Re: Why sarge?

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 22:02, jeremy bentham wrote: On Nov 19 s. keeling wrote: jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a question about aptitude/sources.list/archives. That does look kind of trollish. Sorry. Post in haste, repent at leis

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 20:02:33 schrieb Johannes Wiedersich: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: > >> Whatever is wrong with good old 'cp'? You can just add a redirect to > >> /dev/null if the warnings bother you. > > > > What's wro

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 20:50, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:40 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 11/18/08 11:13, Richard Hartmann wrote: [snip] Actually, I do want an ID that is unique and tied to the hardware. Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit

Re: SATA CD/DVD recording fails on Etch - MSI K8MM-V

2008-11-19 Thread KEBRA
2008/11/20 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On 11/19/08 20:19, Kebra Negest wrote: 2008/11/19 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: [snip] Hmmm. $ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 Ok, here's what I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ grep VIA /boot/config-2.6.18 grep: /boot/config-2.6.18: No existe el fi

Why sarge? (was:) sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-19 Thread jeremy bentham
On Nov 19 s. keeling wrote: > jeremy bentham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > Please, no {advice, orders} to upgrade to etch. Consider this a > > question about aptitude/sources.list/archives. That does look kind of trollish. Sorry. Post in haste, repent at leisure. > Fine. Why would you expect S

Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-19 Thread jeremy bentham
On Nov 19 you wrote: > On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > > My sources.list > > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib > > > > non-free > > > > per the README at the archive site. > > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive d

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Michael Marsh
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Chris Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, for what it's worth .. I don't have access to your mail account or > an account on "libero.it" .. but I just verified that I can _access_ my > gmail accounts with elinks. [snip] > I'm pretty sure I had to apply some pat

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 08:22:22PM +0100, Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On 2008-11-19 21:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > > > Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? > > It seems that elinks does that, though I haven't tried it yet. > > > w3m doesn't, no

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:55:59PM EST, Rodolfo Medina wrote: [..] > I mean that no textual browser I tried allows me to view my > [EMAIL PROTECTED]' mail account, and in the w3m mailing list they said it > was because w3m doesn't handle javascript. Well, for what it's worth .. I don't have acce

Re: ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 20:45:40 -0600 Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 11/18/08 11:13, Richard Hartmann wrote: > [snip] > > > > Actually, I do want an ID that is unique and tied to the hardware. > > Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit > of hardware upon

ID tied to hardware? (was Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?)

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/18/08 11:13, Richard Hartmann wrote: [snip] Actually, I do want an ID that is unique and tied to the hardware. Which part of the hardware? And what if you upgrade/replace the bit of hardware upon which your "host id" is based? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA If you don't agree

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread John Hasler
>From the INVOCATION section of the Bash man page: When bash is invoked as an interactive login shell, or as a non-interactive shell with the --login option, it first reads and executes commands from the file /etc/profile, if that file exists. After reading that file, i

Re: Compact Flash (CF) boot question

2008-11-19 Thread Bob
Emanoil Kotsev wrote: Hello, I have a fanless board by Acrosser with Geode GX CPU. The board has a CF slot that is seen as primary/secondary HDD in Bios. I've jumpered to primary as I don't have a HDD attached. The card is a CF card (hda: ELITE PRO CF CARD 4GB, ATA DISK drive). Now the problem i

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Wed November 19 2008, s. keeling wrote: > >  I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my > > OTHER user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the > > gdm login > > syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also.  It's a > common prctice a

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Mike McCarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > > .bashrc > > Run once for each interactive shell, after .profile ... if called by .profile or .bash_profile. A long time ago, this was automatic (a la ksh and ENV; if ENV = ~/.kshrc, then ~/.kshrc was run on login shell invocation)

Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tuesday 18 November 2008, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Don't ask him about Paris Hilton. > > I don't even bother with (media) sluts. And chain hotels in Idaho? -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced. (*)http://blinkynet.

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 06:13:13PM +0100, Richard Hartmann wrote: > On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 12:20, Tom Allison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I've absolutely no idea what you are trying to do here or why. I'm a little > > curious about that. > > I want to assign all hosts a unique id that is c

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 18:40, s. keeling wrote: Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: $ apt-cache show mdetect Oh yeah: (0) phreaque [root] /root_ mdetect /dev/psaux intellimouse Why doesn't it find /dev/ttyS0? mdetect doesn't accept the correct device as a parameter. I haven't seen a serial mo

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I wrote: > > A bug. It is unreasonable to expect a user to know to do 'info > > coreutils' to learn about hostid, head, or any of the many other > > utilities that are fully documented only in the coreutils info files > > This is a known bug. See #483554. I

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Ron Johnson writes: > > /usr/share/info/coreutils.info.gz > > A bug. It is unreasonable to expect a user to know to do 'info coreutils' > to learn about hostid, head, or any of the many other utilities that are > fully documented only in the coreutils info f

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/18/08 20:14, John Hasler wrote: > > s. keeling writes: > >> What is the Debian package that offers hostid info pages? > > > > Most likely it's in a non-free GFDL document. > > Doesn't look like it... Yup, should have looked at coreutils info page. It's

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > $ apt-cache show mdetect Oh yeah: (0) phreaque [root] /root_ mdetect /dev/psaux intellimouse Why doesn't it find /dev/ttyS0? mdetect doesn't accept the correct device as a parameter. -- Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficientl

Re: Very slim Desktop Manager

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Ron Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On 11/17/08 21:44, s. keeling wrote: > > > > Not to mention, gpm config is a black art. I have no clue how to gpm > > my mouse, and haven't for years. > > The Shame, oh The Shame! Oh, pee off. > > I knew how long ago, but g

Re: Cannot configure Synaptics touchpad - Requires SHMConfig

2008-11-19 Thread Sebastian Canagaratna
I think you have to add the following to your xorg.conf Section "ServerLayout" Identifier "Default Server Layout" Screen "Default Screen" InputDevice "Generic Keyboard" "Core Keyboard" InputDevice "Synaptics Touchpad" "Core Pointer" EndSection At least, for me I had to add this b

Re: /var/log growing rapidly

2008-11-19 Thread s. keeling
Paul Cartwright <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > I did a CTRL-ALT-F9 earlier that day, thinking I was switching to my OTHER > user logged in, and those lines were on the screen, instead of the gdm login syslogd may be configured to send messages to that pty also. It's a common prctice and probably n

Re: Bug #352758 [revisited]

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Jones
On Tue, Jan 30, 2007 at 09:05:56PM EST, cga2000 wrote: > I reported Bug #352758 almost a year ago and never received any > feedback. > > I am not familiar with the debian bug reports system and I am beginning > to wonder whether I forgot something .. opened the bug report with the > wrong maintain

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread jidanni
FK> Let's see what is going on here; please post the output of these two FK> commands: $ dpkg -L flashplayer-mozilla | grep '\.so$' /usr/lib/flashplayer-mozilla/libflashplayer.so $ find /usr/lib/*/plugins* /usr/lib/krb5/plugins /usr/lib/krb5/plugins/krb5 /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins /usr/lib/xulrunner-

Re: mencoder crash permanently

2008-11-19 Thread Michelle Konzack
Am 2008-11-18 16:33:44, schrieb Jochen Schulz: > You might want to use -r to use the samt framerate as in the input file. > But only after upgrading your ancient ffmpeg, of course. The problem is, the NEW version does not run on my TP570. I have back- ported it but it crash the WHOLE laptop if I

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread thveillon.debian
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and there's a couple of nice

Re: Need suggestions for internet messenger app

2008-11-19 Thread Silent Ph03nix
Dennis Wicks wrote: > Greetings; > > I have installed Ayttm and Pidgin and both work OK except they don't > support microphone/speaker or webcam. > > Does anyone know of messenger/chat programs that do? Also > need to work on Yahoo network. > > I'm running lenny/gnome. > > Many TIA! > > Dennis > >

Cannot configure Synaptics touchpad - Requires SHMConfig

2008-11-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
I'm trying to use gsynaptics to configure the touchpad in an Acer 6292 laptop. However, it says it needs the SHMConfig option to be enabled. There are problems also with synclient, for example: # synclient -h Can't access shared memory area. SHMConfig disabled? However, I did enable that

Limitar root, ¿idea exagareada? ¿Sugerencias sobre comandos?

2008-11-19 Thread Manuel Gomez
Buenas, estaba pensando sobre lo útil que sería para un SO que no necesitase hacer cambios en los que se pueda usar root limitar el propio usuario root. ¿Y si instalo todo lo que quiero instalar y modificar y una vez terminado limito los privilegios de root? ¿Qué privilegios serían indispensables d

WPA connexion problem with Debian EeePC on model 701

2008-11-19 Thread Jeremie Le Hen
Hi list! (Please Cc: me when replying, as I'm not subscribed.) As you've already guessed, I've installed Debian EeePC on my Asus EeePC 701. It works pretty well, though it's slower than the original, crappy and deprecated Xandros clone provided out of the box. Unfortunately, I can't connect to

Re: 32bit vs 64bit EXT3

2008-11-19 Thread Gilles Mocellin
Le Wednesday 19 November 2008 15:06:40 Stackpole, Chris, vous avez écrit : > From: Aioanei Rares [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] [...] > > I was trying to read up on the subject as best as I could. From what I > understand, most of what the 64bit format provides is bigger block sizes > and a larger files

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 13:04, Hal Vaughan wrote: On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Celejar wrote: On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:19 +0100 (CET) François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Le Mer 19 novembre 2008 00:45, s. keeling a écrit : Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Joh

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 04:10:10 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ > Can't I please avoid having to go outside Debian for the .debs? You should not have to download anything from Adobe; flashplayer-mozilla works for me on Sid with iceweasel 3.0.3-3 (both on i386

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread François Cerbelle
Dotan Cohen a écrit : Thanks in advance. If there are any good docs that explain this, I'd love to see them. I have not been able to google anything recent that is relevant to Debian. Quick'n dirty solution : Another way to know, even if it does not cover all cases, is to put the following li

Re: tardy sarge to etch upgrade proceedure

2008-11-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Mark Copper wrote: Economics aside, I am still amazed after all these years at the power free software has provided to the ordinary person. No university or corporation needed; just read and ask questions. Cool. And in what way does a GOOD closed-source software vendor break that? I've work

Re: Electricity Cutoffs, EXT3 and Filesystems

2008-11-19 Thread Nate Duehr
Michelle Konzack wrote: Am 2008-11-03 12:00:03, schrieb Volkan YAZICI: I really wonder the future of ReiserFS. I don't follow kernel related improvements (and discussions) that much, but I still don't have a reliable information about the development issues with ReiserFS. Somebody is saying some

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Teemu Likonen
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. (2008-11-19 14:37 -0600) wrote: >>1) Is a login shell run when the user logs onto KDE (even though he >>does not see a konsole window)? > > Nope a login shell is when bash is executed with the -l option, or having > an argv[0] starting with '-'. If K Display Manager (kdm)

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
"Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Wednesday 19 November 2008, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about > 'Re: Which files do > what: .bashrc and friends': >>1) Is a login shell run when the user logs onto KDE (even though he >>does not see a konsole window)? > > Nope

Re: sarge, aptitude, archives

2008-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 19:32:42, jeremy bentham wrote: > > > My sources.list > > > > deb http://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/ sarge main contrib non-free > > > > per the README at the archive site. > > > That README is wrong, since there is no debian-archive directory on > > archive.debian.org,

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 14:04:24 -0500 Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > Question: When we respond and include Ron's line in our post as a quote, > does that fit under Godwin, too? I think we need a Debian GR on that. Celejar -- mailmin.sourceforge.net - remote access via secure (OpenPG

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends': >1) Is a login shell run when the user logs onto KDE (even though he >does not see a konsole window)? Nope a login shell is when bash is executed with the -l option, or ha

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread jidanni
> http://get.adobe.com/flashplayer/ Can't I please avoid having to go outside Debian for the .debs? FK> I think you should check which plugin iceweasel uses. You first have to FK> go to "about:config" (just type this without the quotes in the location FK> bar and hit ENTER). Then look for "plugin.

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends': >I believe .profile and .bash_profile are synonyms, so you'd only use one >or the other. .profile is only used by bash when it cannot find .bash_profile. .profile is also used by

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Dotan Cohen wrote: On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: .profile Run once upon login. .bash_history List of previous commands for recall/edit/re execution .bash_logout Run once upon logout .bash_profile

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-19 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Andrei Popescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote about 'Re: Q: List Policy': >On Mon,17.Nov.08, 22:03:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> It would be nice for the list to auto-respond to any HTML posting with > >I'm pretty sure you won't see something like this from Debian

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
On 2008-11-19 21:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >> Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? Sven Joachim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It seems that elinks does that, though I haven't tried it yet. >> w3m doesn't, nor does >> links, so it's not possible to view most webmails.

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 2008/11/19 tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >>> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that >>> are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: >>> >>> .profile >>> .bash_history >>> .bash

Re: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Chris Burkhardt
Eduardo M KALINOWSKI wrote: > I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > like to avoid using it. > > However, while it is perfectly OK to edit one or two configuration > files to set-up wireless networking (or even cabled one, if DHCP is not > used) if the computer

Re: resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
This message has been sent twice. Resending it after changing the Subject to see if spam filters are hitting me. Was Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues. On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. W

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
2008/11/19 tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > "Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that >> are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: >> >> .profile >> .bash_history >> .bash_logout >> .bash_profile >> .bashrc >> >> Thanks in a

Re: Q: List Policy

2008-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,17.Nov.08, 22:03:20, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > Well, there has to be some punishment for not following the rules, or > people won't follow them, right? > > It would be nice for the list to auto-respond to any HTML posting with > a "You've posted HTML, which is against list policy,

Re: Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread tyler
"Dotan Cohen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that > are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: > > .profile > .bash_history > .bash_logout > .bash_profile > .bashrc > > Thanks in advance. If there are any good docs that explain thi

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-19 21:05 +0100, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? It seems that elinks does that, though I haven't tried it yet. > w3m doesn't, nor does > links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. What exactly do you mean by that? Enabling Jav

Re: Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread elijah rutschman
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 2:05 PM, Rodolfo Medina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? w3m doesn't, nor does > links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. Hello, I believe elinks has javascript support via the spidermonkey javascript engine. H

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread ReikoShea
On Thu, 2008-11-13 at 14:18 +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Here's a template where you can fill in your favourites; feel free to > add missing categories. Please don't add what you haven't really used > (like I used to). More than piece can be given per category. Oh, and > there's a couple o

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread jidanni
AR> x86 or x86_64? x86. Linux jidanni1 2.6.26-1-686 #1 SMP Sat Nov 8 19:00:26 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux I installed mozilla-plugin-gnash, still no help. I removed ~/.mozilla and started Again, still no help. I looked in preferences/applications and there is no SWF choice there. $ HEAD -P http://f

Any textual web browser handling javascript?

2008-11-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Are there any textual web browsers handling javascript? w3m doesn't, nor does links, so it's not possible to view most webmails. Thanks for any help Rodolfo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread Hal Vaughan
On Wednesday 19 November 2008, Celejar wrote: > On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:19 +0100 (CET) > > François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le Mer 19 novembre 2008 00:45, s. keeling a écrit : > > > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >> On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > > >> > I

Which files do what: .bashrc and friends

2008-11-19 Thread Dotan Cohen
On a Debian-based system running KDE 3.5.10 I see several files that are used when logging in / starting a Konsole: .profile .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc I imagine three times these files might be used: 1) When logging in 2) When starting Konsole 3) When running a shell script

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dexter Filmore wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: >> Whatever is wrong with good old 'cp'? You can just add a redirect to >> /dev/null if the warnings bother you. > > What's wrong with the driver working as sup

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Nov 20, 2008 at 00:57:06 +0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AR> What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the > address > AR> bar and press Enter? > > OK, I think I see what you're trying to say. > I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses > F

Re: dynamic resolv.conf issues

2008-11-19 Thread Damon L. Chesser
On Tue, 2008-11-18 at 19:41 -0700, green wrote: > On Tue, 2008.11.18, 323, Damon L. Chesser wrote: > > On Lenny, I am not running that tool. What is overwriting my > > resolv.conf and how do I keep the correct data while using static IP? > > Is the 'resolvconf' package installed? If so, the reso

Re: what's your favourite FLOSS?

2008-11-19 Thread Andrei Popescu
> audio editor: > > audio player: moc, mplayer, audacious > cd-ripper: jack > desktop OR window manager: Xfce4 > DBMS: > > development: > > disc burner: k3b > e-mail client: mutt > file manager: mc > finance: > > ftp client: > > games: > > image editor: > > image viewer: gpic

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 10:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: AR> What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the address AR> bar and press Enter? OK, I think I see what you're trying to say. I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses Flash. Now iceweasel asks me to vi

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-19 17:57 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > AR> What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the > address > AR> bar and press Enter? > > OK, I think I see what you're trying to say. > I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses > Flash. > > Now

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread jidanni
AR> What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the address AR> bar and press Enter? OK, I think I see what you're trying to say. I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses Flash. Now iceweasel asks me to visit adobe . com to install the missing plugins

Re: Xen: domU over multiples partitions

2008-11-19 Thread Boaventura Rodrigues Neto
2008/11/19 Javier Barroso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > You can use xen-tools and then fill /etc/xen-tools/partition.d/vm > > See you > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Boaventura Rodrigues Neto > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello everybody! > > > > Sorry about my English. > > > > I want to know if a

Re: Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 10:01, Frank Miles wrote: [snip] Does /dev/scd* exist? -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA Ron! Thanks! It does indeed, and is apparently the proper mount point for the cdrom, regardless of the lines in /var/log/dmesg. Not to seem unappreciative, but: how should I have known

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 10:43, Aioanei Rares wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: How do I view a .SWF file? $ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 $ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf $ file l.swf l.swf: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 7

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 09:53, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How do I view a .SWF file? $ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 $ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf wget doesn't like URLs with question marks in them, since they are parameters. $ file l.swf l.swf: Macromedia Flash da

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 6:57 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > AR> What happends if you open iceweasel, copy/paste the abobe URL in the > address > AR> bar and press Enter? > > OK, I think I see what you're trying to say. > I visited http://www.taipower.com.tw/ , a site that I recall uses > Flash.

Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread Nelson Castillo
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 8:06 AM, 中和刘 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the > user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I > hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP > address, is it possible? tha

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2008-11-19 16:53 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > How do I view a .SWF file? > $ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 > $ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf > $ file l.swf > l.swf: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 7 It seems that wget does not receive the

Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 03:31:06PM +, Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > Anybody bothered packaging it for Debian? It's already in the archive. See . Daniel -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscri

Re: How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread Aioanei Rares
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 5:53 PM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > How do I view a .SWF file? > $ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 > $ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf > $ file l.swf > l.swf: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 7 > $ iceweasel l.swf > $ dpkg -l|e

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Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical >address) of a remote computer by its IP address? >Date: Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:16:34 +0200 > >>On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 3:06 PM, ??? <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >wro

Re: Unable to mount cdrom in Lenny

2008-11-19 Thread Frank Miles
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Re: how to get the mac address(network card physical address) of a remote computer by its IP address?

2008-11-19 Thread Micha
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 21:06:13 +0800 "中和刘" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > when a user visit my website, it's easy to get the ip address of the > user, but i think IP address is not as stable as mac address, so I > hope I can get the mac address of the user according to its IP > address, is it possible

Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Micha
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 15:31:06 + Tzafrir Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I wo

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 09:40, John Hasler wrote: Ron Johnson writes: Anyway, what is the *point* of hostid on a machine with a F/LOSS operating system? Satisfying software that demands a hostid. That's very... unsatisfying. :( There are probably other use

How do I view a .SWF file?

2008-11-19 Thread jidanni
How do I view a .SWF file? $ iceweasel http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 $ wget http://fcmx.net/vec/get.swf?i=003702 -O l.swf $ file l.swf l.swf: Macromedia Flash data (compressed), version 7 $ iceweasel l.swf $ dpkg -l|egrep flash\|swf\|icewe ii flashplayer-mozilla 1:10.0.12.36-0.2 Macromedia

Re: NTFS: 3g won't shut up on chmod/chown errors

2008-11-19 Thread Dexter Filmore
Am Mittwoch, 19. November 2008 09:02:03 schrieb Raj Kiran Grandhi: > Dexter Filmore wrote: > > I use these options to mount an NTFS partition: > > > > users,gid=fuse,umask=0002,silent,utf8,locale=de_DE.utf8 > > > > Now "silent" is supposed to suppress warnings on chmod/chown errors, each > > time a

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread John Hasler
Ron Johnson writes: > Anyway, what is the *point* of hostid on a machine with a F/LOSS > operating system? Satisfying software that demands a hostid. There are probably other uses for it as well. -- John Hasler -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Tr

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Re: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Micha
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 09:21:38 -0600 "Stackpole, Chris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Brian McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:49 AM > > Subject: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager > > > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > > <[EMAI

Re: Getting a unique ID for a system?

2008-11-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: >> A bug. It is unreasonable to expect a user to know to do 'info >> coreutils' to learn about hostid, head, or any of the many other >> utilities that are fully documented only in the coreutils info files > > This is a

Re: accessing wlan without non-free firmware?

2008-11-19 Thread Micha
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:00:56 +0200 "Tshepang Lekhonkhobe" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I struggled to get 4965 wireless working on my TravelMate 6592, and > succeeded only once having installed firmware-iwlwifi from non-free. > Is there a way to achieve this without going the non-free rou

Xen: domU over multiples partitions

2008-11-19 Thread Boaventura Rodrigues Neto
Hello everybody! Sorry about my English. I want to know if anyone already did a virtual machine (domU) over multiples partitions, For example: ## cut here ## # /etc/fs

Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Ron Johnson
On 11/19/08 08:48, Brian McKee wrote: On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would like to avoid using it. Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. So, is there any other graphical too

Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee wrote: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > > like to avoid using it. > > Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. I wa

Re: 32bit vs 64bit EXT3

2008-11-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
Stackpole, Chris escreveu: > > I was trying to read up on the subject as best as I could. From what I > understand, most of what the 64bit format provides is bigger block > sizes and a larger filesystem (+8TB). However, I only have drives in > the hundreds of GB not in the TB range (I wish…but don’

Re: [OT] Re: Looking for SIMPLE MTA

2008-11-19 Thread Celejar
On Wed, 19 Nov 2008 12:13:19 +0100 (CET) François Cerbelle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Le Mer 19 novembre 2008 00:45, s. keeling a écrit : > > Hal Vaughan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> On Sunday 16 November 2008, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> > > >> > If you don't agree with me, you are worse than Hit

Re: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 09:48:46AM -0500, Brian McKee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was heard to say: > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of > > networking (especially wireless), listing

RE: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Brian McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, November 19, 2008 8:49 AM > Subject: Fwd: Alternative to network-manager > > On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would >

change the default encoding

2008-11-19 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to change the default encoding, I want to use cp1256, instead of the default utf8. The reason, I run a windows application ( developped in delphi, via wine ) which uses cp1256 (I suppose that), the display of french characters namely é à ç ..., is not correct. So I think by changing th

Fwd: Alternative to network-manager

2008-11-19 Thread Brian McKee
On Wed, Nov 19, 2008 at 7:56 AM, Eduardo M KALINOWSKI <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I know network-manager often does more bad than good, so I would > like to avoid using it. Debateable, but hey - it's your computer. >So, is there any other graphical tool that allows for easy set-up of > ne

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