Re: scp non-overwrite option

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Bhasker C V wrote: > I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on > FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files. > But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to > continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. This

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Tyler Smith wrote: > Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience > using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? The Codeweavers CrossOver application is excellent. I do not in any way want to sound like an advocate for the MS office suite since it is the source

Re: GTK+ File dialog hangs

2007-08-02 Thread David Fox
On 7/30/07, Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Wow. I've never had a single directory with 12000 files. What file > dialog have you tried that does work? How do KDE file dialogs handle > it? Well, my sylpheed mai-archive directory has almost 33K files in it (I mostly use gma

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-02 Thread Pedro Izecksohn
OP tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i try to run, i get in the wine log the message: wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ failed to map segment from shared object: Cannot allocate memory suggest

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:45:43PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PR

scp non-overwrite option

2007-08-02 Thread Bhasker C V
All, I was trying to scp a large directory from server to my box (server on FC and my desktop on etch). I use scp -r option to copy all the files. But when it happens that the scp fails somewhere, i cannot ask it to continue by omitting the ones it has already copied. For example in the standar

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:45:43PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 22:45:43 -0400 Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > On Thu, Aug 02,

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > > > I have been using an

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:47:58PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > > > I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to > > > connect to the inte

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Tyler Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [070802 20:42]: > Hi, > > I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with > colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX > Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience > using wine or crossover office wit

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
David Brodbeck([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > >On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > >> > >>I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to > >>connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection. > >>The Lan (eth0) is br

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Douglas Allan Tutty([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to > > connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection. > > The Lan (eth0) is b

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience > using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is > possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it > will definitely be an impro

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection. The Lan (eth0) is bridged with a Netgear WG511U PCMCIA card (ath0) to connect to the gatway comput

Re: MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:41:54PM +, Tyler Smith wrote: > Which brings me to my question: do any of you have any experience > using wine or crossover office with MSWord? Does it work? If it is > possible to produce true, well-formatted .doc files this way then it > will definitely be an impr

Re: cheap scsi card recomendation

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:04:03PM -0500, Rodney Richison wrote: > I've about 20 of old netserver lpr machines that have the old megaraid > raid card. The kernal has dropped support for these cards. I'm tired of > dealing with it. > > Can someone recomend a card that will work well with a stock

Re: Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 03:09:48PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to > connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection. > The Lan (eth0) is bridged with a Netgear WG511U PCMCIA card (ath0) to > connect to the gatway

Re: Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:54:51PM +0200, Fabrizio Pedersoli wrote: > i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which manages 2 > disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly that raid and the > installation process terminates fine. But when i reboot, after linux loads >

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Fri, Aug 03, 2007 at 12:19:36AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:35:01AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > So what is the significance of initrd size? (other than the obvious > > filling up /boot issue). Is it really a problem to have "most" modules > > in there?

Re: where is linux-2.6_2.6.22-2.diff.gz?

2007-08-02 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Hi Team, For quite a few days now the pages that display packages for linux-headers-2.6.22 (UNSTABLE) show http://ftp.debian.org/debian/pool/main/l/linux-2.6/linux-2.6_2.6.22-2.diff.gz as the patch file, but it does not exist, while linux-2.6_2.

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007 19:37:31 +0200, Gerard Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:35:24AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ? >>> This migh

Re: ifup fails but iwconfig and dhclient works?

2007-08-02 Thread Agricolae Maximus
On Fri, 03 Aug 2007 00:20:08 +0200, pizzapie_linuxanchovies wrote: > Under Etch, I did the make, make install, and modprobe of the driver > without problems. > > But here's the problem: > > $sudo ifup rausb0 -- snip > Whenever this happens, I fail to get a DHCP offer. I believe these > messag

MS Word under wine/crossover office

2007-08-02 Thread Tyler Smith
Hi, I am getting really frustrated with exchanging documents with colleagues who only use Word. I am quite happy now working with LaTeX and BibTex, but in the course of my work I have to deal with WYSIWYG documents where formating is critical. latex2rtf is mostly adequate for this purpose, but I r

ifup fails but iwconfig and dhclient works?

2007-08-02 Thread pizzapie_linuxanchovies
Hello, Sorry in advance if this is a bit long--I tried to keep it very clear. Having some trouble establishing my wireless connection. I recently upgraded Sarge to Etch. Now using the stock 2.6.18 686 kernel. No problems with the main part of the upgrade. However, I like to use the latest

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-02 Thread Alexandar Angelov
On Thursday 02 August 2007, Salvatore Bonaccorso wrote: > I can't help you to solve the problem, to say it first. But I had the > exactly the same Problem with a self-compiled 2.6.14 kernel (from the > kernel-source-2.6.14 package) and packaged with make-kpkg. Yes I compile with make-kpkg. > Trying

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:40:52PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 18:23:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [...] > > > Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it > > gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian > > kerne

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:35:01AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > same here. interesting. I'll have to play with that. You could > probably tighten it up even more by using the 'list' option and > putting a minimum-necessary list in /etc/initramfs-tools/modules. At > least that's how I rea

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Stephane Durieux wrote: > client <-> server <-X-> internet > > That is exactly my issue . Excuse me for not being > clear ! Anyway, has somebody a solution . > I have read that client and server must be able to > make a reverse resolution of the client and the > server, but I am not sure of it a

cheap scsi card recomendation

2007-08-02 Thread Rodney Richison
I've about 20 of old netserver lpr machines that have the old megaraid raid card. The kernal has dropped support for these cards. I'm tired of dealing with it. Can someone recomend a card that will work well with a stock debian that I might find on ebay? The drives are ultra3 18g (only raid

Re: kde command line desktop switching

2007-08-02 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Davide Mancusi wrote: Ivan Glushkov ha scritto: Hi, Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there is a way to make them appear on

Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 10:54:31 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:06:59PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] > > Try to run: > > > > udevtrigger -v --subsystem-match=sound > > > > or modprobe the sound modules manually. > > > > wouldn't > > /etc/init.d/alsa

Bridged Network Question

2007-08-02 Thread Wayne Topa
I have been using an old laptop as an Access Point for our laptops to connect to the internet through the main box -> modem connection. The Lan (eth0) is bridged with a Netgear WG511U PCMCIA card (ath0) to connect to the gatway computer. It works fine, as an AP, but has one problem. The AP itsel

Re: Disable RAM

2007-08-02 Thread Stefan Monnier
>> I want to test how a program would run with a reduced physical >> memory. The machine has currently 4 GB RAM running Debian. I'd >> like to evaluate the performance of the system with 2 GB physical >> RAM. Of course, I could remove on of the RAM modules. But, is >> there also a way to disable th

Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:06:59PM +0200, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: ... > > > > Loading driver... > > Usage: /etc/init.d/alsa > > {unload|reload|force-unload|force-reload|suspend|resume} > > This is where things do wrong: Instead

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:37:31PM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:35:24AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: >> From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ? > > >>> This might be a res

Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > It seems that > alsaconf is more or less depreciated, see for example the reactions to > bugs #430624 and #432678. > Thanks. Someone should update the wiki regarding this. I was reading http://wiki.debi

Re: [Semi-solved] Re: Getting Firefox/Iceweasel to open text/pgp files?

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 07:38:36PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > Hi, Andrew. > > On Aug 01 2007, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 05:55:58PM -0300, Rogério Brito wrote: > > > So, in light of this would anybody know how to force Firefox (etc) to > > > open the files instead

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 11:35:24AM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: From: Manoj Srivastava <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ? This might be a result of the menu transition[0] and maybe worth a report, if there isn???t al

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:23:04PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:10:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > > Miles Bader wrote: > > > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs > > > contents. Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kern

Re: trying to get wine to work

2007-08-02 Thread tom arnall
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 18:12, Pedro Izecksohn wrote: > OP: tom arnall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >i am trying to get wine to work. no matter what the MS application that i > > try to run, i get in the wine log the message: > > > > wine: failed to initialize: /usr/lib/wine/ntdll.dll.so:\ > > f

Re: sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:42:49 -0700, Kamaraju Kusumanchi wrote: > I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio > group. I did > > $sudo alsaconf > > Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). > Building card database... > > > Running update-modules... >

Re: Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 18:23:04 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: [...] > Yes, I know what you mean. I was using yaird to make my initrd, but it > gave some errors on the latest upgrade (and Steve Langasek, Debian > kernel maintainer suggested it is no longer maintained). Do you mean this problem?

Adaptec 2100s & Debian stable

2007-08-02 Thread Fabrizio Pedersoli
Hi all guys! i have a big problem with an Adaptec 2100s scsi controller, which manages 2 disks in RAID-0. the Debian installer found correctly that raid and the installation process terminates fine. But when i reboot, after linux loads i20 modules and founds hdd... it stops saying "waiting for root

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Thu, 02 Aug 2007 17:35:30 +0200, Mathias Brodala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Hi Joe. Joe, 02.08.2007 16:57: >> Gerard Robin wrote: >> I found this a day or two ago, and found update-menus didn't help, >> but I was a bit short of time. Seeing your post, I idly opened up >> System, Preferences,

Re: kde command line desktop switching

2007-08-02 Thread Davide Mancusi
Ivan Glushkov ha scritto: Hi, Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there is a way to make them appear on two desktops. You mi

Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server

2007-08-02 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, rocky wrote: Hey, My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian desktop. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-serv

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:02:34PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:03:50PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > It certainly can do what you want, if you leave it running and use it a

Re: Set up LAN Debian Etch server

2007-08-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 09:12:33AM -, rocky wrote: > Hey, > > My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has > latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as > file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian > desktop. > > I insta

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Joe. Joe, 02.08.2007 16:57: > Gerard Robin wrote: >> Hello, >> I have lost Debian in the menu. >> update-menus, gives nothing. >> How can I regenerate in the menus: Debian -> ? (not manually) >> >> I run unstable on acer aspire 5102wlmi amd64 kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64 >> (gnome metacity) >> >>

Re: lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Joe
Gerard Robin wrote: Hello, I have lost Debian in the menu. update-menus, gives nothing. How can I regenerate in the menus: Debian -> ? (not manually) I run unstable on acer aspire 5102wlmi amd64 kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64 (gnome metacity) thinks in advance for any help. You're gonna laugh.

Re: LAN mail server

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 06:17:25AM -, rocky wrote: > Hey list, > > My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. In order to learn DNS, mail > server stuff, I installed bind9, apache2, sendmail and ipopd. I have I don't want to start a flamewar, but do you have any special reasons to learn sendm

Large initrd [Was: Re: booting problem (udev related?)]

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:10:25PM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > Miles Bader wrote: > > Hmm, I didn't realize it analyzed the system when building the ramfs > > contents. Maybe I could just reinstall the kernel while the new kernel > > is running (or is there an official "hint" mechanism I could use)

Re: Caps Lock don't work

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:12:32PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > I used the same problem on my i386 since I switched to Etch. The caps > lock worked but but numbers were also shifted. The only time I noticed Hhhm, this behaviour is typical to German keyboard layouts (maybe others too).

Re: how to set network io priority for a process?

2007-08-02 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:03:50PM -0400, Douglas Allan Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:49:41PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > It certainly can do what you want, if you leave it running and use it as a > > shell and not as a single-command download tool. lftp can carry

sound does not work with Intel Corporation 82801EB/ER (ICH5/ICH5R)

2007-08-02 Thread Kamaraju Kusumanchi
I am using unstable with all the packages uptodate. The user is in audio group. I did $sudo alsaconf Unloading ALSA sound driver modules: (none loaded). Building card database... Running update-modules... * * The update-

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:46:40PM +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > --- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a ?crit > > > > > > I encounter a problem whith my nfs stations. > > If the server has > > > > > > not access to internet, they cannot mount > > their directories ! > > > > > I think wh

Re: Ownership Question

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:25:47AM -0600, Telly Williams wrote: > >Most of my files/folders are owned by root. It's starting to seem like >that's not such a great idea because a few of the programs that I use >don't like you to be root when you run them. > >So I'm thinking that I should start rec

Re: Iceweasel 2.0.0.5 and /dev/hda

2007-08-02 Thread Douglas Allan Tutty
On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 07:01:57AM +, Steven wrote: > Also, if I `dd if=/dev/hda of=test bs=512 count=16384 && strings -a test > | less` I see several explicit module paths, a reference to an old kernel > which isn't on the system anymore (that I know of), and what looks like > an irc prox

Re: nfs problem while internet access broken

2007-08-02 Thread Stephane Durieux
--- Douglas Allan Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> a écrit : > On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 11:00:19AM -0600, Bob Proulx > wrote: > > Stephane Durieux wrote: > > > Of course the network connexion is good ! > > > I can ping the server > > > > But you said that the server cannot access the > network: > > > >

Re: kde command line desktop switching

2007-08-02 Thread Mario Galanti
Ivan Glushkov wrote: > Hi, > > Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in > KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few > windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there > is a way to make them appear on two desktops. > >

KDevelop, QUanta SVN

2007-08-02 Thread Mihamina (R12y) Rakotomandimby
Hi all, What actions have I got to perform in order to be able to svn commit directly from Quanta or Kdevelop? I use KDE 3.5 on Debian. Thank you. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

lost Applications -> Debian in the menus ?

2007-08-02 Thread Gerard Robin
Hello, I have lost Debian in the menu. update-menus, gives nothing. How can I regenerate in the menus: Debian -> ? (not manually) I run unstable on acer aspire 5102wlmi amd64 kernel: 2.6.18-4-amd64 (gnome metacity) thinks in advance for any help. -- Gérard

Set up LAN Debian Etch server

2007-08-02 Thread rocky
Hey, My desktop has Debian Etch running on it. I have another laptop has latest Ubuntu installed on it. I want my Debian Etch box to serve as file server so I can back up the files from Ubuntu laptop to Debian desktop. I installed nfs-common and nfs-kernel-server on my Debian Etch box. In the /et

kde command line desktop switching

2007-08-02 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi, Does anybody know a shell command that switches to the next desktop in KDE? I am developing a small C++ application which creates a few windows, which would overlap in one desktop, so I was wondering of there is a way to make them appear on two desktops. Cheers, Ivan --

Re: Disable RAM

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Tim Frink wrote: > I want to test how a program would run with a reduced physical > memory. The machine has currently 4 GB RAM running Debian. I'd > like to evaluate the performance of the system with 2 GB physical > RAM. Of course, I could remove on of the RAM modules. But, is > there also a way t

Disable RAM

2007-08-02 Thread Tim Frink
Hi, I want to test how a program would run with a reduced physical memory. The machine has currently 4 GB RAM running Debian. I'd like to evaluate the performance of the system with 2 GB physical RAM. Of course, I could remove on of the RAM modules. But, is there also a way to disable the physical

Re: Ownership Question

2007-08-02 Thread Bob Proulx
Telly Williams wrote: > ... is changing my ownership drastically like this a good idea? That would be a very bad idea. Trust us. Things were set up the way that they were set up for a reason. It was not simply an accident. > Isn't it bad to have so many files owned by root? No. In fact it wo

Re: [OT] Re: Compile Question

2007-08-02 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:25:22 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Andrew, > I'm simply replying to up the google ranking so that the next poor sap > to encounter TOBAC or SWMBO will maybe get lucky... :-)) -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is

Ownership Question

2007-08-02 Thread Telly Williams
Hi, Most of my files/folders are owned by root. It's starting to seem like that's not such a great idea because a few of the programs that I use don't like you to be root when you run them. So I'm thinking that I should start recursively changing the ownership of my files to

Re: dpkg purge problem

2007-08-02 Thread Salvatore Bonaccorso
Hello On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 11:15:50PM +0300, Alexandar Angelov wrote: > On Tuesday 31 July 2007, Karl E. Jorgensen wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 01:15:19AM +0300, Sasho Angelov wrote: > > > When I try to purge old linux image: > > > > > > sudo dpkg --purge --force-all linux-image-2.6.14-2-

Iceweasel 2.0.0.5 and /dev/hda

2007-08-02 Thread Steven
If I try `strings -a /usr/lib/iceweasel/firefox-bin | less` and then search the output for "Peter" I find a reference to MACOS WebStar FTP / MACOS Peter's Server. Is this normal? Also, if I `dd if=/dev/hda of=test bs=512 count=16384 && strings -a test | less` I see several explicit module path