Re: kde Lenny testing

2009-01-01 Thread Tshepang Lekhonkhobe
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 8:00 AM, Sonny Jordan wrote: > Just want to say I have been slowly & patiently waiting for the stable > release of 'Lenny". > I have been trying others for fun. I decided tonight to go ahead & download > the testing release of the KDE Lenny. I AM SO GLAD Y'ALL DID NOT USE T

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 20:31:50 -0500, Paul Cartwright (a...@pcartwright.com) wrote: > On Thu January 1 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > > On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > > > no, I have an always-on DSL connection. > > > > Westell modem->linksys router->PC. > > > > > > Hi Paul - what's

Re: Failed Lenny Installs - Etch Installs Fine

2009-01-01 Thread chris
On Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:46:10 -0500, Bill Diehl wrote: > So, I installed Etch r5 i386 without any problems. You do know that if you change "etch" to "lenny" in /etc/apt/ sources.list, you can upgrade your system to testing? You do not need the Lenny-cd to get Lenny: you have a working system and

Re: Suggestion about file permissions being listed in debian packages

2009-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 January 2009, grok wrote about 'Suggestion about file permissions being listed in debian packages': >A lot of issues with users come about because of incorrect >file/dir permissions (for whatever reasons. Make no >assumptions, please. There's a good reason why Ubuntu now >exists).

kde Lenny testing

2009-01-01 Thread Sonny Jordan
Just want to say I have been slowly & patiently waiting for the stable release of 'Lenny". I have been trying others for fun. I decided tonight to go ahead & download the testing release of the KDE Lenny. I AM SO GLAD Y'ALL DID NOT USE THE STUPID & PITIFUL 'PULSE AUDIO'.!! I can actually hear my m

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 02 January 2009, Mark Allums wrote about 'Re: OT: laptop recomendations': >Don't blame Dell for the video being defective, in this case. The >culprit is NVidia, and all laptop makers are at their mercy. The laptop in question (Inspiron E1505) has an Intel video card. -- Boyd Stephen

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 01 January 2009, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote about 'Re: OT: laptop recomendations': >Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: >>>Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking >>> at the drivers (especially th

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Mark Allums
Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't up to par with the synaptic).

Re: help

2009-01-01 Thread Allan Wind
Hi Bengt, On 2009-01-02T04:46:50, Bengt Samuelsson wrote: > /help Sorry, I was teasing you a bit there. This is a mailing list, and you are communicating with a large group of people. If you are seeing instructions on how to use the mailing list software that Debian uses, please have a look a

help

2009-01-01 Thread Bengt Samuelsson
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Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 22:27, Daniel Cliff wrote: On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, right?), mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to kno

monitoring HP NetRaid-1si hardware raid card

2009-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
I have four HP NetServer LPr PII/450 servers. Two of them have HP NetRaid 1si hardware raid cards (the others have NetRaid-1 cards). I've been told that if anything goes wrong with the drives that the board has a really loud buzzer and will change the colour of the drive LED to indicate which dr

Re: Hibernate - Is it safe?

2009-01-01 Thread Sebastian Krause
"Dean Chester" wrote: > At the moment i seem to be putting my laptop in to hibernate and then > when i start it up again i boot in to vista. So i ask is it save to > keep doing this? Yes. Linux saves its memory state in an area of the hard disk (a Linux swap file or partition) which is not change

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
We're getting a little OT here, but let's carry on. It's fun ... On Fri, Jan 02, 2009 at 12:23:18AM +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2009-01-01 11:58:14 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > > IMHO, chrony's current behavior is already 'correct'. To me, it is > > far more important that the reported tim

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: >> _ delete the pictures in the camera after successful file transfer (I >> guess most people normally do that in order to take new pictures, >> right?), > > mv? cut-n-paste? BTW, this is sth I always wanted to know ever since I got my camera: D

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Fri, Jan 2, 2009 at 1:27 AM, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/01/09 19:59, Daniel Cliff wrote: >> >> On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC >> wrote: >>> >>> "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management >>> application. It allows for importing of your existing >>> photo collections,

Re: Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 19:59, Daniel Cliff wrote: On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management application. It allows for importing of your existing photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers, as well as doing simple edits of photos".

Re: Sid/KDE

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 18:18, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: Ron Johnson wrote: Real Men use apt. I thought they used gentoo ... Real Ricers use Gentoo. http://funroll-loops.info/ -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA I like my women like I like my coffee - purchased at above-market rates from eco-fri

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Zach
On Jan 1, 4:50 pm, Ken Irving wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:07:55AM -0500, Zach Uram wrote: > > I have exhausted every solution I could find :( As a last resort I > > tried running lpadmin to set the printer manually and I get that > > stupid ambiguous error message again, same one I got in

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Zach
On Jan 1, 3:10 pm, andmalc wrote: > > Did you see/try the suggestion I made in the original thread? > > "Install the printer by running 'hp-setup' as root. Choose the option > for a parallel connection. " There is no hp-setup installed. There is an hp-toolbox but that requires python-qt3 which n

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 18:09, Yannick Patois wrote: Hi, Travis Crump wrote: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing anything unusual

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On Friday 02 January 2009 03:26:15 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > I wonder if there is correlation between those of us who had a problem > and those of us who were running openntpd at the time? > > Doug. I will not help in solving the problem, but, running Lenny, my mail did not work last night. Wit

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:04:01PM -0600, Dennis Wicks wrote: > Yannick Patois wrote the following on 01/01/2009 06:09 PM: > Well, just for another data point, I have 6 machines running > lenny at various levels of being up-to-date and none of them > crashed. > > I am running ntp 1:4.2.4p4+dfs

Re: enemy territory lags badly

2009-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 04:23:30PM -0600, lostson wrote: > I am trying to get enemy territory to work on my machine. I'm assuming that enemy territory is a game and that telling you do rm -f /bin/laden wouldn't help. especially if /bin/laden was a symlink to / then rm -rf /bin/laden cou

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Dennis Wicks
Yannick Patois wrote the following on 01/01/2009 06:09 PM: Hi, Travis Crump wrote: I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing

Transferring pictures from a digital camera (it was Re: Best software under Gnome)

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:28 PM, Milan SKOCIC wrote: > "F-Spot is meant to be an easy-to-use photo management > application. It allows for importing of your existing > photo collections, tagging photos with identifiers, > as well as doing simple edits of photos". > > Personally I use it and I'm sa

Re: Failed Lenny Installs - Etch Installs Fine

2009-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:46:10PM -0500, Bill Diehl wrote: > Since I thought I had bad CDs, I did not note the exact error > messages. Instead, I burned new CDs with different versions of > Lenny. I tried RC1, net-install 29-Dec-2008, and i386-kde-CD-1.iso > 31-Dec-2008. Did you verify the md5

Re: to install usb web cam

2009-01-01 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 10:24:29PM +0100, abdelkader belahcene wrote: > Hi, > I want to install a usb camera eye JVC here is the windows driver > > > > /media/cdrom0/Driver/0328_PC Camera LI360_USBPCCamPlus_v5.18.1.002.exe Ignore it for now. What do you see on lsusb ? -- Tzafrir Cohen

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Yannick Patois
Hi, Travis Crump wrote: > I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was > added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash > before. I have no other evidence they were related, but I wasn't doing > anything unusual at the time. Any ideas? Same behav

Re: Nice looking terminal applications

2009-01-01 Thread Graham
On Fri, 2 Jan 2009 00:35:45 + "Benjamin M. A'Lee" wrote: > For a higher resolution, you can add something like vga= to > the kernel parameters in grub.conf/lilo.conf; vga=773 seemed to work > reasonably well last time I tried. Best to edit /boot/grub/menu.lst by finding the defoptions line a

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Paul Cartwright wrote: > On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > > no, I have an always-on DSL connection. > > > Westell modem->linksys router->PC. > > > > Hi Paul - what's the output from ntpq -p please? > and then: # ntpq -p remote refid st t when pol

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > no, I have an always-on DSL connection. > > Westell modem->linksys router->PC. > > Hi Paul - what's the output from ntpq -p please? installed ntp # /etc/init.d/ntp restart Stopping NTP server: ntpd. Starting NTP server: ntpd. paulandcilla:/etc# ps -ef|gre

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Paul Cartwright [2009 Jan 01 19:18 -0600]: > The following packages are BROKEN: > openntpd > The following NEW packages will be installed: > ntp > 0 packages upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. > Need to get 434kB of archives. After unpacking 1065kB will be used. >

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Frank McCormick wrote: > Show Details > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it appears as /dev/sdb1 I use digikam also, with

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > no, I have an always-on DSL connection. > > Westell modem->linksys router->PC. > > Hi Paul - what's the output from ntpq -p please? paulandcilla:/etc# ntpq -p bash: ntpq: command not found ... ok, so apt-cache search ntpq says hobbit-plugins that didn't c

Re: memory problem

2009-01-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-01 14:26:33 +0100, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > I've also looked at "about:cache" (I didn't know that). It says: > > Memory cache device > > Number of entries:540 > Maximum storage size: 9216 KiB > Storage in use: 32633 KiB > Inactive storage: 0 KiB > > I don't under

Re: Nice looking terminal applications

2009-01-01 Thread Benjamin M. A'Lee
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:55:10PM -0200, Maurí­cio wrote: > I've realized most of my time in a computer I use > just an input/output line. (I don't even need a > vt100-like terminal, since I use 'ed' or 'sam' as > text-editors.) But I still need X because of > utf-8 fonts and anti-aliasing. > > Is

Re: Sid/KDE

2009-01-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Ron Johnson wrote: > > Real Men use apt. I thought they used gentoo ... raju -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

host name/name mismatch of samba

2009-01-01 Thread Jeff Zhang
I'm using samba under debian/testing and have set 'dns proxy = no' in /etc/smb.conf, but the log of client gives name mismatch message: atchname: host name/name mismatch: foo != ... Matchname failed on foo 192.168.0.128 Then I add 'name resolve order = lmhosts host wins bcast' into /etc/smb.conf

Re: iptables problem with two diffrent subnet

2009-01-01 Thread Alex Samad
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:42:58PM +0100, itom wrote: > hi all, with iptables I've create > this script(see below or here http://pastebin.com/m416d8f6d) > for this specific situation: > http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/1/f_lanm_1233f0a.jpg > > In the eth2 lan work as I wish because pc can ac

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-01 11:58:14 -0700, Paul E Condon wrote: > IMHO, chrony's current behavior is already 'correct'. To me, it is > far more important that the reported time is always increasing than > that it quickly settles into synchronism with a source that exhibits > sudden jumps or extended periods of

Re: Nice looking terminal applications

2009-01-01 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Maurí­cio wrote: > I've realized most of my time in a computer I use > just an input/output line. (I don't even need a > vt100-like terminal, since I use 'ed' or 'sam' as > text-editors.) But I still need X because of > utf-8 fonts and anti-aliasing.

iptables problem with two diffrent subnet

2009-01-01 Thread itom
hi all, with iptables I've create this script(see below or here http://pastebin.com/m416d8f6d) for this specific situation: http://img33.picoodle.com/img/img33/3/1/1/f_lanm_1233f0a.jpg In the eth2 lan work as I wish because pc can access to internet only with proxy at port 8080; the problem also

Nice looking terminal applications

2009-01-01 Thread Maurí­cio
Hi, I've realized most of my time in a computer I use just an input/output line. (I don't even need a vt100-like terminal, since I use 'ed' or 'sam' as text-editors.) But I still need X because of utf-8 fonts and anti-aliasing. Is it possible to get that without X? Can I get my text-only termina

Suggestion about file permissions being listed in debian packages

2009-01-01 Thread grok
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 (The IMO and AFAIC marginal utility of obtaining 'help' on IRC channels aside) it was suggested to me on #debian on Freenode that I post this suggestion here, in case it hasn't been previously considered: Has this ever been considered by Debian: A

X issue? No mouse cursor in between sessions (sometimes).

2009-01-01 Thread Nuno Magalhães
Greetings, I have a regular optical USB mouse conected to PS/2. Occasionaly i come home to the gdm login screen, turn on the monitor and discover i have no mouse cursor. I can login and do whatever i want, the mouse is there and works, but i see no pointer. I've tried issuing kill -HUP to both gd

Re: Release Cycle

2009-01-01 Thread Ken Heard
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Funny. I always thought that latest "testing" was anointed "stable" by the release panjandrum when - and only when -- the latter determined that the relative positions of the planets were such to guarantee complete freedom of the new release from bugs

enemy territory lags badly

2009-01-01 Thread lostson
Hello I am trying to get enemy territory to work on my machine. It starts fine and everything works fine when setting everything up but then when I connect to a serer to play it starts lagging something horrible. All the other games I have installed play perfectly fine. Other games I have install

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 15:52, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] That's what I ended up doing --- and just did a straight copy to a directory in my home. One annoying thing that's going on...each time I connect the camera in one logon session, the kernel bumps up the device..i.e. sdb1/sdc1/sdd1/sde1 and so on

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 01/01/09 13:39, Frank McCormick wrote: > [snip] >> >> gThumb doesn't recognize the camera...and neither does gtkam. Dunno >> why...it's not like it's a brand new model. > > gphoto2 in Sid is a 15 months behind upstream, but e

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Ken Irving
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 08:07:55AM -0500, Zach Uram wrote: > I have exhausted every solution I could find :( As a last resort I > tried running lpadmin to set the printer manually and I get that > stupid ambiguous error message again, same one I got in the cups web > interface. Does anyone know wha

to install usb web cam

2009-01-01 Thread abdelkader belahcene
Hi, I want to install a usb camera eye JVC here is the windows driver /media/cdrom0/Driver/0328_PC Camera LI360_USBPCCamPlus_v5.18.1.002.exe how to do it thanks a lot bela

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 13:39, Frank McCormick wrote: [snip] gThumb doesn't recognize the camera...and neither does gtkam. Dunno why...it's not like it's a brand new model. gphoto2 in Sid is a 15 months behind upstream, but even the latest version doesn't recognize the dsc-s730. However... The came

Re: memory problem

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 11:11, Vincent Lefevre wrote: On 2009-01-01 08:53:24 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: Firefox's memory usage may increase if it's left open for long periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart Firefox. Isn't this close to the definition of a memory leak? Of

Re: Grub can't boot hda1 (vfat/diagnostics), need to do something from DOS? - SOLVED

2009-01-01 Thread A. F. Cano
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:56:10AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > On 2009-01-01 09:46 +0100, Joel Roth wrote: > > > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:25:55AM +0100, Sven Joachim wrote: > >> You must install the DOS bootloader with the "sys" command. > > > > I believe the DOS bootloader will simply overwrit

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Carl Fink
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 02:00:49PM -0500, Kamaraju S Kusumanchi wrote: > As for the video card, if I play a flash based movie in windows XP, there > will be a "blue screen memory map" error after some time. FWIW, the movies > work fine in Linux. I searched in google for this and found that the vid

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Zach Uram
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 9:20 AM, Javier Barroso wrote: > Hi, Hi, > Which solutions have you tried ? I tried gnome-cups-manager which calls gnome-cups-add, I tried lpadmin, I tried the cups web interface. > I suppose this is a silly question, but .. has you got free space in > your /var/spool/cu

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

2009-01-01 Thread lee
On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:11:59PM +, Aneurin Price wrote: > On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 6:58 AM, lee wrote: > > Anyway, if it's a software problem, it's probably not the module for > > the particular controller but something else. That people with all > > kinds of different hardware have this pro

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread andmalc
On Jan 1, 8:30 am, "Zach Uram" wrote: > I have exhausted every solution I could find Did you see/try the suggestion I made in the original thread? "Install the printer by running 'hp-setup' as root. Choose the option for a parallel connection. " -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

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

2009-01-01 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
lee wrote: > Well, how do you install on SATA disks when the installer can't access > them? It still has the option to load more modules from a floppy disk, > but I haven't had a floppy disk drive for years ... With no system > installed, you couldn't create those disks anyway. > You should be

Re: help

2009-01-01 Thread Allan Wind
On 2009-01-01T17:51:10, Bengt Samuelsson wrote: > help Unknown command. Try /help /Allan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

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

2009-01-01 Thread lee
On Sun, Dec 14, 2008 at 10:29:28AM +0100, Emanoil Kotsev wrote: > lee wrote: > > > > I'm not sure if I could use a pre-built Debian kernel: the installer > > couldn't access the SATA disks because it didn't have the module for > > the controller, and a pre-built standard Debian kernel might not ha

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Paul E Condon wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:48:17PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to >> decide what software to use under

grub2 and ext4

2009-01-01 Thread Micha Feigin
turns out the issue is ext4 which doesn't work with grub, but it does with grub2. The problem is that the kernel seems to miss read the partition. I setup another partition to rescue my system so now I have sda1: ext4 - original system sda5: ext3 - small rescue system grub2 installed on both (cur

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,01.Jan.09, 12:24:04, Rick Pasotto wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:02:26PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > > On Thu,01.Jan.09, 11:42:52, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > > How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I > > > always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Milan SKOCIC
On Thu, 2009-01-01 at 13:48 -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 01:48:17PM -0500, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kerne

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Javier Barroso
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 7:48 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. > The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it app

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:56:29AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > ... > Chrony does not currently support leap seconds [1]. When the leap occurred > it lost synch, chose a different server, and then pulled back in. IMHO, chrony's current behavior is already 'correct'. To me, it is far more importan

Re: Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Daniel Cliff
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 4:48 PM, Frank McCormick wrote: > I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730... (Congrats on your new purchase!) > and am trying to > decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. I'm no expert, but if you're looking for an image manipulation soft

Failed Lenny Installs - Etch Installs Fine

2009-01-01 Thread Bill Diehl
About a year ago, I attempted to install Lenny i386 but had problems so I abandoned it and successfully installed Etch r2 i386. Thinking Lenny had matured enough, I attempted to install it again a few days ago - the install failed each of 5 times. So, I installed Etch r5 i386 without any proble

Re: OT: laptop recomendations

2009-01-01 Thread Kamaraju S Kusumanchi
Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Wednesday 2008 December 10 16:45:09 Micha Feigin wrote: >>Runner up is Dell, although the hardware seems a bit cheap when looking at >> the drivers (especially the touchpad which tends to be alps which isn't >> up to par with the synaptic). > > I'm happy with my

Best software under Gnome

2009-01-01 Thread Frank McCormick
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I just acquired a Sony digital camera...a dsc-s730...and am trying to decide what software to use under Gnome to deal with the pics. The camera is recognized fine by the kernel...it appears as /dev/sdb1 Where should I start ?? Thanks -BEGIN PGP S

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-01 12:28:39 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > gv has menus where you can choose the settings. Choose the default > paper there. There are also X resources. For instance, /etc/X11/app-defaults/GV contains !GV.fallbackPageMedia: a4 here (note that ! means that the line is commented out

Re: Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Travis Crump
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > OoO En cette nuit nuageuse du jeudi 01 janvier 2009, vers 01:25, Travis > Crump disait : > >> I had a hard crash of my lenny system precisely when the leap second was >> added. While X has flaked in the past, I've never had a hard crash >> before

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread John Hasler
Paul E Condon writes: > You and I appear to be the only people posting to this thread who use > chrony. I run it just the way you set it up in the package. (except that > I'm always connected to the Internet, and edited out the 'offline' from > the server spec.s) Because of this long thread, and e

help

2009-01-01 Thread Bengt Samuelsson
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Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 09:05:55 -0500, Paul Cartwright (a...@pcartwright.com) wrote: > On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > > Dec 31 19:59:46 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now unsynced > > > Dec 31 20:07:27 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now synced > > > Dec 31 20:56:19 paulandcilla

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 12:28:39PM -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:42:52AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I > > always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.gv? What is the format? > > gv has menu

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Douglas A. Tutty
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 11:42:52AM -0500, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I > always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.gv? What is the format? gv has menus where you can choose the settings. Choose the default paper there. Howev

Re: memory problem

2009-01-01 Thread Vincent Lefevre
On 2009-01-01 08:53:24 -0500, Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Firefox's memory usage may increase if it's left open for long > > periods of time. A workaround for this is to periodically restart > > Firefox. > > Isn't this close to the definition of a memory leak? Of course, > "long periods of t

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Ron Johnson wrote: > > no, I have an always-on DSL connection. > > Westell modem->linksys router->PC. > > What time server(s) do you use? ntp.conf shows: server 0.pool.ntp.org server 1.pool.ntp.org server 2.pool.ntp.org server 0.debian.pool.ntp.org server 1.debian.pool.ntp.or

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Pasotto
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:02:26PM +0200, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Thu,01.Jan.09, 11:42:52, Rick Pasotto wrote: > > How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I > > always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.gv? What is the format? > > Try 'dpkg-reconfigure libpa

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul E Condon
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:44:07AM -0600, John Hasler wrote: > I wrote: > > Debian has time servers: > > > > 0.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 1.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 2.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 3.debian.pool.ntp.org > > > I prefer to use reliable sources. Also, as Chrony maintainer I feel that I > sho

Re: default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Thu,01.Jan.09, 11:42:52, Rick Pasotto wrote: > How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I > always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.gv? What is the format? Try 'dpkg-reconfigure libpaper1' Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't under

Re: iptables question

2009-01-01 Thread David Schmidt
On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 5:44 PM, David Schmidt wrote: > Here is how I implemented it, coincidentially today :) > > ># Allow already established traffic >$IPTABLES -A INPUT -p TCP -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT > ># No more than 2 connection attempts per 2 >#

Re: iptables question

2009-01-01 Thread David Schmidt
Here is how I implemented it, coincidentially today :) # Allow already established traffic $IPTABLES -A INPUT -p TCP -m state --state ESTABLISHED -j ACCEPT # No more than 2 connection attempts per 2 # minutes to prevent brute force attacks # log blocked at

default gv paper size

2009-01-01 Thread Rick Pasotto
How do I set the default paper size for gv? It always comes up A4 but I always want letter. Should I make in entry in ~/.gv? What is the format? -- "But a government in which the majority rule in all cases can not be based on justice, even as far as men understand it." -- Henry David Thoreau

Re: Re: how to find trace of attacks

2009-01-01 Thread Abdelkader Belahcene
Hi, Why curious ? In fact I am an IT teacher and I use my laptop to demonstrate how to use servers (ftp, ssh, apache, mysql, ...). It is true that I have to stop them when i don't need them, I hadn't done it!!! this is the story. best regards -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...

Re: iptables question

2009-01-01 Thread Justin Piszcz
On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Napoleon wrote: I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But I'm trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-) I've been having a problem with dictionary hacker attempts on my s

Re: OO in Lenny?

2009-01-01 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Wed,31.Dec.08, 15:16:16, Rainer Kluge wrote: > Dotan Cohen schrieb: >> These are better: >> http://go-oo.org/ > > I don't find any debs on this site Because, as noted by other posters, the OpenOffice.org packages in Debian are based on go-oo. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply

Hibernate - Is it safe?

2009-01-01 Thread Dean Chester
Hi, At the moment i seem to be putting my laptop in to hibernate and then when i start it up again i boot in to vista. So i ask is it save to keep doing this? Dean -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists

[SOLVED: obexftp must die] Re: phone simens ME45 and obexftp via USB

2009-01-01 Thread Антон
siefs solved my problem(there was not it in Debian). It needs an old fuse , so i install fuse 2_4 to /usr/local , and configure siefs to use it : ./configure --with-fuse=/usr/local. Now i can mount my phone as usb-harddrive: # mount -t siefs -o iocharset=koi8-r /dev/ttyUSB0 /media/usb0 It a

Re: iptables question

2009-01-01 Thread mouss
Napoleon a écrit : > I'll admit I'm still pretty green at a lot of this (lots of experience > in computers, little in Linux) and don't understand everything. But I'm > trying to learn, so please go easy on me :-) > > I've been having a problem with dictionary hacker attempts on my system > (hundr

Re: Hmm...

2009-01-01 Thread jatos . software
I can remember when I was younger (dare I mention the name a Microsoft product) doing something similar with QBasic. Jamie Sent from my BlackBerry® wireless device -Original Message- From: Rainer Kluge Date: Thu, 01 Jan 2009 13:00:56 To: Subject: Re: Hmm... Tzafrir Cohen schrieb

Re: update on printing problem

2009-01-01 Thread Javier Barroso
Hi, On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Zach Uram wrote: > I have exhausted every solution I could find :( Which solutions have you tried ? > z...@hal9000:~$ sudo lpadmin -h localhost -p HP -D printer -u > allow:zu22 -P /rofs/usr/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP/HP-DeskJet_960C-hpijs.ppd > lpadmin: Request

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 08:05, Paul Cartwright wrote: On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: Dec 31 19:59:46 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now unsynced Dec 31 20:07:27 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now synced Dec 31 20:56:19 paulandcilla ntpd[3700]: adjusting local clock by -0.159575s Are you on a d

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Bob Cox
On Thu, Jan 01, 2009 at 07:44:07 -0600, John Hasler (jhas...@debian.org) wrote: > I wrote: > > Debian has time servers: > > > > 0.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 1.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 2.debian.pool.ntp.org > > 3.debian.pool.ntp.org > > Bob Cox writes: > > These are all aliases for 0.pool.ntp.org, 1

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Thu January 1 2009, Bob Cox wrote: > > Dec 31 19:59:46 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now unsynced > > Dec 31 20:07:27 paulandcilla ntpd[3701]: clock is now synced > > Dec 31 20:56:19 paulandcilla ntpd[3700]: adjusting local clock by > > -0.159575s > > Are you on a dial-up connection Paul?  I

Re: hard crash on leap second

2009-01-01 Thread Ron Johnson
On 01/01/09 07:07, John Hasler wrote: [snip] That only matters if you have a particular need to synchronise precisely with your ISP. Or want to put less stress on public time servers. (After all, I'm paying for time.cox.net... And ISP servers are often unreliable. Say wha

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