Re: whole disk encryption -- not prompting for passphrase

2008-11-05 Thread Giorgos D. Pallas
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > I'm pretty sure that the crypt thing is not compatible with lvm. may be this > is the problem. I'm not 100% sure though. The problem could be related to > previous formatting and using lvm, or some cached information somewhere. > > what does sudo fdisk -l /dev/hda looks like

Re: Problem with file perms

2008-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 04 November 2008, "Rodrigo Cosme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote=20 > about 'Problem with file perms': > > Executing "ls -l" inside > > /var/run I get: > > > >?- ? ? ? ? ? klogd.pid > >?- ? ? ?

Re: vi -- Turn off Line Number Colors and Screen Buffering

2008-11-05 Thread Matt Miller
> > I don't want the editor to do whatever special screen buffer > > swapping, or whatever it is, that prevents me from scrolling back in > > my terminal history when the editor is open, and then clears away > > the screen and redisplays what was there before after the editor is > > closed. > > Thi

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-05 Thread s. keeling
Mark Copper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I, ahem, need to upgrade oldstable to stable, but I cannot update my > current oldstable system, no longer supported as it is. How important is > it to do that before upgrading? Thanks for asking the questions, because the resultant answers were informati

Re: Very slow bind 9

2008-11-05 Thread Julian De Marchi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> I aggregate a root zone to run on my name servers. You may grab the >> zone if you would like to give it a try. slave '. zone from 58.6.115.46. > > Can you share the aggregation script ? I would be more then happy to share the script. It is of c

Re: t-mobile android htc google phone not mounting

2008-11-05 Thread L Glidewell
On Wednesday 05 November 2008 05:24:44 pm Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > A friend dropped by and plugged his new Google Android HTC phone > into a usb slot on my sid box (with a 2.6.26 kernel) and when we typed > dmesg we saw a /dev/sdb however when I typed > fdisk -l > my system did not report any

Re: scipt for dialup timer

2008-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
Taking this back on the list. On Thu, Nov 06, 2008 at 02:40:49PM +1100, Ray Burke wrote: > > I did join the list as registered but it auto took me to your email > address, after joining, the problem is cause I am new with linux, > Idont know how to do what you said? > > ray> Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Lachlan
2008/11/6 Vinicius Massuchetto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Anton, > >> Anton Piatek escreveu: >> >> do "lsmod>before" then run "alsaconf" and then run "lsmod>after". Now >> do "diff before after" and post the results i had exactly the same problem. when you run alsaconf get the names of all the sou

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-05 Thread Bob
Damon L. Chesser wrote: 8< big snip 8< Bob, Yes, that also worked just fine. The only problem remaining is my volume plugin for gkrellm does not come back up with my controls enabled: After every reboot, I have to reconfigure the plug in to have volume sliders for Master, PCM, CD, etc etc.

Re: t-mobile android htc google phone not mounting

2008-11-05 Thread David Fox
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 5:24 PM, Mitchell Laks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > A friend dropped by and plugged his new Google Android HTC phone > into a usb slot on my sid box (with a 2.6.26 kernel) and when we typed > dmesg we saw a /dev/sdb however when I typed > fdisk -l Have you tried dire

Re: t-mobile android htc google phone not mounting

2008-11-05 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mitchell Laks wrote: > Hi, > > A friend dropped by and plugged his new Google Android HTC phone > into a usb slot on my sid box (with a 2.6.26 kernel) and when we typed > dmesg we saw a /dev/sdb however when I typed > fdisk -l > my system did not rep

t-mobile android htc google phone not mounting

2008-11-05 Thread Mitchell Laks
Hi, A friend dropped by and plugged his new Google Android HTC phone into a usb slot on my sid box (with a 2.6.26 kernel) and when we typed dmesg we saw a /dev/sdb however when I typed fdisk -l my system did not report any mountable partitions. Does anyone know how to mount the new G phone on a

Re: Very slow bind 9

2008-11-05 Thread Richard A Nelson
On Thu, 6 Nov 2008, Julian De Marchi wrote: It uses them to determine the NS for the domain name you want. to run bind at its quickest, using your own root zone can help. That makes sense. By default "." is type hint. I aggregate a root zone to run on my name servers. You may grab the zone

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread steve
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:48:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there any GUI-based software for timing h

Re: Processes comminicating with "outside" sites

2008-11-05 Thread Jeffrey B. Green
On 2 Nov 2008, Michael Iatrou wrote: > When the date was Sunday 02 November 2008, Jeffrey B. Green wrote: > > > So I'm wondering, is there a list that itemizes all outside > > communications and associates them with the relevant package/file? > > You need something like the output of: > > #

Re: Very slow bind 9

2008-11-05 Thread Julian De Marchi
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jesus arteche wrote: > Hey, > I hve just buildt a Master DNS cache with bind, but it is very slow...it is > 10 times slower than the response if i try to resolve against the router. I > checked the syslog and i saw that Bind try to get responso from t

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Carl Johnson
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been > >> connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
Hi Anton, > Anton Piatek escreveu: do "lsmod>before" then run "alsaconf" and then run "lsmod>after". Now do "diff before after" and post the results I found I had snd_pcsp module loading badly which was causing problems for sound - the reason it was loading badly was because /etc/modprobe.conf

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Vinicius Massuchetto
Hi Florian, Florian Kulzer escreveu: [ I am putting the discussion back on the list. ] Sorry by that. :) Forwarded message from Vinicius Massuchetto: Florian Kulzer escreveu: On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:30:28 -0200, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been trying to get help on

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been > connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for a > less technical user. Thanks in advance. You might look at pppstatus. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with

Very slow bind 9

2008-11-05 Thread Jesus arteche
Hey, I hve just buildt a Master DNS cache with bind, but it is very slow...it is 10 times slower than the response if i try to resolve against the router. I checked the syslog and i saw that Bind try to get responso from the Root-Servers...I dont understand cause i conf bind with forward to my DNS

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > [save] > > # Save a list of all installed packages > > aptitude -F "%?p" --disable-columns search \~i >| installed-all > > # Save a list of all installed packages with their versions >

Talking with Yahoo Messenger

2008-11-05 Thread Martin
Hello, I find out that gaim is able to use text messaging with many programs. I want to use voice messaging (use it as phone) when other person is using Yahoo Messenger on MS Windows. Is there some program for debian that can do this? Friend told me that he is using Yahoo Messenger on dial-up conn

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Sjoerd Hiemstra
Dotan Cohen wrote: > Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been > connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for a > less technical user. Thanks in advance. pppcost seems to be what you are looking for. Haven't tried it though. There's a screenshot here:

Re: Problem with file perms

2008-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Tuesday 04 November 2008, "Rodrigo Cosme" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Problem with file perms': > Executing "ls -l" inside > /var/run I get: > >?- ? ? ? ? ? klogd.pid >?- ? ? ? ? ? syslogd.pid >drwxr-xr-x 2 root roo

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 3:30 PM, green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: >> I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find >> lots of references to this procedure >> > Backup installed package list on current machine >> > dpkg --get-selec

prep 4 sarge 2 etch upgrade; patching driver

2008-11-05 Thread Mark Copper
I posted 2 days ago on this old, old topic, but am posting separately now to ask a more general question about patching sources. I'm planning to upgrade sarge to etch remotely. The tricky point for me is to include a driver for the RAID card on the box (Adaptec ASR-2420SA). Etch does not support

Re: redirects don't seem to be working

2008-11-05 Thread Alex Samad
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:29:30PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Sunday 02 November 2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > about 'redirects don't seem to be working': > >I have a network 172.20.0.0/16 dgw is 172.20.0.1 > > > >ip 134.134.134.1/32 is available via 172.20.1.50 > > >

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Brian McKee wrote: > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.txt to the new machine Set p

Re: rc.local fails to work

2008-11-05 Thread green
On Wed, 2008.11.05, 310, Stephen Liu wrote: > I have 3 commands on /etc/rc.local > > > # cat /etc/rc.local > /bin/sh -e > # > # rc.local > # > > /usr/local/bind/sbin/named -u named -t /usr/local/bind -c > /etc/named.conf > > /usr/local/sbin/clamd > > su - amavis -c "/usr/local/sbin/amavisd" >

Re: Recording from XM radio

2008-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/05/08 12:30, Rob McBroom wrote: On 2008-Oct-26, at 2:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Every ISP offers static IP addresses for an extra fee. Oh, I wish that were true. There isn't an ISP in the Indianapolis area that offers a static IP (to residential customers). That's where the "extra fe

Re: grub with sata drives?

2008-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 03 November 2008, "Thomas H. George" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'grub with sata drives?': >I have two sata drives, sda and sdb with the root partition on sdb. I >installed grub on sdb and made the following entries in >/boot/grub/menu.lst: > >kopt=root=/dev/sdb1 >groot=(sdb,0) GRU

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Anton Piatek
2008/11/5 Florian Kulzer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > [ I am putting the discussion back on the list. ] > > Forwarded message from Vinicius Massuchetto: >> Florian Kulzer escreveu: >>> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:30:28 -0200, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: Hi Everyone, I've been trying to get

Re: redirects don't seem to be working

2008-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Sunday 02 November 2008, Alex Samad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'redirects don't seem to be working': >I have a network 172.20.0.0/16 dgw is 172.20.0.1 > >ip 134.134.134.1/32 is available via 172.20.1.50 > >so on 172.20.0.1 I have set > > >net.ipv4.conf.eth1.send_redirects = 1 Okay, but do

Re: bandwidth control

2008-11-05 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Monday 03 November 2008, Phillipus Gunawan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'bandwidth control': >I am looking a (debian) package to control bandwidth for my network >So far, the best candidate from googling is IPCop, which I havent try it > yet. I do bandwidth shaping using tc directly. You m

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/5 Johannes Wiedersich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is there any window manager installed? > Yes, KDE 3.5.10 > If yes, you could try gpicview (in lenny). It has a windows border, but > if you click "1" for no resizing and then the fullscreen icon for > fullscreen, it will fill the screen (except

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Dotan Cohen writes: > Thanks, Doug, but this would not work in the case of accidental > disconnects... Yes it would. The scripts in ip-down.d run when the link goes down for any reason. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Co

Re: Sound broken in recent Lenny update

2008-11-05 Thread Anton Piatek
So I found the cause.. something had decided to create a /etc/modprobe.conf (which doesnt call /etc/modprobe.d/*) The contents of it was "options parport_pc io=0x378 irq=7 dma=3" if anyone could tell me the culprit from that (i think its serial port related, but no idea what package it might be)- I

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 04:28:30PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >>> I need to test a new LCD monitor. What program can display a png image >>> with the top left pixel of the image in

Re: rc.local fails to work

2008-11-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:10:18AM +0800, Stephen Liu wrote: Debian Etch I have 3 commands on /etc/rc.local # cat /etc/rc.local /bin/sh -e in my /etc/rc.local, this line is #!/bin/sh -e Note the pound-bang (#!) that makes this script run by sh rather than running

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Dotan Cohen wrote: Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for a less technical user. Thanks in advance. http://packages.debian.org/sid/wmppp.app exists in all distributions. Right now mine shows 00:00 and

Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 18:27:59 +0700, Zaki Akhmad wrote: > Sigh, the actual problem haven't solved yet. I found, I can't see my > GUI again. I can't configure my screen resolution with > # dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg > > Here's my the /etc/X11/xorg.conf > > Section "InputDevice" >

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Are you saying that /etc/ppp/ip-down isn't run if you unplug the phone > wire? I've never had that problem. As for handling accidental > disconnects, there's the pppd persist option. > Er, I really don't know! I'll pass that info on, thanks! --

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 04:28:30PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> I need to test a new LCD monitor. What program can display a png image >> with the top left pixel of the image in the top left pixel of the >> screen, without resizing the image? Thus,

Re: Recording from XM radio

2008-11-05 Thread Rob McBroom
On 2008-Oct-26, at 2:52 PM, Ron Johnson wrote: Every ISP offers static IP addresses for an extra fee. Oh, I wish that were true. There isn't an ISP in the Indianapolis area that offers a static IP (to residential customers). Although, there are a couple that will claim to offer it because

Re: ALSA not loading at system boot

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
[ I am putting the discussion back on the list. ] Forwarded message from Vinicius Massuchetto: > Florian Kulzer escreveu: >> On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 12:30:28 -0200, Vinicius Massuchetto wrote: >>> Hi Everyone, >>> >>> I've been trying to get help on ALSA mailing lists, Debian IRC >>> channels an

unsuscribe

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Caruso
Robert Caruso President/Owner Mitigation Online Consultants 818-501-1520 Main Office 818-501-1524 Direct Office 310-709-7157 Cell 310-997-3677 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mitigationonlineconsultants.com AIM: robmodelinla -Original Message- From: Douglas A. Tutty [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
John Hasler wrote: > Koh Choon Lin writes: >> It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still >> the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one >> directory > > Each with its own copy of all its dependencies, including libc and all > other libraries it cal

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:11:55 -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > Hi All, > > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > I am too tired and let's end this thread. Thanks! > > There is a long way to go to meet my goal: > 1) the output is playable on Linux and Windows > 2) the output is two to three megabytes per minutes, frame size is > 384x288, my CPU is P3/550 > > Replacing with "-oac copy"

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:11:55PM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find > lots of references to this procedure > > Backup installed package list on current machine > > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > > move selections.txt to the

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 04:28:30PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > I need to test a new LCD monitor. What program can display a png image > with the top left pixel of the image in the top left pixel of the > screen, without resizing the image? Thus, if the image is larger than > the screen the bottom a

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 10:48:33AM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been > >> connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I n

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:13:41 -0800, Robert Caruso wrote: > Get me off this [expletive deleted] list asap. > > > Robert Caruso > President/Owner > Mitigation Online Consultants > 818-501-1520 Main Office > 818-501-1524 Direct Office > 310-709-7157 Cell > 310-997-3677 Fax > [EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Caruso wrote: > Get me off this *** list asap. To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hope this helps more than cursing. Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Ve

Sqwebmail - courier - proper return-path

2008-11-05 Thread John Marks
Hi Everyone: I think I fixed my return-path issue with sqwebmail. It was a matter of configuring Exim4. See http://www.andreaswacker.com/blog/2006/08/11/return-path-exim4/. I simply added users and addresses to /etc/email-addresses. Eg. john: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thank you, -- To UNSUBSCRIBE,

Re: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Robert Caruso escreveu: > Get me off this fucking list asap. > You're only in this list because you asked to. And if you want to leave, see the bottom of every e-mail. There are instructions there. -- Eduardo M Kalinowski [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] wi

RE: Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Caruso
Get me off this fucking list asap. Robert Caruso President/Owner Mitigation Online Consultants 818-501-1520 Main Office 818-501-1524 Direct Office 310-709-7157 Cell 310-997-3677 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mitigationonlineconsultants.com AIM: robmodelinla -Original Message- From: Brian

Re: CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Mike Castle
2008/11/5 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I need to test a new LCD monitor. What program can display a png image > with the top left pixel of the image in the top left pixel of the > screen, without resizing the image? Thus, if the image is larger than > the screen the bottom and right will be c

Install matching set of software while preserving aptitude auto/manual install info

2008-11-05 Thread Brian McKee
Hi All, I'd like to 'clone' the installed software on a machine. I can find lots of references to this procedure > Backup installed package list on current machine > dpkg --get-selections > selections.txt > move selections.txt to the new machine Set package list on new machine and > install pac

Re: java plugin

2008-11-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 15:41:03 +0100 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jan, > Thanks! You're welcome. > I *think* that has already been done by apt-get. The only > difference seems to be that you have java-6-sun-1.6.0.07 while I > have java-6-sun-1.6.0.10. Ah, I see was insuffi

Spam assassin outgoing email

2008-11-05 Thread debianite
Hi I recently setup an email server using postfix and spamasssin, all seems to be working fine except for the outgoing email that is getting tagged as spam by my own server. His there a way to avoid the outgoing checks? Thanks. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Alternatives to Google Groups?

2008-11-05 Thread Miles Fidelman
I've had a lot of good luck w/ Sympa (www.sympa.org) though I'm not sure it's as easy as google groups. There's a package called groupserver (http://groupserver.org/groupserver) that's exactly what you're looking for (except possibly the "obscure e-mail addresses" requirement - it might, but

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-05 Thread owens
> > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems >Date: Tue, 04 Nov 2008 20:36:16 -0500 > >>On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:09:38PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> >>[..] >> >>> Lastly do NOT connect a pr

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Robert Caruso wrote: > Please remove me from this chain of nonsense To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] ;-) Johannes -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU

Re: Encrypted partition perfomance

2008-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI escreveu: > I intend to use encrypted partitions in my new system, probably > using dm-crypt with the suggested settings. I understand this will have > an impact on performance, but how big it is? I'm talking about a Core 2 > Duo E8400 (@ 3.0GHz) with 2Gb of RAM. Will it be

Re: java plugin

2008-11-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
Brad Rogers wrote: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:29:39 +0100 > Have you done as instructed at plugindoc.mozdev.org? > > Namely; > >1. Install Java Runtime Environment. >2. Make a symbolic link to libjavaplugin_oji.so in your Mozilla >Plugins directory. Use the copy located in the plugin/i3

RE: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Robert Caruso
Please remove me from this chain of nonsense Robert Caruso President/Owner Mitigation Online Consultants 818-501-1520 Main Office 818-501-1524 Direct Office 310-709-7157 Cell 310-997-3677 Fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.mitigationonlineconsultants.com AIM: robmodelinla -Original Message- Fr

CLI Image viewer: top left, no resize.

2008-11-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
I need to test a new LCD monitor. What program can display a png image with the top left pixel of the image in the top left pixel of the screen, without resizing the image? Thus, if the image is larger than the screen the bottom and right will be cut off. A CLI approach would be best. Thanks. --

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread John Hasler
Koh Choon Lin writes: > It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still > the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one > directory Each with its own copy of all its dependencies, including libc and all other libraries it calls and all the programs and dae

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/05/08 07:25, Koh Choon Lin wrote: [snip] It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one directory and to uninstall the program would just involve a simple removal of the directory. That works only in

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 09:25:24PM +0800, Koh Choon Lin wrote: > >> > Are package managers necessary? Well, no. > >> > >> What We need this to keep consistency, ... > >> > >> > One way of managing software > >> > is simply to install individual software programs/libraries as needed, > >> > and

Re: how to disable unused sound chip

2008-11-05 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Wed, 2008-11-05 at 13:58 +1000, Bob wrote: > Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Tue, 2008-11-04 at 18:07 +0200, Juha Tuuna wrote: > > > >> Damon L. Chesser wrote: > >> > >>> ... > >>> How to I use udev (and hotplug?) to disable this unused ATI sound chip > >>> and to select my onboard Nvidia

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Koh Choon Lin wrote: > It seems to me the cleanest form of manual package management is still > the old DOS style. All the files of a single program lies in one > directory and to uninstall the program would just involve a simple > removal of the directory. > > If I recall correctly a few years ago

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Koh Choon Lin
>> > Are package managers necessary? Well, no. >> >> What We need this to keep consistency, ... >> >> > One way of managing software >> > is simply to install individual software programs/libraries as needed, >> > and allow each item to handle its own updating or uninstallation (or >> > even j

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-05 Thread Serena Cantor
I am too tired and let's end this thread. Thanks! There is a long way to go to meet my goal: 1) the output is playable on Linux and Windows 2) the output is two to three megabytes per minutes, frame size is 384x288, my CPU is P3/550 Replacing with "-oac copy" does not work. Audio still can't be

Re: java plugin

2008-11-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:29:39 +0100 Jan Willem Stumpel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Jan, > I have sun-java6-plugin installed (and thus also sun-java6-jre and > sun-java6-bin) but the java plugin does not appear in iceweasel's > about:plugins (and so java applets no longer work). Have you done

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Osamu Aoki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 05 06:05 -0600]: > > Why have package managers? > > -- > > > > Are package managers necessary? Well, no. > > What We need this to keep consistency, ... > > > One way of managing software > > is simply to install individual

Re: Grub2 settings on dual boot

2008-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 08:01:46AM +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > Hi, > I am wondering how and where to choose which OS will be chosen by default on > a > dual boot machine running lenny and grub2. > Any help welcome. /etc/default/grub /etc/grub.d/30_otheros (if this was created by debian-inst

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Osamu Aoki
Hi, On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 01:26:31AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > When stability is pointless > === > > Many Linux distributions (and other software environments too) use > package managers to facilitate the installation, upgrading and > uninstallation of software packages

Re: Canon Lide 35 not working

2008-11-05 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Brad Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2008 Nov 05 04:02 -0600]: > On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:28:15 +0100 > Allan Dreyer Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello Allan, > > > Thanks a lot Brad, your solution did solve my problem. > > You're very welcome, Allan. Glad I was able to help in some smal

Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

2008-11-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
Zaki Akhmad (2008-11-05 18:27 +0700) wrote: > Sigh, the actual problem haven't solved yet. I found, I can't see my > GUI again. I can't configure my screen resolution with > # dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg > Why I can't see screen resolution option? If you are using Lenny or Sid it's beca

java plugin

2008-11-05 Thread Jan Willem Stumpel
I have sun-java6-plugin installed (and thus also sun-java6-jre and sun-java6-bin) but the java plugin does not appear in iceweasel's about:plugins (and so java applets no longer work). Running Sid; this problem seems to be fairly new. Any other Sid users experience this? Regards, Jan -- To UNS

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 12:58:15PM +0200, Teemu Likonen wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich (2008-11-05 11:31 +0100) wrote: > > > Sam Kuper wrote: > >> Ubuntu has LTS (Long-Term Support) releases, which roughly translate > >> to Stable. > > > > Yes, but IIRC it is still based on debian sid. Ie. it never

Re: X-Window on HP ProLiant ML110

2008-11-05 Thread Zaki Akhmad
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sigh, the actual problem haven't solved yet. I found, I can't see my GUI again. I can't configure my screen resolution with # dpkg-reconfigure -plow xserver-xorg Here's my the /etc/X11/xorg.conf Section "InputDevice" Identifier "Generi

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Hi, > > Sam Kuper wrote: >> 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> Or, are you saying that you are trying to implement a psad recipe from >>> the internet that doesn't apply to the version of psad suppl

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Teemu Likonen
Johannes Wiedersich (2008-11-05 11:31 +0100) wrote: > Sam Kuper wrote: >> Ubuntu has LTS (Long-Term Support) releases, which roughly translate >> to Stable. > > Yes, but IIRC it is still based on debian sid. Ie. it never > transitioned debians unstable - testing - stable queue. IIRC it just > mean

How to configure CDC-Ethernet?

2008-11-05 Thread Michelle Konzack
* Do not Cc: me, because I READ THIS LIST, if I write here * *Keine Cc: am mich, ich LESE DIESE LISTE wenn ich hier schreibe* Hello

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sam Kuper wrote: > 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Or, are you saying that you are trying to implement a psad recipe from >> the internet that doesn't apply to the version of psad supplied in >> Ubuntu? > > Essentially correct.

Re: how to use mencoder to record TV program

2008-11-05 Thread Emanoil Kotsev
Serena Cantor wrote: > It works now though it has many programs! Thanks!!! > > After running 2 sudo commands given by you, your mencoder command can > record. I don't copy sudo output, because 1st sudo merely says insmod > snd-mixer-oss.ko and snd-pcm-oss.ko and 2nd sudo has no output at all, > t

Re: Canon Lide 35 not working

2008-11-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 10:28:15 +0100 Allan Dreyer Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Allan, > Thanks a lot Brad, your solution did solve my problem. You're very welcome, Allan. -- Regards _ / ) "The blindingly obvious is / _)radnever immediately appare

Re: Canon Lide 35 not working

2008-11-05 Thread Allan Dreyer Andersen
Brad Rogers skrev: Does scanning only works if I'm root or is there a way to fix this? It /should/ work for anyone that's a member of the group "scanner". Check whether your user is in that group. IIRC, I had to add myself as Debian didn't do it for me at install time. Probably because t

Re: Dialup connection timer

2008-11-05 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 10:02:35PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: >> Is there any GUI-based software for timing how long one has been >> connected to dialup? I have found wvdial but I need something for a >> less technical user. Thanks in advance. > > It

Re: Grub2 settings on dual boot

2008-11-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 5 Nov 2008 08:01:46 +0100 Thierry Chatelet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Thierry, > I am wondering how and where to choose which OS will be chosen by > default on a dual boot machine running lenny and grub2. Alter /etc/default/grub and then update-grub -- Regards _ / )

Re: Canon Lide 35 not working

2008-11-05 Thread Brad Rogers
On Wed, 05 Nov 2008 08:40:34 +0100 Allan Dreyer Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello Allan, > Does scanning only works if I'm root or is there a way to fix this? It /should/ work for anyone that's a member of the group "scanner". Check whether your user is in that group. IIRC, I had to add

Re: When stability is pointless

2008-11-05 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 05, 2008 at 02:41:52AM +, Sam Kuper wrote: > Hi Doug, > > Thanks for your comments. > > 2008/11/5 Douglas A. Tutty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Or, are you saying that you are trying to implement a psad recipe from > > the internet that doesn't apply to the version of psad supplied in

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-05 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 11:02:06PM EST, Mark Allums wrote: > Chris Jones wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 04, 2008 at 03:09:38PM EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > >[..] > > > >>Lastly do NOT connect a printer to the UPS. > > > >Why? > > > > > > Not a Laser printer at least, they draw a huge wattage. gotch