Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 00:34:56 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > On 07/19/08 23:08, Celejar wrote: > > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:59:51 +0100 > > Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:46:55 -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > >> wrote: > >> >

Re: Help filing bug report; can't use automated tool, does this report look OK?

2008-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 15:57:52 +0300 Arthur A <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Briefly, what happens is the 'X' randomly crashes without warning, and it is > irrecoverable. Any open work is lost. A reboot is required. There is an error > in > the xorg.log about rng expecting one number, getting

[not about debian] Could someone give me a clue about making a window manager?

2008-07-19 Thread Magicloud Magiclouds
I want to make a simple WM, but do not know where to start. Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 23:08, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:59:51 +0100 > Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:46:55 -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) >> wrote: >> >>> Name names! I bet other people would like to

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 09:57:28PM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 19 19:46 -0500]: > > I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works > > just fine, native debian. > > I getting ready to jump into MythTV using Mythbuntu. I'm col

Re: x.org

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
Please be sure to reply to the list and not to me personally. You will miss out on the wisdom of many more knowledgeable people than me... On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:57:54PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:07:50PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote: >

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 21:57, Nate Bargmann wrote: > * Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 19 19:46 -0500]: >> I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works >> just fine, native debian. > > I getting ready to jump into MythTV usi

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:29:01 -0400 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:59:22PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:25 +0200 > > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Am 2008-07-14 17:15:41, schrieb Sam Leon: > > > > > > Please can

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-19 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, > > ~$ dpkg -S usr/bin/ctags > > exuberant-ctags: /usr/bin/ctags-exuberant > > ~$ dpkg -S /usr/bin/ctags > > dpkg: /usr/bin/ctags not found. > > ~$ dpkg -S '/usr/bin/ctags*' > > exuberant-ctags: /usr/bin/ctags-exuberant ... > > The behavior change with leading "/" is different issue from > > a

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Carl Fink
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:59:22PM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:25 +0200 > Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Am 2008-07-14 17:15:41, schrieb Sam Leon: > > > > Please can you trim you rpostings next time please? > > > > > Welcome to the club. I used to feel

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:59:51 +0100 Bob Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:46:55 -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > > > Name names! I bet other people would like to use that ISP. > > Well, I thought you would have worked it out from the headers ;-) > >

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 20:43:25 +0200 Michelle Konzack <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 2008-07-14 17:15:41, schrieb Sam Leon: > > Please can you trim you rpostings next time please? > > > Welcome to the club. I used to feel the same way when I first found > > debian (ubuntu showed it to me). I d

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Andrew Perrin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Jul 19 19:46 -0500]: > I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works > just fine, native debian. I getting ready to jump into MythTV using Mythbuntu. I'm collecting hardware and the PVR-150 is on my list. One thing of note in my

Re: [Mostly Solved] Re: Blurry fonts in printed invoices

2008-07-19 Thread Celejar
On Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:34:22 +0200 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > It refers to the "sub" column, which is "no" for all the fonts for me, > meaning that the full character sets have been embedded. Therefore my > printed PDF weighs in at more than 270 KB. Your system is smarter and

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Nuno Magalhães
I've noticed with both Iceweasel 2 and 3 that sometimes i "lose" flash. I have flashplayer-nonfree and the only solution i found so far is to close all Iceweasel instances and run "dpkg-reconfigure iceweasel". -- Nuno Magalhães

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Perrin
I use the pvr 500 using the ivtv driver and play using mplayer. Works just fine, native debian. -- Andrew J Perrin - andrew_perrin (at) unc.edu - http://perrin.socsci.unc.edu Associate Professor of Sociology; Book Review Editor,

Re: TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 06:51:58PM -0500, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > Does anybody know of a tv tuner/capture card that will work with Debian? > An FM tuner option would be nice, but not necessary. I use a pvr 150 and a pvr500 from hauppage using the ivtv drivers. Not strictly on debian

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 04:29:30PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/19/08 14:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:57:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 07/18/08 17:39, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > >> [snip] > >>> To ensure that /data/03 is /dev/sda1. > >> Ah, ok. > >

Re: x.org

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 05:07:50PM -0600, Cliff McAtee wrote: > Hi my name is Cliff McAtee > I am new to Debian. I installed from a disc. Went through the install. > every thing looked ok until trying to open. > starting from GRUB I was informed x.org did not install correctly. All I > get is a

TV tuner/capture cards?

2008-07-19 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; Does anybody know of a tv tuner/capture card that will work with Debian? An FM tuner option would be nice, but not necessary. TIA! Dennis -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sun, Jul 20, 2008 at 11:23:08AM +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] > > > > On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:2

Gnash backport to Etch shows blank screen

2008-07-19 Thread Jack Dodds
I have a Pentium running Etch with Gnome as the desktop. I use Iceweasel 2.0.0.14 as the browser. I want to be able to view Flash movies, so I used Synaptic to get the Etch backport of mozilla-plugin-gnash from www.backports.org (see my /etc/apt/preferences file below). The plugin doesn't work o

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 17:26, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 12:35:37, Paul Johnson wrote: [snip] >> Decrease the frequency at which you check your mail? > > I just did (from 5 to 15 min). Let's see if this helps. If that helps, then you didn't cure

x.org

2008-07-19 Thread Cliff McAtee
Hi my name is Cliff McAtee I am new to Debian. I installed from a disc. Went through the install. every thing looked ok until trying to open. starting from GRUB I was informed x.org did not install correctly. All I get is a repeating 'PHY reset until link up'. What am I supposed to do? Help Tha

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
andy wrote: Greetings The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is outdated: "You need the latest Flash Player plugin to view the multimedia content of this site." http://science.nationalgeographi

Re: Contributing to the Debian website - easier than some think

2008-07-19 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 03:23:55AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > [breaking the thread on purpose because this is totally unrelated] > > On Thu,17.Jul.08, 15:28:09, Chris Bannister wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 08:27:25PM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > You should contact debian-www about

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 12:35:37, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:34 -0700, David Barrett wrote: > > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: > > > > > >> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, > > > > > > I'm wondering, di

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 16:53, Mike Bird wrote: > Other than rootfs, does /proc/mounts differ significantly from /etc/mtab. Probably depends on your definition of "significantly". But no, I don't see anything seriously out of whack. Then, maybe I just don't kno

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 16:45 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/19/08 15:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > >> Hash: SHA1 > >> > >> On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-19 Thread Eugene V. Lyubimkin
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/19/08 15:45, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > Since I am not

Re: Giving up on Iceweasel 3.0

2008-07-19 Thread B. L. Jilek
On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 1:15 PM, Freddy Freeloader <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Paul Scott wrote: > > I don't know, but I doubt it. I've never seen Iceweasel 3 render a font. > It seg faults at startup so I've never opened a single web page with it. > It's completely useless to me. I don't kno

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Mike Bird
Other than rootfs, does /proc/mounts differ significantly from /etc/mtab. --Mike Bird -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:34:51 +0100 Robin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 2008/7/19 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:11:47PM +0100, andy wrote: > >> Greetings > >> > >> The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, > >> parts of the NASA si

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 15:45, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >>> On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 14:11, andy wrote: > Greetings > > The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts > of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is > outdated: "You need the latest Flash Player plugin to view

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 14:30, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:57:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 07/18/08 17:39, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: >> [snip] >>> To ensure that /data/03 is /dev/sda1. >> Ah, ok. >> >>> May be, try lazy unmou

Re: running an old windows 98 progam under debain linux

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 11:20 -0400, gordon wrote: > cant seem to get my hands on an old machine that will boot with win 98 > or win me. so i would like to know if i can run that program on a AMD > 939 machine under Linux debain. > > lawn is drying out and dying . Could you clarify what you're

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:36:57PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 19:04 -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: > > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:46:07 -0500 > > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I keep telling people that Gmail is evil, but no one will listen. > > > > > > If you

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:56:37PM -0700, Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:13 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > > [0] I don't drink coffee, but I believe that four or five cups here in > > Seattle would equal my monthly $20 payment to Slicehost. >

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Allan Wind
Verizon blocks 25 on FiOS, and consumer level service agreements usually prohibit you from running servers. I to asked Verizon about their business service, and it same pipe branded for businesses was 3 times more expensive which meant that I ended up with a virtual hosted solution for our mail

Re: virtual machine choices in Debian

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Thu, 2008-07-17 at 16:48 -0400, H.S. wrote: > So, what free and preferably open source choices do we have for virtual > machines in Debian? Pros and cons based on your experiences will be > appreciated. virtualbox-ose is a good choice. -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Desc

Re: [rant] Dear Thunderbird/Enigmail users

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 17:34 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/18/08 14:50, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > > On 2008-07-18 21:42, Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > >> Since I am not really sure if this will work now, I'd appreciate a short > >> feed back

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Sat, 2008-07-19 at 13:24 -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: > Mmm, I'm on Comcast. I tried configuring postfix last week when I > noticed that port 25 is blocked outbound. I gave up when I couldn't > make postfix use SMTP AUTH... Oh, I'm so sorry. I recently switched from Comcast myself. Word of w

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Brian Marshall
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:36:57 -0700 Paul Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 19:04 -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: > > The reason I use Gmail is because there is no way I can set up > > everything for email on a local server (not the least of which > > preventing this is the res

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 12:46:55 -0700, Paul Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Name names! I bet other people would like to use that ISP. Well, I thought you would have worked it out from the headers ;-) I use Zen Internet www.zen.co.uk - although there several other UK ISPs offering stati

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Wed, 2008-07-16 at 07:13 -0700, Daniel Burrows wrote: > [0] I don't drink coffee, but I believe that four or five cups here in > Seattle would equal my monthly $20 payment to Slicehost. You're doing it wrong. Buy the whole bean coffee, grind and brew it yourself and $20 is closer to 50

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Fri, 2008-07-18 at 00:33 -0400, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> An ordinary user might not have resources to have a machine running > >> 24/7. > > > > Why not? > > > > 1. Because it is expensive and waste of resources. Only if done incorrectly. > 2. If you ar

OT: Audiophile grade music server using several flavors of Debian

2008-07-19 Thread Nick Lidakis
Ron Johnson wrote: - Mark it [OT] and post away! Thanks... Just thought someone could benefit from this application, or I could receive some constructive criticism on some of choices I had made. I had been researching way to assemble an audiophile grade music server since early last year f

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 07:04 +0100, Bob Cox wrote: > Yes, I have used Postfix on my main home server for years now and it is > really pretty much zero maintenance. Because I am fortunate enough to > have a static IP address from my (consumer) ISP, (which is also > thoughtful enough to allow settin

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 19:04 -0700, Brian Marshall wrote: > On Mon, 14 Jul 2008 20:46:07 -0500 > Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I keep telling people that Gmail is evil, but no one will listen. > > > > If you care about your data, and want to get to it at any time, keep > > your data

Re: [OT] GMail troubles [Was: Re: du-guidelines - point 7]

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 18:34 -0700, David Barrett wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Mon,14.Jul.08, 20:44:32, Celejar wrote: > > > >> Note that Gmail can be used via POP or IMAP, without the web interface, > > > > I'm wondering, did any of you have problems lately with that? Quite > > often

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Robin
2008/7/19 Andrew Sackville-West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:11:47PM +0100, andy wrote: >> Greetings >> >> The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts >> of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is >> outdated: "You need the

bindgraph and historic logs

2008-07-19 Thread kj
Hi guys, I have bind on a box that gets fairly low traffic but is about to get more busy, so I wanted to get bindgraph working so can can give clients a visual representation of trends (other graphs for other software too). Anyway, when I set up the server, I configured named/syslog-ng to log

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 05:57:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 07/18/08 17:39, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > [snip] > >> > > To ensure that /data/03 is /dev/sda1. > > Ah, ok. > > > May be, try lazy unmount? > > I want to know what's happening. Lazy umount is, to me, distateful > except when u

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Tue, 2008-07-15 at 03:28 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > And I don't see Debian in competition with Ubuntu. Or maybe I'll clarify > further: Debian isn't in competition against Ubuntu; Debian is in > competition /with/ Ubuntu. If Ubuntu "wins," Debian "wins." So I guess that's why Ubuntu folks are

Re: My first message... more of a mad mans rant...

2008-07-19 Thread Paul Johnson
On Mon, 2008-07-14 at 20:17 -0500, Mumia W.. wrote: > Debian is a serious Linux O/S meant for serious and knowledgeable people. I guess "games" doesn't exist. And since when am I a serious person? :o) -- Paul Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed mes

Re: Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 08:11:47PM +0100, andy wrote: > Greetings > > The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts > of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is > outdated: "You need the latest Flash Player plugin to view the > multimedia c

Loss of Flash Player capabilities in IW3.0

2008-07-19 Thread andy
Greetings The following is one of a number of sites (including, for example, parts of the NASA site) where I am told that my version of Flash Player is outdated: "You need the latest Flash Player plugin to view the multimedia content of this site." http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science

Signing local repositories

2008-07-19 Thread Shachar Or
Hello! I've made a local repository for my preinstalled debian project; this is for faster automatic installation of the systems. I've made the repository with the bpo reprepro. I don't know how to sign the repository. I've never used signatures, gnupg or any of these terms. Can anyone give me

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 11:38, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> On 07/19/08 09:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >>> Following instruction: >>> >>> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libr

Re: apt/dpkg delta feature

2008-07-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-07-19 01:13 +0200, Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Look at this. > https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/presto > > Does apt/dpkg have something similar? Yes, although I haven't tried it myself yet. Have a look at the "debdelta" package. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 6:22 PM, Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/19/08 09:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> Following instruction: >> >> http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries >> >> I did install nvidia-glx but it remo

Re: Switch-off problem

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 04:46, Jan Willem Stumpel wrote: > Recently my computer devolped a new problem: it sometimes does not > switch itself off when I do shutdown -h now. It hangs somewhere > during the shutdown procedure, and has to be switched off by means > o

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 09:01, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Following instruction: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries > > I did install nvidia-glx but it remove xserver-xorg... so I do not > have a 'X' program anymoe in /usr/bin/X11/X > >

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 11:10:52 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 07/19/08 08:49, Bob Cox wrote: > > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 17:38:21 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > wrote: > > > >> # mount | sort > >> /dev/hda1

Re: VirtualBox WinXP host, Linux Partition guest?

2008-07-19 Thread Wackojacko
Steve Lamb wrote: Hrm, not sure, I'm getting the dreaded VERR_FILE_NOT_FOUND error. Will have to twiddle with this tomorrow night. C:\Program Files\Sun\xVM VirtualBox>VBoxManage.exe internalcommands createrawvmd k -filename test.vmdk -rawdisk \\.\PysicalDrive0

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Ron Johnson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 07/19/08 08:49, Bob Cox wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 17:38:21 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > wrote: > >> # mount | sort >> /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) >> /dev/hda2 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) > > Is this ok?

iceweasel 3 font size (was: Firefox (Iceweasel) 3: is this page rendered horribly?)

2008-07-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 18:38:08 -0700, Paul Scott wrote: [...] > That page looks fine here on IW3 but it still renders fonts too large on > some other sites. What do you mean by "too large" - "larger than in iceweasel 2", or did you really check the absolute font size? Which sites are we talkin

apt/dpkg delta feature

2008-07-19 Thread Ritesh Raj Sarraf
Hi, Look at this. https://hosted.fedoraproject.org/presto Does apt/dpkg have something similar? Ritesh -- If possible, Please CC me when replying. I'm not subscribed to the list. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread H.S.
Mathieu Malaterre wrote: Following instruction: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries I did install nvidia-glx but it remove xserver-xorg... so I do not have a 'X' program anymoe in /usr/bin/X11/X Is there anyone else using nvidia out there ? I am using Nvidia on Debian Tes

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Saturday 19 July 2008 10:14:42 am Mathieu Malaterre wrote: > Ok I solved all my problem using nvidia stuff from unstable ...which > seems more 'stable' ;) > > step: > 1. using module-assistant: > > http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries > 2. > and installing nvidia-glx from unsta

Re: nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Ok I solved all my problem using nvidia stuff from unstable ...which seems more 'stable' ;) step: 1. using module-assistant: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries 2. and installing nvidia-glx from unstable You need Load "glx" in your xorg and you do not need 'Disable dri" after

nvidia-glx or xserver-xorg (was Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace)

2008-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
Following instruction: http://wiki.debian.org/NvidiaGraphicsDrivers#Libraries I did install nvidia-glx but it remove xserver-xorg... so I do not have a 'X' program anymoe in /usr/bin/X11/X Is there anyone else using nvidia out there ? Thanks -Mathieu On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 3:53 PM, Mathieu Ma

Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
...I take that back when commenting out "glx" from xorg.conf every single opengl app seg fault :( On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:52 PM, Mathieu Malaterre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Friday 18 July 2008 06:54:09 pm Flori

Re: Device busy, but lsof doesn't help

2008-07-19 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 17:38:21 -0500, Ron Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > # mount | sort > /dev/hda1 on /boot type ext3 (rw) > /dev/hda2 on / type ext3,ext2 (rw,errors=remount-ro) Is this ok? ^ Just a thought. It looks a bit odd to me (in my very limited experience). -

Re: (solved on my own) Re: need help on configing CD-Writer in sarge

2008-07-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 03:27:29 +0200 (CEST), s. keeling ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Sarge is dead. It no longer gets security updates. If your machine is network accessible, you need to upgrade. /etc/apt/sources.list: deb http://debian.mirror.rafal.ca/debian/ etch main contrib non-free deb-sr

Re: Bug or normal behaviour with dpkg -S ?

2008-07-19 Thread Thomas Preud'homme
Le samedi 19 juillet 2008, Osamu Aoki a écrit : > On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 01:18:48AM +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > Le vendredi 18 juillet 2008, Sven Joachim a écrit : > > > On 2008-07-18 19:59 +0200, Thomas Preud'homme wrote: > > > > A few minutes ago I was reading this list and discovered c

Re: Xorg not working: empty backtrace

2008-07-19 Thread Mathieu Malaterre
On Sat, Jul 19, 2008 at 1:31 AM, Damon L. Chesser <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Friday 18 July 2008 06:54:09 pm Florian Kulzer wrote: >> On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 23:20:14 +0200, Mathieu Malaterre wrote: >> > Hi there, >> > >> > Giving up on this one... I cannot understand what is going wrong >>

Re: dumb question about tar

2008-07-19 Thread James Youngman
On Thu, Jul 17, 2008 at 7:16 PM, David Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > When you tar a file (i.e. a backup) to a destination disk, does tar build > the file on the destination disk, or does it create it in a tmp file, > memory, etc then move it to the final destination? I have to t

Re: [OT] How to Analyze/Study Source Code?

2008-07-19 Thread James Youngman
On Wed, Jul 16, 2008 at 5:57 PM, Amit Uttamchandani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey everyone, > > Just wondering how you guys go about studying code? Do you read every > single source file and then make notes? Or is there a tool that goes > about and draws out relationships between source code fil

Coping files into simple-cdd target.

2008-07-19 Thread Jabka Atu
Howdy ,... I noticed that there only few simple ways to copy files inside into simple-cdd target creation: using mount /unmount cdrom inside profile.postinst echoing contents of file into target using postinstall script. And my favorite : Using Debian package that store the dir and adding it to

Switch-off problem

2008-07-19 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Recently my computer devolped a new problem: it sometimes does not switch itself off when I do shutdown -h now. It hangs somewhere during the shutdown procedure, and has to be switched off by means of the mains switch at the back. Fortunately the filesystem is ext3, so at the next boot it starts ag

Re: Switching keyboard language with Ctrl+Shift in the KDE

2008-07-19 Thread Anton Liaukevich
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,18.Jul.08, 21:14:54, Anton Liaukevich wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generic Keyboard" Driver "kbd" Option "XkbRules" "xorg" Option "XkbModel" "pc104"

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 11:50:10, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: > > [...] > > > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > > last logical partition. > > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > > distributio

Re: grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,19.Jul.08, 10:36:44, Peibol wrote: [...] > As you can see hda3 is the last primary partition and it is beyond the > last logical partition. > Debian + grub is on hda6 and it boots ok. But I have other Linux > distribution (Suse) installed on hda3 and when I tried to boot it, it > fai

Re: DEBIAN_WIKI: multiple displays question

2008-07-19 Thread Brice Goglin
Ritesh Raj Sarraf wrote: > Hi, > > As per https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253989 > > > I had one question. > > X.org 7.3 http://www.x.org/wiki/Releases/7.3 > Xserver autoconfiguration (most of xorg.conf becomes useless) > RandR 1.2 support on Intel, ATI, and some G80 boards (autodetec

grub problem with primary partition

2008-07-19 Thread Peibol
Hi all I have a issue with grub using Debian etch. The picture is simple: PC with only one hard disk (hda) and the following partition table. cfdisk 2.12r Disk Drive: /dev/hda Size: 80026361856 bytes, 80.0 GB Heads: 255 Sectors per Track: 63 Cylinders: 9729 Name Flags Part Type FS Type [Lab

Re: Create single PDF out of several other files

2008-07-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/7/18 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 2008-07-18 12:57, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Does anyone know a solution for .doc files? I know that she works with >> .doc files as well. > > from man ooffice: > > openoffice(1) > > Name >

Re: Squirrelmail:115 Can't Open SMTP Stream.

2008-07-19 Thread Semih Gokalp
> I had the same problem a month before and during my search I found pages > mentioning thunderbird doesn't support DIGEST-MD5. > So I have to use CRAM-MD5 and disable TLS support from Postfix and everything works without any error. But still I dont understand,why squirrelmail could not send mail

debian lenny can not boot

2008-07-19 Thread Jian Jun Wang
it worked fine two hours ago, and I could not remember what configuration I have changed. I did run rcconf to stop some daemon debian lenny installed on my laptop, with LVM2. now after starting the computer, only / was mounted other partitions (/var /usr /home /boot swap) were not. so I mount othe

Re: could anyone connect to mysql-server by mono(C#) on debian?

2008-07-19 Thread Star Liu
Finally, I use postgresql instead of mysql, and mono c# can work with postgresql successfully. so there is some bugs in libmysql5.0-cil package. On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 8:47 AM, Star Liu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I got a strange error when i connect to mysql-server by mono(C#), > little informa