How to achieve similar configuration across different archs?

2009-03-30 Thread Itay
Hi, After working for few months with debian on my home desktop I feel ready to move my work desktop and laptop to debian, too. (From RH based installation, in case you ask... ;-) My home desktop: 64 bit dual core CPU but runs i686 kernel. Laptop: 32 bit CPU. Work dekstop:64 bi

Re: translator tool

2009-03-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 31 March 2009 07:01:57 consultores1 wrote: > Hello > > I am in need of a translator tool, because i have to write in different > languages; something that writing a "word", it translates it to other > different languages at once. > > Could somebody please tell me if it exist in debian packages?

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:50 -0400, Andrew Malcolmson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ross Boylan > wrote: > ... > > Do you mean the icon labelled "Default Browser"? I had selected it; > > nothing showed up. I hunted around for other preferences and found > > there is a "Directory Acces

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Mon, Mar 30 2009, Paul E Condon wrote: > > You did not lose an hour. You got up an hour early because you are a > slave to the reading on a clock that you know you set forward by an > hour the night before. This is not the behavior of a rational being, > IMHO. The only reason, IMHO, that you sub

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-30 21:19, Paul E Condon wrote: [snip] You did not lose an hour. You got up an hour early because you are a slave to the reading on a clock that you know you set forward by an hour the night before. This is not the behavior of a rational being, IMHO. The only reason, IMHO, that you sub

translator tool

2009-03-30 Thread consultores1
Hello I am in need of a translator tool, because i have to write in different languages; something that writing a "word", it translates it to other different languages at once. Could somebody please tell me if it exist in debian packages? i use sid and lenny, amd64x2. -- "Consultores Agropecua

Re: OT: Faulty laptop wanted

2009-03-30 Thread David Fox
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 7:53 PM, adam jay wrote: > hey buyer, >  i am Dare  from Nigeria and i found u ads on the website looking for a > computer well i work as a computer  dealer  and we got some computer or But first don't we all have to send thousands of dollars Western Union? ) giggles

Print Server

2009-03-30 Thread Gerald C.C
Hi Guy's, I have arrived at this point more or less by accident. I am not really sure this is where i ask for help!!! I have 'Lenny' installed and I would like to use it as a server. That said i am sharing files OK> but although my other boxes see the printers I cannot print to them. Your thoughts

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-30_18:57:33, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-30 17:47, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-03-30_16:21:39, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: >>> [snip] > If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's cloc

Re: OT: Faulty laptop wanted

2009-03-30 Thread adam jay
hey buyer, i am Dare from Nigeria and i found u ads on the website looking for a computer well i work as a computer dealer and we got some computer or laptop property in nigeria and i think we can help u with the kind of computer or laptop ur looking for if u like so if u want still want any c

Re: Question about proxy servers for debian packages

2009-03-30 Thread whollygoat
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:17 -0600, "Paul E Condon" wrote: > I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy > servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian > repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very > hard at searching. The three t

[Solved] Re: [OT] why does mutt ask twice for the password?

2009-03-30 Thread H.S.
H.S. wrote: > Hello, > > I must admit that this problem is actually on Hardy. I am trying it here > because: > 1) I imagine there are more users familiar with mutt here > 2) Users understand Debian based systems better here > > I hope people who do not want Ubuntu problems will spare me the flame

[OT] why does mutt ask twice for the password?

2009-03-30 Thread H.S.
Hello, I must admit that this problem is actually on Hardy. I am trying it here because: 1) I imagine there are more users familiar with mutt here 2) Users understand Debian based systems better here I hope people who do not want Ubuntu problems will spare me the flames while keeping in mind that

Re: [OT] To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-30_16:39:46, Mike Bird wrote: > On Mon March 30 2009 16:12:57 Tom Furie wrote: > > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > > > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you '

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-31_00:12:57, Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an > > hour' in switching from standard to summ

media player with NFS cacheing?

2009-03-30 Thread Tyler MacDonald
Hi, My daughter's computer is hooked up to our intranet via a wireless card so we don't have to stretch cables through the hallway. Unfortuantely, it's pretty radio-noisy here so we dont get very good performance. I've tried several channels with little success. So when she puts d

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Bareiro
On Monday, 30 March 2009 22:20:03 -0300, Daniel Bareiro wrote: > Interesting... I tried increasing the size of a LV on which a virtual > machine KVM is executed. Then with the operating system running, I > umount (although I have understood that it is not necessary) the > filesystem /space of the

Re: Resizing LVM partition

2009-03-30 Thread Daniel Bareiro
Hi Tapani. On Sunday, 29 March 2009 18:33:43 +0300, Tapani Tarvainen wrote: > > In the procedure that you mentioned, when erasing and creating the > > larger partition the data that it maintainded will be lost > > No it won't. The contents of the partition will stay in place, > fdisk only change

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:47:50PM EDT, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-30 17:52, Chris Jones wrote: > [snip] > > > >Would that be Boulder, CO..? I vaguely remember that my "alarm clock" > >sync's to its master over there, but I can't seem to get ahold of its > >manual just now. > > > > http://tf.

Re: Linux server power cut

2009-03-30 Thread Jimmy Johnson
hadi motamedi wrote: Dear All Can you please technically let me know why the Linux servers suffer from sudden power cut ? Using a Live CD such as Mepis or even the GParted Live CD to "check your partitions" may solve your problem. -- Jimmy Johnson Bakersfield, CA. U.S.A. Registered Linux U

Re: Most current printer support

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 8:55 PM, Josh Kelley wrote: ... > Thanks. > I'm already familiar with hp-setup, I'm just concerned with making sure that > hp-setup (or printconf, or the add printer wizard, or whatever) can detect > as wide a range of printers as possible. > Josh Kelley OK, just tossed th

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-30 17:47, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-30_16:21:39, Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is most likely UTC. On a Linux computer, the internal cloc

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-03-30 Thread Andrew Malcolmson
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Ross Boylan wrote: ... > Do you mean the icon labelled "Default Browser"?  I had selected it; > nothing showed up.  I hunted around for other preferences and found > there is a "Directory Access" configuration.  It already shows Bonjour > enabled; in fact there doe

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-30 17:52, Chris Jones wrote: [snip] Would that be Boulder, CO..? I vaguely remember that my "alarm clock" sync's to its master over there, but I can't seem to get ahold of its manual just now. http://tf.nist.gov/cesium/fountain.htm http://tf.nist.gov/stations/wwvb.htm -- Scooty Pu

Re: Question about proxy servers for debian packages

2009-03-30 Thread Roby
Paul E Condon wrote: > I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy > servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian > repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very > hard at searching. The three that I found are, apt-proxy, apt-cac

[OT] To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Mike Bird
On Mon March 30 2009 16:12:57 Tom Furie wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an > > hour' in switching from standard to s

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Tom Furie
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 04:47:38PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > Now, I want to stop arguing about the descriptions. But just one last > shot. I believe it is factually incorrect to say that you 'lose an > hour' in switching from standard to summer time. It is conventional > wording, it is manife

Re: [offtopic] screen capture using opengl

2009-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
On Mon, 30 Mar 2009 10:59:42 -0500 "Boyd Stephen Smith Jr." wrote: > In <20090330125126.28021...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin wrote: > >I'm trying to figure out how to capture the screen using opengl. I tried > >glReadPixels but if I understand correctly it is reading from the current

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Jones
[..] > >Anyway, what's the purpose of why you want to do this? To confuse > >yourself when looking at any other clock? You do know how Albert Einstein graduated from peculiar moron to universal genius..? CJ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:09:10PM EDT, Paul E Condon wrote: [..] > FYI. GMT definition is based on an exact spot with in the campus of > the old Greenwich Observatory (which has now been decommissioned). > Telescopes to the east or the west of that spot by about 289 meters > have local time that

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-30_16:21:39, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > [snip] >>> If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is most >>> likely UTC. >> >> On a Linux computer, the internal clock is almost certainly *NOT*

Re: Console Video Mode / Text Size

2009-03-30 Thread Chris Jones
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 01:12:00PM EDT, Andrei Popescu wrote: [..] > Last year (when I bought my lapton) I STFW like mad to find the proper > mode, but all tables I could find went only up to 1280x1024. Now I'm > trying to promote "hwinfo --framebuffer" as much as possible. Yes, my mouth water

Re: unstable KDE 3.5 nvidia xinerama dual-screen config maximize windows broken since some days

2009-03-30 Thread Bruno Voigt
Sven Joachim wrote: >> I'm running a debian/unstable system >> + with KDE 3.5 as desktop >> + using the nvidia-kernel-source/nvidia-glx driver 180.29-1 >> + two Displays in xinerama configuration. >> >> Since an usual aptitude full-upgrade some days ago I have the problem that >> application/window

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-31_07:58:03, Alex Samad wrote: > On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:50:55PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > > On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > On 2009-03-29 10:49, Paul E Condon wrote: > > >> On 2009-03-29_22:29:41, Strong and Humble wrote: > > >>> Good day. > > [snip] > > > > If

No Sound after Experiment with KDE4

2009-03-30 Thread Kent West
I had a perfectly working Debian Sid/KDE3 box. Then I added experimental to my sources.list file and installed enough KDE4 stuff to play with it for a day or so. If I recall correctly, sound worked for the first few hours, but by the time I got tired of KDE4, I noticed sound was no longer work

Re: Question about proxy servers for debian packages

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Ernst
Hello all, On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 03:17:01PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy > servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian > repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very > [...] > diff

Re: POP3 connector for exchange 2007

2009-03-30 Thread Joe
Phillipus Gunawan wrote: Hi There, I just been asking by manager to deploy a POP3 connector for winblow$2008 with exchange 2007 The company been using winblow$2003 and moving to 08 with exchange 2007 What would be a good friendly package to integrate it with AD which will deliver the POP emai

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-30 15:50, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: [snip] If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is most likely UTC. On a Linux computer, the internal clock is almost certainly *NOT* UTC, rather it is "seconds since Unix Epoch", often shorte

the command to generate locale and set locale

2009-03-30 Thread Long Wind
I forget the command Is there anyone knows the command? I am setting up fcitx Without generating and setting default locale to gb2312, fcitx does not work properly. Thanks! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas

Question about proxy servers for debian packages

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
I see in the aptitude package list three packages that are proxy servers specifically designed to proxy the package files from a Debian repository/mirror. There may be more than three. I didn't work very hard at searching. The three that I found are, apt-proxy, apt-cacher, and approx. They all ha

Re: unstable KDE 3.5 nvidia xinerama dual-screen config maximize windows broken since some days

2009-03-30 Thread Sven Joachim
On 2009-03-30 22:22 +0200, Bruno Voigt wrote: > I'm running a debian/unstable system > + with KDE 3.5 as desktop > + using the nvidia-kernel-source/nvidia-glx driver 180.29-1 > + two Displays in xinerama configuration. > > Since an usual aptitude full-upgrade some days ago I have the problem that

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 02:50:55PM -0600, Paul E Condon wrote: > On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On 2009-03-29 10:49, Paul E Condon wrote: > >> On 2009-03-29_22:29:41, Strong and Humble wrote: > >>> Good day. [snip] > > If you only have Linux on your computer, then it's clock is mo

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-29_11:15:15, Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-29 10:49, Paul E Condon wrote: >> On 2009-03-29_22:29:41, Strong and Humble wrote: >>> Good day. >>> >>> Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that has >>> no winter time shift whole year? What I want is to stay the same

unstable KDE 3.5 nvidia xinerama dual-screen config maximize windows broken since some days

2009-03-30 Thread Bruno Voigt
Hi, I'm running a debian/unstable system + with KDE 3.5 as desktop + using the nvidia-kernel-source/nvidia-glx driver 180.29-1 + two Displays in xinerama configuration. Since an usual aptitude full-upgrade some days ago I have the problem that application/windows upon maximize do it over both disp

Question about debuild dependency

2009-03-30 Thread Lam Luu
Hello everyone, I am trying to build some deb files for openVAS (while waiting for the official ones). However, I ran into a problem with dependency. OpenVAS has 4 different components (libopenvas, libopenvas-nasl, openvas-server, and plugins), with the later components depends on the earlie

Re: Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-03-30 13:25, Hugo Vanwoerkom wrote: John W Foster wrote: I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported several bookmark

RE: any image viewer for etch that you can recommend?

2009-03-30 Thread Juan Carlos Avila Sanchez
> -Original Message- > From: Long Wind [mailto:longwind2...@gmail.com] > Sent: Sunday, March 29, 2009 5:31 PM > To: Debian-Users List > Subject: any image viewer for etch that you can recommend? > > I want a image viewer > It should be small (use less disk space) It does not depend > on

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
Ron Johnson wrote: On 2009-03-29 10:49, Paul E Condon wrote: On 2009-03-29_22:29:41, Strong and Humble wrote: Good day. Just wanted to know if it is possible to specify a time zone that has no winter time shift whole year? What I want is to stay the same time (without winter shift) whole year,

Re: Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
John W Foster wrote: I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported several bookmark files that I have had for some time to my rec

Re: Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread Mike McClain
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 09:07:29AM -0500, John W Foster wrote: > I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could > have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of > the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported > several bookma

Re: aptitude puzzle

2009-03-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 12:19:13 -0400, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today's updates included openjdk-6-jre. When I try to install just this > one package aptitude wants to remove esound. When I do 'aptitude show > openjdk-6-jre' there is no mention of esound. It's not mentioned in the > conflicts, depend

Re: aptitude puzzle

2009-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Mon,30.Mar.09, 12:19:13, Rick Pasotto wrote: > Today's updates included openjdk-6-jre. When I try to install just this > one package aptitude wants to remove esound. When I do 'aptitude show > openjdk-6-jre' there is no mention of esound. It's not mentioned in the > conflicts, depends, or recomm

Re: Console Video Mode / Text Size

2009-03-30 Thread Andrei Popescu
On Sun,29.Mar.09, 19:14:13, Chris Jones wrote: > > This will get you a list of all modes supported by your card. > > Not quite. > > My ATI "mach64" not only supports 1400x1050 but it's also the only mode > I would want to use since it is my LCD panel's native mode - any other > resolution give

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-30_09:41:58, Tzafrir Cohen wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:13:12PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > > Paul E Condon writes: > > > The current standard is better described as a de-jure standard, IMHO. > > > Didn't Congress pass a law on this issue? > > > > Of course. Otherwise we might

Re: Looking for experienced IT person

2009-03-30 Thread Thierry Chatelet
On 30 March 2009 00:51:25 set...@gmail.com wrote: > Hello, I am looking for a highly knowledgeable, experienced IT person > that can implement Lustre on my Debian network,and manage a growing > network. Please let me know if you, or anyone you know, is > interested. My company is located in New Y

Re: database.php

2009-03-30 Thread Rob Starling
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 10:54:41AM -0500, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote: > In <74aa57df090337t7ab8746ftc12eecb4bcd0a...@mail.gmail.com>, hadi > motamedi wrote: > >Dear All > >Can you please let me know how I can open the "database.php" file on my MS > >Windows client ? > > .php files are (gene

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Paul E Condon
On 2009-03-30_07:37:30, ghe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why don't you just tell your OS that you live in Arizona? That's > Mountain Time, and they don't do DST, IIRC. After I learned where to look on this list, I looked there, and found some very nice advance work

aptitude puzzle

2009-03-30 Thread Rick Pasotto
Today's updates included openjdk-6-jre. When I try to install just this one package aptitude wants to remove esound. When I do 'aptitude show openjdk-6-jre' there is no mention of esound. It's not mentioned in the conflicts, depends, or recommends. So why does aptitude want to remove esound? --

Re: [offtopic] screen capture using opengl

2009-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <20090330125126.28021...@vivalunalitshi.luna.local>, Micha Feigin wrote: >I'm trying to figure out how to capture the screen using opengl. I tried >glReadPixels but if I understand correctly it is reading from the current >opengl context (the visible part of the current opengl window) and not th

Re: [OT] Cron and day of the week

2009-03-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> On Sun March 29 2009 06:25:41 Matus UHLAR - fantomas wrote: > > No, I think that _all_ fields have to match an entry to be executed. > > >From "man 5 crontab": On 29.03.09 07:06, Mike Bird wrote: > Note: The day of a command’s execution can be specified by two fields — > day of month, an

Re: database.php

2009-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <74aa57df090337t7ab8746ftc12eecb4bcd0a...@mail.gmail.com>, hadi motamedi wrote: >Dear All >Can you please let me know how I can open the "database.php" file on my MS >Windows client ? .php files are (generally) PHP source code which is (mostly) plain text. It is possible that the file ha

Re: Linux server power cut

2009-03-30 Thread Boyd Stephen Smith Jr.
In <74aa57df0903300027p7e603570j97fb804494b70...@mail.gmail.com>, hadi motamedi wrote: >Can you please technically let me know why the Linux servers suffer from >sudden power cut ? I'm going to interpret your question as "Why are there negative consequences when a Linux server is suddenly powere

Re: hp proliant dl380 g5 intermittent network connectivity issues (debian lenny 5.0)

2009-03-30 Thread Matthew Lenz
On Fri, 2009-03-27 at 08:49 -0500, Matthew Lenz wrote: > Got some serious issues with a brand new hp dl380 g5 running debian > lenny. > > The machine seems to have issues with intermittent network connectivity. > It'll work for awhile and then stop working. The real bugger is that I'm > having dia

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread orange
er, its ok, I managed to salvage system completely with this program: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk off to make 100 backups (all over the world) of MBR.. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@list

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread Osamu Aoki
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 06:47:54AM -0700, orange wrote: > can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/) > I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and > it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition. > the other Linux partitions are fine (home). > > is there

Re: please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread Γιώργος Πάλλας
orange wrote: > can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/) > I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and > it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition. > the other Linux partitions are fine (home). > > is there a tool that can help me recover / > > I th

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Mon, Mar 30, 2009 at 07:37:30AM -0600, ghe wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Why don't you just tell your OS that you live in Arizona? That's > Mountain Time, and they don't do DST, IIRC. Indeed: $ zdump -v /usr/share/zoneinfo/America/Phoenix | grep 2009 [nothing]

Iceweasel question?

2009-03-30 Thread John W Foster
I recall a while back that with Mozilla and its predecessors, you could have the bookmarks organizer perform a real connection test on all of the entries. That does not seem to be the case now. I recently imported several bookmark files that I have had for some time to my recently reinstalled icewe

please help, destroyed ext3 root partition

2009-03-30 Thread orange
can someone please help me recover Debian ext3 partiton (/) I tried booting windowsxp by typing some commands at boot prompt and it seems to have trashed (MBR?) linux partition. the other Linux partitions are fine (home). is there a tool that can help me recover / I think I tried this: map (hd0)

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread ghe
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Why don't you just tell your OS that you live in Arizona? That's Mountain Time, and they don't do DST, IIRC. - -- Glenn English g...@slsware.com -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.8 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://e

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread John Hasler
I wrote: > Of course. Otherwise we might have people doing things without > permission. Everything _must_ be regulated, after all. Tzafrir Cohen writes: > Sure. Why not use a time zone based on the exact spot where you live? Why not use time zones based on voluntary standards? People can and d

Re: Version of Gnome

2009-03-30 Thread machiner
Reply to: javibarr...@gmail.com Original Message Date: Sun, 29 Mar 2009 03:30:58 +0200 RE: Re: Version of Gnome [See Original Message Below] D'oh: machi...@lapbox{~}:show gnome-desktop-environment Package: gnome-desktop-environment New: yes State: installed Automatically installed: no Version:

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Johannes Wiedersich wrote: > In the meantime it has proven to be a lot of hassle with no > (or very little) benefit and - at least in my country - the vast > majority is in favour of abolishing this enslaving of millions of > biorythms. s/biorhythm/circadian rhythm/ Johannes -- To UNSUB

Re: mounting filesystems in Gnome

2009-03-30 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
On 27.03.09 21:09, Nima Azarbayjany wrote: > I have a vfat partition on /dev/sda7. I would like to use the option in > Gnome to mount the file system automatically using the Properties dialog. I Why not to have it mounted all the time? I have this in /etc/fstab: /dev/sda4 /mount/fat vfat qui

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Ron Johnson wrote: > On 2009-03-29 11:49, Paul E Condon wrote: > [snip] >> >> A few weeks ago, my Lenny system switched over from displaying time in >> MST >> (Mountain Standard Time) to MDT (Mountain Daylight Time). It did this, I >> believe, because the switch-over is mandated in the official loc

POP3 connector for exchange 2007

2009-03-30 Thread Phillipus Gunawan
Hi There, I just been asking by manager to deploy a POP3 connector for winblow$2008 with exchange 2007 The company been using winblow$2003 and moving to 08 with exchange 2007 What would be a good friendly package to integrate it with AD which will deliver the POP email to its mailbox in the ex

[offtopic] screen capture using opengl

2009-03-30 Thread Micha Feigin
Sorry for being off topic, I'll be happy if someone can point me at the right location to ask this. I'm trying to figure out how to capture the screen using opengl. I tried glReadPixels but if I understand correctly it is reading from the current opengl context (the visible part of the current ope

Re: Why no Skype packages?

2009-03-30 Thread Lisi Reisz
On Sunday 29 March 2009 23:47:33 David Fox wrote: > On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 3:24 PM, JoeHill wrote: > > Was just looking at all the 'how to install Skype' pages, and wondering > > why, as far as I can tell, there are no Debian packages. Is this a > > licensing issue? There is a Debian package, an

Re: To synchronize system time witn NTP-server with no winter time shift whole year - how to?

2009-03-30 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 10:13:12PM -0500, John Hasler wrote: > Paul E Condon writes: > > The current standard is better described as a de-jure standard, IMHO. > > Didn't Congress pass a law on this issue? > > Of course. Otherwise we might have people doing things without > permission. Everythin

Re: Strange Behaviour with udev

2009-03-30 Thread Martin Nattrodt
I could solve the Problem by extending the udev rule. Now it works and looks like: KERNEL=="ttyUSB?*", ATTR{dev}=="188:*", ATTRS{serial}=="A2001nj4", SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", ATTRS{idVendor}=="0403", ATTRS{idProduct}=="6001", SYMLINK+="temp1" Am Sonntag, den 29.03.2009, 22:47 +0200 schrieb Martin Nat

Re: rsync mirrors of debian CD How?

2009-03-30 Thread Wackojacko
Thanks. It is clear from this that "Rsync Mirrors" is not at all what I thought it was. I had thought it was an improvement on jigdo for downloading an updated version of an iso for which I already had an older, out-of-date file. What I had thought was that I could take my netinst.iso from

Re: database.php

2009-03-30 Thread Juha Tuuna
hadi motamedi wrote: > Dear All > Can you please let me know how I can open the "database.php" file on my > MS Windows client ? > Regards > H.Motamedi > Try http://support.microsoft.com/ -- Juha Tuuna -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsub

Re: Linux server power cut

2009-03-30 Thread Sudev Barar
2009/3/30 hadi motamedi : > Can you please technically let me know why the Linux servers suffer from > sudden power cut ? >From your query it is not clear what problem you are facing. If you can describe in detail I am sure others can help. A properly configured server shuold not have any problem.

Re: realtek RTL8168C/8111C performance issues

2009-03-30 Thread Alex Samad
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 08:27:12PM -0400, Johan Kullstam wrote: > Mikael Rudberg writes: > > > Hi > > > > I've been using Debian for approx 5 years. I'm in the process of > > building me a new NAS machine. > > To that end i have bought a small NAS chassis and a DG945GCLF2 wich > > has a atom 330

Linux server power cut

2009-03-30 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please technically let me know why the Linux servers suffer from sudden power cut ? Regards H.Motamedi

install using LILO/GRUB: checksums

2009-03-30 Thread Stanisław T. Findeisen
Hello I've been trying to install Debian GNU/Linux using this: http://www.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/ch05s01.html.en#boot-initrd method. I was able to locate: netboot/debian-installer/i386/initrd.gz netboot/debian-installer/i386/linux in a mirror, but couldn't find signed checksums for

database.php

2009-03-30 Thread hadi motamedi
Dear All Can you please let me know how I can open the "database.php" file on my MS Windows client ? Regards H.Motamedi

Re: Apple OS X printing [solved] and zeroconf'ing problems

2009-03-30 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, 2009-03-29 at 12:11 -0700, andmalc wrote: > On Mar 29, 1:00 am, Ross Boylan wrote: > > I have a Debian Lenny box at home, and just tried to print to it from an > > OS X 10.4 (Tiger) laptop connected to my home printer. > > > > CUPS is apparently supposed to advertise on zeroconf, but it di