> Came over to Debian about a year ago from another Linux distro and have
> been very pleased - even sent in a donation. Yet, at that time,
> gnowesword crashed on Etch ... I sent in a bug report. Decided to try
> gnowesword again today, have many times since the first problem, and it
> *finally* works !
>
>
> Thank you to those responsible for fixing it,

> simple problem, but many complications:
> first: I use Debian Etch stable and i want to use a USB stick, Normally no
> problem. But this device is problematic. The vendor doesn't seem to use
> the regular USB protocol. This means:
>
> a) In Linux the file system is not recognized.

>> in konsole:
>> fdisk /dev/sda
>> and later use mkfs.(filesystem you chosse) /dev/sda(partition nº)

> graphic programs:
> qtparted
> or
> gparted

> after the recent update of xserver-xorg-core to version
> 2:1.4.1~git20080517-2~lenny1 I got a black screen if I try to start or
> configure one of the GL screensavers, regardless if from the KDE
> configuration panel or the ScreenSaver Preferences.

> THE QUESTION IS: Because I often have to migrate data between Linux and
> Windows I need a convenient program which does the job for me. apt-cache
> search 'format' doesn't help.
> Anyone some help for a lazy guy? Thanks in advance

> Hello,
>
> simple problem, but many complications:
> first: I use Debian Etch stable and i want to use a USB stick, Normally no
> problem. But this device is problematic. The vendor doesn't seem to...

> On Etch, with exim4 and mailx, I want to allow popularity contest to
> send it's report but haven't been successful configuring exim4 to send
> it to my ISP's pop3 server.

> ... this just in from my ISP ! :
>
> 1. No, we are unable to support smarthost protocol. We use the standard
> pop3 for incoming and SMTP for outgoing.
>
> 2. There are 3 email server ip's. The one you have is for our webmail or
> portal access. The incoming mail server is 69.145.248.1. The outgoing
> mail server is 69.145.248.57.

> On Etch, with exim4 and mailx, I want to allow popularity contest to
> send it's report but haven't been successful configuring exim4 to send
> it to my ISP's pop3 server. All other attempts produce more problems and
> no success (Malformed URL, loss of local mail ability although it is
> chosen). The message never leaves the computer. Have 9 "Message is
> frozen" items in queue.
>
> So, I *completely* removed the default installed software via Synaptic
> and re-installed it for a fresh start. Now, I'm back to local mail, and
> of course, no remote mailing ("Mailing to remote domains not supported").
>
> This is where I am after reading several posts on the Debian Forum
> (http://forums.debian.net/viewtopic.php?t=24329&highlight=exim4),
> Googling and RTFM (which has 1146 lines and
> file:///usr/share/doc/exim4-base/README.Debian.html#id2478689) as it
> pertains to dpkg-reconfigure exim4-config (2.1.1. The Debconf
> questions to 2.1.1.11.).
>
> Have seen that there are steps in the Forum, such as editing the ...