Re: DSL modems over USB?

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Wise
On Fri, 2008-01-25 at 22:29 +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > As I see web pages, Speedstream 4200 supports ethernet too. Why not > connect it by ethernet unless you have some feature limitted version. I wanted to connect 2 computers to it - one via USB and one via DHCP. After finding the drivers fo

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 20:26, Jimmy Wu wrote: > On Jan 24, 2008 8:54 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [...] >> You could get the unstable nvidia-glx source package and build it >> using Stable tools. Might not work, though, because the latest >> nvid

Re: Strange boot message

2008-01-25 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 14:31:53 -0800 Bob McGowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > intel_rng: >Firmware space is locked read-only. If you can't or don't want to > disable this in firmware setup, and if you are certain that your > system has a functi

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:40:28PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I'm not sure what exactly that IBM disc was calling a 'controller' > error - since the other tests it ran on that drive it passed.. I've only seen that error once on IBM's advanced diagnostics. It was what it said: the IDE con

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 06:15:24PM +, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:19:30PM +, Pantor wrote: > >>would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? > > > >Physically install it. Then boot up. Check dmesg for device name. Add > >suit

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 05:13:51PM +, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:34:56PM +, Pantor wrote: > >>would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive > >>which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has > >>

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:06:54PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:22:35 -0500 Neil Watson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html > > > > That's actually quite interesting. Storing the file in RAM. N

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 10:22:35 -0500 Neil Watson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html > That's actually quite interesting. Storing the file in RAM. Now how to create a ramdisk is debian. There doesn't seem to be /dev/ram. I did a

Re: nvidia driver problem [Was: new user question: debian on a Thinkpad T61]

2008-01-25 Thread Jimmy Wu
On Jan 24, 2008 8:54 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > You could get the unstable nvidia-glx source package and build it > using Stable tools. Might not work, though, because the latest > nvidia drivers are built with modern tool versions. > > I'd suggest moving up to Lenny/testin

Remove duplicate messages plug-in for Icedove

2008-01-25 Thread Keith Christian
Has anyone figured out how to get this plug-in working for Icedove in Debian Etch? The version of Icedove on my machine is: 1.5.0.14pre. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/956 Thanks in advance for any ideas. Keith -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: mscompress

2008-01-25 Thread David Fox
On 1/25/08, Angus Auld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Way above my head, but interesting just the same. I > just > sort of wanted to know how to use mscompress to > de-compress Angus: I think you'll find that ordinary unzip or 7zip can do that for you. There basically are two kinds of compressed ex

Re: No sound on a ThinkPad T61 w/ a AD1984 sound card

2008-01-25 Thread Kyle Barbour
On Jan 25, 2008 12:35 PM, Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I notice that 'cat /proc/asound/version' is saying that I'm using ALSA > > 1.0.14, while I remember getting the sources for 1.0.15. Maybe this > > has something to do with the problem? > > Yes, that should be the root of the pr

Re: Configure postfix to send out emails on local machine

2008-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Pardon. This was intended for the OP. Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 22-Jan-08, at 2:16 AM, rockymaxsource wrote: > > > > Our company has a domain www.ourcompany.com registered and the site is > > hosted at a hosting company. The company does not provide SMTP service > > neither does my I

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread Bob
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Hello fellow debian users, I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does not even support Debian PPC (which I have). I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Does that wo

Re: Creating CD's frpm .iso files

2008-01-25 Thread s. keeling
Joe Hopkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I have a very basic Debian question. I downloaded all of the 25 > Debian .iso files and want to convert/write them to CDs. I am First, I don't know why. I've never needed more than the first two. > trying to use the "InfraRecorder" program that I downlo

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-25 Thread Max Hyre
(Sorry to be late to the show.) All my systems run from a single disk drive. I put the swap partition as close to the middle of the disk on the theory that that'll minimize seek time for a function I want to run as quickly as possible. Is this reasonable? -- Best wishes,

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Michal R. Hoffmann
On 25/01/08 21:26, Andrew Henry wrote: Just a thought... can you stop a password from being displayed in the terminal if using Vim--copy it to the buffer directly? I use a GUI tool called Keepass and it allows me to copy the password to the clipboard without being displayed on screen, so that n

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 10:39:58AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 25 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > It looks like a nice GNOME app. However, it doesn't look like its been > > updated since 2007. Do you know any reason for that? > > because it still works? > I see no new activ

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 07:09:25AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:53:54 -0500 > "Chris Howie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Jan 25, 2008 4:41 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hey guys, > > > > > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am

Re: cd seen as blank cd

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:47:53PM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On Friday 25 January 2008 10:49, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > I get no error on mount command. If I mount it manually, then I have > > something in /media/cdrom0, but ithe cd is shown by kde as a blank cd, and > > I can't open it

font finder

2008-01-25 Thread Rick Pasotto
How do I find out which font is being used when a web page specifies 'courier'? Having found it, how do I change it? Whatever font is currently being used is essentially unreadable. When I increase the font size I can see that each character is actually two characters: one taller and thinner, the

Re: Strange boot message

2008-01-25 Thread Bob McGowan
Frank McCormick wrote: Can anyone tell me what this message in syslog is all about ??? Jan 22 14:30:07 debian kernel: intel_rng: Firmware space is locked read-only. <4>intel_rng: If you can't or Jan 22 14:30:07 debian kernel: don't want to <4>intel_rng: disable this in firmware setup, and <4>

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 15:26, Andrew Henry wrote: > Just a thought... > > can you stop a password from being displayed in the terminal if using > Vim--copy it to the buffer directly? I use a GUI tool called Keepass > and it allows me to copy the password to the

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 3:06 PM, Chris Lale wrote: Brian McKee wrote: [...] I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Rob Sims
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote log

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Andrew Henry
Just a thought... can you stop a password from being displayed in the terminal if using Vim--copy it to the buffer directly? I use a GUI tool called Keepass and it allows me to copy the password to the clipboard without being displayed on screen, so that nobody can look over my shoulder. signa

Re: how to change /media/disk to /media/usbdisk

2008-01-25 Thread Andres Migliazzo
Right... but before that create the folder: #mkdir /media/usbdisk Bye On Jan 25, 2008 7:15 PM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:56:35 -0500 > "Bernard Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > > I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Gnome. > > > > When I

Re: Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 15:05, Thomas H. George wrote: > I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst > several months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1 > but it was not recognized as a block device when I tried to mount

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 25 2008, Alex Samad wrote: > worked first off for me > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l 'vim*' | grep ^ii > ii  vim                                         1:7.1-175+2                 >           Vi IMproved - enhanced vi editor well, NOW it works! Once I realized I didn't have all th

Re: debian 4.0 on ppc

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 13 Jan 2008 04:43:51 +0800 "Mark Quitoriano" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HI, > > im having a hard time installing debian 4.0 in ppc. im following this > documentation[1] for booting the CD/DVD. I also tried first the normal > process booting the CD by pressing C on boot-up but didn't wor

Re: how to change /media/disk to /media/usbdisk

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 14 Jan 2008 12:56:35 -0500 "Bernard Fay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I use Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon with Gnome. > > When I insert a USB stick it is automatically mounted on /media/disk. I need > to have it mounted as /media/usbdisk. How can I change this behavior? > As far as I kn

Memory Stick is sg1?

2008-01-25 Thread Thomas H. George
I have a usb memory stick which I successfully used for a netinst several months ago. When I connected it today it was recognized as sg1 but it was not recognized as a block device when I tried to mount it. Returning to the Debian-Installer directions I found I can mount it with the command mo

Re: No sound on a ThinkPad T61 w/ a AD1984 sound card

2008-01-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Jan 24, 2008 at 14:08:12 -0800, Kyle Barbour wrote: [ snip: Kyle needed to upgrade ALSA to version 1.0.15 to support his Santa Rose chipset. He followed the instructions on this website: http://www.klabs.be/~fpiat/linux/debian/Lenny_on_Thinkpad_T61/#Sound ] > lsmod | grep snd: > > sn

Re: mscompress

2008-01-25 Thread Angus Auld
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>snip>> > > I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from > > freshmeat.net: > > > > http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/ > > > > But, there is little info of help there either. > > Mysterious. > > > > Thanks again. > > Regards. > > > > -- Angus > > > Angus > T

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 14:40, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 25 2008, Alex Samad wrote: >> worked first off for me >> >> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l 'vim*' | grep ^ii >> ii vim 1:7.1-175+2 >>

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 12:15, Pantor wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >> On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:19:30PM +, Pantor wrote: >>> would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? >> >> Physically install it. Then boot up. Check dmesg for de

Lenny, hald and CPU on the see-saw...

2008-01-25 Thread Andrea Giuliano
Hi, I recently upgraded a ThinkPad R40e from etch to lenny, and everything seemed to be alright, but after rebooting the system I immediately noticed the following: a) the mouse arrow sometimes stopped for a while when I was moving it b) keeping pressed any key on the keyboard, the output has

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Lale
Brian McKee wrote: [...] > I dug up the IBM diagnostics disk and ran it on the machine. [...] You might consider using smartctl from the smartmontools package to test your hard drives. This article [1] ahould get you started. [1] http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Monitor_your_hard_disk(s)_with_smartmo

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:27:24PM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Fri January 25 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > > vim + gpg > > > > vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files [snip] > E319: Sorry, the command is not available in this version: autocmd > BufWritePost,Fil

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Alex Samad
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:25:15PM -0500, Joey Hess wrote: > Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote log

Re: Weird email behavior (was Re: mscompress)

2008-01-25 Thread Angus Auld
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/25/08 09:48, Angus Auld wrote: > > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On 01/25/08 08:26, Angus Auld wrote: > >> [snip] > >> > >> Angus, > >> > >> Do you add a > >> ">>

Re: indefinitely hold a package

2008-01-25 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 15:46:38 -0600, Preston Boyington wrote: > Since I have been having an issue with the current xorg blowing the > display on this HP dv5000 laptop, I wanted to keep the currently > installed (stable) version. > > Is there a way that I can let aptitude update everything el

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 25 2008, Joey Hess wrote: > vim + gpg > > vim can be configured to automatically use gpg to decrypt *.gpg files > when they're read and re-encrypt thenm when saving. The decrypted data > never touches the disk (though encrypting your swap partition too wouldn't > hurt). > > Dump the

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 1:25 PM, Joey Hess wrote: Amit Uttamchandani wrote: Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...s

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:45:19 + Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 07:28:29 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > It looks like a nice little app. But it hasn't been updated since 2005. > > Do you think this is a big issue? > > Not really. It isn't missing feat

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 02:03:04AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Does that work with Windows/Mac users > using Skype clients? There are several in Debian. Butthe two I would recommend are ekiga nd twinkle. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | V

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Allan Wind
On 2008-01-25T01:41:38-0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. I use vim with the tGpg.vim plugin to store my passwords. /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMA

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Joey Hess
Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful > FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > look at some passwords that I have forgotten. vi

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:19:30PM +, Pantor wrote: would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? Physically install it. Then boot up. Check dmesg for device name. Add suitable line to /etc/fstab. Doug. What the line should be? -- To U

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
KS wrote: Pantor wrote: KS wrote: Pantor wrote: Lads, would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition works? Thank you, Andrius

Re: Weird email behavior (was Re: mscompress)

2008-01-25 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 01/25/08 09:48, Angus Auld wrote: > --- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On 01/25/08 08:26, Angus Auld wrote: >> [snip] >> >> Angus, >> >> Do you add a >> ">>" as an >> email separator? >> >> - --

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:34:56PM +, Pantor wrote: would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition work

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-25 Thread Rick Thomas
On Jan 24, 2008, at 8:19 AM, Martin Marcher wrote: Jozef Peterka wrote: Hi all, I might be rushing in to conversation, but I will try to install Debian Etch and make it Dom0 this very weekend. I really look forward to it - although with a little hope to success :) Nevermind, I wanted wis

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Magnus Therning
On 1/25/08, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > look

Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 09:41:59AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On 25-Jan-08, at 5:45 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: > >> I have set up vim to add these lines >> automatically whenever I create a php/tex/c/whatever file I create. >> > Share details please :-) > You asked for it :-) Here is a snippet

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > KS wrote: >> Pantor wrote: >>> Lads, >>> >>> would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive >>> which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has >>> been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition >>> works? >>> >>>

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 12:34:56PM +, Pantor wrote: > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive > which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has > been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition works? > So, you have

Re: Startup problem: sda/sde

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 03:26:52PM +0100, Pol Hallen wrote: > I've asus P5B-E motherboard with debian stable. > > First 6disks (integrated controller: sata1-sata6) for raid (not implemented > yet) and boot disk (integrated sata7). > > The problem is: sometimes debian probe boot disk (sata7) on s

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:19:30PM +, Pantor wrote: > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? Physically install it. Then boot up. Check dmesg for device name. Add suitable line to /etc/fstab. Doug. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject

Re: How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? > > Thank you, > > Andrius > > Similar to what you do with the hard disk. Connect the drive and boot the computer. Your CD-RW should be detected as /dev/hdX ( where X = a/b/c/d/ ). The system wil

Re: unresponsive system

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 24-Jan-08, at 9:51 AM, Federico Lazcano wrote: El Jueves, 24 de Enero de 2008 12:24, Brian McKee escribió: On 24-Jan-08, at 9:09 AM, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:01:31 -0500 Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: A little wh

Re: Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread KS
Pantor wrote: > Lads, > > would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive > which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has > been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition works? > > Thank you, > > Andrius > > I would just c

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 07:37:37 -0500 Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri January 25 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > > > I preferably wou

Re: Weird email behavior (was Re: mscompress)

2008-01-25 Thread Angus Auld
--- Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 01/25/08 08:26, Angus Auld wrote: > [snip] > > Angus, > > Do you add a > ">>" as an > email separator? > > - -- > Ron Johnson, Jr. > Jefferson LA USA __

Re: cd seen as blank cd

2008-01-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 25 January 2008 10:49, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > We need an actual error message. I know: you're using a pointy-clicky > > thingy. Get to a command line and try: > > > > $ mount /dev/hda > > > > Give us the error. > > > > Try removing the udf part of the fstab entry. Perhaps its gett

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Kemp
On Fri Jan 25, 2008 at 07:28:29 -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > It looks like a nice little app. But it hasn't been updated since 2005. > Do you think this is a big issue? Not really. It isn't missing features, or in need of any obvious fixups. I've been using it for a couple of years

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 25 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > I just saw an article this week on it.. > > > > http://oss.codepoet.no/revelation/ > > Thanks for the link. > > It looks like a nice GNOME app. However, it doesn't look like its been > updated since 2007. Do you know any reason for that? > > Ami

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

2008-01-25 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 04:27:50PM -0600, Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Turns out that keypress access *is* the hardest. You have that in Qt but > you have to be running in X and within a widget. It's ridiculous to do > all that to find out if a key is pressed. > > I

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Neil Watson
http://technocrat.watson-wilson.ca/blosxom/computer/encrypted-storage.html -- Neil Watson | Debian Linux System Administrator| Uptime 10 days http://watson-wilson.ca -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 15:15:04 + Steve Kemp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I use pwsafe, it is cli-based, but with the ability to paste > logins/passwords into X11 applications too. > > Steve Thanks for the reply. It looks like a nice little app. But it hasn't been updated since 2005. Do yo

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Steve Kemp
I use pwsafe, it is cli-based, but with the ability to paste logins/passwords into X11 applications too. Steve -- # Commercial Debian GNU/Linux Support http://www.linux-administration.org/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAI

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Fri, 25 Jan 2008 04:53:54 -0500 "Chris Howie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jan 25, 2008 4:41 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain"

Re: Вероятная ошибка

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
Иван Павловский wrote: Здравствуйте. Попробовал поставить Debian 4.0 на виртуальную машину Microsoft (Virtual PC) Установка работает прекрасно, DHCP Находит и всё такое... После перезагрузки не включается видеорежим, экран (окно) сильно растянут по горизонтали, изображение на нем представляет со

Startup problem: sda/sde

2008-01-25 Thread Pol Hallen
Hi folks :-) I've asus P5B-E motherboard with debian stable. First 6disks (integrated controller: sata1-sata6) for raid (not implemented yet) and boot disk (integrated sata7). The problem is: sometimes debian probe boot disk (sata7) on sda and the boot process is ok (lvm encrypt ask to me the

Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Brian McKee
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 25-Jan-08, at 5:45 AM, Sridhar M.A. wrote: I have set up vim to add these lines automatically whenever I create a php/tex/c/whatever file I create. Share details please :-) Brian -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (Darw

Re: mscompress

2008-01-25 Thread Angus Auld
--- Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu January 24 2008, Angus Auld wrote: > > I found this listed as homepage of mscompress from > > freshmeat.net: > > > > http://martin.hinner.info/mscompress/ > > > > But, there is little info of help there either. > > Mysterious. > > since thi

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-18 23:48:28, schrieb ??. : > I don't think it would make too much a difference on modern HDs. Most > read-write > will occur in user's home directories anyways - loading binaries and libes > alright, but the data and config files come from the home-d

Re: Where do you put your swap partition?

2008-01-25 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-01-18 14:18:50, schrieb [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > 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 > b

Вероятная ошибка

2008-01-25 Thread Иван Павловский
Здравствуйте. Попробовал поставить Debian 4.0 на виртуальную машину Microsoft (Virtual PC) Установка работает прекрасно, DHCP Находит и всё такое... После перезагрузки не включается видеорежим, экран (окно) сильно растянут по горизонтали, изображение на нем представляет собой вертикальные полося,

Вероятная ошибка установки видеорежима или несовместимость с видеокартой

2008-01-25 Thread Иван Павловский
Здравствуйте. Попробовал поставить Debian 4.0 на виртуальную машину Microsoft (Virtual PC) Установка работает прекрасно, DHCP Находит и всё такое... После перезагрузки не включается видеорежим, экран (окно) сильно растянут по горизонтали, изображение на нем представляет собой вертикальные полося,

Re: DSL modems over USB?

2008-01-25 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 07:53:09PM +0930, Paul Wise wrote: > Hi all, > > [Please CC me on any replies] > > Does GNU/Linux have any support for using DSL modems over USB? I'm > mainly interested in the Speedstream 4200 since I'm at a house that uses > it :( As I see web pages, Speedstream 4200 su

linuxdcpp and xchat2 unusable after KDE4 upgrade?

2008-01-25 Thread Nenad Markovic
Hi, Im not sure this is somehow conected and it's very strange. First, I've upgraded to KDE4 whren it was in experimental (3.96, 3.97 and 3.98SVN later on). Then my problems with linuxdcpp and xchat started. i thought that they would fix when KDE4 is moved to unstable, but this never happend.

How to install second CD-RW?

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
Lads, would you be able to advice please, how to install a second CD-RW? Thank you, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Fri January 25 2008, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > look at some passwords that

Installation of hard drive

2008-01-25 Thread Pantor
Lads, would you be able to advice please, how to install a second hard drive which have preinstalled Windows. PC booting Windows after hard drive has been plugged in. Windows should be cleared, but how thee partition works? Thank you, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread JoseC . Rodriguez
> I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to > communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does > not even support Debian PPC (which I have). > > I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Hi, Amit I too want to find a definite solution for this.

Re: How to use Mutt?

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Bannister
On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 02:57:47AM +, Stephen Allen wrote: > On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 07:37:22PM -0500, Allan Wind wrote: > > On 2008-01-23T13:33:57+1300, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Can you tell it to use any editor, say vim, or does it still use pico? > > > > $ mutt > > > > /editor > > I t

Re: Getting started with Xen -- Xen enabled kernel for Lenny?

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Marcher
Ted Hilts wrote: > Also, I was talking about kernel versions higher than yours (up in the > twenties where yours was 18) and 32 bit. But whether the CPU is 32 bit debian stable highest version number is 2.6.18 so there is no way to get a stable distro with a higher version number (stable as in: on

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Peter Teunissen
On Fri, January 25, 2008 10:41, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > I am looking for a nice and > powerful FLOSS password manager similar to > "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > look at some passwords that I have forgotten. Take a look

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 25/01/2008, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful > FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and > l

Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Sridhar M.A.
On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 01:39:13AM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > Been using Vim/GVim a lot recently and I am loving it! > > I recently started using the folding feature. I created a bunch of folds but when I quit GVim and restart it..all the folds are gone! >

Re: [OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Kyle Barbour
On Jan 25, 2008 1:39 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Been using Vim/GVim a lot recently and I am loving it! > > I recently started using the folding feature. I created a bunch of folds but > when I quit GVim and restart it..all the folds are gone! > > Is there any

Re: Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Chris Howie
On Jan 25, 2008 4:41 AM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful > FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. > > I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SS

FLOSS VOIP Client Software

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hello fellow debian users, I am trying to look for a decent FLOSS VOIP software that allows me to communicate to Windows/Mac users. Skype is out of the question since it does not even support Debian PPC (which I have). I have heard of Ekiga. How is that? Does that work with Windows/Mac users us

Re: apache/subversion with ldap

2008-01-25 Thread Martin Marcher
hhding wrote: > Thanks for your advice :) > Here is the config file, I take your advice and change Require group to > Require ldap-group, but it does not work. > > :: > /etc/apache2/mods-enabled/dav_svn.conf > :: > > > DAV svn > > SVNPath /var/lib/svn > AuthType b

Re: cd seen as blank cd

2008-01-25 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 25 January 2008 05:29, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Fri, Jan 25, 2008 at 04:44:35AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On Thursday 24 January 2008 17:54, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > > Hi, > > > On a new Etch-amd64 install, when I load a cd in the drive, it is seen > > > as blank cd. Now,

Nice GUI/CLI Password Manager for Linux

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Recently moved from Mac to Debian Linux. I am looking for a nice and powerful FLOSS password manager similar to "Keychain" on Mac OS X. I preferably would want a CLI tool...so I could remote login using SSH and look at some passwords that I have forgotten. Any ideas? Thanks, Amit

[OT] Persistent Vim Folding

2008-01-25 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, Been using Vim/GVim a lot recently and I am loving it! I recently started using the folding feature. I created a bunch of folds but when I quit GVim and restart it..all the folds are gone! Is there anyway to store the folds, so the next time I launch the same document, it stays? Tha

Re: cups works but dont print out!

2008-01-25 Thread Andrea Ganduglia
> You may want to look at ~/.cups/lpoptions and /etc/lpoptions and verify > that the options there make sense. > I'd also try setting LogLevel to debug in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, > restart cups and search /var/log/cups/error_log for anything weird. lpoptions are OK LogLevel debug do not shows any e