Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Santos
Hello, System lock ups are most likely related to some hardware interfacing problem. Look at the drivers you have installed, and remove them from the kernel. Then start adding them while trying to reproduce the problem. Daniel Santos Michael Pobega wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: Random System Crashes

2007-10-02 Thread Kelly Clowers
On 10/2/07, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system > crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to > anything but a power-down (I've tried switching

Random System Crashes

2007-10-02 Thread Michael Pobega
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Lately (For the past month or so) I've been experiencing random system crashes. My system would just completely lock up and not respond to anything but a power-down (I've tried switching to TTY1, among other things, but nothing works). I don't even kn

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-02 Thread Carl Johnson
Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:37:51AM +, Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > was heard to say: > > >> But How do you use the key(s) listed in "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg" to > > >> authenticate the individual installed packages. > > > > > > Oh, dpkg autom

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Re: Printer setup problem in Etch

2007-10-02 Thread Bob C
On Sun, Mar 11, 2007 at 08:31:16PM -0400, Bob C wrote: > > I am having a difficult time getting my printer to work on Etch with > CUPS 1.2.7. When I print a page from Openoffice the printer responds, > but prints a line of meaningless symbols. > I had hoped that doing regular updates on my syste

Re: cups yet again

2007-10-02 Thread Bob C
I have had what seems to be the same printer problem you describe, ever since I installed Debian Etch in February 2007 on my new computer with an amd64 type processor. My printer is an HP Deskpro 500, and the computer has a Asus p5b mainboard with Intel E6300 processor. >From time to time I have

Re: wake-on-lan

2007-10-02 Thread jacek2
Roel Schroeven wrote: > > From the man page, it indeed looks like that should help. Unfortunately > it doesn't seem to work. I'll investigate further tomorrow. > > I do power ON/OFF my PC using this card and remote browser or cell phone if you will: https://ool-43537bf6.dyn.optonline.ne

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:36:58 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I wrote: > >> How are they doing this detection [of Acroread]? > > > > Celejar writes: > >> I don't know. > > I suspect they rely on internet explorer being the browser, install some > sort of activex control an

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 13:17:30 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Celejar writes: > > I installed the linux tarball (as a non-priveleged user, and to a > > non-standard location under $HOME, to minimize pollution), and dropped > > the plugin (nppdf.so) into $HOME/.mozilla/plugins (I'm us

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 14:26:14 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:18:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:13:12 -0700 > > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Celejar wrot

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... You could set his box up to allow you to ssh into it, or dial in if he has a modem. * I could, but I don't really want to be THAT available! don't tell him. just make

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: * After I've done the above, I can change the conf file (incl. below). Am I correct in assumeing that changing any "=0" to "=1" activates that option? man deluser.conf Actually, having looked at it, if

Problem Resolved - Was Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 17:20 -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:36 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > > dpkg --force-overwrite > > > -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb > > > > That worked. I

Re: Trouble with downloaded images...

2007-10-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 17:43:15 - blues <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I just dl'ed the latest release from www.debian.org. The first CD > (debian-40r1-i386-CD-1) seems to be corrupted...so I used the torrent > link and tried to download the CD again, and still cannot get a clean > installAny

Trouble with downloaded images...

2007-10-02 Thread blues
I just dl'ed the latest release from www.debian.org. The first CD (debian-40r1-i386-CD-1) seems to be corrupted...so I used the torrent link and tried to download the CD again, and still cannot get a clean installAny suggestions?? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subjec

Re: SuperTux displays blank screen on launch

2007-10-02 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 2:18 pm, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hi thanks for the reply. > > I tried --sdl option and --opengl but still to no avail. I tried googling > and it looks like some others have experienced the problem but I can't seem > to find a concrete solution to it. > > -- > Amit Utt

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:22:41PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:57:44PM -0700, ss11223 wrote: > > On Oct 2, 3:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > wrote: > > > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1.

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Miles Bader
You could also use the "seq" program instead (which comes with coreutils): for i in `seq 1 $TEST`; do ... I'm not sure if that's more or less portable than using all these various bash features... -Miles -- `The suburb is an obsolete and contradictory form of human settlement' -- To UNSUBS

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:51:16PM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: > > I gather that you've tried several different mirrors, right? What kind > > of d/l speed do you get using any of the free bandwidth testers? > > > > Well I went to speedtest.net (I don't know if that's a good one or > not!). They gav

Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:52:36PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:36 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > > dpkg --force-overwrite > > -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb > > That worked. I was at least able to update the kernel. Now there's a > problem installing

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
Andrew Sackville-West([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > > > hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > > > cdrtools*. > > > > > > two w

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 18:21]: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > > > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > > the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte. > > > > Once the system boots, W20

Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 23:36 +0200, David Paleino wrote: > dpkg --force-overwrite > -i /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb That worked. I was at least able to update the kernel. Now there's a problem installing the latest nVidia video drivers. The kernel was compiled with GCC 4.1 a

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/07 17:42, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 02 17:30 -0500]: > >> 1) sf needs to pay for electricity, servers and bandwidth. >> 2) *Many* of the projects hosted on sf run on Windows. > > Fine, I understand th

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread David Brodbeck
On Oct 2, 2007, at 3:42 PM, Nate Bargmann wrote: ...AND they've obviously cozied up to MS... What evidence do you have that they've "cozied up to" MS? So far all we know is that MS has bought some ad space from them. I see a lot of knee-jerk overreaction in this thread, but not much else

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:57:44PM -0700, ss11223 wrote: > On Oct 2, 3:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {

Re: Emacs and python programming language

2007-10-02 Thread Pál Csányi
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 08:26:09PM +0200, P?l Cs?nyi wrote: >> >> I learn how to use Emacs because I want to programming in python language. > They have nothing to do with each other. You can use any editor to > create python progams. To learn python, install the python docs package > that comes

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:11:29AM +, steef wrote: > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. > on one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of > cdrecord/cdr-tools completely damaged two brandnew cdrom's. Just to clarify, do you mean that

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:38:38PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > In order to get the system to boot, I found it necessary to install > the 32Gbyte clip jumper on any drive larger than 32Gbyte. > > Once the system boots, W2000 thinks it is running on a 32Gbyte drive. > However, Debian sees

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Wilson
> I gather that you've tried several different mirrors, right? What kind > of d/l speed do you get using any of the free bandwidth testers? > Well I went to speedtest.net (I don't know if that's a good one or not!). They gave me 275Kbps down and 354Kbps up (that's bits this time!). Those figures l

Motherboard Recommendation

2007-10-02 Thread Eric Estes
Can anyone recommend a good AMD (socket A2 - Athlon 64 X2) motherboard that has good Linux support? I'm sending back my Shuttle to newegg and need a replacement asap. Thanks.

Re: URGENT: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965 : xorg problem

2007-10-02 Thread Henrique G. Abreu
It doesn't solve your problem, but at least you are not alone. I also have this card and if I switch from X to console (sometimes it happens only if I do it twice). The console becomes unreadable, with some kind of rows and letters overlaying. Again, if I use vesa driver, it doesn't happen. On 10

Re: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965: xorg problem

2007-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 18:05:31 +0200, Stephane Durieux wrote: > Hello, > > I have a serious problem with Q963/Q965 graphic intel > card. I use the driver i810 and everything seems ok > except when I try to switch from X to console and to > back to X. > Then the display seems to be desynchronised

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007 Oct 02 17:30 -0500]: > 1) sf needs to pay for electricity, servers and bandwidth. > 2) *Many* of the projects hosted on sf run on Windows. Fine, I understand that. They can host advertisements on their Web pages and on the project pages they create, that's

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:23:17AM +0200, Gerard Robin wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:49:16AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >> Subject: bash expansion crap... >> Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.deb

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The problem is similar because Debian Etch (kernel 2.6.18) is looking for > the firmware file in the wrong directory. [...] Why should the kernel be looking for a firmware file to send to the scanner? Are you /sure/ this is a kernel issue? Can you post t

Re: [Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/02/07 17:12, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I noticed yesterday an advertising block in an email for a developers' > list for a Free Software project hosted on SourceForge.net which I > don't wish to reproduce here as to avoid giving MS free advertising.

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Gerard Robin
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:49:16AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: From: Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: bash expansion crap... Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org X-Spam_score: -4.4 X-Spam_score_int: -43 X-Spam_bar: X-Spam-S

Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread David Paleino
Il giorno Tue, 02 Oct 2007 14:00:29 -0700 Scarletdown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ha scritto: > > ... > > dpkg: error processing /var/cache/apt/archives/libpth20_2.0.7-8_i386.deb > (--unpack): trying to overwri /usr/lib/libpth.so.20.0.27 which is also > in package libpth2. > > So, I am at a standstill

[Off Topic] Sourceforge putting MS ads in developer emails

2007-10-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
I noticed yesterday an advertising block in an email for a developers' list for a Free Software project hosted on SourceForge.net which I don't wish to reproduce here as to avoid giving MS free advertising. Suffice it to say, I am not pleased that Free Software developers are being force fed MS ad

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Remove ne"network places" in Network-Manager under Gnome

2007-10-02 Thread Miguel J. Jiménez
Hi, I want to remove a network place I made using the network manager of gnome (network-admin). The problem is that when I try to remove it using the same tool it takes LONG. Where is the "network places" configuration saved? To just edit by hand... thanks in advance. -- Miguel J. Jiménez ISOT

Re: iscan frustration Compounded!

2007-10-02 Thread Chris Davies
Thomas H. George <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There was no esfw41.bin in my system. I added a line "usb 0x048b 0x011b" > to snapscan.conf and after this gimp ran 4 succesful color scans with > the Perfection 2400 before locking up on the fifth scan. There is still > no esfw41.bin in my system.

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:17:28 +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: [ top-posted reply shifted to proper place below ] > 2007/10/1, Florian Kulzer: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 00:14:42 +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: > > > Hi! > > > I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, b

cupsdDoSelect() failed - Function not implemented! in unstable cupsys 1.3.2-1 source package

2007-10-02 Thread Andreas G
Hello. I have a problem installing the unstable cupsys 1.3.2-1 source package on my Debian etch system. I have installed the package using: apt-get -b source -t unstable cupsys dpkg -i cupsys_1.3.2-1_i386.deb cupsys-bsd_1.3.2-1_i386.deb cupsys-client_1.3.2-1_i386.deb ... I have the followi

Re: disks available

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:50:23PM +0200, Ivan Glushkov wrote: > a simple question: Is there a way under linux, as a user (i.e. without > superuser privileges) to find out how many hard drives are physically > connected on the computer? I am not interested in the info given by > /etc/fstab or by

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: ... > > You could set his box up to allow you to ssh into it, or dial in if he > has a modem. > > * I could, but I don't really want to be THAT available! don't tell him. just make things magically work when

Re: Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 02:00:29PM -0700, Scarletdown wrote: > I'm trying to install a new kernel (going from 2.8.18-3-k7 to > 2.6.22-2-k7) so that I can update my video drivers. However, I keep > getting this annoyance that causes anything I try to install to fail: > > You might want to run 'apt

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread John Hasler
Celejar writes: > I installed the linux tarball (as a non-priveleged user, and to a > non-standard location under $HOME, to minimize pollution), and dropped > the plugin (nppdf.so) into $HOME/.mozilla/plugins (I'm using IW), which > was enough for the website to accept my system as having Acrobat >

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:26:27PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > * After I've done the above, I can change the conf file (incl. > below). Am I correct in assumeing that changing any "=0" to "=1" > activates that option? man deluser.conf Actually, having looked at it, if you want it will remove

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Mumia W.. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 15:42]: > On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> Hello all, >> I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much >> when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The >> box used to have an 8 GB dri

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:23:19PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: Background: Two Etch installs literally accross the street from each other with different owners. Mixed up my notes and installed a user account from the first on the second. The Gnome user manager tool won't remo

Dependency Error == Unable to Install Anything Else

2007-10-02 Thread Scarletdown
I'm trying to install a new kernel (going from 2.8.18-3-k7 to 2.6.22-2-k7) so that I can update my video drivers. However, I keep getting this annoyance that causes anything I try to install to fail: You might want to run 'apt-get -f install' to correct these: The following packages have unmet de

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:46:51PM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > > > hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > > cdrtools*. > > > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on > > one of

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 04:18:13PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:13:12 -0700 > Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > > > > > Oddly enough, when I try to download PDFs from the institution's site, > > > t

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread ss11223
On Oct 2, 3:40 pm, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$TEST}; do echo $i; done > {1..3} > > in the first example, its obvious.

cxoffice graphical resolution

2007-10-02 Thread remigio
Hi, I've installed cxoffice 6.0.0 professional on my Debian Etch and it runs fine. When I launch a windows application (i.e. Microsoft Access) cxoffice executes it at a too higher graphical resolution and I can't read the screen! How may I set the resolution lower? Thanks. Remigio -- To UNSUBSC

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:48:04PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$T

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Ken Irving
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 11:49:16AM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 I don't get that result (you did say 'bash', right?): [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/ 0$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done {1..3} Hmm... that was on a sarge s

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:48:04PM -0700, Mike Bird wrote: > On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > > 1 > > 2 > > 3 > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$T

Re: P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/02/2007 11:48 AM, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Hello all, I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. This computer seems very picky ov

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 11:13:12 -0700 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:13 -0500 > > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I wrote: > > > > How are they doing this detection [of Acroread

Re: cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread Wayne Topa
steef([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > > hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and > cdrtools*. > > two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on > one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of > cdrecord/cdr-

Re: bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Mike Bird
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 11:49, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > Hey folks, help me out with this...please > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done > 1 > 2 > 3 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$TEST}; do echo $i; done > {1..3} > > > in the first example, its obvious. In

Re: disks available

2007-10-02 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 16:50:23 +0200 Ivan Glushkov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > a simple question: Is there a way under linux, as a user (i.e. > without superuser privileges) to find out how many hard drives are > physically connected on the computer? I am not interested in the info > g

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey there, Just came across this small utility. It might help. Install 'pdftk' from aptitude or apt-get. I was using it this morning to combine pdf files. It has a 'decrypt' option. I am not sure if this is for passwords or it can work for the signed pdfs. Hopefully it works. Check it out. --

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: > I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp > archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over > 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). > I have considered using axel

bash expansion crap...

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Hey folks, help me out with this...please [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ for i in {1..3}; do echo $i; done 1 2 3 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ TEST=3; for i in {1..$TEST}; do echo $i; done {1..3} in the first example, its obvious. In the second, $TEST gets replaced with 3, but then the {} doesn't get expanded. I'm

Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 03:34:57AM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 00:28]: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:49:35PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: > >> * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071001 23:00]: > >>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:3

cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread steef
hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and cdrtools*. two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of cdrecord/cdr-tools completely damaged two brandnew cdrom's. jörg asked m

Re: capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 10:07:17AM +0100, Frank Wilson wrote: > I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp > archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over > 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). > I have considered using axel

Re: SuperTux displays blank screen on launch

2007-10-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hi thanks for the reply. I tried --sdl option and --opengl but still to no avail. I tried googling and it looks like some others have experienced the problem but I can't seem to find a concrete solution to it. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROT

Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:45:58PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:13 -0500 > John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I wrote: > > > How are they doing this detection [of Acroread]? > > > > Celejar writes: > > > I don't know. > > > > I suggest you concentrate your efforts

URGENT: Intel Corporation Q963/Q965 : xorg problem

2007-10-02 Thread Stephane Durieux
Hello, I have a serious problem with Q963/Q965 graphic intel card. I use the driver i810 and everything seems ok except when I try to switch from X to console and to back to X. Then the display seems to be desynchronised. I have tried a X restart but without success ... The only thing wich succe

Re: Possible Interrupt problem?

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 01:41:04AM -0400, Eric Estes wrote: > I recently purchased a Shuttle XPC SN27P2 which uses the Nvidia nForce > 570 Ultra chipset. Getting Debian installed (or any other distro) is > easy enough and my onboard NIC is detected (Marvell 88E1116) but my > network speed is as slo

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Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 10:22:25PM -0700, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > so turn off remote control of the motion app and just put up the web > images. As I said originally, I'm sure you could tunnel it through ssh > if you wanted, though what the use of that is, i don't know. make use > of dynam

disks available

2007-10-02 Thread Ivan Glushkov
Hi all, a simple question: Is there a way under linux, as a user (i.e. without superuser privileges) to find out how many hard drives are physically connected on the computer? I am not interested in the info given by /etc/fstab or by the df command, since both of them are showing mounted disk

Re: Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Oct 02, 2007 at 12:23:19PM -0500, Jim Hall wrote: > Background: Two Etch installs literally accross the street from each > other with different owners. Mixed up my notes and installed a user > account from the first on the second. The Gnome user manager tool won't > remove the home director

gpib

2007-10-02 Thread Ólafur Jens Sigurðsson
Hi I am trying to get the gpib kernel modules to compile on my computer by using the debian package but when issuing the module-assistant auto-install gpib command I get the follwing errors: dh_clean find /usr/src/modules/gpib \( -name '*.[oas]' -o -name '*.ko' \ -o -name core -o

Re: Etch-backports and gpg problems (SOLVED)

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Sep 25, 2007 at 08:37:12AM -0500, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > What about: > sudo (command_1 | command_2) Won't work -- the ()s are shell metacharacters, and sudo knows nothing about them. What you would need to do this with j

Re: Debian packages without md5sums

2007-10-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Mon, Sep 24, 2007 at 05:37:51AM +, Felix Karpfen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > >> But How do you use the key(s) listed in "/etc/apt/trusted.gpg" to > >> authenticate the individual installed packages. > > > > Oh, dpkg automatically checks it for you when you use apt-get/aptitude

cdrecord vs. wodim again

2007-10-02 Thread steef
hi all and *especially jörg s., long-term initiator of cdrecord and cdrtools*. two weeks ago i asked on this list 'what is better': cdrecord or wodim. on one of the responses i answered that the most recent version of cdrecord/cdr-tools completely damaged two brandnew cdrom's. jörg asked me

Lasati tinerii in pace , comunistilor

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Re: FLOSS support for signed PDFs

2007-10-02 Thread Celejar
On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 12:49:13 -0500 John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I wrote: > > How are they doing this detection [of Acroread]? > > Celejar writes: > > I don't know. > > I suggest you concentrate your efforts on finding out (and publish your > results, of course). Once you can spoof t

Re: SuperTux displays blank screen on launch

2007-10-02 Thread Matthew K Poer
On Tuesday 02 October 2007 3:15 am, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > Recently installed Debian Etch on an old PowerBook G4. Running beautifully. > I installed supertux from aptitude and install went fine. I tried launching > but all I get is a blank screen. I can hear the sounds but that i

Re: Emacs and python programming language

2007-10-02 Thread Pál Csányi
2007/10/1, Levi Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, 2007-10-01 at 20:26 +0200, Pál Csányi wrote: > > But, it seems to me that that Emacs has no major mode for the python > > language. > > Is it true? :( > > no it's not, do apt-get install -y python-mode to install it. Thanks! I installed it

Gnome delete user

2007-10-02 Thread Jim Hall
Background: Two Etch installs literally accross the street from each other with different owners. Mixed up my notes and installed a user account from the first on the second. The Gnome user manager tool won't remove the home directory (I don't know if that's the only thing it won't remove). I woul

Re: etch + xp

2007-10-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
On Tue, 2007-10-02 at 05:10 +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Marcelo Chiapparini wrote: > > > > But I want to install XP in another disk, different from which etch is > > installed. So XP will install its own bootmanager into the mbr of this > > different disk. Am I wright? Remember that I can te

P-II ASUS box won't boot another drive

2007-10-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I bought an 8 GB drive for my P-II so that I don't have to scrimp so much when installing (see previous theads). I also found a 1.1 GB drive. The box used to have an 8 GB drive that died last year. This computer seems very picky over what drives it will actually boot. The origional 8

Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-10-02 Thread Liam O'Toole
On Tue, 02 Oct 2007 05:46:01 +0530 Raj Kiran Grandhi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Henrique G. Abreu wrote: > > I'm running Lenny. > > I've inserted the lines to .bashrc as you sad > > but it only worked to the terminal > > it had no effect in gnome (eg: using Alt+F2) > > > > I inserted 'source /e

Re: PATH to java in X11

2007-10-02 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sun, 30 Sep 2007 20:39:28 -0300 "Henrique G. Abreu" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've created /etc/environment file like this > JAVA_HOME="/opt/jdk1.5.0_12" > export JAVA_HOME There's no need to export the variables defined in /etc/environment... > PATH="$PATH:$JAVA_HOME/bin" > export PATH .

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-02 Thread Daniele Salatti
Hi, I used apt to set up everything. How could this appen? Daniele 2007/10/1, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 00:14:42 +0200, Daniele Salatti wrote: > > Hi! > > I'm trying to set up a mailserver on Debian etch for the first time, but > I > > have a problem: every t

Re: problem with postfix and libsasl2

2007-10-02 Thread Daniele Salatti
Already installed... 2007/10/1, Miles Bader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > You need to install the package "libsasl2-modules". > > -Miles > > -- > My books focus on timeless truths. -- Donald Knuth > -- Daniele Salatti http://www.salatti.net

capping the apt-getting of packages from ftp.xy.debian.org to < 50KBps?

2007-10-02 Thread Frank Wilson
I seem to find it hard to get a decent speed for any of the ftp archive mirrors. I've tried using net-select but I rarely get over 50KBps and often get less than 30KBps (big B stands for bytes here!). I have considered using axel instead of wget with apt-get (to increase my download speed by downlo

Re: webcam html and ftp servers: restricting access

2007-10-02 Thread Russell L. Harris
* Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071002 00:28]: > On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 11:49:35PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: >> * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [071001 23:00]: >>> On Mon, Oct 01, 2007 at 07:30:06PM -0500, Russell L. Harris wrote: * Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL

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SuperTux displays blank screen on launch

2007-10-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Recently installed Debian Etch on an old PowerBook G4. Running beautifully. I installed supertux from aptitude and install went fine. I tried launching but all I get is a blank screen. I can hear the sounds but that is it. Any ideas? Thanks. -- Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Recommended MPLAYER config for old computers

2007-10-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey there, Thanks for the reply. > > ~/.mplayer/config: > > vo=xv > ao=alsa > cache=4096 (but this was due to playing some .avi from network drive) > autoq=6 > vf=pp > framedrop=yes > I tried out the settings but it still doesn't seem to help. I get a bunch of these errors repeatedly. a52:

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