-ends to databases everywhere. In fact, if you wanted a buggy front-end

Re: How to Totally!! nuke X11?

2006-08-24 Thread Rick Reynolds
That's your problem. aptitude sucks. Interesting claim. I thought I was finally getting into Debian Power User mode when I switched from apt-get to aptitude. What are the weaknesses of aptitude that make you say the above? Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I had a dream that I was eating my

python MySQLdb no longer works

2006-08-22 Thread Rick Pasotto
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Re: mini-DV with sd-card

2006-08-17 Thread Rick Reynolds
in getting the video off it via firewire and being able to process it in kino. I'm using Debian Testing, but I see you've verified that all the pieces are available in Sarge. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- Hey, this is the government. You just can't expect five 9s -- Chief Justice, on the Gore/Bush

Re: thinkpad value for money?

2006-08-08 Thread Rick Reynolds
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Re: Diskless Debian

2006-08-06 Thread Rick Reynolds
on the NFS partition. I found a HOWTO on a blog out there showing me how to set this up, but then I figured out a slightly better way to do it. But it's certainly possible with DD-WRT without having to reinvent that wheel... Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same

Re: Where did the ethereal binary go?

2006-08-03 Thread Rick Friedman
was recently changed to wireshark. The ethereal package is now just a transitional package so ethereal users get wireshark on upgrades. You should find that the wireshark package is installed on your system. The binary is now, wireshark. Rick -- Rick's Law - What cannot be imagined will be accomplished

Re: Will VNC run on a laptop with 32MB? What to do with OLD laptop?

2006-07-31 Thread Rick Reynolds
still working out a few kinks (like getting the mouse pointer either to disappear or move off the screen automatically), but my first set of results look very promising. Thanks, Rick Reynolds -- I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason

Re: command question

2006-07-27 Thread Rick Pasotto
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Re: If you are running XFS and a 2.6.17(.x) kernel...

2006-07-25 Thread Rick Friedman
. According to the summary of changes for the new release, the XFS corruption fix is in the new kernel. So, hopefully, we'll be seeing a new Debian package any day now. Rick -- Rick's Law - What cannot be imagined will be accomplished by a fool. signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: resizing /var

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 08:03:26AM +0200, Gilles Mocellin wrote: Le mardi 18 juillet 2006 04:46, Rick Pasotto a écrit : I have /var as a logical volume and have expanded it. Now I need to run resize2fs to actually use the extra space. In order to run resize2fs /var needs to be unmounted

Re: Read/Write files from a script

2006-07-19 Thread Rick Pasotto
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resizing /var

2006-07-17 Thread Rick Pasotto
this? Should I temporarily add a script to one of the /etc/rc?.d directories and then reboot? -- The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home. -- James Madison Rick Pasotto[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.niof.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE

Re: how to check whether a package has been installed

2006-06-26 Thread Rick Macdonald
Martin Paraskevov wrote: rpm lets you check whether a packege has been installed. is this possible to do with apt-get or some other tool as well? Here are a couple, not to mention the various GUIs: rickmlinux:~# dpkg --get-selections|grep apt apt

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