Re: I need some help (Issues with amule, azureus and vlc)

Tony wrote: > The error was 'BadAlloc (insufficient resources for operation)'. You might have run out of memory. Try adding more RAM to the system and see if it works David S -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

Mark Neidorff wrote: On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote: I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a connection I don't e

Re: I need some help

Hello! Tony <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I have a problem with amule, azureus and vlc > I'm running Debian version 4.0 r1 etch i386 > When I try to run this programs from the menu nothing happens and whe > I executed the programs in the terminal I get the following output [...] Have a look at th

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:30:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote: I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe ju

Re: OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:30:59PM -0600, Kent West wrote: > I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the > newsletter of the local amateur radio (ham) club. It'd be nice if it > were cross-platform, and preferably easy-peazy on Linux and maybe just > as easy on OS/X a

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 06:54:10PM -0800, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Jan 18, 2008 6:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. > > Or at least since the 2.6 kernel became commonplace. Nothing like swapping to a swap file

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into > where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the > disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the > beginning, immediate

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 10:51:13PM +0100, Thomas Damgaard wrote: > I do not have any monitor or a keyboard, so I cannot see exactly what > is happening, but I have taken the primary hard drive out and put it > in an USB enclosure, so that I can mount the root filesystem of the > server on my lapt

Re: tcl8.5 & tk8.5

--- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of > these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? > > Is there a way to build them for Etch? > > The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. > > I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using > for

Re: tcl8.5 & tk8.5

--- Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of > these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? > > Is there a way to build them for Etch? > > The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. > > I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using > for

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 04:11:17PM -0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > > I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian > install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. > I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly > conflicting advice. For

Re: GTK update problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:15:15 -0600 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK > > update ? > > > > Updated iceweasel yesterday in Sid and that pulled in > libgtk2.0-0_2.12.

I need some help

I have a problem with amule, azureus and vlc I'm running Debian version 4.0 r1 etch i386 When I try to run this programs from the menu nothing happens and whe I executed the programs in the terminal I get the following output Initialising aMule Checking if there is an instance already running... N

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

On Jan 18, 2008 6:30 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think it's foolish to have a swap *partition* in the 21st century. Or at least since the 2.6 kernel became commonplace. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsu

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/08 16:18, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I like to put mine on a disk. > > Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into > where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the > disk? At the end? I though

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Damon L. Chesser wrote: Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a "group reply" to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell m

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Jimmy Wu wrote: Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a "group reply" to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Wow, thanks for the many quick responses. I'm doing a "group reply" to the list by quoting everyone in one message. Not sure if this is top-posting, bottom-posting, or conversational-posting, but if this goes against mailing list etiquette, please tell me/flame me gently, and I won't do it again.

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:32:25PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it is part of /bin, /lib

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

On 2008-01-18T16:11:17-0500, Jimmy Wu wrote: > (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. I use ext3 on same hardware, and (clean) mounts do not take any significant time: [ 19.209034] EXT3-fs: mounted filesystem with ordered data mode. [ 19.209039] VFS: Mounted

OT: How to detect a keypress, and in which language?

Hey folks! Apologies for the very off-topic post; I've been googling for the answer off-and-on for two days unsuccessfully, so I've finally decided to turn to the smartest group of people around. I want to write a basic little Morse Code key program to put into the newsletter of the local am

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Quoth Hugo Vanwoerkom: > > ext2. Never have used any other. I seriously hope that this was a joke... Aleks signature.asc Description: Digital signature

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Quoth Jimmy Wu: > I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly > conflicting advice. That's because file systems are Voodoo. Everyone wants to take part in the discussion, without anyone really understanding what they're talking about. > For example, an article from >

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 17:32:25 -0500 Allan Wind <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than > > > > ext3? > > > > no to either > > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > > it

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? http://lissot.net/partition/partition-04.html -- David Palmer Linux User - #352034 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL P

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 02:18:50PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into > where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the > disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the > beginning, immediate

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

Quoth [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > I like to put mine on a disk. > > Just kidding. Why? Putting your swap somewhere else is actually quite useful. If you have a one of those new solid state & conventional disk laptop hybrids (the Samsung R70 comes to my mind) then putting swap on the solid state disk m

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

On 2008-01-18T14:05:25-0800, Alvin Oga wrote: > > > (8) Is there any advantage to using ext2 for /boot rather than ext3? > > no to either > /boot should not be a single partition by itself.. > it is part of /bin, /lib, /sbin /etc ... which is the rootfs > > even if /boot is fin

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, im

Where do you put your swap partition?

I like to put mine on a disk. Just kidding. My actual question is, should I put any thought into where on the disk I place the swap partition? At the beginning of the disk? At the end? I thought it might be best to have it at the beginning, immediately followed by root, and with other partitio

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 22:51:13 +0100 "Thomas Damgaard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi > > I hope you can help me. My situation is this: > > After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my > server does not boot. > > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the

Re: Server fails to boot after upgrade

Quoth Thomas Damgaard: > The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, > and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails > just after GRUB or something. GRUB would actually want to read from the disk. After initial BIOS bootstrapping, the master boot s

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question:

hi ya > Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > > Jimmy Wu wrote: > > (1) ext3 mounts and unmounts slowly, resulting in increased boot times. any journally fs will be "slower" than non-journaling fs ( ext2, dos, etc ) > > (2) Neither JFS nor XFS can be made smaller, although they can be > > extended if neede

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administra

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. Hello Jimmy, I have found: Xfs is best for large file sizes, if that's what you are dealing with - graphics, and the ilk; Reiserfs

Server fails to boot after upgrade

Hi I hope you can help me. My situation is this: After upgrading some packages (including kernel upgrade, I think) my server does not boot. The IDE activity LED does not blink a lot after I turn the power on, and I cannot hear the disk head moving. So I am figuring that it fails just after GRUB

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) > > > > richbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 18, 9:00 am, "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For months,

Re: which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Jimmy Wu wrote: Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administra

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

Larry writes: > What I'm thinking is maybe Verizon gives people different modems. My > modem says it's a DSL2+Router, so maybe it would work if it was just a > DSL2 modem without the Router? Pppoeconfig will work if the modem is configured for bridge mode (like mine) but not if it is configured a

which to use: ext3, JFS, XFS, ReiserFS? [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

Hello, I am trying to decide on which file systems to use for a Debian install on a personal laptop. It's a Thinkpad T61 with one 160 GB HD. I've looked around on Google, and come up with a lot of frustratingly conflicting advice. For example, an article from debian-administration touts XFS as

Re: Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

Michael Bonert wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get some software > packaged and on debian? > > Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? > > --- > I came across a neat little reference manager for OpenOffice.org -- that > expands on the native

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Jan 18, 12:00 pm, Celejar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) > > > > richbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 18, 9:00 am, "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For months,

Re: badblocks -- how much time does it take?

On jan. 12, 22:20, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 01/12/08 11:40, Towncat wrote: > > > Hi, > > > I did a > > > /sbin/badblocks -c 10240 -w -t random -v /dev/sda2 > > Why? Don't you trust brand new disk drives? Well, you do have a point... But then, this is the only time I can do this

Sarge r7 CDs released

After a couple of false starts, we finally have the CDs and DVDs built for the latest sarge (oldstable) point release, 3.1 r7. See http://cdimage.debian.org/cdimage/archive/3.1_r7/ for all your downloading needs: ISO images, jigdo files, bittorent, etc. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK.

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:13:44 -0600 "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > You are saying that gmail no longer allows its SMTP server to be used > as a smarthost for unauthenticated users. So, unless gmail provides a > means of authentication (which is unlikely), you must use ano

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 10:31:32 -0800 (PST) richbl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 18, 9:00 am, "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, > > > however, i

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>> I do my daily backup with the following command: >>> >>> $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda >>> >>> (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian >>> Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarg

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Jan 18, 9:00 am, "Russell L. Harris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > * Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 22:42]: > ... > > >My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host > >(outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the > >help of thi

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

On Fri January 18 2008 10:20:11 Larry Fletcher wrote: > This morning I noticed something new in the plog: > > Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: pppd 2.4.4 started by root, uid 0 > Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Using interface ppp0 > Jan 18 10:05:43 lotek pppd[4903]: Cannot determine ethernet ad

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

Rich Bloch wrote: Hello all, I have a situation that I'm having a hard time resolving. I have a local Debian box whose only job in life is to perform backups daily/weekly/monthly, generate an email of either success or failure, and send that email to my gmail.com account. Fo

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Jan 18, 9:00 am, "Michael Marsh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, > > however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog > > suggests that the email is

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

> Interesting stuff all this! > > Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. > I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for > needs. > > Thanks to all. > no problem, i made it for a personal need, then put it on cli-apps so that it would not just get lost jwlockhart Register

Repository mirror ftp.us.debian.org 204.152.191.39 gone bad?

Hello, Because I live in the US I prefer to use ftp.us.debian.org as my mirror of choice in my apt source, however every once in a while I have problems with it, which makes me think I should give up and use a different mirror. I think the correct solution though is to fix the bad mirror, since

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years > with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two > ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One > ethernet card is connected to the Ve

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 05:47:20PM +0100, Mr Shunz wrote: ... > > If with Verizon's SMTP works, to me is just a sign that gmail simply > blocks your ip. This is highly likely if you're trying to run a mail server from within a dynamic ip block. And more and more big providers are doing this becau

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

n Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 12:16:28PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Why issue a 'sync' instead of just unmounting and waiting until the > thing stops flashing? sync blocks, so you can tell from the command line when the job is done. I guess this thread took a turn to USB drives, which would presu

Re: Help with debconf

Alex Gonzalez wrote: > For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script > which was using commands.getstatusoutput. Changing this with an > os.system call fixed the problem. Yes, if you redirect whiptail's output, you obviously won't see it on screen. -- see shy jo signat

Re: Question abut Debian 3.0

Nyros Technologies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Hi iam lalith, Using debain 3.0 server, Iam setting a cron job > through cron job Management can you tell me what is the commant to > use to run my file man crontab -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)h

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

On Fri, Jan 18, 2008 at 11:53:10AM -0500, Nelson Castillo wrote: > > > You may want to add "sync" as the last command in > > > your backup script do avoid data loss. > > I looked into `sync' manual but couldn't find out how to use this > > command. What should I say instead of > > `rsync -vr --d

tcl8.5 & tk8.5

Is there a way to install the latest and greatest of these programs, and there dev counterparts in Etch? Is there a way to build them for Etch? The latest pkgs are 8.5_8.5.0-2. I pretty wet behind the ears in Debianonly using for a few months. TIA. -- Angus ##Linux Laptop powered by D

Re: Help with debconf

Hi, Thanks for your help. There were two problems here, 1) debconf didn't seem to reconfigure after a purge - this was fixed with Joey's comments, thanks a lot. 2) whiptail seemed not to display a configuration dialog. For nr 2 I realized that apt-get was being run through a python script which

Re: sed -i turns link into file

Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2008-01-18 02:54:12 +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: I don't think it's a bug, but a feature. It's at least a documentation bug. The sed(1) man page says: -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplie

Re: package list for CLI-only admin/service install

Interesting stuff all this! Joseph: your metapackage is a great starting point. I'll see if I understand it enough to hack it up for needs. Thanks to all. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

* Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 22:42]: ... >My ISP is Verizon. So, I decided to try using Verizon as an SMTP host >(outgoing.verizon.net ). Currently, it appears to be working (with the >help of this procedure: > > http://lists.alioth.debian.org/pipermail/pkg-exim4-users/2

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

> > the solution is not to use the "sync" option, that also increases > > your drive's lifetime. > > I put the `sync' option just to avoid drive corruption. If it is > necessary to toggle it off, how can I be sure the process is terminated > before I unmount the drive? This was discussed sometime

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

On Jan 17, 2008 11:19 PM, Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, > however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog > suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to > gmail mail servers. Have you

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

>For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, >however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog >suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to >gmail mail servers. Actually, if you send mail to an @gmail.com account, *your* s

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

On 2008-01-18 15:32 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> I do my daily backup with the following command: >> >> $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda >> >> (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian >> Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarg

Re: Question about sending local email to gmail

* Rich Bloch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [080117 22:42]: >For months, using gmail as the SMTP relay has worked. Recently, >however, it has been failing. A review of /var/log/exim4/mainlog >suggests that the email is no longer allowed to be sent directly to >gmail mail servers. > >My IS

Re: GTK update problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 18 Jan 2008 09:23:53 -0500 Frank McCormick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK > update ? > I am running Sid and IceWm and upon further investigation only certain themes a

Re: GTK update problems

Frank McCormick wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? Updated iceweasel yesterday in Sid and that pulled in libgtk2.0-0_2.12.3-2_i386.deb libgtk2.0-common_2.12.3-2_all.deb libgtk2.0-dev_2.12.3-2_i386

Re: rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

On 2008-01-18 15:32 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > I do my daily backup with the following command: > > $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda > > (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian > Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! > I

GTK update problems

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Anybody notice the menubar missing from apps after the latest GTK update ? Cheers - -- Frank McCormick -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHkLZ9zWG7ldLG6fIRAuRTAKC3WHAFjc1A+CgeG2DQRJUJM2e93ACfYia5 wnx8oLC840

alsactl names finds nothing

Suddenly no sound. Alsamixer shows it is using the motherboard soundcard and the speakers are connected to the Creative Labs pci card. Alsaconf says it is not needed with Lenny but it will find the Creative Labs sound card. Unfortunately it also kills dsp. alsactl names finds nothing. I am

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

I have been using pppoeconf with a verizon dsl modem for three years with no problem whatsoever. I have an old box I use as a firewall - two ethernet cards and always the current Debian stable distribution. One ethernet card is connected to the Verizon dsl modem which is connected to the phone li

rsync 10 times slower in Etch than in Sarge!

I do my daily backup with the following command: $ rsync -vr --delete Mail News /mnt/sda (where `sda' is the pendrive), and I've calculated that in my new Debian Etch system the process is about 10 times slower than it was in Sarge! It is the same with both my desktop PC and my laptop. In /etc/

Re: Question regarding mailgraph.

Justin Piszcz: > http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mailgraph/news/20071027T223920Z.html > > Why exactly was this removed? The reason is in the bug report referenced by the link you posted. This bug is a serious policy violation. Mailgraph will enter testing again as soon as this bug has been fixed.

Question regarding mailgraph.

http://packages.qa.debian.org/m/mailgraph/news/20071027T223920Z.html Why exactly was this removed? I loved this tool! :( Justin. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: sed -i turns link into file

On 2008-01-18 02:54:12 +0100, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > I don't think it's a bug, but a feature. It's at least a documentation bug. The sed(1) man page says: -i[SUFFIX], --in-place[=SUFFIX] edit files in place (makes backup if extension supplied) I'd say that if it's

Re: bash history

On 2008-01-17 15:18:23 +, Magnus Therning wrote: > On 1/17/08, Vincent Lefevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > man zshoptions > > > > Look at all the options in the History section... > > Of course that was /exactly/ what I was hoping to /not/ have to do :-) > Luckily there aren't more than 18

Re: pppoeconf / Verizon DSL

On Thursday 17 January 2008 08:51 pm, Larry wrote: > I've been using Debian with dial-up for about 8 years and it's getting > pretty slow, so I thought I would try DSL. The problem is I have > absolutely no understanding of how DSL works. If I could get a > connection I don't even understand how

Re: Interesting Fetchmail Foible

Quoth David Baron: > On Wednesday 16 January 2008, Александър Л. Димитров wrote: > > Quoth David Baron: > > > Would there be any script, option, or such to solve this problem in a > > > more elegant manner and leave things alone when the network is doing what > > > it is supposed to do? > > > > Dep

Re: Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/18/08 01:57, Michael Bonert wrote: > Hi, > > What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get > some software packaged and on debian? > > Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? > > --- I came across a neat little reference

Wish list... OpenOffice.org reference manager (Bibus)

Hi, What is the best way, aside from packaging it oneself, to get some software packaged and on debian? Where can one post a wish-to-packaged request? --- I came across a neat little reference manager for OpenOffice.org -- that expands on the native OO.org ref manager and can share data with