Re: [OT] If you use gmail

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:44:17 -0500 JoeHill wrote: > Chris Bannister wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now > > I cannot find this setting for my gmail account. Could this be because I am > using my own domain (ie. not 'gmail.com'.

Re: [OT] If you use gmail

Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now I cannot find this setting for my gmail account. Could this be because I am using my own domain (ie. not 'gmail.com'.)? -- J -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.d

Re: Where do aliases come from?

Kent West wrote: According to "man ksh": The following aliases are compiled into the shell but can be unset or redefined: Oh, one of those... Thanks for reading the man page for :-) But it didn't use to be like that; I suppose I can live with them, since I never use them anyway. The ones

Re: [OT] If you use gmail

On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 00:32:05 +1300 Chris Bannister wrote: > Hi, > > http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now I can't say that I have a really good understanding of the issues, but I believe that the article is not as clear as it might be. It claims that: "Ho

Re: pidgin

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hello, > > It looks like what I want, however, I am vission impaired, and > unfortunately tk (is that what the tool kit is called I'm not a > programmer), won't support braille. > > I ended up getting my issue sorted out, but t

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On 2008-12-14, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, ZephyrQ wrote: >> mix/edit/burn on my home machine. It has a USB port, but I've tried a >> few things (including some BIOS settings) and I can't get it to read my >> thumb drives (they work on all other machines, includ

Re: Audio: How to Cut out Seconds of Silence

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 wauh...@yahoo.com wrote: > I could edit the file with AUDACITY manually for to CUT OUT all these > silent seconds. > > I am running SID on AMD64 and have not much experience with audio-files. > > I hope that there is a possibility to perform these cut

Re: pidgin

Hi, Yep, i got it sorted, but sorry, I'll be more patient next time On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:45:11PM +0100, Frank Lanitz wrote: > Hi Daniel, > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:18:49 +1100 > Daniel Dalton wrote: > > > Can someone please tell me how to enable msn offline messages support > > in pidgi

Re: pidgin

Hello, It looks like what I want, however, I am vission impaired, and unfortunately tk (is that what the tool kit is called I'm not a programmer), won't support braille. I ended up getting my issue sorted out, but thanks for the suggestion, perhaps one day when it is accessible I might give it ag

Re: pidgin

Hi! Thanks very much! I got it from experimental, and it solves all my problems. Thanks! Cheers, Daniel On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:59:25PM -0200, Ignacio Mondino wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:18:49AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > > Hi, > > > > Can someone please tell me how to enable m

Audio: How to Cut out Seconds of Silence

I have an audio file (wav or mp3 format), which consists of sequences of useful audio-data - after a few seconds interrupted by about two seconds of absolute silence. I could edit the file with AUDACITY manually for to CUT OUT all these silent seconds. I am running SID on AMD64 and have not mu

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:32:43PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:26:37PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I am trying to use an old Thinkpad 309e. (PII, 128M memory). Etch runs fine (if slow) but I am using it as sound production (rec

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 07:32:43PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:26:37PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: > >>I am trying to use an old Thinkpad 309e. (PII, 128M memory). Etch runs > >>fine (if slow) but I am using it as sound production > >>(recording/playba

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

Douglas A. Tutty wrote: On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:26:37PM -0600, ZephyrQ wrote: I am trying to use an old Thinkpad 309e. (PII, 128M memory). Etch runs fine (if slow) but I am using it as sound production (recording/playback) machine. Only problem is that I can't get the files OFF the lapt

Re: pidgin

On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 08:18:49AM +1100, Daniel Dalton wrote: > Hi, > > Can someone please tell me how to enable msn offline messages support in > pidgin. So I can read my msn offline messages in pidgin? What version of > pidgin do I need, and what is the best way to get this version on > debian?

Re: virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

Rene Engelhard wrote the following on 15.12.2008 00:14 > Hi, > > sal...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote: >> i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's working ok, >> but >> my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be presistant i.e i need to >> run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every

Re: VirtualBox won't start

On Sunday 14 December 2008 06:39 pm, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM: > > Dennis Wicks wrote: > >> I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. > >> > >> I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used

Re: alsa and default sound input/output

On Sun, 2008-12-14 at 11:05 +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > > subscriptions wrote: > > > > > Hi all, > > > > I am using Skype and my webcam has an in-build microphone. > > > > Is it possible that after hot-plugging the webcam, the default > > microphone (input) is from the webcam? But at the same

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On Sunday 2008 December 14 16:52:54 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: >What the heck is avahi? Linux implementation of automatic LLv4 addressing (169.*; like Windows) and some level of support for uPnP/bonjour. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.                     ,= ,-_-. =. bs...@volumehost.net                

Re: VirtualBox won't start

Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote the following on 12/14/2008 08:51 AM: Dennis Wicks wrote: I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site. When I try to run Vi

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 09:31:25AM -0200, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > If you can't get the thumb drive to work, as for how to get the data > > off, try setting up networking. I guess that's what you mean by using > > the e-net cable. Its d

Re: pidgin

Sorry for the top post. Hit send before realizing. -- Angus "All churches, whether Jewish, Christian, or Muslim, appear to me no other than human inventions, setup to terrify and enslave mankind - and to monopolize power and profit." -- Thomas Paine (1737-1809) ##Laptop powered by Linux#

Re: virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

Hi, sal...@t2.technion.ac.il wrote: > i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's working ok, > but > my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be presistant i.e i need to > run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every time i restart. is there any way to > make it load the module aut

Re: pidgin

I used to use pidgin, when it was called gaim, but I have since started using aMSN. I am uncertain as to whether pidgin has off-line messaging support, but I do know that aMSN does. It is a very feature rich program, and it works well. It is only MSN capable however, so if you need the other pro

Re: virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

> i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's > working ok, but my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be > presistant i.e i need to run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every time i > restart. is there any way to make it load the module automatically? Modules listed in /

virtualbox-ose problem: how to run "modprobe vboxdrv" automatically

hi all, i installed virtualbox following advices in previus treads. it's working ok, but my problem is that modprobe don't seem to be presistant i.e i need to run "modprobe vboxdrv" as root every time i restart. is there any way to make it load the module automatically? thanks, Alon -- To UNS

Re: How to append a simple text presentation at the beginning of a video file?

Rodolfo Medina a écrit : > My apologizes to the listers for coming back to the same question I put in > another thread, but I couldn't really solve the problem. > > I didn't get good results with Kino nor with the `cat' command. > > If anyone experienced directly that matter, his/her help's very

Re: pidgin

Hi Daniel, On Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:18:49 +1100 Daniel Dalton wrote: > Can someone please tell me how to enable msn offline messages support > in pidgin. So I can read my msn offline messages in pidgin? What > version of pidgin do I need, and what is the best way to get this > version on debian?

pidgin

Hi, Can someone please tell me how to enable msn offline messages support in pidgin. So I can read my msn offline messages in pidgin? What version of pidgin do I need, and what is the best way to get this version on debian? is there anything else I must do on debian to enable offline messages? I

Re: shortcuts sought for mutt

Tzafrir Cohen wrote: On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Bernard wrote: Hi to Everyone, On my old laptop which ran on RedHat 7.2, I had installed "mutt". It has been about 2 years since I have not used this. I remember that I had spent quite a bit of time getting mutt to work, fid

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 21:25, Florian Weimer wrote: > Yes, but I don't know if Zabbix is part of the solution. Well, Zabbix is not ideal as it's a non-common tool. eMail is a lot nicer, there are not automated parsers for something like this. A SNMP based solution or something like syslog might

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

On Sunday 2008 December 14 05:32:16 Chris Bannister wrote: >On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconnect >> >> I don't know how long the noun usage has been around, but I remember >> hearing it as a child (20 years ago), so I'd

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

* Richard Hartmann: >> What kind of data does Zabbix need? > > It can collect, and then trigger on, arbitrary data. In this case, it > would probably make sense to collect CVE number, remote/local, > the package in question, the version in question, the severity and > if there is a fix available.

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 20:29, Florian Weimer wrote: > What would be required for Zabbix integration? Bascially, the zabbix agent would need a plugin/module/script which it can use to forward data. > What kind of data does Zabbix need? It can collect, and then trigger on, arbitrary data. In

Re: AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

2008/12/15 Patrick Schueller : > Hi all, > > I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following > problem: > I have tested this on the following distributions: > Debian Lenny AMD64 (which I am using now) > Debian Lenny 32bit (-686 kernel; with -486 kernel, the problem is go

AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

Hi all, I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following problem: Debian Lenny freezes during boot on ASUS X56TR laptop with AMD Turion ZM82 processor. I am currently running the AMD64 installation. The freeze occurs only when both cores are activated. With kernel pa

Re: Tying debsecan & Zabbix (or RT) together?

* Richard Hartmann: > How are you handling this? Self-baked scripts to parse your > daily mail? Are you doing it by hand? Not at all? What would be required for Zabbix integration? What kind of data does Zabbix need? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a sub

AMD Turion ZM82: freeze with 2 cores, works with 1 core (maxcpus=1)

Hi all, I am relatively new to Debian (used Ubuntu before) and have the following problem: Debian Lenny freezes during boot on ASUS X56TR laptop with AMD Turion ZM82 processor. I am currently running the AMD64 installation. The freeze occurs only when both cores are activated. With kernel pa

How to append a simple text presentation at the beginning of a video file?

My apologizes to the listers for coming back to the same question I put in another thread, but I couldn't really solve the problem. I didn't get good results with Kino nor with the `cat' command. If anyone experienced directly that matter, his/her help's very welcome. Thanks Rodolfo -- To UNS

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On Sun, 14 Dec 2008 16:34:48 +0100 Bernard wrote: > Micha Feigin wrote: > > >On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04 +0100 > >Bernard wrote: > > > > > > > >>Dotan Cohen wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>2008/12/11 Micha Feigin : > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > Hello, > > Sorry for being a bit

Re: shortcuts sought for mutt

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 05:20:50PM +0100, Bernard wrote: > Hi to Everyone, > > On my old laptop which ran on RedHat 7.2, I had installed "mutt". It has > been about 2 years since I have not used this. I remember that I had > spent quite a bit of time getting mutt to work, fiddling around with t

Re: shortcuts sought for mutt

Bernard: > > but I can't send any mail. If I try to, the system sends a mail saying > "mailing to remote domains not supported". You probably need to configure your MTA (Exim by default, you may have esmtp). J. -- My medicine shelf is my altar. [Agree] [Disagree]

SOCKS on debian etch: should i use dante?

Hello, I'd like to run a SOCKS proxy on my etch box so I can easily configure firefox or others services to have an unlimited access to the internet while I'm behind restricted firewall. I want to restrict use with username and password not from a specific IP, so I can really connect from ev

shortcuts sought for mutt

Hi to Everyone, On my old laptop which ran on RedHat 7.2, I had installed "mutt". It has been about 2 years since I have not used this. I remember that I had spent quite a bit of time getting mutt to work, fiddling around with the .muttrc conf file. Now, I would like to use "mutt" on my deskto

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

On 12/14/08 09:34, Bernard wrote: [snip] Thanks for those hints. I will carry a bit more search into the vosotro line. At the time I had purchased my old Thinkpad 600, it was bound to be my main home personal computer, so I was prepared to pay the price for something really good and nice for my

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

Micha Feigin wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 00:37:04 +0100 Bernard wrote: Dotan Cohen wrote: 2008/12/11 Micha Feigin : Hello, Sorry for being a bit off topic Thank in advance for your any advice or recommandation. I would go with the vosotro line if you want to

Re: VirtualBox won't start

Dennis Wicks wrote: > I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. > > I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used > dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site. > > When I try to run VirtualBox I get > > VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetT

VirtualBox won't start

Greetings; I just installed VBox 2.0.6 from their web site and it won't start. I did remove all VBox 1.6.6 things with Synaptic first and then used dpkg -i to install the .deb file from the VBox site. When I try to run VirtualBox I get VirtualBox: supR3HardenedMainGetTrustedMain: dlope

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

On 12/14/08 05:32, Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconnect I don't know how long the noun usage has been around, but I remember hearing it as a child (20 years ago), so I'd say you just need to upda

Re: Where do aliases come from?

agou wrote: > I have installed the latest stable debian (AMD64) not long ago, and I > am baffled, to say the least by a thing - normally, one of the first > things I do after installing Linux is to hunt down all the "helpful" > aliases that are set up in /etc/profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile.d > e

Re: Conversion from jpg to video

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:41:27AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Pedro Insua wrote: > > > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:01:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > >> On 12/13/08 09:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote: > >>> In another thread on this list it came out that gimp-gap is able to > >>> convert a > >>> jpg

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

Chris Bannister wrote: On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconnect I don't know how long the noun usage has been around, but I remember hearing it as a child (20 years ago), so I'd say you just need to update your dictionary

Re: libdivx4linux?

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 >> -install-flash-player-10-linux >> -adobe-flashplugin >> -libflashplayer.so >> -flashplugin-nonfree Depending on 32 or 64 bit, flash can be done a few ways. Also have a look at http://debian-multimedia.org/ and consider adding it to your sources.l

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, ZephyrQ wrote: >> mix/edit/burn on my home machine. It has a USB port, but I've tried a >> few things (including some BIOS settings) and I can't get it to read my >> thumb drives (they work

Re: Alsa problem

On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:56:21AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > Alex Samad wrote: > > > Hi > > [snip] > > > > I am testing this so I can get dmix working so I can share the pcm > > > > alex > > > > try the alsa howto, there are planty examples there. I never used iec958. > This is the di

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

Chris Bannister wrote: > Yeah, apparently "awful" originally meant "full of awe" > This is the perfect time for a Terry Pratchett quote: Elves are wonderful. They provoke wonder. Elves are marvellous. They cause marvels. Elves are fantastic. They create fantasies. Elves are glamorous. They pro

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, ZephyrQ wrote: > mix/edit/burn on my home machine. It has a USB port, but I've tried a > few things (including some BIOS settings) and I can't get it to read my > thumb drives (they work on all other machines, including the linux > ones). It does not have a cd-burner on

Re: reading USB port on old Thinkpad

On Sat, 13 Dec 2008, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > If you can't get the thumb drive to work, as for how to get the data > off, try setting up networking. I guess that's what you mean by using > the e-net cable. Its doesn't happen magically by plugging it in. You > have to assign your box an IP addre

Re: cupsys installation

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11 > libraries? > > I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the > resources available for needlessly running X11. Does it pull in the xserver?

Re: [OT] Server for Debian + MySQL

On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 10:02:14AM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/disconnect > > I don't know how long the noun usage has been around, but I remember hearing > it as a child (20 years ago), so I'd say you just need to update your > dictionary. (1913 Webster

[OT] If you use gmail

Hi, http://www.webmonkey.com/blog/Why_You_Should_Turn_Gmail_s_SSL_Feature_On_Now -- Chris. == I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.

Re: cupsys installation

* Douglas A. Tutty (2008-12-13): > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 01:11:56PM -0500, Tom Allison wrote: > > Is there any way to install cups without introducing any of the X11 > > libraries? > > > > I am trying to set this up on a headless box that doesn't have the > > resources available for needlessly

Re: libdivx4linux?

On Tue,09.Dec.08, 18:13:43, Dan-Simon Myrland wrote: > Hi, my name is Dan-Simon Myrland (from Norway). > > Im new to linux, and wonder how you can get the following codecs to debian: > -gstreamer 0.8-lame > -gstreamer 0.8-ffmeg > -lame > -ffmeg > -mjpegtools > -gst-register-0.8 > -install-flash-pl

Re: alsa and default sound input/output

subscriptions wrote: > > Hi all, > > I am using Skype and my webcam has an in-build microphone. > > Is it possible that after hot-plugging the webcam, the default > microphone (input) is from the webcam? But at the same time the default > sound output is still to the on-board sound-card (i.e. l

Re: Alsa problem

Alex Samad wrote: > Hi > > I am having problems with my alsa setup, I have an Audigy 2 Value > [SB0400]. > > when I try playing via iec958 > > aplay dummy.wav -D iec958 -v > > everything plays okay, says its playing via hw 0,0,0 > > But when I try > > aplay dummy.wav -D hw:0,0,0 -v > > I do

Re: Fan constantly ON on a Dell Latitude E5400

S�bastien Hinderer wrote: > Dear all, > > A debian unstable has been installed on the above mentionned machine. > The system is used in text mode (no X server) and with very few > applications running (a few shells, an editor, a mail user agent..). > However, the fan is constantly turned on, al

Re: Conversion from jpg to video

Pedro Insua wrote: > On Sat, Dec 13, 2008 at 10:01:38AM -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: >> On 12/13/08 09:32, Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>> In another thread on this list it came out that gimp-gap is able to >>> convert a >>> jpg file into mpeg format, but I didn't manage to. Maybe further >>> installation

Re: problem with SATA disk, difference between standard kernel and Debian kernel

lee wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 10:40:50PM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: >> >> do you have custom kernel or debian stock kernel. > > Until today, I was using a standard kernel from kernel.org. Today I > downloaded the package with the Debian kernel sources (2.6.24, blah > etchnhalf or someth

Where do aliases come from?

I have installed the latest stable debian (AMD64) not long ago, and I am baffled, to say the least by a thing - normally, one of the first things I do after installing Linux is to hunt down all the "helpful" aliases that are set up in /etc/profile, ~/.profile, /etc/profile.d etc etc (I use ksh)