Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Wayne Topa wrote: <> It would have been better if I had not had a type there. :-( No problem, I had one too - Welcome to the Debian Community. Thank you. I'm sure it will work out well, especially considering all the helpful hands that are here! Per olof -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email t

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > Braces are not a problem: they are kept in a copy-paste, and if for > some reason a brace is missing (because you did a mistake), then you'll > get a syntax error Unless, of course, you are programming in C with that pesky... if foo; bar; ...problem. > In Py

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2007-08-09 09:48:54 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> The same in Python but with far greater functionality: > and a security hole! And the one liner stopped this how, exactly? I mean it was globbing the file fer pete's sake! >> result = os.system("lame -h

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Nate Duehr wrote: > Steve Lamb wrote: > >> Quick, take your one liner, have it traverse an entire directory tree >> converting all the wavs (regardless of capitalization) to mp3s, oggs >> and flac, sorting all 4 into their own directory trees. > To make your point, you'd need to do all of the

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 23:08, Miles Bader wrote: > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> For example, the DEC VT220 allowed you to change the tab stops, and >> make as many as you wanted. Not sure about the VT100, but wouldn't >> be surprised. > > The vt10

Re: trying to connect to usb devices...can not get tty -but get some strange stuff

2007-08-09 Thread Jude DaShiell
Try typing lsusb -v and see if things start to work after you do that. I don't know why it is, but a usb iomega 250MB zip disk with a useable disk in it on this machine doesn't become useful until after I've done that command. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: Bzflag Segfaults

2007-08-09 Thread David Fox
On 8/7/07, Manaen Schlabach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I suppose it's bad form to reply to your own list message but maybe my > experiences will help someone else out. I have determined that it > isn't just bzflag that has segmentation faults, xmms, and pan are also I also noticed a segfa

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Miles Bader
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For example, the DEC VT220 allowed you to change the tab stops, and > make as many as you wanted. Not sure about the VT100, but wouldn't > be surprised. The vt100 had a special setup screen for "setting tab stops", though I don't know what exactly was eff

Re: trying to connect to usb devices...can not get tty -but get some strange stuff

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Habashy
Guys -I have been trying to send this email to the debian user list..but it is not showing up...can you help ?? thanks mjh On 8/9/07, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all - > I am a little new to this. > I am trying to connect my cingular 8125 cell phone to my debian box so it >

Re: trying to see and use usb devices on my machine.

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Habashy
On 8/9/07, Michael Habashy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hi all - > I am a little new to this. > I am trying to connect my cingular 8125 cell phone to my debian box so it > can talk to kannel and I can be very happy. > I am trying to connect it via usb or a bluetooth dongle that is usb. > In eithe

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-09 13:27:31 -0700, David Brodbeck wrote: > Still, after dealing with all the nightmares of things like 'make' that > care about tabs vs. spaces, etc., I'm inclined to shy away from languages > where whitespace is critically important. Whitespace is so fragile. Yes. BTW, I wonder what

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-09 10:19:51 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems with > Python code which would not also be an issue in other code as well. > The only difference being you have to be careful about indention in > one case, braces in the other. Braces

Re: question about installing everything

2007-08-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Pat wrote: > I know this may sound a little ridiculous to some, but I have been > using Debian for several years now and was thinking about installing > everything on a computer to experiment on etc. > Does anyone have any idea about how much hard-drive space this would > require? Is this even

Re: Switching to console freezes PC

2007-08-09 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Vincenzo Spinoso wrote: > Hi all, > I've installed Debian Lenny using 2007-08-06 netinstall image and net > installation. > After using the PC for some time, if I switch from X to console using > the classic CTRL+ALT+F1, then the system freezes, with keyboard/mouse > not responding, xmms audio sto

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2007-08-09 09:48:54 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > The same in Python but with far greater functionality: and a security hole! > import os > for file in os.listdir('.'): > root, ext = os.path.splitext(file) > if ext.lower() == 'wav': > mp3 = root + '.mp3' > result = os.

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 15:28, Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Just remember to tell you editor to "inserts spaces as tab" and set >> the tab width to something reasonable like 4. > > Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. Shows how

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 09/08/07 00:55, wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 21:49, Tim Hull wrote: >> Ugly? No. xmms (a Gtk 1.2 app) has ugly fonts. >> >> Preferring Bitstream Vera Sans over Arial is just (valid) personal >> opinion. > > > Well, I guess I should qualify my statement. Arial is ugly on Linux *wi

Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

2007-08-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/09/2007 09:12 PM, cothrige wrote: > I have gotten to thinking. Does nv take any flags like nvidia does? > Could there be a setting I could manipulate when loading it which could > help with LCD monitors, or the like? I must admit complete ignorance on > this issue, as when I used nv consis

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-09 Thread Tim Hull
> Ugly? No. xmms (a Gtk 1.2 app) has ugly fonts. > > Preferring Bitstream Vera Sans over Arial is just (valid) personal > opinion. Well, I guess I should qualify my statement. Arial is ugly on Linux *with the autohinter on*. I just guess I'll file a bug asking for Arial substitutions in the de

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread John W. Foster
On Thursday 09 August 2007 14:02, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Hi debianites, > > I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get > going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not > installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. > > Coming from B

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:50:42PM -0500, Wu-Kung Sun wrote: > On 8/9/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg > > under linux? > > > > -ishwar > > > > Use mencoder. A basic example: > mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts > v

Re: question about installing everything

2007-08-09 Thread Thomas Anderson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Pat wrote: > I know this may sound a little ridiculous to some, but I have been > using Debian for several years now and was thinking about installing > everything on a computer to experiment on etc. > Does anyone have any idea about how much hard-dr

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Miles Bader
Stefan Monnier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. > People playing silly tricks with tab-width is the main reason why using TABs > in languages like Python is a bad idea. Or to put it another way, the main reason why languages l

question about installing everything

2007-08-09 Thread Pat
I know this may sound a little ridiculous to some, but I have been using Debian for several years now and was thinking about installing everything on a computer to experiment on etc. Does anyone have any idea about how much hard-drive space this would require? Is this even possible, given the nu

How to make phone call using modem in Linux

2007-08-09 Thread Kieu Minh Thang
Hi everyone, I have used Linux on a computer with modem included. How to use this modem to make phone call. Is there a software like Phone Dialer on Windows? Regards, Thang Kieu -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Wine question

2007-08-09 Thread Kieu Minh Thang
Hi, Copy fonts to Notepad++ directory is not a good idea, maybe you should try to copy fonts to /usr/share/fonts/ And then run fc-cache to update your fonts library. Tell me if this can help ;) Good luck, Thang Kieu Loeghmon T. Nejad wrote: Everyone, I installed notpad++, a fantastic Windo

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Mathias Brodala
Hi Jochen. Jochen Schulz, 09.08.2007 23:42: > Nelson Castillo: >> I make trailing spaces and TABS visible in vim. >> I know it's hard to keep conventions when you work with a team. >> >> http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/arhuaco/visible-spaces-in-vim > > I am using > > set listchars=tab:»·,t

Re: switch from xserver-xorg-video-i810 to -intel and unsupported modes

2007-08-09 Thread Kieu Minh Thang
Dear Anton Piatek, I see that you have used the right drivers, I have 19" monitor and use it too (xserver-xorg-video-intel). It display perfectly. Follow you error: (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1440x900" (hsync out of range) (II) intel(0): Not using default mode "1600x1024" (hsync o

Re: Passwordless X login

2007-08-09 Thread Kieu Minh Thang
Hi, I'm not KDE user, I'm using Gnome but I think it's the same. I have seen some options from Login Manager that help me remember user/pass and automatic login after few seconds. Take your time around to see it. Good luck, Thang Kieu Dan H wrote: Hello, I'd like to be able to login with j

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 19:07, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> Well, it's clearly stated on the overview page I provided. EM64T was >>> recently renamed to "Intel 64" - but, yes, the names here can be >>> con

Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

2007-08-09 Thread cothrige
Ralph Katz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > wrt dpms: > Until you get a more knowledgable reply, man xset (especially, the 's' > option) and man xscreensaver-command (-time) may help. Many thanks. I will read up on these right now. > I use the nv driver, but have a crt. I have gotten to thinking

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Anthony M Simonelli
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:26 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote: > > Looking in /etc, I see /etc/network/iface, is it here I fix that? > > I don't see any such file. There is /etc/network/interfaces however. > > > man iface > > man network > > try "man interfaces" ;-) > > > Stefan > > I pre

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Ron Johnson wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 16:59, Mike McCarty wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: lkml? What is lkml? This is not an insult, but a stunned question: You've been around Linux this long and don't know what that means? Since lower case, I thoug

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Wayne Topa wrote: > >Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > >>Hi debianites, > >> <> > >>This is Linux debian 2.6.18-4-686 #1 SMP, command line only (server > >>enviroment). > > > >Rather then try to g

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 17:39 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > Well, it's clearly stated on the overview page I provided. EM64T was > > recently renamed to "Intel 64" - but, yes, the names here can be > > confusing. > > Where? I've looked and looked, but don't see it. (I am getting > old, though, a

Re: Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

2007-08-09 Thread Ralph Katz
On 08/09/2007 04:43 PM, cothrige wrote: > I have been having a couple of odd developments lately which I think may > be traceable to my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19" LCD monitor. It started > when I noticed I was not getting consistent reactions to my DPMS > settings. In my xorg.conf I have the fo

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Nate Duehr
Steve Lamb wrote: Quick, take your one liner, have it traverse an entire directory tree converting all the wavs (regardless of capitalization) to mp3s, oggs and flac, sorting all 4 into their own directory trees. For me I just need to change my small script into a function, wrap it insi

Re: problem with java-gcj-compat-plugin on distillation applet.....

2007-08-09 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 07:42:43PM +, Michael Fothergill wrote: > > > >> From: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: problem with java-gcj-compat-plugin on distillation applet. >> Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:39:35 + >> >> Dear Debianists,

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 11:50, andy wrote: [snip] > > Nope, unfortunately usbmount doesn't help. > > Cheers for the suggestion though, it was worth a try When the Import screen pops up, press . Then open an xterm and use the command-line app gphoto2 to try to

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 16:59, Mike McCarty wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> >> lkml? > > What is lkml? This is not an insult, but a stunned question: You've been around Linux this long and don't know what that means? And you didn't take 10 seconds to Google

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 17:17, Linas Žvirblis wrote: [snip] > > Ron Johnson wrote: > >> You're mixing arches. em64t *is* the -amd64 architecture, which, >> obviously, isn't i386 (-686). > > You can install i386 operating system on AMD64 hardware, because AMD64

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 17:10, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: >>> [...] >>> I'm not big into x86-64 business, but AMD64 and EM64T / Intel 64 >> Danger!! Danger!!! >

trying to connect to usb devices...can not get tty -but get some strange stuff

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Habashy
Hi all - I am a little new to this. I am trying to connect my cingular 8125 cell phone to my debian box so it can talk to kannel and I can be very happy. I am trying to connect it via usb or a bluetooth dongle that is usb. In either case i think the box is okay..I get that the devices are being rec

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Linas Žvirblis
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine... AMD64 == EM64T ==

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 16:35 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > > [...] > > I'm not big into x86-64 business, but AMD64 and EM64T / Intel 64 > > Danger!! Danger!!! > > Intel has two wildly different 64-bit implementations: Itanium (aka > ia64) and em64t/amd

Scribus with acentuation

2007-08-09 Thread Jose Paulo Matafome Oleiro
Hello to all. I've got a problem with Scribus, when I write text like é or ã this doesn't appear how it should be, it looks like 'e or ã how I can fix this? Anyone can help me? My keyboard layout it's portuguese, where we use too often acentuation in words. Thanks in advance for your help. Sincer

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Manon Metten wrote: Hi Mike, On 8/7/07, Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do believe he's got it... almost. Errr... She :-) Sorry 'bout that! Hard to see what you look like! Abject apologies and all that. Also, that's a better quote (from "My Fair Lady"). If ENV_VAR is an environ

Re: [RESOLVED] Re: Canon Powershot A640 (update #2)

2007-08-09 Thread H.S.
andy wrote: > Thanks for your ideas. I suspect that you are probably right in your > assessment of the protocols the different devices use: the Sony > registers as a storage device while the Canon is registered as a camera. > While this doesn't answer the issue of why on my partner's Etch machine

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Andrei Popescu wrote: lkml? What is lkml? Mike -- p="p=%c%s%c;main(){printf(p,34,p,34);}";main(){printf(p,34,p,34);} Oppose globalization and One World Governments like the UN. This message made from 100% recycled bits. You have found the bank of Larn. I can explain it for you, but I can't un

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Looking in /etc, I see /etc/network/iface, is it here I fix that? I don't see any such file. There is /etc/network/interfaces however. > man iface > man network try "man interfaces" ;-) Stefan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
Nelson Castillo: > > I make trailing spaces and TABS visible in vim. > I know it's hard to keep conventions when you work with a team. > > http://wiki.freaks-unidos.net/weblogs/arhuaco/visible-spaces-in-vim I am using set listchars=tab:»·,trail:· in my ~/.vimrc. That makes tabs and taling spac

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 16:16, Krzysztof Lubański wrote: > On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which >> is >> compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...)

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
John K Masters wrote: On 22:49 Thu 09 Aug , Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Wayne Topa wrote: Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: bash: apr-cache: command not found ^^^ Typo - should be apt-cache. Probably worth reading up on Debian basics, maybe run "apt-ge

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Stephen Cormier
On August 9, 2007 05:39:28 pm [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which > is compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is > only a amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel > machin

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 15:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi there, > > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which

Re: em64t

2007-08-09 Thread Krzysztof Lubański
On Thu, 2007-08-09 at 22:39 +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is > compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a > amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine... Hello

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Stefan Monnier wrote: >> Just remember to tell you editor to "inserts spaces as tab" and set >> the tab width to something reasonable like 4. > Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. > People playing silly tricks with tab-width is the main reason why using TABs

dfsbuild

2007-08-09 Thread André César de Sá
Heya, I've been trying to build a CD with dfsbuild. I used a tutorial found on Debian Administration site, but I keep getting this error(ATTN: Large Output!): *SNIP* [dfs/DEBUG] Processing at state Fresh [dfs/DEBUG] Processing at state Initialized [dfs/INFO] Mirroring process starting. [dfs/INFO

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread John K Masters
On 22:49 Thu 09 Aug , Per olof Ljungmark wrote: > Wayne Topa wrote: >> Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > bash: apr-cache: command not found ^^^ Typo - should be apt-cache. Probably worth reading up on Debian basics, maybe run "apt-get install apt-howto

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:49:15PM +0200, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: >> Rather then try to give you things to do, and as you are a beginner, >> install the debian-reference package. Most, if not all, of your >> questions are answered there. >> apr-cache search debian-reference(pick your language)

Re: Solved: evolution does not start

2007-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Aug 10, 2007 at 00:16:04 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] >> It might also help to check the md5sums of all files from the evolution >> and the libdb4.4 package: >> >> debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | grep -v OK$ >> > debsums -a evolution libdb4.4 | g

Re: Debian on a KVM switch

2007-08-09 Thread izlem Gozukeles
Thanks, now everything is OK. On 8/9/07, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 14:57:36 +0300, izlem Gozukeles wrote: > > Hi, > > I have a debian etch on a KVM (keyboard-video-monitor) switch: > > -- Computers share the cd-rom and usb floppy. > > -- there is a scsi

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Just remember to tell you editor to "inserts spaces as tab" and set > the tab width to something reasonable like 4. Please don't. TABs are 8 spaces apart. Always have been, always will be. People playing silly tricks with tab-width is the main reason why using TABs in languages like Python is

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 02:57:04PM -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Mike McCarty wrote: >> My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory >> stick. Here's the setup... >> CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick > > Ok, I realize that it mounts when connected directly, so there > is a work arou

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Wayne Topa wrote: Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc.

Strange video troubles (DPMS & nv driver)

2007-08-09 Thread cothrige
I have been having a couple of odd developments lately which I think may be traceable to my Samsung SyncMaster 940BW 19" LCD monitor. It started when I noticed I was not getting consistent reactions to my DPMS settings. In my xorg.conf I have the following: Section "ServerFlags" Option

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Nelson Castillo
On 8/9/07, David Brodbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: > > Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems > > with Python > > code which would not also be an issue in other code as well. The only > > difference being you have to be

em64t

2007-08-09 Thread fagogue
Hi there, I'm trying to get the best of my machine based on intel core2 (6550), which is compliant with em64t debian arch (at least I thought...) but there is only a amd64 install available, which doesn't want to run on Intel machine... Therefore, I've started with a x386 architecture debian inst

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 9, 2007, at 10:19 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems with Python code which would not also be an issue in other code as well. The only difference being you have to be careful about indention in one case, braces in the other. Stil

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Aug 9, 2007, at 9:25 AM, Steve Lamb wrote: for FILE in *.wav; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "$FILE.mp3"; done Correct me if I'm wrong but wouldn't I just end up with with a bunch of files named blahblah.wav.mp3? Follow it with "rename .wav.mp3 .mp3 *". :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, ema

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Per olof Ljungmark([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi debianites, > > I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get > going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not > installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. > > Comin

Re: Solved: evolution does not start

2007-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: ldd $(which evolution) | grep libdb-4.4.so /usr/bin/ldd: line 117: 4677 Segmentation fault LD_TRACE_LOADED_OBJECTS=1 LD_WARN= LD_BIND_NOW= LD_LIBRARY_VERSION=$verify_out LD_VERBOSE= "$@" ldd segfaulting might indicate a serious problem with the dynamic

Re: [solved] Defoma: How2 install type 1 fonts?

2007-08-09 Thread Bill
On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 16:00 -0700, Bill wrote: > Hi folks, > > It's been some time now since I've used my old copy of > WordPerfect 8.0 Personal Edition for Linux. I usually use > the OpenOffice suite these days. > > However, I've been looking to install more fonts for > OpenOffice and make

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread andy
ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg under linux? -ishwar Yes. Assuming that you have mencoder, the script I use prior to converting from anyvideo.* to *.mpg prior to converting to DVD format is as follows: /usr/bin/mencoder -oac lavc -ovc lavc -of mpeg -mpegop

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the n

Re: Debian can't mount Camera Memory Stick

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Mike McCarty wrote: My GF has a situation in which she cannot mount a camera memory stick. Here's the setup... CPU<--->HUB<--->Dazzle[<--Stick Ok, I realize that it mounts when connected directly, so there is a work around. But is anyone willing to help figure out what is wrong so we can make

Re: How to add dir to path

2007-08-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Manon Metten([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Hi Wayne, > > On 8/8/07, Wayne Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Are you saying that you put the PATH in .bash_profile like > > PATH="./scripts:$PATH" > > export PATH > > > > And doing > > . . .bash_profile > > > > does not make it ava

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 13:56, ISHWAR RATTAN wrote: > Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg > under linux? Check out clive and mpgtx in the repository. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Give a man a fish, and he eats for a day. Hit him with a fish,

Re: Virtual Machines/Emulators

2007-08-09 Thread Mike McCarty
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 18:35 -0500]: Nate Bargmann wrote: * Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Aug 07 17:29 -0500]: However, I'd say installation is VERY HARD. That's why we use Debian, it makes the hard tasks easy and the impossible ones

Re: Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread Wu-Kung Sun
On 8/9/07, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg > under linux? > > -ishwar > Use mencoder. A basic example: mencoder your.flv -oac copy -ovc lavc -of mpeg -lavcopts vcodec=mpeg1video -o your.mpg -- swk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: problem with java-gcj-compat-plugin on distillation applet.....

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
From: "Michael Fothergill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: problem with java-gcj-compat-plugin on distillation applet. Date: Thu, 09 Aug 2007 19:39:35 + Dear Debianists, I run Debian AMD64 Etch 4.0 (r0) on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box. I use Iceweasel and

problem with java-gcj-compat-plugin on distillation applet.....

2007-08-09 Thread Michael Fothergill
Dear Debianists, I run Debian AMD64 Etch 4.0 (r0) on an AMD64 Sempron 3200 box. I use Iceweasel and I recently installed java-gcj-compat-plugin from synaptic. I then went to the following site: http://tierling.home.texas.net/ This guy has generously put a bunch of java applets on the site

Re: DNS problem on local network

2007-08-09 Thread Adam Hardy
Jeff D on 09/08/07 00:55, wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: Jeff D on 08/08/07 00:34, wrote: On Tue, 7 Aug 2007, Adam Hardy wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/08/07 21:04, wrote: My server isengard runs dnsmasq to provide the dhcp clients. However it doesn't recognise any internal net

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Jeff D wrote: On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD wh

Re: newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, Per olof Ljungmark wrote: Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD where a lot of th

Wine question

2007-08-09 Thread Loeghmon T. Nejad
Everyone, I installed notpad++, a fantastic Windows text editor, using wine and It works flawlessly. However, when I change keyboard layout and encoding (UTF-8) by pressing alt-shift, all I get is question marks instead of alpha characters. I even copied TTF fonts to the directory that notpad++ w

newbie here - system administration question

2007-08-09 Thread Per olof Ljungmark
Hi debianites, I am a complete beginner with Debian and need a little help to get going. Specifically, I wonder how you configure the system (not installed software), things like the network, users, logging etc. Coming from BSD where a lot of things are in .conf files under /etc I have a pro

Conversion of .flv to .mpg format?

2007-08-09 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Is there a way to go form .flv file to .mpg under linux? -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: evolution does not start

2007-08-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 22:00:45 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: > Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 15:28:46 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: >> open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY) >> = 3 >> read(3, >> "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\2

Re: gnome in testing

2007-08-09 Thread Stefan Monnier
> Right now when I run 'apt-get -s upgrade' there are 172 programs in the > 'not-upgraded' response. If I try to upgrade any one of them a bunch of > gnome programs are also upgrade but also apt-get wants to REMOVE > gnome-desktop-environment and gnome-themes among a few others. I'd probably do:

Re: Python intention (Was: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?)

2007-08-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Steve, Thanks for explaining. I'll examine some scripts I'll find on the web, to get an idea of how it looks. Manon.

Python intention (Was: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?)

2007-08-09 Thread Steve Lamb
Manon Metten wrote: > Than, probably I didn't understand it correct. I thought of it as some > prefixed indentation. I like eg. to indent with two spaces and not four or > six. But then I consequently stick to it. If that's what you mean, then it > ain't no problem for me. It is but it isn't.

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Jeff D
On Thu, 9 Aug 2007, mmiller3 wrote: "Jeff" == Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would still have rename the file extention: > for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "`echo $FILE > |sed s/.wav/.mp3/g ` " ; done Or just use the shell itself: for FILE in *wav ; do lame -

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread mmiller3
> "Jeff" == Jeff D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You would still have rename the file extention: > for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 "$FILE" "`echo $FILE > |sed s/.wav/.mp3/g ` " ; done Or just use the shell itself: for FILE in *wav ; do lame -h -b 160 \"$FILE\" \"${FILE%.

Re: evolution does not start

2007-08-09 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 15:28:46 +0200, wauhugo AT yahoo DOT com wrote: open("/usr/lib/evolution/2.6/libdb-4.4.so", O_RDONLY) = 3 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260x\1"..., 512) = 512Process 3243 detached That is strange, where does the /usr/li

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 12:19, Steve Lamb wrote: > Manon Metten wrote: >> Well, I find Perl easier to understand. The problem may be with some >> programmers who don't know how to write readable code... Now, the thing >> I really hate concerning python

Re: Substituting one font for another system-wide?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 11:59, Tim Hull wrote: >> Font server? Who needs to use xfs in 2007? > > > I guess I misspoke - I'm just using the default font configuration > toolchain. > > Anyway... I must be misunderstanding something. Or don't recognize >> Arial'

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Manon Metten
Hi Steve, On 8/9/07, Steve Lamb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> python ... is sensitive to indentation; > > > Well, that's a major disadvantage to me too. > > Actually, it isn't. At no time have I ever had any problems with > Python > code which would not also be an issue in other code as wel

Re: bash vs. python scripts - which one is better?

2007-08-09 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/09/07 11:51, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 09:25:20 -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: >> Vincent Lefevre wrote: >>> Why not zsh (more powerful than bash) or perl? >> Because to some Perl is horrible compared to Python. >> >>> for F

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