Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:41:33PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Thanks for the investigation! If mc obtains the list without full > decompression that is very good news. however, since mc calls the commands zip / unzip to operate on .zip files it is much better, for debugging pourposes, to d

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Mon, 3 Mar 2008 06:41:29 +0100 NN_il_Confusionario <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > > And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight > > >

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > > On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in > > > various helpers use

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Octavio Alvarez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:59 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put > > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that >

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-03-03 01:43 +0100, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I'd find a nice directory where you can write that has 70 GB or so free, > copy the 18 GB file there (yes, copy so that nothing can wreck it while > you work on it), then use unzip on it. I imagine that it will take a > while. It may not take

Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-02 Thread Johann Spies
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:50:16PM +0100, Shams Fantar wrote: > > I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to > my computer my mobile phone > (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_z170.asp) via USB. The > mobile phone is correctly detected : > > Bus 002 De

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 03/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller > > will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip > > file. But Dotan is correct: i

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Good luck and have patience. I would run this from the CLI and not from > X (don't want a dying X to cause problems). one can also use a terminal inside X, provided that the CLI command is given inside "screen" (sorry for the do

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-02 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > Are there other ways to make the files available on my dmz other than nfs. (sorry for the double answer) perhaps a minimal and secure (or at lest much less complex and so safer than the portmap/nfsd deamons) web server on the mach

Re: Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-02 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 11:13:20PM +0100, Peter Teunissen wrote: > If the export would be r/o, what would be the risk of such a setup? the risk of exposing portmapper and nfsd to accept connections (and so be possibly vulnerable to bugs, buffer overflows and so on) instead of being firewalled, tc

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread NN_il_Confusionario
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:43:36PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight > > commander is able to browse tar.gz files without decompressing them. > > From there on, I

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 22:01, hce wrote: [snip] > > Thanks Andreas. I guess the main issue is to find RC2 Mplayer package. > I don't know if the debian-multimedia.org has the RC2 MPlayer package > or not. From google search, I found following site contains the R

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread hce
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 9:54 PM, Andreas Rönnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:48:29 +1100 > > hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > >

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-02 Thread Raj Kiran Grandhi
Alex Samad wrote: On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: Alex Samad wrote: Hi I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia driver. I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option for 4:3 or 16:9 I would like to kee

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:19:59PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller > > will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip > > file. But Dotan is corr

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 02:07:17AM +, Jamin Davis wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > >> and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You >> at least need to run update-initramfs and you would probably be >> advised to unpack one to make *sure* it's not in there... > >

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 20:53, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:03:26 -0600 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 03/02/08 15:50, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: >>> Hey guys, >>> >>> I

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 19:19, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller >> will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip >> fil

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 19:03:26 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 03/02/08 15:50, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > > Hey guys, > > > > I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family > > member, containing all kinds of photo

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 20:19:59 -0500 "Douglas A. Tutty" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller > > will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip > > file. Bu

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
> > Since you don't tell us which DE you use, it is only save to presume > that you use the console. Thus: > Yes, you are right...I primarily use the console for almost all file operations. I will try the command you gave below. > $ unzip -v > stupidly_large_zip_file.txt > $ view stupidly_lar

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrew Sackville-West wrote: and the blacklisting won't work if the module is in your initrd! You at least need to run update-initramfs and you would probably be advised to unpack one to make *sure* it's not in there... Good point. But if the blacklist did work there'd be no need to check th

Re: Help for a newbie SSH and Aptitude

2008-03-02 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2008-02-29 12:30:06 +, Matthew Macdonald-Wallace wrote: > I had this about a year ago on a debian-based system > (running plutohome.org). It turned out to be an IPv6 issue. > > What the issue was, I'm not too sure, however blacklisting the IPv6 > kernel module (as shown below) appeared to

Re: X restarted

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:25AM -0500, Paul Cartwright wrote: > I was sitting here reading my mail, then all of a sudden my screen went > blank, > the NVIDIA logo came up, and it took me to the login window, but with my > wifes login populated. was she previously logged in on vt8? maybe her

unison filename case

2008-03-02 Thread L . V . Gandhi
I have etch both in laptop and in my PC. I am using autofs to mount my external HDD which is formatted vfat. my local rules for udev mounting are as follows in both machines [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/010_local.rules SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", DRIVERS=="usb", ATTRS{product}=="Cruzer Micr

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:16:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > > > On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Anyway, that's the whol

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 01:20:53AM +, Kjö wrote: > You're right, the problem was in mount, and was quite stupid. My XFS file > system > was broken. I solved the problem by : > - booting on a liveCD (an Ubuntu one) > - installing cryptsetup and lvm2 > - modprobe dm_mod > - modprobe aes > - cryp

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:01:06PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > > On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Anyway, that's the whole point of an exploit -- providing some > _thing_, data or code, that causes

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:03:26PM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > If you happen to be using GNOME (God's own DE), then file-roller > will do just fine. Simply fire up Nautilus and click on the zip > file. But Dotan is correct: it also take *time*. So while it's > plowing thru the zip file, relax,

Re: Unable to boot on encrypted root after upgrading testing

2008-03-02 Thread Kjö
You're right, the problem was in mount, and was quite stupid. My XFS file system was broken. I solved the problem by : - booting on a liveCD (an Ubuntu one) - installing cryptsetup and lvm2 - modprobe dm_mod - modprobe aes - cryptsetup sda2 hda2_crypt - vgchange -a y [vg] - adding swap : swapon /de

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 18:43, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: [snip] > > I'd find a nice directory where you can write that has 70 GB or so free, > copy the 18 GB file there (yes, copy so that nothing can wreck it while > you work on it), then use unzip on it. Since vi

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: How do you generate your .pdf compared with your .ps, or is it a menu choice, which unfortunately hides all the gory details. From within OOo from a menu, it exports the odt file directly to PDF. What happens if you generate your .pdf (which seems to include the font

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 14:59, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some > people run virus scanners on their email (not j

Re: configuration of a linux router

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:40:22PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > My LAN has a Debian router, joule, and two subordinate > machines, curie and heaviside. The three connect to an > old Linksys 10Base-T hub. joule connects to a > cable modem through a second NIC and runs > ipmasq. > > Curre

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 06:19:01PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > >On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: > >So you installed some ttfs, and if you print a .pdf all is ok, but if > >you print a .ps it isn't? > > Yes, that is pretty much it. > I use the following fon

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 01:50:52PM -0800, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, > containing all kinds of photos and videos. > > The problem now is they cannot unzip it (using Mac OS X Leopard). The > unzip tool always exits

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 15:50, Amit Uttamchandani wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family > member, containing all kinds of photos and videos. Did they ftp it to you in ASCII mode? > The problem now is they cannot unzi

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:32:26PM -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in > > various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or > > links or some other t

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread David Fox
On 3/2/08, Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The potential hole I see in mutt is not actually a hole in mutt but in > various helpers used by mutt users. For example, many of us use w3m or > links or some other text browser to dump html messages to plain text For that to work, va

Re: xorg and aspect ratio's

2008-03-02 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:16:11AM +0530, Raj Kiran Grandhi wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: >> Hi >> >> I am having a problem with my X server. i am using amd64 with nvidia >> driver. >> >> >> I have it connected to a plasma screen its an old one with a menu option >> for 4:3 or 16:9 >> >> I would like

Re: 8139cp 0000:03:08.0: This (id 10ec:8139 rev 10) is not an 8139C+ compatible chip

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Mar 01, 2008 at 10:00:49PM +, Jamin Davis wrote: > stephane lepain wrote: > > >>> For your problem you could try placing 8139too into >>> /etc/modules >>> >>> That might see that your 8139too driver gets loaded first. >>> Incidentally comment any references to 8139cp that you run across

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 10:08:33PM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Hello all, > > > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that som

Re: getting gs to see ttf fonts

2008-03-02 Thread H.S.
Chris Bannister wrote: On Thu, Feb 28, 2008 at 07:02:23PM -0500, H.S. wrote: I haven't got any reply to this problem. Either this particular thing "just works" for everybody and no body knows what could be wrong (so never looked), or the problem is not straight forward at all. So, which one

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Octavio Alvarez
On Sun, 2008-03-02 at 15:59 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that > can break e.g. mutt that mutt will be fixed around the same time as a > v

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-02 Thread Jerome BENOIT
Hello, Sorry, the name of the package is `libpam-pwdfile'. I have submit a `bug report'. Thanks, Jerome Jamin Davis wrote: Jerome BENOIT wrote: The idea is to have a second passwd file. I set it to mimic LDAP. I would try this out but I still don't know what package paw_pwdfile.so is fr

microsoft vs opensource

2008-03-02 Thread steef
maybe of some interest in a general sense ip_watch Free, Open Software Supporters Advocate Against Microsoft Document Standard http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=941 -- steef van duin publicist, research-journalist -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Mar 02 15:55 -0600]: > And also, is there a tool to browse zip files...like how midnight commander > is able to browse tar.gz files without decompressing them. From there on, I > can just copy the most important files out without having to decompres

configuration of a linux router

2008-03-02 Thread peasthope
Folk, My LAN has a Debian router, joule, and two subordinate machines, curie and heaviside. The three connect to an old Linksys 10Base-T hub. joule connects to a cable modem through a second NIC and runs ipmasq. Currently I want to add a third NIC to joule, remove the hub and connect each

Re: Etch: PAM unable to resolve symbol

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Jerome BENOIT wrote: The idea is to have a second passwd file. I set it to mimic LDAP. I would try this out but I still don't know what package paw_pwdfile.so is from? How have you installed it - I can't find it in the Debian archive -- either that or I'm being thick! -- Jamin @ Home @ Che

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:47:50PM +, Jamin Davis wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > > >This is not something I would give to a user that has no dedicated > >support. e.g: you could install that to your firends. Provided that you > >provide support for their computers. But not to someone who's

Re: internet

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Jakub Daniel wrote: I am experiencing problems with my connection to internet from HP compaq 6715s laptop. problem is: When i try to pick a bcm43xx drivers during the installation it tells me that it couldnt find any device (meaning the ethernet card)... I would appreciate any info on how to mak

Is NFS export r/o safe from lan to dmz?

2008-03-02 Thread Peter Teunissen
Hi all, I'v got my mp3 collection on my lan server, streamed on my home network using mt-daapd. Now I'd like to make it accessible when I'm at work. I'll use libapache2-mod-musicindex on my DMZ server to stream the files, but need a way to make the files available to my DMZ server to do

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Tzafrir Cohen wrote: This is not something I would give to a user that has no dedicated support. e.g: you could install that to your firends. Provided that you provide support for their computers. But not to someone who's supposed to independently handle everything with the system. Are you re

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some > people run virus scanners on their email (not just as anti-spam) and >

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:59:16PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > Hello all, > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some > people run virus scanners on their email (not just as anti-spam) and I

Re: kde BUG

2008-03-02 Thread Jamin Davis
Andrius wrote: in KDE if to choose color scheme digital CDE letters in forms are invisible - white color. (Using Lenny). It's probably better to log this bug with KDE bugs @ http://bugs.kde.org/ rather than here on a list ;-) -- Jamin @ Home @ Chester UK -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: [OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys, > > I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, > containing all kinds of photos and videos. > > The problem now is they cannot unzip it (using Mac OS X Leopard). The unzip > tool always exits with

WP8 on 64-bit Debian testing? You bet!

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hello: I just got a ThinkPad 61p, and was pretty sure I was finally going to have to let WordPerfect 8 (the UN*X-native WP) go. But I have it up and running. How I did it is described at http://pwiseman.dnsalias.com/~pwiseman/wp8install64.html. I also provide a tar.gz of the libraries and other

[OT] Zip file browsing tool

2008-03-02 Thread Amit Uttamchandani
Hey guys, I was given a 18GB (yes GB) compressed zip file by a family member, containing all kinds of photos and videos. The problem now is they cannot unzip it (using Mac OS X Leopard). The unzip tool always exits with an error. Now, I haven't received the zip file yet...still downloading it

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread David Fox
On 3/2/08, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that save the viruses and other malware from the attachments then forward them to spammers remove m

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
For command line only I think mplayer-nox or mplayer-nogui is available. The thing is, it's way fewer packages than the standard desktop version and lots fewer megs. All of which can be used to snag more media files. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscr

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 12:59 PM, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I debian or other 'nix suceptible in any way to anything anybody can put > in an email? I'm guessing that if someone comes up with something that > can break e.g. mutt that mutt will be fixed around the same time as

Re: unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > > I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. > > I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some > people run virus scanners on their email (not just as anti-spam) and > wonde

Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to > my computer my mobile phone > (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_z170.asp) via USB. The > mobile phone is correctly detected : > > Bus 002 D

unix and email viruses

2008-03-02 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Hello all, I think I don't need to be worried but I figured I should check. I only run 'nix (debian, OpenBSD), and I'm on dialup. I note that some people run virus scanners on their email (not just as anti-spam) and wonder if I need to worry. I don't get enough spam (other than what comes from

Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-02 Thread Shams Fantar
Micha wrote: I would guess obex. have a look at obexftp and obexfs On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:50:16 +0100 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello, I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to my computer my mobile phone (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gs

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 07:12:48PM +0100, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: > > On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > > > http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg > > > > > > > no no care bears :) > > What about lolcats? > >

Re: Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-02 Thread Micha
I would guess obex. have a look at obexftp and obexfs On Sun, 02 Mar 2008 20:50:16 +0100 Shams Fantar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to > my computer my mobile phone > (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_

Connecting the mobile phone via USB

2008-03-02 Thread Shams Fantar
Hello, I didn't find information about my problem. I would like to connect to my computer my mobile phone (http://www.samsung.com/ph/products/gsm/gsm/sgh_z170.asp) via USB. The mobile phone is correctly detected : Bus 002 Device 003: ID 04e8:6601 Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd Z100 Mobile Pho

Re: Replacing old kernel in testing

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 10:45 AM, Patrick Wiseman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, all: > > I have just installed a new testing system on my new ThinkPad T61p. > Sound doesn't work, which is apparently a known issue with kernel > 2.6.22. The last stable kernel at kernel.org is 2.6.24.3, and I've

Re: nvidia-xconfig package questions

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 6:57 AM, Jude DaShiell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > earlier I wiped out the configuration files made by dpkg-reconfigure > xserver-xorg and ran the nvidia-xconfig package on this system. The > nvidia--xconfig made a default configuration file for me called and wanted > to

latest debian gnome accessibility attempt

2008-03-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
A friend found a little information about the DESKTOP and DISPLAYMANAGER variables on the internet. It makes sense that DESKTOP="GNOME" though it wasn't set by any packages or mention made of it as packages were being installed. My friend found DISPLAYMANAGER="KDE" most frequently but so far

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:21:41 -0800, David Fox wrote: > On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > > http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg > > > > no no care bears :) What about lolcats? I ARE STABLE CAT... THIS IS STABLE DISTRIBUSHON. I'M ON UR SERVER, RUNNING UR DEBIAN

kde BUG

2008-03-02 Thread Andrius
Hi lads, in KDE if to choose color scheme digital CDE letters in forms are invisible - white color. (Using Lenny). Thank for attention. Regards, Andrius -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Idea of a Debian Mascot [Was: FW: Bits from the DPL: FTP assistants, marketing team, init scripts, elections]

2008-03-02 Thread David Fox
On 3/1/08, Chris Bannister <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://www.rastageeks.org/~toots/debian/bisounours-debian.jpg > no no care bears :) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks, but how to set them? > > > Short answer is not to set any of LC_* as system wide. I don't recall ever setting them. I don't even know how. > Since I like console to use English (UTF-8 so en_US.UTF-8) and X to use > use several lo

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 04:27:50PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:17:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > > What is the output of: > > > > > >

internet

2008-03-02 Thread Jakub Daniel
Hi I am experiencing problems with my connection to internet from HP compaq 6715s laptop. It has a WLAN card (Broadcom) lspci says after the installation (during which i was forced to choose "no ethernet card"): 10:00.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom corporation Unknown device 1713 (rev 02) 30:0

font problem with xfig

2008-03-02 Thread Marcelo Chiapparini
Hello, I am running etch, and I use xfig to create figures. When I call xfig from a command line I get the following error messages: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ xfig Warning: Missing charsets in String to FontSet conversion Warning: Cannot convert string "-*-times-medium-r-normal--16-*-*-*-*-*-*-*,-*-*-

Replacing old kernel in testing

2008-03-02 Thread Patrick Wiseman
Hi, all: I have just installed a new testing system on my new ThinkPad T61p. Sound doesn't work, which is apparently a known issue with kernel 2.6.22. The last stable kernel at kernel.org is 2.6.24.3, and I've read that this sound problem has been corrected. Is there any reason, as I tend to com

Re: Install Debian 4.0 to watch DVD video

2008-03-02 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 08:27:15PM +1100, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > You can try to connect via dhcp by running 'dhclient' as root. That > > might give some clues. If it works just revert your config. Sometimes > > the 'al

nvidia-xconfig package questions

2008-03-02 Thread Jude DaShiell
earlier I wiped out the configuration files made by dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg and ran the nvidia-xconfig package on this system. The nvidia--xconfig made a default configuration file for me called and wanted to load type1 which isn't on this system and also wanted to run nvidia. If those t

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:17:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > What is the output of: > > > > > > LANG=C locale > > > > > > Do you set LANGUAGES ? > > > Hmm LANGU

X restarted

2008-03-02 Thread Paul Cartwright
I was sitting here reading my mail, then all of a sudden my screen went blank, the NVIDIA logo came up, and it took me to the login window, but with my wifes login populated. I logged in as her, then did CTRL-ALT-F7 and it took me back to me session, which had stayed logged in.. this was the com

linux compatible battery powered wireless webcam

2008-03-02 Thread Micha
I am upgrading a vision lab in my uni and we are trying to set up wireless controlled robots that can be used for vision exercises. One of the other things I'm trying to do is make sure that the lab runs linux and not windows. The robots will be the lego nxt robots, hopefully controlled over bluet

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 03:17:10PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What is the output of: > > > > LANG=C locale > > > > Do you set LANGUAGES ? Hmm LANGUAGE... > > $ LANG=C locale > LANG=C > LANGUAGE=he_IL:he:en_GB:en > LC_CTYPE="he_I

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 02/03/2008, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:57:45PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > On a Debian-based system (Ubuntu 7.04) running KDE 3.5.8, why would > > the "C" LANG parameter not be English? Lookie here: > > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG > > he_

Re: LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 02:57:45PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > On a Debian-based system (Ubuntu 7.04) running KDE 3.5.8, why would > the "C" LANG parameter not be English? Lookie here: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG > he_IL.utf8 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export LANG=C > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo

LANG=C not English?

2008-03-02 Thread Dotan Cohen
On a Debian-based system (Ubuntu 7.04) running KDE 3.5.8, why would the "C" LANG parameter not be English? Lookie here: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG he_IL.utf8 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ export LANG=C [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ echo $LANG C [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ sudo apt-get install kde-core [snip] You migh

Etch: Stock kernel issues with ATI SB600 SATA controller and 2xSamsung HD403LJ ?

2008-03-02 Thread H. Meyer
Hi, I just ran into some troubles with the IO system of a new server running Debian Etch (2.6.18-6-vserver-amd64 (Debian 2.6.18.dfsg.1-18etch1)) and was wondering whether these might be related to some SB600 patches which might not yet be part of the Debian kernel. The problem occurs with both di

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-02 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
Hi [ Please don't use HTML mail ] On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 05:58:47PM +0530, Bipin Babu wrote: > As a complete newbie to IT and Linux, I have tested Mandriva 2008, > Ubuntu, and now Debian etch and testing. I found Debian testing the > best of all: etch being not very compatible with new hardware

Re: Best Distro for the consumers market ??

2008-03-02 Thread Bipin Babu
stephane lepain wrote: Hi, I have been reading couple of posts talking about different kind of distros, but what would you guys suggest as the best distro for the consumers market? There would be a need of stability and reliability. Of course, it would have to be easy to use for the end u

drivers

2008-03-02 Thread С . С . Соколов
Здравствуйте! SIS 661/671 FX SIS 190 ethernet Atheros 5006/5007 EG Вышеперечисленные устройства не работают на моем Fujitsu-Siemens v5535 на который я установил Ubuntu Gusty Gibbon. Если для последнего устройства я нашел madwifi tools и madwifi drivers, которые работают, то для остальных не

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Andreas Rönnquist
On Sun, 2 Mar 2008 21:48:29 +1100 hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "deb > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable ma

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So, it shows the version 1.0 RC1, not RC2. How can I installed the RC2? Install from sources or find a precompiled .deb on the internet somewhere, what version did debian-multimedia have? to download and install from source download mplayers tarball

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 05:21, hce wrote: > On 3/2/08, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote:

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 03/02/08 04:48, hce wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: >> > Hi, >> > >> > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "deb >> > http://www.debian-multimedia.org sta

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread hce
On 3/2/08, Adrian Levi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > > Hi, > > > > > > > > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "de

Re: Install mplayer

2008-03-02 Thread Adrian Levi
On 02/03/2008, hce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 3/2/08, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Mar 02, 2008 at 09:15:16PM +1100, hce wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > > > I want to install mplayer RC2 and I added "deb > > > http://www.debian-multimedia.org stable main" to the > >

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