Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 09:29:10 +0530, Girish Kulkarni (gir...@hri.res.in) wrote: > I've been managing my mail with Gmail for about three years now. The > primary reason for sticking to Gmail is their spam control. > > I now want to try moving back to the old mail spool on my Debian box > and

Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Teemu Likonen
On 2009-02-28 09:29 (+0530), Girish Kulkarni wrote: > How is your experience with the spam control tools already available > (SpamAssassin, SpanBouncer, Bogofilter)? Which one is the most > favoured? Is Gmail indeed the best option for controlling spam? I have never used Gmail but I've been very

Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Girish Kulkarni wrote: I now want to try moving back to the old mail spool on my Debian box and start managing mail myself. I'm curious to know what spam control techniques people on this list currently use. How is your experience with the spam control tools already available (SpamAssassin

Re: Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 28 February 2009 07:42:05 Scarletdown wrote: > On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:32 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > > On 28 February 2009 06:28:39 Scarletdown wrote: > > > # EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 > > > SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0848", MODE="660",

Re: Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Scarletdown
On Sat, 2009-02-28 at 07:32 +0100, Thierry Chatelet wrote: > On 28 February 2009 06:28:39 Scarletdown wrote: > > # EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 | EPSON Stylus NX300 > > SYSFS{idVendor}=="04b8", SYSFS{idProduct}=="0848", MODE="660", > > OWNER="lp", GROUP="scanner", ENV{libsane_matched}="y

Re: Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 28 February 2009 06:28:39 Scarletdown wrote: > I was recently given a brand new Epson Stylus NX300 Printer/Scanner/Fax, > and have been trying to get it all working properly. Printer functions > are working fine. For the scanning functions, I installed the iscan > package. The device is scann

Scanner Needs Root Access?

2009-02-27 Thread Scarletdown
I was recently given a brand new Epson Stylus NX300 Printer/Scanner/Fax, and have been trying to get it all working properly. Printer functions are working fine. For the scanning functions, I installed the iscan package. The device is scanning fine. However, it will only work for root. This se

Re: spam control

2009-02-27 Thread green
On Sat, 2009-02-28, 059, Girish Kulkarni wrote: > How is your experience with the spam control tools already available > (SpamAssassin, SpanBouncer, Bogofilter)? Which one is the most > favoured? Is Gmail indeed the best option for controlling spam? I pull all mail from Gmail, including spam, us

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-27 Thread Justin The Cynical
Jimmy Johnson wrote: Justin The Cynical wrote: Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64 I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM. Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC func

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Dave Patterson
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 06:35:10PM -0500, Chris Jones wrote: > On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > My C experience began and ended in a one-semester course. > > There is such a thing as "fundamentals" .. fluency in C is one major > tool in your toolbox.. and one sure

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? > > 1. noatime has the most impact. Okay. > 2. Modern flash memory lasts much longer than older fla

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Daryl Styrk wrote: > H.S. wrote: >> Any suggestion if this can be improved to prolong the life of the memory >> stick? Or at least not reduce it on a Debian Testing system? >> >> Thanks. >> > > I would bet the router dies well before you burn up a flash drive. > > > http://www.getusb.info/what-i

Re: I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Justin The Cynical wrote: Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64 I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM. Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC functionality is even tur

spam control

2009-02-27 Thread Girish Kulkarni
Hi, I've been managing my mail with Gmail for about three years now. The primary reason for sticking to Gmail is their spam control. I now want to try moving back to the old mail spool on my Debian box and start managing mail myself. I'm curious to know what spam control techniques people on th

I'm rather embarrassed to even be asking this...

2009-02-27 Thread Justin The Cynical
Long time lurker with a fresh install of Lenny x64 I recently picked up a SuperMicro X7SBE board and populated it with ECC RAM. Among my random wanderings, I realized that I didn't recall seeing anything in the BIOS or manual on if the ECC functionality is even turned on. I've googled around

grub-probe: error: Cannot find a GRUB drive for /dev/sdb1. Check your device.map.

2009-02-27 Thread Daryl Styrk
I am in the process of installing the new knoppix to a thumb drive from Lenny. Following the tutorial from http://www.knoppix.net/wiki/USB_Based_FAQ I get as far as installing grub and it bails. T61:/mnt# mkdir -p /mnt/boot/grub T61:/mnt# echo '(hd0) /dev/sda' > /mnt/boot/grub/device.map T61:

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05:15AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks > like it might be a slightly older version of: > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe > you can poke the maintainer into doing an up

Solved! Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread hendrik
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:05:15AM -0800, Mike Castle wrote: > similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks > like it might be a slightly older version of: > http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe > you can poke the maintainer into doing an up

logging writes to disk (keeping disk from spinning down)

2009-02-27 Thread green
I have three SATA hard drives in a server; 2 of them are part of a RAID1 mdadm array (with 3 ext3 filesystems), the third is a backup drive (with 1 ext3 filesystem). I would like for these drives to spin down automatically when they are not in use. In hdparm.conf: quiet /dev/sda { spindown_t

Error: /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size

2009-02-27 Thread Dennis Wicks
Greetings; I have two programs that are failing at startup with this message; /usr/lib/libfontconfig.so.1: undefined symbol: FT_Select_Size Does any one know what the problem is? I have already installed/reinstalled everything I coould find that seemed to be connected with font config.

Re: kde4 installation problems

2009-02-27 Thread thveillon.debian
raman narasimhan a écrit : > i tried to install kde4 as per the instructions given in > *http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > didnt succeed, please see part 2, and guide me [snip] > *2. got many broken dependencies: > * > debian:~# *apt-get -t experimental install kde4* > Reading

Re: kde4 installation problems

2009-02-27 Thread Umarzuki Mochlis
2009/2/28 raman narasimhan > i tried to install kde4 as per the instructions given in * > http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html > didnt succeed, please see part 2, and guide me > > ---

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 07:56:39PM EST, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/27/2009 05:35 PM, Chris Jones wrote: > >On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: > > > >>My C experience began and ended in a one-semester course. > > > >There is such a thing as "fundamentals" .. fluency in C is o

kde4 installation problems

2009-02-27 Thread raman narasimhan
i tried to install kde4 as per the instructions given in * http://pkg-kde.alioth.debian.org/experimental.html didnt succeed, please see part 2, and guide me --

Re: Installing a Broadcom 4312 rev 02 wifi card

2009-02-27 Thread consultores1
El vie, 27-02-2009 a las 16:22 -0500, Celejar escribió: > On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:39:55 +0100 > Korrignu wrote: > > ... > > > > 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) > > ... > > > [ 630.553689] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, > > Firmware-ID

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 08:34:25AM EST, Jochen Schulz wrote: > Chris Jones: > > I have a naive question. > > > > While your brute force decryption is running, how do you determine > > you have found the "one key" and decide it's time to stop? > This is a valid question! Depending on the encrypt

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 05:35 PM, Chris Jones wrote: On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: My C experience began and ended in a one-semester course. There is such a thing as "fundamentals" .. fluency in C is one major tool in your toolbox.. and one sure way to ensure that nobody me

screen multidisplay with terminals resized

2009-02-27 Thread green
I have been using screen (the terminal multiplexor) for a long time. It is one of those really useful utilities that just sticks. Also, I recently started using the awesome wm which is worth checking out if you like to increase your productivity elegantly (yeah, elegantly). So in the past I ha

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-27 Thread Pal Trendweaver
Op woensdag 25-02-2009 om 23:27 uur [tijdzone -0600], schreef Dennis Wicks: > Greetings; > > I just noticed today that my numeric keypad doesn't work > under Gnome, but works fine in a console session. > (Ctl-Alt-F1) I've tried changing the keyboard brands and > models but nothing makes any di

Re: grub locked

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew Reid
On Friday 27 February 2009 02:18:26 Celejar wrote: > Hi, > > I was just greatly disturbed to find that I am unable to edit my grub > command lines (with 'e') or to get a command shell (with 'c'). This > used to work, although I can't remember the last time I tried it. > Googling indicates that thi

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread owens
> > > > Original Message >From: jvpe...@web.de >To: debian-user@lists.debian.org >Subject: Re: finding similar files >Date: Fri, 27 Feb 2009 22:12:05 +0100 > >>Maybe searching for "plagiarism detection" or "finding similarities" >on the >>internet could show some usefull software. >>Beside

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Chris Jones
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 01:42:51PM EST, Dotan Cohen wrote: > My C experience began and ended in a one-semester course. There is such a thing as "fundamentals" .. fluency in C is one major tool in your toolbox.. and one sure way to ensure that nobody messes with you on mailing lists. -- To UNSU

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread Daryl Styrk
H.S. wrote: Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation on these kind of memory d

Re: mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 04:38 PM, H.S. wrote: Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation o

mount options to not reduce life of a USB memory stick

2009-02-27 Thread H.S.
Hello, I have attached a USB stick (those little keychain devices) to my router machine. The idea is to add those 2 GB space so that my friends and family can transfer file to/from it. Now, I am also concerned with the number of read/write cycles limitation on these kind of memory devices. I have

Re: Problem with default resolution starting Debian Lenny

2009-02-27 Thread Kelly Clowers
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:43, Marcos Fernandez wrote: > It doesn't works. > > Any idea? > > Thank you very much, I appreciate your help. Maybe the old style will work? Section "Screen" Identifier "Default Screen" Monitor "Configured Monitor" Device "Configured Vi

Unable to properly login with cached password using libpam-ccreds

2009-02-27 Thread Ryan Braun [ADS]
I'm trying to setup my ldap clients to cache their passwords so they are able to login if the network connection to the ldap servers go down. All servers and clients are running etch. But I'm having issues getting users to login successfully with a simulated ldap outtage. While the network i

Re: suspend to ram

2009-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 19:12:02 +0100 Pol Hallen wrote: > >I have discovered that when running a minimal > > system, with the kernel option init=/bin/bash, as per the s2ram site's > > suggestion, resuming works fine. What might be causing the failure > > with the normal system, and what can I do ab

Re: Installing a Broadcom 4312 rev 02 wifi card

2009-02-27 Thread Celejar
On Fri, 27 Feb 2009 15:39:55 +0100 Korrignu wrote: ... > 06:00.0 Network controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4312 802.11b/g (rev 01) ... > [ 630.553689] Broadcom 43xx driver loaded [ Features: PMLR, > Firmware-ID: FW13 ] > > it seems weird that there is only one line about the b43 module...

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 12:42 PM, Dotan Cohen wrote: The compiler can do anything that the programmers can make it do. I'm not entirely clear on this, but I think that the memory has less address space in 32 bit, no? So you have only long? I'm not a programmer, so you could just RTFM me with a link and

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Maybe searching for "plagiarism detection" or "finding similarities" on the internet could show some usefull software. Besides the one mentioned by Mike Castle, of this type is, e.g., JPlag http://wwwipd.ira.uka.de:/. Here are also some sources listed: Plagiarism detection - Wikipedia, the fre

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 12:15 PM, Daryl Styrk wrote: Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then, I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not utilizing it's full potential. God's just waiting for you to get complacent, and decide to create a mixed

Re: Bridging problems after Upgrade to Lenny

2009-02-27 Thread Udo Hortian
On Mon, Feb 23, 2009 at 01:25:30PM +0100, Udo Hortian wrote: > Hello all, > > I subscribed newly to this list, since I got an bridging problem > after an upgrade from Debian etch to Debian lenny (before > everything worked fine). > > The situation is as follows: > > # brctl show > bridge name

problem importing foreign data into Tellico

2009-02-27 Thread Bernard
Hi there ! Is anyone here familiar with Tellico ? It is an opensource Linux application that is suppose to manage small libraries. I just installed it onto my Ubuntu 8.04. It seems to work all right, but I failed to import BibTeX files in it, even though it is supposed to work. I also tried to e

Xen on Lenny, AMD64 Kernel

2009-02-27 Thread Gav
I have just installed Lenny (AMD64) and the Xen kernel (from repos). I am trying to make this machine as efficient as possible because it will be left on 24/7 at home, but it appears that there is no powernow-k8 kernel module in the Xen kernel. Is it possible to get powernow running in Xen or s

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out - old matrox?

2009-02-27 Thread Dexter Filmore
From what I remember old matrox cards are supposed to work fine, plus you can even build a vga-to-scart connector, instructions floating in the web. -- -BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK- Version: 3.12 GCS d--(+)@ s-:+ a C UL++ P+>++ L+++> E-- W++ N o? K- w--(---) !O M+ V- PS+ PE Y++ PGP t++

Re: Numeric keypad doesn't work!

2009-02-27 Thread Jeff Soules
> Does anybody have a numeric keypad that works? What is your keyboard mfg and > model set to? Mine is Generic 101 key PC. Hmm, that may not be the right track then... mine is a Microsoft Natural (one of the old ones, with a PS/2 input instead of USB). In Gnome, I have the "Microsoft Natural" key

Re: Problem with default resolution starting Debian Lenny

2009-02-27 Thread Marcos Fernandez
It doesn't works. Any idea? Thank you very much, I appreciate your help. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
> The compiler can do anything that the programmers can make it do. > I'm not entirely clear on this, but I think that the memory has less address space in 32 bit, no? So you have only long? I'm not a programmer, so you could just RTFM me with a link and I'll take it from there. >>> 3. AMD64 uses

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daryl Styrk
Someone told me long ago never to mix apt-get and aptitude. Since then, I've only used aptitude and never had a problem. Or perhaps I'm not utilizing it's full potential. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listm

Re: suspend to ram

2009-02-27 Thread Pol Hallen
>I have discovered that when running a minimal > system, with the kernel option init=/bin/bash, as per the s2ram site's > suggestion, resuming works fine. What might be causing the failure > with the normal system, and what can I do about it? which graphic card do u have? try to add the module of

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 07:51 AM, Dotan Cohen wrote: I'm not a programmer, but: 2. "long long" are available to 32-bit compilers, How? The compiler can do anything that the programmers can make it do. 3. AMD64 uses the LP64 model, where int values are still 32 bit. What is the advantage to this?

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 07:15 AM, thveillon.debian wrote: Roger Leigh wrote : On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? Ye

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Mike Castle
similarity-tester looks promising. Without much research, it looks like it might be a slightly older version of: http://www.cs.vu.nl/~dick/sim.html (if it turns out that it is, maybe you can poke the maintainer into doing an upgrade?) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debi

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 11:33 AM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote: On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices. Then ap

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Ron Johnson
On 02/27/2009 05:55 AM, Nigel Tamplin wrote: Hello, I'm going to add a cheap graphics card (with S-Video TV out) to an old PC so that I can display the PC's output on an old(ish) TV. I have a cable to connect the S-Video connector on the graphics card to the TV. I just need the graphics car

RE: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Stackpole, Chris
> From: Eric Gerlach [mailto:egerl...@feds.uwaterloo.ca] > Sent: Friday, February 27, 2009 11:03 AM > Subject: Re: finding similar files > > On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:58:48PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > > tree with a few h

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:24:19PM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 15:20:58 Urs Thuermann wrote: > >which caused aptitude to run for an hour generating thousands of > >messages about resolving open/closed/defered dependency conflicts > >

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Daniel Burrows
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 10:39:49AM -0600, "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." was heard to say: > On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager > > > since Et

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 February 2009 07:15:23 thveillon.debian wrote: > But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and > experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude > performs better. Maybe I just happen to be in this case as well. I have main for stable(+security+

extra copy of 'Perl Cookbook'

2009-02-27 Thread Mike McClain
As a gift I got an extra copy of the 'Perl Cookbook'. Would anyone have a copy of 'Intermediate Perl' to trade? Thanks, Mike -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org

Re: how to install kernel source 2.6.8

2009-02-27 Thread Mike McClain
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 12:51:19AM +, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Tue, Feb 24, 2009 at 03:31:38PM -0800, Mike McClain wrote: > > I've a mostly etch system and wanted to try the 2.6 kernel. > 2.4.27 and 2.6.8 are from Sarge. 2.2.25 is even older. Thanks for the tip, I hadn't realized 'apt-get up

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:14:14 Ron Johnson wrote: > On 02/26/2009 05:28 PM, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > That is, unless you are trying to script the package manager. In that > > case I think apt-get or libapt are better choices. > > Then aptitude should remove the CLI interface and st

Re: About creating debian custom ISO

2009-02-27 Thread Marco Túlio Gontijo e Silva
Em Qui, 2009-02-26 às 15:52 +0530, Kousik Maiti escreveu: > Can any-body help about the creation/customization of Debian install > CD? I'm working on distro-creator ( http://distro-creator.holoscopio.com/ ), but it's not very stable yet. It's based on PDK ( http://trac.64studio.com/pdk/ ), so you

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Nigel Tamplin wrote: Hello, I'm going to add a cheap graphics card (with S-Video TV out) to an old PC so that I can display the PC's output on an old(ish) TV. I have a cable to connect the S-Video connector on the graphics card to the TV. I just need the graphics card. The TV is wide scre

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread debian debian
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 6:55 AM, Nigel Tamplin wrote: > Hello, > > I'm going to add a cheap graphics card (with S-Video TV out) to an old PC so > that I can display the PC's output on an old(ish) TV. > > I have a cable to connect the S-Video connector on the graphics card to the > TV.  I just need

Re: finding similar files

2009-02-27 Thread Eric Gerlach
On Wed, Feb 25, 2009 at 06:58:48PM +, Hendrik Boom wrote: > There wouldn't happen to be any handy tools for searching a directory > tree with a few hundred ASCII files and telling me which ones have > similar content? > > Many have been copied, edited, merged, reformatted, split, and I'd lik

Re: need help on shell programming

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Thursday 26 February 2009 18:35:01 Mike Castle wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 4:29 PM, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 04:54:28PM -0500, Long Wind wrote: > >> I want a script. > >> The script run a command, wait one minute, > >> then run the command again, wait one minute ag

Re: Debian 5.0 On Dell Latitude CP 233MT

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, deb...@cercy.net wrote: How much memory do you have on the old Dell? Does everything run fine after the startup slowness? I have 128MB of RAM. The boot "pause" up is the only issue. I ran 3.0 for a long time on it, then 4.0 and I really think 5.0 (once booted) runs a little bit faster than

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
On Friday 27 February 2009 05:56:12 Roger Leigh wrote: > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > > Aptitude has been the recommended (by DDs) package manager > > since Etch was released. It has better dependency resolution, is more > > user-friendly, and is a bit

Re: Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
Nigel Tamplin wrote: Hello, I'm going to add a cheap graphics card (with S-Video TV out) to an old PC so that I can display the PC's output on an old(ish) TV. I have a cable to connect the S-Video connector on the graphics card to the TV. I just need the graphics card. The TV is wide scre

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread green
On Fri, 2009-02-27, 058, thveillon.debian wrote: > But when running a system which is a mix of testing, sid and > experimental, plus a few debian-multimedia goodies thrown in, aptitude > performs better. In this situation I am really happy that aptitude is > showing me the nuts and bolts of the tri

Re: Can one install "lenny" from live cd's ?

2009-02-27 Thread Jimmy Johnson
baldyeti wrote: I must have been looking in the wrong places, but I can't figure out whether this is possible and supported. Beta notes said the release version would include the installer but it certainly isn't prominently featured and easy to activate in the KDE flavour I downloaded... At th

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
>  Why buy a 64 bit setup if your not going to use it ? Why buy a Toyota Corolla that can do 160 KPH if you are not going to drive that fast? The advantages of a modern, dual core processor go far beyond the fact that they support 64 bit code. > I bought mine for a reason so I could use 64. Jus

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
I'm not a programmer, but: > 2. "long long" are available to 32-bit compilers, How? > 3. AMD64 uses the LP64 model, where int values are still 32 bit. What is the advantage to this? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
> That's quite PC-centric. > > The VAX was 32 bit, for instance. IIRC in the 80-s and early 90-s one > atvantage the GNU tools had was that they could start from a clean 32bit > codebase compared to the legacy UNIX code. > > Alpha was available in the early 90-s. > Other than the Mac, there were n

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Bob Cox
On Fri, Feb 27, 2009 at 13:15:23 +, thveillon.debian (thveillon.deb...@googlemail.com) wrote: > Hi, just sharing a user experience with aptitude, which I use. You do > have a point about apparent simplicity regarding apt-get, most of the > time it just seems to "work", period. It is all the

Re: How to protect an encrypted file system for off-line attack?

2009-02-27 Thread Jochen Schulz
Chris Jones: > > I have a naive question. > > While your brute force decryption is running, how do you determine you > have found the "one key" and decide it's time to stop? This is a valid question! Depending on the encryption system in use, it cannot be answered satisfactorily. If a one-time

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread thveillon.debian
Roger Leigh wrote : > On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: >> On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: So, am I doing something completely wrong here? >>> Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God intended us to use: apt-get. *That* must be the reason I use apt-get and not aptitude... Hugo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact

Re: [OT I think] Which Distro?

2009-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 03:20:04PM -0800, Jimmy Johnson wrote: > Johannes Wiedersich wrote: >> -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> Jimmy Johnson wrote: >>> I imagine the arguments where similar when operating systems moved from >>> 16 bit to 32 bit. ;) >> >> I have never heard of

Re: ifconfig data

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi, Aneurin Price wrote: Maybe this would suit you: http://www.geekpage.jp/en/programming/linux-network/get-ipaddr.php (Changing eth0 to ppp0 obviously) Okay. NB. To get that example to work I had to change the includes as I got it to work fine without _any_ changes. Kind Regards AndrewM

Problems with slim

2009-02-27 Thread Robert S
I wish to set up a minimal installation of Lenny for a netbook using slim as the display manager and lxde or xfce as the desktop. It works fine except when I try to power off using the power off button from lxde or xfce, the shut down and power off buttons are greyed out. I can power off by loggi

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Roger Leigh
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:28:13PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:34:38 Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 02/26/2009 03:20 PM, Urs Thuermann wrote: > > > So, am I doing something completely wrong here? > > > > Yes, you're using aptitude. Return to the apt* which God

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
> case "\$0" in goatse) x-www-browser http://sam.zoy.org/goatse/hi.jpg;; esac Classy. Wasn't it hello, not hi? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת ا-ب-ت-ث-ج-ح-خ-د-ذ-ر-ز-س-ش-ص-ض-ط-ظ-ع-غ-ف-ق-ك-ل-م-ن-ه‍-و-ي А-Б-В-Г-Д-

Recommendation wanted for cheap PCI graphics card with S-Video TV out?

2009-02-27 Thread Nigel Tamplin
Hello, I'm going to add a cheap graphics card (with S-Video TV out) to an old PC so that I can display the PC's output on an old(ish) TV. I have a cable to connect the S-Video connector on the graphics card to the TV. I just need the graphics card. The TV is wide screen, CRT, 50Hz.. I'm n

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-27 Thread Dotan Cohen
> To my ears, Dirk gave the impression that he values the freedom of other > parts of the internet higher than debian's mailing list etiquette. > It's called Reddit syndrome: rudeness and trolling about atheism, 'rights', and Ron Paul. They think that because one _can_ be anonymous on the Internet

Re: package management begins to annoy me

2009-02-27 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Thu, Feb 26, 2009 at 05:31:29PM -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > On Thursday 26 February 2009 16:58:25 Douglas A. Tutty wrote: > > Use aptitude in full-screen mode so you can see what is happening. > > I do this a lot and find it helpful--particularly when resolving dependency > conflict

Can one install "lenny" from live cd's ?

2009-02-27 Thread baldyeti
I must have been looking in the wrong places, but I can't figure out whether this is possible and supported. Beta notes said the release version would include the installer but it certainly isn't prominently featured and easy to activate in the KDE flavour I downloaded... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Lenny with Kernel 2.6.18?

2009-02-27 Thread baldyeti
Any suggestions as to how to handle this? Should I upgrade to Lenny but keep the old Etch 2.6.18 kernel? If so, how can I keep up with security patches? Perhaps you could install the etch-and-a-half kernel (2.4.24) and get your HW working there before performing the dist-upgrade to lenny? Not su

Re: sending mail from debian etch via php script using mail()

2009-02-27 Thread Andrew McGlashan
Hi Norman, Norman Bird wrote: So I am trying to figure out where the problem lies on my debian etch box. i do not believe i loaded a mail server on this box. I checket /var/log/mail and /var/log/mail.error and they have nothing. I can type mail and it says you have no mail. I recall in past ha

Re: Linux desktop without mouse acceleration. Is it possible?

2009-02-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Barclay, Daniel wrote: > You're mixing up the Internet with the World Wide Web. I was merely trying to point out that the debian user mailing list doesn't try to embrace everything possible on internet. It is just a small subset of it and there are things happening on the internet that we (or at l

Re: Lenny with Kernel 2.6.18?

2009-02-27 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-02-26 23:58 +0100, Bill Thompson wrote: > I have a box running Etch with several Acceleport XP serial cards > inside. It appears that Digi will not be supporting this hardware with > a Kernel 2.6.26 compatible driver. Digi support claims that "The tty > layer is broke in the 2.6.26 kernels