Re: 64-bit Flash Player

There's also http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer10.html just put libflashplayer.so into the mozilla plugins dir regards 2008/12/27 Osamu Aoki > On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:47:30AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > > > FYI: Currently it seems sid amd64 system has broken flashplugin-nonfree >

Re: How do I get the japanese font back that is broken since the last update? (2)

PS: I am curious why you sounds so angry. You will get more help by being more patient and friendly. It's called trolling... and I wasn't asking for help.. I was just lazy... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Conta

Re: pbuilder trouble -- bingo!

Hi, On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 07:26:38PM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: ... > >> Running (c)debootstrap alone gives no problems so I don't know where > >> to start diagnosing my problem. > > > > You are creating very special setting. I do not even know if you have > > /home/wena/live/ directory

Re: Printer in Linux?

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 19:10:26 -0500 (EST), "Justin Piszcz" > said: > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Zach Uram wrote: > > >

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding? (was: Video editing)

Rodolfo writes: > I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, > more in general, cut off and select pieces of a > video file. Have you tried avidemux(.org)? I'm not sure how good its MPEG1/2 support is, but I regularly use it to edit out the ads from the MPEG4 AVI's I record using MEncoder

Re: [trivial q] how to tell installed version

On 12/27/08 20:57, Harry Putnam wrote: Sorry to butt in here with no lurking... I just created a vmware app with debian.. I used the small install CD so a networked install. I expected to be installing lenny but find really old tools installed. Which makes me think I installed something older.

Re: [trivial q] how to tell installed version

On Sun, Dec 28, 2008 at 04:57, Harry Putnam wrote: > I expected to be installing lenny but find really old tools > installed. Which makes me think I installed something older. > > What is my best recourse to update to `lenny'? > > I've only just installed the bare essentials.. would it be wise t

[trivial q] how to tell installed version

Sorry to butt in here with no lurking... I just created a vmware app with debian.. I used the small install CD so a networked install. I expected to be installing lenny but find really old tools installed. Which makes me think I installed something older. kernel is 2.6.18 `apt-cache search emac

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-28 01:50:35 +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > Which version are we talking about? Etch (IceWeasel 2.0, Geck 1.8, IIRC) > or Lenny (IceWeasel 3.0, Gecko 1.9 IIRC). > > The version in Etch leaks memory badly. The version in Lenny behaves > better. In my case, Lenny. -- Vincent Lefèvre -

Re: Printer in Linux?

On 12/27/08 17:43, Zach Uram wrote: I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux before. What should I do? First see if it is compatible: http://www.linuxprinting.org/ http://openprinting.org/printer_list.

Re: memory problem

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:38:03PM -0600, green wrote: > I think firefox/iceweasel simply uses hideous amounts of memory. It seems > like > galeon also uses lots of memory. Could this be because of the Gecko > rendering > engine? Which version are we talking about? Etch (IceWeasel 2.0, Geck

NFS help: "rpcinfo -p server" returns "Connection refused" (solved!)

Hi Everyone, I just figured this out, posting since it appears to be a FAQ. Short answer: portmap must be listening to the _external_ (not loopback!!) interface. Also sending this to the Linux NFS Howto author. --- I'm trying to setup NFS. The

Re: Printer in Linux?

Zach Uram wrote: > I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set > it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux > before. What should I do? For a beginner, one of the easiest ways to setup a new printer is to use the printer setup utility that KDE or Gnom

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 17:38:03 -0600, green wrote: > I think firefox/iceweasel simply uses hideous amounts of memory. It > seems like galeon also uses lots of memory. Could this be because of > the Gecko rendering engine? The default browser used on Nokia's Internet Tablets is based on Gecko and doesn't s

Re: Printer in Linux?

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Zach Uram wrote: I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux before. What should I do? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsu

Printer in Linux?

I got an HP Deskjet 960c printer for Christmas and would like to set it up in Debian testing, but I've never setup a printer in Linux before. What should I do? Zach -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lis

Re: VNC problems

Justin Piszcz wrote: > > > On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Fox wrote: > >> On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Justin Piszcz >> wrote: >> >>> It should be executable AFAIK, what does the log say? >>> >>> $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup >> >> #!/bin/sh >> xrdb $HOME/.Xresources >> xsetroot -solid grey >> xterm -

Re: memory problem

On Sat, 2008-12-27 at 17:38 -0600, green wrote: > On Sat, 2008.12.27, 362, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > > I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. > > > I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and > > > some sma

Re: Totem - satanta BB

- Original Message - From: "Ron Johnson" To: Sent: Monday, December 22, 2008 2:29 AM Subject: Re: Totem - satanta BB On 12/21/08 20:06, admin wrote: On Sun, Dec 21, 2008 at 09:15:17PM +, admin wrote: > Hi, can anyone tell me how to setup setanta sports playing on debian?? Sorr

Re: VNC problems

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Fox wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: It should be executable AFAIK, what does the log say? $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP desktop" & ex

Re: VNC problems

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Justin Piszcz wrote: > It should be executable AFAIK, what does the log say? > > $ cat ~/.vnc/xstartup #!/bin/sh xrdb $HOME/.Xresources xsetroot -solid grey xterm -geometry 80x24+10+10 -ls -title "$VNCDESKTOP desktop" & exec startkde > $ cat ~/.vnc/*log 27/12/

Re: memory problem

On Sat, 2008.12.27, 362, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Vincent Lefevre wrote: > > I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. > > I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and > > some small background processes. > [snip] > > Once iceweasel has real

Re: VNC problems

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, David Fox wrote: On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Tim Frink wrote: Hi, I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. I had this working before in ubuntu hardy, but now vnc doesn't work, all I get is a blank screen as well. I am trying this using ubuntu int

Re: VNC problems

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 9:27 AM, Tim Frink wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. I had this working before in ubuntu hardy, but now vnc doesn't work, all I get is a blank screen as well. I am trying this using ubuntu intrepid on a new notebook trying to connec

Re: Problem Due To Wrong Time

On Sun, 28 Dec 2008, Koh Choon Lin wrote: Dear all During installation, I set a wrong timing and my box was installed with files/directories whose timestamp were well ahead of the actual time. I didn't realize it was a problem till I tried to "touch" a file and it became impossible to do so.

Re: VPS?

On Saturday 2008 December 27 14:57:14 Zach Uram wrote: > Can someone recommend a good, cheap VPS provider in the US? I'm using slicehost.com, and I haven't had any problems so far. http://wiki.debian.org/DebianHosting also provides a quite a list to peruse. -- Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.

Problem Due To Wrong Time

Dear all During installation, I set a wrong timing and my box was installed with files/directories whose timestamp were well ahead of the actual time. I didn't realize it was a problem till I tried to "touch" a file and it became impossible to do so. While I could wait for a few days to settle it,

Re: VPS?

2008/12/27 Zach Uram : > Can someone recommend a good, cheap VPS provider in the US? I am very > unhappy with my current provider [...] There was a thread on a similar topic a few months ago, which might be helpful: http://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2008/10/msg00730.html -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, e

VPS?

Can someone recommend a good, cheap VPS provider in the US? I am very unhappy with my current provider crissic.com. Every month there is anywhere from 1 to 4 total outages where I cannot access my vps. Currently it is some nebulous "IP issue" which prevents me from using ssh to access. Other times

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 11:02:41 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > True enough. But, sometimes, throwing h/w at an issue does actually > solve (or, at least, hide) the problem. :) I use several very different machines, such as a personal machine with 2 GB, a computation server with 32 GB, and an Internet tabl

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 11:07:00PM +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > On Mon, Dec 22, 2008 at 09:47:02PM -0800, Ross Boylan wrote: > > Someone suggested I try smart boot manager on a floppy, to cause a boot > > off CD-ROM. But I can't get that to work. > > > > I've seen several suggestions for ways to

Re: Using old diskless machine as X terminal

On Fri, 2008-12-26 at 23:07 +0100, Hans Ekbrand wrote: > > I've seen several suggestions for ways to make diskettes that will > > either boot from CD or network. > > http://rom-o-matic.net/ is a useful service here. I used that, though I suspect it's not quite working. I get to the point where it

Re: VNC problems

Tim Frink wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. > So, on the remote machine I start vncserver and on my > local machine I connect via vncviewer. The connection is > successfully established but I just see a gray display without > any desktop manager. My $HOME/.

Re: VNC problems

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 05:27:01PM +, Tim Frink wrote: > Hi, > > I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. > So, on the remote machine I start vncserver and on my > local machine I connect via vncviewer. The connection is > successfully established but I just see a gray display

Re: memory problem

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 04:46:54PM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2008-12-27 16:07:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > > Are you sure? I also see several firefox-bin processes, but they only > > show up in pstree or htop, not in top. > > They can also be shown in "top" after typing H. In which c

VNC problems

Hi, I'd like to run a remote session on a machine using vnc. So, on the remote machine I start vncserver and on my local machine I connect via vncviewer. The connection is successfully established but I just see a gray display without any desktop manager. My $HOME/.vnc/xstartup is: #!/bin/sh xse

Re: picasa webalbums to digikam

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:09:04PM +0200, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/27 Tzafrir Cohen : > > Hi > > > > I set up a Lenny system for someone. One thing he wants to be able to > > do is to download albums from the Picasa service of Google. I have > > already set up pictures collections using digikam

Re: pbuilder trouble

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 2:28 PM, Osamu Aoki wrote: > Hi, > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: > ... >> My /etc/pbuilerrc looks thus: >> >> >> MIRRORSITE=http://localhost/si

Re: memory problem

On 12/27/08 09:42, Vincent Lefevre wrote: [snip] Note: I plan to replace it, but inefficient software will remain inefficient. True enough. But, sometimes, throwing h/w at an issue does actually solve (or, at least, hide) the problem. :) -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my wo

Konqueror KDE 4, swf

how do I play embedded swf on website such as Youtube. It seems the only viable solution is using Iceweasel. -- Regards, Umarzuki Mochlis http://gameornot.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.de

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008, Micha Feigin wrote: On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:49:53 -0900 Ken Irving wrote: What can make the mtu drop on a running system? The DHCP server (if you are using dhcp). # Update on 12/13/2007 # -M Prevents dhcpcd from setting the MTU provided by the DHCP #

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 16:07:04 +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > Are you sure? I also see several firefox-bin processes, but they only > show up in pstree or htop, not in top. They can also be shown in "top" after typing H. -- Vincent Lefèvre - Web: 100% accessible validated (X)HTM

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 09:00:57 -0600, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's >> still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below, the processes are >> sorted by MEM%, but none of them are taking more that

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Sat, 27 Dec 2008 16:16:00 +0200 Micha Feigin wrote: > On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:49:53 -0900 > Ken Irving wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > > > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > > >>> Ken

Re: tcpip stops working after some time

On Wed, 24 Dec 2008 13:49:53 -0900 Ken Irving wrote: > On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 02:16:26PM -0800, ow...@netptc.net wrote: > > >From: fn...@uaf.edu > > >>On Wed, Dec 24, 2008 at 10:25:07PM +0200, Micha Feigin wrote: > > >>> Ken Irving wrote: > ... > > >>> > > > >>> > A too-big MTU setting can giv

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

On 2008-12-27 16:01 +0100, John Smith wrote: > No, I did not run "apt-get upgrade" recently, but I did do some runs > of "apt-get install " recently. Perhaps it is > possible that this downloaded additional dependencies which > accidentally brought my entire system up to date to 4.0_r6 ? Possible

Re: Xming usage

2008/12/27 Engi Zoltán : > I try to connect to debian system with xming. I use Windows Vista 64bit. > Unfortunately the connecting isn't succesful. I see grey window, and I > can move the the mouse on the screen, no more. > [...] > What is the problem? I'd try connecting to a different X client, e

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 16:00 +0100, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: >> I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. >> I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and >> some small background processes. >> >> Here's an output of

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

No, I did not run "apt-get upgrade" recently, but I did do some runs of "apt-get install " recently. Perhaps it is possible that this downloaded additional dependencies which accidentally brought my entire system up to date to 4.0_r6 ? I can't think of any other reasons that my system would be 4.0

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

On 2008-12-27 15:51 +0100, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > Sven Joachim wrote: >> Okay, so apt knows about the new dpkg 1.13.26 in 4.0r6, but 1.13.25 is >> not forgotten either. > BTW, this is correct behavior of apt. Installed package is listed too, not > only available > ones. I know that, the qu

Re: memory problem

On 12/27/08 06:59, Vincent Lefevre wrote: I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and some small background processes. Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's still ru

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

On 2008-12-27 15:42 +0100, John Smith wrote: > "apt-cache policy dpkg" gives the following output : > dpkg: > Installed: 1.13.26 > Candidate: 1.13.26 > Version table: > *** 1.13.26 0 > 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages > 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status > 1.13.25

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

Sven Joachim wrote: > Okay, so apt knows about the new dpkg 1.13.26 in 4.0r6, but 1.13.25 is > not forgotten either. BTW, this is correct behavior of apt. Installed package is listed too, not only available ones. -- Eugene V. Lyubimkin aka JackYF, JID: jackyf.devel(maildog)gmail.com Ukrainian C+

Re: memory problem

On 2008-12-27 15:36:38 +0200, Eugene V. Lyubimkin wrote: > You already have an answer: iceweasel eats large amounts memory. You > already have 'MEM: 62%' at iceweasel only in real memory, it seems > it also use some swap on your machine. OK. I suppose that there's some bug (bad design or whatever)

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

"apt-cache policy dpkg" gives the following output : dpkg: Installed: 1.13.26 Candidate: 1.13.26 Version table: *** 1.13.26 0 500 http://ftp.nl.debian.org etch/main Packages 100 /var/lib/dpkg/status 1.13.25 0 500 cdrom://[Debian GNU/Linux 4.0 r5 _Etch_ - Official

Re: 64-bit Flash Player

On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 12:47:30AM +0900, Osamu Aoki wrote: > > FYI: Currently it seems sid amd64 system has broken flashplugin-nonfree at > this > moment. It was working :-) It works again: $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --uninstall $ sudo update-flashplugin-nonfree --install -- To UNSUB

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding?

On Sat December 27 2008, Rainer Kluge wrote: > There is a sourceforge page (sourceforge.net/projects/project-x/) with > some basic information in English and an English Readme.txt in the zip > file. thanks!! > > Concerning your problem, you need the Java development kit sun-java6-jdk > for compili

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

On 2008-12-27 15:23 +0100, John Smith wrote: > The command "apt-cache show dpkg" prints out the following : > > Package: dpkg > Essential: yes > Priority: required > Section: admin > Installed-Size: 6296 > Maintainer: Dpkg Developers > Architecture: i386 > Version: 1.13.26 > [...] > Package: dpkg

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 02:14:50PM +0100, Sjoerd Hiemstra wrote: > ?? For a few years now, I've been able to read from and write to a USB > medium which was HFS+ formatted with Mac's Disk Utility. Non-journaled HFS+ filesystems are "fully" supported on linux systems, now that there are hfsprogs p

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

The command "apt-cache show dpkg" prints out the following : Package: dpkg Essential: yes Priority: required Section: admin Installed-Size: 6296 Maintainer: Dpkg Developers Architecture: i386 Version: 1.13.26 Replaces: dpkg-doc-ja, dpkg-static, manpages-de (<= 0.4-3), manpages-pl (<= 20051117-1)

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding?

Paul Cartwright schrieb: I downloaded projectX, ran the build.sh, tried to run : java ProjectX Exception in thread "main" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: ProjectX/jarls There is a sourceforge page (sourceforge.net/projects/project-x/) with some basic information in English and an English Read

Re: memory problem

Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. > I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and > some small background processes. [snip] > Once iceweasel has really quit, everything is back to normal: > > CPU[||

Re: Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

On 2008-12-27 14:20 +0100, John Smith wrote: > I was just trying to upgrade my Debian 4.0_r5 installation to the > latest 4.0_r6, and after reading the apt-get manual page I assumed > that the following commands would do the trick : > > > # apt-get update > # apt-get -u dist-upgrade > > However, t

Updating from 4.0_r5 to 4.0_r6 ?

Hi, I was just trying to upgrade my Debian 4.0_r5 installation to the latest 4.0_r6, and after reading the apt-get manual page I assumed that the following commands would do the trick : # apt-get update # apt-get -u dist-upgrade However, this gives me the following output : 0 upgraded, 0 newl

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

kj: > Amit Uttamchandani: > > kj: > > > If you can live without Windows compatibility, using HFS (instead > > > of HFS+) would work, since Linux can write to it. > > > > HFS+ sounds like a good idea here. > > Just to be clear, Linux can not write to HFS+ (last time I tried), > only to HFS. ?? For

Re: Downloading CD/DVD images of older Debian releases ?

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 13:23:43 +0100, John Smith (lbalba...@gmail.com) wrote: > I was trying to download the CD/DVD iso images of the older Debian > release 3.1_r5 releases, but it seems like none of the mirrors carry > it anymore: the directory /debian-cd/project/build/3.1_r5/ on > cdimage.deb

memory problem

I wonder why so much memory is used and my machine keeps on swapping. I don't have many applications: iceweasel, liferea, a few xterm's, and some small background processes. Here's an output of htop several minutes after quitting iceweasel (it's still running to do some clean up, I suppose). Below

Re: Downloading CD/DVD images of older Debian releases ?

> I was trying to download the CD/DVD iso images of the older Debian > release 3.1_r5 releases, but it seems like none of the mirrors carry > it anymore: the directory /debian-cd/project/build/3.1_r5/ on > cdimage.debian.org only seems to contain a single text file that says > 'cd dvd'. Is there a

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

On Fri, Dec 26, 2008 at 09:42:39PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,25.Dec.08, 19:51:52, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > 2008/12/25 Andrei Popescu : > > > Fat32 has other limitations which can create problems: > > > > > > - max file size of 2GB > > > > I think that should be 4 GB. > > Somehow I had t

Re: pbuilder trouble

Hi, On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34:42AM +0200, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: ... > My /etc/pbuilerrc looks thus: > > > MIRRORSITE=http://localhost/sid > DEBOOTSTRAP=debootstrap > BUILDPLACE=/home/wena/live/pbuilde

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

On Sat, Dec 27, 2008 at 5:59 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: > 2008/12/21 Hugo Vanwoerkom : >> [3] don't scan at less than 300 dpi > > And don't scan above 600 DPI! > > I forget which OCR I played with a few years ago, but 300 and 600 DPI > yielded satisfactory results. 1200 DPI made things _worse_ not bet

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding?

On Sat December 27 2008, Rainer Kluge wrote: > Hello Rodolfo, > > I am using ProjectX from www.lucike.info, a Java GUI application, which > allows to split and join different types of MPEG1/2 video streams. The > input stream is demuxed into the video part and the audio part(s). You > then have to

Downloading CD/DVD images of older Debian releases ?

Hi, I was trying to download the CD/DVD iso images of the older Debian release 3.1_r5 releases, but it seems like none of the mirrors carry it anymore: the directory /debian-cd/project/build/3.1_r5/ on cdimage.debian.org only seems to contain a single text file that says 'cd dvd'. Is there a way

Re: pbuilder trouble

Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > anyone who can help with this? > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe > wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: [snip] I would suggest asking in debian-mentors@ instead. Eugene V. Lyubimkin a

Re: picasa webalbums to digikam

2008/12/27 Tzafrir Cohen : > Hi > > I set up a Lenny system for someone. One thing he wants to be able to > do is to download albums from the Picasa service of Google. I have > already set up pictures collections using digikam, and would prefer to > use it. > > Digikam is generally the only KDE pro

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding?

Rodolfo Medina schrieb: Rodolfo Medina writes: Does anyone have experience of video editing without transcoding? In particular, what I want is to join two video files. *If* they come from the same DVD, old plain `cat' command joins them fine: Hello Rodolfo, I am using ProjectX from www.lu

Re: pbuilder trouble

anyone who can help with this? On Wed, Dec 17, 2008 at 10:34 AM, Tshepang Lekhonkhobe wrote: > Hi, > > I'm having trouble getting "pbuilder create" run with the following error: > > > [...] > I: Configuring initscripts... > I: Configuring sysvinit... > I: Unpacking the base system... > W: Failur

Re: Best File System for Cross-Platform backup

Amit Uttamchandani wrote: On Thu, 25 Dec 2008 08:59:46 + kj wrote: If you can live without Windows compatibility, using HFS (instead of HFS+) would work, since Linux can write to it. HFS+ sounds like a good idea here. Thanks Just to be clear, Linux can not write to HFS+ (las

Re: tesseract: ocr that works

2008/12/21 Hugo Vanwoerkom : > [3] don't scan at less than 300 dpi And don't scan above 600 DPI! I forget which OCR I played with a few years ago, but 300 and 600 DPI yielded satisfactory results. 1200 DPI made things _worse_ not better, possibly because of noise. This was on Fedora, so maybe it

Re: Video editing: impossible without transcoding? (was: Video editing)

Rodolfo Medina writes: > I want to divide a video file into two pieces, or, more in general, cut > off and select pieces of a video file. > > [...] > > I need also to append two video > files one another. What I'm trying to do is to select pieces from a dvd. I've been trying different

tesseract: ocr that works

Hi, Recently there was a post mentioning tesseract. Turns out that is an award winning opensource OCR that works! I tried it out: 1. apt-get install tesseract-ocr 2. apt-get install tesseract-ocr-eng 3. use xsane to scan a page at dpi 300 and save as .tif 4. run: convert foo.tif -depth 8 foo1.

Re: howto read an audio CD?-> how to get ekiga and pulseaudio working?

ok, thanks! putting in the audio-admin section all devices to pulse solved the problem for the cd-player... but now i noticed that another application doesn't want to play with pulse: ekiga just hitting the echo adress to test i get on the console: ALSA lib pcm_dmix.c:996:(snd_pcm_dmix_open) una

Xming usage

Hi Everybody, I try to connect to debian system with xming. I use Windows Vista 64bit. Unfortunately the connecting isn't succesful. I see grey window, and I can move the the mouse on the screen, no more. In the log file I get next error message: "Welcome to the Xming X Server Vendor: Colin Harr

picasa webalbums to digikam

Hi I set up a Lenny system for someone. One thing he wants to be able to do is to download albums from the Picasa service of Google. I have already set up pictures collections using digikam, and would prefer to use it. Digikam is generally the only KDE program used, so I would consider upgrading