Re: dialup modem connection

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 15:40, Mark Grieveson shared this with us all: >--} I decided to give up high speed internet, because it's a waste of money >--} and time. So, now I have dial-up. The last time I had dial-up was >--} when I used Corel Linux, and I had no problem setting that up. Now, >--}

Re: dialup modem connection

On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 01:40:30AM -0400, Mark Grieveson wrote: > I tried kppp, and did get it to connect, but only when run as root. I > read kppp's help, and it said a bunch of stuff about "noauth" and > "dip"; so, my regular user is a member of both dialout and dip, and > I uncommented "noauth"

dialup modem connection

I decided to give up high speed internet, because it's a waste of money and time. So, now I have dial-up. The last time I had dial-up was when I used Corel Linux, and I had no problem setting that up. Now, however, I can't seem to get wvdial, or its frontend, gnome-ppp, to work (aren't things su

try the 686 kernel

Try installing the 686 kernel (2.6.18-x-686) which has highmem built into it. Then full 2 GB should be recognised. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

is the -g option there

Internally i think it would be using gdb. Does your compilation (gcc or g++) option have -g to generate the debug information? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: start-stop-daemon: how to pass environment variables to the daemon

man start-stop-daemon: "Any arguments given after -- on the command line are passed unmodified to the program being started." I mean the environment variables that will be recognized by the invoked daemon. I have solved this by adding NAME=xxx pairs preceding start-stop-daemon: VAR1=xxx VAR

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

Mark Drago a écrit : On 7/15/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, any interested people in such a tool, maybe we can create a small workgroup ? Sebastien, I am absolutely interested in working on such a tool. I've already created a similar tool for an RPM-based distribution,

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:14:22AM +0200, Sebastien JUST wrote: Thanks for your answers. Andrew Sackville-West a écrit : again pushing is probably not good. But you could set up something to automate the pulling so that when you've tested updates on your testin

Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 04:00:53PM +0100, David Watson wrote: > Can you confirm that ntlmaps is running using the following command: > > ps aux | grep ntlmaps > > if it is not running try running this command it should let you know if > there is an error starting ntlmaps: > > python /usr/share/n

Re: How to configure access thru proxy

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 02:52:19PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > Several applications haven't proxy configuration ( i want to use skype). > I have to traverse a proxy, for example in firefox the possibility > exists, this is not the case for skype (maybe I am wrong) . > > I suppose it

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

On Jul 16, 2007, at 8:25 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: Two things here. Critical Mass rides (never been on one) are a form of protest and political action. I don't know if they are properly permitted by authorities or anything like that Just wondering how, exactly, we got to the point where one

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Its a problem and I don't deny it. There needs to be a > solution. dedicated bike lanes are probably the best. Unless you're a dedicated bicyclist in which case you'll really dislike dedicated bike lanes. AKA, the "refuse lane" since all of the nice debris from

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

William Pursell wrote: > If a cyclist is riding against the flow of traffic, Am I the only one who grew up where the law was cyclists were to ride against the flow of traffic? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: apache suddenly can't find *some* files

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 10:53:03PM -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:52:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > I'm running apache.1.3.34 and today on one of my websites it says that > > it can't find *some* of the graphics files requested. The ones it can't > > find are in

Re: apache suddenly can't find *some* files

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 03:52:26PM -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I'm running apache.1.3.34 and today on one of my websites it says that > it can't find *some* of the graphics files requested. The ones it can't > find are in the same directory and have the same permissions and the > same extentions a

Re: ssh issues

On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 17:07 -0400, Rob Bochan wrote: > I'm having some ssh issues issues on a fresh Etch install. I'm unable to ssh > into the machine at all. On the client end, with just having removed the > user's .ssh directory, what I'm seeing is as follows: > debug1: An invalid name was sup

Re: format grep ouput

On Jul 16, 5:00 pm, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The following works with filenames with spaces. It > displays the filename after the text match, though. > > find . -type f -name "*$1" -exec sh -c "grep --color -i $2 '{}' && \ > echo ' echo {}' && echo" \; > That wor

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

On Jul 16, 2007, at 3:25 PM, William Pursell wrote: If you make a right turn (assuming you live where they drive on the right hand side of the road) and take out a cyclist that you didn't see passing you on the right in a cycle lane, I hope you get a jail sentence. (Not you personally, but appa

Re: format grep ouput

andy baxter wrote: grep -R 'the' * | (of=""; while read f l ; do if [ "$f" != "$of" ] ; then echo ; fi; echo $f $l ; of=$f; done) will put a linebreak after every new filename, as long the none of the filenames have spaces in. This puzzled me for a while: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/tmp$ cat inp

kdevelop

I've been try to use kdevelop on and off for the last five years.? It has never been a stable reliable IDE for me.? Recently however it has become almost useless.? Everytime I attempt to compile something it crashes.? The language doesn't seem to matter, it crashes in every language from kde C++

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:21 AM, William Pursell wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules. I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of cyclists I fin

Re: format grep ouput

BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Jul 15, 2:30 pm, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Try this. It's untested but should nudge you in the right direction. Almost, it prints each word on a separate line, but I'll pursue the idea. Thank you, rd grep -R 'the' * | (of=""; while read f

Re: format grep ouput

BartlebyScrivener wrote: On Jul 15, 4:20 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: probably the easiest thing to do is write up a little wrapper for grep like so: #!/bin/sh if [ -z $1 ] ; then echo "please enter file type" exit 1 fi if [ -z $2 ] ; then echo "ple

ssh issues

I'm having some ssh issues issues on a fresh Etch install. I'm unable to ssh into the machine at all. On the client end, with just having removed the user's .ssh directory, what I'm seeing is as follows: - begin output - $ ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] The authenticity of host '192.168.1.25 (192

Re: GNome Help: Opens 40 windows!

> I am using A dell Laptop with the latest kernel iamge (2.6.21) > in testing. > > When I try ti click on help (or press F1) about 40 windows > open up in succession ? > > Is this a bug or is there something wrong with my installation ? > Sebastian The respective vapor pressures

Re: [OT] help thy neighbor (was: Recommendation request: scheduler)

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 09:09:44AM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:03 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: > >> On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 20:31:15 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >>> On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: As wise men have been seen to wr

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

crap. I was going to be done with this, but can't resist. really really last one though ;) On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:08:39PM -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > > On Jul 15, 2007, at 8:15 PM, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> A bicycle legally >> owns the entire lane they are riding in (in many areas wh

Re: need help: vpn broken after upgrade to kernel 2.6.21

For the curious: I've managed to get crippled (read: slow) web access by setting MTU to 512 on the pptp tunnel. I've filed a bug report to the debian BTS, with some more info http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=433307 If anyone here has some suggestions: I'm all ears! Avi Rozen w

apache suddenly can't find *some* files

I'm running apache.1.3.34 and today on one of my websites it says that it can't find *some* of the graphics files requested. The ones it can't find are in the same directory and have the same permissions and the same extentions as others that it *can* find. I've changed nothing in my apache config.

Re: error with netinstall debian etch with a custom repositary

On 7/15/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Apt will not trust your signature until you add your public key to apt's keyring with the "apt-key add" command. I have no idea if you can easily do this during installation, though. You can try to switch to another VT and run the command.

Problems regarding LDAP authentication & nss ...

Im trying to configure my debian box to enable ldap authentication It works fine, but in getting identical messages like those ones: udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: reconnecting to LDAP server (sleeping 1 seconds)... udevd[1082]: nss_ldap: could not search LDAP server - Can't contact LDAP server udevd[108

apach2 behind firewall

Hello! I have apache2 behind a firewall. I want to setup firewall so, that one can it reach from the internet. I red the documentations: Linux 2.4 Packet Filtering HOWTO from Rusty Russell Linux 2.4 NAT HOWTO from Rusty Russell man iptables Setting up a simple Debian gateway

Re: RAM puzzle

Yes!!! I'm back again, with the new kernel installed and 2Gb of mem available. Thanks you all for replying so fast. Couldn't do it without your help. M> free total used free sharedbuffers cached Mem: 2011456 2196841791772 0 10536

Re: RAM puzzle

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 07:46:55PM +0200, Manon Metten <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi Evgeni, > > On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: >> >> > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 >> kernel: >>

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Ron, On 7/16/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Does this mean CONFIG_HIGNMEM4G was not set when the kernel was compiled? Correct. There were no 486 machines with more than a GB of RAM, and those CPUs probably don't have the features needed by HIGHMEM. > And how do I install the r

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Evgeny, On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: please don't CC me, I read debian-laptop ;) Sorry, I hit the wrong button in GMail. Manon.

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Manon, please don't CC me, I read debian-laptop ;) On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:46:55 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: > > You're not, your using the 486 variant ;) > > Check /boot/config- for HIGHMEM, yours should have > > CONFIG_NOHIGHMEM set, but you need CONFIG_HIGHMEM4G > > > > > So could anybody tel

Re: RAM puzzle

Manon Metten wrote: Hi Evgeni, On 7/16/07, *Evgeni Golov* < [EMAIL PROTECTED] > wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 kernel: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #

Re: RAM puzzle

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 12:51, Manon Metten wrote: > Hi Evgeni, > > On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: >> >> > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 >> kerne

Re: Re: Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

> This might sound crazy but have you tried literally > concatenating the files? I seem to recall reading the ogg > container format (used by flac) was flexible enough to let > you do this. I've just done a quick check and yes, you can do this, provided the input files have different serial number

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 06:15, Joe Hart wrote: [snip] > > Unfortunately, it is well known that gnome is not stable in Sid. The reason > seems to stem from the maintainer who uploads the packages. For some reason, > there is a delay between packages, and gnome

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/16/07 03:01, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of n

Re: Sylpheed: staying in thread upon deletion

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:07:21 -0400 Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:26:41 +0200 > Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:50 -0400 Celejar wrote: > > > I'm using thread view (...) and sorting by date. > > > When I delete a message, Syl

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Evgeni, On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 kernel: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ^

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Evgeni, On 7/16/07, Evgeni Golov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 kernel: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ^

Re: RAM puzzle

On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 19:33:23 +0200 Manon Metten wrote: > Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 kernel: > Linux debian 2.6.18-4-486 #1 Wed May 9 22:23:40 UTC 2007 i686 GNU/Linux ^^^ You're not, your using the 486 variant ;) Check /boot/config- f

Re: RAM puzzle

Hi Ivan, On 7/16/07, Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: plugged them into my Debian Asus M6726NW laptop. I was surprised to see that on /proc/meminfo I have only: MemTotal: 906692 kB MemFree:451864 kB Amazing. I have exactly the same problem although I'm using a i686 k

Re: format grep ouput

BartlebyScrivener wrote: I'm playing with recursive grep. Still fairly new to Etch. When I grep text files and get a dozen or so results, they print to the screen as a dense block of text. I found the color option, which helps, but is there a way to separate each result with a blank line, or hi

Re: Pseudo terminals missing

Original Message Subject:Re: Pseudo terminals missing Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 08:07:03 -0500 From: Saul Mena Avila <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Hi, Ralph. You were right. I don't have installed util-linux but I can't installed either witho

Re: dir command

Hi Ron, On 7/15/07, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The top of the file shows various command-line options that I've found useful over the years. Mostly borrowed from the OpenVMS DIR command. Thanks again. I don't know nothing about python, so if you hadn't told me about the options

Re: dir command

Hi William, On 7/15/07, William Pursell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the total number of files: $ find . -type f | wc -l For the total number of directories: $ find . -type d | wc -l To get sizes, du is the obvious choice, but you could do the ridiculous: $ find . -type f -exec cat {} \; |

Re: Regex Question

Telly Williams wrote: Hi, I'm reading up on Regular Expressions and I have a question about alternation. I have the sentences: "There was a dog in the house." & "A house on the hill." Both of these are in a file (named "regex") on two different lines. My unde

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

On Jul 16, 2007, at 5:21 AM, William Pursell wrote: David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules. I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of cyclists I find distressing. As a

Re: Re: format grep ouput

> Where does that command go? In bashrc? > > So far, I just have the ls alias and this: > > export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' It's an argument to grep. So you could manually it in with every grep, alias grep to "grep --color=always" in the style of ls in ~/.bashrc, or define the GREP_OPTIONS en

Re: [OT] help thy neighbor (was: Recommendation request: scheduler)

On Jul 16, 2007, at 1:03 AM, Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 20:31:15 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: As wise men have been seen to write: "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and feed him f

Re: Re: using sizeof

> Because sizeof is not really the size of the struct, it is > the distance between adjacent structs in an array. > Alignment forces the extra bytes I'm not quite sure I get what you're saying here. Yes, alignment pads out the structure. But I'm not sure where arrays come into it :- sizeof(struct

Re: Automatic deployment and maintenance

On 7/15/07, Sebastien JUST <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Anyway, any interested people in such a tool, maybe we can create a small workgroup ? Sebastien, I am absolutely interested in working on such a tool. I've already created a similar tool for an RPM-based distribution, but that was created

Re: NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

Masatran, R. Deepak wrote: > I upgraded my Debian Testing system just now, using "sudo aptitude upgrade", > and my local NTLM proxy server "ntlmaps", which was working till then, has > stopped > working. I guess the problem is because of the upgrade. > > "telnet localhost 8080" (8080 is the proxy

Re: Re: Evolution POP mail running very slow

> On Etch 4.0 with Evolution 2.6.3 (with all updates applied). > Past 2-3 weeks my pop downloads using evolution have become very slow, > when they are going on they are consuming lots of resources. It's > really > become a serious problem. > > Can

Re: format grep ouput

On Jul 16, 6:20 am, Jon Dowland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can specify --color=always to Where does that command go? In bashrc? So far, I just have the ls alias and this: export GREP_OPTIONS='--color=auto' Thanks, rd -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "u

Re: Meta-R key doesn't exist

On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 08:57:14 +0200 (CEST) Antonio Regidor García <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Chances are, that you also don't have a right "Alt" key on your keyboard, > > but one > > labeled "Alt Gr" instead, that is intended for entering non-ascii > > characters (see > > http://en.wikipedia.

How to configure access thru proxy

Hi, Several applications haven't proxy configuration ( i want to use skype). I have to traverse a proxy, for example in firefox the possibility exists, this is not the case for skype (maybe I am wrong) . I suppose it is possible to declare somewhere a variable for proxy info, usable by all applic

GNome Help: Opens 40 windows!

Hi: I am using A dell Laptop with the latest kernel iamge (2.6.21) in testing. When I try ti click on help (or press F1) about 40 windows open up in succession? Is this a bug or is there something wrong with my installation? The installation was through a netinstall about a week ago and

Re: Sylpheed: staying in thread upon deletion

On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 11:26:41 +0200 Sjoerd Hiemstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 13 Jul 2007 15:18:50 -0400 Celejar wrote: > > I'm using thread view (...) and sorting by date. > > When I delete a message, Sylpheed jumps to the next message by date, > > not to what I want, the next message i

NTLM APS not working after upgrade of Testing

I upgraded my Debian Testing system just now, using "sudo aptitude upgrade", and my local NTLM proxy server "ntlmaps", which was working till then, has stopped working. I guess the problem is because of the upgrade. "telnet localhost 8080" (8080 is the proxy port) says Trying 127.0.0.1...

Re: Root partition full

* Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007:07:15:18:57:13+0300] scribed: > On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:54:25AM -0400, Curt Howland wrote: > > > I was just fiddling with the "tree" utility to see if it would help. > > Unfortunatley, "tree -d -h" returns the size of the directory entries > > thems

Re: RAM puzzle

Thanks Evgeni, that solved the problem. Cheers, Ivan Evgeni Golov wrote: On Mon, 16 Jul 2007 12:44:35 +0200 Ivan Glushkov wrote: In both cases, how lshw sees the right amount of memory, but the kernel does not?! You need a kernel with HIGHMEM support (all recent Debian kern

KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor

Hi, http://klive.cpushare.com/ shows what kernels are online bu subscribers. Only few Debian kernels! From the explanation: ... KLive: Linux Kernel Live Usage Monitor During the 2005 Linux Kernel Developers Summit somebody raised the point that it's not clear how much testing each git/rc/pre k

Re: dir command

Ron Johnson([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On 07/15/07 09:50, Manon Metten wrote: > >Hi, > > > >Is there a bash command available that shows the contents of the given dir > >recursively, telling me how many files are in there and the byte size > >occupied? <> > > This is what I

Re: Evolution POP mail running very slow

On Etch 4.0 with Evolution 2.6.3 (with all updates applied). Past 2-3 weeks my pop downloads using evolution have become very slow, when they are going on they are consuming lots of resources. It's really become a serious problem. Can't figure out why this is happening? Any clues? -- Did you pe

Re: Recommendation request: scheduler

Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > As wise men have been seen to write: > > > > "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. > > Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime" > > Ron Johnson says

Password Samba

Hi all Well.. my question is about the password of samba. I have a server files and on this server there are many users. Each user has a folder on this server, and they use it to map the folder on their system Windows. And, I have a system in php language to change your password of samba, but

Re: [OT] A significant negative impact on Linux's popularity?

David Brodbeck wrote: On Jul 14, 2007, at 7:43 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: I've yet to collide with another cyclist who was following the rules. I have to say that, as a driver, it's the unpredictability of cyclists I find distressing. As a cyclist, I find the unpredictability of drivers dis

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

Dot Deb: > > This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but after logging > in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the tomboy window. No > panels, no background, no icons ... I guess your session information is broken. You could try to move all your ~/.gnome2* files and directories out of the wa

Evolution POP mail running very slow

On Etch 4.0 with Evolution 2.6.3 (with all updates applied). Past 2-3 weeks my pop downloads using evolution have become very slow, when they are going on they are consuming lots of resources. It's really become a serious problem. Can't figure out why this is happening? Any clues? -- Question eve

Re: RAM puzzle

your kernel use 386, try to use 686 kernel it work on my laptop On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 12:44 +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi all, > > recently I bought 2 x 1 GB modules 1024MB SO-DIMM OCZ PC400 CL2.5. I > plugged them into my Debian Asus M6726NW laptop. I was surprised to see > that on /proc/me

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

On Mon, Jul 16, 2007 at 01:31:25PM +0530, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposedly) patent e

Re: using sizeof

On Mon, 14 May 2007 16:24:59 +, J HU wrote: > Dear all, > > Perhaps it's an easy/silly question but I don't understand how it works. > > (I'm working in a debian) > I have declared a structure and I'm using the "sizeof" to get the size of > this structure. > > After the call I get that the

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

On Mon, 14 May 2007 17:43:31 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > "Deboo ^" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Though I have never tried rsync, I can tell what I use and it is very >> simple and straightforward. I use a simple shell script to backup the >> files in my home dir to the windows partition as

Re: Advise on backing up files in Etch.

On Mon, 14 May 2007 11:12:09 -0400, Roberto C. Sánchez wrote: > On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 02:08:56PM +0200, Dan H wrote: >> On Sun, 13 May 2007 20:56:21 -0400 >> Roberto C. Sánchez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> > Good point. What I like about the rsync snapshots is that I can >> > "browse" back

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

On Monday 16 July 2007 12:09:05 Dot Deb wrote: > This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but after logging > in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the tomboy window. No > panels, no background, no icons ... > > Yesterday I regularly switched off the laptop. I did not u

Re: Help Needed With DoS Attack

If you are using apache, mod_security gives you most of this functionality. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Re: format grep ouput

> Any piping will eliminate the color. That's what happens, > at least, with ls. The default for --color is to only do it with an interactive terminal. You can specify --color=always to ensure it is output even as part of a pipe. You can make things like less pass the control characters through to

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

> This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but > after logging in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the > tomboy window. No panels, no background, no icons ... > >Yesterday I regularly switched off the laptop. I did >not upgrade the system recently (I'm running sid). > > >I hav

Re: Re: concatenate flac files? convert to mp4?

This might sound crazy but have you tried literally concatenating the files? I seem to recall reading the ogg container format (used by flac) was flexible enough to let you do this. -- Jon Dowland -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

netinst from a mirror setup with debmirror

Hello, i am using an local mirror setup with these parameters [1]. The mirror works fine as a repository for serving packages via NFS for other clients. Now i wanted use the local mirror for setting up clients via the netinst-image[2] from scratch without using the debian mirrors from the interne

Re: URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

On 7/16/07, Dot Deb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: By the way what is a stable functional alternative to gnome, excluding kde? You may want to try xfce. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RAM puzzle

Hi all, recently I bought 2 x 1 GB modules 1024MB SO-DIMM OCZ PC400 CL2.5. I plugged them into my Debian Asus M6726NW laptop. I was surprised to see that on /proc/meminfo I have only: MemTotal: 906692 kB MemFree:451864 kB Buffers: 53072 kB Cached: 226724 kB SwapC

URGENT: my gnome desktop is dead

This morning I switched my laptop on, as usual, but after logging in (using gdm), gnome only shows me the tomboy window. No panels, no background, no icons ... Yesterday I regularly switched off the laptop. I did not upgrade the system recently (I'm running

Re: format grep ouput

On Jul 15, 4:20 pm, Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > probably the easiest thing to do is write up a little wrapper for grep > like so: > #!/bin/sh > if [ -z $1 ] ; then > echo "please enter file type" > exit 1 > fi > > if [ -z $2 ] ; then > echo "please enter

Re: Exim config on multihomed machine

Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 10:47:46AM +0100, koffiejunkie wrote: Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 09:05:15AM +1000, Alex Samad wrote: Any one else doing this. How can I configure exim to have different primary host names dependant on which relay it is us

Re: MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

On Monday 16 July 2007 10:01:25 Kumar Appaiah wrote: > Dear Debian users, > > While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that > Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch > included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making > available the (supposed

Hal/hotkey/power management problem, hal does not pass some key events to dbus

Hi List, I just installed debian sid on a Thinkpad X60 Laptop, while I press sleep hotkey, acpid will sent KEY_SLEEP key event as a keyboard press event, and handled by hal, then managed by gnome-power-manager. HOWEVER, when hibernate key pressed, it sent a KEY_SUSPEND key event, but NOTHING app

[OT] help thy neighbor (was: Recommendation request: scheduler)

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 20:31:15 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sat, Jul 14, 2007 at 07:43:26PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > As wise men have been seen to write: > > > > "Give a man a fish, feed him for a day. > > Teach a man to fish and feed him for a lifetime" > > Ron Johnson sa

MP3 + Patent issues in Debian

Dear Debian users, While talking about Debian in a LUG meet, someone pointed out that Debian's distributions could play MP3s out-of-the-box (Etch included). This is unlike the Fedora/Ubuntu policy of not making available the (supposedly) patent encumbred codecs (decoders, at least) by default, on

Re: Subject Confusion

On Sun, Jul 15, 2007 at 08:47:06PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/15/07 18:00, David Brodbeck wrote: >> On Jul 14, 2007, at 3:10 PM, Paul Johnson wrote: >>> Why? Reply-to-mailing-list has been a feature of every mail client worth >>> using this decade. >> Well, if your definition of "mail clien

Re: apsfilter: error creating directory for temporary files

On 15 Jul 2007, Roger Leigh wrote: > Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I agree about lpd. I've found magicfilter to work better for me than > > either CUPS or apsfilter: easier to set up and more reliable. > > This may well be the case for specific uses. However, magicfilter has

Re: how to shift from stable to testing

Hi, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> schrieb: > I would like to recommend aptitude instead of apt-get. It is also the=20 > debian recommended tool. I would _not_ recommend switching to aptitude on a system on which you have used apt-get until then, though. In most cases, this leads to problems