Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread David Christensen
Andrei Popescu wrote: dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg Thanks! 1600x1200 @ 85Hz is much easier on my eyes. :-) David -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 01:07:41AM -0400, Celejar wrote: > On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:46:39 -0400 > Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Data point: I reported a bug in the joe editor just over two years ago. > > Joseph H. Allen even listed a patch to fix the bug in response to the > > report.

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:46:39 -0400 Carl Fink <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Data point: I reported a bug in the joe editor just over two years ago. > Joseph H. Allen even listed a patch to fix the bug in response to the > report. > > The bug remains unfixed. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bug

Re: rhythmbox automatic discovery of daap shares

2008-10-11 Thread Bob
Bob wrote: Rhythmbox 0.9.6 in etch automagic finds mt-daapd running on my lenny nas box, it displays and plays the music and playlists served beautifully. Rhythmbox 0.11.6 in lenny doesn't, if I manually enter the relevant ip and port info it plays fine but it's a pain to have to manually ent

Re: debian etch - dnsmasq question

2008-10-11 Thread paragasu
is RDNS necessary? if i am not going to handle RDNS what option do i have? thanks On 10/12/08, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:00:19PM +0800, paragasu wrote: >> i have a small VPS.. and i want to turn it to my very own dns server. >> the hosting provider give

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread H.S.
Carl Fink wrote: > Data point: I reported a bug in the joe editor just over two years ago. > Joseph H. Allen even listed a patch to fix the bug in response to the > report. > > The bug remains unfixed. > > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386883 > > And yes, I haven't reported m

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Carl Fink
Data point: I reported a bug in the joe editor just over two years ago. Joseph H. Allen even listed a patch to fix the bug in response to the report. The bug remains unfixed. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=386883 And yes, I haven't reported many bugs since. It is in fact disc

Re: Can't run aptitude

2008-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 20:42:21 -0500 Dennis Wicks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get > > dgwicks:~# aptitude update > Writing extended state information... Done > Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg >Could no

Re: debian etch - dnsmasq question

2008-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 02:00:19PM +0800, paragasu wrote: > i have a small VPS.. and i want to turn it to my very own dns server. > the hosting provider give me 3 ip address.. so i want to use 2 ip for > ns1.domain.com and ns2.domain.com > > currently i have had 20 domain names. it is working ok i

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/11/08 18:24, Abel McClendon wrote: On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=wlan0 OUT= MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:17:f2:eb:42:2e:08:00 SRC=10.0.1.5 DST=10.0.1.255 LEN=113 TOS

Can't run aptitude

2008-10-11 Thread Dennis Wicks
When I try to do nearly anything with aptitude I get dgwicks:~# aptitude update Writing extended state information... Done Err http://security.debian.org lenny/updates Release.gpg Could not connect to localhost:4001 (127.0.0.1). - connect (111 Connection refused) and

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread H.S.
Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS > project. I have several times and have yet to find one where the > developers were appreciative of the bug report. I'll go even farther: > In most cases they've been outright hostile and I've had times

Re: Installing Etch With TFTP: Linux starts, I/O Stops

2008-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 01:06:41AM -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Friday 10 October 2008, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > Where is the actual install media? > > That's one thing I'm not clear about. Not one article I've found on the > web that has explained this has said where to put any install media

Re: How to check USB harddrive?

2008-10-11 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:19:13 +0100 "Michal R. Hoffmann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I > check the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB > drives)? As it is my backup drive I'd prefer to know if

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 20:12:26 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > "Reported a number of bugs over time. Found the rule was not getting > useful responses, more often negative, or in some cases, hostile > responses, as opposed to positive or even neutral ones." My apologies for simplifying too much

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Steve Kemp wrote: > On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 19:47:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > Still, I do have to take bug reports and I have to smile sweetly as > > I do because those reports come from clients who are paying me > > enough per month that I have to keep them a bit m

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 19:47:40 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > Still, I do have to take bug reports and I have to smile sweetly as I > do because those reports come from clients who are paying me enough per > month that I have to keep them a bit more than happy. If someone can't > handle bug repo

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 12:23:01, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > I agree, the DD's response was not his best contribution ever (I > wonder why he was answering on aptitude bugs at all since he is not > the maintainer). But is it fair to judge develop

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-11 Thread Abel McClendon
On Sat, 11 Oct 2008 19:09:23 -0400 Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Oct 11 14:08:45 debian kernel: [44140.916755] Inbound IN=wlan0 OUT= > MAC=ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:00:17:f2:eb:42:2e:08:00 SRC=10.0.1.5 > DST=10.0.1.255 LEN=113 TOS=0x00 PREC=0x00 TTL=64 ID=62369 PROTO

Re: understand the logs

2008-10-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
From: Daryl Styrk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: 11/10/'08, 20:09 > I took a look at /var/log/messages and this entry is repeating just > about every second for the last day and a half and finally stopped about > an hour ago. > > I have no idea what I'm looking at. I've searched around google a bit

understand the logs

2008-10-11 Thread Daryl Styrk
I took a look at /var/log/messages and this entry is repeating just about every second for the last day and a half and finally stopped about an hour ago. I have no idea what I'm looking at. I've searched around google a bit but nothing seem to explain what is going on. Any help in diagnosing the

VirtualBox restore?

2008-10-11 Thread Todd A. Jacobs
I have a VDI image and a directory with a series of snapshots and an XML file backed up, but I seem to be unable to register a valid VM using virtualbox, probably because my winxp.xml is out of sync with the VirtualBox.xml. How do I reconnect the VDI image and its related snapshots to a valid virt

Re: Sobre los DVDs de la version estable (i386)

2008-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/10/11 Carlos Carrero Gutierrez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Esta duda puede parecer ridícula, pero los DVDs que están para descargar de > la versión estable i386 (la que me interesa) pesan más que un DVD normal y > no puedo grabarlos, ¿tengo que usar un DVD de dos capas sólo porque pesen > 300 megas

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 12:23:01, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] I agree, the DD's response was not his best contribution ever (I wonder why he was answering on aptitude bugs at all since he is not the maintainer). But is it fair to judge developers by one of them[1] (possibly having a bad day)? [1] I'm

Re: Wireless issues -- Lenovo R61 ThinkPad -- succeeded to connect on boot-up ...

2008-10-11 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In response to Florian's instructions I added the line "ip link set wlan0 up" to the /etc/network/interfaces file, as recommended by the wiki (http://wiki.debian.org/iwlwifi). So, now the relevant part of the interfaces file reads as follows: auto wl

Re: ping hostnames ala windows ping.exe?

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 18:57:40, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:31:45AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > $ host bixi > > bixi has address 192.168.77.76 > > This only resolves host names through DNS. e.g. ignores your hosts file. Ah, it works on my machine because I have a local

Re: exim4 mainlog & msglog permissions - Unresolved

2008-10-11 Thread Thomas H. George
Thomas H. George wrote: After finally understanding the exim4 authentication setup - as root I am able to send email to my other mail box - I tried to send mail as tom and from mutt. No go. First, there were messages that exim4 could not write to the files /var/log/exim4/mainlog and paniclog

Re: Trouble installing Xfce4*

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 18:31:56 +0100, andy wrote: > Hello > > Is it me, or does the following output suggest a problem with the Xfce4* > libraries and their installation routine? > > In any event, can anyone suggest a workaround for a current Lenny machine? > > TIA. > > Andy > > Here is the tra

Re: /dev/shm lost

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:42:01 +, T o n g wrote: > Hi, > > I used to have the tmpfs /dev/shm, but lost it due to recent update. > > I'm wondering who is in charge of creating it -- so as to get it back. /etc/init.d/mountdevsubfs.sh This script is linked in /etc/rcS.d on my Sid system: $

Open source (LGPL) library to write on sim cards

2008-10-11 Thread Jabka Atu
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good Day , I'm searching for LGPL or BSD Like library to write on sim cards, I wish to add that ability to sevral commercial sim card writers. Do anyone familuer with this kind of library ? - -- - --- Jabka Atu ===--- bsh83.blogspot.com -

Re: ping hostnames ala windows ping.exe?

2008-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:31:45AM +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > $ host bixi > bixi has address 192.168.77.76 This only resolves host names through DNS. e.g. ignores your hosts file. You can ask libc's name resolver directly: $ getent hosts bixi $ getent hosts yahoo.com 206.190.60.37 yahoo.c

Re: how to change the default web browser from epiphany to iceweasel?

2008-10-11 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 07:59:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > > There are plenty of chat groups on conference.jabber.org. Very few > > active ones. Is that one actually active? > >From time to time, that conference does get busy. I myself tend to > autojoin and leave it op

Re: compiling the 2.26.6 kernel on debian.

2008-10-11 Thread Mumia W..
On 10/10/2008 02:28 PM, Michael Habashy wrote: Guys and Gals - I tried to compile the kernel on 2.26.6. I did NO modification to the kernel just generic. I get the following error: Driver 'sd' needs updating - please use bus_type methods That's harmless. then it is followed by a lot of :

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso
2008/10/10 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Friday 10 October 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Please file a bug against the "debian-installer" package. > But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS > project. You must be doing it wrong. I routinely file bugs against Debia

Re: Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Correction: The alpha 2 link is http://www.nexenta.org/releases/nexenta-core-platform_2.0-b85-alpha2_x86.iso.zip Thanks to perlun for the heads-up. Regards Anil On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 11:19 PM, Anil Gulecha <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi All, > > This is to announce availability of NexentaCore

Re: How to check USB harddrive?

2008-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Sat,11.Oct.08, 05:59:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I check the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on

Nexenta Core Platform 2 Alpha2 released

2008-10-11 Thread Anil Gulecha
Hi All, This is to announce availability of NexentaCore 2.0 Alpha2 - Debian Native OpenSolaris environment and platform. (unstable "Hardy" branch). [1] Nexenta is ubuntu with the opensolaris kernel. It brings the opensolaris technologies like ZFS, Dtrace, zones and SMF to the debian developer env

Trouble installing Xfce4*

2008-10-11 Thread andy
Hello Is it me, or does the following output suggest a problem with the Xfce4* libraries and their installation routine? In any event, can anyone suggest a workaround for a current Lenny machine? TIA. Andy Here is the trace: ~$ sudo apt-get install xfce4* Reading package lists... Done Build

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - and lost my settings

2008-10-11 Thread thveillon.debian
Osamu Aoki a écrit : On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:10:29PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: Hi, I was feeling bored by the freeze, so I decided to install KDE 4.1 from experimental. I installed the packages, it is running apparently fine, but... where did all my settings go? I started with a

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - and lost my settings

2008-10-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Osamu Aoki wrote: > As I understand, experimental is "NotAutomatic: yes" archive, its pin > is 1. > > Thus you must explicitly select package to install ones from it. I > guess you installed some KDE 4.1 packages but you have not updated > others. Thus funny desktop. > > Simply having experiment

Re: Installed KDE 4.1 - and lost my settings

2008-10-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 08:10:29PM -0300, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > Hi, > > I was feeling bored by the freeze, so I decided to install KDE 4.1 > from experimental. I installed the packages, it is running apparently > fine, but... where did all my settings go? I started with a completely >

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:20:57, Hal Vaughan wrote: > > [...] > > > I still maintain that the issue had more to do with the issue than > > the response said, however in that case, but I felt the responder > > was more interested in writing it off than

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:20:57, Hal Vaughan wrote: [...] > I still maintain that the issue had more to do with the issue than the > response said, however in that case, but I felt the responder was more > interested in writing it off than in dealing with the issue or helping > me figure out where

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 17:51 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > [...] > > > Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: > > kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). > > > > I have not kept up on "current" methods, I just stuck

Re: Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 10:23:37, Damon L. Chesser wrote: [...] > Is kernel-package still considered good (there is a bug against it: > kernel-packaged eaten by bit rot). > > I have not kept up on "current" methods, I just stuck with one that > worked. I guess you missed the latest post(s) of Manoj

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Sat, 2008-10-11 at 10:20 -0400, Hal Vaughan wrote: > On Saturday 11 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:52:09 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But >

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Michael Biebl wrote: > Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS > > project. I have several times and have yet to find one where the > > developers were appreciative of the bug report. I'll go even > > farther: In most c

Re: Kerberos with LDAP backend / Replace active directory

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 22:10 +0200, Clifford W. Hansen wrote: > I'm looking to setup Kerberos with an LDAP backend, I have found a couple of > howtos and nothing seems to be complete. > > Has anybody set this up before and have documentation on how to replicate it. > > Basically what I am doing i

Compiling a Debian kernel The Debian Way

2008-10-11 Thread Damon L. Chesser
After reading a post here asking for help about a kernel that was not compiled correctly, I went to the link the OP posted and read that. http://www.howtoforge.com/kernel_compilation_debian Here is what I did in the past: make menuconfig/xconfig/gconfig/oldconfig make-kpkg clean make-kpkg --ini

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Saturday 11 October 2008, Florian Kulzer wrote: > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:52:09 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But > > > not hostile. > > > > Me neither, not even when I screwed

Re: awk manipulating string

2008-10-11 Thread Kumar Appaiah
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 06:47:41AM -0500, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? Here's one way: awk 'BEGIN { x = "Hello!"; print substr(x, 0, length(x) - 1)}' Can't think of anything better quickly... HTH. Kumar -- Kumar Appaiah -- To UNSU

Re: wrong hostname on ssh login on host after installing linuxVserver

2008-10-11 Thread oneman
On 11-okt-2008, at 14:31, Steve Kemp wrote: On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 14:19:25 +0200, oneman wrote: so I get something like Debian GNU/Linux (etch/x86_64) lvs-guest.onemanifest.net instead something like Debian GNU/Linux (etch/x86_64) host.onemanifest.net Where does the ss

Re: awk manipulating string

2008-10-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Hi, > > How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? > Did not test, but substr(, 0, length() - 1) should work, or should be close to what you want. -- Horngren's Observation: Among economists, the real world is often a special case. Eduardo M K

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
David Christensen wrote: > The "Resolution" drop-down list has the resolutions I picked when > installing. But the "Refresh rate" drop-down list only seems to offer > 60 Hz. Do I need to do the math and edit an X configuration file > somewhere? I recall doing such years ago, but was hoping th

Re: X terminal problems

2008-10-11 Thread Andreas Ronnquist
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 18:57:14 +0200 Andreas Ronnquist <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi! > > I have a weird problem with my X-terminals (I've got the same behaviour > using xterm / urxvt and xfce4-terminal.) - When stepping through what I > have previously entered using the up/down keys the line doe

Re: HP/Compaq NX5000 laptop Broadcom network card problem

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 19:31:07, Bret Busby wrote: > > Hello. > > It occurred to me, that the subject of the message below, could have > osbcured what the message was about, so I am reposting, with (hopefully) a > more descriptive Subject field content. How about providing the information as suggeste

Re: wrong hostname on ssh login on host after installing linuxVserver

2008-10-11 Thread Steve Kemp
On Sat Oct 11, 2008 at 14:19:25 +0200, oneman wrote: > > so I get something like > > Debian GNU/Linux (etch/x86_64) lvs-guest.onemanifest.net > > instead something like > > Debian GNU/Linux (etch/x86_64) host.onemanifest.net > > Where does the ssh login get this hostname from, if not f

Sobre los DVDs de la version estable (i386)

2008-10-11 Thread Carlos Carrero Gutierrez
Esta duda puede parecer ridícula, pero los DVDs que están para descargar de la versión estable i386 (la que me interesa) pesan más que un DVD normal y no puedo grabarlos, ¿tengo que usar un DVD de dos capas sólo porque pesen 300 megas más? ¿No hay otra posibilidad? Muchísimas gracias.

wrong hostname on ssh login on host after installing linuxVserver

2008-10-11 Thread oneman
Hi all, I've installed vserver a while ago. Recently I realised that the welcome message ssh login _on the host_ gives me shows a hostname of one of the vservers I made _and removed_ during testing. I am really logged into the host (I did check that), and 'hostname' gives me the correct

awk manipulating string

2008-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Hi, How do you remove the last character of a string in awk? Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: How to check USB harddrive?

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 05:59:18, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: > Andrei Popescu wrote: >> On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I >>> check the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB >>

GForge/Sourceforge locally installable

2008-10-11 Thread Martin
Hello, i'm looking for locally installable. I don't primarily care for the language it's implemented it but I'd like it to be somewhat consistent (which disqualifies gforge). trac, redmine are too limited as in they don't provide all of: * self project registration * mailing lists * auto creat

Re: How to check USB harddrive?

2008-10-11 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Andrei Popescu wrote: On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: Hi, I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I check the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB drives)? As it is my backup drive I'd prefer to know if something's go

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 12:52:09 +0300, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But not > > hostile. > > Me neither, not even when I screwed up big time (#499594). > > The response of Julien Cristau

Re: Can't access e-mail with w3m

2008-10-11 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-10-11 12:52 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Another question: isn't there in Debian an emacs-w3m package? There are even two of them, called w3m-el and w3m-el-snapshot. However, you cannot install them concurrently, so you must which on to use. Sven -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

digikam lenny

2008-10-11 Thread steef
hi folks, digikam under lenny does not give any more the codes of the photographs (an archive of 4000 out of the psychological practice of my wife) in the 'right-side' window. So for my use of the program under lenny it seems worthless because i cannot find the photoos back under the existing

Can't access e-mail with w3m

2008-10-11 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I can't access my e-mail box when navigating with w3m: the following messages are appear: unable to get local issue certificate: accept? (y/n) accept unsecure SSL session: unverified: unable to get local issuer certificate . Please, how to work this out? Another question: isn't there in Debi

Re: Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sat,11.Oct.08, 03:32:23, Ron Johnson wrote: > I've *never* had a DD get hostile with me. Ignored? Yes. But not > hostile. Me neither, not even when I screwed up big time (#499594). The response of Julien Cristau was exemplary, even though I wasted his time (during the freeze!) with my st

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 19:28:25, David Christensen wrote: > How do I change the screen resolution and refresh rate on Debian Etch > 4.0r4a? Since you are still on etch you can open a root terminal and run dpkg-reconfigure xserver-xorg You will get some questions. Generally the ones you have no idea

Re: How to check USB harddrive?

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 21:19:13, Michal R. Hoffmann wrote: > Hi, > > I have a WD external USB harddrive which I use for backups. How can I check > the drive? Is it possible to use S.M.A.R.T (is it supported on USB drives)? > As it is my backup drive I'd prefer to know if something's going wrong. > > T

Re: compiling the 2.26.6 kernel on debian.

2008-10-11 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Fri,10.Oct.08, 15:28:19, Michael Habashy wrote: > Guys and Gals - > I tried to compile the kernel on 2.26.6. I did NO modification to the > kernel just generic. Hello, If the standard Debian kernel works and yours does not, then it has to be due to your changes. In another mail you say you t

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Hal Vaughan wrote: > > But I've learned, the hard way, NEVER file a bug report in a FOSS > project. I have several times and have yet to find one where the > developers were appreciative of the bug report. I'll go even farther: > In most cases they've been outright hostile and I've had times

Re: Debian Stole My Name!

2008-10-11 Thread Michael Biebl
Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > Short answer is "hal is accepted now for lenny d-i" > > On Sat, Oct 11, 2008 at 01:05:09AM +0200, Michael Biebl wrote: >> Osamu Aoki wrote: >>> Hi, >>> >>> On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 04:01:59PM +0800, paragasu wrote: maybethe debian installer do not permit you to use

Re: Etch 4.0r4a desktop how to set resolution and refresh rate?

2008-10-11 Thread Nyizsnyik Ferenc
On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 21:57:49 -0700 David Christensen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeff Soules wrote: > > Hm. For me it's Desktop menu -> Preferences -> Screen Resolution. > > Thank you. I thought it should be something simple, but am > unfamiliar with the Gnome UI. :-) > > > The "Resolution"

Kill question

2008-10-11 Thread Cassiel
Hi you all, I recently compiled my own 2.6.26 kernel applying the Ingo Molnar's rt patch and *Processor type and features -> Preemption Mode -> Complete Preemption (Real-Time) -> Y Processor type and features -> Timer frequency -> 1000 HZ -> Y* enable deadline as the default IO scheduler enable

Filing bug reports in Debian (was Re: Debian Stole My Name!)

2008-10-11 Thread Ron Johnson
On 10/10/08 22:21, Hal Vaughan wrote: [snip] Don't get me wrong, I love open source. I've contributed to several projects with code, including doing a couple of my own projects. For instance, I learned C++ just so I could write the code for LinuxICE that controlled some HD radios through th