Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-08-03 Thread Russell L. Harris
"Jack Nguy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Another thing to keep in mind is the spinning of the harddrive. A > harddrive doesn't have inifite lifespan and laptop harddrives are not > designed for 24/7 spinning. > > Jack > > > On 7/12/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I have a year o

chroot doesn't work, among other things.

2006-08-03 Thread David R. Litwin
Hello vaunted list:I'm having some troubles with chroot. Giving chroot /mnt/hda3 after mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/hda3 tells me Floating Point Exception. apt-get is now busted after I tried to install ntp (I did manage to get ntpdate) and forcing in various ways (installing and uninstalling) is doing ex

Re: specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

2006-08-03 Thread Yuwen Dai
On 8/4/06, ra1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:14:21PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote:>>I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?>Best regards,You can specify that in /etc/mc/mc.ext Thanks.  I also find another way:  add my own .mailcap if mc uses run-m

Re: specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

2006-08-03 Thread ra1
On Fri, Aug 04, 2006 at 02:14:21PM +0800, Yuwen Dai wrote: > >I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this? >Best regards, You can specify that in /etc/mc/mc.ext -- ra1 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

specify the application to open files in Midnight Command?

2006-08-03 Thread Yuwen Dai
Dear all,I want xpdf instead of gpdf open pdf files in mc. How to do this?Best regards,Dai Yuwen

Re: installing "unstable"?

2006-08-03 Thread Joe Smith
"Ken Wahl" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 11:38:01AM -0700, K. Richard Pixley wrote: I don't see an "unstable" installer on the web site. Is the standard way to build an "unstable" system to build a "testing" system, point /etc/apt/sources.

Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system

2006-08-03 Thread John O'Hagan
On Friday 04 August 2006 11:03, Jacob S wrote: > On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 > > José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > José Alburquerque wrote: > > > My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors: > > > > > > Failed to fetch > > > http://http.us.debian.org/debi

Re: auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/3/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The first is a hack I use. Copy the package files from /var/lib/apt/list and the contents files from /var/cache/apt/ from the desktop to the laptop and place the deb files in the /var/cache/apt/archives directory on the laptop and apt-get should f

Re: cron and GMT time?

2006-08-03 Thread s. keeling
Jim Jarocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > anything obvious that i'm doing wrong or that i should check? or perhaps grep UTC /etc/default/rcS -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://www.spots.ab.ca/~keeling Linux Counter #80292

Re: Shutdown my Laptop? Why should I?

2006-08-03 Thread Jack Nguy
Another thing to keep in mind is the spinning of the harddrive. A harddrive doesn't have inifite lifespan and laptop harddrives are not designed for 24/7 spinning. Jack On 7/12/06, David R. Litwin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have a year old Toshiba Intel Mobil P4 laptop using Sid. I recently

Re: correction, location of grub/menu.lst

2006-08-03 Thread shell
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Suppose that a machine has Windows installed on hda and Debian on hdb. The menu.lst on a grub installation diskette is configured appropriately and copied to /dev/hdb/boot/grub/menu.lst, not to /dev/hda/boot/grub/menu.lst. "grub-install /dev/hda" is executed. Will

Re: location of grub/menu.lst

2006-08-03 Thread 王旭
2006/8/4, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Suppose that a machine has Windows installed on hda and Debian on hdb. The menu.lst on a grub installation diskette is configured appropriately and copied to /dev/hda/boot/grub/menu.lst. this is not a real path, how did you do it. "grub-install

Re: apt-get md5sum error on etch system

2006-08-03 Thread Jacob S
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, 31 Jul 2006 15:58:06 -0400 José Alburquerque <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > José Alburquerque wrote: > > > My problem is that when I run 'apt-get update' I get these errors: > > > > Failed to fetch > > http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/et

Re: Film scoring software

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/3/06, Niall Donegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Anyone know a MIDI/audio sequencer for Linux that can score video too? I can recommend lilypond for the scoring of the music. Rosegarden seems to be a midi sequencer with su

Re: Corrupt JFS inode table?

2006-08-03 Thread Mumia W.
On 08/03/2006 02:01 PM, Jeff Cleverley wrote: Greetings, We have a Dell 2850 running the 2.6.15-1 kernel and have created 2 JFS file systems from the non-boot internal drives. Both JFS file system disks come from the same raid group. The other day the system quit responding and we ended up

correction, location of grub/menu.lst

2006-08-03 Thread shark
Suppose that a machine has Windows installed on hda and Debian on hdb. The menu.lst on a grub installation diskette is configured appropriately and copied to /dev/hdb/boot/grub/menu.lst, not to /dev/hda/boot/grub/menu.lst. "grub-install /dev/hda" is executed. Will grub then know to use the me

Re: script languages

2006-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Christensen wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: >> My big problem with Perl is "Special Variables". They are a >> big fat maintainability and debugging trap. > > They're powerful tools, providing easy access to things "under > the hood"; use with dis

location of grub/menu.lst

2006-08-03 Thread shark
Suppose that a machine has Windows installed on hda and Debian on hdb. The menu.lst on a grub installation diskette is configured appropriately and copied to /dev/hda/boot/grub/menu.lst. "grub-install /dev/hda" is executed. Will grub then know to use the menu.lst on hdb? If so, how does grub

RE: script languages

2006-08-03 Thread David Christensen
Ron Johnson wrote: > My big problem with Perl is "Special Variables". They are a big fat > maintainability and debugging trap. They're powerful tools, providing easy access to things "under the hood"; use with discretion. Does Python have equivalents? David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EM

Re: Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
On Thursday 03 August 2006 13:53, Joey Hess wrote: > Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > > So, how do I instruct alien to convert these dependencies over? > > You can't. For starters, not one of the dependencies you listed from the > rpm is a package name; debs support only package name dependencies. For > a

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:40:01PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:36:35AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: No, I don't want to play back anything: I want to *generate* a beeping sound. The type depends upon the occasion. I missed the origina

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:36:35AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: No, I don't want to play back anything: I want to *generate* a beeping sound. The type depends upon the occasion. So you actually want to synthesize the beep? Is that right? If you really do want just a be

Re: Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joey Hess
Joshua J. Kugler wrote: > So, how do I instruct alien to convert these dependencies over? You can't. For starters, not one of the dependencies you listed from the rpm is a package name; debs support only package name dependencies. For another, there's no consistency of package names across distrib

Hotplug not loaded after basic installation

2006-08-03 Thread Ken Heard
I just finished a basic net installation of Debian 3.1r2 from a downloaded net installation CDROM, but I don't think the hotplug module loaded. Here is the relevant part of dmesg: cpci_hotplug: CompactPCI Hot Plug Core version: 0.2 pci_hotplug: PCI Hot Plug PCI Core version: 0.

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Thompson
On Fri, 04 Aug 2006 00:11:32 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks, I'll try it all and let you know how it works out. The > problem is that the partial burns are now useless except for scratch. Are you using DVD-RW disks? I did have a problem with daromizer the first time I used

Keeping dependencies when running alien

2006-08-03 Thread Joshua J. Kugler
I'm trying to use alien to convert a vendor's RPM to .deb. Mainly so I can install it cleanly, but also to help them out. The REQUIRENAME from the RPM has this (x is the app...X'ed out due to the fact that this is a beta test, and I'm not sure how much news they want in public): /bin/

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
On Thursday 03 August 2006 23:37, Bill Thompson wrote: > On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 > > David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: > > > All I could get out of darmonizer was "waiting for the > > volume>" and then it just stops. > > > > I

Re: apt-get fails through broken proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Chris Howie
Ottavio Caruso wrote: > I just wonder if anyone has a possible workaround on > my end, before giving up. Maybe you can tunnel out with ssh? -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.1 GCS/IT d-(--) s:- a-->? C++(+++)$> UL P$ L+++> E--- W++ N

CONFIG_SUSPEND2_USERSPACE_UI not found Kernel 2.6.17 configuration settings (Path 2.6.18-rc3).

2006-08-03 Thread Alex Yakushev
I am trying to install Hibernate (suspend2). I did path 2.6.18-rc3 for kernel 2.6.17, but I can not find CONFIG_SUSPEND2_USERSPACE_UI in my .config file. That is problem? Kernel should be set with parameters CONFIG_SUSPEND2=y CONFIG_SUSPEND2_FILEWRITER=y CONFIG_SUSPEND2_SWAPWRITER=y CONFIG_SUSPEND

Re: Have DVD burner, will backup!

2006-08-03 Thread Bill Thompson
On Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:14:15 +0300 David Baron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tuesday 20 June 2006 02:19, David E. Fox wrote: > > > > All I could get out of darmonizer was "waiting for the > volume>" and then it just stops. > > I got daromizer to produce and burn one (smaller) slice. Could not

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: garbage (represented as [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ etc.) I suppose you mean "non-graphic ASCII". Those are NUL characters, which the ASCII *definition* states can be inserted or removed from *any* stream without chan

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
Hm ah nice. avg-cpu: %user %nice %system %iowait %steal %idle 0.000.005.05 94.950.000.00 Device:rrqm/s wrqm/s r/s w/srkB/swkB/s avgrq-sz avgqu-sz await svctm %util sda277.78 0.00 100.00 1.01 23660.61 4.04 468.56 0.68 6.7

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 03.08.2006 at 15:30 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > I've only ran the benchmarks on a single controller. Run a test for me, > read a lot of data on the drive and show us iostat -x -k 1 and see if it > reads from both drives at the same time. http://www.sungate.co.uk/tmp/iostat.log -

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > f

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
I've only ran the benchmarks on a single controller. Run a test for me, read a lot of data on the drive and show us iostat -x -k 1 and see if it reads from both drives at the same time. On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Dave Ewart wrote: On Thursday, 03.08.2006 at 07:30 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: I hav

Re: apt-get fails through broken proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006 11:24:35 -0700 (PDT) Ottavio Caruso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I run a Debian derivative on a portable memory stick > and I have to connect through an ISA proxy server > (both http and ftp). > > The proxy is broken and misconfigured so it won't > download any .gz files, hence

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Hello, Niall Donegan wrote: > Create a file in /etc/apt called apt.conf and put the following line in: > Acquire::http::Proxy "http://localhost:3128"; I tried doing so before, but I must have forgotten to restart aptitude that time. And after restart it work well. Thanks a lot! Ryan Nowakowski w

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Mike McCarty wrote: garbage (represented as [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ etc.) I suppose you mean "non-graphic ASCII". Those are NUL characters, which the ASCII *definition* states can be inserted or removed from *any* stream without changing its meaning. This means t

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:40:01PM +0200, CJ van den Berg wrote: > On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:36:35AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > No, I don't want to play back anything: I want to *generate* a beeping > > sound. The type depends upon the occasion. I missed the original message, but how abou

Corrupt JFS inode table?

2006-08-03 Thread Jeff Cleverley
Greetings, We have a Dell 2850 running the 2.6.15-1 kernel and have created 2 JFS file systems from the non-boot internal drives. Both JFS file system disks come from the same raid group. The other day the system quit responding and we ended up having to power cycle the box. When it booted

Re: Film scoring software

2006-08-03 Thread Niall Donegan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Anyone know a MIDI/audio sequencer for Linux that can score video too? I can recommend lilypond for the scoring of the music. Rosegarden seems to be a midi sequencer with support for lilypond, however I haven't used it. Both pr

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Thanks to all and thanks for replying so fast. I must have somehow overlooked grep's -a option. Shame on me. But I also knew that there *must* be command to just remove the 'garbage'; I just didn't know how to find out that 'strings' does it. Good that one can always ask debian-user! Johanne

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Owen Heisler
On 8/3/06, Dave Ewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thursday, 03.08.2006 at 07:30 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > From my benchmarking on my RAID1 (dual raptor RAID1) it appears it > reads from one drive or the other. It all depends on which disk controllers you're using and their throughput. I h

Re: woody i386 isos

2006-08-03 Thread LeVA
2006. August 3. 19:50, Egon Kocjan: > Hi > > Does anyone know where I can get original woody i386 isos? First CD > would be ok. > > Thanx, > egon You can get older (and *obsolete*) releases from here: ftp://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/images/ Daniel -- LeVA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

apt-get fails through broken proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Ottavio Caruso
I run a Debian derivative on a portable memory stick and I have to connect through an ISA proxy server (both http and ftp). The proxy is broken and misconfigured so it won't download any .gz files, hence I can't apt-get. I have reported the case and the possible solution to system administrator, w

Re: Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Ryan Nowakowski
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 07:03:08PM +0300, Andrew Pogrebennyk wrote: > Hello, > > I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I > have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and > http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to > fetch

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:36:35AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > No, I don't want to play back anything: I want to *generate* a beeping > sound. The type depends upon the occasion. So you actually want to synthesize the beep? Is that right? If you really do want just a beep you could synthesiz

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Dave Ewart
On Thursday, 03.08.2006 at 07:30 -0400, Justin Piszcz wrote: > >I have 2 disks in RAID 1 and I expected reading will be approx. 2x > >faster then a single disk reading because there can be used the same > >technique as on RAID 0. I tested it with bonnie++. Can linux SW RAID > >1 read "in stripes"

woody i386 isos

2006-08-03 Thread Egon Kocjan
Hi Does anyone know where I can get original woody i386 isos? First CD would be ok. Thanx, egon -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: I have a silly Window$ application that is supposed to export ascii data. In fact the file is 99% percent ascii (after dos2unix), but contains a line starting with "Comment: " that contains non-ascii garbage (represented as [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL P

Re: Erro GPG, unknow error

2006-08-03 Thread rafael ferraz
yesterday comes to work fine again, thanksRafael FerrazMathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escreveu: Hello Rafael.rafael ferraz schrieb:> I give the apt-get update returns that error> W: GPG error: http://ftp.de.debian.org unstable Release: Erro> desconhecido executando gpgv> > (is in portuguese a

Configuring APT to use localhost port as a proxy

2006-08-03 Thread Andrew Pogrebennyk
Hello, I have a ssh tunnel which connects localhost:3128 to remote proxy. I have tried setting environment variables to localhost:3128 (and http://localhost:3128) and modifying apt.conf as well, but apt tries to fetch files from 3128:80 :/ What would you suggest? Please add cc to the address I'm

Re: Do I need to upgrade my kernel (kernel-image-2.4-k6)?

2006-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
First read http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/index.php?page=netiquette#offlist > Now `apt-cache policy kernel-image-2.4.27-3-k6' shows that > 2.4.27-10sarge3is installed and `apt-cache policy > kernel-image-2.4.27-2-k6' shows that 2.4.27-10sarge1 is > installed. Can you post full output of these co

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Jim Holland
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I have a silly Window$ application that is supposed to export ascii > data. In fact the file is 99% percent ascii (after dos2unix), but > contains a line starting with "Comment: " that contains non-ascii > garbage (represented as [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
CJ van den Berg wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:31:26AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: I want to generate beeping sounds in a program. I now use Nas, but it is a PITA because it either hangs with 2 soundcards installed or it fails w/o saying why. Has anybody got another program that does th

Re: remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Matej Cepl
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > I tried > $ grep -v Comment > but that just returns > Binary file darkaa2.dat matches Would grep -a -v Comment help? grep(1) is your friend. :-) Matěj -- GPG Finger: 89EF 4BC6 288A BF43 1BAB 25C3 E09F EF25 D964 84AC http://www.ceplovi.cz/matej/blog/, Jabber: [EMA

Re: Net-install CD: What it does to existing partitions and installations

2006-08-03 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:32:01AM +0900, Ian Astley wrote: > I currently run a Linux machine under Fedora Core 5. I am interested in > having a look at Debian too and downloaded and burnt the Net-install CD > from the main site, with a view to compiling a Debian kernel which I > would then have

Re: Xine affects Emacs

2006-08-03 Thread Romain Francoise
Markus Petermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I tried xev in diverse combinations with xine and emacs, but I have > never been able to catch the event. In my case Emacs shows which key is the culprit in the echo area instead of just beeping (I use Emacs 22 from the emacs-snapshot package). But

Re: Mobile phone management utility

2006-08-03 Thread Jabka Atu
i forgot to add this to my last responce : here is another cool prog for kde . kmobiletools. it allow you to call send sms and buckup phonebook and sms. the problem with it that it dosn't support iso 8859-8 . Digby Tarvin wrote: On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:32:50PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: de

Re: Internet connection disappeared after debian-install on laptop

2006-08-03 Thread Thierry Chatelet
Kent West wrote: Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: I'm installing Debian Etch (with netinstall-cdimage) on a laptop. During installation, it configured the DHCP-internet-connection automaticly, downloaded all 708 packages and installed them perfectly. Which means your NIC works with Debian. That'

Re: CUPS dependencies

2006-08-03 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 10:13:16AM +0200, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Just guessing: > Did you check the print queue? On our cups installation sometimes people > print to printers that are currently switched off. Those jobs have to be > manually deleted from the print queue, before the printer

How do you get vim-latexsuite to work?

2006-08-03 Thread Joseph Smidt
I installed Debian's vim-latexsuite package. It seemed to install fine, but when I open a .tex document none of the commands seem to work. For example, when I push F5, I don't get a menu of options to choose like equartion , etc.. Or when I type :TTemplate it doesn't give me template options. An

remove/replace non-ascii characters from file

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
I have a silly Window$ application that is supposed to export ascii data. In fact the file is 99% percent ascii (after dos2unix), but contains a line starting with "Comment: " that contains non-ascii garbage (represented as [EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@[EMAIL PROTECTED]@ etc.) I tried $

Re: driver for lexmark x3300 series

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
On Wednesday 02 August 2006 15:36, Jabka Atu wrote: > David Baron wrote: > > On Wednesday 02 August 2006 11:51, Roger Leigh wrote: > >> Jabka Atu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >>> i own lexmark x3330 printer and cups reconze it as lexmark series > >>> x3300 but i can't find any driver wich will mak

Re: synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread CJ van den Berg
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:31:26AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > I want to generate beeping sounds in a program. > > I now use Nas, but it is a PITA because it either hangs with 2 > soundcards installed or it fails w/o saying why. > > Has anybody got another program that does this? I'm not su

Re: auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Wackojacko
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: On 8/3/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the problem is that apt on the laptop doesn't know about the new packages because you dont have an up to date package list on you laptop. I know of two ways around this. The first is a hack I use. Copy the packag

Re: script languages

2006-08-03 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Christensen wrote: > Marcelo wrote: >> I wonder what scrip language is better: Perl or Phyton? > > I've been using Perl for 7+ years and have found it to be very > useful. > > > The key concept is Perl's slogan -- "There's more than one way to

Exim 4 on Sid, error message

2006-08-03 Thread David Baron
Since the upgrade, I get this in my system emals: exim paniclog /var/log/exim4/paniclog on d_baron has non-zero size, mail system might be broken A check of the paniclog in question shows items of form: 2006-08-03 15:15:17 1G8bRy-0001hg-ES User 0 set for address_file transport is on the fixed

synthetic sound generator with api

2006-08-03 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, I want to generate beeping sounds in a program. I now use Nas, but it is a PITA because it either hangs with 2 soundcards installed or it fails w/o saying why. Has anybody got another program that does this? Thanks! H -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Mobile phone management utility

2006-08-03 Thread Digby Tarvin
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 04:32:50PM +0300, Jabka Atu wrote: > deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ testing main > contrib non-free > deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable main > contrib non-free > > Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > > >

Re: auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/3/06, Wackojacko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the problem is that apt on the laptop doesn't know about the new packages because you dont have an up to date package list on you laptop. I know of two ways around this. The first is a hack I use. Copy the package files from /var/lib/a

Re: Mobile phone management utility

2006-08-03 Thread Jabka Atu
deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ testing main contrib non-free deb http://mirror.hamakor.org.il/pub/mirrors/debian/ unstable main contrib non-free Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina wrote: I installed `gumma' and tried it with a Nokia, but even this one didn't work:

Re: Mobile phone management utility

2006-08-03 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I installed `gumma' and tried it with a Nokia, >> but even this one didn't work: >> >> $ gammu --getmemory DC 1 >> Warning: No configuration file found! >> Unknown connection type string. Check config file. >> >> >> >> $ gnokii --getphonebook SM 1 >> GNOKII Version 0.

Re: auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Wackojacko
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: Hi. I'm still working on this un-networked laptop. It's looking pretty good, now I'm ready to put the audio apps on it that I use. I made a list from Synaptic of the packages I have on the desktop, and now I'm hoping to download all the packages and put them on my flash dr

Re: auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 03, 2006 at 08:10:48 -0400, Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > Hi. I'm still working on this un-networked laptop. It's looking > pretty good, now I'm ready to put the audio apps on it that I use. > I made a list from Synaptic of the packages I have on the desktop, and > now I'm hoping to downloa

Re: Internet connection disappeared after debian-install on laptop

2006-08-03 Thread Kent West
Vegard L. Rekaa wrote: > I'm installing Debian Etch (with netinstall-cdimage) on a laptop. > During installation, it configured the DHCP-internet-connection > automaticly, downloaded all 708 packages and installed them perfectly. Which means your NIC works with Debian. That's good. > But, when I

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Santanu Chatterjee wrote: kaffeine does the job for me. It is a *media player* and also has the capability to save what you are seeing and hearing. It saves audio from the TV signal directly, not via the sound card, though. I didn't get your point in having to go via the line in of the sound card

auto-download deb files that are already installed

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Hi. I'm still working on this un-networked laptop. It's looking pretty good, now I'm ready to put the audio apps on it that I use. I made a list from Synaptic of the packages I have on the desktop, and now I'm hoping to download all the packages and put them on my flash drive. If I put "apt-get

Re: Please suggest a video capture software

2006-08-03 Thread Santanu Chatterjee
On 7/29/06, Santanu Chatterjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/22/06, Bruno Buys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > . > All the pieces are there, already: v4l2 supplies the video > stream, codecs are thriving over the internet, the author would only > have to redirect the stream to both X and a fi

Internet connection disappeared after debian-install on laptop

2006-08-03 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
Hi list, I'm installing Debian Etch (with netinstall-cdimage) on a laptop. During installation, it configured the DHCP-internet-connection automaticly, downloaded all 708 packages and installed them perfectly. But, when I reboot the system after intall, the internet connection is gone. I checked w

Re: OT: script languages

2006-08-03 Thread Gregory Seidman
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 07:09:30PM -0700, charles norwood wrote: } On Wed, 2006-08-02 at 08:14 -0400, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: } > On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 08:37:13AM -0300, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: } > > Hello, } > > } > > I need to write several scripts for file manipulation, for example: } > >

Re: SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, David Siroky wrote: Hi! I have 2 disks in RAID 1 and I expected reading will be approx. 2x faster then a single disk reading because there can be used the same technique as on RAID 0. I tested it with bonnie++. Can linux SW RAID 1 read "in stripes" to boost the reading per

SW RAID read performance

2006-08-03 Thread David Siroky
Hi! I have 2 disks in RAID 1 and I expected reading will be approx. 2x faster then a single disk reading because there can be used the same technique as on RAID 0. I tested it with bonnie++. Can linux SW RAID 1 read "in stripes" to boost the reading performance? Thank you. David -- To UNSUBSC

Re: OT: script languages

2006-08-03 Thread Vegard L. Rekaa
I can only share one experience:  I made a program in Ruby once, wich had to do some similar acions as you described. (Some people claim this language will even conquer out java!?!) Easy to learn powerfuul enough for your/our our purposes. http://www.ruby-doc.org/docs/ProgrammingRuby/Good luck, no

Re: Where did the ethereal binary go?

2006-08-03 Thread Rick Friedman
Bill Moseley wrote: > $ apt-cache policy ethereal > ethereal: > Installed: 0.99.2-4 > Candidate: 0.99.2-4 > Version table: > *** 0.99.2-4 0 > 500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > > > http://packages.debian.org/cgi-bin/search_cont

Re: no desktop environment

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
On 8/3/06, [KS] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The last time I installed, I used the minimal install CD for etch and got the terminal after it was done. To get the desktop environment I had to manually install it. Install gnome and gdm with apt using: apt-get install gdm gnome gnome-desktop-environ

Re: Wrong CD? testing official snapshot i386 binary-2

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
Nevermind. I ran apt-cdrom add again and it straightened out. On 8/3/06, Chuckk Hubbard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: "Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-2 (20060731)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter" All the other

Re: Debian on i486

2006-08-03 Thread Mike McCarty
Leonid Grinberg wrote: Yes, I did mean floppy image. Sorry. If you could send me one, that would be great! Floppy image for a 1.44 MB PC style DSHD floppy along with instructions sent under separate cover. BTW, I always write protect the floppy before booting. This causes an error report, bec

Wrong CD? testing official snapshot i386 binary-2

2006-08-03 Thread Chuckk Hubbard
"Media change: please insert the disc labeled 'Debian GNU/Linux testing _Etch_ - Official Snapshot i386 Binary-2 (20060731)' in the drive '/cdrom/' and press enter" All the other CDs work fine, and I tried 2 different copies of this ISO. Anyone else have this? I will try redownloading, and if t

Re: CUPS dependencies

2006-08-03 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Carl Fink wrote: Again, I can print to the 1012 fine, except that CUPS sometimes dies and refuses to restart, and I have to purge and reinstall it. USB printer support is there and works and it's fine. Just guessing: Did you check the print queue? On our cups installation sometimes people pri

Re: Where did the ethereal binary go?

2006-08-03 Thread Magnus Therning
On Wed, Aug 02, 2006 at 21:49:04 -0600, Nate Duehr wrote: > >Bill Moseley wrote: >>$ apt-cache policy ethereal >>ethereal: >> Installed: 0.99.2-4 >> Candidate: 0.99.2-4 >> Version table: >> *** 0.99.2-4 0 >>500 http://http.us.debian.org unstable/main Packages >>100 /var/lib/dpkg/

Odp: udev, hal, pmount

2006-08-03 Thread Zbigniew Wiech
Hi, I just created directories "media/usb0" etc and pointed to them in fstab. Works fine. regards Zbigniew Jim McCloskey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 2006-08-02 21:14 Do debian-user@lists.debian.org DW Temat udev, hal, pmount Hello. I'm using the combination of hal, udev, and pmou

Re: no desktop environment

2006-08-03 Thread [KS]
Chuckk Hubbard wrote: > I installed Etch on my laptop, and have cds 1 2 and 3. During the > setup, it said to make sure xserver-xorg was loaded, and it is > installed. Debian boots to tty terminal, though. I type "startx" and > get a crosshatched desktop with a black terminal in the upper left >