Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > GNOME and KDE are *supposed* to do this for you. That is what I would like. I use KDE. > If he uses GNOME, does OP have gnome-mount and gnome-volume-manager > installed? What is the KDE equivilent? Note that when I insert a CD, the "what to

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Michael Yang
I'm trying geany now, it's light weight and easy to use. working on it. cheers. On Jan 9, 2008 7:39 PM, Micha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 06:44:27 -0800 > Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:30:57PM +0800, Michael Yang > > <[EMAIL PROTE

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Dave Sherohman
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:45:15PM -0800, Sam wrote: > if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop, > which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1] That's rather wasteful of memory, which becomes a concern with larger files. If the objective is i

Re: resize2fs

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 10:26:54PM -0500, Rick Pasotto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > I would like to increase the size of my /var partition. It is a logical > volume so I made it bigger with lvexpand. I then ran resize2fs, which > according to the man page works on mounted file systems w

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Sam
if i read you correctly, you can read the file into an array and use pop, which will return the last element read.Or you could use @array[-1] On 1/9/08, Chris Howie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 9, 2008 10:04 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is there a way to place the

Re: Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 10:04 PM, ISHWAR RATTAN <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to place the last line read > when reading from a file? My suspicion is there > is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. > What do you mean by "place?" -- Chris Howie http://www.chrishowie.com http://en.wikipe

Re: resize2fs

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Reid
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:26, Rick Pasotto wrote: > I would like to increase the size of my /var partition. It is a logical > volume so I made it bigger with lvexpand. I then ran resize2fs, which > according to the man page works on mounted file systems with kernels > after 2.6 and my kernel

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 05:33:56PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > but I'm not sure how to read from it. Where is the ASCII output from > the unit going, theoretically? Problem resolved--sort of. You actually have to scan a control code to tell the unit it's attached to a "notebook" even if it isn

Re: Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Perrin
On Wed, 9 Jan 2008, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on us

Re: re-using a damaged disk

2008-01-09 Thread Ivan Savcic
On Jan 7, 2008 5:15 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 07, 2008 at 03:58:47PM +0100, Ivan Savcic wrote: > > On Jan 7, 2008 3:37 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Even if the filesystem type didn't need to be fsck'ed, for a damaged > > > drive I w

resize2fs

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
I would like to increase the size of my /var partition. It is a logical volume so I made it bigger with lvexpand. I then ran resize2fs, which according to the man page works on mounted file systems with kernels after 2.6 and my kernel is 2.6.22-3-k7. However, this is the output of the command: res

Perl realted question..

2008-01-09 Thread ISHWAR RATTAN
Is there a way to place the last line read when reading from a file? My suspicion is there is no such thing but i do want to confirm.. -ishwar -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

ntpd restart on IP address change the Debian way

2008-01-09 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Cameron Hutchison wrote: Bob wrote: Bob wrote: Is there such a thing? When my firewall / dhcp server / ntp server gets a fresh IP address from my ISP the ntp daemon stops responding to requests. Is the silence because it's a stupid question or because there isn't a pr

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-09 Thread KS
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 05:19:54PM -0500, KS wrote: >> I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run >> the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. The >> machine just halts sometimes, with the disk trying to read something

Re: sid scim and firefox: libgdk-x11-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_once_init_enter_impl

2008-01-09 Thread David Fox
On 1/9/08, Joel Roth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Turned out I had some libraries in /usr/local/lib that were > a problem. Always a pitfall for me, and probably lots of others. I know I've been bitten numerous times with cruft in /usr/local that conflicts with other stuff, although I'm pretty su

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:31:48PM +0100, Nigel Henry wrote: > On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: > > Nigel Henry writes: > > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > > > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > >

emacs and svn

2008-01-09 Thread Misko
Does emacs support svn version control as it does with cvs? And how do I enable that feature. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Free Radicals.

2008-01-09 Thread David
Hello, I've been involved with the CooperationCommons group for a while, but I thought this might be interesting to post here. http://groups.google.com/group/CooperationCommons/browse_thread/thread/8843ae58b3519346?hl=en Some of these people are doomed to fail, garner a few adherents or bec

Re: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
David Jardine wrote: On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I try to use awk to print second field from a text file but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? aptit

Barcode scanner via USB

2008-01-09 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a WASP pen scanner that seems to be recognized by the kernel: usbcore: registered new interface driver hiddev input: Marson Wasp Barcode USBi as /class/input/input3 input: USB HID v1.00 Keyboard [Marson Wasp Barcode USBi] on usb-:00:03.3-1.7 usbcore: registered

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Mike Bird
On Wed January 9 2008 13:51:21 Jimmy Wu wrote: > The reasons I don't want Vista are as follows: > (1) Microsoft claims even the Home Basic needs "20 GB hard drive with > at least 15 GB of available space" (see > http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/windowsvista/editions/systemrequi >rements.ms

Re: Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Johnson
On Jan 9, 2008 1:06 PM, Rogelio <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to > Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to > Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview > of what's run

Re: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > >

Re: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread David Jardine
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > >

[OT] Anybody using Pic'nRoll Trully media player for oggs?

2008-01-09 Thread Javier Vasquez
Hi, I acquired a Pic'nRoll Trully media player which is advertised to interpret oggs from Q1 to Q10. My experience, even with latest firmware from their site, is that it doesn't play oggs nice, since I experience little jumps and sometimes the player gets stuck for a little while as well. Not to

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 06:18:39PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > > I do on my home server > > > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > > > > > Now I want to reinstall all these pac

Re: Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Alex Teclo
2008/1/9, Jostein Elvaker Haande <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Alex Teclo wrote: > > [snip] > > I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life > > stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. > > This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it > > might be s

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:22, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/09/08 14:59, Nigel Henry wrote: > [snip] > > > I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up > > bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract > > spammers. A link to a known mailing list that wa

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread David
Nate Bargmann wrote: * Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jan 09 08:29 -0600]: Side note: I just can't get my head around GUI stuff, and my wife is increasingly annoyed by the GNOME desktop I installed for her and wants to go back to Windows. After more than a decade of working on well-honed (for

Re: Converting 3gp to avi

2008-01-09 Thread Rico Secada
On Tue, 01 Jan 2008 18:35:14 + Mark Clarkson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 20:59 +, Mark Clarkson wrote: > > On Mon, 2007-12-31 at 19:48 +0100, Rico Secada wrote: > > > Thanks, but this seems to need some unsupported codecs or > > > something? > > > > I needed to do t

Re: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Ken Irving
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:48:38PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > >

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Dan H <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jan 09 08:29 -0600]: > Side note: I just can't get my head around GUI stuff, and my wife is > increasingly annoyed by the GNOME desktop I installed for her and wants > to go back to Windows. After more than a decade of working on > well-honed (for my needs) Linux

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:03, John Hasler wrote: > Nigel Henry writes: > > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > > fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to de

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
michael wrote: On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Dan H wrote: On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written using bash syntax. They are,

Re: Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

2008-01-09 Thread Wayne Topa
Rogelio([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: > Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to > Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to > Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview > of what's running,

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 22:12, Chris Howie wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up > > bogofilter to > > deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to > > a > > kn

Re: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61

2008-01-09 Thread Jimmy Wu
Thanks to Chris and Mike for your responses - I appreciate your input and time On Jan 9, 2008 6:14 AM, Chris Lale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Perhaps it would be best to install with dual booting by shrinking your > Windoze > partition - have a look at the Debian NewbieDOC wiki [1]. and

Re: Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
top free vmstat? you might want to google about monitoring linux in general On 1/9/08, Shane D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey, > > What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a > machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to > see if the studder

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 15:35, Bob McGowan wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspa

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
Dotan Cohen wrote: On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 21:33:03 +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman wrote: > > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > > lshal). > > I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. The amount of information is a bit

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/09/08 14:59, Nigel Henry wrote: [snip] I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up bogofilter to deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to a known mailing list that wasn't too bothered about spam on their list would have been usefull

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Chris Howie writes: > The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers > with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll > have more test data than you know what to do with. But it may not have the right "flavor". I've found that different addresse

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread John Hasler
Nigel Henry writes: > I am genuinly trying to resolve the problem of filtering out spam, that > occasionally turns up on mailing lists. As I've said bogofilter works > fine with non mailing list spam, but something extra is needed to deal > with mailing list spam. I find that Spamassassin works fi

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-09 Thread Bob McGowan
hce wrote: On 1/8/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: Hi, Is following burn CD command correct? I've got following errors: $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,1,0 101) '' 'ATAPI CDROM

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 9 Jan, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> > >> > > I try to use awk to print second fiel

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 3:59 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I was trying to get a resolution to the problem of how to set up > bogofilter to > deal with mailing list spam, not deliberately attract spammers. A link to > a > known mailing list that wasn't too bothered about spam on their list w

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > You can tell aptitude that you want a list of only the package names: > > aptitude -F%p search ~i Thank you! I should read better the aptitude man pages! -- Regards, Paul Csanyi http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

Debian equiv to Windows' procmon?

2008-01-09 Thread Rogelio
Being relatively new to Debian / Linux, I'm looking for equivalents to Windows tools that I'm used to. For example, what is the "equivalent" to Window's procmon? Something like 'ps -ef', I know, gives a basic overview of what's running, but how do you drill down and correlate that with other thing

Getting System Stats

2008-01-09 Thread Shane D
Hey, What would one type in to the shell to get some of the statistics of a machine? I am running asterisk on an old laptop, and I want to try to see if the studder I am recieving is caused by a terrible processor... -- -Shane Blog: http://blind-geek.com/blog/ CoOwner: http://sjtechzone.com AIM:

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Daniel Mahoney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I think I'm missing something here. Why are you doing the FIELDWIDTHS > thing when you can just split on whitespace? Won't something like: > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{print $2}' > give you what you want? No. The records for awk are like these lin

Re: C++ SQL interface

2008-01-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Nuno Magalhães wrote: Hi, i'm developing a small academic project and need to link to an Oracle database using C++ I'm kinda lost as far as google and oracle.com go, i asusme i oughta implement some Class, i just can't find it. The code is supposed to work in any platform and we're compiling it w

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 21:23, Chris Howie wrote: > Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. > > The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers > with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll > have more test data than you know

Re: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread judd
On 9 Jan, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> >> > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file >> > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as

Re: Vá: Vá : awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 14:16:38 -0600, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés wrote: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi: > > > So, if you only need package name: > > > > > > aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f3 > > > > It is cut, not awk. > > Howewer, it is not god. The output file contains empty lines > > besides of the pack

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
Wow dude... just wow. Somebody is wound tight today. The comment I posted did have a useful suggestion. Try to bait spammers with a test email address. Post it places, give it to spammers. You'll have more test data than you know what to do with. I was trying to offer a tip while bringing a c

Re: Vá: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > So, if you only need package name: > > > > aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f3 > > It is cut, not awk. > Howewer, it is not god. The output file contains empty lines > besides of the package names. No blank lines : aptitude search ~i | cut -d" " -f

Vá: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > > but awk prints a pa

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
On Wednesday 09 January 2008 19:58, Chris Howie wrote: > On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it > > as an > > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter > > out > > the

Re: startx from terminal or telnet

2008-01-09 Thread Kent West
hagit wrote: Hi, I have a very strange phenomenon. I connect to my box with telnet, SSH is generally preferred to telnet nowadays for security reasons. change to super user (root) and run It's generally recommended to not run X as root. (It's generally not recommended to run anything

Re: Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > > > aptitude search ~i

Vá: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Sergio Cuéllar Valdés <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } > > {pri

Re: Absolutely cannot write to USB drive

2008-01-09 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 09/01/2008, Sjoerd Hardeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It is strange that hal isn't mounting it. Is hal running properly (try > lshal). I got lots of output from that command, so I assume that HAL is running. > You can mount in userspace using pmount /dev/sdb1. It will then mount > under /me

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread David Brodbeck
On Jan 9, 2008, at 10:58 AM, Chris Howie wrote: On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it as an opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter out the mailing list spam.

startx from terminal or telnet

2008-01-09 Thread hagit
Hi, I have a very strange phenomenon. I connect to my box with telnet, change to super user (root) and run 'startx'. Then, if I don't run anything else from my telnet window (the same window I run the 'startx' from) everything goes fine. The X starts and I can work normally. BUT - If I run any comm

Re: awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Sergio Cuéllar Valdés
2008/1/9, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hello! > > I try to use awk to print second field from a text file > but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? > > aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } > {print $2}' > foltelepitett_debian_csomagok > > less foltel

awk FIELDWIDTHS howto?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I try to use awk to print second field from a text file but awk prints a part of 1. field as a 2. field. Why? aptitude search ~i | awk '{ NF = "2" } { FIELDWIDTHS = " 4 32 " } {print $2}' > foltelepitett_debian_csomagok less foltelepitett_debian_csomagok .. bsdmainutils bsdutils busybox

Re: How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 9, 2008 1:51 PM, Nigel Henry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it > as an > opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter > out > the mailing list spam. > Give your address to one of those "refer 10

Power management settings for Gnome

2008-01-09 Thread andy
Hi all and best for 2008! On a Lenny desktop system, using Gnome as my DE, I am wanting to accomplish the following: after a pre-set period of time a screensaver comes on for a pre-set period of time and then the monitor turns itself off/goes into standby/sleep mode. 30 minutes for each pre-

How to filter out mailing list spam with bogofilter

2008-01-09 Thread Nigel Henry
I'm a bit disappointed that the spam problem is fixed, as I was using it as an opportunity to try and get bogofilter, which I use with Kmail to filter out the mailing list spam. The suggestion I got from the bogofilter mailing list is to set up an ignorelist.db, in the same directory as the wo

Re: tapes best for backup?

2008-01-09 Thread Joe Brenner
David Dyer-Bennet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > s. keeling wrote: > > I've never run across a CD I couldn't still read, and I've a few old > > ones. DVD, I would expect to be even better. For me, tape's good > > enough. > Why would you expect DVD to be better? I'd expect it to be worse, for >

Re: Broken Swedish keyboard layout

2008-01-09 Thread Davide Mancusi
Florian Kulzer ha scritto: [...] However, the Swedish (se) layout has been broken for a while now. If I type "qwerty", for example, I obtain "@ł€rt←", which is a bit annoying. Anyone with the same problem? Running Sid on amd64. I also run Sid on amd64. I see the same broken behavior when I u

Re: ipw3945 takes a while to warm up???

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:21:08AM +, Mark Fletcher wrote: > A few days ago, in the middle of a spam storm, I wrote: > > > > > Hi list > > > > I'm running etch on a Toshiba Satellite laptop I picked up about a year > > ago now in Hong Kong. It's on my home wireless LAN supported by a > > Buf

Re: Goodbye

2008-01-09 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 04:51:36PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Tuesday 08 January 2008 16:09, Joel Roberts wrote: > > I've gotten a lot of good information from this list, and hopefully > > supplied some as well, but I'm not going to weed through hundreds of > > spam e-mails weekly to pursu

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
2008/1/9, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > > I do on my home server > > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > > > How

Re: [OT] [SOLVED] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Martin Marcher wrote: > we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk > space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. > > We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. > > Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we expand the RAID set > to a net o

Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-09 Thread Scott Lair
Brian McKee wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: > > > I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems > >to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. > >It didn't have this problem previously when

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Martin Marcher
Rick Thomas wrote: > Whatever you decide to do... > > Do a full backup first! Been there done that. Since that (not so amusing) memory I do have cyclic backups with the option to trigger it whenever needed (like now) :) martin -- http://noneisyours.marcher.name http://feeds.feedburner.com/None

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Patter
On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:10:12 +0100, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > >> Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could get to i

Re: No DNS consistency checks in Debian spam filter?

2008-01-09 Thread Joe
Mike Bird wrote: On Tue January 8 2008 13:30:22 John Hasler wrote: Mike Bird writes: No, I checked headers during the flood. Debian was forwarding spam directly received from hosts with PTR records without matching A records. That just means it doesn't use your favorite method (because many I

C++ SQL interface

2008-01-09 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Hi, i'm developing a small academic project and need to link to an Oracle database using C++ I'm kinda lost as far as google and oracle.com go, i asusme i oughta implement some Class, i just can't find it. The code is supposed to work in any platform and we're compiling it with both g++ and VisualS

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi wrote: > I do on my home server > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > How can I do that? > > I tried: > # aptitude reinstall > but n

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-09 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 09 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:15:10AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > On 08 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > > On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 A

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Hans Vogelsberger
I am afraid I am responsible for this thread. Therefore just some words. Chris Howie is reported to have said about spam: ... people could stop talking about it and get back to their lives, since it was fixed some hours ago. Wayne Topa wrote: ... This seems to come up at least once a year.

Re: [OT] Areca 1210 "Capacity Expansion"

2008-01-09 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 9, 2008, at 4:53 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: Hello, we own an areca 1210 and currently have a RAID5 with 4x250GB. As disk space is low we'd like to replace it with 4x1000GB. We already found a supported disk, hotpluggable, etc. Now after subsequently replacing the drives how can we e

Re: aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 02:37:30PM +0100, Paul Csanyi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Hello! > > I do on my home server > aptitude search ~i >installed_packages > > Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in > 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. > > How can I do that? >

Re: What is going on in debian-user?

2008-01-09 Thread Michelle Konzack
Hello *, Am 2008-01-08 14:34:55, schrieb Jochen Schulz: > Hans Vogelsberger: > > > > [...] Well, in the meantime it seems that every spam is let through > > by the debian-user filters. > > No: . > > The amount of spam that has passed

Re: What's your tools for C++ dev?

2008-01-09 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 06:44:27AM -0800, Daniel Burrows <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > libstdc++6-4.2-doc has some documentation for C++ stuff, but for > the STL stl-manual. I meant to say that "for the STL I prefer the documentation in stl-manual". You can also find this by typing "

Re: Another flood of spam

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 11:01:10AM +, Qubby wrote: > On Mon, 07 Jan 2008 16:41:36 -0500, Chris Howie wrote: > > > Or nobody cares about Ubuntu? He shoots, he scores! > > I might have used Ubuntu but it didn't work on this very old (ne antique) > box. In fact Debian was the only thing I could

Re: Error message about cdrom tray open during boot

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 09:15:10AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > On 08 Jan 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:37:09AM +, Anthony Campbell wrote: > > > On 07 Jan 2008, Paul Johnson wrote: > > > > On Jan 7, 2008 6:57 AM, Anthony Campbell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > > wr

Re: mount dvd error

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Jan 09, 2008 at 08:36:22PM +1100, hce wrote: > On 1/9/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:10:14PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > > Is "cdck" a command? I could not find it, or should I install it, what > > > is the package? > > > > > > > package cdck. >

Re: ssh X11Forward safety

2008-01-09 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 09:20:12PM -0800, Todd A. Jacobs wrote: > On Tue, Jan 08, 2008 at 10:47:16AM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > > security of my data and a need to use a browser with javascript and > > sometimes flash; some sites only work with Iceweasel. > > You're over-complicating this

Re: Computer won't resume from S3

2008-01-09 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 8-Jan-08, at 1:26 PM, Brian McKee wrote: I have a PC here (mainboard IBM 819966U) running Etch that seems to hang after sitting idle for a long period of time. It didn't have this problem previously when using Mandrake 10.1 although I have ch

Slow scrolling in openoffice 2.3 calc charts

2008-01-09 Thread Bob
Has anyone else seen this behaviour with up-down scrolling in openoffice 2.3. as I am not sure whether this is a problem with openoffice of my PC. I have a complex spreadsheet which generates several mainly x-y (scatter) charts. Since upgrading to v2.3 scrolling up and down the charts has become e

aptitude reinstall from file contained package names?

2008-01-09 Thread Paul Csanyi
Hello! I do on my home server aptitude search ~i >installed_packages Now I want to reinstall all these packages listed in 'installed_packages' file, with aptitude. How can I do that? I tried: # aptitude reinstall http://www.freewebs.com/csanyi-pal/index.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Bug in X with Sid?

2008-01-09 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, In using the *tremulous* game in Debian Sid I get the following: 1. Not upgrading Xserver-xorg it works fine. Last August's version: ii xserver-xorg 1:7.2-5the X.Org X server ii xserver-xorg-core2:1.3.0.0.dfsg-12 X.Org X s

Re: Burn CD

2008-01-09 Thread steef
hce wrote: On 1/8/08, steef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hce wrote: Hi, Is following burn CD command correct? I've got following errors: $ sudo cdrecord -scanbus cdrecord: Warning: controller returns wrong size for CD capabilities page. 1,1,0 101) '' 'ATAPI CD

Re: bash scripts and files

2008-01-09 Thread michael
On Wed, 2008-01-09 at 13:26 +0100, Dan H wrote: > On Wed, 09 Jan 2008 12:03:07 + > michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > .bashrc and .bash_profile are different. They are only reasonably > > > invoked by a bash shell, so it is safe to assume they are written > > > using bash syntax. They

Re: OT: dying disk - data recovery recommendations

2008-01-09 Thread Jochen Schulz
KS: > > I have a friend's G4(PPC) which seems to have a dying disk. He had run > the Apple disk utility and it reported and error with the IDE disk. I am in exactly the same situation, currently. My approach is to use dd_rescue (package name: ddrescue) to dump the disk's content and now I am abou

Re: Second Life stopped working after upgrading Debian lenny

2008-01-09 Thread Jostein Elvaker Haande
Alex Teclo wrote: [snip] I have noticed that, on 2008-01-05, the Linux version of Second Life stopped working on my Debian lenny x86 machine. This was a few minutes after I did aptitude upgrade, so I suspect it might be some due to the installation of a new version of some package. This is Se

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